Model Misbehavior

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"Model Misbehavior"
Family Guy episode
Lois at a Vogue Magazine photo shoot.
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 10
Written by	Steve Callaghan
Directed by	Sarah Frost
Production no.	4ACX13
Original airdate	July 24, 2005
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"Model Misbehavior" is the tenth episode from the fourth season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. The episode title is a parody of the TV movie Model Behavior.

Plot summary

During a visit with her parents, Lois recalls her teenage aspirations to be a model. In defiance of her father’s wishes, she begins modeling and becomes very successful. Peter is proud of her at first, but he soon becomes jealous of the lust she inspires in other men. Fed up with Peter's envy, Lois rebels by taking diet pills and staying out all night at parties. Desperate to get her out of the fashion world, Peter collaborates with Lois’ father Carter to get her back. They kidnap her at a Vogue party and bring her back to the Griffins' house, where Carter demands that Lois quit her modeling career. Seeing his wife’s great desire for modeling, Peter soon acquieses to Lois, insisting to Carter that it is her right to model if she chooses, and that they have no right to interfere with her happiness. Carter shouts that no child of his has the right to feel happy, but Peter knocks him out with a punch. Realizing that she has had the freedom to fulfill her wishes, Lois decides to quit modelling after all.

Meanwhile, Stewie starts a pyramid scheme business (“Ca$hscam”). Brian learns he has worms and does not want to tell Peter about it due to his inability to keep personal matters private (one incident led to Peter yelling at 3:00am about Meg having her first menstruation), so Stewie gives Brian his needs and Brian works for Stewie until he can pay him back. Stewie is shown to be working with the Cookie Monster and Grover. During a side skit, it is shown that the Cookie Monster is in rehab for his cookie addiction. It is eventually revisited when Lois opens bathroom stall door to see him cooking cookie dough in a spoon, an allusion to methamphetamine addicts. Eventually, Brian gets fed up with Stewie's pretending Ca$hscam is a real company. Stewie fires Brian and warns him not to "come back and shoot up the place."

Reception

On this episode's airdate, Fox was the most-watched network among the 18-49 demographic, and this episode had 6.73 million viewers.^[1] Allmovie reviewer Hal Erickson also noted that the episode includes a joke aimed at viewers " who have nothing better to do with their time than pause their DVDs to catch the jokes they'd missed first time around."^[2]

Cultural references

Popular culture jibes include those at Sesame Street and Six Feet Under and a reference to Rob Schneider's "The Richmeister (Makin' Copies)" sketch on SNL in the early 1990s.

The Evil Monkey listens to "Slow Ride" on headphones, reminiscent of a scene in the 1993 film Dazed and Confused.

Footnotes