Peter, Joe, Quagmire, and Cleveland (in town for a haircut) travel the world to find God so they can beg him not to screw with the outcome to football games.
Tropes associated with this episode include:
- Abusive Parents: Peter, as usual, but this time, exaggerated as he asked God Himself to use his powers to wipe Meg from existence and make everyone else forget about her.
- Acceptable Break from Reality: The crux of the episode is the New England Patriots going on a 10 game losing streak. For reference, the Patriots didn't lose 10 games total in one season during Tom Brady's entire stint in New England, and would win the Superbowl later in the 2014 season.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall:Cleveland: What are you doing here?
Death: Actually, I'm here for your show. - Commuting on a Bus: Cleveland was still living in Virginia at the time of this episode and wouldn't move back until later in the season. His presence is explained by him saying he's been driving up to Rhode Island once a month to get a haircut, because "Once a black guy finds a barber, it's for life".
- The Eeyore: Bill Belichick. Which any football fan can tell you is a pretty accurate portrayal.
- Interrupted Suicide: Peter announces they have to find God to get to the bottom of the Patriots' struggles. Joe gets ready to hang himself and has to be told "find God" was not a code for suicide.
- Mood Whiplash: Cleveland's upbeat Shout-Out to Amen concludes with him saying he walked in on a baby's funeral.
- Ping Pong Naïveté: As Brian rants about how the idea of God existing is ridiculous, Peter points out the dog is easily fooled by a scratching noise on the couch.
- Ret-Gone: Peter asks God for one last favor, which turns out to be making Meg vanish from existence while Peter tells everyone to Just Ignore It.
- Self-Deprecation:
- God tells Peter and the guys that even Conway Twitty himself hated the Conway Twitty cutaway gags.
- The cutaway of Peter planning the different characters appearing in his cutaways is a jab at Family Guy and its cutaway humor. Peter noting that he will use the Camp Gay stereotypes all week is a jab at the show's (sometimes over)-reliance on gay jokes.
- Shout-Out: Cleveland recreates the opening to Amen.
- Simple Solution Won't Work: When Peter has trouble trying to get 4 year old sand from the beach out of his backpack, Joe suggests turning it inside out, only for Peter to tell him that was the first thing he tried.
- Take That!:
- When Peter and his friends head to India, thinking it's the holiest place on Earth, they are met with scenes of poverty and devastation, but the one thing that convinces them God doesn't exist in India is a theater advertising an Aziz Ansari show.
- Death abandoning his plan to kill Russell Brand in order to take Peter and his friends to see God.
- After a rather tasteless joke involving an opera for pedophiles, Peter gets frustrated about his lack of awards.
Peter: And ya still won't give us an Emmy®?!? C'mon!! If Modern Family did that joke, you'd be carrying 'em on your shoulders!
