The Fat Guy Strangler/Notes/Trivia

Call Backs

During the scene where Brian picks up a rock and he hits Peter and says "That's for rolling up the damn car window when I tried to jump into the General Lee." This is a call back from the episode To Love and Die in Dixie

Commentary

During the scene where Peter goes to slay Cybill Shepherd. Seth MacFarlane says this is a reference to that Cybil might be hard to work with.

Notes

• It is revealed in this episode that in addition to Lois’ sister Carol (and the illegitimate mulatto boy who Lois mentioned in “Screwed the Pooch”), she also has a brother named Patrick.
• As payback for what happened in the season three episode “To Love and Die in Dixie,” Brian hits Peter in the head with a rock “for rolling up the damn window when I tried to jump into the General Lee” [according to the DVD commentary, Brian was supposed to throw the rock at Peter in retaliation for peeing on him (the original draft of the episode’s script had the entire family flying in an airplane to visit Patrick and Peter goes to the bathroom in his seat and his urine spills on Brian, who is in a carry-on case)].
• According to the doctor in this episode, Peter’s astrological sign is Cancer.
• At home, Lois is watching an episode of The Price is Right, where one contestant says, “Fuck you!” to another contestant after she bid $1 more than him in contestants row, a rather common tactic. The “Fuck you!” is bleeped out on both the FOX and Adult Swim versions, and on the censored audio track of the Family Guy DVD set. The uncensored track, however, has the word intact.
• There is a scene cut from the TV version, but which appears on the DVD, where Peter and the members of the NAAFP are at the funeral of one of their members who was killed by Patrick, and they sing the NAAFP anthem in his memory.
• Stewie plays with, and a fake commercial is shown for the game ball in a cup, voiced by an announcer sounding suspiciously like Al Harrington. The commercial repeats the phrase “ball in a cup” several times to comedic effect and claims that the toy has been Mexico’s favorite for over 340 years. This is again referenced in Padre de Familia, where the Mexican children are shown playing with the toy, and later Stewie recalls the wording of the commercial.

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