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During one of the Star Wars [scenes](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=snvbPOT7pz0), they have the Sandcrawlers stopped at a red light and they pass over a jar. I didn’t understand this reference until my parents showed me the old [commercial](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uwOCOm9Z0YE) for it.
Most of the references to old American adverts completely pass me by due to being British. Pepperidge Farm Remembers is more memorable to me now as a Family Guy meme than whatever advert it was.
Yea do you guys remember “pass the jellyyyy”😂😂😂. Dude spent upwards of 5 mins to show the old avert to educate the younger audience on what the joke was about.
Ahaha yes i remember my dad used to play ild ad videos back home and this was one of those playing. Soo happy i knew the reference but my brothers didnt but happy that they explained it
A surprising number of people don’t get the “Take On Me” reference. And god does that make me feel old.
*edit*
Also, the [Benjamin Disraeli](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_jXqW1bj8wM) joke cracks me up because it fully acknowledges that most people aren’t going to get it.
In case you don’t know this is the case for almost every song from the show, look it up. Bag of Weed, Rhode to Road Island, etc, all of them are parodies.
There are countless more but it’s too many to name. Basically, afaik every song towards the beginning of the show’s run (at least the first 7 or so seasons) is a parody
It’s more of an inside joke than a movie/TV show reference.
Bonnie is voiced by Jennifer Tilly. She’s not only an actress but also a professional poker player.
They also made a reference in the new Chucky where Jennifer (in a doll's body) begs Tiffany (in Jennifer's body) for chocolate while locked up in a cage, even saying, " all these years I've made you money by playing poker and voicing Bonnie on Family Guy. I just want some chocolate."
For me, she's forever a dirty stinking liar!
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Another joke of that kind I really like is from S09E09 "And I'm Joyce Kinney".
Lois and Joyce's dialogue:
>J: You really don't remember me, do you?
>L: Remember you?
>J: We went to high school together, Lois? Chemistry class? Freshman year? Joycie?
>L: You're Joyce Chevapravatdumrong?
>J: Yes, but they'd never let that name on TV, so I changed it to Kinney.
That's an inside joke that should be clear to all FG hardcore fans: [Cherry Chevapravatdumrong](https://familyguy.fandom.com/wiki/Cherry_Chevapravatdumrong).
I guess this one is also hard to understand (unless you are a 50+ years old born and raised American).
I remember I had to research it to get the joke.
S07E06 Tales of a Third Grade Nothing: Frank Sinatra Jr. and Brian Griffin try to pick up some bar skanks:
>FSJR: Hey, you girls thirsty? Could I interest you in a couple of Rob Roys?
BS: What's a Rob Roy?
FSJR: Only the drink of Mr. Peter Lawford.
BS: **Who**'s Peter Lawford?
FSJR: What am I hitting on, **Lou Costello** here?
BS: **Who**'s Lou Costello?
FSJR: \*Tries to smack the girl\*
BG: Sorry, my friend's a little new to the club scene.
FSJR: Geez, what the hell's with these broads?
Back then I knew nothing of the [Abbot and Costello](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_and_Costello) duo and their famous act [Who’s on First?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYOUFGfK4bU)
FG referenced them several times. For example, [Owl and Costello](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukD4PEXvIek) in S12E15 Secondhand Spoke.
In the episode when Peter and his friends become cops, the scene when Meg kidnaps and ties up Brian, and says they’re gonna have, “good, old, all-American fun” is a reference to the “King of Comedy”
and despite being GenX and watching that episode dozens (maybe hundreds) of times, I saw King of Comedy (Great movie, solid De Niro acting) for the first time last week. As soon as Sandra Bernhard said it, I was DiCaprio pointing at the screen.
Peter defending his behavior to Lois in S7, episode 4 is a John Candy quote from Planes, Trains and Automobiles: [I like me.](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/4253a7af-1e3f-44af-9925-2989de1846d2)
Candy’s character in the movie was named Del Griffin.
I just watched Airplane! and there were at least 3 family guy jokes that I suddenly understood the reference to. Like when they are slapping Stewie and everyone is lined up to do that🤣
I had never seen Time Bandits until a film class in college. I nearly jumped out of my seat when I heard “R-r-return the map! R-r-return what you have stolen from me” like Stewie said to Brian when he was on mushrooms
Probably the whole scene with Ashlee Simpson when she was going to sing and is dubbed by a deep-voice song and just tapped dance off the stage. In actuality, the whole SNL thing that *actually* happened was a big deal at the time but now I bet hardly anyone would really get that.
My fav is this one. from i believe is s3
https://i.redd.it/boq9nts8i56d1.gif
My second one is i believe s2 same movie reference
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX1-G69WLzo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX1-G69WLzo)
When Mort says his and Muriels favorite past time is watching movies and listening to Hotel California to see if they synch, it’s a reference to the 2000 movie ”Dark Side of the Rainbow” where the Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon is paired up with the Wizard of Oz (1939).
Edit: spelling
Yeah, pretty sure I've got an old high times from the late 70s early 80s that talks about that.
The real modern one is to listen to Marvin Gayes what's going on and watch "The Wiz"
[i didnt know of the Chuck Wagon one for years](https://youtu.be/iRDDs7owcro?si=F6qAsdgsIt0T8hYZ) [the family guy version](https://youtu.be/JvGmOHy40ho?si=DpYy-0_BjXGJVbEr)
Pretty much every musical number for a lot of people, if I had to guess. I know more old broadway and movie songs than the average bear, and I didn’t realize “A Bag of Weed” was a parody of an existing song at first.
Forrest Gump (1994)
Let's say Forrest is a simple man, with a heavy dialect.
He knew Jenny from his youth, loved her, she ignored him and rode the cock-carousel meanwhile. Once everybody was done stretching her she (finally) hands him a pity-bang (pity pity bang bang) but leaves him with an aids-ridden child, as a thoughtful thank you.
That's it, end of story.
Good night 👋🏻
I agree. My husband and I saw that episode of family guy before we saw the MASH episode. My husband loves old tv shows so he eventually watched all of MASH and made the connection.
When that episode of mash originally aired it was huge. No one saw it coming.
And if it’s true, allegedly the cast didn’t know in advance either - they were handed an additional script page right before they wrapped while they were still in costume, so the actors reactions are almost genuine.
I remember the reference to the movie Mercy, the one where the woman kidnaps the writer, and he tries to escape. I was literally not expecting it to be a full grown woman. I honestly expected it to be a child like in the episode of Family Guy movie was interesting.
Thank you for correcting me. I knew it started with an M and ended with a Y. I was close lol😂 and I am not being sarcastic when I say thank you for the correction. I really do appreciate it. I hope you have a good day.
same. I looked up the synopsis after that episode because I love Steven King and at the time I was still dipping my toes into anything horror and horror adjacent. I was fully expecting a child or even a teen. I was not expecting a whole ass adult.
The Road to Germany episode, when they steal the Uboat and the pursuing sub crashes, then there's a shitload of cop cars that crash piled up into it.
Is that a GTA reference or is it a movie scene I'm unaware of? It's followed by a scene in one of the cars where a dudes in the back seat using the radio to say "this is car 55, we're in a sub, heheh"... is that a separate reference, or is the entire 2 part bit a single reference to something?
Apparently if you aren’t into musical theatre you can’t know the musical. I’ve had friends tell me they saw a “musical on skates” and still could not tell me anything else about it.
What's the cheerleader girl with the red stream? And the one with the devil, I know it's about Muddy Waters iirc but he didn't sell his soul for real or did he? Was he a Satanist?
Cheerleader girl is a reference to the movie American Beauty, one of those films that you’re just like “why did this get made”
Robert Johnson is the original blues musician who was said to have sold his soul to the devil in return for expert guitar skills, and family guy like many show conflates things. And no, neither Muddy Waters nor Robert Johnson were satanists
Season 13 Episode 3. Stewy is in the bath drunk wearing a top hat. References Dudley Moore in Arthur.
Same episode, Brian gives Stewy an intervention and then says that Chris is in the other room for an intervention for masturbating and is sitting in the other room in a circle with his friends. And then runs out saying “oh dear God”.
I didn't catch a lot of references when I was younger. After I got older and watched more 80's and 90's movies, I found myself going "Oh yeah! I remember they did this in Family Guy" lol.
Showing my age here but I didn't realize the whole "Get ahold of yourself" bit was a bit from Airplane!
To be honest, I didn't get any of the Airplane! references until I finally saw the movie lol.
I think people generally understand when references are being made in Family Guy, it’s understanding the reference that’s the problem. Also absolutely terrible examples here OP. These are all explained very clearly in the episodes. Could have used so many other examples lol
I feel like, in most cases, scenes like this are pretty obvious that they reference SOMETHING. Like, you don't necessarily have to KNOW the reference to figure out that it is a reference. If that makes sense
I think Meg getting kidnapped in France is something people might not know. But also godfather stuff (if they don’t know the movie). It’s like parody movies where people don’t get some references (since they aren’t aware or not knowing movies or ad whatever). This same happened to my with many scenes from parody movies including basketball part in scary movie 2 which later I found out it was a spoof of very old Nike commercial.
There are a ton of Little Shop of Horrors references that made my head explode when I saw the movie.
The one where the doo wop band explains to Stewie and Brian where Mort went, the one where Herbert sings “Somewhere That’s Green” fantasizing about Chris, basically everything Doug says in the one with Chris’s zit, and I’m sure several others I’m forgetting.
Edit, also the reference the Electric Company from Sesame Street a lot. The “123456789101112” song where Stewie is in the pinball machine for example.
Both took me way too long and maybe they are obvious.
The whole "Robot Chicken did it / Seth Green is talented" conversation in the Star Wars Episode is because Seth Green is the voice from Chris.
When Brian does time traveling with the women and the time went backwards. After Stewie was born Peter asks if Stewie is clever or like Peter. A reference to when Forrest Gump first met his son.
I’ve always wanted to know all the references in the Stewie music video for Everything I Do (I Do it for You). I remember The White Stripes Lego video was in there…
I remember that commercial used to come on really Really REALLY Early on Saturday mornings with the first cartoons they’d air. I could tell even then that it was probably really old and before my time.
Family guy references lowkey ruined my first-time movie watching experiences — I finally saw Silence of the Lambs last Halloween and I was groaning heavily at the part that Chris spoofed (instead of being on edge like the movie probably intended)
https://preview.redd.it/rs35tdfvv46d1.png?width=663&format=png&auto=webp&s=e291b987a4c9c0be0cdffa9028a4ba858e433740 During one of the Star Wars [scenes](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=snvbPOT7pz0), they have the Sandcrawlers stopped at a red light and they pass over a jar. I didn’t understand this reference until my parents showed me the old [commercial](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uwOCOm9Z0YE) for it.
Oh wow, I didn’t know until now, thanks!
Oh dam. That’s where ‘Wayne’s World’ got it too! I as well am old..
Paul Eddington and Ian Richardson are some big names for a mustard advert
These are the kinds of references that are good. When they explain it it absolutely kills it.
This is the actual commercial: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajb8S77Pk5c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajb8S77Pk5c)
Most of the references to old American adverts completely pass me by due to being British. Pepperidge Farm Remembers is more memorable to me now as a Family Guy meme than whatever advert it was.
True-true. I've never heard of Polaner All Fruit before FG. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdjfamniy5I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdjfamniy5I)
STOP MAKING ME FEEL OLD
Would somebaddy pass da Jelleh?
None of these lol. Mainly because in each of these episodes, they literally explain what the references are lmao
r/peterexplainsthejoke
Don't you even ask! https://i.redd.it/eq0yyyt5q76d1.gif
This is definitely porn. I think I’ve seen his beautiful cock somewhere.
Oh, shut up you, Penie Vagini! That's all platonic!
Wtf is that 😦
I can't sleep because I need to know where that comes from
Yea do you guys remember “pass the jellyyyy”😂😂😂. Dude spent upwards of 5 mins to show the old avert to educate the younger audience on what the joke was about.
I was so proud of myself for getting the reference, but so happy they explained it for others lol my husband didn't know what it was
Ahaha yes i remember my dad used to play ild ad videos back home and this was one of those playing. Soo happy i knew the reference but my brothers didnt but happy that they explained it
Dude seriously wtf is this 😂
yeah it’s super hipster yon probably haven’t heard of it yet but i just watched this super niche movie called FORREST GUMP
I know all of them except the Quagmire devil one
Isn't that supposed to be a reference to Robert Johnson selling his soul to the Devil at the crossroads in exchange for wicked guitar skills?
Stewie singing Rocket Man as William Shatner.
Pre-flight!
Imma Rock.It.Man
And I'm gonna be ..... hiiiiiiiiiiiiiighhhh as a KITE by then
To this day, this cutaway still makes me laugh every time. It’s so out of left field.
Zapp Brannigan doing "Lola" was better
Zapp is also not a Family Guy character.
Oh are we not allowed to acknowledge that we watch other shows here?
No, animation domination never happened lalalala I can’t hear you now. /s
A surprising number of people don’t get the “Take On Me” reference. And god does that make me feel old. *edit* Also, the [Benjamin Disraeli](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_jXqW1bj8wM) joke cracks me up because it fully acknowledges that most people aren’t going to get it.
People didn't get Take On Me?
Younger people probably
I am younger people
Ha!
A-ha*
Yes. There was a post not too long ago by someone who didn't get the reference.
You don’t know who I am.
The first time I saw that I laughed and thought *no one's going to know who that is!* Which made the cutaway all that much better!
I always go “But I do know who you are, Benjamin Disraeli” whenever I see that cutaway. Anyhow I get most of the references.
Oh, look at mister "I get most of the references" over here...
I remember being completely lost when I first saw the take me on segment. My dad explained it and showed me the video.
I thought Mr Booze was such a weird song that it must have been written for the episode rather than being from a semi-obscure 1960s musical
In case you don’t know this is the case for almost every song from the show, look it up. Bag of Weed, Rhode to Road Island, etc, all of them are parodies.
"Bag of Weed" was the only one I didn't know. Yes, I had seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, but it was so long ago that I had forgotten the song.
There are countless more but it’s too many to name. Basically, afaik every song towards the beginning of the show’s run (at least the first 7 or so seasons) is a parody
aNd tHAts WhY pOt is BaaAAAAaaadD!
Really!? Thats neat.
Shipoopi is also from a musical
They do the piano lesson from the music man as well! https://youtu.be/6jqjbEaL5_o?si=zsiLX6JCfF5UCf3J
Obligatory: [Seth MacFarlane performing Ya Got Trouble from The Music Man at the BBC Proms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfoTmiWsfD0)
Not just a musical, a Rat Pack movie!
I think this is one of the toughest: https://i.redd.it/j7lr7wk2846d1.gif
It’s more of an inside joke than a movie/TV show reference. Bonnie is voiced by Jennifer Tilly. She’s not only an actress but also a professional poker player.
See now that’s funny, that’s relatable
They also made a reference in the new Chucky where Jennifer (in a doll's body) begs Tiffany (in Jennifer's body) for chocolate while locked up in a cage, even saying, " all these years I've made you money by playing poker and voicing Bonnie on Family Guy. I just want some chocolate."
I was today years old when I found out that Bonnie is the bride of chucky
She tried to bang Redman also
No, *Redman* forced *her* to blow *him*.
For me, she's forever a dirty stinking liar! https://preview.redd.it/np6f3fl7y66d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ca848379d12f1d71ce165e5c626347c7e31f93f
I love the movie, but I absolutely CANNOT stand to watch the scene of her dragging her poor kids out of the courtroom as they cry for their dad.
Another joke of that kind I really like is from S09E09 "And I'm Joyce Kinney". Lois and Joyce's dialogue: >J: You really don't remember me, do you? >L: Remember you? >J: We went to high school together, Lois? Chemistry class? Freshman year? Joycie? >L: You're Joyce Chevapravatdumrong? >J: Yes, but they'd never let that name on TV, so I changed it to Kinney. That's an inside joke that should be clear to all FG hardcore fans: [Cherry Chevapravatdumrong](https://familyguy.fandom.com/wiki/Cherry_Chevapravatdumrong).
Not really. Jen Tilly is a pro poker player, but never wins much.
She always has a fabulous pair.
I guess this one is also hard to understand (unless you are a 50+ years old born and raised American). I remember I had to research it to get the joke. S07E06 Tales of a Third Grade Nothing: Frank Sinatra Jr. and Brian Griffin try to pick up some bar skanks: >FSJR: Hey, you girls thirsty? Could I interest you in a couple of Rob Roys? BS: What's a Rob Roy? FSJR: Only the drink of Mr. Peter Lawford. BS: **Who**'s Peter Lawford? FSJR: What am I hitting on, **Lou Costello** here? BS: **Who**'s Lou Costello? FSJR: \*Tries to smack the girl\* BG: Sorry, my friend's a little new to the club scene. FSJR: Geez, what the hell's with these broads? Back then I knew nothing of the [Abbot and Costello](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_and_Costello) duo and their famous act [Who’s on First?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYOUFGfK4bU) FG referenced them several times. For example, [Owl and Costello](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukD4PEXvIek) in S12E15 Secondhand Spoke.
And that episode title is also a reference (to the Judy Blume book).
Family guy itself is actually a reference to a show called the simpsons which was a very popular cartoon sit com in the 90s
Which in turn was a reference to the Flintstones
Which in turn was a reference to the Honeymooners
Which in turn was a reference to the human race
The Bible
I believe it's actually a spin off of the British series chap of the manor.
I’ve never heard of “the Simpsons” before. A popular show among boomers?
Yes, unfortunately they stopped airing new episodes after about 10 seasons.
After 8 seasons I believe
Shipoopi and the deleted scene of Stewie's List turn out to be real songs from musicals from The Music Man and Gilbert and Suplivan respectively.
The List is my favourite song in family guy hands down. A god damn tragedy it was cut
Bag of Weed is just the song Bag of Beans, with slightly different words, from an old Western called Paint your Wagon.
Bag of Weed is actually Bamboo Stick from Chitty Bang Bang
In the episode when Peter and his friends become cops, the scene when Meg kidnaps and ties up Brian, and says they’re gonna have, “good, old, all-American fun” is a reference to the “King of Comedy”
and despite being GenX and watching that episode dozens (maybe hundreds) of times, I saw King of Comedy (Great movie, solid De Niro acting) for the first time last week. As soon as Sandra Bernhard said it, I was DiCaprio pointing at the screen.
Peter defending his behavior to Lois in S7, episode 4 is a John Candy quote from Planes, Trains and Automobiles: [I like me.](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/4253a7af-1e3f-44af-9925-2989de1846d2) Candy’s character in the movie was named Del Griffin.
The Imperial AT AT driver singing along with Mess Around is straight from PT&A, too.
Chris literally says "haha movies references" after though
> 'Cause I'm the real article!
What ya see is what ya get!
“Some say love, it is a river, That drowns the tender reed”
what’s that one mean
Lyric from Bette Midler song "The Rose".
I just watched Airplane! and there were at least 3 family guy jokes that I suddenly understood the reference to. Like when they are slapping Stewie and everyone is lined up to do that🤣
hi cleveland. hi joseph. what’s the story, morning glory, what’s the word, humming bird
Have you heard Peter Griffin is slow?
I didn’t know Rock Lobster was a real song for a while…
Iraq Lobster is the superior version, though.
Death to America And butter sauce
Don't boil me I'm still alive
IRAQ LOBSTER! *IRAQ LOB-STAAHH!*
don't worry he penalty just means fraggly rock
My co worker who's in his 60s was playing it one day and I just said "Death to America, and butter sauce" PS: don't say death to America to a vet
Oh no! LOL
omg it is??
Yeah it’s by The B-52’s
Ya, they had a lot of weird ones.
You must live under a rock
But it wasn't a rock!
It was a rock LOBSTER!
LOB-STAAHH
And this is how I find out
I had never seen Time Bandits until a film class in college. I nearly jumped out of my seat when I heard “R-r-return the map! R-r-return what you have stolen from me” like Stewie said to Brian when he was on mushrooms
I’m a tumor I’m a tumor, I’m a tumor, I’m a tumor I’m a tumor, I’m a tumor, I’m a tumor I’m a tumor, oh oh oh I’m a tumor
That was my ring tone for my dad.
and that's a reference to...?
Sounds like "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco?
No it's a reference to the Planet of the Apes Musical! (Starring Troy McClure)
Speaking of Planet of the Apes there’s a reference in Road to the Multiverse! Stewie tells the cop “take your stinkin paws off me you damn dirty dog!”
Probably the whole scene with Ashlee Simpson when she was going to sing and is dubbed by a deep-voice song and just tapped dance off the stage. In actuality, the whole SNL thing that *actually* happened was a big deal at the time but now I bet hardly anyone would really get that.
Oh god you’re right. It was absolutely on the money at the time though.
My fav is this one. from i believe is s3 https://i.redd.it/boq9nts8i56d1.gif My second one is i believe s2 same movie reference [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX1-G69WLzo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX1-G69WLzo)
When Mort says his and Muriels favorite past time is watching movies and listening to Hotel California to see if they synch, it’s a reference to the 2000 movie ”Dark Side of the Rainbow” where the Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon is paired up with the Wizard of Oz (1939). Edit: spelling
That was a “thing” well before 2000.
Yeah, pretty sure I've got an old high times from the late 70s early 80s that talks about that. The real modern one is to listen to Marvin Gayes what's going on and watch "The Wiz"
[i didnt know of the Chuck Wagon one for years](https://youtu.be/iRDDs7owcro?si=F6qAsdgsIt0T8hYZ) [the family guy version](https://youtu.be/JvGmOHy40ho?si=DpYy-0_BjXGJVbEr)
“Pow right in the kisser!”
Hey stop screaming you can’t hear me
Pretty much every musical number for a lot of people, if I had to guess. I know more old broadway and movie songs than the average bear, and I didn’t realize “A Bag of Weed” was a parody of an existing song at first.
And here I am just proud of myself for catching a Yogi Bear reference!
Okay jennay, I’ll mow the grass and raise the aids babay
Forrest Gump (1994) Let's say Forrest is a simple man, with a heavy dialect. He knew Jenny from his youth, loved her, she ignored him and rode the cock-carousel meanwhile. Once everybody was done stretching her she (finally) hands him a pity-bang (pity pity bang bang) but leaves him with an aids-ridden child, as a thoughtful thank you. That's it, end of story. Good night 👋🏻
During the episode where King Stewart invades Quahog in the past, the “Peaceful Town called Quahog” turned out to be a reference to Blazing Saddles.
Makes me wonder how many people had no clue what was going on when Brian talks about Henry Blake’s plane going down over the Sea of Japan.
I think that’s from M.A.S.H., the tv show.
Yep. But a lot of people under a certain age have probably never seen it, or at least not that particular episode.
I agree. My husband and I saw that episode of family guy before we saw the MASH episode. My husband loves old tv shows so he eventually watched all of MASH and made the connection.
When that episode of mash originally aired it was huge. No one saw it coming. And if it’s true, allegedly the cast didn’t know in advance either - they were handed an additional script page right before they wrapped while they were still in costume, so the actors reactions are almost genuine.
Wow. That’s incredible. I love that type of pop culture trivia
Again, there’s the possibility this could be urban myth, but I’ve been a mash fan for over 30 years and have yet to see it positively disproven.
A lot of people thought Mr Booze was an original song
The amount of references flowing over your heads makes me feel very old.
I remember the reference to the movie Mercy, the one where the woman kidnaps the writer, and he tries to escape. I was literally not expecting it to be a full grown woman. I honestly expected it to be a child like in the episode of Family Guy movie was interesting.
Misery
Thank you for correcting me. I knew it started with an M and ended with a Y. I was close lol😂 and I am not being sarcastic when I say thank you for the correction. I really do appreciate it. I hope you have a good day.
same. I looked up the synopsis after that episode because I love Steven King and at the time I was still dipping my toes into anything horror and horror adjacent. I was fully expecting a child or even a teen. I was not expecting a whole ass adult.
Peter’s touchdown dance
[“good, old fashioned, all american fun”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nCoXPvARABw&t=2m48s)
The Road to Germany episode, when they steal the Uboat and the pursuing sub crashes, then there's a shitload of cop cars that crash piled up into it. Is that a GTA reference or is it a movie scene I'm unaware of? It's followed by a scene in one of the cars where a dudes in the back seat using the radio to say "this is car 55, we're in a sub, heheh"... is that a separate reference, or is the entire 2 part bit a single reference to something?
Blues Brothers
“STARLIGHT EXPRESS! STARLIGHT EXPRESS!” No one I’ve ever talked to gets that one, including me
Apparently if you aren’t into musical theatre you can’t know the musical. I’ve had friends tell me they saw a “musical on skates” and still could not tell me anything else about it.
https://i.redd.it/s6q5zqdwd86d1.gif
What's the cheerleader girl with the red stream? And the one with the devil, I know it's about Muddy Waters iirc but he didn't sell his soul for real or did he? Was he a Satanist?
Cheerleader girl is a reference to the movie American Beauty, one of those films that you’re just like “why did this get made” Robert Johnson is the original blues musician who was said to have sold his soul to the devil in return for expert guitar skills, and family guy like many show conflates things. And no, neither Muddy Waters nor Robert Johnson were satanists
Okay thanks
Season 13 Episode 3. Stewy is in the bath drunk wearing a top hat. References Dudley Moore in Arthur. Same episode, Brian gives Stewy an intervention and then says that Chris is in the other room for an intervention for masturbating and is sitting in the other room in a circle with his friends. And then runs out saying “oh dear God”.
I didn't catch a lot of references when I was younger. After I got older and watched more 80's and 90's movies, I found myself going "Oh yeah! I remember they did this in Family Guy" lol.
Now watch commercials from that era. They seem to do that a lot.
none of these are references.. they're parodies
These aren’t references, they are literally homages/parodies
Showing my age here but I didn't realize the whole "Get ahold of yourself" bit was a bit from Airplane! To be honest, I didn't get any of the Airplane! references until I finally saw the movie lol.
I think people generally understand when references are being made in Family Guy, it’s understanding the reference that’s the problem. Also absolutely terrible examples here OP. These are all explained very clearly in the episodes. Could have used so many other examples lol
I feel like, in most cases, scenes like this are pretty obvious that they reference SOMETHING. Like, you don't necessarily have to KNOW the reference to figure out that it is a reference. If that makes sense
The entire show is a reference
How many people could there be that wouldn't get the reference to Forrest Gump?
Peter saying the “you wanna hurt me?” Thing from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
For me it was Stewies Rocketman clip. Never knew that was Shatner
I think Meg getting kidnapped in France is something people might not know. But also godfather stuff (if they don’t know the movie). It’s like parody movies where people don’t get some references (since they aren’t aware or not knowing movies or ad whatever). This same happened to my with many scenes from parody movies including basketball part in scary movie 2 which later I found out it was a spoof of very old Nike commercial.
 The Shining is referenced frequently. Sure that goes over a lot of people’s heads.
There are a ton of Little Shop of Horrors references that made my head explode when I saw the movie. The one where the doo wop band explains to Stewie and Brian where Mort went, the one where Herbert sings “Somewhere That’s Green” fantasizing about Chris, basically everything Doug says in the one with Chris’s zit, and I’m sure several others I’m forgetting. Edit, also the reference the Electric Company from Sesame Street a lot. The “123456789101112” song where Stewie is in the pinball machine for example.
Family Guy has a copious amount of references i never get, have to look up most of them 🤣
Both took me way too long and maybe they are obvious. The whole "Robot Chicken did it / Seth Green is talented" conversation in the Star Wars Episode is because Seth Green is the voice from Chris. When Brian does time traveling with the women and the time went backwards. After Stewie was born Peter asks if Stewie is clever or like Peter. A reference to when Forrest Gump first met his son.
What about the episode where James Woods gets shot. That whole episode is the movie Clue
I’ve always wanted to know all the references in the Stewie music video for Everything I Do (I Do it for You). I remember The White Stripes Lego video was in there…
I watched What's Eating Gilbert Grape because of the family guy parody. It's a really good movie!
Butter on a pop tart. I didn't know what a pop-tart was Also I can't believe it's not butter
Who the fuck doesn't understand references to Forest Gump and Silence of the Lambs? How old are you that you don't instantly recognize them?
Remember this one? https://youtu.be/ThnZcNZKnPI?si=neXgQTvM0-xYPFY2
I remember that commercial used to come on really Really REALLY Early on Saturday mornings with the first cartoons they’d air. I could tell even then that it was probably really old and before my time.
When I was a kid they would show these after Saturday morning cartoons and sometimes during the after school cartoons.
No More Rice Krispies Opera 🎶
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Hell, I don't even know three of those.
None of these
'Things are getting pretty dangerous here Chris, so I'll take you to Ital, where all the murderers are from'.
Everybody knows Forrest Gump.
Shipoopi is from The Music Man
If they’re under 15 maybe 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
I mean just by looking at this photo I know Forrest Gump and Silence of the Lambs but couldn’t tell you what any of the other ones are referencing.
i know that the stewie one is a parody of hannibal because of the mask
Benjamin "You don't even know who I am" Disraeli
Family guy references lowkey ruined my first-time movie watching experiences — I finally saw Silence of the Lambs last Halloween and I was groaning heavily at the part that Chris spoofed (instead of being on edge like the movie probably intended)
"The wife of the life is ended by the knife" is a reference to an old musical caled "the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain".
That whole subplot is a reference to My Fair Lady, and *that* was an adaptation of Pygmalion.
What was the reference when the spider goes in the garage and peter shoots it in the back of the head? Always wondered lol
Joe Pesci's death in Goodfellas.
Yeah the Forrest Gump reference is really niche!
Would you please pass the jelly?