| Beastie Boys / Fight for my right to party |    | Peter has to "Fight for my right to party." |
| Billy Ocean's Get Out of My Dreams (Get Into My Car) | | This is the song playing when Peter and Connie are dancing. |
| Cap'n Crunch | | See "Tony the Tiger" reference. |
| Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist | | Stewie has a fantasy in which he is Oliver Twist. |
| Doublemint Gum commercials | | The Griffins are shown watching a Doublemint Gum commercial featuring siamese twins. |
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High | | The scene where Peter sneaks out the house to go to the ball is a reference to the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High (the song being played, Jackson Brown's Somebody's Baby, is also from the film). |
| Ferris Bueller's Day Off | | The tape recorder left by Peter to fool Lois is a parody of a scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. |
| Fresh Prince of Bel Air | | When Peter gets caught doing grafitti he sprays his armpiits like the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. The Fresh Prince of Bel AIr was a 90s sitcom about a black family in California starring a young Will Smith. |
| Geritol | | Geritol is a popular multi-vitamin for adults. |
| Grease / You're the One That I Want | | Peter's song is a parody of the popular Grease song "You're the One That I Want". |
| Grease 2 | | Peter saying 'I'm going to drive recklessly into the night and ride my motorcycle off Dead Man's Curve!' is a reference to "Grease 2". In the movie, a nerd's 'greaser heartthrob' alter ego (much like Peter's) is killed in the exact same way. |
| Greg Allman / Allman Brothers | | Peter asks Greg Allman for advice. |
| Hanson | | Meg has a poster of Hanson on her bedroom wall. |
| Happy Days | | Peter tries to mimic the Fonze from Happy Days when he hits the jukebox. |
| Jackson Brown / Somebody's Baby | | This song is playing in the background when Peter sneaks out the house to go to the ball. |
| Kermit rhe Frog | | Tom mentions that licking toad is sometimes known as "Doing Kermit". |
| Kinky Sex / BDSM / Dominatrix | | Lois and Peter practice BDSM
(bondage-discipline-sadomasochism) using the safety word: banana. |
| Let's Go To the Hop | | The title of this episode is also the title of a popular dance song from the 1950's. |
| Lucky the Leprechaun | | See "Tony the Tiger" reference. |
| Poppin Fresh / Pillsbury | | Peter asks if the baggy clothes kids are "stupid, and cool, and Poppin' Fresh." |
| Quadratic Formula | | The school girl in the puritanical schoolhouse recites the Quadratic Formula and then is accused of witchcraft for answering. |
| Sea Monkeys | | |
| Simple Minds / Don't You (Forget About Me) | | This Simple Mind's song plays the episode out. |
| Spider-man | | Spider-man spins a web to catch Peter when he falls off the roof. |
| Sports Night | | The second toad-licking teen says that he finally understands the ABC sitcom Sports Night after licking the toad. |
| Star Wars / Lando Calrisien | | Peter calls his undercover character Lando Griffin. |
| Statutory Rape | | When Peter sees Connie's dress he says "Sweet Statutory!" |
| The Brady Bunch | | Peter's excuse for breaking off his date with Meg to go to the ball with Connie instead, "something suddenly came up", is a reference to an episode of The Brady Bunch. |
| The Breakfast Club | | The ending scene where Peter (as the alias 'Lando Griffin') thrusts his fist into the air and freezes. |
| The Breakfast Club | | The scene in which Peter sees Tony the Tiger, et al, is a parody of a scene from the film The Breakfast Club in which Judd Nelson's character is talking about what he got for Christmas one year. |
| The Thompson Twins | | Peter spray paints the phrase "The Thompson Twins Rule". |
| The Trix rabbit | | See "Tony the Tiger" reference. |
| Tony the Tiger | | Tony the Tiger, Cap'n Crunch, Lucky the Leprechaun, the Trix rabbit and Tucan Sam are sat in the detention room and when Peter sees them he says "Holy crap, it's the Breakfast Club!". |
| Tootsie Pop commercials | | The infomerical about licking toads is a parody of the old 80's Tootsie Pop's commercials. |
| Tucan Sam | | See "Tony the Tiger" reference. |
