American Gigg-olo
| "American Gigg-olo" | |
|---|---|
| Family Guy episode | |
| Episode no. |
Season 15 Episode 3 |
| Directed by | Mike Kim |
| Written by | Chris Sheridan |
| Production code | DACX19 |
| Original air date | October 16, 2016 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
|
Rolando Molina | |
"American Gigg-olo" is the third episode of the fifteenth season of the animated sitcom Family Guy, and the 272nd episode overall. It aired on Fox in the United States on October 16, 2016, and is written by Chris Sheridan and directed by Mike Kim.[1] The episode's title is a play on the film American Gigolo.
Plot
Tom Tucker reports about Quagmire and his fellow pilots organizing a mediocre strike on the airport, since they've been laid off. After the news, Brian discovers that he is no longer covered by the Griffins' health insurance, due to it no longer covering animals. He is upset because he has a hernia courtesy of trying to save a woman when she drove into a lake, only to "accidentally" let her die when she reveals that she has a child.
Brian cheers up when he gets a job as a handyman. However at the workplace, it's discovered that Brian acts pretentious and is incompetent. Despite this, Brian remains having a positive attitude and Stewie at first decides to accept this, but swiftly decides to get him fired.
Quagmire stumbles upon a bachelorette party, and when he enters to score with them, he is mistaken for a stripper and he gains a lot of cash. After bailing out on his friends at the Drunken Clam, they decide to follow him and find him at a strip club. When Quagmire encounters them, he reveals that he's been laid off from work and needed money. Pretty soon, Quagmire becomes a gigolo when some women request that he make love to them.
In order to get ideas on how to get Brian fired, Stewie hires a trio of Latinos to consult him on how to fire Brian. After some ridiculous ideas including getting Brian deported and killing him, he takes the idea of framing Brian for rigging a soda drink on his boss. This results in Brian being discharged.
Quagmire keeps the secret from Joe, since prostitution is a felony. Peter agrees to pick up Quagmire from one of his clients' house even going so far as to ditching Meg at her violin recital, although a lot of people have done it too as the janitor gives Meg the keys to lock up when she is done. When Peter arrives, Quagmire's client didn't pay him. So Peter lobbies the client until she gives Peter the money. He is given the money, and Quagmire decides to give him some of it, inspiring Peter to become his pimp. After a montage, Quagmire is left exhausted. Dressed as a pimp, Peter overbearingly insists that he meet with his clients. During one of the parts where he gets the money from Quagmire, Peter had second thoughts about seeing Guardians of the Galaxy. Then it comes to the point where Peter forces him to make love to an elderly woman.
Brian confronts Stewie and tries to force him to confess his role in the scheme, but Brian's hernia breaks and Stewie manages to treat him by looking at steps on the Internet with Brian walking him through the tools to use it. When it came to closing up the incision, Stewie uses a staple gun instead of the tools Brian instructed him to use. Afterwards, Stewie makes a reference to "the guy who killed Joan Rivers."
Quagmire is picked up by a German woman, but she begins to do "German" things to him. When Peter tries to help, he is raped as well. After that, Peter apologizes to Quagmire for his behavior and Quagmire forgives him. Quagmire then gets upset when Peter says that the airport strike ended a month ago. Peter assumed that Quagmire got the memo when he sent him an email to an AOL account. Quagmire states that he no longer uses that account.
Cultural references
- A cutaway features an edited version of Donald Trump's 2005 hot-mic video of Access Hollywood with Peter's voice edited into the conversation featuring lewd comments from Trump and Billy Bush. Seth MacFarlane tweeted an uncensored version of the segment.[2]
- A segment on Quagmire's life as a gigolo is a spoof on the HBO documentary Hookers at the Point.
References
- ↑ Snierson, Dan (2016-07-23). "Family Guy spoofs Bill Cosby in season 15 trailer: Comic-Con". EW.com. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
- ↑ Snierson, Dan (October 16, 2016). "'Family Guy' Airs Trump's Lewd Bus Chat With... Peter Griffin". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 17, 2016.