"Jungle Love" is the thirteenth episode of the fourth season of Family Guy. Chris runs away from his home after getting hazed on his first day of school and joins the Peace Corps, after which he is dropped off in South America. Peter gets a job at the Pawtucket Brewery, where the beer is free as long as employees don't drink during their shift.
Plot
Chris is excited to become a freshman at the local high school, until Joe tells Chris about the Freshman Hunt, a hazing ritual in which the freshmen are beaten with paddles by everyone. When Chris shows up at school Lois yells out "Freshman!" to lure over other students. After a short chase Chris is caught, and is paddled by several people, including Mayor Adam West (in a scene from the film Dazed and Confused, complete with Alice Cooper's No More Mr. Nice Guy playing). Chris asks Brian for advice on how to cope, and Brian tells Chris about his time in the Peace Corps. Chris decides to join the Corps and goes to South America, where he becomes popular with the natives. When he leads the tribe in a dance (Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go), he unwittingly marries the chief’s daughter, as dictated by the tribe’s customs.
In the meantime, Peter, who has been unemployed for some time, goes to work at the Pawtucket Brewery, where the beer is free as long as employees don't drink during their shift. However, Peter can’t control his drinking and he is demoted; he ends up as a subordinate to Opie, a mentally handicapped man whose speech is unintelligible babbling.
When Lois learns of Chris' marriage, she immediately travels down to South America with the rest of the family. Upon their arrival Peter is seen as the richest man in the country with just $37. He takes advantage of this by paying the natives nickels and dimes to act according to his whimsy. When Chris accuses Peter of "using" the natives to escape his troubles, Lois points out that that is also what Chris did. Chris then decides to return to Rhode Island, telling his wife that he must leave her, casually referring to his status as a freshman. The natives respond exactly as the upperclassmen in Quahog do, chasing the Griffins in a hostile manner (causing Chris to realize that there's no place for hide from his problems). The Griffins escape on a seaplane (from Raiders of the Lost Ark), but forget Meg, who has been riddled by darts and arrows.
Production and cultural references
The episode was written by future showrunner Mark Hentemann and was directed by Peter Shin and Seth Kearsley.[1] It featured special guest appearances from Ralph Garman, Lisa Wilhoit, Danny Smith, Nicole Sullivan.[1] It also featured a guest appearance of Adam West playing himself as the eponymous Mayor Adam West and Carrie Fisher as Angela, Peter's boss.[1][2][3]
The episode contains some cultural references, for example when Stewie becomes a tootsie,[4] when Lou Gehrig's evil plot is backfired,[4] Kevin Federline's Magic Mirror, which is Peter.[4] The episode featured the 1984's hit single "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" from the pop duo Wham!.[4] The title of the episode is a reference to the song of the same name by The Time.
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