Season: 2Â Episode: 9
Total Episode Count: 16Â
First Aired: April 4, 2000
Guest Starring: Martin Mull, Fred Tatasciore
Featuring: Peter, Chris
Also Appearing: Lois, Stewie, Brian, Meg, Tom Tucker, Diane Simmons, Steven C. Callaghan, Rufus Griffin, God, Jeremy the Terminally Ill Boy, Barbara Pewterschmidt, Bryant Gumbel, Greg Gumbel,Craig T. Nelson, Scott Bakula, Whoopi Goldberg, Betty White, Charlie Sheen, Mr. McCloud, Steinberg,Little Johnny Gobraun, Mr. Harris
Musical Numbers:Â Dying Boy of Quahog
Director:Â Swinton Scott III
Writers:Â Chris Sheridan
Storyboarders: Ron Brewer, Don Sciore, Melissa Suber
Plot:
Peter becomes very upset when NBC cancels his favourite show - Gumbel 2 Gumbel – a sitcom starring brothers Bryant Gumbel and Greg Gumbel. Lois suggests he use the series’ cancellation to help Chris improve his study habits. To get the show back on the air, Peter decides to tell the “Grant-a-Dream” Foundation (a parody of the Make-a-Wish Foundation) that being able to watch the show is Chris’s dying wish. To this end, he makes up a disease called “tumasyphilisitisosis,” the symptoms of which include growing extra nipples (actually pepperoni slices) across one’s torso. (Peter eats two of them, to the disgust of the Grant-a-Dream agent.)