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Last Sunday’s episode of “Family Guy” just reiterates my love for the show. “The Simpsons” were never so brazen (but it was funny in another way). “Family Guy” gets its humor from the strange, absurd, or uncomfortable things that it shows. Like a 2 minute chicken fight, or the PBJ time song. But it’s clear that “Family Guy” is in tune to internet culture. After Tara Reid’s nip slip on the runway a few months back, the internet was abuzz about her wretched boob job and really big areolas (not in those words). So when Peter is performing Tara Reid’s boob job, drops a pepperoni on her breast, and says that “it’ll work,” you can imagine what thousands of geeks were thinking. Sure, a few people that have seen the Tara Reid photos might have caught on her pepperoni nipples, but it’s really the forum-frequenters and BB, Fark, and SA readers that’d get it.

Brian’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time video.

Tonight on “Family Guy,” Brian, the dog, dresses up as a banana and does the Peanut Butter Jelly Time dance, which took an old banana dancing animation and made a flash video of it singing to a really awful, but catchy, tune.

It makes me wonder if all those other random moments in “Family Guy” are just really really obscure references. Sometimes they do not so obscure references like the A-ha “Take On Me” milk aisle scene, but then there are times where Peter fights a huge chicken for a full 2 minutes Am I missing an obscure reference or was the cross-city chicken fight just funny because it was random?

Update: ytmnd.com already has Brian’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time dance up.