It was Benjamin Disraeli, former British Prime Minister.
To make it even funnier, a former British PM from the Victorian era. Maybe that’d be common knowledge in the UK, but it’s fairly obscure in the US. Isn’t there a caricature of Disraeli in Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass, in the picture of Alice on the train going to the fourth square?
I can honestly admit that I don’t get any modern TV jokes. In the last 15 years, I’ve only watched the X-Files. Anything else, I think I know the names because everyone talks about them. Why should I get the jokes again?
OK, I’ve seen the “Kicked In the Nuts” guy they used on I think the second Family Guy episode of this season, but does anyone know what those shorts actually were for?? Is it some sly commentary on how willing people are to be on TV? Are the people getting kicked in the nuts actors? And does the guy who did it have some relationship to Seth McFarlane?
There’s one episode of the Simpsons where the family is discussing Bart’s teacher, and Homer cuts in with “Bart’s teacher is named Krabappel? All this time I’ve been calling her Krandal! Why didn’t somebody tell me, oh I’ve been making an idiot out of myself!” Is this a reference to anything or just a random Homer stupidity moment?
I asked the same thing, but it’s probably just Stewie hearing something in his sleep and building a dream around it.
I assumed it was a takeoff of old hidden camera shows.
Cat People , the remake with David Bowie. I think.
Wait, no. He wasn’t in that one. Maybe it was The Hunger.
The **Movie (and other) references ** part of http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F02.html doesn’t mention it, but I believe that was it, nonetheless.
In the case of The Simpsons and Family Guy, it would be because many of the jokes reference popular culture older than fifteen years.
It’s not in the book of Gone With the Wind (thank you, Australian copyright laws!) but it is the sort of thing Scarlett’s father would say.
There was a crappy movie about a brother and sister who were really some type of demons and cats made them react that way they were afraid of them…
Sleepwalkers
for some reason this scene reminds me of that movie.
I think that in the bit with the Lion and the Unicorn fighting, Tenniel drew one to be Disraeli and the other to be Gladstone. But it’s beeb a long time since I’ve browsed through my copy of The Annotated Alice, so I may be misremembering.
–Cliffy
I thought maybe it had something to do with how C & H sugar is distributed in restaurants, in combination with the afore mentioned cocaine reference.
BTW, I think the sugar came from a truck that crashed.
One of the Family Guy writers has a website called kickinthenuts.com or something to that effect (this from a friend who claims he’s been there and it’s true). It’d show clips (not really true but made to look like it) of people being kicked in the nuts or some other effect to extreme levels of low-brow hilarity, and in that episode they wanted to give their guy a shout out.
Stewie rocking on the porch struck me as vaguely Tennessee Williams-ish, in a Big Daddy sort of way.
In the Family Guy ep “Road to Rhode Island”…Briand and Stewie sing the little song…at one point they say “Like a masochist from newport, I’m road island bound.”
What is that a reference to?
Sounds like a parody of the title song from “Road to Morocco” (Crosby/Hope) – which had the line, “like Webster’s Dictionary, we’re Morocco-bound”.
“masochist” - bondage, bound
“Newport” - a town in Rhode Island
I have a feeling it migth be addressing the BDSM while only saying “Mascochist”, or just because Mascochists sometimes do the bondage thing.
I thought it was a dig at Newport - as in, you’d have to be a masochist to live there.
Unlikely. Newport is where the ultra-rich New Yorkers of the late 19th-century (Cornelius Vanderbilt, et al.) built their summer homes. It has some of the most specacular mansions ever built in the U.S., and is still a very upscale place.