Mr. Saturday Knight/References

• On the Family Guy DVD, there is an animatic of a deleted scene where Brian comments that Peter hasn’t been this happy since he met Chevy Chase, followed by a cutaway where Peter answers the door, only to find Chevy Chase begging Peter to call an ambulance after having survived a car crash. Peter thinks this is a joke and lets Chase die on his doorstep, assuming that Chevy is impersonating Gerald Ford (like Chase did when he was a cast member on Saturday Night Live).
• The Renaissance Fair juggler refers to Asian Reporter Trisha Takanawa as “bride of Genghis,” referring to 13th century Asian conqueror Genghis Khan.
• Stewie plays Mad Libs based on the fairy tale Cinderella.
• Margot Kidder’s behavior at the Griffins’ house is a reference to the manic-depressive actress’s 1996 mental breakdown [1].
• A flashback shows Peter on the 1970s educational show The Electric Company.
• To impress Mr. Weed, the Chris, Stewie and Meg sing “So Long, Farewell” from the musical The Sound of Music.

The jousting drill instructor (R. Lee Ermey) asks Peter if he would like to make 16th Century mathematician Johannes Kepler his “bitch.”

• We learn the original surname of Mr. Weed family was Bermudagrass. Bermuda grass, while prized for its hardiness, is sometimes considered to be a weed. Both are also slang terms for marijuana.
• Peter’s eulogy at Mr. Weed’s funeral drifts into the opening of the television series The Incredible Hulk.
• Chris watches a rerun of the 1970s popular game show Match Game with host Gene Rayburn reading this question to the panel: “Forgetful Freddy was so forgetful, when he tried to remember someone’s name he drew a blank,” parodying the show’s use of fill-in-the-blank queries.
• When Lois drops Peter off at the renaissance fair, his car door opens up as if it were a suicide door.
• When Peter has a flashback to when the Black Knight saves him, he recalls taking LSD but being told that it was a cheeseburger.
• Mort says that he once took too many antihistamines and thought he was Mr. Peanut, the Planters' mascot.
• In his speech, the jousting instructor says the cadets should be sexually excited by the concept of a geocentric model, and that they should want to make astronomer Johannes Kepler their collective prison sexuality

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