Hartman's medical license is reinstated at the end of the episode. He asks Hartman to check him out, and turns out Peter is fine.
Peter's victory becomes bittersweet afterwards, when frequent urination turns into a cancer scare. Peter mistakes the exam as rape, sues him, and the ensuing court case strips him of his license. In ' Stewie Loves Lois', he gives Peter Griffin a prostate exam.
The similarity is shown and discussed in ' Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air' and a DVD-exclusive scene in The Shawshank Redemption segment of ' Three Kings'. Hartman, Carter Pewterschmidt, and Seamus' voices are nearly identical, which has been mentioned several times on the DVD audio commentaries. He was named after Seth MacFarlane's good friend and fellow animator, Butch Hartman.ĭr. He has a nephew and a cousin named Marshall. Elmer Hartman is the Griffin Family's doctor, despite displaying a high level of incompetence in most episodes.
