• Peter shoves a box of cigarettes into Brenda's face, while saying "..well, have a whole carton of cigarettes!", which he also does in "Trading Places". This gag is later used in the "Chap of the Manor" segment in "Family Guy Viewer Mail No. 2".
• Stewie and Brian only have one line in this episode.
• Peter mentions his fisherman career to Lois. She however doesn't remember it despite the fact there was a traumatizing incident where she believed he was killed in a storm.
• Quagmire's deaf brother, now named as Gary Quagmire, was again mentioned. The first time was in "Jerome Is the New Black".
• Brenda and Jeff are watching The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Jeff beats Brenda for turning to the Late Show with David Letterman.
• The date in the song that Brenda sings is Halloween, the day after the episode aired in the US.
• Joe forgets Chris' name, believing it is Caleb.
• Kaitlin Olson is the second castmember from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia to appear on a Seth MacFarlane show, after Glenn Howerton on The Cleveland Show.
• The forged letter mentions the Hanna-Barbera character Grape Ape.
• The topic of domestic violence is treated seriously in this episode.
• In this episode, Peter sings a parody of the song "Rock Lobster", called "Iraq Lobster". This is a callback to "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire".

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