Family Guy Viewer Mail/Notes/Trivia

• This was supposed to be the first of two episodes consisting of segments suggested by fans, hence the title “Viewer Mail #1.” The show was cancelled before the second was produced. However, since the show's reinstatement, the second episode has not yet been produced as of 2009.
• Three short segments, unconnected to each other and the general continuity of the series, usually make-up the Halloween-themed Treehouse of Horror episodes of The Simpsons, a show Family Guy is often compared to. It also occurred in two Futurama episodes: “Anthology of Interest I” and “Anthology of Interest II.”
• The theme music that appears when Peter is “riding on the bus” has the same melody that appeared when Peter was doing research in “Wasted Talent.”
• In “No Bones About It,” professional wrestler Bill Goldberg has a cameo as a man who threatens to punch Peter.
• In a deleted scene, included on the DVD release of the third season, Peter’s first wish in “No Bones About It” is that Jackie Gleason was still alive. However, the undead Gleason turns out to be a malicious zombie, and he tries to kill the Griffins until Stewie shoots him with a rocket launcher.
• The boneless Peter bears a striking resemblance to Jabba the Griffin.
• Peter’s theme music stops as he loses his bones. This is probably because he could no longer walk as a result. However, in the final scene where Peter is able to walk again, his theme music does not play.
• In “Lil’ Griffins,” Adam Carolla reprises his role of Death.
• This episode contains a number (more than usual) of out-of-continuity occurrences: In “Lil’ Griffins,” Cleveland, even though seen as a young kid, still has his mustache, as does Tom Tucker. A young Joe is confined to a wagon in the “Lil’ Griffins” parody, however, in the show’s regular continuity, he did not lose use of his legs until he became a police officer. Peter knows Brian even though he meets Brian as an adult and Brian spent his child(puppy)hood on the Dog farm. Joe wasn’t even around when Peter was a child, because they first meet when Joe moved to Quahog from Providence in a Season One episode. Neither was Quagmire; he and Peter met because Peter was drowning and Quagmire saved him. And Cleveland apparently met Peter when he picked him up in his hippy Volkswagen and was chased by members of the Ku Klux Klan, whom Peter mistakes for ghosts (the two later instances were introduced in the Season Three episode “Death Lives”). Peter and Quagmire are also not millionaires on the show, and Peter is not single. (The Griffins are also not normally super-powered or partially boneless.)Also, Lois was in Peter's 2nd grade class(he was 7). In the regular part of the series, Lois is 2 years younger than Peter, so she is 5 and should be in kindergarten. As well as the fact that he does not meet Lois until he is older and a towel boy for the Pewderschmits. The first day they met is also referenced in Death Lives and Peter Peter Caviar Eater.

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