Family Guy Don't Make Me Over Full Episode

Airdate: June 5, 2005

1000000 feels depressed about her appearance and gets a makeover, which ties in with the subplot of Peter starting his own band, as Meg becomes the lead singer and lets fame go to her caput — until a guest appearance on Sat Dark Live brings her back.

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• All Merely a Dream: Or in this case, A Saturday Night Live episode hosted by The Griffins.
• Acquired Situational Narcissism: One thousand thousand, later on getting her makeover, becomes more spoiled and self-absorbed as a result of the attention she'south getting.
• Animation Bump: The scene with Stewie whacking his thought deject of Meg is noticeably more than fluid than is usual for the bear witness.
• Beautiful All Along: One thousand thousand, afterward the makeover, become a very bonny girl. Future episodes won't exist so kind to her appearance.
• Bittersweet Ending: Meg loses her virginity to Jimmy Fallon and ends up being used for telly one-act, much to her dismay. Also, her newfound pretty paradigm and self-confidence don't last long. By the finish she is dorsum to her former self. And the Griffin family'due south music career goes nowhere, but they managed to apply their experiences for a sketch comedy on Saturday Night Live.
• Break the Haughty: Meg suffers a savage one when she becomes a tool for an SNL opener.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Brian, in the last scene.
• Brick Joke: Brian'due south possibly latent, reflexive racism, as used in the last scene (see Gainax Catastrophe, below)
• Call-Back: The scene where Gene Simmons appears and uses his tongue to pleasure an off-screen Lois references the Season 3 episode Road to Europe, where it'southward revealed Lois and Gene dated each other during high schoolhouse.
• Calling Parents past Their Name: Meg starts calling her female parent "Lois" as a sign of her Acquired Situational Narcissism.
• Corpsing: Discussed; Peter beats upwards Jimmy Fallon not for what he did to 1000000, but for ruining SNL sketches he'due south always been in by constantly looking at the photographic camera and cracking up. While chirapsia Fallon, Peter mentions that Ballad Burnett used to practice the aforementioned on her evidence only Fallon "hasn't earned what she earned!" Every bit an added bonus, Fallon actually laughs and looks at the camera every single fourth dimension he is onscreen in the episode itself.
• Didn't Recall This Through: Peter, Quagmire, Cleveland and Joe class their ain band and are excited about their starting time gig at a prison... until they realize they don't know whatsoever songs but equally they're most to perform.
• Driven to Suicide: Apparently, Meg is and so ugly that a salesperson and a cameraman douse themselves in gasoline and light themselves on burn down earlier tossing themselves out a window.
• Eat the Photographic camera: Washed on Brian Griffin'southward racist barking at the cease of the episode.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: Equally a function of her makeover, Meg gets her hair dyed blonde.
• False Horrific: The mere sight of Meg tin cause i to douse themselves in gasoline, light themselves on burn and leap out a window.
• Funny Background Effect: During the faux SNL episode ending, in the far correct of the screen, Gene Simmons tin can exist seen licking President Bush. To the far left of the screen, Meg'south dead and decaying "real boyfriend" can exist seen getting attacked by a wolf as was shown before in the episode.
• Gainax Ending: At the end we learn that the apparent last scene was really just the last SNL sketch, followed past what appears to be that show's cease credits. Then ... Brian abruptly turns it off when Start at the Apollo comes on, and when his eyes come around to the camera he addresses it, getting defensive about how he turned off the show because he always goes to bed at 1 a.g. and not considering he's racist (see Brick Joke, above). Information technology could exist seen every bit questioning the entire reality of the testify, since information technology seems improbable that Brian is both backstage at SNL with the Griffins and watching the prove at dwelling house (unless it's a rerun of said taped episode).
• Halfway Plot Switch: The episode goes from Peter and his guy friends trying to salvage the Drunken Clam, to them forming a band, to the Griffin family becoming a famous singing act, to One thousand thousand becoming popular and losing her virginity during a Sat Night Live sketch.
• Hard-Work Montage: Peter and the gang attempt to fix up the Drunken Mollusk. Despite their best efforts, it seems to be fabricated a lot worse.

  Peter: Boy, I do not envy whoever has to clean that mess up.

• Intercourse with You: The Trope Namer, which comes from a song Stewie and Brian were going to pitch to the family band's producer.
• It Meant Something to Me: Meg is distraught when information technology turns out that she lost her virginity on live television and Fallon was only using her for comedy.
• Ms. Fanservice: Dr. Diddy suggests 1000000 to be this for her new musical prototype. Surprisingly, Peter approves of this.
• Noodle Incident: When Peter sees the new Meg for the outset time.

  Peter: Oh my God! Lois, information technology was twenty years ago! I never even heard the word prophylactic!

• Papa Wolf: Double-subverted. Peter beats up Jimmy Fallon, not considering he had sex with her on alive Television receiver, but to become revenge on Fallon'southward horrible acting and abiding cracking upward when he was a bandage member on SNL. Peter then goes looking for the guy who slept with his girl (not knowing that it was the aforementioned guy he just beat up).
• Reduced to Dust: The karaoke machine at the Drunken Mollusk, after Peter swings Joe around like an electric guitar afterward they stop their number and demolishes it.
• Shout-Out:
  • When Peter, Cleveland, Quagmire and Joe are going to perform in the Quahog prison, Peter yells: "Hello Cleveland!!" This is a reference to This is Spın̈al Tap.
  • The Griffin Family Band is similar to The Brady Bunch Variety Hour and The Partridge Family.
  • As Stewie rides on Brian's back, he quotes Yoda from The Empire Strikes Dorsum.
  • A cutaway shows Neil Armstrong faking the moon landing at a television studio called Stage 51, a reference to Area 51, a military machine base of operations well known in conspiracy theory lore.
    • Also during the cutaway showing the simulated moon landing, Neil Armstrong walks out of the studio, where he is approached by a fan, who questions why Armstrong is not on the moon. Armstrong stutters at various reasons as to why at that place is no moon landing, choosing instead to attack the fan with his helmet. This is a reference to when Buzz Aldrin attacked a skeptic who was insulting him about non being honest virtually the moon landing claims
  • Bill Cosby appears before a commercial interruption as he did in Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.
  • For their band Peter dresses like a fellow member of Devo, Cleveland like a member of a funk band, Joe similar a glam rocker, and Quagmire like Tommy Lee, drummer of Mötley Crüe.
  • Dr. Diddy's name is a cross betwixt Dr. Dre and Sean "Diddy" Combs, two hip hop music performers and producers.
  • When Lois worries that Million might develop a "coke problem," Peter replies "No Coke! Pepsi!" a catch phrase from the "Olympia Cafe" sketches of Saturday Night Alive's tardily 1970s era.
  • During the "1980s fixing-stuff-up montage," "One Pes in Front of the Other" by Bone Symphony is heard. It played during a montage on Revenge of the Nerds. The robot that sweeps the floor is as well from that pic.
  • When the guys temporarily give the Clam a Coyote Ugly theme, they dance on the countertop to the melody of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by The Charlie Daniels Band.
  • While the Clam is a karaoke bar, Mort Goldman performs Maureen McGovern'south 1973 hit "The Morning Later."
  • Peter attempts to satisfy angry inmates past telling a story about Lake Wobegon, the setting of Garrison Keillor'due south radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, which ofttimes featured quaint stories of rural life.
  • This episode ends like a typical episode of Sabbatum Night Live with Peter, acting equally the host, waving goodbye to the audition, surrounded the cast and musical invitee, which was patently Counting Crows. Peter exclaims, "Our thoughts are with you lot, Chevy," presumably referring to Chevy Hunt.
  • After the faux SNL episode ends, First at the Apollo begins. The variety testify, filmed at the Apollo Theater, used to air on NBC affiliates after the current episode of SNL ended.
• Spoiled Brat: After Meg is praised i likewise many times for her new looks and goes into the life of a pop star, she develops an ego and an mental attitude problem with her family. Meg mistook animalism for beloved and started believing that she can do no wrong and believes the band is zero with her.
• Status Quo Is God: Meg reverts dorsum to her one-time self because she felt it was too hard beingness cute.
• Sweetness Molar: Million assertively asks Lois for Skittles.
• Accept That!:
  • Peter's line about meeting such SNL cast members as John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Chris Farley, Phil Hartman, and Horatio Sanz. The joke is that Peter is such an idiot that he doesn't know that Belushi, Radner, Farley and Hartman are dead. Horatio Sanz is still alive, but hasn't really done anything since SNL, and so it'southward the writer'southward style of saying that Sanz'southward career is dead.
  • News anchor Tom Tucker says that the next news story volition business concern "Joan Rivers speaking from beyond the grave," despite the fact that the comedian was still alive when this episode first aired.
  • The episode mocks erstwhile SNL cast member Jimmy Fallon for "laughing and looking into the camera in every sketch [he'southward] e'er been in" (which was a big deal back when Fallon was on SNL, only doesn't really hold water, since Fallon hasn't been on the testify since the end of the 2003-2004 season, and this episode aired in 2005)
  • 1000000's stardom is as well a jab at child stars and sexualisation from the media, as One thousand thousand was put on a pedestal for her looks and she was never reigned in on how to be humble with fame.
  • On a dare, Stewie runs naked through a mall and loudly announces that he just escaped from Kevin Spacey's basement. ^notation This is oddly prescient considering the episode was released 12 years before Spacey was publicly accused of numerous acts of sexual misconduct, i of the accusers having been a modest at the time.
• Their First Time: Meg loses her virginity with Jimmy Fallon. Unfortunately for her, the whole affair was used by Fallon for a Saturday Night Alive Sketch.
• Titled After the Song: The title "Don't Brand Me Over" is taken from a Dionne Warwick vocal, written past Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
• The Ugly Guy'south Hot Daughter: Meg becomes this afterwards she gets a makeover. Also bad it's only temporarily.

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