| a-ha |    | Chris gets pulled into the animated "Take On Me" video by this Norwegian 80s pop band. |
| Age of Innocence | | The writers joke that Winona Ryder stars in this movie simply for a topless scene in it. |
| Air Horn | | Peter demonstraits the new air horn, or "soccer horn" as he refers to it, to Joe at the dinner table. |
| Blowjob | | See Fellatio reference |
| Book Clubs | | Peter took Lois' place in a book club meeting in which the members discuss a recently read book. |
| CBS | | The Asiantown news channel parodies the CBS "eye", making it turn and slant. (You have it as the 'CNN Eye'. CNNs logo does not feature an eye..it is CBS) |
| Cesarean Section | | Due to the size of Stewie's head, he assumes that Lois must have needed to birth him through this surgical procedure. |
| Child Abuse Labor | | While in Asiantown, Stewie had a job making shoes with other Asian childern. He then sews his hand to a sneaker and is replaced with a still wet newborn! |
| CNN | | The Asiantown news channel parodies the CNN "eye", making it turn and slant. |
| Corey Haim | | Mistaken for one of the Goonies (Corey Feldman) by Stewie, this is a parody of the "2 Coreys" phenomenon in the 80s; Haim and Feldman made many movies together and attended many social events together. Now, Haim's reduced to eating sewer rats. |
| Cross-dressing | | Brian is caught wearing a dress and heels by Stewie. |
| Department of Motor Vehicles | | Peter jokes about the notoriously long lines at the DMV to a hospital ward full of terminally ill patients. |
| Ethan Hawke | | Jackie Chan mistook every white person for Hawke. |
| Fellatio | | Peter tries to perform oral sex on himself in Lois' absence. |
| Glenn Close | | Brian refers to this experienced actress as "handsome." |
| Goonies | | Peter meets the Goonies below the sewers, makes Chunk, the fat kid of the group, do a dance called the Truffle Shuffle |
| Henri Matisse | | Lois stole an original piece by this 20th century French painter. |
| Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark | | When Joe is trying to catch Lois as she drives away, he is holding onto the garden hose and then climbs under the car, up onto the hood, and through the windshield. |
| INXS | | Stewie refers to the death of this 80s band's lead singer while trying to put the plastic bag over his head. |
| Jackie Chan | | The Griffins meet the action movie star in Asiantown. He mistakes Meg for Frankie Muniz, of "Malcolm In the Middle." |
| Katakana | | Outside the Chinese take-away in Asian town the sign is written in the Japanese writing system Katakana. The Chinese do not use these characters in their language. |
| Kidnapping | | A kidnapper attempts to steal a child at the supermarket. The mother catches him in the act twice. |
| Kleptomania | | Lois falls victim to this disorder that causes one to want to steal. |
| Malcolm In the Middle | | While in Asiantown, Jackie Chan mistakes Meg for the title character from this Fox sitcom. |
| Neverending Story | | Peter once took a ride on the dragon Falcor from this 1984 fantasy movie. |
| Redbook | | Brian was preoccupied by an issue of this magazine aimed a a primarily female audience. |
| Revenge Of The Pink Panther | | In the scene where Joe discovers the Griffins and they run out of their Asiantown apartment , the music playing is the music from the climactic Hong Kong Chase scene in this 1978 movie. |
| Star Wars | | As Joe is flying the helicopter through the sewers, he shoots down 2 TIE fighters. |
| Sumo wrestling | | Peter becomes a Sumo wrestler, a popular sport in Japanese culture. |
| Take On Me | | Lois asks Chris to get some milk from 'the back' so he does just that ... ending up in a pencil sketched world. |
| The Blob | | Chris watches this 1958 science fiction movie. |
| The Fugitive | | In the sewers at the end of the chase they come to the mouth of the pipe just like the scene with Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones |
| Three's Company | | A Chinese Version of the show is Three's Company Asiantown |
| Tokyo | | Chris taxis a man from Tokyo through Asia town. |
| Trix | | We see Chinese kids and a Chinese rabbit fighting over Trix. |
| Viagra | | Peter jokes about this pill that treats most cases of male impotency. |
| Winona Ryder | | Brian compares Lois' situation to the Winona Ryder shoplifting fiasco. |
| Wonder Woman | | Stewie says that if Lois gave birth to him naturally, she has to be the female comic book legend, Wonder Woman. |
