![]() Very little loyalty or common sense on display here! In less than a year, a woman who loves her husband has married the family dog, a dog whose advances she had repelled multiple times, in an inactive marriage. When he is reunited with his family, it turns out that Lois has married Brian in his absence. And the fact that the group engaged in that sort of activity, in spite of their situation, is crazy too. That Joe cannot feel Peter eating legs makes sense, but it's just ridiculous how far Peter managed to get before Joe noticed half his legs were missing. Stranded there for months, Peter survives the ordeal by eating legs, and when the group is finally rescued by a cruise ship passing by, they are all engaged in weird stuff. They find a bounty of fish waiting to be, well, fished, only to be swept up in a terrible hurricane, and subsequently marooned on a desert island. As if that isn’t bad enough, Peter decides to brave the seas unguided in search of fish, with his three pals Joe, Quagmire, and Cleveland in tow. The Season 4 episode “Perfect Castaways” sees Peter firing his two Portuguese fishing assistants Santos and Pasqual in order to save money. This episode marked a shift for the show, a point where Peter went from being completely incompetent and highly unintelligent to borderline brain-dead, doing things even he wouldn’t normally do and although it made for some entertaining television, it felt like Peter’s character changed simply to fit the new narrative, a move which was shallow and pedantic. ![]() This leads to signs being put up outside his house, armbands being worn at dinner time, and calls to ex-partners recommending that they get “tested.” ![]() However, he fails it so dramatically that the test actually says that he’s technically disabled. Wanting to put this false notion to bed, Brian convinces Peter to take the Mensa exam to prove that he’s a genius. When Lois, Brian, and some family friends let Peter win a game of trivial pursuit by giving him ridiculously easy questions, such as “what color is a fire truck?” (“Fire trucks, fire trucks… what color are those red fire trucks?”), he becomes unbearably arrogant, suddenly thinking that he is a genius (which would be an overestimation of one’s intelligence had he even won a real round of the actual game). Outrageously offensive or outrageously funny depending on who you ask, this Season 4 episode of the show is just as stupid and devoid of morality as it sounds. ![]()
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