The Kiss Seen Around the World
| "The Kiss Seen Around the World" | |
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 8 |
| Directed by | Pete Michels |
| Written by | Mark Hentemann |
| Production code | 3ACX02 |
| Original air date | August 29, 2001 |
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"The Kiss Seen Around the World" is the eighth episode from the third season of the FOX animated series Family Guy. It is the 36th episode to be aired, and the first aired episode produced for the season. The episode is rated TV-PG-DV on Fox and TV-14 on Adult Swim. It was written by Mark Hentemann and directed by Pete Michels, both firsts in the Family Guy series.
The scenes in this episode featuring slow motion use more frames of animation than other scenes. The episode features guest performances of Michael Chiklis, Gary Cole, Hugh Downs, Ralph Garman, D.D. Howard, Phil LaMarr, Josh Peck, Tara Strong, Nicole Sullivan, Abe Vigoda, and Lisa Wilhoit, as well as several recurring voice actors for the series.
Channel 5 announces that they want two high school interns. Meg, who has a crush on news anchor Tom Tucker, applies and is selected entirely due to her perceived unattractiveness. The other intern turns out to be Neil Goldman, who himself has a crush on Meg, but she does not feel the same way. When the Mass Media Murderer threatens to kill Hugh Downs atop City Hall, Tom and Diane decide to send the interns to cover the event (rather than go themselves, thinking that the Murderer will kill anyone who arrives at the scene). The news copter is shot down. Fearing death and lamenting that she never got her first kiss, Meg kisses Neil (envisioning Tom Tucker), but Hugh Downs captures the Mass Media Murderer. That night, Neil shows the kiss on the news but does not mention that she only kissed him because she thought she was going to die. Because of this, everyone now thinks that he and Meg are a couple. The next day, Neil gives everyone at school a T-shirt showing the kiss, and later in the night, Meg has to suffer through a dinner with his parents. In return, she goes on TV to declare that she hates Neil Goldman, and that she only kissed him because she thought she was going to die. She then conducts on-the-street interviews, asking if anyone would kiss Neil. No one would; not even Mort. A newly despondent Neil threatens to jump off the City Hall roof. Meg's image of Tom Tucker is shattered when she realizes he does not want to save Neil, but just get a funny story for ratings. Neil falls, but Meg breaks his fall. She tells him that just because she does not like him, it does not mean she wants him to kill himself. Neil tells her that he did not want to kill himself.
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