Air date: December 4, 2011
Peter, Quagmire, Cleveland, and Joe go on a road trip down South, but get arrested in the process. Meanwhile, with Peter gone, Lois has a drunken night at home with Bonnie and Donna.
Episode contains examples of:
- Actor Allusion: Like in The Shawshank Redemption, Bob Gunton plays/voices an abusive warden.
- Big Damn Heroes: The group makes it back to Quahog, but the Sheriff follows them there with the deputies and intends to take them back. Joe called ahead, though, and the much larger Quahog police department surrounds Sheriff Nichols and the deputies.
- Bland-Name Product: After Peter and the guys escape from prison and get hungry thereafter, Peter hopes they pass by a McDaniels or a Burger Queen, parodies of McDonald's and Burger King respectively. Joe adds that he could really go for a Flame-Broiled Bopper from the latter, a parody of Burger King's Flame-Broiled Whopper. Lampshaded by Quagmire, who acknowledges that they're on TV and thus don't have the rights to use the real-world names of the restaurants.
- Commuting on a Bus: Cleveland returns from Stoolbend note to go on a road trip with the guys.
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: Peter mocking the Sheriff as a stereotype turned out to be working when he takes more offense to the other guys' more sensible attempts to reason with him.
- Dirty Cop: Sheriff Nichols.
- Embarrassing Animal Suit: Getting drunk, Lois, Bonnie, and Donna force Brian into a bumblebee costume.
- Framing the Guilty Party: Of the unknown variety. Sheriff Nichols plants marijuana in the car right in front of the group. The others are outraged, but not Peter.Peter: We had drugs?! Oh, my God, why am I drivin' drunk when I could've been drivin' high?!
- Gone Horribly Right: Joe's Wounded Gazelle Gambit leads to him to seriously lament not being able to walk.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When Peter gives the warden at the work camp some lip, the guard hits Cleveland, threatening to beat Peter if he does it again. Undeterred, Peter continues to backtalk the warden, and Cleveland gets hit with a bat in response. It's only until the guard hits Peter himself that he finally shuts up.
- Lampshade Hanging:
- After Peter, Quagmire, Joe, and Cleveland realize they're going to jail, the show's habit of ripping off The Simpsons is lampshaded in a Cutaway Gag where the guys are shown in court and their trial consists of numerous Simpsons characters. Peter views them as a jury of their peers, but Joe points out that they don't see it that way.
- "Yeah, you know it was gonna be hot when you heard that lonesome slide guitar and that hawk's cry."
- Misplaced Retribution: After Peter mouths off to the Warden, it's Cleveland who gets punched, though subverted when he irritates the guard personally who promptly hits him with the night stick instead to get him to stop.Warden: [to Peter] Next time, that'll be you.
Cleveland: Well, why wasn't it him this time? - Musical Chores: When Peter, Joe, and Quagmire are working on a chain gang, they notice the black guys singing together and come up with a "white guy work song" to sing while they work, complete with tap-dancing.
- Not So Above It All: Lois (who's normally the Only Sane Woman) gets drunk with her girlfriends and forcibly dresses Brian up in a bee suit.
- Out of Focus: Stewie only has two lines total, one of which is in gibberish. Chris and Meg only appear towards the end and laugh but have no lines.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Joe gets back at Sheriff Nichols by shooting him in the leg.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Joe gives Sheriff Nichols one for being a Dirty Cop and a disgrace to the uniform, saying that just because he has a badge that doesn't give him the right to treat people however he wants, and in fact is meant to act more upstanding than the people he protects.
- Seinfeldian Conversation: Right before they're arrested, Peter, Cleveland, Joe and Quagmire play a game of 'Would You Rather' with the choices being a hobo with a 5% chance of being inherited by a rich man or Hitler two years before his death. Rather than choose, the guys asks questions regarding the circumstances of their choice, such as where they'd sleep, what state the hobo would be in, if as Hitler they can alter certain policies and if they'd still be crippled as a hobo.
- Small-Town Tyrant: Sheriff Nichols deliberately breaks the car's headlight and plants marijuana in the trunk. He and the warden also have no time keeping prisoners in the work camp past the specified sentence.
- Special Guest: Bob Gunton as the Warden.
- Take That!: When Cleveland expresses pride that Peter’s ringtone is the theme song to The Cleveland Show, Peter dismissively notes the network forced him to do it.
- Whole-Plot Reference: To Cool Hand Luke.
- Working on the Chain Gang: Peter and the guys have to do this while they're in prison. Peter attempts to escape via jetpack and fails, since his ankles are still chained down.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: To escape, Joe deliberately falls out of his wheelchair and loudly insists he's got to get back in himself. When Peter asks what he's doing, Joe says that everyone always looks away in situations like these because it makes them uncomfortable. So, Joe continues to bemoan his difficulty in order to ensure the guards aren't looking when the group makes a run for it. It works, but a little bit too well, as Joe begins to seriously lament how he can't walk.
