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Chester Cheetah snorts Cheetos like cocaine.

• The Star Wars cutaway in the opening is a recreation of a similar scene in Curb Your Enthusiasm, complete with theme music. The scene is especially reminiscent of one in the Curb episode “Krazee Eyez Killa.”
• In a scene with Sandra Oh, Peter speaks to her slowly, under the misapprehension that she does not understand English.
• The name of Peter’s film, Steel Vaginas, is a play on the title of the film Steel Magnolias.
• The scene where Brian continually tells Stewie “It’s not your fault” recreates the same scene in Good Will Hunting.
• Chester Cheetah is seen snorting Cheetos from a tray as if it were cocaine and listening to Rush’s Tom Sawyer. He exclaims, “Oh God! There is no fucking drummer better than Neil Peart!” and smashes his hand through the glass table, stating “It ain’t easy bein’ cheesy,” a slogan from his commercials in the 1990s.
• During the advertisement for a compilation of 1980s television punchlines, Howard Hesseman provides a testimonial in exchange for cannabis.
• Stewie relates that he was once roommates with Q*Bert.
• Peter claims that he was the original Pretty Woman. A cutaway shows him, in a red dress, replacing Julia Roberts’ role opposite Richard Gere.
• The George and Ira Gershwin piece “Someone to Watch over Me” plays over the scene under the suspension bridge.
• Several Woody Allen films are referenced: the scene where Stewie and Olivia are people watching is similar to a scene in Annie Hall in which Allen and Diane Keaton make similar quips about people walking by. Victor, who is voiced to sound just like Alan Alda, is a parody of that actor’s character as a pompous writer in Crimes and Misdemeanors (including his notes-to-self on his portable microcassette recorder). The scene where they’re sitting under a bridge is a parody of Manhattan.
• While at the restaurant with Brian, Jillian and Olivia, Stewie states "Sorry we're late, everyone, but JonBenét here took forever with her makeup." He refers to JonBenét Ramsey, an American child beauty pageant queen made famous by her murder and the subsequent media coverage.
• Stewie makes a reference to the Don McLean song “American Pie” while talking to Brian.
• During a newscast, Tom Tucker refers to the flooding of New Orleans, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
• Victor played a dead baby on the show CSI: Miami.
• The chick flick that Lois and Peter go to see takes place at “Barncliff School for Girls,” a play on the women’s colleges Barnard and Radcliffe.

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