I Take Thee Quagmire/Notes/Trivia

Notes

• Nicole Sullivan and Patrick Warburton also work together on the series Kim Possible whose star Christy Carlson Romano guest stars as a one night stand for Quagmire. In addition, she appeared in Disney's Meet the Robinsons with one of her character's brothers being played by Adam West.
• Chris does not appear in this episode.
• This episode was rated TV-MA when it first premiered on Cartoon Network (for sexual content and violence, specifically the scene where Joan threatens to kill herself when Quagmire asks her for a divorce and the subplot about Lois's breasts). In all reruns, the rating is changed to TV-14 for suggestive dialogue (D) and violence (V), however, one airing (on April 18, 2007) had the rating changed to TV-14 for suggestive dialogue (D) and sexual situations (S).
• When Stewie sneaks into Peter and Lois's room to steal Lois's breast milk, the time shown on the clock is 4:20, a possible reference to 420, a number associated with cannabis culture. Seth MacFarlane's shows are known for stoner culture references.
• The Wheel of Fortune scene is almost completely factually accurate down to the shopping (though the shopping segment hasn't been shown on Wheel of Fortune since the late 1980s), the bonus round with only five consonants and a vowel, the ceramic dalmatian which was frequently offered as a prize, the $25,000 sign, and a near-perfect rendition of the 1980s "Changing Keys" theme song.
• During the bonus round of Wheel of Fortune, Peter asks for the letter Z, the number 4, the letter Q (three times), and concludes with asking for the Batman symbol. After Peter answers the bonus round's question in one try, Peter asks to buy "the fat guy in the circle," which is himself.
• This episode's Jeopardy! scene includes one of the few times that Mayor West's apparent delusions were proven correct (cf. he sends Alex Trebek back to the fifth dimension by making Trebek say his name backwards).
• The one free week of maid's service Peter wins had a $250 sign on it.

Censorship

• When the watermelon exploded on Meg, she was originally intended to say "Fuck you! Kiss my fucking asshole to fucking Hell!", however, according to her voice actress Mila Kunis, it was "way too obvious" and replaced with "I hate you! I hate you!" However, it was seen on the Region 4 Volume 4 DVD release.
• On the FOX version of this episode, Cleveland's use of the word "erection" is bleeped out. The Cartoon Network/Adult Swim version doesn't have it bleeped out, nor does the DVD (the commentary does mention that FOX bleeping out the word made Cleveland's statement sound dirtier than originally intended).

DVD exclusive scenes

On the DVD version when Peter decides to fake Quagmire's death, he adds "This will be better than that soda I invented," then goes to a cutaway of Peter pitching Crystal Pepsi and stating that it's better than regular Pepsi, in case someone comes at the drinker with a knife and the drinker can’t see past the regular Pepsi. According to DVD commentary, this scene was rejected because of a Standards and Practices rule where a TV show couldn’t favor a product that’s not a show sponsor.

In the collection of deleted scenes on the Family Guy Volume 4 DVD, after Quagmire's request for a divorce gets shot down by Joan threatening to slit her wrist, there is a scene where Quagmire says that whatever problems they have shouldn't be solved so drastically and gives the example of the time Chris thought he was pregnant. It then goes to a cutaway of Chris (in what would have been his only appearance in this episode had this scene aired) refusing a tuna sandwich from Lois and complaining that the mercury in the tuna could kill the baby he's supposedly carrying.

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