Petarded/References

• A non sequitur sequence shows a snippet of the play The Vagina Monologues. Unlike the actual play, it shows a pair of legs with no upper body with pair of panties giving a stand-up comedy performance. The panties have a pair of eyes and a mouth with a man’s voice. The performer mentions Jeff Gillooly.
• During “game night,” the neighbors play Twister, Trivial Pursuit, “paintball” (actually played with real guns) and “Two Decades of Dignity,” a fictitious civil rights board game that resembles Monopoly. Cleveland mentions you don’t win at the game, you just “do a little better each time.”
• After Peter shoots Quagmire, he says “Relax, Quagmire, you’re doing better than Peter Weller from the opening scene of RoboCop.” Instead of predictably cutting-away to a recreation of the said scene, the show whip pans to Joe, Cleveland and Mort Goldman shooting the actor by the stairs in the Griffin’s house.
• A cutaway shows a “National Geographic special” on fire trucks. Peter is later attacked by a fire truck outside his house at the episode’s closing.
• While stalling in answering a Trivial Pursuit question, Peter arbitrarily mumbles the name of the superhero group The Fantastic Four.
• In a flashback, Peter meets Timer, “the Cheese Guy,” a character who appeared in the ABC network’s 1970s public service announcements on nutrition [1], who, somewhat ironically, is causing a Peter to stay awake at 3:30 in the morning because he is singing his signature song, which he claims to be doing because he “just smoked a whole bunch of crack.”
• Brian suggests Peter take the IQ test to qualify for a MacArthur genius grant. Imagining what he would do with the money from the MacArthur grant, Peter pictures himself “buying” television actress Cloris Leachman and forcing her to juggle beanbags. Cloris Leachman voices herself in this episode.
• Instead of a calculator at his MacArthur grant test, Peter has a See ’n’ Say, an educational toy for young children.
• The doctor shows Peter where his test results place him in terms of intelligence. His chart shows “Retarded” below “Average,” but above “Creationist.” The scene is a reference to a similar scene in Forrest Gump.
• Stewie compares the way Meg clears her sinuses to that of The Odd Couple character Felix Unger.
• When Peter says, “This is the worst day of my life,” Lois says, “There are plenty of people who have had worse days.” The show cuts away to Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, the day an atomic bomb was dropped on the city (which led to the end of World War II). Although several unfortunate things happen to the person shown in the cutaway (gets a parking ticket, he gets splashed with mud by a car, and a mandrill monkey falls from the sky, with the sound of a bomb dropping, falls on his head and attacks him), the expected atomic bombing is not one of them shown.
• The scene at the dinner table in which Peter introduces his state appointed inspirational social worker named Verne is a reference to the 1988 movie Rain Man in which the character Verne is Raymond Babbitt's "main man".
• A cutaway parodies the 1985 movie Mask about disfigured California teenager Rocky Dennis.
• Stewie asks Chris “Whatever happened to Geena Davis?” This episode aired a few months before Davis, an actress best known for several 1980s films.
• A cutaway parodies recent iPod commercials, with Stewie dancing in silhouette. The song in the background is the 1984 hit “The Warrior” by Scandal. One of the last lines in the song (not in the cutaway) is "Victory is mine."
• Stewie watches the CBS Evening News. The show mocks anchor Dan Rather’s whistling intonation, likening him to a tea kettle.
• A voiceover counts the prostitutes Peter brings to Cleveland’s house. This is a parody of a Sesame Street segment.
• One cutaway parodies the crime drama Jake and the Fatman, showing Jason “Fatman” McCabe as too sleepy and distracted by food to solve crimes.
• The song that Lois’s tumor sings is to the tune of “Rock Me Amadeus” by Falco with all the words replaced simply with “I’m a tumor, I’m a tumor.”
• While Peter is defending himself in court, he lists off celebrities that have been exposed as unfit parents, specifically Bing Crosby (who reportedly beat his sons) and Joan Crawford. He also mentions the Ramsey family.
• The "Peter is Slow" musical number, cut from the aired episode but featured in the DVD release, is a reference to the "Telephone Hour" number from the movie version of the musical, "Bye Bye Birdie."
• Peter brings 7 Prostitutes in to Cleavland's house. He counts them with the help of a child chourus (Sesame St. roll back) forcing 5 of 7 of them out.

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