The Hurricane

**The Hurricane** is the first episode of season three of *The Cleveland Show*. It is the fifty third episode, overall. It serves as part one of FOX's *Night of the Hurricane*, a three-part cross through special, wherein all three of Seth MacFarlane's shows' season premiere episodes, involve the show's family, suffering from a hurricane.

## Synopsis

The Brown-Tubbs Family's plans of a family cruise are quite literally rained on, when news gets out about the onslaught of Hurricane Flozelle.

## Plot

While preparing for a vacation cruise, word comes of a hurricane hitting Stoolbend, then Quahog and finally Langley Falls. As the family rushes to prepare, Cleveland dismisses their concerns. As their cruise is canceled, Cleveland tries to uplift their spirits by hosting their own little cruise inside the house. But when they discover that Cleveland threw away all of the food in the refrigerator and Donna only shops one day at a time, Cleveland tries to go to the store but soon finds out just how strong the winds are.
As the family gathers together to pray for deliverance from the storm, Cleveland notices that Jr. isn't present. When they inquire why he is sitting without joining them, he reveals that he no longer believes in God after his mother Loretta told him that God forgave her for cheating on Cleveland. Cleveland tries to come to grips with understanding Jr.'s exact position, considering him an Atheist, Jr. explains that Atheism is also a religion that he considers even worse than Christianity and uses Brian Griffin as an example. Jr. asks why they never go to church and yet Donna has such strong convictions about not attending church and she responds that its simply because she's a black woman in the south. After Jr. goes back to his room, Rallo tries to convince him that he is wrong but fails. Cleveland tries an intervention involving the entire family but they fail.

As the family searches for more food, they notice Jr. missing. Rushing to his room, they find him with a supply of food. Accusing him of hording food for himself, he explains about being prepared for the storm to feed everyone as he was the only one who watched the news. However, their accusations upset him and he locks the food away and suggests they should pray for food. When Cleveland tries to order God's wrath on Jr., a tree fall through the roof, pinning Cleveland to the floor. When the family tries to lift it off of him, the spurn Jr.'s offer to help, suggesting the tree falling was his fault. When they fail to get the tree off of Cleveland, they admit its in God's hands which brings more ridicule from Jr. As Donna and Jr. start to argue again, Jr. refuses to believe in something he can't see. Donna uses this combined with the story of Star Wars with Han Solo not being able to see The Force but not treating Luke Skywalker as an idiot. Donna explains about believing in something bigger than herself, drawing reluctant agreement from Jr.. When the tree shifts, pinning Cleveland further, the family starts to pray. As the tree suddenly starts to shift, freeing Cleveland, Jr. is seen using his weight to leverage the tree from outside the house. When the family gives thanks to God for Cleveland's deliverance, Jr. tries to point out that he just applied basic engineering he learned in school. Cleveland and Jr. continue to argue over who should get the credit until Jr. leaves in frustration.

## Characters

### Major Roles

* Cleveland Brown
* Donna Tubbs-Brown
* Cleveland Junior
* Roberta Tubbs
* Rallo Tubbs

### Minor Roles

* Dwayne Meghian
* Larvell
* Mayor Larry Box
* Larry the Leopard
* Perry
* Coach McFall (Cameo)
* Arianna the Bear (Cameo)
* Tim the Bear (Non-Speaking Cameo)
* Lester Krinklesac (Non-Speaking Cameo)
* Holt Richter (Non-Speaking Cameo)
* Gus (Non-Speaking Cameo)
* Maxwell the Weather Dog (Pictured)
* Stewie Griffin (As a Puppet)
* Brian Griffin (As a Puppet; Mentioned)
* Loretta Brown (Mentioned)
* Glenn Quagmire (Mentioned)

## Quotes

**Donna**: Cleveland, we're only gunna be on the cruise for a week. I really don't think it's necessary to throw out everything in the fridge.
**Cleveland**: Maybe you forgot about the last time we left unattended food in the house.
*[Cutaway to a carton of orange juice with a gun crying over the dead body of a carton of milk on the floor; Cleveland and Donna enter]*
**Cleveland**: Oh my God!
**Orange Juice**: It wasn't my fault! It ... It ... It was an accident! *[cries]* I'm sorry! *[points gun at himself]*
**Cleveland**: Nooo!
*[The orange juice shoots himself and all his juice splatters on Cleveland and Donna]*
*[Cutaway gag ends]*
**Donna**: Cleveland, that did not happen.
**Cleveland**: Oh, Donna. When the imagination dies, can the soul be far behind?

**Larvell**: So, this is wild, man. What I heard was due to global warming, the storm's gunna be here for a while, then in Quahog about, in like, a half-hour. Then supposedly after that, it'll go to *American Dad* town.

**Donna**: Sweet pies and category fives!

**Rallo**: SP-F this!

**Roberta**: All that waxing for nothing.
**Junior**: All that waxing for nothing.

**Donna**: Oh, baby. I'm so sorry. I know how much you wanted to see Florida from a distance.
**Cleveland**: It's the only humane way to experience it.

**Roberta**: I was gunna hook up with a sexy Cuban towel boy and it wouldn't be cheating on Federline because the internet says sex doesn't count if it happens in water.
**Cleveland**: That's true, by the way.
**Donna**: Oh, I know.
**Cleveland**: *[in a weird Scooby Doo voice]* Huuuuh?

**Junior**: I guess we'll just go unpack.
**Cleveland**: No! That's just what the suitcases want!

**Junior**: Why didn't you listen to the TV? The TV always knows what's best!

**Mayor Larry Box**: Eh, this hurricane is pretty fucking serious. It's a category four or some shit, so if you didn't evacuate your asses the hell outta town, when we fucking told you to, then stay inside until this unholy assmolesting shitstorm of fucking thunder and piss rain passes or you'll probably fucking die. Box out.

**Cleveland**: Why's the pantry empty? Don't you ever go to the market?
**Donna**: Okay, first of all, stop calling it the market. You're not a white woman in 1956. It's called a grocery store!

**Donna**: I'm going to the bathroom.
**Cleveland**: And leaving me all by my lonesome?
**Donna**: *[sigh]* Okay, come on.
**Cleveland**: Yaaaaay!

**Junior**: I don't believe in God.
*[Thunder claps]*
**Family**: What!?
**Junior**: I don't believe in God.
*[Thunder claps]*
**Cleveland**: You should not say such things, boy visiting from down the street!

**Cleveland**: Junior, how can you not believe in God?
**Junior**: Well, I started questioning things when mom said Jesus forgave her after her affair with Mr. Quagmire. It just seemed too easy. So, after a while, I decided to not take *Journey's* advice and I did stop believing.

**Cleveland**: So, you're an Ath- an Athe- I can't even say the word!
*[Arianna slams up against the window]*
**Arianna**: Atheist!

**Junior**: Atheism is a religion too and those people are the worst. You remember Brian Griffin back in Quahog?
**Cleveland**: *[disdain]* The dog?
**Junior**: Yeah, remember what an insufferable d-bag he was about it?

**Cleveland**: Christianity makes sense. A virgin had God's baby, who then grew up to be a magical sorcerer, who could walk on water, turn that water into wine, and then walk on the wine until one day, the ... *[ahem]* *[uses finger quotes]* "Romans", crucified him but he allowed it so you and I could be forgiven for Eve eating that apple she got from the talking snake. Three days later, Jesus rose from the dead to tell everyone he was coming back someday to fight The Devil. Then he flew up to his mansion in Heaven, where he sits in judgment of the gays. How can you not believe that!?

**Cleveland**: This is a Christian home!
**Junior**: Then how come we never go to church?
**Donna**: Church is for those in need, Junior. You don't go to the doctor when you're healthy. And now there's a hurricane.

**Rallo**: I'll handle this. I've converted all my friends at school and I'm pretty close to breaking Mrs. Lowenstein.

**Rallo**: I used to be just like you. Lost, no direction, I was a real troublemaker. Then one day, I pushed things too far. Drew on the wall with a crayon after mama told me not to.
**Junior**: *[gasp]* Oh no!
**Rallo**: That was the day my luck ran out. Got put in a timeout. 10-15, mandatory minimum. That's hard time for a kid, time I'll never get back. So, I prayed for forgiveness and Jesus entered my heart and changed my life. It was divine intervention.
**Junior**: You drew on the wall the next day.
**Rallo**: In the name of the lord.

**Rallo**: I believe that the man who created the entire universe knows my name and cares what happens to me. Do you know what that is?
**Junior**: Narcissism?

**Rallo**: That boy's as stubborn as a ... what do you call that thing that's like a little horse?
**Roberta**: A pony?
**Donna**: A zebra?
**Roberta**: A unicorn?
**Donna**: A quigga?
**Cleveland**: Are you serious? Quigga, please. It's a tiny horse.

**Cleveland**: What were we thinking, doing a huge production number with no food in the house!?

**Cleveland**: How dare you mock the lord in the middle of a natural disaster he created!?

**Cleveland**: MAY GOD BRING HIS WRATH UPON THEE!!!
*[A tree breaks through the roof and crushes him]*

*[Cleveland's face gets rained on]*
**Rallo**: He's being waterboarded by nature!

**Cleveland**: *[imitating Walter Cronkite]* And that's the way it is. Friday, May 19th, 1978.
**Donna**: Oh no! He thinks he's Walter Cronkite again!
**Rallo**: Man, that's some C-BS.

**Cleveland**: *[imitating Walter Cronkite]* From Dallas, Texas, The Flash, apparently official. President Edmund Fitzgerald Kennedy died at 1:00pm central standard time. 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, rock. *Happy Days*. Sunday. Monday. Tom Bosley.

**Cleveland**: *[imitating Walter Cronkite]* And so Vietnam and hippies and Watergate and braless lowhangers.

**Cleveland**: *[imitating Walter Cronkite]* One more time. *[singing]* The camptown ladies sing this song. Doo dah. Doo dah. The camptown racetrack, five miles long-
*[Rallo hits Cleveland on the head with a hammer]*
**Cleveland**: *[normal]* There I am.

**Donna**: I know it might not make sense but that's what faith is. Standing in the face of adversity and believing everything's gunna be okay.
**Junior**: Well, excuse me for not believing in things you can't touch, see, or measure.
**Donna**: Junior, Han Solo didn't believe in the force but he didn't think Luke Skywalker was in idiot for believing in it.
**Junior**: But the force-
**Donna**: Is what? An unseen presence from which one draws strength and inspiration? How is that any different from what I'm talking about?
*[beat]*
**Junior**: ... You just blew my mind, Miss Donna.
**Donna**: Life is hard, Junior and when reason and logic run out, all you have left is faith. Believing that something greater than myself is watching over my family gets me through the rough patches. It gives me peace. Why would I choose not to believe that?

**Donna**: God answered our prayers and got Cleveland out from under the tree!
**Junior**: But-
**Cleveland**: Don't you see son? God does exist. He was here tonight in this room! You just witnessed a miracle!
**Junior**: Well, not really. It was science. Basic engineering. I did it.
**Cleveland**: But God showed you how to build that contraption.
**Junior**: No, I learned that in school.
**Cleveland**: God built the school.
**Junior**: Immigrants built the school.
**Cleveland**: Christian immigrants.
**Junior**: *[claps hands]* I'm out.
*[Junior exits]*
**Cleveland**: *[groans]* What are we gunna do with that boy? *[sneezes]*
**Junior**: *[offscreen]* God bless you!
*[Perplexed, the family cocks their heads in unison, accompanied by a wacky cartoon sound effect]*
## Songs

* Filled With Jesus
* Camptown Races

## Trivia

* This episode is part one of a cross-through plot, wherein a hurricane affects all three of Seth MacFarlane's shows, with this being part one, *Family Guy* in "*Seahorse Seashell Party*", being part two, and *American Dad!* in "*Flozelle's Final Fight*", being part three.
	+ It is a parody of a stunt used by NBC on November 9, 1991, alternately called Night of the Hurricane and Hurricane Saturday involving a hurricane simultaneously affecting the sitcoms *The Golden Girls*, *Empty Nest*, and *Nurses*. Although no characters from either *Family Guy* or *American Dad!* appear in this episode, Brian, Quagmire, and Loretta are mentioned, and later on, marionettes of Stewie and Brian appear. Additionally, Stan and Peter do appear in "*Flozelle's Final Fight*"
* The three episodes, "*The Hurricane*", "*Seahorse Seashell Party*", and "*Flozelle's Final Fight*" aired on May 1, 2011. Coincidentally, this was around the same time of Hurricane Irene, which affected both Virginia and Rhode Island, turning this into some very offensive content.
* Holt, Lester, and Tim have no lines of dialogue in this episode.
* It's revealed that Junior is an Atheist.
* Although other grocery stores are shown in the series, Donna claims she shops at Kroger every day following work.
* According to Donna, the family doesn't go to church. However, they previously went to church in "Good News Bear" and "The Cleveland Jr. Cherry Bomb".
* Hurricane noises play during the ending credits, instead of the regular music.

### Cultural References

* Cleveland is told he can't do a Joseph Gordon-Levitt story due to FOX planning a movie with him later in the Summer. The first 20th Century FOX release with Joseph Gordon-Levitt after this episode entered production was Lincoln, released on October 8, 2012.
* As the family starts their "home cruise", "The Love Boat Theme" plays, sung by Jack Jones.
* After Cleveland suggests a house cruise, the theme sequence of The Love Boat is parodied.
* When Cleveland comes to after being knocked out by a tree, he acts like Walter Cronkite. He, however, mangles Cronkite's report of the death of JFK in part by calling him Edmund Fitzgerald Kennedy, referencing the ship SS Edmund Fitzgerald that sank in Lake Superior in 1975 killing its 29 member crew.
* Cleveland also references the lyrics of "Rock Around the Clock," and then says the lyrics of the "Happy Days" theme song. Both songs served as the theme song to the TV show. "Rock Around the Clock" in the first season, "Happy Days" all other seasons.

### Deleted Scenes

* Cleveland asking when a hurricane ever did any real damage.
* FOX telling Cleveland that he's not allowed to make fun of Joseph-Gordon Levitt.
* Cleveland says that only the elderly and Artie Lang buy groceries every day.
* The Brown-Tubbs Family having to move to the kitchen.
* Junior laughs at his own joke about *Journey*.
* Cleveland prays for Junior and falls asleep.
* Cleveland racks his brain for his stupidity.
* Cleveland eats a house plant.
* Rallo asks Donna to breastfeed off of her.
* Junior says that if Cleveland died, Donna probably won't let him live with her anymore.
* Cleveland tells Junior that God made him look like a fool.

## See Also

* Seahorse Seashell Party
* Flozelle's Final Fight