- The title is a reference to the 1982 movie First Blood, which is the first installment of the Rambo series.
- Cleveland's funk outfit is modeled on that of George Clinton, who was the subject of an episode of The Cleveland Show.
- Stewie asks Rupert if he wants the gender reveal to simply be a cake or to burn Napa to the ground, referencing the Napa Valley wildfires caused by a gender reveal party.[1]
- Stewie's remark, "If Martin Luther King could come back, and see what they were doing in his name, he'd never stop throwing up", is a paraphrased line from Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters.[2]
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| #01 | LASIK Instinct | #08 | The Birthday Bootlegger | #15 | Hard Boiled Meg | |||
| #02 | Rock Hard | #09 | The Fatman Always Rings Twice | #16 | Prescription Heroine | |||
| #03 | Must Love Dogs | #10 | Christmas Crime | #17 | All About Alana | |||
| #04 | 80's Guy | #11 | Mister Act | #18 | Girlfriend, Eh? | |||
| #05 | Brief Encounter | #12 | The Lois Quagmire | #19 | First Blood | |||
| #06 | Cootie & the Blowhard | #13 | Lawyer Guy | #20 | The Jersey Bore | |||
| #07 | Peterschmidt Manor | #14 | HBO-No | |||||