A new boss quells Peter's favorite part about work: office birthdays. Meanwhile, Stewie is put in detention and comes out a ruffian.
Tropes:
- Call-Back: The joke about Family Guy not being able to afford songs by The Beatles was first brought up in the episodes "Girl, Internetted" and "Throw it Away".
- Disney Owns This Trope: Parodied following Disney's real-life buyout of 20th Century Fox; when Stewie has to go to Quahog Elementary School for his first detention, he finds Bart Simpson writing "It is a pleasure to work for the Disney corporation" on the chalkboard repeatedly. Stewie then says, "Oh, that is a load of...", but his voice gets dubbed by Mickey Mouse saying "Truth! A wonderful load of truth!"
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Stewie acting like a ruffian after coming out of detention is reminiscent of a former prisoner becoming a hardened criminal after a prison sentence.
- Serious Business: Peter treats Office Birthdays as this.
- Shout-Out:
- Stewie meets a kid in detention who resembles Red in The Shawshank Redemption. Stewie was even released from detention by insulting the teacher in a way that Red told off the parole committee in the movie.
- O Fat Man, My Fat Man!
- The scene with Peter and the giant amplifier is from the opening of Back to the Future.
- When Stewie gets violent with his teddy bear Rupert for not visiting him in detention, he tells him about a kid he met there named Thomas the Shank Engine, saying it's time they met each other.
- Take That!: Peter does a TED talk, but the audience does not attend an account of the giant letters saying Ted 2.
- Too Dumb to Live: Nothing new for Peter as he blows the whole Birthday Speakeasy by turning up a giant amp at full power.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: No mention is made of what happened to Bert and Sheila. Also, Stewie does not seem to remember Bart Simpson even though he befriended him in The Simpson Guy.
