Blind Ambition is the third episode of the fourth season of the
American animated sitcom Family Guy. It was first broadcast on Fox in
the United States on May 15, 2005. In the episode, Peter swallows an
excessive number of nickels, causing him to become blind. He later
becomes a hero after unwittingly saving Horace the bartender from a
fire at his bar, The Drunken Clam, and then regains his sight.
Meanwhile, Quagmire is forced to refrain from perverse sexual behavior
or risk being driven out of the neighborhood following his arrest for
spying on Lois in a ladies' lavatory.At the bowling alley, Mort
Goldman bowls a perfect game and becomes an overnight celebrity. Lois
arrives to pick Peter up from the bowling alley, but discovers
Quagmire spying on her from the ceiling of the ladies' toilet.
Quagmire is arrested, but released shortly after by Joe. On his
return, Lois, Bonnie and Loretta reveal that they're petitioning the
city of Quahog to have Quagmire removed from their neighborhood. As
Peter and the other guys are defending Quagmire, Ernie the Giant
Chicken attacks Peter and starts a fight that causes huge casualties
inside and outside of Quahog. After the fight, Peter returns to the
neighborhood to return to the conversation and tells the women that
"Quagmire's a good guy, he's just a little mixed up, that's all!"
Eventually, the women agree to let Quagmire stay in the neighborhood
so long as he manages to control his perverse behavior. Quagmire's
taught self-control through operant conditioning by Peter and his
friends, and is eventually allowed out in public. Soon, however, he is
distracted by three cheerleaders playing in a fountain in the shopping
mall and panics, running into a CCTV camera operation room monitoring
women's changing rooms. Discovering that an attractive blonde lady in
a fitting room is having a heart attack, he appears to rush to her
aid, performing CPR and saving her life. Quagmire is congratulated for
his heroism, but his intention had been to molest the woman while she
was unconscious (which he reveals by asking "What the hell is
CPR?").This upsets Peter, who is disappointed to notice that he is the
one amongst his friends who hasn't been successful. In the hope of
becoming famous, Peter attempts to set a world record for eating the
largest number of nickels, but develops nickel poisoning and loses his
vision. Attempting to drown his sorrows, Peter visits his local bar,
The Drunken Clam, with his guide dog, unaware that the bar is on fire
(caused by God trying to impress a woman). Discovering the bartender
Horace trapped under debris, Peter saves his life and is proclaimed a
hero by local newsman Tom Tucker. When told that he saved Horace from
a burning building, Peter replies with disbelief, "That freakin' place
was on fire?!" For his inadvertent bravery, Peter is awarded a medal
by the mayor and receives an eye transplant, the replacement eyes
coming from a homeless man dragged to death when Peter accidentally
tied his guide dog's leash around the man's neck, thinking he was a
parking meter. The end of this episode is an unconnected parody of the
closing scene from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.During Family
Guy's third season, the show was cancelled by its network. In
preparation in case the show was revived and began broadcasting again,
five short scripts were written in 2001 for future episodes. Blind
Ambition was developed from one of those scripts. A number of scenes
in the episode were removed before broadcast and one, the reappearance
of Ernie the Giant Chicken, had originally been set to broadcast in
"The Clevelandâ€"Loretta Quagmire". The scene was moved to this
episode because "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire" already contained a
lengthy fight sequence and overran its time allowance. Several of the
removed scenes focused on gags showing Peter and his friends
attempting to rehabilitate Quagmire, one of which saw Brian Griffin
transporting a fork-lift truck load of porn magazines away from
Quagmire's house. Since the episode aired, a selection of action
figures have been created of Peter acting as Gary, The No Trash
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