Family Guy
Episode 3
Mr. Griffin goes to Washington
This episode is one of the politically correct ones this season. When the company where Peter is works, HGL Toys, was taken over by a tobacco conglomerate, his boss got fired. Then the new management wanted to sent Peter to Washington to be the spokeperson for the tobacco industry. The parallel is so obvious when the big fat man with no manners brought the major congressman to a strip club. Peter made a true connection with "those fat cats", and got them to vote against a law restricting Tobacco companies from selling their cigarettes to children. The subject is very contemporary, and the way it is exposed clearly made Family Guy a great tribute to promote the non-smoking campaign. All the members of the family got special treatment while Peter was president. Even Meg got a fake ugly friend to make her look good by comparison. But when Stewi got addicted to cigarettes, Peter changed his mind and exposed the truth about his company.
The live interaction between Alyssa Milano, asking her lawyer to sue the series when Peter said something humiliating about her, gives this episode a new catch. Other comparison or personification appear in this episode, but are really based upon older TV shows that I don’t even recall.
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