Family Guy

Family Guy is an animated television series aimed at adult/older teen audiences on FOX revolving around an overweight Rhode Island man named Peter Griffin and his family: wife Lois, daughter Meg, oldest son Chris, youngest son Stewie (a baby bent on world domination), and talking dog Brian.

The show contains many pop culture references and spoofs. The Muppet Show and Sesame Street are among the television shows that have been mentioned.

Verbal Mentions

 * "Peter Peter Caviar Eater" - Peter is forced to sell an inherited house, and attempts to prove the house has historic value to raise the price by claiming that a rock was "where the pilgrims landed down at ''Fraggle Rock"


 * "Fifteen Minutes of Shame" - Peter tries to get attention on the Griffins' reality show with a puppet (Wayland Flowers' Madame) when the camera starts to pan away from Peter to something more interesting. Peter wants the cameraman to come back because "she's gonna sing Rainbow Connection!"


 * "Let's Go To The Hop" - A new drug craze called "toad", which basically consists of licking frogs, hits the news and anchorman Tom Tucker says that the drug is also known as "Lillipadding","Frenching the Prince", and "Doing Kermit".


 * "A Fish Out Of Water" - A tough biker wants a tattoo artist to draw a skull on his thigh, but the artist says that he can do Kermit the Frog. The biker says he just wants a skull, but the artist goes ahead with drawing Kermit.


 * "Ready, Willing, and Disabled" - Peter demands his own TV movie starring Valerie BertandErnie (his mispronounciation of actress Valerie Bertinelli's name)


 * "Saving Private Brian" - After joining the army, Brian and Stewie hear they will be shipped out to Iraq. Brian distressly exclaims "Iraq!?!" to which Stewie says "he probably meant 'Fraggli-Roc'."


 * "Stewie Kills Lois" - After Stewie begins admiring the echoing of his inner monologue, his thoughts echo Pigs in Space in the style of the sketch's opening narration.


 * In the online video "A Scotsman Who Can't Watch a Movie Without Shouting at the Screen", a series of clips feature a Scotsman judging various movies. Among them is "The Muppet Movie", and the Scot berates Kermit since "they're not gonna listen to a poopet in Hollywood", and further gets angry when the other "poopets" are invited for the ride.

Connections

 * LeVar Burton voiced himself in the episode "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven"
 * Lacey Chabert provided the voice of Meg in the first season.
 * Michael Dorn voiced himself in the episode "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven"
 * Seth Green provides the voice for Chris.
 * Erik Estrada voiced Ponch in the episode "I Never Met the Dead Man"
 * Gates McFadden voiced herself in the episode "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven"
 * Patrick Stewart voiced himself in the episode "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven"
 * Wil Wheaton voiced himself in the episode "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven"