"Petarded" is the sixth episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on June 19, 2005. It was written by Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild and directed by Seth Kearsley. In the episode, Peter takes the MacArthur Fellows Program test to see if he is a genius. However, he performs so poorly that he is declared technically intellectually disabled. Attempting to take advantage of the situation, he accidentally hospitalizes Lois while attempting to steal from a restaurant and loses custody of Meg, Chris, and Stewie.
The episode's title is a double entendre, being both portmanteau between "Peter" and "Retarded" and also a reference to the Shakespeare-coined phrase "hoist with his own petard". This title practice would later be used on a few more episodes, namely "Peterotica" and "Petergeist".
"Timer", a character from the 1970s Saturday morning public service announcements, made an appearance in the episode. Series producers tried to get Lennie Weinrib, the actor who had voiced him in the original cartoon segments, to make a guest appearance in the episode. However, Weinrib declined reprising the role as he could not accurately recall the character. "Petarded" gained a Nielsen rating of 4.4, making it the week's 42nd most-watched program. Critics and news sources responded with high praise and many regard this episode as Family Guy's best. Various scenes in the episode were removed by broadcast censors, including one musical number ("Peter is Slow"). It features the guest performances of LeVar Burton, Gary Cole, Barclay DeVeau, Indigo, Phil LaMarr, Cloris Leachman, Len Maxwell, Natasha Melnick, Nicole Sullivan, and Lisa Wilhoit, as well as several recurring voice actors for the series.
"Petarded" is the sixth episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States...
A petard is a small bomb used for blowing up gates and walls when breaching fortifications, originally invented in France in 1579. A typical petard was...
Paul Pétard (1912–1980) was a French botanist who specialized in the study of native plants of French Polynesia. His 1986 book Quelques plantes utiles...
"Hoist with his own petard" is a phrase from a speech in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet that has become proverbial. The phrase's meaning is that a bomb-maker...
HMS Petard, after the petard, a type of bomb: HMS Petard (1916) was an Admiralty M-class destroyer launched in 1916 and sold in 1921. HMS Petard (G56)...
The Joint Brothers or Les Frères Pétard is a French film directed by Hervé Palud released in 1986. Gérard Lanvin : Manu Jacques Villeret : Momo Josiane...
Wisnewski, J. Jeremy (ed.). Family Guy and Philosophy: A Cure for the Petarded. The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. Malden, Massachusetts:...
faith is that putting this up as itself, it will hoist itself on its own petard, that it's comical just as it is," explained producer Maggie Rowe. The show...
at "The Drunken Clam," Quahog's local tavern. In the season 4 episode "Petarded", Peter discovered his low intellect falls slightly below the level for...
not required, was retained allowing a spigot mortar firing a petard to be added. The petard mortar was a separate development, firing a large demolition...
in the 1990s and moved to Santiago, Chile. For the Family Guy episode "Petarded", Seth MacFarlane explained on the Season 4 DVD commentary he wanted to...
November 2021. Retrieved 7 November 2021. "A medieval silver coin; a double petard of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, Count of Flanders (1467–1477)". Portable...
episode of the same name; and Family Guy and Philosophy: A Cure for the Petarded (ISBN 978-1-4051-6316-3), a collection of 17 essays exploring the connections...
Retrieved 19 November 2015. "Rue Bichat :"On pensait que c'étaient des pétards. C'étaient des scènes de guerre "". Le Monde. 14 November 2015. Archived...
high-explosive warhead. The Petard, developed by MD1, was designed for the quick levelling of fortifications. The Petard was reloaded by traversing the...
Idiot, and I Married One", and Family Guy and Philosophy: A Cure for the Petarded (ISBN 978-1-4051-6316-3), a collection of seventeen essays exploring the...
Destroyer 2,616 17 January 1946 decommissioned 1973, sold for scrap 1974 Petard Royal Navy P Destroyer 1,690 15 June 1942 scrapped June 1967 Phelps United...
charges designed to destroy their specific mission's target. Door breaching Petard Bullock, Randy (3 June 2021). "Raw Courage: Clerks, Cooks and Mechanics...
and May 22, 2011 (season nine, episode 18) respectively. "Family Guy: Petarded". Yahoo!. Archived from the original on January 9, 2007. Retrieved October...
Navy 1943 Italy Perseo – An Italian torpedo boat sunk by HMS Paladin, HMS Petard and HMS Nubian on 4 May in the Battle of the Campobasso Convoy. 133 crew...
2005, and has since written and produced multiple episodes, including: "Petarded" "PTV" "Petergeist" "Untitled Griffin Family History" "Stu and Stewie's...
King Charles I of England to make weapons, including the failed "floating petard". Weapons of this type were apparently tried by the English at the Siege...
guns and engineers, while the central anti-tank gun was silenced by 230 mm Petard demolition bombs fired from the AVRE. When the North Shore captured the...
deviance or arousal towards attractive women. This is shown in the episode "Petarded", when Peter brings seven prostitutes into his house to get back custody...
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