Jungle Love/References

• The episode’s title is a reference to a single of the same name by the Steve Miller Band (Morris Day also has a song with the same name).
• At the beginning of the episode, Peter and his friends watch an episode of the HBO western drama Deadwood, which puns on the word wood (a slang for erection).

The characters from Dazed and Confused look on as Adam West paddles Chris.

• On the way to Chris' high school, Stewie remarks about listening to the Howard Stern show. According to Stewie, Stern brought strippers to the show and then made a joke about African Americans, but "Robin laughed, so it was OK." Stewie's use of the word Negro refers to his Rex Harrison old-fashioned origins, like the quote "Damn, what are you children into nowadays?"
• The scene in which Chris is beaten with paddles is from the movie Dazed and Confused. As in the film, the song in the background is “No More Mr. Nice Guy” by Alice Cooper. Mayor Adam West’s sequence is directly referencing Ben Affleck’s character from the same film.
• Peter gets his new job (at the Pawtucket Brewery) from an unemployment office worker who uses a Commodore 64.
• In a cutaway, Peter has a job as “Sandy Duncan’s glass eye.” Duncan is a Broadway and television actress who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in 1972. She said that she lost sight in one eye and unconfirmed rumors persist that it was removed and replaced with a prosthetic. Sandy Duncan was referenced in the musical number from “Brian Wallows and Peter’s Swallows.” Peter tells her to get Boo Berry instead of the breakfast cereal she had chosen.
• When Lois tries to recall which of the family’s acquaintances was in the Peace Corps, Peter suggests actor Beau Bridges who was never in the Peace Corps.
• In a cutaway, Peter was “Kevin Federline’s magic mirror.” In which he told Kevin to not shave or shower, keep wearing his tank top that he slept in all day, and walk around with an undeserved sense of accomplishment after Kevin asked Peter how he can "look like a douchebag" that day.
• Stewie is shown in a cutaway reenacting Dustin Hoffman’s role from the film Tootsie.
• The chief has a cousin named Vinny, an obvious parody of Joe Pesci’s character in the movie My Cousin Vinny (impersonated here by Jay Mohr). Later, Peter actually refers to him as Pesci.
• The chief says “Never had it, never will” and laughs. This was a commercial slogan for 7 Up from the 1980’s, indicating that 7-Up was always caffeine-free.
• Peter asks Chris who was the female star of in the 1980’s detective series Remington Steele. Chris correctly points that it was Stephanie Zimbalist.
• The song Chris leads the tribe in singing is Wham!’s 1984 hit “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.”
• Peter pays the natives to reenact the infamous “Contest” episode from the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. The line spoken by the high priestess playing Elaine, however, is from another episode, “The Stall.”
• In a cutaway, Stewie tours Europe with a musical rendition of My Left Foot, Irish author Christy Brown’s memoir of his struggle with cerebral palsy, which was turned into an acclaimed 1989 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Naturally, neither the book nor the film were as whimsical as Stewie’s interpretation.
• There is an extended sequence in which Stewie flies to Los Angeles to punch actor/comedian Will Ferrell for his role in the 2005 film remake of the television series Bewitched, which generally opened to poor reviews. The writers of the show stated in the DVD commentary for this episode that they like Ferrell, but they hated the film remake and felt let down by him (and mentioned that the joke was originally Stewie going to beat up Steve Martin after seeing him in Bringing Down the House). Ferrell had previously guest starred in the episodes “Fifteen Minutes of Shame” and “Mr. Saturday Knight.”
• The ending when the Griffins are escaping from the natives is a spoof of a similar scene in the beginning of the Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost Ark, complete with the musical theme.
• Chris makes a reference to Lou Gehrig being a hero, a clip is then shown of Lou creating a poison he calls Lou Gehrig’s disease to enslave the Earth. The poison then spills on Lou causing him to contract the disease, he is then shown in a wheelchair saying “I guess the joke’s on me.”
• Peter has a flash-back to when he was an assistant to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, showing Peter morphed into a Beaker design and meeping. Bunsen laughs and remarks “Agreed, Peter.”

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