Best Movie References In Family Guy. If theres one thing Family Guy knows better than what it feels like to be cancelled by Fox, its movies. From their reverential full length Star Wars treatments to the blink and youll miss em cutaways, the show is littered with so many movie references that theyre impossible to count. With a not necessarily respectful nod to everything from The Sound of Music to Debbie Does Dallas, Rhode Islands edgiest family rarely take the moral high ground and occasionally walk the thinnest of lines between questionable and downright obscene. Family_Guy_Back_to_the_Multiverse_4.jpg' alt='Family Guy Road To The Multiverse Full Episode' title='Family Guy Road To The Multiverse Full Episode' />But with creator Seth Mac. Grimm Season 5 Uk Watch. Farlane himself describing the show as an equal opportunity offender, the bad taste is at least democratic. For our list of favourite movie references, weve limited ourselves to the regular series episodesmissing out the Star Wars parodies as well as the extended And Then There Were Fewer season 9 opener. Some movies are mentioned many many times throughout the shows run, and weve done our best to include as many as we have room for. Here are the 1. 5 Best Movie References In Family Guy. Disney. Early in his career, Mac. Farlane freelanced as a writer for Disney, working on Ace Ventura Pet Detective, among others. He put his experience to good use in the series 8 episode, Road To The Multiverse. We join Stewie and Brian visiting a number of parallel universes, including a 2. Christianity has never existed and technology is therefore light years ahead. AIDS can be cured with a pill, bathroom visits are carried out digitally, and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is nothing but pin ups of Jodie Fosterthe handiwork of Reagan assassination enthusiast John Hinckley Jr. Even more incredibly, Meg is a drop dead stunner. After bouncing around the Flintstones universe and another containing nothing but a man shouting compliments from a distance, they land in the sweet and fuzzy world of a Disney feature film. Enchanted by the angelic atmosphere, theyre hard pressed to find a reason not to stayuntil Mort The Jew pops by for a visit. Playing on Walt Disneys supposed antisemitism, the mood in the delightful cottage turns decidedly ugly as the rank stereotype is dragged off screen and beaten to death by the Disney Griffins. As they sit in a puddle of Morts blood, teeth, and Star of David necklace, the boys decide its maybe time to move on. North by Northwest. Family Guy. When repairing the car after Peter crashes it drains all the funds they had for the trip, the pair bluff their way into Mel Gibsons hotel suite, where they stumble on his sequel to Passion of the Christ in a private screening room. Starring Chris Tucker and Jesus in a send up of Rush Hour, Passion of the Christ 2 Crucify This is too much for Peter to allow on an unsuspecting world and he steals the film. A car chase through a shopping mall pursued by agents of the Vatican is straight out of The Blues Brothers, before the Griffins escape to a cornfield where Peter buries the movie. Paying affectionate homage to Hitchcocks North By Northwest and one of the most famous set pieces in movie history, Peter finds himself the prey of a crop dusting biplane as it swoops down and kidnaps Lois, setting up a final showdown on top of Mount Rushmore one of the other most famous set pieces in movie history. If youre going to steal, you may as well steal from the best. Stephen King. So, The Simpsons mined the rich resource that is the work of Stephen King first, with The Shinning. It wasnt until season 1. Family Guy that they brought us Three Kings, a reworking of a trio of the writers best loved tales. When Lois complains he watches too much TV, Peter visits the library and picks up three books by the greatest author of the last thousand yearsStand By Me, Misery, and The Shawshank Redemption. Three Kings is a surprisingly affectionate adaptation of Kings stories, from a show not generally known for its warmth. Stand By Me, a story of four boys who, went looking for a dead body and instead found themselves. With Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis. Stewie and Brian explore a series of alternate universes. And also a dead body starts with an awkward voiceover exchange between the two stars of Jaws, Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider, and ends by pointing out a major plot hole in the movie version. What exactly is there to stop Ace getting a gun and just shooting Lachance tomorrow Misery sees childrens author Brian kill off his best selling character Snuggly Jeff in order to concentrate on more serious work. After running down Stephen King who finishes another novel by the time he hits the ground, he plows into a snowdrift and is rescued by number one fan Stewie. Playing the psychotic Kathy Bates role, he holds Brian hostage and forces him to bring his beloved character back to life. And The Shawshank Redemption follows Peter as Andy Dufresne, the wrongfully imprisoned man who eventually escapes his unjust confinement by crawling to freedom through the prisons sewage pipes. Why he chose enchilada night, well never know. Fleeing to his Mexican paradise, he awaits the arrival of his best friend Red. If only he can remember the name of the town. Three Kings stands as one of the best parodies in the series and was reportedly enjoyed by King himself. Watch The Condemned Online Metacritic here. Christian Bale. Not so much a movie reference as a movie business reference, Oceans Three and a Half treats us to an extended cutaway featuring the now legendary meltdown by Christian Bale on the set of Terminator Salvation. When director of photography Shane Hurlbut who shouldve known better, to be honest stepped into Bales eye line during the filming of an emotional scene, the notoriously volatile actor exploded into an obscenity strewn rant of epic proportions. Luckily for us, the sound engineer forgot he was still recording and the tirade has been preserved for posterity. In the season 7 episode, we hear Peter try and calm the actors volcanic rage by explaining that he stumbled onto set chasing a dropped M M. After warning him that hell owe a fortune to the swear jar, Peter goes on to question why the world needs another Terminator movie, cleverly intercutting with Bales screaming diatribe, before delivering the line of the episode. Was Bale really just trying to find a way of asking Peter out on a date Back To The Future. Remember that time Brian rickrolled us all It was one of many Family Guy references to Back to the Future. Throughout the shows run we learn, among other things, that Doc Brown is surprisingly racist when he desperately tries to warn Marty about his future daughter marrying a black guy. We have our eyes opened to a major plot hole when a mistrustful George Mc. Fly points out to his wife that their son is a dead ringer for the guy who fixed us up. With Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis. Stewie and Brian attempt to foil Bertram by traveling to different universes and thwart his plans to. Watch Road to the Multiverse online. Stream Family Guy season 8, episode 1 instantly. And we watch another fight between Peter and the giant chicken transport them back to 1. They end up on the train, pushing Martys Delorean back to the present. In Meet The Quagmires, basically a parody of the first two films, Peter persuades Death to send him back in time to 1. After spending the evening making out with Molly Ringwald, he returns to the present to find it drastically changedLois is married to Quagmire, Al Gore is President, and Chevy Chase is the host of The Tonight Show. Determined to put things right, Peter pleads with Death to repeatedly send him back, until the episode ends with Brian playing on stage at The Newport Country Club Dance, in a direct parody of The Enchantment Under The Sea. Brian picks up the most 8. Keytar and launches into Never gonna give you upjust the mediocre, generic sound Rick Astley had been looking for. Airplane. While politics robbed us of Ronald Reagans acting talents, at least he left us with his portrayal of George Gipp, the tragic Notre Dame halfback in Knute Rockne, All American. In the film, Gipp delivers a moving speech from his death bed, imploring Coach to inspire the team and, win just one for the Gipper.