- This episode marks Carrie Fisher's last appearance as Angela.
- Chris is revealed to have had a stillborn twin that Lois planned to name "Tmas."
- Peter tries to get a jump on his time off while playing Alice Cooper's "School's Out".
- Loverboy's "Working for the Weekend" closes out the episode.
- Brian's "dog-style celebration" cutaway from "The Boys in the Band" gets a callback with Peter bouncing through Patrick Swayze's hair in this episode.
- Carter's own German grandmother is revealed to be alive and living in Brazil as he makes his annual Christmas call to her.
- A fireplace in the Griffin home originally seen in "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" makes a return appearance in this episode.
- Brian's current last named age is 8 and in Peter's future, set 5 years after his death, he is 13, implying that Peter was to die while the family was away in this episode.
- In this episode, Alex Borstein voices Thelma Griffin instead of Phyllis Diller, due to her death.
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