Lois Griffin mentions that her husband Peter frivolously spent money on a wax sculpture depicting Paltrow having sex with Harriet Tubman in "Patriot Games". While Peter and Lois watch a movie in "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q.", Peter wonders about a yellow lab in the film until Lois points out that it is Gwyneth Paltrow. In "Road to India", Stewie concedes that Padma and Brian make a cute couple, although he notes that so did Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, setting up a cutaway in which Martin agrees to be nagged by Paltrow, while being compared to a "watered-down" Bono.