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Mother Tucker is the second episode of season 5 of Family Guy.

Plot summary

Template:Spoiler Peter's mother gets divorced, which finds Peter taking an interest with a new father figure in his mom's new boyfriend, Tom Tucker. Meanwhile, Brian gets his own NPR-style radio show, but Stewie can't help but stir things up.

Cultural references

• Peter mentions watching the video from The Ring, which actually turns out to be the film Mannequin.
• While performing at an airshow at the beginning of the episode, Quagmire performs a stunt in which he crashes his plane, "The French Tickler", through four billboards for Veronica Mars, The Simple Life, Fox News's Greta Van Susteren, and Jack Daniel's. He starts by crashing through the crotch areas of Kristen Bell, then Paris Hilton on the 'Veronica Mars and The Simple Life billboards but avoids the Greta Van Susteren billboard and flies through the bottle on the Jack Daniel's billboard and then he comes back around to fly through the crotch of Greta Van Susteren. The French Tickler is a slang term for penis, hence the female crotches on the billboards as targets.
• 97.1 WQHG, the talk radio station that briefly employs Brian and Stewie is based on 97.1 KLSX, a Los Angeles station with a similar format.
• "Weenie and The Butt", the morning team at WQHG, could be seen as a parody of the syndicated Don and Mike program (a la "Bill and Marty" on The Simpsons).
• The ice cream scene from Kramer vs. Kramer is parodied in a scene with Tom parodying the role of Ted Kramer and Peter Billy Kramer.
• Peter mentions a Peanuts reunion, in which Charlie Brown ends up a violent drug dealer who was accidently responsible for the deaths of Snoopy and Woodstock by providing them drugs.
• In a brief cutaway, Charlotte of Charlotte's Web left the word "WHORE" as a final message.
• The short-lived 2005 NBC series Three Wishes is spoofed in a cutaway sequence. The mention of Sears in that sequence is a reference to the heavy involvement Sears rival J.C. Penney had with the series.
• "Dingo and The Baby", the on-air name of Brian and Stewie's program, is a reference to the Azaria Chamberlain disappearance.
• "Dingo and The Baby" is loosely based on The Howard Stern Show.
• Kermit the Frog appears again in a brief debate with other men with extremely similar voices, including Ray Romano and Harold Ramis.
• Tom brings the 2005 Disney Film Chicken Little for Peter, Thelma, and him to watch.
• Stewie parodies a Butterfinger commercial, as The Simpsons did in the early 1990s. Stewie says Bart's catchphrase from the commercials, "Nobody better not lay a finger on my Butterfinger," before adding a forced "D'oh!"
• A cutaway shows Darth Vader working as police officer writing parking tickets. After being teased and talking it over with his wife, Karen, Vader goes to the bank to apply for a loan to build the Death Star.

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