After setting up a cutaway together, Peter and Lois find themselves trapped in a cutaway gag.
Tropes:
- All Just a Dream: The entire episode is a fever dream from Peter eating raw oysters and passing out. This receives exactly zero foreshadowing and we don't even see Peter wake up; Lois just exposits this on the beach to him after the commercial break ends.
- Asshole Victim: Discussed between the family when they have to kill Hitler to escape Cutaway Land.Lois: I know he was bad and all, but do we really have the right to kill a fellow human being?Brian: Human being? It's Hitler!
- Bait-and-Switch: After Brian is warped unwillingly into a cutaway with the others, he notes that they took him away while driving. The scene cuts to his electric car heading for some kids crossing the road...albeit at a safely slow speed with no one getting harmed, except the crossing guard who has an existential crisis from the car not stopping for his signal.
- Call-Back:
- The "Das Gym" cutaway gag from "Death Has a Shadow" appears.
- The "You Have AIDS" cutaway gag is mentioned and heard.
- The overreacting waiter from "Island Adventure" returns as a crossing guard, overreacting to Brian's Prius when it couldn't stop.
- When Peter calls Joe to try and figure out how to escape Cutawayland, he gets Joe's elaborate voicemail message for a bit until Joe picks up.
- The Robert Loggia cutaway gag from "Peter's Two Dads" appears.
- Decapitation Presentation: While the family is debating who should go kill Hitler in the first cutaway Meg comes from off screen having already done it, boasting with his severed head how he pleaded for his life.
- Old Shame: Peter says he regrets making "You Have AIDS".
- Running Gag: When Peter and Lois explain the rules of CutawayLand, they are constantly interrupted by "Technical Difficulties" screens.
- Stylistic Self-Parody: At the beach, Peter flashbacks to one of him and Lois' makeout sessions, pointing out it was the first time he noticed she didn't have an ear; this is illustrated by brushing back her hair to show the earring is attached to nothing.
- Take That!: Against viewers who complain about the main plot of the episodes and say they just want more cutaways.
- Toilet Humor: This episode features Peter and Lois watching Wreck-It Ralph 3: Ralph Breaks the Toilet. What follows is a scene where Ralph leaves the men's restroom. Pac-Man walks in, then walks back out in disgust before dying.
- Where It All Began: In order to escape Cutaway Land, the Griffins must travel back to the first ever Cutaway Gag and kill Hitler.
