Airdate: March 21, 2010
Peter becomes a paparazzo, and Ollie Williams punching and breaking his glasses leads to Angela (Peter's boss at Pawtucket Brewery, voiced by Carrie Fisher) to hit on him during work. Meanwhile, Stewie gets stage fright during a school play about the Terri Schiavo controversy.
"PeterAssment." contains examples of (YMMV Goes Here)
- Age-Inappropriate Art: The play Stewie's school is performing is a musical based on the Terri Schiavo case
and the surrounding controversy. Stewie plays the plug to Terri's life support. - All Jews Are Cheapskates: In the end, Peter got Mort to substitute for him for only two dollars, which he demands to be paid at the end of the episode after falling out of Peter's clothes.
- All Men Are Perverts: Lois' justification for not sympathizing with Peter is that apparently, all men are as sex-crazed as Quagmire.
- Attempted Rape: Angela tries to force Peter into having sex with her, despite his clear refusal and horror. She threatens to fire him but he quits instead.
- Blackmail: Angela uses the threat of firing Peter to get him to do what she wants. It eventually backfires when Peter would rather be fired than have sex with her or put up with her behaviour any longer.
- Bring My Brown Pants: Stewie's stage fright culminates in him breaking into tears and wetting himself.
- Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Angela lusts for Peter after seeing him without his glasses and forces him to do lewd acts for her, such as wearing skimpy clothing and making him put his hand in a hole in the wall. Peter doesn't give any form of consent and is forced to do these things under the threat of being fired, and his friends and family show no concern for him when he tells them about Angela's behaviour. It escalates to a point where she demands he come to her house and tries to force him into having sex with her, despite his clear refusal and horror, and even after this, Peter ultimately sympathises with Angela's loneliness and has to sleep with her in order to save her from committing suicide. In real life, it's completely illegal and morally reprehensible for employers to solicit sex from employees, regardless of gender, and an employer threating to fire an employee if they don't have sex with them (which is exactly what Angela does in this episode) would most likely get the employer fired, blacklisted, and most likely sent to prison.
- Informed Deformity: Quagmire decides to hide in Peter's pants and have sex with Angela for him, but immediately decides against it when he sees how "ugly" Angela is.
- Halfway Plot Switch: The rest of the episode focuses more on Peter's sexual harassment, instead of Stewie trying to getting over his stage fright.
- Hypocrite: Quagmire tells Peter, a married heterosexual man, that refusing Angela will mark him as gay, yet he himself refuses Angela after seeing her. When Peter finally goes through with the deed (not because he wants to, but to stop Angela from killing herself), he then criticizes Peter for cheating on Lois.
- Imagine Spot: Angela imagines Peter without glasses swimming naked with a dolphin.
- Interrupted Suicide: Angela tries killing herself by locking herself in her garage and leaving her car's motor on, but Peter saves her.
- Karma Houdini: In the end, Angela gets what she wants, and receives no comeuppance for her treatment of Peter.
- A Man Is Always Eager: Lois believes that men cannot be sexually harassed by women because men like to be flirted with. Quagmire and the other bar patrons believe that Peter is less of a man for being sexually harassed and declining an offer of sex.
- Morton's Fork: According to Quagmire, if Peter sleeps with Angela then he's committing adultery. If he doesn't, then he's gay for not sleeping with her. The real Morton's Fork is that Angela will fire Peter if he doesn't give in to her advances.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Peter is clearly horrified and guilt-ridden for sleeping with Angela.
- "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: Lois excuses Angela's behaviour because she believes men enjoy that kind of attention.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Peter disguises himself so Angela can regain her will to live. She seemingly falls for it, until after the sex. Where she says that she'll see him at work on Monday.
- Pity Sex: It's pretty much what happens to Angela in the end. Peter feels bad for her because she feels "lonely" for not being with someone for years.
- Playing a Tree: At the play, in the beginning, Stewie plays the apparently coveted role of the plug.
- Scarpia Ultimatum: Once Angela saw Peter without his glasses, she became as mad as a march hare and actively threatened his job if Peter didn't do what she said. Angela then attempted to rape Peter but he quits when she threatened to fire him for backing away.
- Stalking Is Funny if It Is Female After Male: Angela lusts for Peter after seeing him without his glasses and forces him to roleplay for her, under the threat of being fired if he refuses to comply. If the sexes were reversed, then it would be uncomfortable throughout.
- The Unapologetic: Angela doesn't apologise for her actions towards Peter and she succeeds in having Pity Sex with Peter.
- What Beautiful Eyes!: Angela's lust for Peter is kickstarted when she sees Peter without his glasses, and remarks how beautiful his eyes are.
