A/N: Since "Between Sanity and Madness" was my first FG fanfic, it was bound to go through multiple revisions. In fact, there were a good handful of scenes I threw out due to either me not thinking they were not good enough or not wanting the episode to be too bloated in rewriting stages. Luckily, I saved some of those scrapped scenes and decided to share them. Enjoy!
Deleted Scene #1:
Scrapped Cold Open
[It was a normal Friday afternoon at the Griffin household. Peter was watching TV, when the doorbell rings. As he goes to answer the door, Peter looks through the peakhole and sees his mother and father, Thelma and Francis Griffin.]
Thelma: Peter, open up! Guess who's came for a surprise visit.
[Upon seeing them, Peter comes rushing to the study to where Lois and Brian were practicing a piano song]
Peter: Lois! We got a code Red!
Lois: (gasp) Peter, you-you're kidding right?
Peter: No! They're outside right now!
Lois: What?!
Brian: Oh, god no!
Peter: Start the car! I'll get the kids!
[As Lois and Brian run to the car, Peter pulls out a megaphone and starts to yell]
Peter: Kids! Kids, we got a code Red! Get your suitcases and coats! This is what we've been practicing for!
[The kids come running down with coats on them and suitcases in their hands as they along with Peter run to the car. While they're doing this, Thelma and Francis are still outside]
Thelma: Do you think they're even home?
Francis: (begins to bang his foot on the door) OPEN UP, PETER! LET US IN! WE KNOW YOU GUYS ARE IN THERE!
[As he continues to bang, the Griffins burst out their garage with their car and drive off.]
Francis: I knew it!
[After a little distance, Peter looks to see if they were being followed]
Peter: Phew, I think we got out before they saw us.
Lois: Uh, Peter?
[Lois' concern leads Peter to look back again, only for him to see Francis and Thelma in their car speeding after them]
Peter: Holy crap! (gets an idea) Wait, I know a way to lose them!
[Peter reeves the gas farther, to lose them. However, as he looks back to see if he lost them, he loses his guard and ends up crashing into a wall]
Peter: Well... could've been worse-
[As Peter says this, he's cut short by Francis and Thelma's car crashing into them by them themselves going too fast trying to catch up to them. Smash cuts to the outside of the hospital, with the Griffins walking out bruised and bandaged up from the injuries]
Peter: Well, we had to go to the emergency room, the cars got so wrecked they're in the shop, and we lost our licenses for a week, soooo, you wanna do that visit?
[The scene falls silent for a moment, with Lois and Francis separately trying to say something, but after a beat, they settle the dispute and agrees]
The Griffins: Yeah, that's good enough.
Deleted Scene #2:
Las Vegas Betting
Peter: You WHAT?! How?!
Thelma: Petey, that's Vegas. You can gamble anything there.
Cutaway #5
[In a flashback, Francis and Thelma are in Las Vegas at a roulette table in a casino]
Thelma: We like to bet our car on 23.
[The ball stops on a slot]
Casino Worker: I'm sorry, it's 31.
Francis: [depressed] That was my dad's car.
End
Deleted Scene #3:
Failing Marriage Board Game
Peter: But this time, I know things will be different. I can feel it in my bones.
[Francis comes back with a board game that he hands Peter]
Francis: Oh, Peter, take this board game as a sort of "token of acceptance". I think you and your wife will love it a lot.
[Peter takes the board game, and the family looks at it]
Meg: "Hot Monogamy, the board game for failing marriages"?
Lois: What the hell-? Peter, does this truly scream humanity?!
Peter: Lois, it's just a board game that doesn't say anything about us.
Brian: Let him find out himself. It'll take him a bit, but when it does, it'll hit him like a ton of bricks.
Cutaway #5
[Cuts to late at night, with Peter and Lois sleeping together in their bed until Peter wakes up and realizes]
Peter: Hey! He was insulting our marriage!
Brian: And there's the realization.
End
Deleted Scene #4:
Alt. Thought Dialogue
Francis: [in-thought] Not in your life, squirt.
Peter: [in-thought] Wha-? How did you hear me?! And how am I hearing you?
Thelma: [in-thought] Petey, this is something the Griffin family's carried for years. We all can hear our thoughts in our heads.
Peter: [in-thought] Okay. Uh, what's a thought I have you can constantly hear?
Francis: [in-thought] You think about masturbating too much.
Peter: [in-thought] What? Nooo.
[The other Griffins in-thought reply that he's right for a change]
Chris: [in-thought] Yeah Dad. You think about masturbating more than me! And I secretly think about thirteen times a day!
[Peter, Francis and Thelma open their eyes in shock and disgust about what Chris said and everyone else doesn't talk after Chris mentions this]
Chris: [in-thought] Someone please say something.
Deleted Scene #5:
Jambalaya
Peter: Hey ma, dad, you're just in time for dinner.
Francis: No way, we're leaving to go somewhere else.
Peter: But... I spent an hour making dinner and saved plates for both of you. I even wrote your names on them.
[Just as Peter said, he pulled out plates that were literally written with, "Mom" and "Dad" on them]
Thelma: Petey, we're fine. We're gonna get some food on the way back.
Peter: Can you at least have a spoonful of it?
[Peter forces a spoon of it into Francis' mouth, but gotten a sorrow look back from him in return as the latter spits the food out on his shirt]
Francis: Hard pass!
[The two leave as Peter looks disappointed]
Deleted Scene #6:
Alt. Statue Dialogue
[Meg and Chris scream and run inside in shock]
Lois: Meg, Chris, what's wrong?
Meg: We were walking home from school, and... and...
Chris: Grampa's bought a statue. Words can't describe it.
Peter: Come on, kids. There's a perfect way for words to describe it
[Smash cuts to the family outside, with everyone sans Francis and Thelma in shock as it's revealed they bought a statue of Jesus]
Lois: Oh my god, you're right Chris! Words cannot describe it.
Deleted Scene #8:
Brian Can't See Color
Stewie: And how you gunna prove it? You're just a dumb dog. Can't even see color.
Brian: Hey! I can so see color!
Francis: Oh yeah? What color is my vest?
Brian: Uh... I wanna maroon?
[A beat]
Stewie: He just got a lucky guess.
Francis: Yeah, I'm assuming that too.
Deleted Scene #9:
Wrong Gift
Thelma: These last two days were a big success!
Francis: I know! Stewie really helped out with this. And nothing backfired! Except for the gift issue...
Cutaway #10
[Thelma hands Meg a gift box]
Thelma: Hey you go, Megan. I hope you love the gift I got you.
Meg: [opens it and gets confused] You bought me a razor? But Grandma, I don't have any leg hair to sha-
[Francis comes in and takes the gift from Meg and hands her a gift in his other hand]
Francis: Sorry, I got them mixed up.
End