Talk:Dammit Janet (Family Guy)

What is the opening scene referencing?

Man: "Billiam, are you there?"

Man: "Stewie! What the devil are you doing here?"

Stewie: "Billiam sent me. He wanted me to tell you I killed him."

Stewie: "Give me the other half of the amulet! I don't think you'll be making it to Marrakesh."

Stewie: "No! Jeffrey, take the 9:00 p.m. To Hounslow out of your mouth!"

This has got to be referencing SOMETHING, but what? The article speculates it's Murder on the Orient Express, but is that really it?

Other interesting facts that may be relevant:

• Marrakesh is a city in Morocco
• Marrakesh Express is a song by Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
• Hounslow is a town near london.

I don't know what to make of the amulet or the name "Billiam". Any thoughts? Alecmconroy 21:50, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

That's a good question. Perhaps we could find a movie buff specializing in old movies. Cromulent Kwyjibo 22:20, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

The name Billiam, a cross between William and the same shortened name Bill? JayKeaton 12:20, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

One of Family Guy's producers is named Billiam, Billiam Coronel. --67.168.68.91 03:52, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Am I the only one that thinks this article is way too short?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.146.23.194 (talk) 15:20, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Do I Khrushchev?

What does that mean?

-G —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.117.158.83 (talk) 02:47, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

I believe it's supposed to be a pun on "Do I have to?". Doesn't work quite as well as the other Soviet Leader puns. -92.226.219.177 (talk) 00:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Communist leader puns, Marx was dead long before the Soviets came about JW (talk) 12:55, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Stewie and the toy letter cubes

I'm not quite sure I get the meaning of the last phrase " Ride that pony". Well...I have my suspicions but if someone could clarify... -92.226.219.177 (talk) 00:31, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

It's what you probably think it is. Unsure of how to put it into words, urbandictionary had two entries: "to have sex over and over" and "To do a dance in a galloping way with a spank spank move and some air lasso. Often in a circle, but can be stationary." JW (talk) 12:52, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

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Tomb Raider

I'm removing from the cultural references "In the black market scene there is a woman picking up and looking at two pistols and wearing sunglasses a green tanktop and tan shorts. This is most likely a Lara Croft Tomb Raider reference." I just watched the scene a couple times, pausing to look at all the people, and there is no such person in the black market. The only woman has a white shirt and green pants and is looking at a shotgun. JW (talk) 12:55, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Another reason for deleting this is because it says "most likely" terms like that prove that it's a speculation which doesn't belong here. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 20:48, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

weird techno music

What is the weird impromptu techno music a reference to?--69.196.138.68 (talk) 20:16, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Explaining the title

Asserting that my addition was unsourced, User:Doniago (talk) reverted my immediately prior edit, thereby removing the following text: "The episode title is an explicit allusion to the similarly named song in The Rocky Horror Show/The Rocky Horror Picture Show." There comes a point where something is so utterly obvious that trying to source it is hopeless, as in this case where the writers expected that a significant portion of the audience would understand the reference, especially in a program such as Family Guy where allusions, references, homages, and so forth are undeniably frequent. Precisely because of this, there is real value in explaining such things in an encyclopedia article that will likely be read my many people who would not otherwise understand the allusion simply because they are unfamiliar with the prior work alluded to. I can't see any realistic possibility that there would ever be a formally citable source for the proposition that the episode Dammit Janet! has some relationship to a song "Dammit Janet!" There is, furthermore, no other thing in the world to which the allusion might refer, particularly taking into account the uniqueness of spelling and punctuation, and the Wikipedia article about the song itself states "The number... has entered the pop culture lexicon through the often quoted phrase, 'Dammit, Janet!'" Zigamorph (talk) 05:33, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

If it is as obvious as you assert, then surely there must be sourcing available for the reference. If not, then whether or not you think it's obvious, you're still talking about original research. In addition, how would this be obvious to readers unfamiliar with the alleged reference? Doniago (talk) 15:56, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Isn't Stewie Gay?

I was just thinking about it and I couldn't help but notice that Janet is a female and in many of the later episodes of Family Guy, blunt references are made to Stewie being a homosexual. In the twenty-first episode of the eleventh season, "Roads to Vegas", Stewie even hires a man that is pretty clearly implied to be a male prostitute with intentions of tearing someone "wide open". I don't know if this is relevant to the talk section here but I figure it may be useful to point out somewhere in the article, or perhaps there's something I missed?

Throughout the run of the show Stewie's sexuality has been depicted as "flexible". Discussed at Stewie griffin#Ambiguous sexuality. Doniago (talk) 13:26, 7 June 2013 (UTC)