Season 3 · Episode 22 · First released 9 September 2003

When You Wish Upon a Weinstein

Episode 22 of Family Guy season 3 (S03E22), the 50th Family Guy episode overall. Written by Ricky Blitt and directed by Dan Povenmire. First released on 9 September 2003.

Story

Peter gives Lois's emergency savings to Jim Kaplan, a con man selling volcano insurance. Lois tells Peter to get the money back. Quagmire and Cleveland credit Jewish men for their wealth, so Peter decides he needs one to handle his finances. Max Weinstein's car breaks down outside the house, and Peter pressures him into helping get the cash back from Kaplan. After dinner with Max and a synagogue visit, Peter decides converting Chris to Judaism would make him successful. Father and son drive to Las Vegas for a quick bar mitzvah. Lois, tipped off by Brian, stops the ceremony, but the offended congregation attacks the family. On the bus home Lois argues that success does not depend on religion, and Peter accepts he was wrong. The bus turns out to be full of nuns, who attack them for straying from Catholicism.

Production and reception

Ricky Blitt wrote the episode and Dan Povenmire directed it; it was produced in 2000 as a holdover from the second production season. Wikipedia, When You Wish Upon a Weinstein
Fox executives feared the episode could be read as antisemitic and refused to broadcast it; it first aired on Adult Swim on 9 November 2003 and reached Fox on 10 December 2004. Wikipedia, When You Wish Upon a Weinstein
Guest voices included Ben Stein as the rabbi, Mark Hamill, Ed McMahon, Peter Riegert, Phil LaMarr, Mary Scheer, Nicole Sullivan and Andrea Beutener. Wikipedia, When You Wish Upon a Weinstein
Seth MacFarlane said on the DVD commentary that two rabbis approved the script, and that around 70 per cent of the show's writers were Jewish. Wikipedia, When You Wish Upon a Weinstein
Bourne Company, owner of When You Wish Upon a Star, sued over Peter's parody song in 2007; a US district judge ruled in 2009 that there was no copyright infringement. Wikipedia, When You Wish Upon a Weinstein

Voices

Voice	Characters
Seth MacFarlane	Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin
Alex Borstein	Lois Griffin, Female Announcer, Midge
Seth Green	Chris Griffin, The Penguin, Herschel
Mila Kunis	Meg Griffin
Mike Barker	Jason Alexander
Andrea Hutchman	Nun Assistant
Ricky Blitt	Mordecai
Mark Hamill	Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Mike Henry	Cleveland Brown
Phil LaMarr	Louis Farrakhan

Principal voice credits as recorded by IMDb, which lists up to ten credits per episode, so recurring characters can be missing here. Guest voices below come from Wikipedia and TVmaze.

Guest voices

Andrea Beutener
Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker
Phil LaMarr
Ed McMahon as himself
Peter Riegert as Max Weinstein
Mary Scheer
Ben Stein as Rabbi Goldberg
Nicole Sullivan

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Provenance

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Sources: Wikipedia: When You Wish Upon a Weinstein
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