Family Guy: "Emission Impossible"

"Emission Impossible." The Family Guy. Peter Shin, dir. Dave Collard and Ken Goin, script. First aired 8 Nov. 2001; numbered 3.11 (#11 of third season) in IMDb system.

Peter and Lois Griffin try to have another child; baby Stewie—a two-year-old who speaks like an adult and thinks like Ming the Merciless—objects. Relevant here: Stewie builds a heavily armed space craft that he miniaturizes in the manner of Fantastic Voyage (1966) and takes it into Peter's body on a spermicidal mission. Also alluded to visually: the space battles in Star Wars and the destruction of planes on the ground by Japanese Zeroes at the Battle of Pearl Harbor. Stewie meets the sperm-ship captain most likely to be his younger brother, and the two of them hit it off and come to a truce. Note imagery of Stewie as homicidal toddler inside his ship inside Peter's body, gunning down homonculi piloting sperm imaged as organic ships.

(RDE, 27/03/05)