* This episode features a special opening in the style of Modern Family.
* The controversy over the subject of Carly Simon's song "You're So Vain" is mentioned; Carly's imagination shows that the actual subject is Don Knotts.
* The guys were previously bowling in "Blind Ambition".
* Peter flashes back to watching the film Mask with him thinking that Rocky Dennis' 'mask' was literal.
* In "Road to Rupert", Brian takes Stewie to buy a replacement toy gorilla after selling Rupert, noting that for every one they buy they save a real gorilla and kill one if not bought. Here, a giraffe is saved if a stuffed one is purchased and a cutaway shows one being returned in front of hunters after the toy is returned.
* The Shakespeare in the park scene is Hamlet's soliloquy from Hamlet, Act III scene iii