Peter starts ignoring the guys when he meets an impossibly cool paramedic named Stryker Foxx, but when Stryker dies doing a dangerous stunt, Peter has to restore his friendship with the guys.
Foxx in the House contains examples of:
- Adventures in Comaland: The episode ends with it being revealed that the majority of its events were actually just a dream that Peter was having while in a coma after knocking himself out in the women's rest room at the mall. This means that everything from the point of him meeting Stryker to him crashing into the tree never actually occurred.
- Call-Back: Peter gets hit in the nuts with a bag of nickels once again.
- Epic Fail: While trying to be a firefighter, Peter winds up sliding up the pole.
- Express Delivery: Happens to Lois and Meg in one cutaway at a basketball game when a basketball player lands on the Griffins' front row seats, which somehow causes both women to suddenly grow huge pregnant bellies, which neither of them notice and they just continue talking about how great the front row seats are.
- Identifying the Body: Spoofed; when Peter's new friend Stryker slams into a cliff while wingsuiting, Peter has an Imagine Spot of having to identify the body. In the Imagine Spot, what's left of Stryker is a bowl of liquid, which Peter compares to tomato soup. The coroner shows him another body of a man who died in a fire, which somehow made his remains look like a grilled cheese sandwich.Peter: Oh these poor souls are the best combination for a rainy saturday...
- I'm Melting!: Happens to a Anthropologie clerk (who quotes the Wicked Witch of the West's last words in the process) after Peter names the one thing they don't have - black customers.
- Latex Perfection: One joke features Meryl Streep disguising herself as Lois this way in order to whack Peter over the head and yell "Stay out of my crapper!". This winds up winning her another Oscar for "Stay Out of My Crapper".
- Literal-Minded: Peter apparently thought House of Cards (US) was about an actual house of cards, so he binged the entire series and was disappointed.
- No Sympathy: Even though it was wrong for Peter to blow his friendship off with Cleveland, Quagmire, and Joe for someone "cooler", you'd think they'd show a little sympathy for his loss. Averted with Lois, who does, and only lightly calls out Peter for ditching the guys.
- "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: "ACTUAL ANTHROPOLOGIE ITEM"
- Parody Stu: Stryker.
- The Power of Friendship: Peter is willing to "thread the needle" in order to apologize to the guys. Cleveland and Joe agreed to forgive Peter and urge him not perform this risky stunt; Quagmire, however, only agreed to respect the majority.
- Self-Deprecation: George Clooney introduces himself as "second-worst Batman", and Peter answers by introducing himself as "second-best Homer".
- Spotting the Thread: Quagmire points out that Peter should have known he was dreaming when he met 1997 George Clooney.
- To the Batpole!: Peter exclaims "To the lady's room!" in such a manner after melting the Anthropologie clerk.
- True Companions: Upon waking up from his coma, Peter says Cleveland, Quagmire, and Joe are the best friends he ever had. They say the same.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Both Lois and the guys call out Peter for abandoning them for Stryker, pointing out that this isn't even the first time that Peter has abandoned them for somebody else.
