Mother Tucker (Family Guy)

The episode featured guest performances by Jon Benjamin, Max Burkholder, Phyllis Diller, Phil LaMarr, Joe Lomonaco, Tamera Mowry, Anne-Michelle Seiler, Tara Strong, Nicole Sullivan, Gore Vidal, Gedde Watanabe, and Wally Wingert along with several recurring guest voice actors for the series.

In the scene involving Thelma trying to convince Peter to accept that she is dating Tucker, she comments, "Tom here has won a local Emmy for his work with the retardeds".

[5] "Mother Tucker", along with the twelve other episodes from Family Guy's fifth season, were released on a three-disc DVD set in the United States on September 18, 2007.

The episode opens with the Griffin family attending the local Airshow in Quahog, and are shown to be anxiously awaiting one of the pilots to crash.

[7] After a pilot successfully lands, Peter expresses his boredom and states that he would rather be home watching "that video from The Ring".

[7] In a flashback, Peter begins playing the video (after first being warned), albeit with the 1987 film Mannequin appearing instead and having the same effect as the cursed tape.

[8] Deciding to stay at the airshow to watch their neighbor (Glenn Quagmire) perform, he flies his plane through several billboards—specifically through the crotch of the women's images on said billboards—including those for Veronica Mars, The Simple Life and On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren (which he can only do after "getting some help" from a Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey billboard).

[7] Returning home, the Griffin family decide to watch a television show entitled Roundtable, featuring guests Al Michaels, Harold Ramis, Ray Romano and Kermit the Frog.

[7] When Peter finds Thelma and Tom in bed, a cutaway shows Stewie reading a quotation from the movie Harold and Maude.

Peter then states that it is no stranger than when Darth Vader from the film franchise Star Wars was a parking attendant.

[7] Other movie clips used by Brian and Stewie are “Oh sexy girlfriend!” from Sixteen Candles (1984) and “Don’t you do it!” from An Officer and a Gentleman (1982).

[3] In a slight decrease from the previous week, the episode was viewed in 9.23 million homes in its original airing, according to Nielsen ratings.

The episode also acquired a 3.3 in the 18–49 demographic, slightly edging out The Simpsons, in addition to series creator Seth MacFarlane's second show American Dad!, in both rating and total viewership.

"[8] Brett Love of TV Squad reviewed the episode slightly more negatively, stating that "the whole Peter story just didn't do much for me."