Sibling Rivalry/Notes/Trivia

• Stewie’s sperm brother, Bertram, from the episode “Emission Impossible,” is finally born and returns in this episode. Stewie refers to the events of the previous episode as “our microscopic encounter.”
• The Barbershop Quartet from “The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire” (the one that Peter was in when they sang “You Have AIDS” to a terminally ill man in the hospital) also returns singing “The Vasectomy Song.”
• This is the second episode in a row where Brian expresses his sexual desire for Lois, this time to Peter: When Peter asks Brian if he would have sex with Lois, he says, “Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I would do everything to her, I don’t care what she looks like. I would wreck that chick.” Peter then comments with, “Well, you are a trooper.”
• The harmonious spoken-word segment of the vasectomy song (the one that mentions the woman with high beams under a white T-shirt and the sexual harassment seminar) is comprised of a single sentence which lasts for roughly sixty seconds.
• Peter appears to have a fat fetish in this episode (which is only discovered after inadvertently having sex with the fat Lois), but on “Chitty Chitty Death Bang,” one of Peter’s T-shirts reads, “No Fat Chicks.” Also on “A Fish Out of Water,” Peter rejects Quagmire’s idea to whore himself out to fat chicks in order to pay off the loan for the boat, and in “The Fat Guy Strangler,” Peter’s “Fat Pride” group’s sign said “No Fat Chicks.” More recently, Peter seemed to enjoy the idea of eating cake off of a fat woman’s arse.
• The barbershop quartet mentions Peter’s sexual harassment charges from “I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar.”
• Peter says Lois’ “elbow cleavage” resembles a 'schwa', which is a letter used in phonics with the shape Ə.
• The bass of the barbershop quartet momentarily turns red-haired during the song.
• Meg’s gym teacher (the one who told the girls in the locker room to “take it off, get in the shower, and bounce around for me!” in “8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter”) returns on the show.
• In the scene where Lois is waiting for Peter after the funny car race, there is a man standing behind her funny car that looks like Spike Lee from the episode “Lethal Weapons” in which Peter says “brothers and sisters fighting is as natural as white man’s dialogue in a Spike Lee movie,” leading to a cutaway parodying Lee’s movie Do the Right Thing.

As of this episode Peter, Lois, Chris and Stewie have all been fat.

• 8.15 million people watched this episode on its first run.

DVD exclusive scenes

After the Vasectomy Song in the TV version, it cuts to the scene where Peter is at the Drunken Clam, grousing about his upcoming vasectomy. The DVD version has an extra scene where Peter challenges Lois to a funny car race (using real funny cars that Cleveland had when he was married to Lorretta, but now that Lorretta divorced him, Cleveland doesn’t want them anymore) to Fenway Park in Boston where the loser gets a vasectomy (or in Lois’s case, a hysterectomy). Peter almost makes it, but gets distracted by a duck boat ride and goes there instead of to Fenway. When he arrives and finds Lois at Fenway Park, he says, “Well, it looks like I’m a man with no sperm. But I’ll always be a man with no sperm who once had a wonderful day.”

Another cut scene (this time altered because of Standards and Practices) can be found on the deleted scenes collection on the Region 1 DVD where Peter tells the sperm bank receptionist that he’s here to “banish a ‘white Russian’ from my ‘Kremlin,’ ” and the sperm bank receptionist tells Peter that he doesn’t have to use innuendo in a sperm bank, to which Peter says, “Okay, where do I splooge?” The altered version on TV and DVD shows the receptionist telling Peter to sit down, and Peter tells her that he warmed himself up in the car and the receptionist arranges it so that Peter can donate sperm in one of the freezers.

Previous Episode's Notes/Trivia /// Sibling Rivalry's Notes/Trivia \\\ Next Episode's Notes/Trivia