Writer:	Danny Smith (IV)
Director:	Cyndi Tang
Star:	Alex Borstein (Lois (and various)),  Mike Henry (VI) (Cleveland/Herbert/Performance Artist/Greased-Up Deaf Guy (and various)),  Seth MacFarlane (Peter / Stewie / Brian / Quagmire / Tom Tucker (and various)),  Seth Green (Chris (and various)),  Mila Kunis (Meg (season 2+))
Recurring Role:	Alec Sulkin (Various),  Chris Cox (Various),  John Viener (Various),  Fred Tatasciore (Various),  Alex Breckenridge (Various),  Danny Smith (IV) (Various)
Guest Star:	Phyllis Diller (Thelma),  Charles Durning (Francis),  Dan Conroy (Man)

This episode was nominated for a Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics. (edit) This was the second episode of Family Guy to be rated TV-MA when it first premiered on Adult Swim. However, the rating was then revised to a TV-14-DLV. (edit) Francis' death in this episode causes a continuity error in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, where he is alive, and at Chris' wedding in the future.

But it is possible that since Stewie went back in time, and kept himself from being emotionally scarred by the falling water tower, he won't grow up to be a wimp, and thus altered the timeline ala Back to the Future. That means the future shown in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story might not come to pass. (edit)

Francis: (laying in hospital bed) Peter, come closer. There's something..I need to say to you.
Peter: I'm here dad, what is it?
Francis: Peter..you're a fat stinking drunk. (dies) (edit) Peter: Is this Mcswiggen village?
Irishman: Ah, that it be. Dibble the man who says a word aggin it!
Peter: Is that a yes or a no? (edit) Stewie: (going through Lois's closet) That's mine, and this mine... (picks up a board game) "Hot Monogomy, the board game for failing marriages". Dare card: "Do a striptease in front of your husband, and see how long it takes for him to get a bon-er". What's a bon-er? (edit) Brian: Where'd you get crack?
Peter: From Blacks.
Brian: What?
Peter: I got it from behind Blacks Hardware Store. There's a white guy selling it. (edit) O'Brian: I have twenty on the fat one.
Brian and O'Brian: Which one's the fat one!? (they both laugh). (edit)

Peter says Francis never told him he loved him, but in "Holy Crap", Francis told him "I love ye with all me heart". (edit) When Peter and Brian arrive in the village, they are taking a black cab. Black cabs are extremely rare in Ireland as they are almost exclusively used in Britain. (edit) O'Brian saying 'Whose leg do you have to hump to get a pint of Guiness around here?" is a reference to Brian saying "Whose leg do you have to hump to get a dry martini around here?" in I Never Mead the Dead Man. (edit) If Peter's real fathers name was McFinnegan, that would mean he has no relation to the Griffin clan. This is at odds to his great great grandfather Nate Griffin's uncanny resemblance to him, down to his crude sense of humor. (edit) The Name of the Airplane Peter and Brian took was Jet Green, which is a parody of Jet Blue. (edit)

Friends and Lovers (song)



During Meg's birthday, there is a sequence where Chris, and Herbert from outside, sing a few lyrics from this 1986 song performed by Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson. (edit) Requiem for a dream

Peter telling his mother he traded her television set for crack is the same as Jared Leto selling his mother's set to a pawn shop in exchange for drugs in Requiem for a Dream. (edit) Little Shop of Horrors

As Stewie fantasizes about Lois burning him with a cigarrette, he screams "Thank you! Thank.....you!" in exactly the same manner pain loving Bill Murry screams as Dentist Steve Martin drills his tooth in this 1986 movie. (edit) V8

The scene where Peter is remembering repressed memories includes him exclaiming that he could have had a V8, and then he smacks himself in the head. This mimics the V8 commercials involving someone doing the same thing. (edit) Star Wars

Hayden Christensen appears briefly during the Star Wars joke. This is a nod towards the most recent update of Return of the Jedi, where Sebastian Shaw (the original Anakin Skywalker) has been replaced by Hayden Christensen in the final shot of the dead Jedi, a change disliked by many fans of the saga. (edit)