Sibling Rivalry/References

• When Stewie first arrives at the park, he goes to play on the jungle gym only to be confronted by a little boy. He remarks, “Hey, where’d you get the Pete Rose hair cut?” He then knees the boy in the crotch.
• Stewie presses his face into Lois’ chest and remarks, “You’re like those memory foam mattresses. Look, there’s my face!”
• A cutaway shows Lee Harvey Oswald defending President John F. Kennedy from a gunman on the grassy knoll. Oswald loads his sniper rifle and says he will become an American hero for saving JFK. This is a play on several conspiracy theories regarding the John F. Kennedy assassination.
• For their sexual role-playing, Peter uses the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. While Lois claims to be a private schoolgirl who needs to be spanked, he claims he is a Paladin with 18 charisma and 97 hit points who has a Helm of Disintegration and does 1d4 (one roll of a four-sided die) damage as his half-elf mage wields his +5 Holy Avenger. This may be a play on a famous quote in the bash.org’s Top 100-200 quote database.
• When naming his kids, Peter mentions the kids from various shows that are currently airing on Nick at Nite.
  • Richie and Joanie Cunningham from Happy Days.
  • Greg, Marcia, Bobby, and Jan Brady from The Brady Bunch.
  • Mike and Carol Seaver, and Richard “Boner” Stabone from Growing Pains.
  • Steve Urkel from Family Matters.
  • Mr. Furley from Three’s Company (who is not a child).
  • When Brian mentions this, Peter begins naming Street Fighter II characters, specifically Zangief, Chun-Li, Blanka, Edmond Honda, and Guile. Brian again points out this fact, after which Peter names various colors. Despite all of this, Peter never mentions Meg as one of his children.
• When infiltrating Bertram’s H.Q. Stewie’s clothing and maneuvers are reminiscent of the movie Rambo: First Blood Part II or the Metal Gear series.
• Sauron, the villain from The Lord of the Rings is shown as the Eye of Sauron in a scene where he is trying to find his lost contact lens.
• At the playground, Stewie’s giving orders and quotes a flophouse resident in The Blues Brothers, “Did ya get me my Cheez Whiz, boy?” as Elwood Blues from the movie throws him his Cheez Whiz.
• Stewie quotes Maximus Decimus from Gladiator: “At my signal, unleash hell.”
• After recovering from the chicken pox, Stewie returns to the playground to confront Bertram. As Stewie approaches his tent, Bertram quotes Darth Vader from Star Wars: “I sense something, a presence I’ve not felt since...”
• A cutaway scene features Peter in a jail surrounded by inmates who force him to strip, squeeze his boobs together, and sing the chorus from Kelis’s 2004 hit “Milkshake.” This is possibly an homage to the scene after the credits in the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story in which Ben Stiller does the same thing in his fatsuit (According to Seth MacFarlane on the DVD commentary, Peter was supposed to be nude and pushing his breasts from underneath instead of at the sides, but the censors objected).
• Sylvester Stallone and Tony Danza star in a movie 'What?' commenting on being unable to understand them.
• The helicopters flown by Bertram and his army may resemble the G.I. Joe Dragonfly XH-1; however, this may not be intentional as the XH-1 was simply modelled after the real-world AH-1 Cobra. Stewie’s army’s planes flown are similar to the F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter. The scene may also be a reference to the movie Rambo III, as Bertram has a similar headset to the general of the Russian forces.
• Parodying George W. Bush and the Iraq War, Stewie says “We’ve got to fight him over there at the swing set, so we don’t have to fight him here at the sandbox.” He also comments on his lack of an exit strategy].
• The sword fight is a parody of the sword fight in The Princess Bride. Many of the moves are similar or the same to moves in the film between Inigo Montoya and the Dread Pirate Roberts. Wallace Shawn, the actor who voiced Bertram in this episode had a lead role in The Princess Bride, playing the Sicilian outlaw, Vizzini. His distinctive voice is another reference to this film.
• In one scene, Scrat from the film Ice Age is shown trying to take a nut out of a side of a glacier, and Peter tells him off for trying to steal his nuts. Apart from Peter, the scene was animated in 3D, and Chris Wedge reprized his role as Scrat from the original movies. The episode originally aired the week before Ice Age: The Meltdown opened. FOX aired promotions for the movie throughout the evening.
• In a scene that was cut from the aired version, Peter exclaims “I’ll always be a man with no sperm who once had a wonderful day,” parodying a line of Cornelius Hackl in Hello, Dolly!.
• Near the end of the episode, Stewie is shown digging a hole together with Christopher Moltisanti from the series The Sopranos.

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