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| - * After Brian threw a snowball at Stewie, Stewie says: “Made my brown eye blue with that one,” referencing the Crystal Gayle song “Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” and the oft slang reference to the anus as a “brown eye” and flesh turning blue in the cold. Stewie then attacks Brian with a snowball cannon, exclaiming, “Now is the winter of your discontent,” paraphrasing a line from Richard III by William Shakespeare.
* In a fantasy sequence, Stewie sings Elton John’s “Rocket Man”, imitating William Shatner’s infamous performance of the song at a 1978 science fiction film awards ceremony.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I&feature=kp
* On the NGA’s shooting range, an Imperial Stormtrooper from the Star Wars film series shoots a cutout of Luke Skywalker and misses. Also on the shooting range, a blind man is seen shooting and “hitting the broad side of a barn,” as the saying goes.
* The NGA’s cartoon featuring “Petey the Pistol” is a parody of the NRA’s cartoons featuring Eddie Eagle.http://eddieeagle.nra.org/
* The NGA film ends with the lesson, “Guns don’t kill people; dangerous minorities do.” This is a parody of National Rifle Association’s slogan “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people.”
* While hunting, Peter takes the name Rooster Cogburn, the main character of the 1969 western True Grit.
* Lois references the skater Nancy Kerrigan when she was talking about "the one that got what she had coming".
* Chris mentions a special called Where Bears Attack, something that sounds like the FOX special When Animals Attack.
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