Peterotica/References

• Carol Burnett dressed as the cleaning woman is the animated opening and closing of the 'The Carol Burnett Show' which ran from 1967-1978.

• Carter sending Greenberg to battle the Rancor is how Jabba the Hutt tried to eliminate Luke Skywalker in 'Return of the Jedi'.

• Peter saying "rough sketches for The Tracey Ullman Show" is a tribute to The Simpsons since that is how they had their start.

• The train robbery scene with Peter and Carter is a parody of Amtrak's often low ridership as compared to other forms of transportation.

• 'Mamma Mia', the poster hanging on the train is a musical written by British playwright Catherine Johnson, is based on the songs of ABBA. The title of the musical is taken from the group's 1975 chart-topper "Mamma Mia."

• 'Make Em Laugh' was taken from Donald O'Conner's character "Cosmo Brown" in the 1952 movie Singin' In the Rain.

• Peter, Quagmire, Cleveland, and Joe visit an adult book store named “Pornoslavia: Formerly Kenny Rogers’ Roasters,” where Peter watches a coin-operated movie booth showing “The Naughty Flapper Girl,” which depicts a women's suffrage for William Howard Taft. Also, while in the adult book store, Quagmire performs a short parody of “Make 'Em Laugh” originally performed by Donald O'Connor in Singin’ in the Rain.

• Peter bought an erotic novel from the sex shop. The book is called Much Ado About Humping, obviously a parody of the William Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing.

• In a film entitled The Picnic, Jude Law and Renée Zellweger have their picnic ruined by ants. Zellweger, whose face is distorted to look like that of an anteater in what Peter refers to as her “scrunch-face routine,” proceeds to consume the ants while Del Amitri’s “Roll to Me” plays (according to the commentary, Seth McFarlane mentions that “Roll to Me” is almost always used in the trailers to romantic comedies).

• Stewie has a Mac laptop and amuses himself with the text to speech feature available in SimpleText.

• The four porn books shown on screen are references to works of literature: Angela’s Asses to Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt , Catcher in the Eye to Catcher in the Rye, Shaved New World to Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and Harry Potter and the Half-Black Chick to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling.

• Julia Roberts is portrayed as a narcissist in the 2004 tsunami relief television spot.

• The Tracey Ullman Show cut-away is a reference to The Simpsons, who had their own filler on that show before having their own TV series. Noteworthy is the family’s poorly drawn appearance and unrefined voices, which are similar to the way The Simpsons characters were portrayed on Ullman’s show.

• The song that plays in the background during Stewie’s floor routine is “Rondo Alla Turca” from Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 11, K331.

• Peter sings the famous Sabre Dance theme from Aram Khachaturian’s Gayane ballet whilst riding a unicycle.

• The show Quahog Creek is a reference to the 1998 WB drama Dawson's Creek. The theme features Peter standing in a rowboat singing to the tune of the Dawson’s Creek theme by Paula Cole, “I don’t wanna wait, for my lunch to get colder, Why can’t I eat it now?...I don’t wanna wait for a new Toyota, I want the car that’s got a lot of gas.”
• An attorney-at-law, whose client is the man who got into the car accident, shows up at Carter Pewterschmidt’s door to announce his intention to sue Carter as the publisher, since his name appears on the cover of Peterotica. Carter activates a trapdoor, dropping the attorney into his rancor pit. The lawyer defeats the rancor in the same manner as Luke Skywalker did in Jabba the Hutt’s palace in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. After the lawyer climbs back out of the pit, Carter comments, “I didn’t realize Greenberg was a Jedi name”, possibly implying that he had assumed that it was a Jewish name.
• Stewie claims that getting hurt while doing his vault will get him onto a box of Wheaties. This is a reference to Kerri Strug, who in 1996 helped the US Women’s Gymnastic Olympic team win gold. She injured her ankle on her first jump and then landed her second jump before collapsing in pain. This performance not only earned her a gold medal but also put her on the Wheaties box.
• Peter’s audiobook that the driver is listening to is narrated by Betty White.

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