Airport '07

"Airport '07" is a season 5 episode of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. The title of this episode is a parody of Airport '77 and the other Airport films.

Plot summary

Template:Spoiler After seeing a redneck comedy show, Peter purchases a pickup truck and decides to become a redneck. He does such "typical" redneck things as bringing the couch out onto the lawn, propositioning Meg, and chewing tobacco. Eventually, after having to bring Quagmire to the airport, Peter steals Quagmire's plane's fuel (thinking it will make his truck fly), causing the plane to crash. Quagmire loses his job, and after three weeks is living with Peter, first in the tree-house, and then in the house. During so he does his typical sex fetishes such as sticking his foot into Meg's mouth while she's sleeping. Lois is fed up and forces Peter to help him get out of the house. Peter decides to attempt a hare-brained scheme with the help of Joe and Cleveland to fix Quagmire's problems, which almost falls through--until Quagmire saves the day. Template:Endspoiler

Notes

• The second season episode "Death Is a Bitch" also alluded to the Airport films, in that particular instance with an "Airport '00" graphic during the Channel 5 News.

• The Simpsons episode "Yokel Chords", which aired the same night, also made reference to the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, as well as redneck stereotypes.

• This episode's title is a reference to the disaster film Airport '77, and aired one week before the thirtieth anniversary of its release.

• In the 8008 calculator, if you inverse Quagmire's directions, 8008/4-20 you get 1982, 25 years before 2007, possibly a tribute to a silver anniversary of some event.

Cultural References

• The four comedians at the beginning of the episode are a reference to the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.
• When Peter is pretending to be a redneck, he pulls out a can of Skoal tobacco and starts to dip.
• Brian flashes back to Stewie beating him up in "Patriot Games".
• The Scene where Peter's head explodes is very much similar to the scene in TerrorVision where Pluthar's head explodes.
• Many references to 9/11 are made in this episode. While Mayor Adam West reads "My Pet Goat" to a group of school children, an assistant interrupts him to alert him to the plane crash. Mayor West ignores the announcement and continues reading in a reference to George Bush's response to the news of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The classroom itself imitates footage of Bush at the time of the announcement in every detail.
• The three little mice in the corner of the screen announcing "Three Weeks Later" is a parody of the mice from Babe.
• Stewie comments that living with Quagmire would be worse than living with Marlee Matlin. A flashback is shown of Stewie living with Matlin, who, being deaf, is unaware of her chronic flatulence.
• The end credits, which feature Quagmire running down a hill of flowers, mocks the end credits sequence to Little House on the Prairie.
• When Peter has a Flashback to his "other" comedy club is a reference to the Laugh Factory incident where Michael Richards verbally assaulted two black hecklers.
• The "Prom Night Dumpster Baby" scene is a reference to the 1997 "Prom Mom" incident.
• The cameo scene of Hugh Hefner giving Quagmire a pep talk is a direct parody of Leslie Nielsen's pep talk from Airplane!, complete with the "Notre Dame Victory March" playing in the background.
• During Peter's "flying truck" fantasy, the theme music from Top Gun plays in the background. Also in the sequence is a bit where Peter, flying upside-down, approaches an enemy fighter pilot and takes a picture of him a la one of the F-14 pilots at the beginning of the film.
• When Quagmire crashes the plane that he was flying (as a result of the plane being out of gas), his copilot is revealed to be Nien Nunb from Return of the Jedi.
• The climax of the film further parodies Airplane!. Various movements of the score are used, the first line Quagmire radios to the cockpit is directly lifted from the film, and the crash landing of the plane is similar.
• Quagmire worked on the Starship Enterprise and states that the "black chick" (Nichelle Nichols) is hot.
• When Peter talks about his crotch shot photo, it cuts to a parody of the infamous photo of Britney Spears getting in to Paris Hilton's car and her crotch is uncovered. Only in this photo, Peter is put into the shot with his penis pixeled out.
• The movie the guys make fun of on the plane is Last Holiday starring Queen Latifah.
• The flight attendant that Quagmire has sex with looks just like the stewardess in a cutaway gag in "Peter's Got Woods". They are both voiced by Rachael MacFarlane as well.
• The credit sequence after Lois and Peter agree to talk to Quagmire is similar to and uses the same music as Will & Grace.
• Peter's exclamation that the plane is going down is similar to that of a character in Final Destination.
• All external shots of the airplane Peter, Joe, and Cleveland are on have the sound of propellers rather than jet engines.