Mr. Saturday Knight/Notes/Trivia

• The scenes showing Margot Kidder yelling incoherently and smashing up he Griffin residence is a likely barb to the fact she has publicly admitted she has bilpolar disorder.
• One of the classmates of Chris is also seen in “To Love and Die in Dixie” but features as Chris’s crush, Barbara.
• In the DVD commentary for this episode, MacFarlane comments that the censors would not allow them to use the term “half and half” in the scene where Peter tries out prostitution as a job. The censors did allow the term “Cleveland steamer”, which MacFarlane cheerfully admitted is a much more vile, if lesser known, concept. Most viewers would assume it had something to do with Cleveland Brown.
• For the end credits, a “medieval” version of the theme song is heard.
• According to Seth MacFarlane on the DVD commentary track for this episode, the estate of Rodgers and Hammerstein asked that an unrelated “fart joke” be removed from the script before approving the use of the song “So Long, Farewell.”
• In the episode, the leader of the jousting troupe is voiced by R. Lee Ermey, best known for his portrayal of a drill instructor in the movie Full Metal Jacket. Here, he reprises his character to produce the jousting instructor.
• This episode marks the last appearance of Peter’s boss, Mr. Weed and the first appearance of Ollie Williams, who shouts, “IT’S GON’ RAIN!”
• This was the first appearance of Ollie Williams, the black weatherman who delivers the Black-U-Weather Forecast. This is when he says his tagline, "It's gon' rain"
• The armor that the jousters wear during training is similiar to that of the T-5lb power armour from the fallout series

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