When You Wish Upon a Weinstein

"When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" is the 22nd episode of "Family Guy"s 3rd season. Ricky Blitt wrote the episode and Dan Povenmire directed it. In the episode, Peter Griffin gets scammed by a salesman. A Jewish man named Max Weinstein comes to Peter's house and helps him get his money back. Peter later believes that his son Chris will be smart if he becomes a Jew.
The episode was made during "Family Guy"s 2nd season. The Fox network did not broadcast it then because they thought it would be offensive to Jewish people. The episode was first broadcast on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim on November 2003. The Fox network later broadcast the episode on December 10, 2004. Before the episode was broadcast, it was put on DVD. Seth MacFarlane on the DVD's audio commentary said that 70% of "Family Guy"s writers are Jewish. He said he gave the episode's script to two rabbis. One of them said it was fine because "Peter learns the right lesson at the end."
A song from the episode called "I Need a Jew" is a parody of "When You Wish Upon a Star". The Bourne Company (owner of "When You Wish Upon a Star") started a lawsuit against the Fox network and Cartoon Network on October 2007. They said that the parody took their song and put antisemetic lyrics in it. The Bourne Company thought that Fox was "harming the value of the song." On March 2009, judge Deborah Batts said that "Family Guy" did not break copyright law from the song.