Road to Europe/References

• During the song, when Brian says "For me to poop on!" he is referencing Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's Catch-phrase. He also has the same cigar and bow-tie which Triumph has.
• After Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons storm off the stage, Peter Criss and Ace Frehley sing "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
• This episode’s theme is similar to “Road to Rhode Island,” a Brian/Stewie road-trip caper from season two. The starting credits are similar in style to the ones seen in Looney Tunes cartoons from the 1950s.
• This episode is a parody of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby’s movie Road to Morocco. Stewie and Brian’s musical number parodies a similar number performed by Hope and Crosby in the movie.
• Dennis DeYoung, former lead singer of the band Styx, calls into to KISS Forum to badmouth KISS. The host threatens to play Styx’s 1977 hit “Come Sail Away” and then KISS’s 1976 song “Detroit Rock City” to see how they compare.
• When sneaking onto the plane with the British family, Stewie gives a stream of mumblings to sound British. He references the London theater Royal Albert Hall, Big Ben, the London Underground subway system, the rock group the Dave Clark Five, Monty Python’s Spam sketch, and “a baby’s arm holding an apple” (Lenny Bruce’s description of an African-American man’s penis^[1][2]).
• Stewie’s quick two-armed salute before boarding the plane is a parody of U.S. President Richard Nixon’s infamous salute to the public after he resigned in 1974.
• On the plane, Stewie and Brian appear to be seated next to 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney and comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Andy Dick after asking how the trip could get any worse. All of these comedians respond to this by saying lines that they have said previously.
• A peddler in the Arabian village advertises Dude, My Car Is Not Where I Parked It But Praise Allah We Are Not Hurt, a satirical take on the 2000 comedy film Dude, Where’s My Car.
• During their musical number, Brian compares Stewie’s hair to that of Peanuts character Charlie Brown and Stewie compares Brian to Brown’s beagle Snoopy. The song also references Latin pop star Ricky Martin, French writer the Marquis de Sade and Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, a puppet character from Late Night with Conan O’Brien. The song also has Brian claiming that Stewie’s gay, a running joke in the series.
• Stewie comments that cutting open the camel looks like Orson Welles’s autopsy.
• Brian slices open the camel’s belly to save Stewie from the cold, much like Han Solo did with his Tauntaun to warm Luke in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
• When learning that Middle Easterners only heard 1980s rock music recently, Stewie pities them once they have to “suffer through” Jesus Jones, a British band best known for the 1991 hit “Right Here, Right Now.” But in fact, in many middle eastern countries American pop music (at least, that of mostly well known singers) is well known and, in countries that have less strict sexual habits, as Lebanon, Turkey, Syria and (up to a point) Egypt, videos are sometimes parodied by local singers.
• In Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, Stewie and Brian wander into De Wallen, its red light district where, due to the country’s drug laws, marijuana is freely smoked in coffee houses.
• At KISSstock, Peter and Lois wear makeup identical to that of Gene Simmons and Peter Criss, respectively. Dave and Dotty wear the makeup of Ace Frehley and Paul Stanley, respectively.
• During the TV spot for the tour, Ace Frehley says "Rock and Roll!" at an inappropriate time. Later, when the other members of the band recognize Lois, he says, "My Grand Slam was supposed to be with sausage." This may be a reference to the famous incident where he was electrocuted on stage, as he sounds like someone who's been struck by lightning.

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