Question: When Lois brings in the newspaper and says "look at this" Peter grabs it from her and says "movable printed type. We must hide this from the serfs lest they gain literacy and threaten the landed gentry." "What have you got there my lord?" "Nothing, go back to your turnips." What's the meaning behind this joke?
Family Guy (1999)
1 question in Model Misbehavior
Starring: Mila Kunis, Seth Green, Seth MacFarlane, Lacey Chabert, Alex Borstein
And Then There Were Fewer - S9-E1
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Chosen answer: Peter is acting as if he were a feudal lord in the middle ages, and that newsprint and the printed word were recent innovations, threatening to educate the peasantry and jeopardizing their hereditary rights as the ruling class. Just another one of the show's bizarre asides.
Brian Katcher