The name of Chris' school is Buddy Cianci Junior High. The school is most likely named after Mayor Vincent A. "Buddy" Cianci Jr., who is the mayor of Providence Rhode Island.

Peter: “I look like a freakin' Emmy.”
{looks into camera} “Hint. Hint.”

The show breaks the “fourth wall” by hinting (to the Academy presumably) they would like to win an Emmy.
In 2000 they were actually nominated for 2 Emmys, one for “Outstanding Animated Program” and for “Outstanding Music and Lyrics” & in fact Seth Won for “Outstanding Voice-Over Performance”.

Since then Family Guy has won for “Outstanding Music and Lyrics” in 2002,
Nominated in 2005 & 2006 for “Outstanding Animated Program”,
Nominated again for “Outstanding Music and Lyrics” & Won for “Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation” in 2007,
and Nominated again 2008 for “Outstanding Animated Program”

While never becoming a recurring character, this episode introduced another member of the Quahog 5 News Team Sports Anchor, Dirk Bandit

We are introduced to Peter's relative, Rufus Griffin who did Blaxploitation movies in the 70s

Peter: Hey Lois, give Chris a break. I mean, no TV? So he failed a class, it's not like he felt up his cousin in the garage that one time when I was 19.

Peter: When did God ever say he didn't want someone else being worshiped like him?
Lois: Its one of the Ten Commandments.
Peter: Oh come on Lois, those were written like 200 years ago. Times have changed.

Peter: I want to have the kind of Father and Son relationship that the Gumbels have.
Lois: Peter, the Gumbels are brothers.
Peter: Oh nice, Lois. Just because they're black, we can't learn anything from them?

Peter: I look like a freakin' Emmy! Hint, Hint.

Brian: Peter, this is the final plague.
Peter: Good cause this is starting to get old.
Brian: Peter, the final plague is the death of the first born son.
Peter: Oh no Stewie!
Brian: First born...
Peter: Meg!
Brian: Your wife...
Peter: Chris!

Peter: Are you gonna eat that stapler?
TV Executive: You...can't eat a stapler.
Peter: Wanna split it?

Peter: I'll handle it, Lois. I read a book about this sort of thing once.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't nothing?
Peter: Oh yeah.

Peter: I'm just a big fake, like the moon landing and Marky Mark's hog in Boogie Nights and Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. I don't mean that completely unproved gay rumor, they're just both really phony.

Peter: There's gotta be an explanation for all this.
Brian: You want an explanation? God. is. pissed.!

Peter: Tonight Katie Couric guest stars as a very perky crack whore.

On the wall behind Peter, during the plagues, the pictures of Chris, Meg and Stewie are reversed, but are arranged the correct way in the next scene when Brian slaps him.

First, the white-out Peter was using wouldn't pour out like water if spilled and second, it was still wet when it was folded into the letter so once opened it would have made the letter illegible and certainly wouldn't have been taken seriously as a death threat to Craig T. Nelson.

The phone cord & name plate on Mr. Harris' desk disappear and reappear between shots.

Peter is washing the car on the driveway when Stewie runs around it and jumps in the mud.
When we see Stewie rolling in the mud, the driveway is missing.

When we see the singers perform "Dying Boy of Quahog" from the back, the man playing the guitar and the blonde man in blue are standing on the path.
When we see them from the front, only the woman in green on the end is standing fully on the path.

When Lois looks out the window and says “Oh God” the window is at her knees, but when Peter says “Yeeees” Lois turns around to protest and the window suddenly only comes to her waist.

The woman in pink and woman in the red and white are standing on the lawn but when the shot changes to the Griffin's POV, they are both standing on the sidewalk.

During Peter's Anne Frank cutaway, the group of people who stare in shock at Peter munching chips is not the same group seen at the start of the cutaway.



The standing man in glasses on the far left goes missing.
The blond girl's hair has turned brown.
The bald man kneeling with the mustache goes missing.
The standing man's mustache vanishes.
Finally, the woman on the far right goes missing but she's probably just off screen, she may not be actually missing.

Announcer: “Bryant Gumbel. Greg Gumbel. Brothers. Bike Cops. Gumbel 2 Gumbel: Beach Justice”

The fictitious 'Gumbel 2 Gumbel' stars real brothers Bryant Gumbel who was the host of the NBC morning talk/news show “TODAY” from 1982 to 1997 & “Real Sports” from 2005 to 2008 and Greg Gumbel who's a sportscaster for CBS.

Matt Lauer is mentioned by Greg, he has been hosting “TODAY” since 1997.
Peter mentions Katie Couric is guest starring as a perky crack whore. Katie hosted “TODAY” from 1991 to 2006 & was the anchor of the “CBS Nightly News” from 2006 to 2011.

Peter: “After I get a little bit of courage from my old friend Jack Daniels”

Jack Daniels is a brand of Tennessee whiskey that is among the world's best-selling liquors and is known for its square bottles and black label

Lois: “I saw that on a 2 part report on Dateline Tuesday and Dateline Catilsday”
Peter: “What the hell is Catilsday?”
Lois: “Oh NBC invented a new day so they can add another Dateline”

Dateline is an NBC newsprogram that began in 1992. It is often used as a filler show and was once shown 3 or 4 times a week.

{Peter's letter} If you don't put “Coach” back on the air ...

“Coach” was an ABC sitcom that ran from 1989 to 1997 & starred Craig T. Nelson (who arrives at Peter's door & apparently has lost the will to live)

At the Quahog 5 TV station, Peter & Chris pass monitors showing what the other networks are airing. “Jeopardy” is on ABC, “The Tonight Show w/ Jay Leno” is on NBC, “Alien Autopsy” is on FOX, an elderly couple is on CBS indicating their demographic, the now defunct WB has a generic teen drama and defunct UPN simply has a houseplant instead of a monitor.

Peter: “Sorry Chris, me and my damn appetite. This isn't the first time it's gotten me into trouble”

The black & white cutaway is a reference to Annelise Marie "Anne" Frank. She and her family escaped Nazi Germany in 1933 to Amsterdam. Her family lived hidden for two years after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in 2 small rooms in her father's office building only to be found in 1942 and sent to the concentration camps.
Only her father survived and returned home to find and eventually publish Anne's diary she kept during the 2 years of hiding.

The Grant-A-Dream Foundation is a take off of the Make-A-Wish Foundation

Hollywood Squares is a game show that has been around in some incarnation since 1965. It's latest installment lasted from 1998 to 2004 w/ host Tom Bergeron and center square Whoopi Goldberg



The celebrities that appear w/ Jeremy on the Hollywood Squares cutaway are (from left to right, top to bottom), LL Cool J, Suzanne Somers, Charlie Sheen, Scott Bakula, Whoopi Goldberg, Dennis Rodman, Betty White & Fran Drescher.

TV Executive #1: “Okay how 'bout this, single white girl in the city working at a magazine”
TV Executive #2: “Will you guys hear yourselves, this is the same old crap over and over again...”

This may be a reference to the NBC shows “Suddenly Susan” or “Just Shoot Me”, both shows having single white women working at magazines.
Oddly enough the executive that suggests an original idea is beaten with a poster of “Just Shoot Me”.

Peter: “Just us watching another hilarious episode of Good Times”

“Good Times” is a sitcom that ran from 1974 to 1979 & was a spin off of “Maude” (1972-1978). The character Florida Evans appeared on “Maude” and was the mother in “Good Times”.

Announcer: “From the cats who brought you Caddyblack, Blackdraft and Black Kramer vs Kramer comes a funky flick so bad you're gonna say, Damn that's funky.
Rufus Griffin stars in Black to the Future”

Parody titles of Blaxploitation cinema of the 70's.
Caddyshack (1980), Backdraft (1991), Kramer vs Kramer (1979) & Back to the Future (1985) (obviously) being the real titles

Peter: “Sunrise, Sunset”

This is a line from the song “Sunrise, Sunset” from “Fiddler On The Roof”, a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in tzarist Russia in 1905

Stewie: “How positively delightful, it is as if someone stabbed Mr. Bubble”

Mr. Bubble is the cartoon mascot for the bath foam of the same name.
It's been around since the 70s although in August of 2008 the company that makes Mr. Bubble filed for bankruptcy.

Peter: “I'm just a big fake, like the moon landing...”

Peter's referring to the nut-job conspiracy wackos that believe we didn't go to the moon at all. They claim the whole thing took place on a sound stage in the desert and the thousands and thousands of people that have worked and still work in NASA have been hiding this secret for decades.

Peter: “...or Marky Mark's hog in 'Boogie Nights'”

A reference to the final scene in the 1997 movie “Boogie Nights” where Mark Wahlberg's character Dirk Diggler pulls out his quite large (although fake) penis & says “I'm a star”

Peter: “...and Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. I don't mean that completely untrue gay rumor...”

The joke being Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were once very adamant in suing anyone who insinuated they were gay.

Peter: “Run towards the light”
Lois: “No Chris, No, run away from the light”

This may be an allusion to the lines from the 1982 movie “Poltergeist”.
The same line (by Lois) was spoken by Diane Freeling played by JoBeth Williams

Peter: “...and Kirstie Alley is still hot...”

Kirstie Alley was one of the stars of “Cheers” from 1987 to 1993 and the “Look Who's Talking” movie franchise.
She gained a great deal of weight and became the spokeswoman for Jenny Craig until she was (supposedly) fired for gaining the weight she lost back.

The TV has an antenna on it. But in "I Never Met the Dead Man", knocking down the cable antenna knocks out the TV signal. Also, in "Love Thy Trophy", Joe says that he's the only one that actually pays for his cable.