Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure/References

Cultural references

• Circuit Shack is a portmanteau for electronics stores Circuit City and Radio Shack.
• Stu is a 35-year-old virgin, that works at an electronic store, which is similar to Andy in the movie The 40 Year-Old Virgin.
• Stu and Stewie attempt to learn about sex by reading The Joy of Sex. The partners shown in the photographs illustrating this work were notoriously hirsute (he wore a heavy dark beard, and she full pubic hair), hence Stewie's comment about the razor not having been invented until the eighties.
• Walt Disney is awakened from his cryogenic sleep and he asks if the Jews are gone, then asks to be put back when the cryogenics engineer says no. This is a reference to his supposed anti-Semitism.
• Parade Magazine is referenced when Stu shows Stewie a clipping of a cartoon he cut out of the magazine and stuck behind his counter at Circuit Shack.
• The cartoon clipping from Parade Magazine is from The Lockhorns, a William Carrell one-panel cartoon series where the two primary characters are married despite bitterly hating each other.
• A scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is used. The movie climaxes in a sequence where Stewie Griffin races through his suburban neighborhood in a parody of Ferris’ dash to get home before his parents at the end of the film, using the same music and featuring a brief scene where he introduces himself to two sunbathing women. There is also a scene where Peter almost sees Stewie out of the corner of his eye as Stewie chases after the family car; there is an identical scene in Ferris Bueller.
• Future Stewie asks past Stewie if there has been a successful vehicle for Ellen Cleghorne. Ellen Cleghorne was a popular black female castmember on the NBC sketch show, Saturday Night Live in the 1990s, who hasn’t been in anything of importance since she left SNL in 1995.
• Stu tells Stewie that it’s against the rules to tell him about the future. Stu proceeds to time travel, but Stewie hops on and says, “Surprise!” This might be a reference to Star Trek IV, when Gillian does the same to Admiral Kirk when he transports onto the hijacked Bird of Prey—which then travels through time.
• The opening sequence of the seven-segment display “FG” is a reference to the 24 sequence. The voiceover, “Previously, on Family Guy,” is voiced by Kiefer Sutherland who plays Jack Bauer, the protagonist on 24.
• Stewie tries to get Stu to play 'The Glad Game' which is a reference to a game made up by the title character of the novel Pollyanna. The things Stewie states make him glad include: a pinwheel, a big wedge of cake from the fair, a doo-dad for his hat, and the first cut into a fresh piece of construction paper.
• Meg says the thing she enjoyed most was entertaining the troops, then flashbacks to the troops cheering for Cher but instead it’s Meg. She’s singing “If I Could Turn Back Time” and the troops are running away from her.
• Chris does a parody of The West Wing which shows him delivering a long monologue while walking down several hallways. He is then shown finding a piece of cheese like several popular psychological experiments using lab mice and mazes.
• Stewie refers to being on talk shows in between films, which shows him on the Late Show with David Letterman, then on Inside the Actors Studio, and finally The View.
• At the beginning of the episode Stewie and Stu sings No More Tears by Donna Summer

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