Episode Quotes
Lois: Peter, do you even know which one of our children I'm talking about?
Peter: Gordon?
Lois: It's like I always tell the kids, a quitter never wins and don't trust whitie.
Peter: A Job? Lois the seventies are over, forget it.
Cat in the Hat: Your parents will be home any minute, are you sure you don't want me to clean the place up?
Young Peter: No, no, go... it'll be funny.
Lois: A flight attendant? Wow, that does sound exciting. What made you change your mind?
Peter: Just my desire to see you happy.
Lois: Aww.... (hugs peter)
Peter: And to exploit your hard labour for free travel and fun.
Lois: What?
Peter: Shhh... I didn't say anything. Go to sleep crazy lady.
Stewie: Duck, duck, (slaps Janet on the head) GOOSE!
(Janet cries)
Stewie: Oh come on I barely hit you! See this is why people don't respect the WNBA!
Peter: Wait, wait, wait, wait a second. You're tellin' me that I came all the way to Kentucky to get some of your fried chicken, and the Colonel isn't even workin' today?!?
Stewie: (slapping a girl in his daycare on the butt) Just look at that butt, that is a tight butt....hmmm.
Lois: I've seen that crappy Julia Roberts movie forty-seven times. Have you seen the lips on that woman? Like a baboon's ass on her face.
Episode Goofs
Stewie sings about "picking up forget-me-nots", in a feild of yellow flowers. However, Forget-Me-Nots are actually blue.
While Peter and Lois are floating back to America from Cuba, Lois says they are floating somewhere in the Atlantic. However, this is geographically impossible. They would have to be in either the Carribean or the Gulf of Mexico.
The blocks Stewie is playing with change between shots.
When we read “My Lovely Janet”, the red “M” on the top tier has a moon on its side, the purple “L” in the 2nd tier has a star on its side & the red “J” on the bottom has nothing
but
When we see the blocks from the back, the red “M” has a sideways 6 or 9, the purple “L” has a basketball & the red “J” has a star.
Also, when Stewie knocks the blocks & they spell “I Long For You” & “Ride That Pony” all the designs on the other sides are gone but reappear when seen from afar.
When we see Kurt Cobain on stage from afar, the hole in his jeans is in the left pant leg but when we see him up close & backstage the hole is in the right leg.
In the wide shot of the kids at nap time, we see there's a girl napping to Janet's left (our right), but when Stewie crawls to her the girl is missing & when Stewie crawls away to get Janet a cookie, the girl is back on her mat.
Also...
In the wide shot, Janet is napping on her left side but when Stewie looks back, she's suddenly asleep on her right side.
Stewie crawls back to his mat to get Janet some Animal Crackers when he didn't have any when he was talking to Leonard
In the wide shot of the kids at nap time there's a girl w/ dark pink shorts and light pink shirt sleeping above Stewie however when Stewie crawls to Janet the girl has been replaced by the boy in an orange shirt and green pants who was napping to the right of Leonard in the wide shot.
The child is missing completely when Stewie turns and says “You don't care about me” and the girl in the pink is back when Stewie storms off.
Cultural References
This episode's title, “Dammit Janet” is a reference to the British musical stage production & 1975 film “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”.
The second song in the show called “Dammit Janet”
Stewie: “Humina-Humina-Humina”
This was the catch phrase of the character
“Ed Norton” (played by Art Carney (1918-2003)) from
“The Honeymooners” (1952-1970) Stewie: “Steve walks warily down the street with his brim pulled way down low”
Stewie sings a line from the 1980 song by
Queen,
“Another One Bites The Dust” Peter: “I was quite a troublemaker myself when I was a kid”
The Dr. Seuss character from the book of the same name, The Cat In The Hat (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) makes an appearance in this episode.
Lois: “Chris stop it, what would the neighbors think?”
The Griffin's neighbors are apparently the characters
“Abner” &
“Gladys Kravitz” from the television sitcom of the 60's and early 70's,
“Bewitched” (1964-1972) Lois: “Oh my god! The actress who was the girl in Escape From Witch Mountain”
Lois once met
Kim Richards (1964-), one of the two child stars of the 1975 Disney film,
“Escape From Witch Mountain” Stewie: “I say, does anyone know how The Practice ended last night?”
The ABC courtroom drama,
“The Practice” (1997-2004) is mentioned in this episode.
One of the stars of “The Practice”,
Camryn Manheim (1961-) does a voice in this episode.
Peter: “Fly for free! Sorry Tink, looks like I don't need you anymore”
The Disney character, “Tinkerbell” is featured in this episode.
She apparently was helping Peter fly the same way she did in the original story & 1953's “Peter Pan”
American actor
Morgan Freeman (1937-) and his role as President in the 1998 film
“Deep Impact” are mentioned in this episode, along with American actress
Morgan Fairchild (1950-)Peter: “What if Kurt Cobain had quit?”
Kurt Cobain (1967-1994) was the lead singer of the grunge rock group,
Nirvana (1985-1994)
Kurt's wife
Courtney Love (1964-) is also featured in the cutaway
(and as some believe the cause of his death).
Stewie: “You know it's odd Janet, but when I'm with you, I'm...Oh how do I describe it?”
The song Stewie sings to Janet is the 1946 song
“You Make Me Feel So Young”, composed by
Josef Myrow, with lyrics written by
Mack Gordon.
It has been performed by
Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996),
Frank Sinatra (1915-1998),
Jack Jones (1938-),
Mel Tormé (1925-1999) &
Rosemary Clooney (1928-2002) Peter: “Winston Churchill we hardly knew ye”
The former Prime Minister of England,
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) is mentioned in this episode.
Churchill lead the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955
Peter: “Just this morning, I went to Kentucky”
Peter apparently went to Kentucky to visit the fast food chain,
Kentucky Fried Chicken to see the commercial/trademark character
“Colonel Sanders” not knowing the man who played him, who was also the founder of KFC,
Harland David Sanders died in 1980
American actress
Julia Roberts (1967-) is mentioned in this episode
Diane Simmons: “A fat man who is inexplicably married to an attractive redhead”
The artist rendering Diane shows is that of “Fred” & “Wilma Flintstone”
Peter: “You people are nothing like the Communists they show on TV”
The cutaway to the fictitious TV show “The Communists” features word play jokes on the Communist leaders of the past, Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), Karl Marx (1818-1883) & Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) w/ Khrushchev coming in and dancing on the table.
“Stalling”/Stalin, “Marks”/Marx & “Have to”/Khrushchev
Visual: “Taco” T-Shirt
The “Taco” T-Shirt seen in the Black Market is an allusion to the series of commercials for the American fast food chain, Taco Bell and the “Taco Bell Chihuahua” who's slogan was, “¡Yo quiero Taco Bell!”.
The dog that appeared in the commercials, Gidget, died July 21st, 2009.