Peter's Got Woods/References

• A cutaway, explaining why Brian owes Peter a favor, shows Peter serving as the chorus while Brian sang “Sighing Softly to the River” from Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta The Pirates of Penzance.
• A cutaway shows Stewie playing a game of Marco Polo with deafblind author and activist Helen Keller.
• Before suggesting that James Woods High School be named after Martin Luther King, Brian suggests baseball-player Reggie Jackson and actor Sidney Poitier.
• Stewie reads the 2000s best-seller The Da Vinci Code.

Barney Rubble and his pelican toilet.

• Peter apparently hangs out with Barney Rubble from the cartoon series The Flintstones. Parodying the series’ use of animals for modern day technological inventions, a pelican serves as Barney’s toilet, sarcastically remarking “And you think you’ve got a crap job!” (It should be noted, though, that the 1993 TV special A Flintstone Family Christmas showed that the Flintstones characters in fact use actual toilets rather than pelicans.) Later on, a sheep apparently groans about his “job” as Meg’s tampon saying “NOT AGAIN!”
• When Shauna, Brian’s love interest introduces herself, there’s heavenly singing of the name “Shauna” in the background. This parodies a scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off when Jennifer Grey’s character tells Charlie Sheen’s character “It’s Jean, but most guys call me Shauna.”
• Presumably because of his stupidity, Peter mistakes Martin Luther King for television actor Martin Landau, comedian Martin Lawrence, “drunk crooner” Dean Martin, Martini & Rossi brand vermouth, actor Martin Sheen, his son actor Charlie Sheen, and the younger Sheen’s Platoon co-stars Willem Dafoe and Tom Berenger.
• Ronald Reagan, during his retirement, is shown pounding a McDonald’s wall and yelling “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”, referencing Reagan’s famous 1987 speech in West Berlin as well as his suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. He then shouts “Reagan smash!”, a reference to the Hulk’s catch phrase “Hulk smash!” It should be noted that this episode was produced prior to Reagan’s death in June 2004.
• At the campout, Peter mashes together the urban legends “The Vanishing Hitchhiker,” “The Bloody Hook,” and “The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs.”
• Peter and James Woods sing to the tune of “You Two” from the 1968 musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
• The marquee outside the theatre where Brian and Shauna break up reads: “I’m Sleeping with Someone at Paramount Starring Ashley Judd.”
• James Woods shows Peter Videodrome, a 1983 cult film in which Woods starred. This is the only reference to one of Woods’ movies in this episode.
• Peter says to Brian they need to come up with a crazy plan like the kids on That ’70s Show. The show then goes into a segue of Peter and Brian floating in front of a tie dye background to rock music, a common segue on That ’70s Show. Also, Mila Kunis, who voices Meg, starred in That ’70s Show and Seth Green was a semi-recurring character on the show.
• A flashback shows Peter’s trying to pick-up contestants on the Miss USA pageant.
• One cutaway parodies Star Trek: The Next Generation and shows Captain Picard and Commander Riker joking about Lieutenant Commander Worf’s forehead. Actors Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes and Michael Dorn reprise their Star Trek roles. Picard tells Riker that “Commander Worf’s head looks like a fanny.” As Worf is annoyed at being mocked, Picard tells him to “Get a sense of humor, Rocky Dennis!” in reference to the movie Mask, starring Cher, about the disfigured titular character Rocky Dennis. The character Captain Picard looks very similar to the character Avery Bullock from American Dad! (whom Patrick Stewart actually voices) the animated series also created by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. An alternate version of this scene shows Counselor Troi (voiced by Marina Sirtis) picking up on Picard’s apparent desire to give her a “golden shower.”
• The dialogue and the setting near the end of the episode in which James Woods welcomes Peter, whom he has expected to arrive sooner, offers him some “cold roast beef” and than quickly switches between anger and regret is almost directly lifted from Roman Polanski’s film Death and the Maiden, which is in turn based on a play of the same name by Ariel Dorfman.
• The end of the episode is a reference to both the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark (the line “Top men” and the warehouse) and E.T. (using the same type of candy to lure Woods out of hiding so he can go home).
• When Lois says, “Well, it’s not often we get to meet celebrities,” Peter says he was Christina Aguilera’s manager, who critiques Aguilera on her overdrawn singing and disgusting appearance.
• Mayor West’s bag of cream corn could be a reference to Adam West’s role as the cream-corn-loving principal in The Adventures of Pete and Pete.

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