On his way home, Brian stops at a hotel bar, where this subplot begins to merge with the main plot. Meanwhile, Brian has been out of town attending a seminar on creating a Web series and is unaware of what has transpired. Ida decides she and Quagmire need time apart and leaves for a hotel. Quagmire is deeply upset by this, and - despite the surgery being a success, Dan emerging as an attractive blonde woman named Ida, and his friends' support - Quagmire can't accept his father's new identity. At a Naval ball held in Dan's honor (where naval officers lace their praise with double-entendre statements), Quagmire finally confronts his father and learns that he is 'a woman trapped in a man's body' and is planning to have a sex-reassignment operation. Peter and Joe meet him, hoping to learn what makes Dan's son tick, but they soon suspect that he might be a homosexual and share their suspicions with Quagmire.
Quagmire's father, Dan, comes to Quahog for a visit.