He's Too Sexy for His Fat/References

• The title of this episode is a reference to the song "Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred. The song is also referenced in the Model Misbehavior episode.
• During the scene at the pool, Lois tells Stewie, “The turtle will keep you safe.” This could be interpreted as a reference to the Stephen King novel, It.
• When Stewie asks Lois what's the worst that could happen if he was left home by himself, a cutaway scene shows Stewie in a robe surrounded by beautiful women dressed as bunnies. This is an obvious reference to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and his famous Playboy Mansion parties. Stewie is called Griff (made to sound similar to Hugh Hefner's nickname Hef) by guest Jimmy Caan who punches a girl in the face, a reference to his history of playing violent characters as well as the fact that in 1980, Caan was charged with beating his ex-wife Sheila Ryan after she told him she planned to remarry.
• Chris reads a comic book featuring the superhero She-Hulk.
• As Stewie slips on the Griffins’ floor, he says “Damn you, Mop & Glo,” a popular cleaning product.
• Stewie refers to the Griffins’ home as a 'hooverville', a Great Depression-era term for a shantytown.
• The clip of the boy who has to shoot his dog is a reference to the book "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson.
• Brian's alternative flea treatment involves a Oriental acupuncture doctor who seems to talk in a distinctly Irish accent.
• Peter slaps Lois in the bathroom, yelling “Get a hold of yourself,” a parody of a scene from the 1980 film Airplane!
• Stewie uses an ultraviolet scanner to look for germs and exclaims "Oatmeal? Spittle? Semen? This must be where Wilford Brimley was strangled by Bob Crane". However, it wasn't Wilford Brimley but actor Bob Crane who was murdered in 1978. The reference to the oatmeal comes from Wilford Brimley's commercials for the Quaker Oats brand. The reference to semen probably comes from the evidence of semen found on Bob Crane's dead body.
• When swimming, Stewie says he feels like “a young Johnny Weissmuller,” a 1920s-era Olympic swimmer from Austria-Hungary, who gained fame playing Tarzan.
• After a lifeguard mistakes Chris for a van, Peter places the automotive protective device 'The Club' on Chris.
• Chris’ “great-great-great-uncle” Jabba the Griffin is a parody of Jabba the Hutt. The reference showed Jabba holding on to Leia's chain when she was a slave, while talking to her in Huttese, though ends the sentence saying “Wookie niple pinchy” in reference to Jabba's semi-English speech patterns.
• Stewie taunts Chris saying the meatloaf is "orgasmic". He proceeds to have a bite and pretends to have an orgasm. As Stewie finishes his act, Brian says motioning to Stewie - "I'll have what he's having". This is a reference to the popular line "I'll have what she's having" from the famous Deli scene in the movie When Harry Met Sally starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan.
• Cleveland claims that his brother Broderick performed liposuction on actress Nell Carter and used the excess fat to “make the two kids from Good Burger,” a 1997 comedy film starring Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson.
• While reading a newspaper, Brian states his admiration for former First Lady of the United States, Senator, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
• When Meg says that a lot of famous people have gotten Plastic Surgery, a scene shows a young Eskimo man of the name "Jennifer Love Hewitt" leaving home with the promise of becoming a famous Hollywood actor once he has used the services of a cosmetic surgeon. Jennifer Love Hewitt is a Hollywood movie and TV actress.
• Brian finds Stewie on the floor and asks “Orson fall down?”, a possible reference to actor/director Orson Welles’ weight gain later in his career, or to the character Orson Pig from the comic strip U.S. Acres, though more likely to the old-fashioned comic strip character (e.g. “Orson fall down, go boom”).
• Peter says that he wants to get his remaining fat placed on his feet so he can “skate on Paul Bunyan’s giant skillet,” a reference to the popular folk legend.
• At the end, the doctor treating Peter takes off Peter’s bandages and reveals what looks to be his new face in the shape of the popular children’s toy, the Mr. Potato Head doll. We find out it’s really just a “protective mask” and that Peter’s face is back to normal.
• When Peter couldn’t stop staring at the mirror and was “horribly disfigured,” it parallels Narcissus, a man in Greek mythology who fell in love with himself and drowned to death in a pool of water that reflected his own image.
• After crashing his car Peter falls down a hill. This fall is almost identical to the one that Homer Simpson experienced—down the Springfield Gorge—in the second season episode “Bart the Daredevil.”
• Lois says that Stewie is “starting to get a little Buddha belly.”

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