Plot
Rhonda Latimer, a reporter for Fox News Channel who is idolized by several of its viewers, is dismissed when the network's first high-definition broadcast exposes several facial wrinkles, leaving a job opportunity open. Lois auditions for the part, ignoring Brian's warnings that Fox News is a heavily biased network, and she is chosen as the new reporter. On her first day as such, she is assigned to do an exposé on Michael Moore to prove that he is homosexual. When she spies on him outside his house, she sees Rush Limbaugh coming out, leading her to conclude that Limbaugh and Moore are in a gay relationship. However, Fox News refuses to allow any material against fellow conservative Limbaugh to be broadcast, leading Lois to realize that Brian was right about them. The two decide to take the story into their own hands and confront who they expect to be Moore and a naked Limbaugh in the same bedroom, only to realize that the both of them are portrayed by Fred Savage, who created the suits of them in order to continue his acting career. A flabbergasted Lois ultimately decides to report his story instead. In the end, Lois is revealed to no longer work as a reporter, but she does not bother to reveal how or why, since no one really cares.
Meanwhile, Peter, along with his son Chris and daughter Meg, decides to create his own animated series about a trio of handicapped ducks entitled Handi-Quacks. All of Meg's reasonable and sometimes rational suggestions are shot down by Peter and Chris in favour of their more obscure and unusual ideas, and they eventually fire her for no other reason. He and Chris eventually decide on a joke involving a wood stove and a house of cards, and invite neighbors Cleveland, Quagmire and Joe to voice the characters. Although it is suggested that the crudely animated and developed pilot episode will likely fail, CEO Peter Chernin (appearing as himself) enjoys it and agrees to air the show, but Peter becomes angered when he suggests that the character Poopyface Tomato Nose's nose be a plum instead of a tomato. Peter's passion about his work impresses Chernin into allowing him to air the episode unedited, but he decides not to let the episode be aired at all, which he later regrets.
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