Airdate: January 16, 2011
After promising to make items for a church bake sale, Lois runs into Joyce Kinney at the store. After gushing about meeting her, the two quickly become close friends, and they decide to spend the day together at the news studio and later takes her out for drinks. Joyce gets Lois to drunkenly admit she made a porno film in college called Quest for Fur to pay for her tuition after her rich parents cut her off for blowing her school money on cocaine.
Joyce Kinney later features it in a news story. Lois is outraged and when confronts Joyce, she finds out it was in retaliation for a prank she pulled in High School, where Joyce was pantsed in front of the student body with a hot dog shoved in her mouth. Joyce's last name is revealed to be Chevapravatdumrong (which is the last name of one of the writers on the show), but she changed it to Kinney, since she believed that the news will never let that on air. Lois then says that the prank was a long time ago and that she was sorry for what she did. Joyce scoffs and tells Lois to "go talk to a news reporter."
Lois confesses what happened to the family but finds herself ostracized everywhere. Chris faces bullies at school who tease him about his mother. Meg joins in and says "yeah your mom is gross and nasty," but, as usual, gets told to shut up and stay out of it.
She eventually finds herself at church and is ordered to leave. Crying and depressed, Brian tells her that she may not be able to rectify her mistake, but she can make it so that way no one mocks her for it by making fun of herself for it (like how Ryan Seacrest made jokes about his alleged homosexuality to keep others from doing the same). Lois arrives at church the following week and, comparing herself to Mary Magdalene, shows the film to the congregation, winning their approval. Joyce is not pleased that the congregation forgave Lois.
"And I'm Joyce Kinney" contains examples of (YMMV goes here):
- '80s Hair: In Quest for Fur, Lois had a gigantic 80s updo, and both her male costars had shaggy mullets.
- Accuser of the Brethren: Joyce Kinney airs Lois' dirty laundry as revenge for the prank the latter pulled in high school. Even after Lois apologizes, Joyce remains stubborn in her stance and refuses to accept Lois' apology.
- Adults Are Useless: Implied in Joyce's flashback. Lois and the other cheerleaders are never seen being punished for their prank on Joyce.
- Alpha Bitch: Lois in high school.
- Anachronism Stew: Quest for Fur is supposed to take place during the days of cavemen, but not only are their dinosaurs living among them, but Lois' character has makeup and professionally-styled hair, is later shown lying down on a bed, and a pizza delivery guy shows up.
- Bait-and-Switch:
- When Lois is telling her family the story about how she got into a porno film, her friend in the flashback says he can think of another way Lois can make money while staring at her breasts. Apparently, he gave her a job at his pet store. She got hired for the porno when a porn producer came into the store.
- The opening shot of the porno has what appears to be two human body parts spread out with a hairy patch in the middle… then the camera pans out and reveals it's the male lead's armpit.
- When Brian sees Lois' film and looks down, the scene cuts to something red jutting out of a white tube. It turns out to be a woman's tube of lipstick.
- Brick Joke: When Lois confesses that she did a porn movie in her college days, Stewie worries that he may have been the end result of a porno movie (in the TV version, Brian tries to assure him that he's not, before saying he might be. On the DVD, Brian tells Stewie that he couldn't have been the end result of a porno movie since male porn actors don't finish inside the actresses). Near the end of the episode, Stewie says, "Oh, look at that. Now I'm starting to get suspicious," and we cut to a pizza delivery man in the movie who has Stewie's football-shaped head.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Joyce confronts Lois about a prank the latter pulled on her as a teenager. This is understandable, considering how the action had no negative effect on Lois and that what she did was probably over 20 years ago and can be easily forgotten. Plus, Joyce has gotten thinner since then and changed her name, so of course Lois wouldn't recognize her.Joyce: Now we're even.Lois: Even?! What are you talking about? I haven't done anything to you!Joyce: (snidely) You really don't remember, do you?
- Continuity Nod: Lois brings up the death of Diane Simmons from "And Then There Were Fewer."
- Confidentiality Betrayal: After Lois befriends Joyce, she confides in her that she once starred in an adult movie. Joyce promptly announces this on the local news station and is soon after revealed to have done so to get payback on Lois for a cruel prank she once played on her (back when she was overweight and had a different name).
- *Cough* Snark *Cough*: An amusing variation occurs in church.Woman: *cough*Sinner*cough*Lady: *cough*Harlot*cough*Man: *cough*I'm actually sick*cough*
- He Who Fights Monsters: Joyce towards Lois. Her backstory is sympathetic, but rather than letting it go and forgetting about Lois, she gets revenge on her and causes Lois public humiliation.
- Hypocritical Humor: Bonnie has the nerve to call Lois a "slut", when Bonnie cheated on Joe in "Go Stewie Go."
- A deleted scene shows Quagmire angrily calling Lois "trash". Yes, the same Quagmire who has a Stalker Shrine of Lois in his closet, tried to have sex with her when Peter had amnesia, and is a confirmed rapist, calling Lois "trash".
- Discussed when Lois tells the congregation that Mary Magdeline (known for being a prostitute) was friends with Jesus and Jesus forgave her for her sins, and the congregation has no right to call her out for her sleazy past since none of them are better than Jesus (except for Tina Fey).
- In a meta way Joyce reveals her original last name was Chevapravatdumrong, saying they'd never let a name like that on TV. The name comes from one of the show's writers and producers.
- Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Invoked as a Ratings Stunt with a news story on Angus Reed, a boy with cerebral palsy.
- Jaw Drop: Quagmire's jaw drops almost to the floor when he sees Lois' porn film.
- Keep Circulating the Tapes: In-Universe. Lois claims that all known footage of “Quest for Fur” has vanished, even telling Brian at one point that there’s no link to it anywhere on the internet. Despite this, Lois somehow manages to get a copy of the porn to show to the congregation.
- Kick the Dog:
- Lois' prank on Joyce in high school.
- Also when the news broadcast about Lois' porn past is being exposed, there's a picture of her with a censor bar over her breasts. Peter then jokes that the bar would be lower nowadays, but she's too stunned at the report to give a response.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Meg is on the receiving end of taunts about Lois after she deliberately tried to join in similar taunts that were being directed at Chris.
- Living Prop: Peter mentions this trope when he tells Lois that the people at church are just random background people whom he's never seen before, and most of them don't even move or blink.
- Misplaced Retribution: Chris and Meg get shamed at school for Lois' past actions.
- Mondegreen Gag:Lois: But how am I supposed to live in this town when I'm a social pariah?Peter: What's that? Is it them little fish that eat cows?note
- Pants-Pulling Prank: As teens, Lois not only pulled down Joyce's pants in front of the whole school while she was blindfolded, but also put a hot dog in her mouth.
- Parallel Porn Titles: Lois starred in Quest for Fur.
- Pet the Dog: Peter assuring Lois that he doesn't care that she was in a porno.
- Popular Is Evil: Lois is revealed to have been an Alpha Bitch in high school, driving her to drastically humiliate a fat girl in front of everyone.
- Porn Stache: Lois' male costar in Quest for Fur sports a thin mustache.
- Rejected Apology: While understandable due to bullying being a huge deal and the prank being a Carrie-style humiliation, Joyce does this to Lois.
- Revenge: Joyce Kinney airs Lois' dirty laundry in retaliation to a prank that was pulled on in high school.
- Shout-Out: Lois' prank on Joyce is a bit similar to the prank that Jessica plays on a fat girl in the movie The Hot Chick.
- Shut Up, Kirk!: What Lois did to Joyce was indeed horrible, and she does apologize for it. But when Lois calls Joyce out for humiliating her on TV saying that she's got no right to do it, Joyce just mocks her by saying "Oh boo-hoo".
- Sins of Our Fathers: Chris, and Meg to a lesser extent, get this from bullies in high school over what Lois did.
- Slut-Shaming: What everyone is doing to Lois once they find out she did a porno.
- Sophisticated as Hell: The priest's line, "I know I'm a man of God, but that shit is hot!"
- Status Quo Is God: While Joyce does succeed in humiliating Lois, the latter ends up victorious when she ends up showing the very porn that was outed, prompting the citizens of Quahog to finally overlook Lois's vice. The disappointed look on Joyce’s face makes the audience realize that she did indeed lose her one-sided war against Lois.
- Stylistic Suck: When Lois and the Griffins show Quest For Fur to the church, it's clear that it's a cheap piece of crap even by porn standards. The costumes are cheap, the sets cheaper than that, what "effects" they have (a toy pterodactyl on obvious strings) are awful, the hairstyles and synth music date the production to The '80s, and there are blatant continuity errors. They even have a cliché pizza guy as one of the actors, despite the setting clearly being prehistoric.
- Walk of Shame: Occurs when Lois enters the church after it's publicly revealed that she once starred in a porno flick.
- With Friends Like These...: Joyce's betrayal of Lois (by revealing her past and the reason as to why she did it), and the aftermath (nearly all of Quahog shunning Lois, calling her hateful names and so forth, and being ex-communicated by her church when she turns to her pastor for help).
