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Notes

• The second season episode “Death Is a Bitch” also alluded to the Airport films, in that particular instance with an “Airport ’00” graphic during the Channel 5 News.
• The Simpsons episode “Yokel Chords,” which aired the same night, also made reference to the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, as well as redneck stereotypes. Another Simpsons episode, “Burns, Baby Burns,” aired 1996, featured a similar sketch where the news channel used computer simulation to create goofy alternative or possible outcomes.
• This episode’s title is a reference to the disaster film Airport ’77, and aired one week before the thirtieth anniversary of its release.
• This was the first time that the September 11, 2001 attacks has been used as a direct source of humor in any of Seth MacFarlane’s work. MacFarlane was supposed to board one of the planes which would later be hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center but missed the flight.

Censorship

Because of the controversial scenes listed, this episode wasn’t approved for broadcast until the Thursday before airtime. Here are the scenes that were either altered or cut completely when aired on FOX, but not on the Adult Swim or DVD versions:

• In the news simulation of the plane crashing into the school of bunnies and the man going home to beat his wife, the wife was originally slapped six times (which was shown on Adult Swim and on the DVD). The FOX version cut the slapping down to four times.
• The still frame of Peter getting out of a car and showing his genitals is not pixellated on the uncensored DVD version.
• An entire cutaway, which shows Quagmire’s job as Joe’s nurse (where Joe asks Quagmire to help him commit suicide after putting up with Quagmire's incessant baby-talk) was cut on the FOX version, but not on Adult Swim or the DVD.
• After Quagmire had sex with the airport clerk, he tells her “Please exercise caution when standing up as the contents of your panties may have shifted during coitus.” The Adult Swim and DVD versions uses the original word “vagina” instead of “panties.”
• When Hugh Hefner quotes John Holmes, he says “You know, I’ve got a 13-inch member...” On Adult Swim and the DVD, he says, “You know, I’ve got a 13-inch penis...”
• The part near the end where Peter mentions that he, Cleveland, and Joe were raped in a federal prison after getting arrested for causing the plane crash was cut on FOX, but not Adult Swim or DVD.

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