It was a gag in which at the Quahog Science Museum the gang sees a re-creation of the Miracle Worker in binary code in which Helen Keller is shown speaking at the scene where she learns how to talk in binary code indistinctively in the way that she does in the movie.
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Either a cutaway or flashback is the type of joke that is commonly used to break up the main story on Family Guy.
From that joke when peter is like this Hey I got an email from Mr.Puterschmidt POW!
It does. It's of course censored on its original FOX airing but typically uncensored on the DVD.
This is somewhat of a loaded question and doesn't really have a specific answer but in general it hasn't has a HUGE impact in the U.S. There have been times where something that has occurred on Family Guy and been latched onto and been discussed by the media. For instance, Sarah Palin decided comment on the joke about a character being the daughter of a former governor of Alaska.
Joe Swanson is the wheelchair-bound paraplegic cop on Family Guy.