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"E Peterbus Unum" is an episode from the second season of the FOX
Fox Broadcasting Company

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 animated series
List of animated television series

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 Family Guy
Family Guy

Family Guy is an animated cartoon Television in the United States Situation comedy created by Seth MacFarlane that airs on Fox Broadcasting Company and regularly on other television networks in syndication....
. It is the 25th episode of Family Guy
Family Guy

Family Guy is an animated cartoon Television in the United States Situation comedy created by Seth MacFarlane that airs on Fox Broadcasting Company and regularly on other television networks in syndication....
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Peter Griffin

Peter L?wenbr?u Griffin is a Character and the protagonist of the List of animated television series Family Guy. Peter is the patriarch of the Griffin household and the central character in the show....
 gets audited by the Internal Revenue Service
Internal Revenue Service

The Internal Revenue Service is the Federal government of the United States agency that collects taxes and enforces the tax law. It is an agency within the U.S....
, and is denied a tax refund. His plans to build a backyard pool are further derailed when a request for a zoning
Zoning

Zoning is a device of land use regulation used by local governments in most developed countries . The word is derived from the practice of designating permitted uses of land based on mapped zones which separate one set of land uses from another....
 variance
Variance (land use)

A variance is a requested deviation from the set of rules a municipality applies to land use known as a zoning ordinance, building code or municipal code....
 leads to Mayor West revealing that Peter's house is not even part of the United States.

Peter declares his house to be the new micronation
Micronation

Micronations — sometimes also referred to as model countries and new country projects — are entities that resemble independent nations or states but which are unrecognized by world governments or major international organisations....
 of "Petoria." Which Peter claims is an Oligarchy
Oligarchy

Oligarchy is a form of government where political power effectively rests with a small Elitism segment of society distinguished by royalty, wealth, family, military influence or occult spiritual hegemony....
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"E Peterbus Unum" is an episode from the second season of the FOX
Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
 animated series
List of animated television series

This is a list of animated series, which are television program produced by means of animation. The following list is listed by decade and country of origin....
 Family Guy
Family Guy

Family Guy is an animated cartoon Television in the United States Situation comedy created by Seth MacFarlane that airs on Fox Broadcasting Company and regularly on other television networks in syndication....
. It is the 25th episode of Family Guy
Family Guy

Family Guy is an animated cartoon Television in the United States Situation comedy created by Seth MacFarlane that airs on Fox Broadcasting Company and regularly on other television networks in syndication....
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Peter
Peter Griffin

Peter L?wenbr?u Griffin is a Character and the protagonist of the List of animated television series Family Guy. Peter is the patriarch of the Griffin household and the central character in the show....
 gets audited by the Internal Revenue Service
Internal Revenue Service

The Internal Revenue Service is the Federal government of the United States agency that collects taxes and enforces the tax law. It is an agency within the U.S....
, and is denied a tax refund. His plans to build a backyard pool are further derailed when a request for a zoning
Zoning

Zoning is a device of land use regulation used by local governments in most developed countries . The word is derived from the practice of designating permitted uses of land based on mapped zones which separate one set of land uses from another....
 variance
Variance (land use)

A variance is a requested deviation from the set of rules a municipality applies to land use known as a zoning ordinance, building code or municipal code....
 leads to Mayor West revealing that Peter's house is not even part of the United States.

Peter declares his house to be the new micronation
Micronation

Micronations — sometimes also referred to as model countries and new country projects — are entities that resemble independent nations or states but which are unrecognized by world governments or major international organisations....
 of "Petoria." Which Peter claims is an Oligarchy
Oligarchy

Oligarchy is a form of government where political power effectively rests with a small Elitism segment of society distinguished by royalty, wealth, family, military influence or occult spiritual hegemony....
. He spends a night in Quahog insulting Horace (at The Drunken Clam) and bringing beer out into the streets, despite being told he could go the man jail
Prison rape

Prison rape commonly refers to the rape of prison in prison by other inmates or prison staff.According to Human Rights Watch, at least 140,000 inmates are raped each year, and there is a significant variation in the rates of prison rape by race....
, stepping on grass that can not be touched and violating numerous laws such as litter
Litter

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ing, sexual harassment
Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment is unwelcome attention of a sexual nature and is a form of illegal and social harassment. It includes a range of behavior from seemingly mild transgressions and annoyances to actual sexual abuse or sexual assault....
 and vandalism
Vandalism

Vandalism is the behaviour attributed to the Vandals, by the Ancient Romes, in respect of culture: ruthless destruction or spoiling of anything Beauty or venerable....
. He flaunts his diplomatic immunity
Diplomatic immunity

Diplomatic immunity is a form of immunity and a policy held between governments, which ensures that diplomats are given safe passage and are considered not susceptible to lawsuit or prosecution under the host country's laws ....
 by singing a parody
Parody

A parody , in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, or author, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation....
 of MC Hammer
MC Hammer

Stanley Kirk Burrell , better known by his stage names MC Hammer and Hammer, is an American multi-platinum selling rapper and dancer most popular during the late 1980s until the mid-1990s, known for his dramatic rise and fall from fame and fortune and his trademark Hammer Pants....
's song "U Can't Touch This
U Can't Touch This

"U Can't Touch This" is MC Hammer's most well-known single, from his 1990 album Please, Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em. The album was commercially successful at the time, eventually selling over ten million copies....
" (entitled "Can't Touch Me") and mentions that he can't be sued by Hammer.

Snubbed at the United Nations
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
, Peter follows the advice of a diplomat from Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
 and annexes Joe's pool
Swimming pool

A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is an artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming or water-based recreation....
, calling it "Joe-hio." Days later, when Chris tries to go to school, he is turned away because the US Army
United States Army

The United States Army is the branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for Army operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S....
 surrounds and blockades the nation of Petoria with tanks and missiles as part of "Operation: Desert Clam." Further, all electricity and water has been cut and Lois
Lois Griffin

Lois Griffin is a Character from the List of animated television series Family Guy. She is the wife of Peter Griffin and the mother of Meg Griffin, Chris Griffin and Stewie Griffin....
 homeschools the kids. Peter is forced into negotiating for a repatriation, after Lois and the children leave him to the US, under the threat of "Operation: Bomb the Crap Out of Your House" (according to the General, "the guy who makes up the names is on vacation" and "my grammar sucks"). Brian on the other hand is loyal enough and stays with Peter, since he's been through worse stuff than this (which proves useful, since Peter has no white flag
Flag

A flag is a piece of cloth, often flown from a pole or Mast , generally used symbolically for signaling or identification. The term flag is also used to refer to the graphic design employed by a flag, or to its depiction in another medium....
 and must use Brian to surrender). After some negotiations, Peter ends up repatriating his country and returning Joe's pool. Grateful to Peter, Lois promises to scratch his back with a matchbook
Matchbook

A matchbook is a small cardboard folder enclosing a quantity of matches and having a coarse striking surface on the exterior. The folder is opened to access the matches, which are attached in a comb-like arrangement and must be torn away before use in contrast to a matchbox where the matches are loosely packed in the interior tray....
 every night. In the end, all the events of the episode turn out to have been filmed and used ever since in social studies classes 200 years in the future. The episode ends with a student asking if the Griffin family even notices Stewie talking.

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