• The title is a reference to the film Love Actually.
• When Brian starts to lie about how he likes Loretta, and how beautiful he thinks she is, and how attractive he thinks she is, Brian's nose starts to grow like Pinocchio's nose does. It is also a reference to the scene in the movie, Airplane!. Brian also repeats the line, "free to pursue a life of religious fulfillment", which is a line uttered by Dr. Rumack (Leslie Nielsen) in Airplane!. That is the scene where Dr. Rumack tries to convince the passengers, all is well on the plane.
• Brian and Stewie are both dressed as Snoopy from Peanuts. Brian does Snoopy's trademark dance, and also has Woodstock following him.
• Lois' yoga trainer is dressed as an aborted fetus, but Brian thinks that she is one of Freddy Krueger's victims.
• Joe is dressed up as Mark Spitz, but because he is in a wheelchair, all of his friends think that he is a crippled Magnum P.I. because of his hair and mustache.
• Cleveland and Carolyn met at a Starbucks.
• Peter is dressed up as Laura Bush, and Lois is dressed as Michael Dutton Douglas, the man that Laura Bush killed in a car accident. While Lois is dressed as a run-over corpse in actual fact Michael was killed when the passenger side of the car (the side he was sitting) being driven by Laura was hit when she failed to halt at a Stop sign.
• Quagmire is dressed up as Napoleon Dynamite.
• Stewie finds a book that is called Horton Hears Domestic Violence in the Next Apartment But Doesn't Call 9-1-1. That is a reference to Horton Hears a Who!. It then cuts to a scene where Horton is reading a book in his apartment and hears domestic violence going on in the next apartment and he does not call the police because he assumes that there is two sides to it.
• The book that Brian wanted to get out is The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
• Peter says to Brian "You know, sometimes I don't believe I know you". This same line is said by the Captain von Trapp to Max in 'The Sound of Music.'
• When Quagmire runs into Cleveland at the hotel where Lorreta is, Cleveland asks why he is nude. Quagmire responds, "What?! People have been telling me that I have been wearing robes made from the most beautiful silk!" That is a reference from a Child's book called "The Emperor's New Clothes".
• When Cleveland and Carolyn are making love, Cleveland says, "And boom goes the dynamite." This is a reference to a popular YouTube video of an awkward Ball State University Sports Reporter.[1]

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