Sixteen Candles is a 1984 coming-of-age film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling and Anthony Michael Hall. The film was written and directed by John Hughes.

In PTV, Jake Ryan loses his 'good guy' image to rape Peter Griffin.

A poster of the film, with the three primary stars, is seen in the Griffin living room in the year 2007A in "Meet the Quagmires". At this point, Ringwald has been Griffin's wife.