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Recap / Family Guy S 13 E 16 Roasted Guy

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Peter has a comedy roast held in his honor and when he takes all the jokes about him to heart, Peter takes out his frustrations by befriending a trio of gossipy middle-aged women.


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  • Be Careful What You Wish For: Peter asks his friends to hold a roast for him. When they do, his feelings get hurt.
  • Bleed 'Em and Weep: In the "Nasty Wolf Pack" cutaway, Phil the Wolf breaks down crying after he shoots all 3 of his fellow wolves for laughing at him after he was tricked into yelling "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" at the moon.
  • Cock-a-Doodle Dawn: Inverted, a wolf is tricked into yelling "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" at the moon and making an ass of himself.
  • Credits Gag: The episode ends with a joke about how horrible women are as friends. The credits separate the writers by gender, and only one woman is listed.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Peter's methods of getting back at the Gossipy Hens who insulted him behind his back. He cuts the brakes on the car of one woman, only to then accidentally do the same to his own car, and hires somebody to stab the groom at the wedding of another woman's daughter.
  • Deadly Prank: Phil the Wolf being tricked into yelling "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" and making a fool of himself was only supposed to be a bit of harmless fun for the other wolves. Instead, Phil took it personally, came home drunk, got kicked out by his wife, ended up homeless and having to turn to prostitution, and finally shot his former wolf pack for laughing at him again.
  • Identical Stranger: Two lesbian baristas resemble Peter, whom the women mistook him for. The second barista is exactly identical, having the same chin.
  • Halfway Plot Switch: The beginning of the episode is about Peter asking his friends to roast him for his birthday and then getting offended by their jokes. He then finds a new group of friends, only to learn they talk about him behind his back. The episode then becomes about him trying to get revenge on them.
  • Never My Fault: Peter disowns his friends for roasting him despite explicitly asking them to roast him, as he thought that they'd actually compliment him or lightly poke fun at his smallest flaws. Not actually roast him.
  • The Roast: Peter is inspired by a commercial for a comedy roast to get his friends to roast him. However, he ends up taking everyone's jokes about him to heart and he finds another group of friends who won't be nasty to him.
  • Take That!: To Comedy Central:
    Peter: Wait, you mean Comedy Central didn't invent those [roasts]?
    Brian: No.
    Peter: Well, what about funny news? Did they invent that?
    Brian: Not really.
    Peter: But they invented comedy.
    Brian: They didn't invent anything.
    Peter: Well, they centralized it, that we know.

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