Langley Falls Post front page headline: Friend's T-Shirt Idea Deemed "Genius!" By Friend
Stan: Where would a communist go? Cuba? China? Back in time to kill Betsy Ross?
Sergei: Your rocket is bloated and overstuffed like this fat child, with whom I shall win space race. Barry: We will bury you!
Sergei: Hey, neighbor! Stan: Sergei!!
When Stan returns home to see if Steve has become a communist, it is nighttime. However, in the establishing shot of the house after the commercial break, it is daytime and it is again night when Steve escapes.
International Airdates: Denmark: August 6, 2008 on TV3
This episode premiered on [adult swim] on May 4, 2008.
This is the second time that Night Ranger's song "You can still rock in America" has been used in an episode of American Dad! The first being in the opening scene of season three episode ten "Tearjerker".
Nikita Khrushchev Sergei slams his shoe against a crate similar to Nikita Khrushchev during a rough session in the United Nations. Additionally, Barry later says "we will bury you", which Khrushchev said in a speech.
The Simpsons During the scene where Stan and Steve buy the rocket supplies and demonstrate American excess, the price of all the merchandise comes to $847.63, the same price that comes up on the scanner when Maggie is scanned in the opening sequence of The Simpsons.
Communism Among the communist effects Sergei gave Steve are images of Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, along with the flags of the People's Republic of China and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Felix Dzerzhinski Sergei bears a strong resemblance to Felix Dzerzhinski, founder of the KGB.
Apt Pupil The episode is a parody of Stephen King's 1982 novel and its 1998 film Apt Pupil.
Che Guevara Stan mistakes a poster of Argentine Revolutionary Che Guevara for a Planet of the Apes movie poster.
Cold War The rocket competition is a reference to the Cold War space race between Russia and America.
Episode Title: Red October Sky This episode's title is a take on the movies The Hunt for Red October and October Sky. "Red October" also refers to the October Revolution of 1917, when the Czar was finally ousted and the Bolsheviks took power in Russia.
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