If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'/References

• Gumbel 2 Gumbel shares elements with 1980s TV shows such as Miami Vice and Hart to Hart, and also has reference to the TV show Pacific Blue. The title may be a spoof of Jungle 2 Jungle.
• Peter writes a letter to try and save the show Coach, referencing Craig T. Nelson in the letter.
• In one scene, Hollywood Squares is parodied with its celebrity guests LL Cool J, Charles Grodin, Fran Drescher, Scott Bakula, Whoopi Goldberg, Suzanne Sommers, Dennis Rodman and Betty White. The comical attitude of Hollywood Squares was caught in the episode too, the host asks the sick kid if there is anything lower than absolute zero, and he says "my white cell count."
• A sign outside NBC's Studio reads "We Used to Have Seinfeld, Remember?"
• In the NBC boardroom, one of the men suggests that they have a new show about a single white girl in the city working at a magazine. This is much like many of the sitcoms aired on NBC at the time of this episode (particularly Just Shoot Me! and Suddenly Susan), which is why one of the executives dismisses the idea as "the same crap over and over" and suggests that they "take a chance" and "do something fresh," to which the dissident is beaten with a Just Shoot Me! poster.
• Peter's black cousin Rufus Griffin had starred in many movies called Caddyblack, Blackdraft, and Black Kramer vs. Kramer. These are parodies of the movies Caddyshack, Backdraft, and Kramer vs Kramer, respectively (as well as a reference to the way that the title of Dracula was modified to make the title of Blackula).
• At one point, Peter apologizes to Chris, stating that "This isn't the first time my appetite's gotten me in trouble." The scene cuts to a parody of the film The Diary of Anne Frank during the Nazi infiltration of the house in which the Frank family was hiding. The clip suggests the reason the Franks were discovered was because Peter was hiding with them, eating potato chips obnoxiously loud.
• In a cutaway, Back to the Future is spoofed with Peter's black cousin, Rufus Griffin in a blaxploitation film called Black to the Future. The De Lorean time machine, meeting up with his teenager mother, and performing at the school dance are spoofed in the scene. The Chuck Berry phone call during the dance is replaced with the band member calling Isaac Hayes instead.
• The popular 1970s sitcom Good Times is parodied in a scene where Florida Evans is upset that she's named after a U.S. State. J.J.'s infamous "Dy-No-Mite" is also implemented.
• After Chris shows signs of boils, one of the ten Plagues of Egypt, one of the names Peter said kids used to call him was "Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry." This is a reference to the popular Pillsbury Funny Face Drink flavor.
• In the scene where Peter is pleading to God, he mentions he says "I'm just a big fake, like the Moon Landing, Marky Mark's dong in Boogie Nights, and Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman—not the completely untrue gay thing, but they're both just really phony." These are references to the Apollo Moon Landing hoax accusations, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage (at the time of the episode's original airing they were still married), and to the ending to Boogie Nights in which Wahlberg's character Dirk Diggler pulls out his long penis. In fact, according to Wahlberg in several interviews, he was actually holding a prosthetic, made out of rubber, in front of his real genitals. He kept the object as a souvenir from the filming and still has it today (from an interview on Inside the Actor's Studio).
• The six plagues are from the biblical story of Moses in Ancient Egypt. When Moses told King Ramses to free the Hebrews and he refused, God sent 10 plagues down: the Nile River turning red with blood causing all fish to die, a swarm of frogs, a swarm of lice covering man and beast, a plague of flies causing sickness, disease on livestock, festering boils on the Egyptians caused by ashes, raining hail, a horde of locusts eat all remaining plant life and crops, a thick darkness over the land for three days, and finally, the death of every firstborn son except those whose families had painted lamb's blood over their doors. The only plagues the Griffins don't receive are flies, disease on livestock, locusts, and hail, although Lois mentions them.
• Hollywood Squares - A dying child was on the show.
• The Ten Commandments - All the plagues that happened in the bible and movie happened to the Griffins in this episode.
• Good Times - A "scene" of an episode is seen on the Griffins' TV.

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