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Petarded

Written by Alec Sulkin, Wellesley Wild and directed by Seth Kearsley

At a game night among friends, Lois lets Peter win at Trivial Pursuit, which leads Peter to gloat and think he's a genius. Brian knows the truth and challenges Peter to prove his intelligence by getting an IQ test. But when the test results determine Peter is legally mentally challenged, everyone ends up looking stupid.

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Reference	Details
Bye Bye Birdie		The musical number that begins with Joe calling Cleveland to gossip about Peter's IQ test results (which was cut out of the original Fox broadcast) is a parody of "The Telephone Hour" from the 1960's musical/movie "Bye Bye Birdie."
CBS News
Cloris Leachman		Peter daydreams that he bought her legally, so she could juggle the beanbags. Cloris Leachman is the grandmother off Malcom in the Middle and Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Falco - Rock me Amadeus		Lois grows a brain tumor in the form of Peter and he sings a song to the tune of "Amadeus"
Fantastic Four
Forest Gump		The scientist tells Lois and Peter that Peter is just below the retarted line on the IQ test; this is similar to a scene in the Tom Hanks movie "Forest Gump" (1994) where a scientist tells Forest's mom that Forest is in the Below Average IQ range.
Hiroshima bombing		Lois compares Peter's bad day to the day of the Hiroshima bombing in Japan.
iPod		Stewie is seen in a spoof iPod commercial. iPods are popular mp3 players made by Apple.
IQ Tests		Peter takes an IQ test.
Jake and the Fat Man		Peter and Brian are watching an episode of Jake and the Fat Man on TV.
Mask		After scolding her with grease, Peter compares Lois to Rocky Dennis from Mask.
Monopoly		The gang play Cleveland's civil rights board game which bares a resemblence to the popular board game Monopoly.
National Geographic
Paintball		The game of Paintball is parodied when the residents of Spooner Street play a similar game, except with real guns (as opposed to paintball guns).
Robocop		When Quagmire complains after being shot by Peter, Peter replies "Relax, you're doing better than Peter Weller in the opening scene of Robocop." It then cuts to a blonde man, on his knees, in police uniform, being shot repeatedly, screaming. This is actually what happened in the movie Robocop. He was being shot repeatedly. He is rather brutally killed.
Scandal - The Warrior		The song used in Stewie's iPod commercial is "The Warrior" by Scandal (1984).
See N' Say		Peter takes the IQ Test and uses a See N' Say instead of a calculator.
Sesame Street		Peter tells Agent Jesop to count the prostitutes and they are counted by children
The Vagina Monolouges
Timer the cheese guy		Peter is living next door to Timer from the popular saturday morning educational cartoon short "Time For Timer". A little yellow blob with arms, legs, and a cowboy hat named Timer would sing to kids about health and nutrition. In this episode he is being loud because he his high on crack.
Trivial Pursuits		Peter and company play the popular board game Trivial Pursuits. Trivial Pursuits involves answering a variety of general knowledge questions in order to win tokens to fill your counter with.
Twister		Peter and company play the popular party game Twister.

Reference

Details

Bye Bye Birdie

The musical number that begins with Joe calling Cleveland to gossip about Peter's IQ test results (which was cut out of the original Fox broadcast) is a parody of "The Telephone Hour" from the 1960's musical/movie "Bye Bye Birdie."

CBS News

Cloris Leachman

Peter daydreams that he bought her legally, so she could juggle the beanbags. Cloris Leachman is the grandmother off Malcom in the Middle and Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Falco - Rock me Amadeus

Lois grows a brain tumor in the form of Peter and he sings a song to the tune of "Amadeus"

Fantastic Four

Forest Gump

The scientist tells Lois and Peter that Peter is just below the retarted line on the IQ test; this is similar to a scene in the Tom Hanks movie "Forest Gump" (1994) where a scientist tells Forest's mom that Forest is in the Below Average IQ range.

Hiroshima bombing

Lois compares Peter's bad day to the day of the Hiroshima bombing in Japan.

iPod

Stewie is seen in a spoof iPod commercial. iPods are popular mp3 players made by Apple.

IQ Tests

Peter takes an IQ test.

Jake and the Fat Man

Peter and Brian are watching an episode of Jake and the Fat Man on TV.

Mask

After scolding her with grease, Peter compares Lois to Rocky Dennis from Mask.

Monopoly

The gang play Cleveland's civil rights board game which bares a resemblence to the popular board game Monopoly.

National Geographic

Paintball

The game of Paintball is parodied when the residents of Spooner Street play a similar game, except with real guns (as opposed to paintball guns).

Robocop

When Quagmire complains after being shot by Peter, Peter replies "Relax, you're doing better than Peter Weller in the opening scene of Robocop." It then cuts to a blonde man, on his knees, in police uniform, being shot repeatedly, screaming. This is actually what happened in the movie Robocop. He was being shot repeatedly. He is rather brutally killed.

Scandal - The Warrior

The song used in Stewie's iPod commercial is "The Warrior" by Scandal (1984).

See N' Say

Peter takes the IQ Test and uses a See N' Say instead of a calculator.

Sesame Street

Peter tells Agent Jesop to count the prostitutes and they are counted by children

The Vagina Monolouges

Timer the cheese guy

Peter is living next door to Timer from the popular saturday morning educational cartoon short "Time For Timer". A little yellow blob with arms, legs, and a cowboy hat named Timer would sing to kids about health and nutrition. In this episode he is being loud because he his high on crack.

Trivial Pursuits

Peter and company play the popular board game Trivial Pursuits. Trivial Pursuits involves answering a variety of general knowledge questions in order to win tokens to fill your counter with.

Twister

Peter and company play the popular party game Twister.

Note
On the board that the man shows Peter that his IQ is below the level of Retardation below that there is a category called Creationists.
When Peter is talking to "The Ghost That Never Lies", he says, "Do you see the culprit or culprits in this courtroom today?" But in truth there is no culprit because Peter is in court to battle for the custody of his children, not a criminal accusation.

Note

On the board that the man shows Peter that his IQ is below the level of Retardation below that there is a category called Creationists.

When Peter is talking to "The Ghost That Never Lies", he says, "Do you see the culprit or culprits in this courtroom today?" But in truth there is no culprit because Peter is in court to battle for the custody of his children, not a criminal accusation.

Character	Voice	Notes
Bonnie Swanson	Jennifer Tilly
Brian Griffin	Seth MacFarlane
Chris Griffin	Seth Green
Cleveland Brown	Mike Henry
Joe Swanson	Patrick Warburton
Judge	Phil LaMarr
Lois Griffin	Alex Borstein
Meg Griffin	Mila Kunis
Mort Goldman	John G Brennan
Muriel Goldman
Peter Griffin	Seth MacFarlane
Quagmire (Glen Quagmire)	Seth MacFarlane
Stewie Griffin	Seth MacFarlane

Character

Voice

Notes

Jennifer Tilly

Seth MacFarlane

Seth Green

Mike Henry