Quagmire lands himself a cooking show, but his serious take finds itself at odds with Peter's butter covered shenanigans. Meanwhile, Stewie is put on ADHD medication.
Tropes associated with this episode
- An Aesop: Medications are only for people who really need it.
- Balloon Belly: A more subtle example (for this show anyway), Peter decides to sabotage his chances in the cook-off by eating his entire entry. For the remainder of the scene, he looks fatter than usual.
- Continuity Nod: Brian still can't write.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Peter throws his chance to win for Quagmire to keep his show.
- Made of Iron: After eating a metric ton of butter, Peter had 3 heart attacks and 2 strokes in the short span of a conversation. It barely seems to faze him.
- Motor Mouth: Brian while he's medicated.
- N-Word Privileges: Peter and Quagmire decide to get their show cancelled by dropping an unseen N-bomb on-air. Cut to a very annoyed Cleveland.Cleveland: You could have just quit the show.
- Open the Iris: Stewie while he's medicated.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: George R. R. Martin gives one to Brian after he acts out his treatment to him, saying that he knows Brian took drugs and that while they made Brian write a lot, they didn't make him write good.
- Shout-Out: The episode title is a play on the 1973 Roberta Flack song "Killing Them Softly."
- Stating the Simple Solution: Peter and Quagmire decide they don't want to go on with the cooking show if it's going to ruin their friendship, so they get out of it by saying the N-word on live TV. It cuts to them sitting at the Drunken Clam awkwardly as a very angry Cleveland tells them that they could have just quit the show.
