- Clueless Aesop: Brian says that pot is doing good for the town right after showing Tom and Diane as being too stoned to even do their job and Peter is so wasted that he can't even do a proper Cutaway Gag (instead, he just shows a list of celebrities he hates, with Chris Martin [the lead singer of Coldplay] and his ancestors as the most hated).
- Crowning Music of Awesome: Though some people criticize this episode for Brian pushing his pro-marijuana beliefs, the general consensus is that the song "A Bag of Weed" is the the only part of the episode worth watching.
- Don't Shoot the Message / Broken Aesop / Show, Don't Tell: While there are a number of good reasons for legalizing cannabis, the episode does absolutely nothing to educate the viewer about them, and just says that weed is good and people who oppose it are stupid jerks. If anything, the number of lazy stoner jokes point towards the opposite conclusion.
- Kinda Lampshaded by Stewie who convinces Brian talking about it will just bore people and instead he should just sing a song which brings as to...
- Ear Worm: "Oh, a bag o' weed, a bag o' weed! Oh, everything is better with a bag o' weed!"
