When You Wish Upon a Weinstein

The day that Peter buys volcano insurance is the day that Lois becomes fed up with their constant money problems.

When You Wish Upon a Weinstein

December 10, 2004  |  Season 3   |  Episode 22

The day that Peter buys volcano insurance is the day that Lois becomes fed up with their constant money problems.

Peter gives Lois’ 'rainy day fund' to a scam artist selling volcano insurance. On that same night Stewie breaks Meg’s glasses, because he hates being watched while he sleeps, and so Lois tells Peter that he needs to recover the money to buy their daughter a new pair of glasses. Depressed by his financial woes, Peter is interested when Quagmire and Cleveland describe great financial successes attained after hiring men with Jewish-sounding names and decides that he needs a Jew to handle his money.

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When a Jewish man named Max Weinstein has car trouble outside the Griffin house, Peter takes it as a sign and after a foot chase, Peter pressures Max into helping him get the emergency money back. Max later recovers the money from the scammer. After accompanying Max to synagogue and inviting him over for dinner, Peter comes to the conclusion that Chris would get better grades and be more successful if he converted to Judaism.

He secretly drives Chris to Las Vegas, Nevada for a quick Bar Mitzvah after Lois displays objection to his idea. She finds out from Brian where Chris and Peter have gone by torturing him with a dog whistle. She arrives just in time to stop the ceremony. A crowd, angry that Lois is apparently insulting their religion, chases the Griffins until they escape onto a bus which is full of nuns who are not happy about Peter’s straying from Catholicism.