THE FAMILY GUY

REFERENCE PAGES

The references are listed in order of their appearance in the show. I have listed only the references that are familiar to me.

There are most likely references that I have not recognized and I will correct this if I am informed of them. If you know of one please email me at peterandlois@yahoo.com.

MIND OVER MURDER

(FG-103)

Original Air Date: 25 Apr 99

SHOW DESCRIPTION

Peter punches out a pregnant woman and is under house arrest. He builds a bar in the basement so that his friends will hang out with him, but it turns into a singing venue for Lois. Stewie builds a time machine to move time forward and alleviate his teething pain, but ends up making time go backwards instead to erase the fact that his blueprints for the device were seen by the entire bar.

Pop Culture References

At the Beginning there is a Mentos parody about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth.

     

Lois has a daydream where she is playing piano at the Hollywood Bowl.

Historical Hollywood Bowl

Stewie references the Louise Woodward case (she was the British au pair accused of murdering a baby by shaking it).

Stewie decides to make a time machine like in the book The Time Machine (1895) by H.G. Wells.

Herbert George Wells

Peter enjoys a Pawtucket Patriot, which seems very much like Samuel Adams beer.

When Peter looks for the missing sock in the dryer he ends up in Narnia like in the book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) by C.S. Lewis.

Lois student is asked to play Johannes Brahms’ Lullaby.

Peter talks about having been to Wimbledon.

The current Court Two at Wimbledon

There was a parody called Homicide: Life on Sesame Street which turned out to be a parody of three shows: Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-1999), Sesame Street (1969-Present) and NYPD Blue (1993-Present).

   

When Peter falls and sees the Pawtucket Patriot it is reminiscent of Field of Dreams (1989).

There was a Tim Allen reference and a Home Improvement (1991-1999) style fade-out.

While at the bar Stewie references quantum theory of time travel like in Quantum Leap (1989-1993).

The barfly hands Stewie a Barney (from Barney and Friends (1992-Present)) pen.

Peter confuses Leslie Uggams for Lola Falana.

 

A man in the bar mentions the flux capacitor when looking at Stewie’s time machine plans. The flux capacitor was what made time travel possible in Back to the Future (1985).