Seeking to spend time with her family,
Lois decides to take them out to the
ballet Swan Lake, on a late school night, much to the family's dismay. The next morning,
Chris is seen studying at the breakfast table for an upcoming exam at school. After first being told not to study at the table by Lois,
Brian notices that Chris' history textbook is hopelessly out of date. Upset by this, Lois goes to a
PTA meeting to complain about the textbook. Responding to her grievances, Principal Shepherd explains that the school cannot afford new textbooks due to the school's loss of federal funding under the
No Child Left Behind Act as a result of their low
test scores. Forced to make a decision on how to improve the scores and the school's overall performance, Principal Shepherd decides to expel the school's "dumbest" student, Chris Griffin. While talking about Chris' situation with Lois, Peter is suddenly confronted by the Giant Chicken. This is the third fight between the two. Their epic battle ranges from the Griffin house, through the sewers, onto a subway train, over the girders of a high-rise construction site, and then up into a biplane, crashing into a giant Ferris wheel, which is dislodged from its platform and rolls through the streets. The fight continues atop the rolling wheel until it demolishes a ten-story apartment building. Emerging from the wreckage, Peter and the Chicken realize that neither has any idea what they were fighting about. They apologize to each other, and the Chicken invites Peter to join him and his wife, Nicole, for dinner. At the restaurant, the three have just finished a lovely meal when the check arrives, and both Peter and the Chicken (named Ernie) insist on paying the tab—Peter insists on paying since his order was kind of expensive while Ernie insists on paying as a way of apologizing to Peter. As they face off, the fight resumes and leads them into the restaurant kitchen. Peter subdues Ernie with a pot of boiling water and beats him unconscious. Peter staggers home, and back in the kitchen, Ernie lies lifeless on the floor, but in a sudden close-up, Ernie's left eye opens as dramatic music plays, foreshadowing another
chicken fight. Peter goes home and resumes his conversation with Lois. After several failed attempts to find another school for Chris, Lois asks her father,
Carter Pewterschmidt, to utilize his superior influence to get Chris admitted to the upper-class Morningwood Academy, which he agrees to on the condition that Peter humiliate himself by starring in a shot-by-shot remake of
Liar Liar, and eventually succeeds in doing so. At his new school, Chris is shunned by the wealthy students at the academy, being both verbally and physically assaulted, including
being hit with socks full of paper money. After hearing this, Lois again turns to her father to help Chris, by inviting him to become a member of the
Skull and Bones society with the other students, who eventually come to accept him. Meanwhile, the family have all begun to take extra jobs to pay for Chris' tuition; Peter sells
butt scratchers at the
ballpark, Lois and
Meg begin working as
prostitutes, and
Stewie decides to follow overweight park-goers, while playing the
tuba, making them fall and charge them . As this is happening, Chris starts to feel uncomfortable with his membership at the Skull and Bones, especially after one of their activities involves teasing an orphan they had pretended to adopt, and an initiation where each new young member has to play "7 minutes in heaven" in a closet with the club's pedophile eldest member, Herbert. Feeling his family should not go through so much trouble to keep him satisfied, Chris asks Carter to help him get back into his old school. Carter complies with his request, Chris moves back home, and returns to James Woods High School. At the end of the episode, Stewie plays the tuba for Chris, making him fall. ==Production==