Season 5 Ep. 4: "Saving Private Brian" References

• The episode title itself is already an allusion to Tom Hank's movie Saving Private Ryan.
• A song sounding almost identical to Def Leppards's "Pour Some Sugar on Me" serves as the music for an Army commercial.
• Mickey Rooney is parodied in a commercial for crazy pills.
• Stewie claims a phrase from "The Onion" as his own, and Brian calls him out on it.
• Peter and Lois are watching "Robert," a spin-off of "Everybody loves Raymond."
• Stewie and Brian discuss Revenge of the Sith.
• Peter has therapy with Comedy Central's "Dr. Katz."
• A high school band changes the lyrics of KISS' "Rock and Roll All Night" to "party every first Thursday."
• Peter says Laura Dern looks like a banana.
• Peter is seen reading a Choose Your Own Adventure book.
• We learn that Muddy Waters sounds like Muddy Waters because he passes kidney stones while singing.
• Stewie imagines that Dorothy of the Wizard of Oz has herpes.
• Stewie tries to prove he's old enough to be in the Army by claiming he has "Webster " disease" (which alludes to the 80s sitcom Webster which featured dwarf actor Emmanuelle Lewis).
• When Stewie and Brian join the Army, their drill Sgt. calls Brian a "private dancer, dancer for money." These are lyrics to a Tina Turner song.
• Zinedine Zidane is seen giving a headbutt birthday telegram to an old lady. He became famous for headbutting Italy's defender Marco Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup.
• When Chris stage dives and crashes through the floor, he ends up in the famous painting "Dogs Playing Poker" with Mayor West at the table.
• During military training, the soldiers break into show tunes, ending with a tune from West Side Story.
• Garth Brooks' alter ego Chris Gaines is referenced.
• Peter imagines a car full of Gregory Pecks.
• Part of the military obstacle course includes solving a Rubik's cube, finding Waldo, & playing Perfection (the latter of which is a Milton Bradley game). While Brian is running this course, the theme from Stripes is playing.
• Stewie imagines a movie director having problems fitting Minnie Driver's head onto the screen.
• Stewie thinks he's being shipped off to war in Fraggle Iraq (obvious pun for Jim Henson's "Fraggle Rock").
• When Stewie tries to guess military codes, he uses tv & movie references as code words, among them Tango and Cash and Mary Hartman (the latter of which is a 70s soap opera parody).
• Chris has a Wu-Tang Clan CD & a poster of Marilyn Manson in his room. Later in the episode, Peter punches Manson for corrupting his son Brian.
• George Bush is seen playing with a Slinky toy in the White House.
• Marilyn Manson is seen giving advice to Chris with words taken from a Grape Nuts commercial.