Tropes seen in this episode include the following:
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Peter and Lois dance to "Faithfully" by Journey. Also, they save Meg from participating in a "shoe-kake" party.
- Black Comedy Rape: Joe ends up the unwilling reciprocant of the "shoe-kake" party and his foot ends up somehow pregnant from the ordeal. Meg is spared thanks to Lois and Peter intervening. All Played for Laughs.
- Bland-Name Product: The search engine that Quagmire uses, "Ask Beaves," is a parody of the search engine "Ask Jeeves," the original name of Ask.com.
- Body Horror: Joe Swanson's foot somehow managed to become pregnant after watching Tower Heist all during the "Shoe-Kake" party.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The panels on Chris' "Wheel of Porn" read out, "Fake Auditions", "In a Van", "Amateur", "Foot Fetish", "Mature", "European", "Amputee", "Sad", and "Ke$ha".
- Cock Fight: Stewie and Brian fall for the same girl. Even though they temporarily agree to get along together with her, they soon begin to set out to destroy each other's chances.
- Comically Missing the Point: After the music festival chick prepares for a threesome with Brian and Stewie and she overdoses on cocaine, Stewie asks Brian "...is this foreplay?"
- Contrived Coincidence: Chris' wheel just happens to land on foot porn, out of the thousands of sites came across Meg's page, and was able to recognize a birthmark on her ankle.
- Disposable Vagrant: Cassandra turns out to have no family or friends. It makes it easy for Brian and Stewie to dispose of her body after she overdoses. As it happens, they dump her body in a spot filled with dozens of other O.D. victims.
- Double Entendre: 'Shoekakke' is a pun on the Japanese word 'Bukakke', the act of multiple males ejaculating on another person.
- Everyone Has Standards: Brian is disgusted by Stewie still wanting to have sex with Cassandra even though she died from a drug overdose. Conversely, Stewie is disgusted that Brian doesn't know anything about Cassandra's personal life and just wanted to have sex with her. Stewie also feels she deserves a proper burial and send-off.
- Fanservice: Meg's photoshoot.
- Furry Reminder: Brian struggles with taking a pill like a person instead of having it hidden in his food.
- Incest Subtext: After figuring out that the pictures were of his sister's feet Chris didn't bring this to his parents' attention until 15 minutes later, suggesting despite noticing this he still masturbated to them.
- I Love the Dead: After the music festival chick dies from a cocaine overdose before she could have a three-way with Brian and Stewie, Stewie suggests to Brian that they could still have fun with her dead body. Brian is disgusted by this suggestion.
- Lazy Bum: Peter and Quagmire use Joe's cable television signal and internet. Joe was previously revealed to be the only one to pay for his cable in "Love Thy Trophy".
- Last Request: A cutaway shows Jason Biggs being asked by his grandfather to "always be forgettable."
- Murder-Suicide: Boppo the Inflatable Punching Clown kills the gangsters who paid him to take a dive and after being cornered by police, he shoots himself. You read that right.
- Shout-Out: The title is a reference to the nursery rhyme of the same name.
- The songs that Meg requests be played together are "She Works Hard For the Money" by Donna Summer and "Freeze-Frame" by The J. Geils Band.
- Take That!: Jason Biggs honoring his grandfather's last request to be as forgettable as possible.Man: Hey, that's just a regular, unattractive guy who's not famous.
Jason: We did it, Grandpa! - The Internet Is for Porn Peter sees an animated version of himself and Lois having sex on the internet. Also, Chris browses the internet for masturbation material when he stumbles upon a picture of Meg's foot and alerts his parents.
- A Threesome Is Hot: Cassandra proposes this, to Brian's excitement and Stewie's hesistation.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Even if it was her feet that was attracting attention, Meg being complimented by the photographer and the fans of her work actually gave her more love and support than Peter and Lois have done in a long time. To truly hammer it home, Peter and Lois actually apologized to Meg and came to her rescue in the end, and the episode didn't end on a Bait-and-Switch with them reverting back to their abusive selves.
- Wham Episode: Peter and Lois are actually nice to Meg in this episode. They both save Meg from the negative consequences of her foot fetish job and apologize to her at the end.
