I Take Thee Quagmire/References

• On Jeopardy!, Adam West tricks Alex Trebek into saying his name backwards (“Kebert Xela”), sending him back to the Fifth Dimension in the same fashion as Superman’s foe Mister Mxyzptlk. A year after the episode's airing, a Jeopardy contestant actually did write down “Kebert Xela” after he couldn't answer a question; Trebek said it out loud, but perhaps unsurprisingly, was not banished to the Fifth Dimension.
• Peter gets lost driving The Great Space Coaster. A portion of the theme song from that show is also played.
• Peter calls Pat Sajak “Regis,” mistaking him for Regis Philbin.
• When Peter is asked to guess five consonants and a vowel, he guesses, “Z...4...Q...another Q...a third Q...and the Batman symbol.” He then solves the puzzle, guessing "Alex Karras in Webster” and gets it right.
• Two Japanese men riding another maid pull alongside Peter. One of them sounds like Howard Cosell while he berates Peter over a PA system. This is a reference to the stoplight drag racing scenes in the John Cusack movie Better Off Dead.
• A cutaway shows Peter throwing a tomahawk at Ashton Kutcher. He then says, “You’ve just been Tomahawk’d! That’s my show...Tomahawk’d,” just like the name of Ashton’s show, Punk’d. This is the second time the show has used a tomahawk to the head to kill someone—Quahog’s founder died in the same way.
• After sleeping with a woman, Quagmire chisels his name in the wall with his nose and laughs, similar to the style of Woody Woodpecker. He also does this at the end of the episode, except he chisels his phrase “Giggity Giggity Goo,” his own trademark catchphrase.
• After Quagmire talks to Joan for the first time, he daydreams about the two of them replacing some of the characters in a few Disney love films Beauty and the Beast, Lady and the Tramp, Aladdin, as well as Aragorn and Arwen from The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Note that they were shot at by an RPG while flying over Baghdad during the Aladdin sequence. Also, Joan’s voice is performed by Nicole Sullivan who has voiced a variety of Disney characters (such as Shego from Kim Possible, so the reference is two-pronged.
• When Quagmire speaks in Elvish to Joan, he actually says a true Elvish word, “Mithrandir,” which, in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, is the name the Elves use for the character of Gandalf.
• After seeing the severed Statue of Liberty foot, Adam West goes through the closing lines of the 1968 film Planet of the Apes.
• The screaming black dolphins may be a reference to the crows in Dumbo, who are also supposed to be stereotypical African-Americans.
• While faking a dinosaur eating Quagmire’s body, Peter hums the Jurassic Park theme.
• When Quagmire asks Cleveland how he got out of his marriage, Cleveland said, “You slept with my wife.” This is the second reference in season four to Quagmire having sex with Loretta (the first being “The Perfect Castaway”).
• Death remarks that he had to see someone at NBC about Joey, and that he is going to a Celine Dion show but he’s not going to kill her, he’s going to watch her die on her own.
• Peter went through a Daisy Duke phase, wherein he dressed like Daisy Duke, from the television series Dukes of Hazzard.
• At Quagmire’s funeral the man working the cement truck remarks how Mayor West is afraid of zombies, a possible reference to the movie Zombie Nightmare in which Adam West’s character is killed by a zombie.
• When Quagmire fakes a heart attack, Peter says that, since he’s dead, he should release his bowels. This gag/reference was also used in South Park, most notably in the episode “Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes” and in the tenth season opener, Return of Chef. The same observation is made by Brock Samson—who is also voiced by Patrick Warburton—in the Venture Bros. episode “Ice Station—Impossible!” which aired a few months before “Something Wall-Mart.”
• When Peter and his friends attempt to fake Quagmire’s death, Cleveland, a black man, ironically portrays a Nazi. This is possibly a reference to Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, where, in one scene, Toxie fights a bunch of Nazis, many of which, including their leader, Police Chief Kazinsky, for some reason, are black. It could also perhaps be a reference to Hogan’s Heroes, in which Sergeant Kinchloe (Ivan Dixon), a black man, frequently (and successfully) impersonated Nazi officers. Black people were persecuted by the Nazis along with the other races, religions and ideologies which they meant were not Aryan. - note: This is not totally correct. The Nazis did employ half-black children who were called 'Rhineland Bastards'. They were named so because the French settled African soldiers in the Rhineland after WWI, who in turn mated with local Germans. While the boys were sterilized, they could join and participate in the Hitler Youth and Nazi Party.
• Nicole Sullivan guest stars as Quagmire’s fiancee Joan, and previously starred as the voice of [Joan of Arc] in the MTV series Clone High. It is unclear if this is an intentional nod to the show, or purely coincidence.
• When Peter is riding his maid and stops at the red light, he looks around and catches the eye of a fellow 'rider' - This references the driving lesson Peter gave to Meg in I Never Met the Dead Man when Peter tells Meg that if ever you catch the eye of a fellow driver you HAD to race.
• Peter's mention of Quagmire going "all sissy-boy-Alan Alda" is a reference to Alan Alda's repeated casting as a "sensitive man."

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