I'm not going to bother reading what he has to say, but I did dig up something about the Family Guy reference to such matters
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We see ALBERT EINSTEIN working at the patent office and we see him steal the patent for SMITH'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY (which is of course, attributed to Einstein) by slamming Heir Smith's head in the door. This is a classic, well-researched reference. This bit was based on concepts drawn from the book "Albert Einstein The Incorrigible Plagiarist" in which its shown that Einstein plagurised other people's work in "his" Theory of Relativity. It discloses Einstein's method for manipulating credit for the work of his contemporaries, reprints the prior works he parroted, and demonstrates through formal logical argument that Albert Einstein could not have drawn the conclusions he drew without prior knowledge of the works he copied, but failed to reference. Numerous republished quotations from Einstein's contemporaries prove that they were aware of his plagiarism. Of course, later on in the show, Einstein continues his plagurism by "stealing" the popular 80's toy SHRINKY DINKS (small glass-like shapes you painted then bake to 'shrink' them into usable trinkets - they are pretty rare to still find today - I have a D&D set still unused in the closet) from GOD by slamming his head in the oven. A truly hilarious FG moment.
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Remember. Some cartoons are smarter than people.