In an improvement over the previous four episodes, the episode was viewed in 7.27 million homes in its original airing, according to Nielsen ratings, despite airing simultaneously with The Amazing Race on CBS, Celebrity Apprentice on NBC and WWE WrestleMania XXVI on pay-per-view.
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The episode also acquired a 3.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic, beating The Simpsons, The Cleveland Show and Sons of Tucson, in addition to significantly edging out all three shows in total viewership.
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Seth MacFarlane also sang the song's opening lines in the character of Brian Griffin in the Family Guy episode "Brian the Bachelor."
He and Stewie also introduced the 2007 Emmy Awards with a song which recapped the events in television, over the past year.
In the "Mother Tucker" episode of Family Guy (season 5, episode 2), Brian and Stewie host a radio show named "Dingo and the Baby".
Jack (played by Peter) is sent out by his wife (played by Lois) to sell their cow (played by Brian Griffin) for money to buy food.
Once Peter returns, however, Lois tells him that after he was presumed dead, she married Brian, and that he supports the family by working as a salesman (at what is later revealed to be a Hummer dealership) and that she cannot just leave Brian after all he has done for the family.
While they are gone, their talking dog Brian is watching Nova just as the show is interrupted to show several episodes of the sitcom One Day at a Time.
Originally, Allen Payne who stars in Tyler Perry's House of Payne was supposed to star as Dr. Harris in this play and Cassi Davis who stars in Tyler Perry's House of Payne (along with Allen Payne), Madea Goes to Jail, and the play and movie version of Madea's Big Happy Family was supposed to star as Nurse Nancy in this play.
A more recent commercial aired during Super Bowl XLVI featuring Brian and Stewie from cartoon series Family Guy, in which Stewie puts emphasis on the "H" in "Wheat", saying "Hwheat Thins."
Syndicated programming featured on the station includes Tyler Perry's House of Payne, Rules of Engagement, Everybody Loves Raymond, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Closer and That '70s Show.