Patriot Games/Notes/Trivia

Notes

• The part where Stewie beats up Brian in the bathroom will later be referenced in the episode “Airport ’07” when Brian goes to warn Stewie not to drink from Peter’s spit cup, only to recall how badly Stewie assaulted him in the bathroom. Brian then says, “Ah, never mind,” leaving Stewie to spit and scream in disgust.
• The first football team the Patriots play against is the Washington Redskins; the second is the Dallas Cowboys.
• Quagmire’s mention that he was looking for Lois’s toenails in the garbage is a callback to the scene in “Emission Impossible” where Quagmire puts the hair from Lois’s hairbrush on a sex doll with Lois’s face on it and says, “A couple of teeth and some toenail clippings and we’ll be ready for our date.”
• When The Griffins Move into their English flat, outside is a car which resembles Mr. Bean's car on the left.
• 9.12 million people watched this on its first broadcast.
• The Monday after this episode aired, the word "Shipoopi" was the most searched word on the web. Even the producers of the episode don't know who (or what) Shipoopi is!

Censorship

• When the episode originally aired on FOX, when Lois gives the finger at a camera, it was blurred out. When the episode was shown in reruns on Adult Swim and on DVD, the blur effect wasn’t used to cover up the obscene gesture.

DVD Exclusive Scenes

• On the Volume 4 DVD release, a deleted scene involved Peter showing the London Silly Nannies the American version of the sitcom The Office and pointing out how the American version is vastly different from the British version to get them mad and prepped for the game against the New England Patriots.

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