Burning Down the Bayit
| "Burning Down the Bayit" | |
|---|---|
| Family Guy episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 10 Episode 15 |
| Directed by | Jerry Langford |
| Written by | Chris Sheridan |
| Production code | 9ACX13 |
| Original air date | March 4, 2012 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Scott Bakula as himself |
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Scott Bakula as himself
"Burning Down the Bayit" is the fifteenth episode of the tenth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. The episode originally aired on Fox in the United States on March 4, 2012 and was first in its timeslot. Overwhelmed with financial troubles, Mort asks Peter and Quagmire to help him save his pharmacy. However, things take a turn for the worse when the trio decides to burn it down to collect insurance money.
The episode title is a reference to the song "Burning Down the House", with "house" replaced by the Hebrew word bayit (בית).
This episode was written by Chris Sheridan and directed by Jerry Langford. Scott Bakula guest-starred as himself in a live-action cutaway.
After Peter hurts Quagmire when he runs over one of Brian's bones with his new riding lawnmower, they stop by Mort's pharmacy to get some antibiotics. There they find out that Mort is overwhelmed with financial troubles since Muriel died as she was able to cheat the customers successfully. They try to help out, at first they were just pressing the sales but it doesn't get any customer. They then try by suggesting he do a "buy one get one free" sale (to where, in typical stereotyping of Jewish people, Mort does not understand the words "get one free" if it's referring to him, but does when it refers to some other business).
The three then work on the pill section where they have to put pills in the certain containers, until the converter belt goes too fast. In response, they begin to eat the pills which results in Quagmire passing out and Peter bleeding from his nose and having a large erection. Next, they try a flying banner advertisement, only for it to break from Quagmire's plane and fall onto a bus, killing a bunch of teenagers. Desperate, Mort tells of how his cousin's place burned down leaving him with a large settlement. Peter and Quagmire have recollections on how insurance companies have screwed them over in the past. Although Quagmire has reservations about the plan, they agree to it and burn down the pharmacy, taking the opportunity to do it while Joe is away at a paraplegic Cher impersonator concert.
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