Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High/References

• The opening credits are a parody of those of Law & Order, and were narrated by Steven Zirnkilton (opening credits narrator for all L&O series). Note that the Greased-up Deaf Guy was included in the “Order” section of the opening, reserved for lawyers on Law & Order; he mentions that he was previously a lawyer in the episode “North by North Quahog.”
• In March 1991, Pamela Smart seduced a sixteen-year-old boy and convinced him to kill her husband, in the same way Mrs. Lockheart seduces Chris.
• Peter explains how he met Ted Danson who was portrayed as having a huge, jutting forehead.
• The green slime Peter gets when he says “I don’t know” (followed by the music and the title screen) is from the kids’ sketch comedy show You Can’t Do That on Television.
• Lois calls Brian “Mr. Kot-tair!” as in Welcome Back, Kotter.
• A scene depicts Ben Affleck and Matt Damon arguing over whether Matt should credit Ben on the first copy of Good Will Hunting script, in a nod to the actual controversy over whether both Ben and Matt wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay.
• Brian dresses in costume, as Mark Twain when they read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while teaching like Richard Mulligan in Teachers.
• Brian’s students seem to be like the students in the film Dangerous Minds, and Brian’s subplot on teaching these students is based on the film’s plot itself.
• Chris mistakes Brian’s Mark Twain for Cap’n Crunch. Brian, as Mark Twain, declares former president James Garfield’s short term in office corrupt.
• A flashback depicts Vincent van Gogh giving a woman his ear, then his penis.
• After Peter reminds Lois about his classic “naked spaceman” get-up, she seductively asks him if he wants some Tang. Tang was a popular beverage among astronauts during space missions; it is also a double entendre, as an abbreviated reference to a slang term for female genitalia.
• Mrs. Lockheart gives a lesson on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

"Uh... Marie? We CANNOT tell mom about this.

• There are two incest jokes in this episode:
  • A cutaway implies that sibling singers Donny and Marie Osmond had sex together. They are known for their “squeaky clean” Mormon image.
  • Peter used to be one of the Wonder Twins from the Super Friends. Unlike Zan, he doesn’t transform into a form of water. Rather, he takes the shape of Jayna’s tampon, hops into her purse, and proceeds to play “the waiting game.”
• Peter tells Lois she didn’t give him his Batman drinking glass.
• One of the remedial kids writes a dim-witted report on Great Expectations.
• While Stewie is doing the robot, he says, “Let’s see the kid with the hearing aid from Barney do this.” One of the regulars on Barney & Friends was a near-deaf youth who appeared early in the series.
• While teaching Romeo and Juliet, Brian puts on a fake urban hip-hop persona and calls Tupac Shakur and Biggie his boys.
• After Peter gets amnesia in a flashback, he thinks he’s Larry from Three's Company.
• Brian’s students get up on the desks and recite Walt Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain!, as the students do in Dead Poets Society.
• Stewie compares Peter’s underwear to a Jackson Pollock painting.
• Stewie says he had a dream where he was hatched by Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a co-host on The View.
• Lois confuses the prison drama Oz with The Wizard of Oz.
• The Griffins are about to (enthusiastically) watch Joan of Arcadia but are interrupted by the news.
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High - The name of this episode refers to to the movie.

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