Cultural References
The title of the episode is a play on the TV series 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. The beginning of the episode shows Stewie experimenting with teleporation pods when he is fused with Rupert which is a reference to The Fly (1986 film). When Stewie realizes Liddane has a boyfriend, he thought that he and Liddane would go all the way and die together, and be the Family Guy version of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun's suicide pact. A flashback shows Brian by the bowling alley, talking about how high school girls keep getting pretty and staying young. This is a reference to the movie Dazed and Confused, where Matthew McConaughey's character, David Wooderson says exactly the same thing. Meg goes on Everybody Loves Raymond to tell Neil she doesn't like him. When Lois interviews several people to apply for being Stewie's babysitter, one of them is Gloop from the 1967 show Herculoids. Tundro also comes in the house and starts shooting. Peter mentions "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" twice, both after two characters make a statement starting with "I can't believe..." In one scene, When Liddane babysits Stewie, they play a game of Jenga. In a cutaway, Peter buys a "breakfast machine", which turns out to be a Rube Goldberg machine which shoots him. The breakfast machine itself is similar to the breakfast machine featured in the film Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. When Liddane introduces Stewie to her boyfriend, Stewie gets jealous and furious and rants about Liddane's boyfriend, "with his damn Teva sandals, and his Skoal Bandits, and his Abercrombie & Fitch long-sleeved open-stitch crew neck henley, smoking his sticky buds out of a soda can while watching his favorite downloaded Simpsons episodes every night." Stewie calling out to Lidanne after she has departed is a reference to Catherine Earnshaw calling for Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights.
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“At times it seems that the media have become the mainstream culture in children’s lives. Parents have become the alternative. Americans once expected parents to raise their children in accordance with the dominant cultural messages. Today they are expected to raise their children in opposition to it.”
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