Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows/References

Brian and Pearl during Brian's musical, with the Twin Towers, as seen in the un-edited version.

• Lois and Brian discuss his love life as one of Lois’ students plays piano exercises, in a parody of Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man.
• “It’s great to learn, ’cause knowledge is power!” is from Schoolhouse Rock!.
• A cutaway shows Peter attending the funeral of JonBenét Ramsey and strongly implies that the Ramsey parents are guilty of her murder.
• The binary scene is a parody of a scene from the movie and play The Miracle Worker, in which a deaf girl (the famous blind and deaf Helen Keller) learns to say “wa-wa” for “water.”
• The song during the laser show is “One” by the band Three Dog Night.
• Mayor Adam West’s line about Pee-Wee’s famous wrist refers to Paul Reubens’ (Pee-Wee’s real name) famous arrest for masturbating in a porno theater in Sarasota, Florida in 1991.
• Peter and the baby birds may reference the limerick by Edward Lear.
• When Peter imagines the baby birds as his children, the third bird wears a purple version of Boba Fett’s helmet from Star Wars.
• The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams - Peter is watching this late 70s show about a fugitive mountain man and his bear, Ben. In Peter's version, Adams and Ben are lovers.
• The birds thinking that Peter is their mother could be a reference to geese "imprinting" on scientist Konrad Lorenz.

References

• S. Callaghan, “Husband, Father...Brother?” Family Guy: The Official Episode Guide Seasons 1–3. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 152–155.
• A. Delarte, “Nitpicking Family Guy: Season 3” in Bob’s Poetry Magazine, 2.August 2005: 52–53 http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs02Au.pdf

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