Breaking Out is Hard to Do/Notes/Trivia

• When Chris is pulled into the milk section, he appears in the music video for "Take On Me" by a-ha. The video used a technique called Rotoscoping to draw over live action frames, creating images that look like drawings but move like live action.
• At the end of the episode, “8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter,” Peter stated that the next Family Guy episode will be about him running for mayor of Quahog. This episode has nothing to do with him running for mayor at all.
• One restaurant in Asiantown has an English sign saying “Chinese Take-Out,” duplicated in the Japanese katakana sign “チャニステイクアウト” (“chiyainisu teikuaoto”). A banner seen in the establishing shot reads “一二三四五六七八” (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8), while a sign above a store reads “月曜日！” (Monday!).
• While chasing Lois as she drives away, Joe’s wheelchair falls apart. Either this wheelchair or another wheelchair falls off a cliff in the sewers when Joe chases Lois again.
• According to the commentary, there was originally a sequence in which Brian is standing next to a rack where the tabloid magazines are and comments on how fat Kirstie Alley is. Lois then tells Brian that tabloid magazines always exaggerate celebrities’ personal lives, until Brian points out a Godzilla-like Kirstie Alley running down the aisles.
• According to the commentary, Stewie’s line after he fails to get the plastic bag over his head to asphyxiate himself was originally, “Either I was a C-section or you’re Vadge Armstrong,” which was rejected by censors in favor of “Either I was a C-section or you’re Wonder Woman.”
• After escaping from jail, when the family left the van to start new lives, the view of Asiantown is incidentally identical to Songtan City, South Korea, just across the Main Gate of Osan Air Base.
• It is now known that Lois gives oral sex to Peter every Thursday coinciding the same day Chris masturbates Barely Legal and possibly even Meg Stewie Kills Lois.

Censorship

• FOX cut a brief gag in which the “CBS Asiantown” logo is shown as a slanted eye version of the CBS logo (this was after they showed the clip of “Three’s Company: Asiantown”). Cartoon Network, Canada’s Global channel, BBC3, and the DVD version all have this gag uncut.

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