Lois' sister, Carol (last seen on "Emission Impossible" and last mentioned on "Boys Do Cry"), comes to live with the Griffins after getting divorced yet again, and falls for Mayor West.
Examples:
- Bowdlerization: The following scenes were edited/altered between the TV version and the DVD version:
- Lois's line to Meg, "Look who the fuck's talking?!" had "fuck" bleeped out on TV, but not on DVD.
- The local nobleman who comes by to declare "prima nocta" on Carol and Mayor West says he had a "soggy penis" on the TV version. On DVD, he describes his penis as "flaccid", which is a more common description.
- Peter being told he can't bring his goldfish to Adam West's dinner: on TV, he grumbles, "Son of a bitch!"; on DVD, he grumbles, "Son of a fuck!"
- Lois telling Adam West that he can't move to Alaska: on the TV version, Lois says that Mayor West can't move to Alaska because the summers are too short (followed by a cutaway of three boys with surfboards running towards the beach on a sunny day, then running back when the day turns cold and dark, all the while talking about how great their summer was and how one of them lost his virginity to a girl he met at camp). On the DVD version, Lois says that Mayor West can't move to Alaska because there are Eskimo child molesters up there (followed by a cutaway of an Eskimo man forcing an Eskimo boy to give him an Eskimo kiss).
- Dude, Not Funny!: Robert Loggia appears in a live-action cutaway after the show makes an AIDS/aides joke.
- Fourth-Date Marriage: Adam West asks Carol to marry him after one date. Lois thinks it's a bad idea, but rather than telling them to take it slow she tries to break them up. It all works out in the end.
- Happily Married: Carol and Mayor West by the end of the episode.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Lois did point out that Carol got married nine times and always ended in divorce. Carol would fall for guys quickly and married them. Indeed Carol was implied to be unfaithful to Mayor West less than a season later.
- Karmic Jackpot: Played for Laughs in one scene where Peter promises to get his tropical fish food, knowing that they'll do the same for him one day, followed by the two fish paying his hospital bill, no matter how much it costs.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Lois when she realizes she's turned her back on Carol after all she did for her.
- Shout-Out: Hanna-Barbera character Doggie Daddy is revealed to be one of Carol's previous husbands.
- Peter packing away toys and cans of tuna is a reference to a Calvin and Hobbes strip.
- The family watches a Peter-season episode of Family Ties where Jennifer goes through puberty and is depicted as a hulking ogre-like creature. Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter reprise their roles for that scene.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Peter chews out Lois for wanting to sabotage Carol's relationship with Mayor West when their own relationship was doubted and Carol didn't hesitate to defend them.Peter: Nobody believed we'd make it and look at us now. I drink and you use sex as a weapon. That seems to me like a successful New England marriage.
