- When speculating on Francine's trips out of the house supposed to lead to go to the library, Hayley believed she has a secret pet orangutan that she's taking to the zoo to get laid. Steve thinks she's acting as a Patch Adams in a nearby hospital. Stan thinks she's carrying buckets somewhere.
- Joline has the following books on her desk:
- Ring of Fire
- Burning Fire
- Embers
- Goblet of Fire
- Into the Flames
- When Stan arrives at the library, she's reading The Bonfire of the Vanities.
- The book titled "Goblet of Fire" is a shortcut, as the full title is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
- In the event of Stan's death, Francine is to mourn for 17 months before marrying Jackson.
- Francine prefers to have her bowel movements at the library after an incident involving Taco King Barbacoa tacos during a flight to Maui causing diarrhea, which forces the plane to land in Omaha, Nebraska.
- The pilot notes Omaha only smells slightly less offensive, causing the city to be branded as "Dadded!".
- During the incident, Stan was distracted while watching Son of the Mask.
- Roger makes puns of book characters Nancy Drew as 'Nancy Poo', and The Hardy Boys as 'The Farty Boys'.
- Although he is aware that he has the power to transport them into the books, Roger had never used it previously in his own life.
- Roger notes that Mah Mah Ling shaves her bikini line by hotel pools.
- When they first arrive in Sherlock Holmes, Roger believes they've ended up in a Doctor Seuss book and thinks that Sherlock is the Lorax.
- Stan isn't impressed by Jane Austen, wishing she was Jane Austin Powers. He follows this with an imitation of the Mike Meyers' character.
- Joline's gift to mark 20 years without starting a fire is a lighter.
- While in The Wizard of Oz, Francine and Roger past the charred skeletons of Dorothy and Toto where Roger makes note of the literary silver slippers as opposed to the film's ruby slippers, reporting that Judy Garland claims the ruby slippers helped her launch her career as Judge Judy.
- Francine at first thinks they've reached home because of the magic slippers.
- Stan's book memoir is titled Stan By Me. He wrote it in four hours.
- The music riff as Stan's book version of Francine arrives home is meant to evoke The Cars Moving in Stereo.
- Roger originally demonstrated his inflammability in "Big Trouble in Little Langley".
- In order to stop the publishing of Stan's book, Francine and Roger try to introduce some bestiality, but a German Shepherd service dog turns Roger down for not being good enough.
- In the rewrite, Francine is able to make a pipe bomb, which stops the sale of the book on Amazon.
- Before returning to the real world, Roger stops off in 1984 to attend spring break, but is disappointed by the contents.
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