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Cultural references

• After Brian threw a snowball at Stewie, Stewie says: “Made my brown eye blue with that one,” referencing the Crystal Gayle hit “Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” and the oft slang reference to the anus as a “brown eye” and flesh turning blue in the cold. Stewie then attacks Brian with a snowball cannon, exclaiming, “Now is the winter of your discontent,” paraphrasing a well-known line from Richard III by William Shakespeare.
• The character Peter throws darts with at the bar, who later gets in a tussle with his wife, is a reference to Andy Capp.
• The marching band plays Eddy Grant’s 1983 hit “Electric Avenue.”
• Peter refers to himself as “the white Larry Bird,” despite the fact that the NBA star is, in fact, white.
• In a fantasy sequence, Stewie sings Elton John’s “Rocketman,” imitating William Shatner’s infamous performance of the song at a 1978 science fiction film awards ceremony.
• On the NGA’s shooting range, an Imperial Stormtrooper from the Star Wars film series shoots a cutout of Luke Skywalker and misses. Also on the shooting range, a blind man is seen shooting and “hitting the broad side of a barn,” as the saying goes.
• The NGA’s cartoon featuring “Petey the Pistol” is a parody of the NRA’s cartoons featuring Eddie Eagle.
• The NGA film ends with the lesson, “Guns don’t kill people; dangerous minorities do.” This is a parody of National Rifle Association’s infamous slogan “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people,” as well as a parody of the stereotype associating gun ownership advocates with white supremacists.
• While hunting, Peter takes the name Rooster Cogburn, the main character of the 1969 western True Grit.
• Lois referenced the skater Nancy Kerrigan when she was talking about "the one that got what she had coming".
• Chris mentions a special called "Where Bears Attack", something that sounds like the infamous Fox special "When Animals Attack".
• Chris mentioned a Fox show Ally McBeal. Ironically, the show ended around the time Family Guy was canceled after its third season.

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