Stewie is annoyed with how baby songs never tackle real baby issues. Meanwhile, Carl establishes a new age-restriction rule at the Quahog Mini-Mart.
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| - Stewie is annoyed with how baby songs never tackle real baby issues. Meanwhile, Carl establishes a new age-restriction rule at the Quahog Mini-Mart.
- Michael, a gay recovering alcoholic, along with friend and sometime lover Donald, is throwing a party for his buddy Harold's 32nd birthday. The guests include flaming queen Emory and his best friend Bernard, seemingly straight schoolteacher Hank and his monogamy-impaired lover Larry, and "Cowboy", Emory's gift for the guest of honor. However, their fun is cut short by the arrival of an unexpected party guest - Alan, Michael's questionably heterosexual college chum. This, along with Michael falling Off the Wagon, leads to a night of soul-searching and all of the guests being forced to confront the most uncomfortable aspects of themselves.
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When Lois disapproves of a show that Stewie is watching with Brian, she tunes the television to a children's singing show, but their inane lyrics inspire Stewie to write baby songs himself and perform with Brian. After picking up a gig at a birthday party, they find that Stewie's old flame Olivia is present. When the act is a hit, Olivia lays claim to Stewie's attentions, leaving Brian to his own devices. She continues to hang out with the pair by becoming the president of their fan club, but after a performance, she tries to convince Stewie that he should dump Brian. At a performance at Bob's Funland Amusement Park, things come to a head and Stewie attacks Brian. After he departs, Olivia works Brian with the same tactic of dumping Stewie so she may take his place.
After Brian actually does fire Stewie and departs with Olivia. They get a gig at the convention center performing one of Stewie's songs and Brian observes Stewie crying in the audience. He has pangs of guilt and announces an end to their partnership, getting a true picture of Olivia's manipulative personality. He apologizes to Stewie and admits that Olivia had decided to replace him with another dog as Olivia is shown performing with Vinny.
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When Chris wants fifty dollars for a shamrock tattoo, Lois and Peter convince him to search for a job. While helping to unload groceries from the family car, they observe Quagmire fighting with a potential sex partner. After he wishes he had a personal assistant to help screen his liaisons, Chris is hired as his personal assistant. Chris takes to the job like a pro. However, when his “work” disturbs Lois, she gives him over a thousand dollars to quit.
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| - Brian and Stewie form a children's band.
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| - Stewie is annoyed with how baby songs never tackle real baby issues. Meanwhile, Carl establishes a new age-restriction rule at the Quahog Mini-Mart.
- Michael, a gay recovering alcoholic, along with friend and sometime lover Donald, is throwing a party for his buddy Harold's 32nd birthday. The guests include flaming queen Emory and his best friend Bernard, seemingly straight schoolteacher Hank and his monogamy-impaired lover Larry, and "Cowboy", Emory's gift for the guest of honor. However, their fun is cut short by the arrival of an unexpected party guest - Alan, Michael's questionably heterosexual college chum. This, along with Michael falling Off the Wagon, leads to a night of soul-searching and all of the guests being forced to confront the most uncomfortable aspects of themselves. The Boys in the Band is an off-Broadway play written by Mart Crowley which premiered in 1968. It was faithfully adapted into a film (starring the original stage cast) by William Friedkin in 1970. When it first opened, it was notable for the being first mainstream play (and film) to treat homosexuality in a direct and realistic way rather than cloaking it in subtext or portraying the characters as freaks. Furthermore, to quote Vito Russo, "The internalized guilt of eight gay men at a Manhattan birthday party formed the best and most potent argument for gay liberation ever offered in a popular art form." As it turned out, it was gay liberation itself that made The Boys In The Band go from being groundbreaking and revolutionary to a being a nasty relic of the Bad Old Days™ in the near instant, thanks to its bad timing. While the play was released in 1968, the Stonewall Riots occured in 1969 - and the film had the bad sense to be released in 1970 during the height of gay liberation. For years, it was often demonized as being not only dated, but flagrantly offensive. Over time, however, it's been re-vindicated by history, with more and more people recognizing it as a classic, eventually leading to a stage revival in 1996 and a long overdue DVD release in 2008. Despite its reputation for being a "period piece", most of the issues addressed (internalized homophobia, effemiphobia, etc.) remain relevant to this day, and the characters seems as real as they were 40 years ago. Plus, it's hilarious, endlessly quotable, and genuinely poignant, if not always easy viewing. Check it out if you get a chance.
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