The Fat Guy Strangler/References

• Peter returns home from allegedly going to the doctor for a physical and states to Lois that he is "in too good of shape. Don't even know how. Too good of shape." The manner in which Peter says this could be a reference to the movie Buffalo '66 in which Billy Brown (played by Vincent Gallo) speaks similarly.
• Stewie recalls a time he “saw Bobby McFerrin fall down all those stairs.”
• Patrick was traumatized as a child when he walked in on his mother having an affair with Jackie Gleason, who apparently ejaculated in her face while saying his catch phrase “Pow! Right in the kisser!” Peter triggers Patrick’s killing spree by wearing a bus driver’s uniform identical to the one Gleason wore on The Honeymooners and repeating this phrase several times. This may be appropriate, as Seth MacFarlane has said that Gleason was a major influence on the formation of Peter’s character.
• Peter bravely slays a “dragon,” i.e. Cybill Shepherd. She is reportedly quite acerbic and difficult to work with. However, in the Family Guy universe, she is actually able to fly, roar, and breathe fire.
• Peter refers to the infamous baked-goods sex scene in American Pie while speaking to a pie he’s contemplating eating.
• Peter starts an organization called the NAAFP (National Association for the Advancement of Fat People), which is a reference to the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). In actuality there is an actual NAAFA (National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance); the organization was featured on an episode of Penn and Teller: Bullshit!
• A cutaway scene shows Brian finding George W. Bush in his Crawford, Texas treehouse (reading Superfudge) and letting him know about Hurricane Katrina.
• When Brian puts a TV in orbit around Peter, there’s a broadcast of an episode of the Three Stooges.
• The chorus of fat men’s flatulence and belching during Peter’s meeting might be an oblique reference to the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles.
• A cutaway scene shows the invention of music by cavemen. There was a similar scene in History of the World, Part I. However, in this episode, the cavemen invent music through grunting, while in the movie one of them invents it by dropping stones on the feet of his fellow cavemen.
• The song the cavemen sing is Billy Joel’s “The Longest Time.”
• When Peter and the NAAFP are chasing after Patrick, they follow him into a forest called James Woods.
• Stewie’s “French fried potaters” (sic) comment is a reference to the film Sling Blade, in which a murderer who is released from a hospital eats french fries, which he calls “French fried potaters.”
• The cut-away where we are shown a cheesy commercial for Ball In A Cup is actually a real toy.
• During the cut-away scene of that weird commercial that Stewie saw. It was of the Butter commercial were you only see the people's hands with Butter Spread behind them. This is a reference to those Country Crock commercials.
• While on the way to meet Patrick for the first time, Lois wonders out loud to Chris, Meg, and Stewie if "Dateline" would be interested in doing a show about her reuniting with her long-lost brother. If so, she suggests, she'd "get to meet that pompous ass, Stone Phillips. He's the kinda guy you hate til he's inside ya."

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