Da Boom/References

• The title of the episode is based on a FOX ad campaign at the time, where "Da Boom" was supposed to be Jamaican slang for the best, or cool.
• There is a cutaway of Peter feeding Tom Sellick on Magnum, P.I.
• When Stewie breaks under the pressure of the Griffins' exodus, he says "Game over, man. Game over!" like the character "Hudson" does in Aliens.
• The Griffins encounter a band of survivors that play a parody of Family Feud.
• When the family is on their way to find the Twinkie Factory, they come across a house in a green area. This is a reference to the short lived Fox series "Woops!"
• Randy Newman was parodied as a senile man at a piano singing about everything he sees. Newman was voiced by Will Sasso, who was reprising the character from a recurring MADtv sketch.
• Awestruck by the Twinkie factory, Peter parodies the movie Contact, saying "No words...should have sent...a poet..."
• Stewie, as an octopus, climbs onto the ceiling declaring he is Fred Astaire, the famous actor/dancer. Specifically, he is referring to "You're All the World to Me," one of Astaire's most famous dances, from the movie Royal Wedding. In it, a rotating room was used to enable Astaire to dance on the ceiling.
• When Peter's orders for guns have been met, he holds a hand gun while saying "A chicken in every pot, and a cap in every ass", referring to Herbert Hoover's 1928 campaign slogan "A chicken in every pot, and a car in every garage".
• Peter's line, "When the end of the world happens you'll have to meet those two dead bailiff ladies from Night Court, and you won't know which is which, and it will be really awkward, so bite me!" is a reference to actresses Selma Diamond and Florence Halop, who died in 1985 and 1986, respectively.
• In the scene in which the family is walking to Natick, Lois tries to get Chris to stop saying "Left foot, right foot" by saying "Stopiiiiiit!" This may be a reference to "Ferris Beuller's Day Off" when Jean tries to stop her mother from yelling at her while she's driving. She says it in almost exactly the same manner.
• Peter watches a special about Twinkee the Kid, where his family talk about his flamboyantly gay personality as a kid. This may be a reference to a popular slang word for gay men, twink (itself an abbreviation of the gay slang term twinkie, originally for very young, blond, pretty men).
• Victoria Principal and Patrick Duffy's appearance at the end refers to the famous "it was all a dream" sequence on Dallas.

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