Holy Crap/References

• A commercial parodies the Got milk? ad campaign.
• On the TV show The Brady Bunch, Cindy asks if Bobby is really a doctor.
• After Brian mentions the Old Testament story in which "God told Abraham to kill Isaac," a cutaway shows President Abraham Lincoln shooting bartender Isaac from The Love Boat.
• Peter uses a Curious George story for one from the Bible while trying to impress his dad.
• The Griffins watch an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, which parodies Dick Van Dyke's physical humor.
• The lyrics to the unofficial Major League Baseball anthem "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" make their way into Brian and Peter's conversation.
• Peter imagines his father-son business with himself as Lamont Sanford and his father as Fred G. Sanford of Sanford and Son.
• Peter says that baseball worked as a means of male bonding that worked for "Rosie O'Donnell and his dad in A League of Their Own," a 1992 film depicting the founding of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
• When imagining himself in Hell, Peter meets Adolf Hitler, Al Capone, John Wilkes Booth, and Superman, who killed a hooker for making a joke about his premature ejaculation being "faster than a speeding bullet."
• The back of the jacket of one of the Pope's road managers reads "Pope-a-Palooza," a reference to the Alternative rock festival Lollapalooza.
• Peter drives the Pope past the chain gang from the movie Cool Hand Luke.
• The Pope comments that he doesn't think that he is in Boston, and Peter supposedly points out Harvard, but instead points to a barn. When the Pope says "That's just a barn," Peter replies "Ohh, someone went to Yale!", a reference to the fierce rivalry between Yale and Harvard.
• Mirroring the end of The Wizard of Oz, Peter gives encouraging talks to the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, but instead of the Cowardly Lion, he compliments out-of-the-spotlight actress Kristy McNichol.
• The sequence in which Peter exclaims "To the Popemobile!" parodies sequences in which Batman and Robin rush to the Batmobile in the 1960s Batman television series (which starred Family Guy cast member Adam West).
• The license plate of the Popemobile reads ZL PA PA and IL PA PA. "Il papa" means “the Pope” in Italian.
• The escape pod refers to the similar pod used in "Star Wars."

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