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First Aired: Mar. 21, 2000 on FOX

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Season 2 » Episode #06 - Death Is a Bitch

Summary: When Lois finds a lump on Peter's breast, he heads to the doctors fearing the worst. He comes out clean, but the bill is huge. In order to avoid paying, Peter writes that he is dead. Death gets a copy of his form, and thinking he is really dead, comes to collect. Peter makes a run for it, and Death sprains his ankle chasing after him. The Griffin's take him in, hoping their kindness will persuade him not to take Peter. However, when Peter learns that since Death is hurt the rules of death no longer apply; he goes out jumping off buildings and shooting himself. The word quickly spreads, and Death tells Peter he'll let him live if he fills in for him until he recovers. In order to show the world the rules of death apply again, Death tells Peter he has to kill a popular group of kids, namely the stars of Dawson's Creek. While on the plane with them, Peter chickens out and accidentally kills the pilots sending the plane into the ground. Everyone inside comes out okay, and Death tells Peter that since the pilot's deaths made the news, everything is okay. He leaves the Griffins' with a promise to return soon.

Who appeared in this episode?

Glenn Quagmire	voiced by Seth MacFarlane
Dr. Hartman	voiced by Seth MacFarlane
Additional Voices	voiced by Seth MacFarlane
Barbara Pewterschmidt	voiced by Alex Borstein
Additional Voices	voiced by Alex Borstein
Additional Voices	voiced by Seth Green
Jack	voiced by Danny Smith (IV)
Death	voiced by Norm MacDonald

Episode Quotes

Death: Wait, don't tell anyone I'm here. For if humanity discovers that I am no longer lurking in the shadows, the consequences will be dire.
Peter Griffin: Go on...
Death: That's it, what the hell do you see in him?

Meg Griffin: [Death eats an entire piece of chicken in one bite] Wow. How did you do that?
Death: Well lets just say I did some films when I was younger that I'm not really proud of.

Lois Griffin: Peter, don't you see? As long as he's here, you can't die.
Peter Griffin: Go on...
Lois Griffin: That's it.

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Mistakes/Goofs

Goof (continuity error): While on the plane, Karen Black's sleeves change color from white to blue.
Goof (factual errors): At the Hitler parody the number to call "213-DU WERDEST EINE KRANKENSCHWESTER BRAUCHEN!!!" is seen on the screen, also spoken by Hitler. This is a threat spoken in (wrong) German language translating roughly to "You will need a nurse!". Correct German would have been: "Du WIRST eine Krankenschwester brauchen!!!"
Goof (revealing mistake): Death's right foot disappears when he stands up to leave at the end of the episode.

Trivia

The title is a parody of the common expression that is a lament on life: Life's A Bitch!
Stewie's e-mail address is loismustdie@yahoo.com
Death explains to Peter about how bad it would be if Hitler was still alive. There is a small skit with Hitler having his own talk show, in which Hitler announces the phone number of the show: "213 - Du Werdest Eine Krankenschwester Brauchen". Roughly translated that means "213 - You Will Need A Nurse!"
The "Complete Boz Scaggs" box set seen here doesn't actually exist.
When the doctor tells Peter that he has a fatty corpuscle, Peter asks how it can be a "dead comedian from the silent movie era". The person Peter's referring to is Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle.