Cultural References
The television series Jackass is referred to frequently by Peter and his neighbors, and is the principal reason that they try to do stunts. Johnny Knoxville cameoes and takes a shotgun blast which blows off part of his face. In the episode, while being launched off a ramp and flying through the air, Peter wears the costume from The Greatest American Hero and sings that series' theme song.
Peter dresses up like a stereotypical adolescent bully featured in 1980s films, and makes references to Pretty in Pink, No Retreat, No Surrender and The Karate Kid. He then looks at the ocean on a pier as Howard Jones' song, "No One Is to Blame", plays. In one scene, Stewie refers to "aging supermodel Carol Alt." Before New Brian and Lois sing "Summer Nights" as featured in Grease, Peter sings R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts". Stewie reads and then rips apart Nancy Reagan's memoir, My Turn. Mumm-Ra, the antagonist from the 1980s cartoon Thundercats and its 2011 remake, appears in the scene where Cleveland is making Brian go to the bathroom on a leash whilst staying at his house. Mumm-Ra watches through his cauldron and laughs evilly before remarking, "I'm watching you make stool!"
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“The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal. It expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values.... Because myth anchors the present in the past it is a sociological charter for a future society which is an exact replica of the present one.”
—Ann Oakley (b. 1944)