Well, Seth MacFarlane went to college in Providence, Rhode Island - maybe he doesn’t think too highly of the attitudes of the people who live there. Or maybe people from Providence dig on people from Newport. Makes more sense to me than a BDSM reference.
I did a Google search for Rhode Island masochist, and found this article from, of all things, Pravda:
Little too obscure for that to be the referent, though.
There’s a scene in Family Guy where Peter is purging his bar with Lois. He insults three sci-fi looking guys (I can’t remember what he said) who Lois then kicks into a 2 dimensional square. What’s that all about?
That’s General Zod and his two aides, from Superman II. They are, like superman, from the planet Krypton 9and thus equal Superman in power). Peter says “Krypton Sucks”.
In the movie, they are banished into a 2 dimensional square at the very beginning, much like what happens to them after Lois kicks their butts.
I think the banishing scene appears in extended versions of the first Superman movie.
I have not seen the show, but this sounds like a reference to the three criminals from Krypton who are banished to the Phantom Zone in the Superman movie.
:smack: I read somewhere that it was a reference to the “Phantom Zone,” but it never clicked that it was Superman’s Phantom Zone. Then again, I never saw Superman II or one for that matter.
By the way, there’s a similar reference to this bit from Superman in a rather icky episode of South Park…involving Christopher Reeves and foetuses…
Mother and son, actually.
In the Family Guy episode where Lois becomes a hostile kung-fu master, beating the crap out of New Yorkers, Peter is in the kitchen and says, “Last night, Lois was the man.” Then Stewie runs out to get a bat and belts him in the head. Brian then says, “It looks like Stewie freed the beast on the back of Peter’s head.”
What does the term “freed the beast” mean?
let me rephrase: it’s obvious what it means, but where does it come from?
Doesn’t one of the characters mention Disraeli’s name before the camera cuts to him?
Yes.
Hippy Hollow - that episode was just on the other night, and Lois’ tae-jitsu instructor used that phrase in class, “free the beast”, earlier in the episode. I don’t know if it’s a common phrase, though, and didn’t care to click on any of the Google search results that came up.
There are a couple of things in the Daggermouth episode that was also on recently. First, when they are in the boat searching, there’s a guy on the rocks with really long arms and says “a fishy, a fishy, I wonder where that fish did go” or something. It’s just too weird, it has to be from something. Also the giant cockroach that appears twice in the episode and says “Goooood. Goooood.”
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
Specifically, the weird middle section.
The cockroach, I think, was just them referring back to a joke they made earlier in the episode.
Thanks, both! Hmmm, I just don’t remember that but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen the move.
How eerie. I happen to have my copy right here (I was looking up Jam Tommorrow). So even though it doesn’t have anything to do with the Simpsons etc. I’ll mention that that’s correct…at least that it was “widely believed” to be them, but “not proven”.
That and apparently the Mad Hatter wasn’t Gladstone after all.
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The giant cockroach wasn’t in the Daggermouth episode, he was in the episode when The Drunken CLam becomes The Clam;s Head Pub. He is the real arsonist (because he breathes fire) and is both pleased that Peter became a suspect, and then later the British owner was killed for the crime (though he confessed…so maybe he hired the giant cockroach?)
Oh, it’s totally a BDSM reference. The masochist is bound, as in by ropes or handcuffs or whatever and Newport is in Rhode Island. I mean, technically, the masochist would be bound in Rhode Island, but still…
People from Providence don’t seem to have a problem with Newport. Rhode Islanders are, generally speaking, pretty proud of Newport.
A masochist in Newport would be bound [tied up] and in Rhode Island. Get it?