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The King Is Dead

Written by Craig Hoffman and directed by Monte Young

Lois becomes the director of the local theater group and decides to do `The King And I` as her first production. When Peter struggles to discover his creative style, he decides to join in with Lois` production, but begins to take his job a little too far.

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Reference	Details
Albert Einstein		See "Michelangelo" reference. Also reference is made to his theory of relativity.
Andrew Lloyd Webber		Stewie has a dig at Lloyd-Webber musicals.
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Dildo		People at the toy factory are disguisted at the vibrating phallic toy Peter creates, exept Mr. Weed who takes it into his office (another reference to the possibiliy that Mr Weed is gay)
Dr. Martin's		Mr. Zucchini Head wears Dr. Martin's boots.
England		A.N.N.A. arrives at Siam and comes from the planet England.
Frisbee		Chris suggests to his father that he invents the frisbee.
Helen Hayes
Hermin Melville		See "Michelangelo" reference.
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Jay Leno
Kung Fu
Land of the Lost		Peter auditions by singing "Land of The Lost" theme.
Maniac by Michael Sambello		Peter gives Diane the directions from the first line of lyrics to Maniac: "A steel town girl on a Saturday night, looking for the fight of her life."
Michelangelo		Lois mentions that loads of great people started out with mindless jobs listing: Michelangelo, Melville and Einstein.
Miss Saigon
Mr. Potato Head		Peter's Mr. Zucchini Head is reference to the popular toy Mr. Potato Head. Mr. Zucchini Head also looks rather like a sex toy, so just watch where Mr. Weed takes it away too!
Paul Lynde
Rent
Sean Penn		Reference is made to Sean Penn's early career as a weather forcastor.
Shakesphere		"Put a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters, and eventually they'll produce Shakespeare."
Spike Lee		``A Peter Griffin Joint``
The Jerry Springer Show
The King And I
There's Something About Mary		"There's Something About Stewie" spoof.
William Shatner		William Shatner can be seen in the audience of the play.

Reference

Details

Albert Einstein

See "Michelangelo" reference. Also reference is made to his theory of relativity.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Stewie has a dig at Lloyd-Webber musicals.

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Dildo

People at the toy factory are disguisted at the vibrating phallic toy Peter creates, exept Mr. Weed who takes it into his office (another reference to the possibiliy that Mr Weed is gay)

Dr. Martin's

Mr. Zucchini Head wears Dr. Martin's boots.

England

A.N.N.A. arrives at Siam and comes from the planet England.

Frisbee

Chris suggests to his father that he invents the frisbee.

Helen Hayes

Hermin Melville

See "Michelangelo" reference.

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Jay Leno

Kung Fu

Land of the Lost

Peter auditions by singing "Land of The Lost" theme.

Maniac by Michael Sambello

Peter gives Diane the directions from the first line of lyrics to Maniac: "A steel town girl on a Saturday night, looking for the fight of her life."

Michelangelo

Lois mentions that loads of great people started out with mindless jobs listing: Michelangelo, Melville and Einstein.

Miss Saigon

Mr. Potato Head

Peter's Mr. Zucchini Head is reference to the popular toy Mr. Potato Head. Mr. Zucchini Head also looks rather like a sex toy, so just watch where Mr. Weed takes it away too!

Paul Lynde

Rent

Sean Penn

Reference is made to Sean Penn's early career as a weather forcastor.

Shakesphere

"Put a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters, and eventually they'll produce Shakespeare."

Spike Lee

``A Peter Griffin Joint``

The Jerry Springer Show

The King And I

There's Something About Mary

"There's Something About Stewie" spoof.

William Shatner

William Shatner can be seen in the audience of the play.

Note
The postwoman from the first episode appears when the cast list is pinned up on the board.
When Peter takes his glasses off to rub his eyes during the final rehersal there are a pair of pupils painted onto the lenses of the glasses.
If you look closely at the audience you will be able to see all of the following characters from episodes of Family Guy: Lois, Meg, Chris, the woman that Peter hits at the soccer game, Flappy Jack, Jack and Sarah the foster parents and their foster children, Mr. Fargus, Mr. Weed, the Don from the Quahog mob, Cleveland Jr., Charlie the shop assistant from "Erotic Entertainment", the Cherrywood Manor maid, Misty (Stewie previously flirted with her at a bar), William Shatner, one of the scouts, Dr. Kaplan, the Judge, Tom Tucker, Diane Simmons, Trica Takanawa, the upside down head boy (Tom's son) and Leonard Cornfeathers (the Indian Casino manager).

Note

The postwoman from the first episode appears when the cast list is pinned up on the board.

When Peter takes his glasses off to rub his eyes during the final rehersal there are a pair of pupils painted onto the lenses of the glasses.

If you look closely at the audience you will be able to see all of the following characters from episodes of Family Guy: Lois, Meg, Chris, the woman that Peter hits at the soccer game, Flappy Jack, Jack and Sarah the foster parents and their foster children, Mr. Fargus, Mr. Weed, the Don from the Quahog mob, Cleveland Jr., Charlie the shop assistant from "Erotic Entertainment", the Cherrywood Manor maid, Misty (Stewie previously flirted with her at a bar), William Shatner, one of the scouts, Dr. Kaplan, the Judge, Tom Tucker, Diane Simmons, Trica Takanawa, the upside down head boy (Tom's son) and Leonard Cornfeathers (the Indian Casino manager).