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* Meg's new name is a reference to Natalee Holloway, who disappeared in 2005 in Aruba.[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/natalee-holloway-suspect-tried-sell-21519842]
  
* Meg's new name is a reference to Natalee Holloway, who disappeared in 2005 in Aruba.[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/natalee-holloway-suspect-tried-sell-21519842]
 
* Meg's new friends mention 'three back women doing math for NASA,' referring to Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, whose story is told in the film ''Hidden Figures''.
  
* Meg's new friends mention 'three back women doing math for NASA,' referring to Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, whose story is told in the film ''Hidden Figures''.
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* Stewie going to court for refusing to sell erotic cookies to a gay couple on account of him being a Christian is a reference to a real-life incident that took place in 2012, where Christian baker, Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop, refused to sell a wedding cake to same-sex couple, David Mullins and Charlie Craig because of his religion. Opposite of what happened in the cartoon, the Chicago supreme court ruled in favor of Phillips on June 4th, 2018, claiming that to side with Mullins and Craig would be in violation with the first amendment. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-baker/supreme-court-backs-christian-baker-who-spurned-gay-couple-idUSKCN1J01WU]
 
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Revision as of 02:41, 5 May 2020

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  • The title references the film Better Off Dead.
  • Chris' shirt at school reads "Dead Sis, Who Dis?", a reference to the meme "New Phone, Who Dis?".[1] The meme is also the reference behind the sub-episode "New Phone, Who Dis?" in "You Can't Handle the Booth!".
  • Meg's new name is a reference to Natalee Holloway, who disappeared in 2005 in Aruba.[2]
  • Meg's new friends mention 'three back women doing math for NASA,' referring to Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, whose story is told in the film Hidden Figures.
  • Stewie going to court for refusing to sell erotic cookies to a gay couple on account of him being a Christian is a reference to a real-life incident that took place in 2012, where Christian baker, Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop, refused to sell a wedding cake to same-sex couple, David Mullins and Charlie Craig because of his religion. Opposite of what happened in the cartoon, the Chicago supreme court ruled in favor of Phillips on June 4th, 2018, claiming that to side with Mullins and Craig would be in violation with the first amendment. [3]

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