Stephen King and his movies are often referenced on my favorite television show Family Guy. Check out these episodes:
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Chitty Chitty Death Bang |
Meg recalls on the time the band Hanson came to the Griffin's house asking if they could use the phone. Peter takes out a shotgun and kills them, shouting "Holy crap! It's the Children of the Corn!"
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Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater |
Stewie explores his vast new home; when he turns a corner and comes face to face with the ghostly twins from The Shining, they say "come play with us Stewie" (much like their lines in the movie). Stewie replies that all work and no play make him a dull boy (another of the movies lines), and then shoots them with a rocket launcher. The bar is also very similar to the one in the "Overlook Hotel" in the film.
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Brian in Love |
When Brian runs over a person with a truck, he stops and says, "Oh, my God! Are you Stephen King?" The man replies, "No, I'm Dean Koontz." Brian gets back into his truck and drives backwards, running over Koontz again.
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Love Thy Trophy |
Stewie Griffin uses his letter blocks to spell out Redrum from The Shining.
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A Picture's Worth a Thousand Bucks |
While the Griffin family is at an amusement park, Stewie sees a toy clown, which is one of the prizes at a shooting game. He says, "How deliciously evil, like something out of Stephen King!", a reference to Pennywise in It. Just after Stewie mocks the toy clown, the episode moves into the following cut-scene: King's editor is shown asking King for a summary for his 307th novel. King invents a story on the spot about a couple who are attacked by a lamp monster, then grabs the lamp from the editor's desk and waves it around making strange noises. The editor sighs and says, "You're not even trying anymore, are you?" and then says, "When can I have it?"
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Death Lives |
In an episode where Peter is subject to a near-death experience and revelation about himself, it is revealed that Lois's father attempted to bribe him out of marrying his daughter. This is possibly borrowed from Pet Sematary, in which Louis Creed, the main character, is subject to an attempted bribe from his future wife's father, Irwin Goldman. He offers to pay Louis's way through medical school if he leaves Rachel. The circumstances are also similar; both offers are made in similar settings, down to both Lois's father and Goldman wearing smoking jackets.
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Untitled Griffin Family History |
Peter tells a story about a family member named "Richard Bachman".
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Peter's Two Dads |
The cutaway in which Peter buries his dad in a pet cemetery is an allusion to the Stephen King novel of the same title. The main character's son is buried in a pet cemetery in hopes of bringing him back to life in line with a town legend. The son does indeed come back to life, but is a more vicious version and begins to kill people.
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Personal Sidenote: As a child I lived in Foxboro, Massachusetts. Stephen mentions Foxboro in his 2006 book, Cell, on page 288:
"The place was bigger than Foxboro."
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Last Updated: March, 2007