Whistle While Your Wife Works

Whistle While Your Wife Works is a season 5 episode of the FOX animated television series Family Guy.

Plot summary

Template:Spoiler Quagmire comes back from Florida with fireworks. While Peter tells Quagmire the name of the firework bomb he has made, the fireworks explode, severing and scattering Peter's fingers. Peter must then collect his fingers so that they can be reattached. Later, it's closing time at the Drunken Clam but Peter and crew are not ready to stop drinking yet, so they continue the alcohol consumption at the Pawtucket Brewery. Once Peter returns to work, he is scolded by his supervisor, Angela, who tells him that his productivity has waned. Peter explains that his injured hand is to blame, but Angela still says he has to improve or he will be fired. Lois comes to the brewery to help Peter get caught up at work by typing for him while his hand heals. In the office, Peter imagines Lois is his secretary and begins to sexually harass her in an attempt to convince her to have sex with him in the office. She eventually complies.

Meanwhile, Brian tells Stewie that he has been dating a girl named Jillian, but he doesn't want Stewie to meet her. Stewie is convinced that the reason for this is that Jillian is ugly, but Brian finally introduces Stewie to Jillian to prove that she is actually attractive. Stewie soon discovers that the real reason Brain didn't want him to meet Jillian is because she is extremely unintelligent. Brian is teased by Lois for dating someone so dense when Stewie tricks her into coming over to the house for dinner, and Brian later admits that the relationship is basically based on sex and that he should end it soon. Stewie encourages Brian to break up with her, but when Brian goes to her house to do so, he is distracted by her nudity and ends up having sex with her instead. Template:Spoilerend

Notes

• This is the first episode to parody the opening sequence, where Peter messes up the opening theme by falling down the stairs and landing on one of the dancers.
• In the scene where Joe shoots down the bird, Joe is in his wheelchair while he is seen crawling in the previous scene. On the same note, Peter is standing though in the previous scene he was crawling on the street alongside Joe after being hit by a car.

Cultural references

• "Axel F" - Brian's ring tone is the theme from Beverly Hills Cop, which was performed by Harold Faltermeyer.
• The Electric Company - Brian sings "There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea" (albeit with new lyrics), a song from the 1970s PBS children's show.
• Get Smart - The scene where Peter walks through a series of automatic doors to get at his girlie magazines is a spoof of the opening to the 1960s situation comedy starring Don Adams.
• Legend - The scene where the Lord of Darkness character from the 1985 fantasy film accidentally pokes out the eyes of several characters with his horns is a parody of the film.

• While Brian is calling Jillian, she is trying to watch Mr. 3000 as Brian gives her instructions on how to use the DVD player.
• Danny DeVito's proposal to Rhea Perlman is parodied in a scene alluding to that they both are unattractive people.
• Gary Numan's synthpop anthem Cars plays on Stewie's mix tape at the end of the episode.

Trivia

• This is the third episode in a row that a bleep was used to censor a word.
• At one point, Jillian wears a red choker with a gold coin inset, which resembles Brian's red collar and gold dog tag.
• Family Guy's opening sequence takes place in studio 76 as referenced in the background of the parody.