Stewie: (throws food at Peter) You, your the worst thing to happen to musical theater since Andrew Lloyd Webber. (throws food at Lois) And you, I just plain don't like you.

Peter: What am I supposed to do with all my great ideas? Put 'em in a tub and clean myself with them? Cause that's what soap is for, Lois.

Stewie: You know, mother, as first lady of the American stage Helen Hayes once said, "I'm going to kill you."

Meg: I don't get it, mom, if you're so mad at dad for wrecking your show, why did you come to opening night?
Lois: I came because I love the theater. I mean, if I just came here to enjoy watching your father be humiliated when this asinine spectacle of his is ridiculed by everyone in town, what kind of person would I be?
Chris: A bitch.

Diane Simmons: Tom, I'm getting late word that you're a petty, jealous closet-case.
Tom Tucker: Bit of breaking news, we now go live to Diane being a bitch. Diane.

Stewie: You know, it is so fashionable to take a shot at Jay Leno. Look, the fact is the man is out there every bloody night with fresh material and he's charming.

Peter: Lois, my penis belongs on stage!

Peter: (narrating) Siam, 2015 AD. The city lies in ruins after the Ninth Nucular World War. It is a grim future with lots of explosions and partial nudity; a future where an oppressive new king has seized power. Only one man can stop him. No - one machine! (breaks into Brian's palace, wearing a robot costume) I am an Automaton Nucular Neohuman Android; you may call me ANNA. I am a robot ninja from the planet England who is here to destroy you and free this land from your tyranny.
Brian: I've been expecting you, ANNA. Allow me to introduce my Siamese children! (claps hands, signalling five swimsuit models)
Peter: I will not be swayed by your attempts to confuse my programming with your all-female sex orgy. We must kung-fu fight!
Brian: So be it, ANNA!
(They strike kung-fu poses at each other. A while later...)
Peter: I have slain the evil emperor. I hereby proclaim Siam the United States of America! (cues song)
Chorus: ANNA rules!
Peter: 'Cause I kicked all the bad guys in their jewels!
Chorus: ANNA won!
Peter: Thanks to my gamma-ray atomic gun!
Chorus: Dance and shout;
He's the world's greatest ninja, there's no doubt!
Peter: Though they tried to defeat me,
They can all just freakin' eat me...
Brian: 'Cause he blew all of us away!
Peter & Chorus: In the planet of Siam,
There's no one as tough as I am,
Just as surely as Paul Lynd was gay!

The party hat Peter puts on the end of the bed disappears when the scene changes.

While Stewie is auditioning, the pen in front of Lois appears and disappears

The script that Peter throws on the floor has vanished by the time Lois takes the script Stewie is holding.

There is no cord connected to the iron when Brian starts to suck up to Lois, but appears when Peter comes in.

Peter incorrectly says a line from the song “Maniac”, “She's a steel town girl on a Saturday night”.
The line is actually “She's a small town girl on a Saturday night”

Lois places the cordless phone on the back of the couch but after Brian congratulates her, the phone has vanished.

All of the flowers that were thrown on stage when Peter was taking his curtain call have vanished when Lois stands up and chastises the audience.



They all reappear when Peter farts with the exception of one of the large green bouquets & orange flower arrangement.

The whole episode is based around “The King and I”, a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein based on the book “Anna and the King of Siam” by Margaret Landon.

Diane: “...most recently Miss Saigon”

“Miss Saigon” is a modern adaptation of Giacomo Puccini's opera “Madame Butterfly”, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The setting of the plot is relocated to the 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and Madame Butterfly's American Lieutenant and Japanese geisha coupling is replaced by a romance between an American GI and a Vietnamese bar girl.

Peter: “May I present this years hottest toy... Mr. Zucchini Head”

Parody on the classic toy, “Mr. Potato Head”.
It was developed by George Lerner in 1949, and first manufactured and distributed by Hasbro in 1952.

Lois mentions the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo (1475 – 1564), American novelist Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) & German theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

Peter: “That's why God invented Shrinky Dinks”

“Shrinky Dinks”, invented in 1974, were a children's toy/activity kit, most popular in the 1980's, consisting of large flexible sheets which, when heated in an oven, shrink to small hard plates without altering their color or shape.

Brian: {singing} “Oh, no, not in springtime, summer, winter, or fall. No, never could I leave you at all”

Brian auditions with the song “If Ever I Would Leave You” from the 1960 Broadway musical “Camelot”

Stewie: “Now is the winter of our discontent. Made glorious summer by this son of York”

Stewie auditions with a selection from the Shakespearean play “Richard III”.
Of course being that Lois doesn't really understand what he's saying suggests he sing the Mother Goose nursery rhymes “Itsy Bitsy Spider” & “Baa Baa Black Sheep”

Stewie mentions Helen Hayes (1900 – 1993)
She was an American actress, whose career spanned almost 70 years.
As Stewie mentions, she eventually garnered the nickname “First Lady of the American Theater”, and was one of the nine people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award.

Peter: {singing badly} “Marshall, Will & Holly on a routine expedition met the greatest earthquake ever known. High on the rapids, it struck their tiny raft and plunged them down a thousand feet below to the land of the lost”

Peter auditions with the theme song to the 70's action adventure kids show “Land of the Lost” (1974-1976)

Cleveland mentions his run in with someone who he thought at the time was American singer and actress Pearl Bailey (1918 – 1990).
She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of “Hello, Dolly!” in 1968 & in 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in an ABC After school Special.
Her rendition of “Takes Two to Tango” hit the top ten in 1952

Oddly enough, the “Hello, Dolly!” performance Pearl Bailey was in is actually mentioned by Diane Simmons later in the episode when she talks to Loretta.

Stewie: “Perhaps I'll skip the stage and go directly to films”

Stewie imagines he's one of the stars of the 1998 comedy “There's Something About Mary” starring Ben Stiller & Cameron Diaz.
Stewie replaces Cameron's character and uses the “substance” behind Ben's ear as hair gel.

Peter: “I'm the king of the world” {Peter falls down the cliffside}

Quick reference to the famous quote spoken by Jack Dawson, Leonardo DiCaprio's character from 1997's “Titanic”.

He does it a second time in the episode but falls off the stage into the orchestra after only saying “I'm the king of the wo...”

Peter: “Some of our greatest actors stated in news, like Sean Penn”

Sean Penn actually didn't start in news but he's seen in this episode, as he did often in the mid 1980's, assaulting the cameraman.

Peter: “On Springer yesterday, they had I won't share my husband and these two women bitch slapped each other. The crowd went nuts.”

Peter's referring to the national syndicated American white trash talk show “The Jerry Springer Show” (1991-Present)

Peter: “I thought you wanted to do a good show? If you wanted to do a bad show, why don't we just do RENT”

“RENT” is a rock opera, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson[1] based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of AIDS.

The show opened on January 25, 1996 & despite Peter's assumtion, became the 7th longest running Broadway music w/ 5,124 performances and after grossing $280 million dollars & a 12 year Broadway run closed September 7, 2008 but still continues to tour with the road company.

Peter: “Lois if this is your idea of a joke you must work for Leno”

Peter of course is referring to Jay Leno, the host of “The Tonight Show” from May 25, 1992 to May 29, 2009.

After his departure from “The Tonight Show” he will begin his own prime time 10pm talk show on NBC starting in September 2009.

Peter: “I wrote Bonfire of the Vanities.”
Lois: “No you didn't.”
Peter: “You win this round Lois”

“The Bonfire of the Vanities” is a 1987 novel written by Tom Wolfe.
In 1990, it was made into a movie starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis & Melanie Griffith

Peter: “I have more creativity in my whole body then most people do before 9am”

Peter is confusing an 80's slogan for the U.S. ARMY -- “We do more before 9 a.m. than most people do all day”

Peter: “Alright, now Diane, your roll is, you're a steel-town girl on a Saturday night, looking for the fight of your life.”

Peter's direction is actually the opening line of “Maniac” by Michael Sembello, the theme song from the 1983 film “Flashdance” (See Episode Goofs)

Brain: “Su-Su-Sudio. Su-Su-Sudio”

Brian is doing voice exercises using the title of Phil Collins' 1985 song “Sussudio” from his album “No Jacket Required”

Peter: {singing} “...Just as surely Paul Lynde was gay”

Paul Lynde (1929-1982) was a character actor, comedian and television star. His best known roles were as “Uncle Arthur” from the sitcom “Bewitched” (1964-1972) and as the center square from the game show “Hollywood Squares” (1967-1976).
Paul was indeed gay but it was never publicly known although it was alluded to in his roles.

We find out that Diane Simmons real name is Diane Seidelman

Many recurring and one-time characters appear in the crowd during the showing of Peter's version of “The King & I”:
Jake Tucker, Stacy Tucker (from “Ready, Willing, and Disabled”), Cleveland Jr., The Judge, Dr. Hartman, Tricia Takanawa, Leonard Cornfeathers (from “The Son Also Draws”), Charlie (the guy who pees in the clock from “Death Has a Shadow”), William Shatner (from “I Never Met the Dead Man”), the Cheesy Charlie's Manager (from “Chitty Chitty Death Bang”), The Don (from “There's Something About Paulie”), Bruce, Chris' Scout Leader (from “The Son Also Draws”), Jonathan Weed, Guillermo (“A Hero Sits Next Door”), Flappy Jack (from “Love Thy Trophy”), the Flappy Jack's Waitress (from “Love Thy Trophy”), Pablo, Li-Li & Uri (from “Love Thy Trophy”), Randall Fargus (from “Running Mates”), Jack & Sarah (from “Love Thy Trophy”) & the Mannish Soccer Mom (from “Mind Over Murder”)