The Son Also Draws/References

• The trees in the forest sing "Cats in the Cradle", a 1974 song by Harry Chapin, which was later covered by the band Ugly Kid Joe.
• The episode's title is taken from the book "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway.
• In the Happy Days episode they're watching, Richie tells his parents he really likes Potsie.
• The leader of Chris’ scout group strongly resembles Butt-Head from the Beavis and Butt-Head cartoon series; this is reinforced by Chris’ drawing of the leader’s face in place of someone else’s exposed ass.
• Coincidentally, there is an episode of The Simpsons (Bart to the Future) where the family stop at an Indian casino after a botched vacation and see a lame prop comedian named "Carrot Scalp".
• One of the racers at the soap box derby is Speed Racer and the Mach 5.
• Lois has a Raffi tape for Stewie.
• Peter's ancestor, Chief Grand Cherokee (a reference to the Jeep Grand Cherokee automobile), does a rain dance to the Neutron Dance.
• When playing 20 Questions, Lois picks the movie Cool Runnings.
• While Brian excuses not coming to New York with the family, he holds Utne Reader in his hand.
• Brian watches Nova on PBS, before programming switches to One Day at a Time while the rest of the family is gone.
• Stewie watchies a parody of Carrot Top called "Carrot Scalp" in the casino's comedy club.
• In a flashback, Peter pretends to be gay by watching Caroline in the City.
• Stewie sarcastically remarks to Lois’s creation of Jell-O for dessert by saying “Oooh, Jello, How exotic! Why, I feel like I’m on the deck of the QE2.”
• Peter said to the Youth Scout Leader, "Jeez, who died and made you President Nixon?". However, Richard Nixon became president after winning the 1968 U.S. Presidential Election, and not after the death of his predecessor.
• After hearing that Lois has gambled the family car away, he says, "Ok, I'm not gonna panic, I just need to go back into the casino and find a high roller who will pay a million dollars to sleep with my wife," which is a reference to the movie Indecent Proposal.
• At the end of the episode, Lois, Stewie, Meg, and Peter parody NBC's The More You Know.

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