Peter Griffin is watching the movie Philadelphia in the movie theater in Death Has a Shadow", carried over from the original Pilot Pitch. Peter can't figure out who the actor playing the main character is, at first, while everyone else in the theater, including Meg and Lois, cries. Stewie accidentally plays a sound byte from the movie on Dingo and the Baby in "Mother Tucker". E.T., who has been placed in the movie in "Long John Peter" doesn't want to touch Beckett in fear of getting AIDS.