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* LaserGuidedKarma: The family that had owned Cleveland's ancestors had lost all their wealth since back then and had become 'poor white trash'.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: The family that had owned Cleveland's ancestors had lost [[RichesToRags ended up losing all their wealth since back then and had become became 'poor white trash'.]]

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* AlphaBitch: Lead cheerleader Cindy.


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%%* AlphaBitch: Lead cheerleader Cindy.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Peter is shunned by both the black community, the white community and even the lepers with the missing limbs after they learned what he has done with his reparations money.

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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Peter is shunned by both the black community, the white community and even the lepers with the missing limbs after they learned what he has done with his reparations money.money and the white community for having a black ancestry.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Peter gets called out by several characters for selfish squandering his reparation money instead of sharing it.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Peter gets called out by several characters for selfish selfishly squandering his reparation money instead of sharing it.
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* NiceGuy: Nate Griffin. His ghost empathetically encourages Peter to give his money away and doesn't hold the fact the Pewterschmidts enslaved him against Lois[[note]]Though it helps he got revenge on them by farting in their food[[/note]].



* WeightWoe: Stewie develops this after spending time with the cheerleaders, leading him to inappropriately obsess over his body image in the mirror and throw up in the toilet.

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* WeightWoe: Stewie develops this after spending time with the cheerleaders, leading him to inappropriately obsess over his body image in the mirror and throw up in the toilet.toilet.
* WhatTheHellHero: Peter gets called out by several characters for selfish squandering his reparation money instead of sharing it.
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* OffModel: Before the theme song (in the cold opening where Peter watches ''Dennis Miller Live''), Peter is seen watching TV with the old tan carpet. Also, there is a green circle in the rug when it is usually blue.
** Peter's design at the beginning also has noticeable eyebrows like his earlier design.
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'''Original air date:''' 12/6/2001

'''Production code:''' 3ACX-06

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* DisguisedInDrag: Stewie disguises himself as Cindy to cheer with the other cheerleaders in the final cheer and gain access to the cheerleader pyramid "mind control" power.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Stewie sees Cindy berating the cheerleaders for how terrible their performance was and he thinks she's just being unnecessarily mean to them. Turns out the mean girl Cindy was right all along, as the cheerleading squad was actually clumsy regardless of how good they were and they nearly crush Stewie with their cheerleading pyramid fall.



* ShoutOut: The part at the basketball game where Peter imagines being alone with Cindi, and watches her try to seduce him with the sexy music in the background parodies a scene in the film ''Film/AmericanBeauty''. Both scenes end with the cheerleaders unzipping their shirts. However, fried chicken humorously flies out of Cindi’s shirt instead of lush rose petals like Angela’s.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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The part at the basketball game where Peter imagines being alone with Cindi, and watches her try to seduce him with the sexy music in the background parodies a scene in the film ''Film/AmericanBeauty''. Both scenes end with the cheerleaders unzipping their shirts. However, fried chicken humorously flies out of Cindi’s shirt instead of lush rose petals like Angela’s.

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* AllForNothing: Stewie's attempts to gain control of people using the cheerleader pyramid fails when he learns how clumsy the cheerleading squad really is and suffers a humiliating fall.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Peter is shunned by both the black community, the white community and even the lepers with the missing limbs after they learned what he has done with his reparations money.



* BlackComedyRape: Mean girl cheerleader Cindy being silenced and tied up and left at the mercy of Quagmire is all PlayedForLaughs.



** Stewie body-shaming himself in the mirror was cut to remove the part where he forces himself to throw up in a trashcan.

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** Stewie body-shaming himself in the mirror was cut to remove the part where he forces himself to throw up in a trashcan.toilet.
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* BlackComedyRape: Mean girl cheerleader Cindy being silenced and tied up and left at the mercy of Quagmire is all PlayedForLaughs.
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Peter discovers that he has a black slave for an ancestor... and that Lois' Pewterschmidt side of the family owned Peter's black slave ancestor. Meanwhile, Stewie thinks the key to better mind-control is to hang out with the Buddy Cianci High cheerleaders.

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Peter discovers that he has a black slave for an ancestor... and that Lois' Pewterschmidt side of the family owned Peter's black slave ancestor. Meanwhile, Stewie thinks the key to better mind-control is to hang out with the Buddy Cianci Junior High cheerleaders.
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* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Chris ends up talking in street slang as he picked it up from black players of his high school basketball team.
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** The Irish museum's "Day in the Life of An Irishman" and "Day in the Life of an Irishwoman" displays (the former showing an Irish man drinking in a bar and slapping a woman and the latter showing an Irishwoman praying and having babies).

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** The Irish museum's "Day in the Life of An Irishman" and "Day in the Life of an Irishwoman" displays (the former showing an Irish man Irishman drinking in a bar and slapping a woman implied to be his wife and the latter showing an Irishwoman praying and having babies).
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* LaserGuidedKarma: The family that had owned Cleveland's ancestors had lost all their wealth since back then and had become 'poor white trash'.
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** On the part where Peter reads about the Griffin family history in the library (and discovers the existence of Nate Griffin), Peter's line to Chris, "Okay, settle down, spaz", was cut.

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** On During the part where Peter reads about the Griffin family history in the library (and discovers the existence of Nate Griffin), Peter's line to Chris, "Okay, settle down, spaz", was cut.



** Carter's pre-commercial break line, "Well, 'bout time to be hittin' the ol' dusty trail" after Peter finds out that Nate was owned by Lois' ancestors was cut (though this was to cover up the fact that it was leading to a commercial break, which the UK doesn't have much of).

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** Carter's pre-commercial break line, "Well, 'bout time to be hittin' the ol' dusty trail" after Peter finds out that Nate was owned by Lois' ancestors was cut (though this was to cover up the fact that it was leading to a commercial break, which the UK doesn't have much of).cut.



** The infamous ending mentioned below in "BlackComedyRape" (Quagmire finding Cindi tied up in a men's room stall) was cut.

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** The infamous ending mentioned below in "BlackComedyRape" (Quagmire finding where Quagmire finds Cindi tied up in a men's room stall) stall was cut.

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* BeenThereShapedHistory: A cutaway shows Stewie drunk on Mai Tais encouraging O.J. Simpson not to tolerate ex-wife Nicole Brown being with other men, which is what led to her murder.



** A cutaway shows Stewie, drunk on Mai Tais encouraging O.J. Simpson not to tolerate ex-wife Nicole Brown being with other men, which is what led to her murder.
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**Stewie peeping on the cheerleaders from inside the locker was cut to remove Stewie's line, [[SomethingElseAlsoRises "Heavens, it appears that my wee-wee has been stricken by rigor mortis"]].
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* {{Bowdlerization}}: The UK TV version cuts the following scenes and lines:
**Stewie's line, "My, so it's that easy to win you over! Consider yourselves lucky I'm not after your gully-holes!" (after he impresses the Buddy Cianci high cheerleaders) was shortened to "My, so it's that easy to win you over!"
**The Irish museum's "Day in the Life of An Irishman" and "Day in the Life of an Irishwoman" displays (the former showing an Irish man drinking in a bar and slapping a woman and the latter showing an Irishwoman praying and having babies).
**On the part where Peter reads about the Griffin family history in the library (and discovers the existence of Nate Griffin), Peter's line to Chris, "Okay, settle down, spaz", was cut.
**Stewie body-shaming himself in the mirror was cut to remove the part where he forces himself to throw up in a trashcan.
**Carter's pre-commercial break line, "Well, 'bout time to be hittin' the ol' dusty trail" after Peter finds out that Nate was owned by Lois' ancestors was cut (though this was to cover up the fact that it was leading to a commercial break, which the UK doesn't have much of).
**The infamous ending mentioned below in "BlackComedyRape" (Quagmire finding Cindi tied up in a men's room stall) was cut.
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* BlackComedyRape: Implied when Cindi is found bound and gagged by Quagmire and he says to himself "Dear Diary: Jackpot!"
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** Peter's design at the beginning also has noticeable eyebrows like his earlier design.
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Peter discovers that he has a black slave for an ancestor...and that Lois' Pewterschmidt side of the family owned Peter's black slave ancestor. Meanwhile, Stewie thinks the key to better mind-control is to hang out with the Buddy Cianci High cheerleaders.

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Peter discovers that he has a black slave for an ancestor... and that Lois' Pewterschmidt side of the family owned Peter's black slave ancestor. Meanwhile, Stewie thinks the key to better mind-control is to hang out with the Buddy Cianci High cheerleaders.
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* ShoutOut: The part at the basketball game where Peter imagines being alone with Cindi, and watches her try to seduce him with the sexy music in the background parodies a scene in the film Film/AmericanBeauty. Both scenes end with the cheerleaders unzipping their shirts. However, fried chicken humorously flies out of Cindi’s shirt instead of lush rose petals like Angela’s.
** When Peter mistakes Chris’s slang-peppered speech for speaking in tongues, he tries to perform an exorcism, similar to that in the classic 1973 horror film Film/TheExorcist.
** The professor of Peter’s African American studies class mentions Thurgood Marshall’s 1967 appointment to the Supreme Court. Peter responds by “whooping,” in a manner similar to audience members on The Arsenio Hall Show.
** Trying to convince the group of black men that he’s one of them, Peter borrows heavily from a speech by 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern. However, instead of referencing various incidents in the civil rights movement, Peter mentions episodes of 1970s/1980s sitcoms with black characters, including The Jeffersons, Good Times, Diff'rent Strokes, and The Facts of Life.
** Peter uses his reparations money to turn his den into the set from Pee-wee's Playhouse, sings a comical variation of the theme song, convinces Brian to play the genie Jambi, references the King of Cartoons, and screams when Lois says the “secret word”.
** Peter's greeting to his family and the Pewtersmidts, "Hey, hey, hey!" parody Dwayne's greeting from the African American comedy, What's Happening!?
** After Peter’s speech, he is cheered on by the junkyard gang from the cartoon Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, although the title character is not among them.
** Peter watches a comedian who makes jokes about Jheri curl, an oily, glossy hairstyle worn by African Americans in the 1980s.

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* ShoutOut: The part at the basketball game where Peter imagines being alone with Cindi, and watches her try to seduce him with the sexy music in the background parodies a scene in the film Film/AmericanBeauty.''Film/AmericanBeauty''. Both scenes end with the cheerleaders unzipping their shirts. However, fried chicken humorously flies out of Cindi’s shirt instead of lush rose petals like Angela’s.
** When Peter mistakes Chris’s slang-peppered speech for speaking in tongues, he tries to perform an exorcism, similar to that in the classic 1973 horror film Film/TheExorcist.
''Film/TheExorcist''.
** The professor of Peter’s African American studies class mentions Thurgood Marshall’s 1967 appointment to the Supreme Court. Peter responds by “whooping,” in a manner similar to audience members on The ''The Arsenio Hall Show.
Show''.
** Trying to convince the group of black men that he’s one of them, Peter borrows heavily from a speech by 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern. However, instead of referencing various incidents in the civil rights movement, Peter mentions episodes of 1970s/1980s sitcoms with black characters, including The Jeffersons, Good Times, Diff'rent Strokes, ''The Jeffersons'', ''Good Times'', ''Diff'rent Strokes'', and The ''The Facts of Life.
Life''.
** Peter uses his reparations money to turn his den into the set from Pee-wee's Playhouse, the CBS Saturday morning kids' show ''Pee-wee's Playhouse'', sings a comical variation of the theme song, convinces Brian to play the genie Jambi, references the King of Cartoons, and screams when Lois says the “secret word”.
** Peter's greeting to his family and the Pewtersmidts, "Hey, hey, hey!" parody Dwayne's greeting from the African American comedy, What's Happening!?
''What's Happening!!''
** After Peter’s speech, he is cheered on by the junkyard gang from the cartoon Fat ''Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Kids'', although the title character is not among them.
** Peter watches a comedian who makes jokes about Jheri curl, an oily, glossy hairstyle worn by African Americans in the 1980s.1980s (and mercilessly parodied on such African-American TV and film comedies as ''Coming to America'', ''In Living Color'', and ''Chappelle's Show'')
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** A cutaway shows Stewie, drunk on Mai Tais encouraging O.J. Simpson not to tolerate ex-wife Nicole Brown being with other men. It shows that Stewie knows O.J. Simpson but in the later "lost" episode "The Juice Is Loose", Stewie doesn't know who O.J. is.
** In a cutaway, Peter and Chris are playing Operation on [[Squick a homeless person instead of the game board]].
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Stewie has to hide in the girl's locker room because the cheerleading squad were coming in and when they start undressing, he develops an erection because of it much to his surprise.

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** A cutaway shows Stewie, drunk on Mai Tais encouraging O.J. Simpson not to tolerate ex-wife Nicole Brown being with other men. It shows that Stewie knows O.J. Simpson but in the later "lost" episode "The Juice Is Loose", Stewie doesn't know who O.J. is.
men, which is what led to her murder.
** In a cutaway, Peter and Chris are playing Operation on [[Squick [[{{Squick}} a homeless person instead of the game board]].
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Stewie has to hide in the girl's locker room because the cheerleading squad were was coming in and when they start undressing, he develops an mistakes his erection because of it much to his surprise.for rigor mortis.
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Chris discovers that he has a black ancestor in a genealogy book and embraces African-American culture

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Chris Peter discovers that he has a black ancestor in a genealogy book slave for an ancestor...and embraces African-American culturethat Lois' Pewterschmidt side of the family owned Peter's black slave ancestor. Meanwhile, Stewie thinks the key to better mind-control is to hang out with the Buddy Cianci High cheerleaders.



* AnAesop: "It doesn't matter whether you're black or white, as long as the most important color us green (money)."

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* AnAesop: "It doesn't matter whether you're black or white, as long as the most important white. The only color us green (money).that matters is green."



* OffModel: Before the theme song, Peter is seen watching TV with the old tan carpet. Also, there is a green circle in the rug when it is usually blue.

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* OffModel: Before the theme song, song (in the cold opening where Peter watches ''Dennis Miller Live''), Peter is seen watching TV with the old tan carpet. Also, there is a green circle in the rug when it is usually blue.



* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The infant Stewie develops an eating disorder after spending time learning to take control of the cheerleaders pyramid.

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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The infant Stewie develops an eating disorder body image issues and bulimia after spending time learning to take control of the cheerleaders pyramid.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The infant Stewie develops an eating disorder after spending time learning to take control of the cheerleaders pyramid.
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* Retcon: It seems apparent that Nate Griffin is not an ancestor of Peter's, given the fact that as it was confirmed that Peter is descended from the McFinnigan family, not the Griffin family, due to his true father Mickey McFinnigan although it is not impossible for the McFinnigans to have branched off from the Griffins at some point in history meaning Peter could be both a Griffin and a McFinnigan.

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* Retcon: {{Retcon}}: It seems apparent that Nate Griffin is not an ancestor of Peter's, given the fact that as it was confirmed that Peter is descended from the McFinnigan [=McFinnigan=] family, not the Griffin family, due to his true father Mickey McFinnigan [=Mickey McFinnigan=] although it is not impossible still possible for the McFinnigans [=McFinnigans=] to have branched off from the Griffins at some point in history meaning Peter could be both a Griffin and a McFinnigan.[=McFinnigan=].

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* AnAseop: "It doesn't matter whether you're black or white, as long as the most important color us green (money)."

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* AnAseop: AnAesop: "It doesn't matter whether you're black or white, as long as the most important color us green (money)."



* WeightWoe: Stewie develops this after spending time with the cheerleaders, leading him to inappropriately obsess over his body image in the mirror and throw up in the toilet.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to DVD commentary, the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off parody in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story was originally going to be placed in this episode, in the part where Stewie and the cheerleaders are in the cafeteria.

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* WeightWoe: Stewie develops this after spending time with the cheerleaders, leading him to inappropriately obsess over his body image in the mirror and throw up in the toilet.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to DVD commentary, the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off parody in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story was originally going to be placed in this episode, in the part where Stewie and the cheerleaders are in the cafeteria.
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* AnAseop:

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* AnAseop: "It doesn't matter whether you're black or white, as long as the most important color us green (money)."



* ShoutOut: The part at the basketball game where Peter imagines being alone with Cindi, and watches her try to seduce him with the sexy music in the background parodies a scene in the film American Beauty. Both scenes end with the cheerleaders unzipping their shirts. However, fried chicken humorously flies out of Cindi’s shirt instead of lush rose petals like Angela’s.
** When Peter mistakes Chris’s slang-peppered speech for speaking in tongues, he tries to perform an exorcism, similar to that in the classic 1973 horror film The Exorcist.

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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Peter's apology to everyone he's wronged is solved with money.
* ShoutOut: The part at the basketball game where Peter imagines being alone with Cindi, and watches her try to seduce him with the sexy music in the background parodies a scene in the film American Beauty.Film/AmericanBeauty. Both scenes end with the cheerleaders unzipping their shirts. However, fried chicken humorously flies out of Cindi’s shirt instead of lush rose petals like Angela’s.
** When Peter mistakes Chris’s slang-peppered speech for speaking in tongues, he tries to perform an exorcism, similar to that in the classic 1973 horror film The Exorcist.Film/TheExorcist.

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* CallBack: Peter already knew he had a black relative. Rufus Griffin was shown in "If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'".



* OffModel: Before the theme song, Peter is seen watching TV with the old tan carpet. Also, there is a green circle in the rug when it is usually blue.
* Retcon: It seems apparent that Nate Griffin is not an ancestor of Peter's, given the fact that as it was confirmed that Peter is descended from the McFinnigan family, not the Griffin family, due to his true father Mickey McFinnigan although it is not impossible for the McFinnigans to have branched off from the Griffins at some point in history meaning Peter could be both a Griffin and a McFinnigan.



** Peter's greeting to his family and the Pewtersmidts, "Hey, hey, hey!" parody Dwayne's greeting from the African American comedy, What's Happening!?.
* WeightWoe: Stewie develops this after spending time with the cheerleaders, leading him to inappropriately obsess over his body image in the mirror and throw up in the toilet.

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** Peter's greeting to his family and the Pewtersmidts, "Hey, hey, hey!" parody Dwayne's greeting from the African American comedy, What's Happening!?.
Happening!?
** After Peter’s speech, he is cheered on by the junkyard gang from the cartoon Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, although the title character is not among them.
** Peter watches a comedian who makes jokes about Jheri curl, an oily, glossy hairstyle worn by African Americans in the 1980s.
** The scene showing Ireland before the “discovery” of alcohol features technology similar to the cartoon series The Jetsons.
** Cleveland receives reparations from the family who enslaved his ancestors but, because the family has become poor white trash, they could only give him a tray of Rice Krispie treats.
** Stewie makes a note to himself to try to understand the cheerleaders’ fixation with the “homosexuals” in the boy band ’N Sync.
** A cutaway shows Stewie, drunk on Mai Tais encouraging O.J. Simpson not to tolerate ex-wife Nicole Brown being with other men. It shows that Stewie knows O.J. Simpson but in the later "lost" episode "The Juice Is Loose", Stewie doesn't know who O.J. is.
** In a cutaway, Peter and Chris are playing Operation on [[Squick a homeless person instead of the game board]].
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Stewie has to hide in the girl's locker room because the cheerleading squad were coming in and when they start undressing, he develops an erection because of it much to his surprise.
* WeightWoe: Stewie develops this after spending time with the cheerleaders, leading him to inappropriately obsess over his body image in the mirror and throw up in the toilet.toilet.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to DVD commentary, the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off parody in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story was originally going to be placed in this episode, in the part where Stewie and the cheerleaders are in the cafeteria.
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Chris discovers that he has a black ancestor in a genealogy book and embraces African-American culture
!!This episode contains examples of:
* AnAseop:
* AlphaBitch: Lead cheerleader Cindy.
* BoundAndGagged: AlphaBitch lead cheerleader Cindy thanks to Stewie.
* KarmicRape: Implied with Quagmire finding Cindy tied up in the men's bathroom.
* ShoutOut: The part at the basketball game where Peter imagines being alone with Cindi, and watches her try to seduce him with the sexy music in the background parodies a scene in the film American Beauty. Both scenes end with the cheerleaders unzipping their shirts. However, fried chicken humorously flies out of Cindi’s shirt instead of lush rose petals like Angela’s.
** When Peter mistakes Chris’s slang-peppered speech for speaking in tongues, he tries to perform an exorcism, similar to that in the classic 1973 horror film The Exorcist.
** The professor of Peter’s African American studies class mentions Thurgood Marshall’s 1967 appointment to the Supreme Court. Peter responds by “whooping,” in a manner similar to audience members on The Arsenio Hall Show.
** Trying to convince the group of black men that he’s one of them, Peter borrows heavily from a speech by 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern. However, instead of referencing various incidents in the civil rights movement, Peter mentions episodes of 1970s/1980s sitcoms with black characters, including The Jeffersons, Good Times, Diff'rent Strokes, and The Facts of Life.
** Peter uses his reparations money to turn his den into the set from Pee-wee's Playhouse, sings a comical variation of the theme song, convinces Brian to play the genie Jambi, references the King of Cartoons, and screams when Lois says the “secret word”.
** Peter's greeting to his family and the Pewtersmidts, "Hey, hey, hey!" parody Dwayne's greeting from the African American comedy, What's Happening!?.
* WeightWoe: Stewie develops this after spending time with the cheerleaders, leading him to inappropriately obsess over his body image in the mirror and throw up in the toilet.

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