Cultural References
- The title of the episode is a reference to the television series Mission: Impossible.
- When Stewie is flying the ship, the ship's computer voice (Majel Barrett) is the same computer voice heard in Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as Star Trek: Voyager and, occasionally, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
- After Cleveland sees Stewie escape the Peter robot, he says "I see nothing, nothing!" This was a catchphrase of Sergeant Hans Schultz, a bumbling German sergeant, on the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes.
- The concept of miniaturizing a ship to go inside a person's body is a reference to Fantastic Voyage and the 1987 movie Innerspace.
- The fight scenes and battleships and lasers inside Peter's sperm city parodies Star Wars.
- Stewie's dialogue after opening the fridge is taken verbatim from an old Sunny Delight commercial where kids root around in the refrigerator and pick Sunny D over the other drinks.
- Stewie and Bertram sing a duet from the song Up Where We Belong. Before this, they discuss things they hate, including people who wear socks with sandals, saying together: "Jason Patric!"
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