Freakin' Sweet Forum 04.28.08: Let's Go to the Hop
Posted by Jerome Cusson on 04.28.2008
Just what I want to do to get high, lick a freakin' toad.
Seth MacFarlane ... Peter Griffin / Brian Griffin / Stewie Griffin / Glen Quagmire / Tom Tucker / Additional Voices
Alex Borstein ... Lois Griffin / Loretta Brown / Tricia Takanawa / Barbara Pewterschmidt / Additional Voices
Seth Green ... Chris Griffin / Neil Goldman / Additional Voices
Mila Kunis ... Meg Griffin
Lori Alan ... Diane Simmons
Gregg Allman ... Himself
Fairuza Balk ... Connie
Mary Kay Bergman ... Additional Voice
Patrick Bristow ... Additional Voice
Wayne Collins ... Additional Voice
Tom Dorfmeister ... Additional Voice
Mike Henry ... Additional Voice
Joey Slotnick ... Additional Voice
Danny Smith ... Additional Voice
Fred Tatasciore ... Additional Voice
Lisa Wilhoit ... Connie D'Amico
Written...Matt Weitzman and Mike Barker
Director...Glen Hill
Production Number: 2ACX04
Original Airdate: June 6, 2000
A Colombian cartel is trying to make a delivery and isn’t having much success. Some toads escape the crashed plane. Two kids are walking down the street having a debate that’s way too intelligent, when one of the kids accidentally licks a frog. As you’d expect, they both begin tripping out. Peter, Lois, and Brian are enjoying a commercial featuring Siamese twins. Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons then announce the new drug craze sweeping across Quahog, toad licking. This is when Lois finds a toad in one his children’s pants.
Chris is staring at sea monkeys. He is accused of licking a toad, but Chris says it was Meg. And, it actually is because she has a wart on her hand. I thought it was cause she was an ugly bitch, but color me wrong. Meg defends herself by saying she holding the toad for someone else. We find out that even the principal has a low opinion of Meg’s social standing. The poor girl just wants to be asked to the dance. Peter recalls his own problems asking a girl to the dance. Damn nervous twitch.
Peter and Lois reflect back to how they taught their children, as they get ready for an interesting bout of sex. It’s sort of a domination thing. That’s nice. Peter goes to the principal and has a plan. He dresses up as a high school student. Neil tries to ask Meg to the dance, but is soundly rejected. Meg discovers Peter’s plan as the new kid in town, Lando Griffin. By the way, Lando is a great name. Meg hopes this is a dress but it isn’t. Peter gets to know some of Meg’s classmates. He’s not exactly very successful at first. He finally gets into the other kid’s hearts by bleeding when trying to get the jukebox to work.
Peter then gets Connie D’AmIco and the rest of James Woods High School not to lick toad through a musical, a parody of one of the songs from Grease. It’s nowhere near as funny as some of the other musical numbers I’ve seen on this show, but it’s still darn funny. The toad craze is over and Meg has a date for the dance, her own father. Chris is disappointed that Peter hasn’t sung at his school. Peter and the rest of the Griffins are eating dinner. Stewie really doesn’t like dinner. Peter gets a call from Connie and is now taking her to the dance. Meg sadly has to find out from Neil, who still tries to get her to go out with him to the dance. Meg is pissed for obvious reasons.
Lois lectures Peter about what he’s doing, as Stewie thinks about what he would do if he were Oliver Twist. Having a big freakin’ laser certainly would help. Peter is an idiot. Brian says it’s transference. Connie is actually the girl Peter wanted to date back in high school, and he’s living the life he wanted to when he was 18. He escapes his room and is saved by Spiderman’s web. According to the master web-maker, everyone gets one. Lois encourages her daughter to go to the dance, since terrorists prevented Meg from going to her high school junior dance.
Lois walks into the bedroom, and Peter has set up an elaborate tape recording set up. At the dance, “Lando” is enjoying himself with Connie while listening to some crappy 80s song. The couple is even named the king and queen of the dance. Just as the crown is being put on his head, he sees his daughter. He rides recklessly into the night since Meg “dumped” her. Meg gets multiple offers to dance as Lando is pronounced dead. Thankfully, everything resolves itself nicely. The last scene is Meg walking to the song “Don’t You Forget About Me,” thus paying off the Breakfast Club joke from earlier. The yearbook is even dedicated to the memory of one Lando Griffin.
The “No Fat Chicks” award for best line/moment of the show: I originally had something else, but the breakfast club cutaway was very funny. “Cigarettes, THEY’RE GRRRRRRRRREAT!”
The Meg Griffin award for worst line/moment of the show: Peter ditching his daughter for some bimbo. Man, Peter is an ass.
Most Random Cutaway: The Tootsie Roll parody where the kid asks a toad how many licks does it take to get into state prison. Very random, but this was also very funny.
The 411: It’s pretty obvious what decade the writers of this show lived through based off this episode. I enjoyed this episode, even though Peter once again proves himself to be a pretty disgusting human being. But, hey, there were more than enough laughs to be had here.
