Original air date: March 4, 2007
Peter becomes a redneck after watching a blue collar comedy special, but his "git-r-done" antics get Quagmire fired from his job as an airline pilot.
Examples
- Abusive Parents: Peter usually acts as if Meg is hideous, but in this episode as he decides to live like a redneck he basically threatens to rape her. And seeing as it's Peter, it's not hard to imagine he'd follow through, although it is hard to imagine on a full stomach.(Peter puts his arm around Meg as they sit on a couch)Meg: Dad? What are you doing?Peter: Meg, I'm a redneck, which means I am about to do something to you that you will not remember until you're 40.(Meg runs off screaming)Peter: Meg, come back here! I meant sex!
- Artistic License – Cars: Played for Laughs, Peter thinks that putting airplane fuel in his pickup truck will make it fly. It doesn't.
- Ask a Stupid Question...:Crewman 1: Did we finish fueling?
Crewman 2: Do you see the hose in the plane?
Crewman 1: No.
Crewman 2: Well, then, I guess we're finished.
Crewman 1: Thanks, George. You want to say that one more time without the sarcasm? - Black Comedy: "I'm just a prom night dumpster baby..."
- The simulation of the airplane crash where bunnies run out on fire and some guy survives, but is so angry that he goes home to beat his wife.
- Black Comedy Rape: In the epilogue, when everyone is congratulating Quagmire for getting his job back:Peter: And I'm so happy for you, I don't even mind that I was raped in a federal prison after I was arrested for hijacking.
- Bowdlerization:
- The part where the plane crash survivor goes home to beat his wife is slightly different between the DVD and the TV version. On TV, the wife is only slapped four times and looks clean-cut. On DVD, the wife looks roughed up and is slapped eight times.
- The scene of Quagmire taking a job as Joe's home nurse was cut on the TV version because the FOX censors didn't like the poop jokes and Joe asking Quagmire if he'll help him commit suicide.
- The still of Peter getting out of Paris Hilton's car with no underwear on (similar to Britney Spears) has his penis blurred out on the TV version (the DVD version doesn't have it blurred at all).
- After Quagmire nails the flight attendant, he says on the DVD version: "Please exercise caution when standing up, as the contents of your vagina may have shifted during coitus." The TV version replaces "vagina" with "panties" (except the [adult swim] version)
- The "Who Else But Quagmire" cutaway where it's implied Quagmire had sex with a woman who died a virgin is only on the DVD version. According to the DVD commentary, the sequence was cut, not because Quagmire was having sex with a dead woman, but because he was having sex with a dead woman who died a virgin (implying that if she wasn't a virgin, FOX would let that scene slide).
- The cutaway of Peter hosting The Lawrence Welk Show and shouting, "Holy shit, we're a-fucking smokin' now!" was cut for TV.
- Hugh Hefner's pep talk to Quagmire: Hefner's line, "You know, I have a 13-inch penis" was changed on TV to "You know, I have a 13-inch member."
- Brain Freeze: Exaggerated. Peter eats half a Fudgesicle in one bite, then he screams and his head explodes.
- Call-Back: Brian tries to stop Stewie from drinking a cup of Peter's spit, but relents after remembering Stewie's No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on him from "Patriot Games".
- Engineered Heroics: Peter's plan to get help Quagmire get his pilot's licence back involved drugging the flight crew of a plane, then having Quagmire step up to the controls and landing safely.
- Failed a Spot Check: Ollie Williams failed to realise that he was at the wrong airport until it was too late.
- Hillbilly Incest: Peter attempts to adopt a redneck lifestyle. One part is trying to assault his daughter Meg, much to her disgust and horror.(Peter puts his arm around Meg as they sit on a couch)
Meg: Dad? What are you doing?
Peter: Meg, I'm a redneck, which means I am about to do something to you that you will not remember until you're 40.
(Meg runs off screaming)
Peter: Meg, come back here! I meant sex! - Imagine Spot: When Peter sees fuel being pumped into the plane, he has one of these where he believes that filling his pickup truck with plane fuel can make it fly.
- Kent Brockman News: When Tom and Diane report on the plane crash, they briefly note that nobody was hurt before spending most of their airtime discussing purely hypothetical worst-case scenarios, complete with dramatizations, as if they actually happened.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Peter's Engineered Heroics plan ends with him being imprisoned for hijacking.
- Misplaced Retribution: Quagmire gets fired after the plane crash, despite it not being his fault. Peter was the one who siphoned fuel from the plane, and it wasn't Quagmire's job to put enough fuel in the plane, it was down to two other guys (who thought they were done fuelling the plane just because the hose was taken out).
- Obligatory Joke: When Quagmire is on the airplane intercom:Quagmire: We've got some very strong headwinds, giggity.
- Parental Incest: Peter tries to invoke this with his daughter Meg as a redneck. It doesn't work.
- Prison Rape: Played for Laughs when Peter mentions that he's so happy Quagmire got his job as a pilot back that he doesn't even mind that he got raped in federal prison, where he was sent for hijacking a plane.
- Pun: When Quagmire is hiding out in the Griffin treehouse:Peter: Quagmire, you belong in a tree. You're a nut.
Lois: (laughs a really long time) WHAT?! - Repeated Cue, Tardy Response: Peter has a plan to get Quagmire's job back as an airport pilot by getting on a plane and drugging the pilots so Quagmire will have to step in and safely land the plane. Unfortunately, Quagmire gets distracted by having sex with an airport staff and he misses his flight.Peter: Oh, no! Both the pilots are unconscious, and we're in a nosedive. If only there was someone on board who could save us.
(No one responds)
Peter: I said if only there was someone on board who could save us.
Joe: Uh, Peter, I don't see Quagmire. - Shout-Out: Quagmire's co-pilot is Nien Nunb.
- The fake commercial bumper at the end of the second act parodies the title sequence for Will & Grace.
- The Hugh Hefner pep talk ends with "Notre Dame Victory March", which was also used during a similar scene in Airplane!. Music from that film is also used in the climax when Quagmire helps the plane land.
- Then ending credits have Quagmire leaping and running through a hilly meadow of wildflowers a la Laura Ingalls.
- The title of this episode is a reference to the Airport series of movies, which were in turn parodied by the movie Airplane!. Numerous references to the latter, including the musical score, many visual images, the noise of the aircraft in flight, and the cameo scene of Hugh Hefner giving Quagmire a pep talk, a parody of Leslie Nielsen’s pep talk from Airplane!, complete with the “Notre Dame Victory March” playing in the background. This was, in turn, a reference to the famous Gipper Speech from the 1940 film Knute Rockne, All American. This scene is also a reference to the scene in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story where Lance Armstrong, appearing as himself, tells Vince Vaughn’s character not to give up while at an airport bar.
- This is the episode that contains the musical number, Prom Night Dumpster Baby, which refers to Melissa Drexler, a.k.a. "Prom Mom", who in 1997 gave birth to a baby boy in the bathroom at her high school senior prom, and disposed of the newborn in the trash. She pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter and was sentenced to 15 years, but was released for good behavior in 2001.
- The Redneck Comedy Tour is a reference to the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. One of them parodied Jeff Foxworthy's "You Might Be A Redneck" routine and another parodies Larry the Cable Guy's name and voice.
- The scene where Peter gets a severe brain freeze resulting in his head exploding is very much similar to the scene in TerrorVision where Pluthar’s head explodes.
- The three little mice in the corner of the screen announcing “Three Weeks Later” is a parody of the mice from Babe.
- When Peter has a flashback to his “other” comedy club it is a reference to the Laugh Factory incident where Michael Richards verbally assaulted two black hecklers.
- During Peter’s “flying truck” fantasy, the Top Gun anthem song plays in the background. Also in the sequence is a bit where Peter, flying upside-down, approaches an enemy fighter pilot and takes a picture of him as Goose did at the beginning of the film.
- The credit sequence after Lois and Peter agree to talk to Quagmire is a parody of Will & Grace, using the same music and a similar visual montage, where Peter is Will, Lois is Grace, Stewie is Jack and Brian is Karen. In one of the passing clips during this parody, Stewie appears to be hugging Brian.
- The manner in which the plane piloted by Peter, Joe, and Cleveland landed was very similar to that of the hijacked plane in the film Executive Decision.
- As revealed in the news, Quagmire flies a Boeing 767. The scene where he glides a plane without fuel to an unexpected area is a reference to the Gimli Glider in which the plane glides to a former runway, which at that time, has been converted into a drag racing strip.
- Take That!:
- Peter claims that the Redneck Comedy Tour is better than the last stand-up he went to. Cue flashback.Peter: I hear this guy's hilarious. He played Kramer, you know.
Cleveland: Oh, this is going to be fun! - While Mayor Adam West reads My Pet Goat to a group of school children, an assistant interrupts him and whispers in his ear to alert him of the plane crash. Mayor West ignores the announcement and continues reading in a reference to George W. Bush’s response to the news of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The classroom itself imitates footage of Bush at the time of the announcement in every detail. However, Bush did not continue reading like Mayor West. Given Seth MacFarlane's politics, it's not surprising how the scene ended.
- Peter claims that the Redneck Comedy Tour is better than the last stand-up he went to. Cue flashback.
- Teen Pregnancy: One teenager discarding her infant inside a dumpster in "Prom Night Dumpster Baby".
- The Diaper Change: In the DVD version of this episode, Quagmire changes Joe's diaper while spouting baby talk at him, much to Joe's annoyance.
- What the Hell, Hero?: An understandably angry Quagmire calls Peter out on siphoning the gas in his plane and costing him his job, thinking the gas would cause his truck to fly.
- Yawn and Reach: Peter does this when he's putting the moves on Meg.
