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* In episode 17, season 5 of " Family Guy ", entitled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ", the Griffin family is wearing powdered wigs in their living room and Stewie Griffin begins playing several classical compositions, including those by Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel, when Peter Griffin, as Salieri, says " Play Peter Griffin ", alluding to the 1984 film Amadeus, when the disguised Salieri character requests that Mozart imitate his compositional style.

Just as in the film, Stewie, as Mozart, plays a painfully simplistic tune while hunched with a brutish facial expression, ending with audible flatulence.

Mirroring the film further, Peter is then in the same setting in which the much older Salieri was when he says " Go ahead, mock me.

But it wasn't Stewie who was laughing at me.

It was God!

" The opening lines of Mozart's Dies Irae then play.