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episode_name = Fore Father|

| name = Michael Gannon

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| airdatefirst = [[AugustJune 119]], [[20002007]] |<br>Episode 5237

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writer = Bobby Bowman|

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director = Scott Wood|

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| seasonspecies = 2 |

| gender = Male

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| age = 8

next=[[When You Wish Upon a Weinstein]]

| born = 1999

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| family = [[Ned Parker]] (father)<br> Kirsten Gannon (mother)

| spouse =

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| relatives = [[Stuart Parker (Neighbours)|Stuart Parker]] (uncle) <br>[[Steve Parker]] (uncle) <br>[[Sindi Watts]] (aunt) <br>[[Miranda Parker]] (aunt) <br>[[Riley Parker]] (cousin) <br>[[Bridget Parker]] (cousin)

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| portrayer = Fletcher O'Leary

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'''"Fore Father"''' is an episode from the second season of the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]] [[animated television series]] ''[[Family Guy]]''. This is the last episode of Season 2; the first episode of Season 3 is "[[The Thin White Line]]."

'''Michael "Mickey" Gannon''' is a fictional character in the Australian soap opera [[Neighbours]], played by [[child actor]] Fletcher O'Leary. He first appeared in [[June 2007]].

== Plot summary ==

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==Character Biography==

While camping, [[Peter Griffin|Peter]] leaves [[Chris Griffin|Chris]] to guard the food supplies while he goes fishing with his neighbors. Upon returning, Chris reports that raccoons have stolen the food. To teach Chris about responsibility, Peter gets him a job at the golf course, where he also tries to mould [[Cleveland Jr.]] into a famous golfer. Meanwhile, [[Brian Griffin|Brian]] leads [[Stewie Griffin|Stewie]] to believe the vaccine shots he received are some kind of mind control.

Mickey first appeared when his mother, Kirsten ([[Nikola Dubois]]), came to Erinsborough to find Mickey's father, Kirsten's ex-boyfriend [[Ned Parker]] ([[Daniel O'Connor]]). Kirsten claimed she needed time alone to grieve for her grandparents, and needed Ned to looked after Mickey. Ned, not even aware he was a father, agreed, but it became obvious that he didn't know the first thing about looking after Mickey, and his dog Jake.

After an incident in which Mickey lost his dog, Ned and his son bonded. However, not long after, Kirsten called, explaining she needed more time alone, possibly leaving Ned with the child indefinitely. In a later episode Kirsten re-appeared and told Ned it was time for her to live her life, seemingly leaving Mickey with Ned permanently.

[[Image:FGForeFather.png|220px|thumb|left|Stewie sees Mr. T as birds in a vaccine-induced hallucination.]]

[http://www.neighbours.com/Episodes/5247/ Nobody's Pool episode 5247]

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Ned decides to tell Micky he is his father over a special dinner, however Mickey falls into the number 30 pool trying to rescue a dead bird (that has died due to faulty wiring on the pool's light) - Mickey's life hung in the balance and sent Ned distraught.

Mickey makes a recovery and doctors give him the all-clear. Ned comes clean that he is Mickey's father. Mickey is overwhelmed, but Janae shys aways behind the door feeling pleased for both of them.

==Notes==

When Janae breaks the word that she may be leaving Erinsborough, Mickey is in tears and wets the bed. He finds himself in more sticky situations when a young bully (Max) vandalises his picture at Vacation Care. Following this incident Mickey accidentally wets himself and has the bully heckling him. When Ned and Janae arrive Ned faces off with Max's father but Janae prevents a punch-up.

*The beginning where the family watches ''[[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|Little House on the Prairie]]'' is cut from the FOX version, but not on the Adult Swim and DVD version.

*The strip club in this episode is called "The Fuzzy Clam", which is a vulgar euphemism for a woman's genitalia.

*[[List of characters from Family Guy#The Evil Monkey|The Evil Monkey in Chris' closet]] makes his second appearance in this episode. His first was in "[[Dammit Janet!]]".

*This is the last episode where Cleveland Jr. has any speaking lines. He is last seen running off, apparently never to return. (Save for one cameo appearance later)

*Quagmire's [[foot fetish]]ism is revealed in this episode.

After Janae's boxing match, a change of heart takes effect and Janae decides to stay, she couldn't make up her mind completely until Janelle forces her to see if Ned's feelings are the real thing.

==Cultural references==

Mickey's first day of school leads to devastating effects when Janae gives misconstrued advice about how to handle difficult people. Mickey comes under threat of expulsion if further trangressions continue. Unfortunately Mickey seems to see that the bullying showed people he wasn't intimidated and Ned feeling as he failed as a father. He makes it clear that he and he only will be the sole authority from now on.

*When Chris, Meg, Peter, and Brian talk at the same time, they stop talking and then say "[[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]" to try and trick each other. It doesn't work.

*Stewie uses Brian’s books to create [[papier-mâché]] replicas of the [[houseboat]] from the [[1960s]] [[campy]] detective show ''[[Surfside 6]]'' and the [[fort]] from the post-[[American Civil War|Civil War]]-era [[sitcom]] ''[[F Troop]],'' another 1960s show.

*Quagmire's license plate reading "Bushman" is a reference to the "Seinfeld" episode where Kramer gets a license plate that reads, "Assman".

*Stewie mentions that one of Brian’s books is by [[Russia]]n writer [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]. Brian is seen reading Dostoevsky in the future episode “[[Ready, Willing, and Disabled]].”

*When Cleveland Jr. plays with a stick he says “I’m [[Daniel Boone]],” an American pioneer. When the stick breaks in half he says “I’m [[Pat Boone]]. ‘Gonna have a [[Christmas]] special with [[Andy Williams]].” Pat Boone and Andy Williams are both [[pop music|pop]] singers who reached their commercial peaks in the [[1950s]].

*When Peter suggests the world may have been created just for him, a cutaway shows Christof, who controlled the artificial world of the [[1998]] film ''[[The Truman Show]]''.

*Cleveland suggests that the sitcom [[Fish (TV series)|Fish]] should be put before the television series [[CHiPs]] as [[Fish and chips|a good marketing strategy]].

*Peter calls part of the evening the “magic hour; the day’s not quite gone, the night’s not quite here and somewhere [[Scott Baio]] is plowing a woman he doesn’t love.” This is a reference to the ''[[Happy Days]]'' actor’s multiple, short-term relationships.

*Peter tries to teach Chris how to eat an [[Oreo]], a reference to famous commercials of the cookie brand.

*Lois brings Brian some of Peter’s books, which include ''Mr. T'' by [[Mr. T]], an [[autobiography]] of ''[[The A-Team]]'' star; ''T and Me'' by [[George Peppard]], an actor who co-starred with Mr. T on ''The A-Team'' and ''For the Last Time, I’m Not Mr. T'' by [[Ving Rhames]], an [[African-American]] actor with a physique like that of Mr. T. With the exception of "Mr. T by Mr. T", all of these books are fictitious.

*When Peter says "Freeze Frame", and he breaks the [[fourth wall]], it is a reference to [[Saved by the Bell]]. The main character, [[Zack Morris]], had the same ability. At the end of the aside, he urges the viewer to leave, as he is going to "do stuff" to Lois while she is frozen, something that never would have happened on a wholesome daytime show like ''Saved by the Bell''.

*When encouraging himself to fight his perceived illness, Stewie tells himself “[[do not go gentle into that good night]].” He first attributes the quote to [[singer-songwriter]] [[Bob Dylan]] but then corrects himself; it was written by poet [[Dylan Thomas]].

*A cutaway parodies the [[1960s]] campy [[science fiction]] series ''[[Lost in Space]],'' mocking the ways in which the father and leader of the expedition send his children off with strange characters on dangerous missions.

*Cleveland Jr. sings a [[jingle]] for [[Honeycomb (cereal)|Honeycomb]] [[breakfast cereal]]

*Peter asks Cleveland Jr. to call him Mr. Drummond, a character from the [[1980s]] sitcom ''[[Diff'rent Strokes]],'' who [[adoption|adopted]] two African-American children. He later asks Jr. to call him Mr. Papadopoulos, the adopted white father of an African-American child on another 1980s show ''[[Webster (TV series)|Webster]].''

*Paddy has a secret tunnel “like on ''[[Hogan's Heroes]],''” referring to the secret escape hatch of the characters on the [[1960s]] [[POW]] camp [[sitcom]].

*The beach scene featuring Chris and Quagmire parodies the clothing, music and nonsensical [[catch phrase]]s of [[1960s]] [[Beach Party film]]s aimed at [[teenager]]s.

*Quagmire asks, “Are we in Tianenmen, because I see a square?” This puns on the [[Tian'anmen Square]], the [[Beijing]] plaza that was the site of a famous [[1989]] [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989|crackdown on political dissent]], and [[Square (slang)|the use of the term square for an uncool person]].

*After Peter tosses Cleveland Jr. a golf ball, he begins kicking it with his feet, singing “I’m [[Pelé]],” a reference to the [[Brazil]]ian [[soccer]] player best known by that nickname.

More recently, Mickey accidently reversed a truck into a mini-bus full of several characters on their way home from the Yeats wedding. Could this be storyline be like that of the [[Neighbours Plane Crash]]?

==Goofs==

==Family tree==

*Brian's line "Did you know Mr. T always wanted to be a [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] dancer?" is [[closed captioned]] as "Did you know that Mr. T wasn't the first choice for ''The A-Team''?"

*Quagmire crashes his 1957 Chevrolet into a pole, but when we see him drive to the beach (after the bowling alley scene), it's in perfect shape.

*A sign reading "Minors Welcome" at "The Fuzzy Clam" can be seen in the window, apparently explaining how Chris got in, even though the stripper who dances for Chris asks him for his age (with Chris answering that he's old enough to know that she's a whore).

==References==

*[[Steve Parker|Steven Parker]] (uncle), married to [[Miranda Parker]] (aunt)

* S. Callaghan, "Fore Father." ''Family Guy: The Official Episode Guide Seasons 1-3''. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 123 - 127.

**[[Riley Parker]] (cousin)

* A. Delarte, "Nitpicking Family Guy: Season 2" in ''Bob's Poetry Magazine'', 2.May 2005: 28 - 29 [http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs02My.pdf http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs02My.pdf]

**[[Bridget Parker]] (cousin)

*[[Stuart Parker (Neighbours)|Stuart Parker]] (uncle), married to [[Sindi Watts]] (aunt)

*[[Ned Parker]] (father) had a relationship with Kirsten Gannon (mother)

**'''Michael Gannon'''

* Raylene Manson (great aunt)

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