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Fat Guy Strangler is the seventeenth episode of the fourth season of Family Guy, and the sixty-seventh episode overall.

Guest Stars: Chris Sheridan (Half-Dead Fat Guy), Ralph Garman (Fat Guy), Lori Alan (Diane), John Viener (Bob Barker), Danny Smith (Various), Patrick Warburton (Joe), Mike Henry (Various), Dave Boat (Hand #1), Margaret Easley (Hand #2), Alec Sulkin (Caveman #3), Alex Breckenridge (Cybill Shepard), Tim O'Rourke (Fat Guy), Will Sasso (Todd), Bobby McFerrin (Caveman #2), Robert Downey, Jr. (Patrick Pewterschmidt)

Contents 1 Plot Overview 2 Notes 3 Arc Advancement 3.1 Happenings 3.2 Characters 3.3 Referbacks 4 Trivia 4.1 The Show 4.2 Behind the Scenes 4.3 Allusions and References 4.4 Memorable Moments 5 Quotes 6 Reviews

[edit] Plot Overview

Peter has dinner out with Joe, Cleveland, Quagmire and Brian instead of going to his physical examination. Lois later forces him to go, and he is told by the doctor that he is fat, which Peter takes badly. Later, Peter knocks over an old family picture, where Lois realizes there is another child in the picture whom she believes to be her brother. When she telephones her father, Carter, he tells her she doesn't have a brother and terminates the call. Intent on finding out the truth, Lois breaks into her parents' house and discovers her brother, Patrick, is secured in a mental hospital.

Believing Patrick to be sane, Lois authorizes his release, and arranges for Patrick to stay with the family. Patrick soon announces he has a wife, Marion, albeit she is imaginary and nobody else other than him can see her. This leads Brian and Stewie to believe he is crazy. Lois attempts to overlook the evidence, and instead tries to persuade Peter not to encourage people to be fat. Peter unintentionally traumatizes Patrick later by dressing up in a bus driver's uniform (making him resemble the Jackie Gleason character Ralph Kramden), and using one of Kramden's catchphrases "Pow, right in the kisser!" which brings back memories of his mother, Barbara, having sex with Gleason. This triggers Patrick to start killing fat people.

Meanwhile, Peter announces to the family that he is fat, and decides to create the "National Association for The Advancement of Fat People (NAAFP)" which made fun of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Peter hosts the first meeting of the association, but it is unsuccessful due to those attending munching junk food the entire way through. Lois' father, Carter, calls her and tells her how dangerous Patrick is, but she assures him Patrick is safe, although she becomes worried after seeing on the news that a fat man has been murdered. Lois remains in denial even as more murders are committed, even though Brian tries to convince her that Patrick is the killer.

Peter brings the fat men back to his home to protect them, but after learning from Brian that Patrick is the killer, a chase between the fat men and Patrick ensues. Brian, still at the house, shows Patrick's room to Lois. The room contains one fully-dead and one half-dead fat man, and pictures of Patrick murdering them. Lois continues to make crazy excuses, still wanting to believe Patrick's a sane person, but ultimately she snaps out of her denial and realizes that Patrick is dangerous. Lois and Brian pursue Patrick and Peter into the woods, where Patrick is strangling Peter. Patrick quickly releases Peter after Lois threatens to stab Marion, his imaginary wife. Patrick apologizes, telling Lois that he never meant to hurt her, and the two agree he should be sent back to the mental hospital, where Lois and the family plan to visit him once a month.

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