Original air date:
9/9/2003 (Volume 2 DVD set)
11/9/2003 [adult swim]
12/10/2004 (FOX, censored)
(produced in 2000)
Production code: 2ACX-05
Peter befriends a Jewish accountant named Max Weinstein who helps the Griffins get their money back from a crooked insurance salesman. He then decides to have Chris convert to Judaism, thinking it will make him more successful.
This episode contains examples of:
- An Aesop: Success is based not on one's religion, but the person themselves.
- Artistic License – History: The statement Lois makes that Jews "built the pyramids" has no basis in fact. The pyramids were not built by slaves, nor were most built anywhere near the timeframe of The Exodus. note
- Bowdlerization: One of the earliest examples of a Family Guy episode whose DVD version is different from its television version. The following changes are:
- Peter's "I Need a Jew" song: On the DVD version, Peter's last lyric was "Though, by many, they're abhorred/Hebrew people I've adored/Even though they killed my Lord/I need a Jew". On TV (when the episode finally aired after being banned) and on current streaming versions , the line goes "Though, by many, they're abhorred/Hebrew people I've adored/I don't think they killed my Lord/I need a Jew".
- Quagmire "looking for his keys" when Lois asks him to borrow his car: The DVD version and the Cartoon Network version had Quagmire "looking for his keys" a bit longer, making it look like he's masturbating. The FOX TV version severely shortened it, ruining the joke.
- Cordon Bleugh Chef: Lois makes marshmallow and fish casserole for Max's visit. Max gets out of eating it by agreeing with Lois' assumption that he can't eat it because it's not kosher.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Stewie breaks Meg's glasses, something she needs to see, all for watching him sleep.
- Exact Words: When Peter tells Lois about his plan to make Chris smarter by converting him to Judaism, she says that she doesn't want to hear another word on the subject. Peter signals to Chris that she won't have to because they've mastered American Sign Language.
- "The Graduate" Homage Shot: When Lois tries to stop Chris' Bar Mitzvah.
- Hypocritical Humor: When Cleveland tells Peter that not all Jews are good with money, Peter assumes he is referring to mentally disabled Jews and accuses Cleveland of bringing that up for shock value and being offensive, not realizing that he is the one whose views are offensive. Lois later chastises Peter's offensive remark that Jews can't do manual labor by equally offensively pointing out that "they built the pyramids."
- Impossible Insurance: Peter decides to buy volcano insurance. Lois points out the absurdity of that before Peter points out that it is the same thing she said about cloud insurance.
- In Case of X, Break Glass: When a group of nuns gets word of Peter entering a synagogue, they rush toward a case reading "In Case Of Heresy, Break Glass" and smash it to reveal rulers inside.
- Insane Troll Logic: Lois, in a fit of rage, exclaims, "Sometimes I feel like I'm married to a child!" Peter replies that if he's a child, then that makes her a pedophile, and he'll be damned if he's going to stand there and be lectured by a pervert.
- Nuns Are Funny: An army of nuns armed with rulers deploy after they detect Peter, who was raised Catholic, entering a synagogue and donning a kippah.Mother Superior: Lock and load, brides of Christ!
- Offscreen Teleportation: Lois drives from Rhode Island to Vegas (A distance of almost 3000 miles — 4830km) in the span of one scene transition.
- Parenting the Husband: Lois feels like being married to Peter is like being married to a child.
- Powersuit Monkey: Lois tells her mother that she doesn't think she would be better off married to the chimp across the street no matter how well he's doing. At the end of the episode, she tells Peter that just because the chimp makes more money that doesn't make him any smarter.
- Religious Robot: Optimus Prime is Jewish.
- Sure, Let's Go with That: Lois thinks the reason Max can't eat Lois's marshmallow and fish casserole is that it's not kosher. Max decides to let her think that.
- Viva Las Vegas!: Peter figures there has to be someplace in America where you can take a spiritual ceremony that begins a lifetime commitment and blow through it in about 20 minutes.
