Jungle Love (Family Guy)

Infobox Television episode
Title =Jungle Love
Series =Family Guy


Caption =The Griffins run for their lives from island natives.
Season =4
Episode =13
Airdate =September 25, 2005
Production =4ACX16
Writer =Mark Hentemann
Director =Seth Kearsley
Guests =Carrie Fisher Will Ferrell Jay Mohr
Episode list =List of Family Guy episodes
Season list = Infobox Family Guy Season 4
Prev =Perfect Castaway
Next =PTV

"Jungle Love" is the thirteenth episode of the fourth season of "Family Guy". It guest stars Carrie Fisher as Angela and Jay Mohr as Vinny. The episode’s title is a reference to a single of the same name by Steve Miller Band (Morris Day also has a song with the same name) Fact|date=October 2007.

Plot

Chris is excited to become a freshman at the local high school, until Joe tells Chris about the "Freshman Hunt," a hazing ritual in which the freshmen are beaten with paddles by everyone. When Chris shows up at school Lois yells out "Freshman!" to lure over other students. After a short chase Chris is caught, and is paddled by several people, including the mayor, playing a part in the movie "Dazed and Confused". Chris asks Brian for advice. Brian tells Chris about his time in the Peace Corps. Chris decides to join the Corps and goes to South America, where he becomes popular with the natives. When he gets the tribe to dance, he is married to the chief’s daughter, as dictated by the tribe’s customs.

In the meantime, Peter, who has been unemployed for quite some time, goes to work at the Pawtucket Brewery, where the beer is free as long as employees don't drink during their shift. However, Peter can’t control his drinking and he is demoted; he ends up as a subordinate to Opie, a mentally handicapped (but apparently better qualified) man whose speech is unintelligible.

When Lois learns of the marriage, she immediately travels down to South America with the rest of the family. Disillusioned with his new job, Peter is as eager to go there as anyone else. Upon their arrival Peter is seen as the richest man in the country with just $37. Many of the natives of the country then become Peter's slave for just nickels and dimes. When Chris accuses Peter of "using" the natives to escape his troubles, Lois points out that that is also what Chris did. Chris then decides to return to Rhode Island, telling his wife that he must leave her, casually referring to his status as a freshman. The natives respond exactly as the upperclassmen in Quahog do, so they chase the Griffins in a very hostile manner. The Griffins escape on a seaplane "a la" Raiders of the Lost Ark, but forget Meg, whose back is riddled by darts and arrows.

Censorship

The scene where Peter returns home drunk and thinks the window is a drive-thru window at a fast-food restaurant (and Meg is the order intercom) is cut from syndication.

Cultural references

* The scene in which Chris is beaten with paddles is from the movie "Dazed and Confused". As in the film, the song in the background is “No More Mr. Nice Guy” by Alice Cooper. Mayor Adam West’s sequence is directly referencing Ben Affleck’s character from the same film.
* In a cutaway, Peter has a job as “Sandy Duncan’s glass eye”. Duncan is a Broadway and television actress who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in 1972. She said that she lost sight in one eye and unconfirmed rumors persist that it was removed and replaced with a prosthetic. Sandy Duncan was referenced in the musical number from “Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows”.
* Stewie is also shown dressed as Dustin Hoffman from the film "Tootsie".
* The chief says “Never had it, never will” and laughs. This was a commercial slogan for 7 Up from the 1980s, indicating that 7-Up was always caffeine-free.
* Stewie asks for Scope after explaining where his effeminate self would get wine coolers for an O.C. party with some female friends.
*Lou Gehrig is shown inventing the disease which bears his name (ALS).
* In a cutaway, Peter is Kevin Federline's magic mirror, telling him how to look like a douchebag. Federline was married to Britney Spears.
* The song Chris leads the tribe in singing is an off-key rendition of Wham!’s 1984 hit “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go”.
*When complaining about his job, Peter mentions working in a lab with Dr. Bunsen Honeydew from "The Muppet Show". In the following cutaway, Peter takes on the appearance (and voice) of Beaker.
* In a cutaway, Stewie tours Europe with a musical rendition of "My Left Foot", Irish author Christy Brown’s memoir of his struggle with cerebral palsy, which was turned into an acclaimed film starring Daniel Day-Lewis in 1989.
* There is an extended sequence in which Stewie flies to Los Angeles to punch actor/comedian Will Ferrell for his role in the 2005 film remake of the television series "Bewitched", which generally [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bewitched/ opened to poor reviews] . The writers of the show stated in the DVD commentary for this episode that they like Will Ferrell, but they hated the film remake of "Bewitched" and felt let down by him (and mentioned that the joke was originally Stewie going to beat up Steve Martin after seeing him in "Bringing Down the House"). Ferrell previously guest starred in the episode “Mr. Saturday Knight”.
* Peter pays the natives to re-enact the infamous “The Contest” episode from the NBC sitcom "Seinfeld". The dialogue spoken by the high priestess playing Elaine, however, is from the episode “The Stall”.
* At the end of this episode, the opening sequence of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is spoofed with the actual music score by John Williams. On the commentary for this episode, Seth MacFarlane says that if they wanted to use Williams' scores it had to be the original recordings, because any re-recordings would make the legendary composer angry.

Reception and Legacy

In his review of the episode, Ryan J. Budke of TV Squad reviewed the episode positively, commenting: "this week had some of the quickest (Deadwood) and longest (cave-couple fight) jokes that "Family Guy" has done and I was in stitches for just about every one", adding "I can't heap enough praise on this show."cite web|url=http://www.tvsquad.com/2005/09/25/family-guy-jungle-love/|title=Family Guy: Jungle Love|accessdate=2008-07-20|author=Budke, Ryan J.|publisher=TV Squad|date=September 25, 2005]

Peter’s ideal jobs are cowboy, astronaut, warlock, more powerful astronaut, and beer expert. This is referenced in a further episode “Patriot Games” when Peter pretends to be a “Secret Agent Cowboy Astronaut Millionaire” in order to impress his old friends at a high school reunion.

Note

From this episode forward, Peter is employed as a shipping clerk (a brewer before he was demoted) at the Pawtucket Pat Brewery. It was last seen in “Wasted Talent” (in a spoof of "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory") and has changed since Pawtucket Pat sold it. Chris also becomes a freshman at James Woods High. The Evil Monkey makes a cameo in this episode; he is heartbroken when Chris leaves.

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