8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter/References

"8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter" refers to the 2002-2005 television show "8 Simple Rules... for Dating My Teenage Daughter" starring Katey Sagal.

• The scene in which Stewie tests his “teleportation pods” and merges with Rupert is a similar to one in the 1958 movie The Fly.
• While stopping at Goldman’s Pharmacy, Peter imitates an Excedrin commercial and buys several copies of the fashion magazine Marie Claire, only to be disappointed by the physical appearance of actress Kathleen Turner.
• In a cutaway, Peter buys a “breakfast machine,” which turns out to be a Rube Goldberg device which shoots him. The breakfast machine itself is similar to the breakfast machine featured in the film Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. The Danny Elfman music used in the scene was adapted from said film.
• The show parodied the 2004 crossover film Alien vs. Predator, which pitted the Xenomorphs from the Alien film series against the Predator of the Predator series, with a scene from “Kramer vs. Predator,” pitting Dustin Hoffman’s character from Kramer vs. Kramer character against a Predator. Dustin Hoffman’s character did not win...He was verbally fighting the hunter...!

Lois Griffin dressed as Mystique tries to seduce Neil Goldman dressed as Wolverine.

• Stewie appears on the show Blind Date
• Stewie fantasizes Brian re-enacting the Matthew McConaughey’s character Wooderson’s line in Dazed and Confused in front of the pool hall: “That’s what I like about high school girls. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.”
• The scene in which Stewie attacks the babysitter’s boyfriend is similar to one in the movie Child’s Play.
• Before Stewie locks Jeremy in the trunk, Stewie gives him his iPod so he could listen to The Strokes while he gasps for air (Stewie at first calls them “The Streeks”).

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