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* GassyGastronomy: In "Seahorse Seashell Party", Lois complains about having to literally clean the farts out of Chris' pants while doing laundry, and Chris says it's her fault for serving Brussels sprouts and broccoli, saying "It's like an Irish bar fight down there". A CutawayGag then shows a sprout and stalk about to duke it out in an Irish pub.
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* DelusionsOfLocalGrandeur: Tom Tucker is incredibly pompous with an over-inflated ego from his job as the anchor on the local nightly news.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Peter is married to the red haired Lois.
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* FeminineLegSwish: One CutawayGag spoofing ''Series/GossipGirl'' reveals that Peter is Gossip Girl, with him doing the swish while wearing a blonde wig and pink nightgown.
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** While the show has flip-flopped on whether or not the family can understand Stewie when he talks, early episodes leaned in favor of them being able to understand him to at least some extent, with Peter and Lois directly responding to Stewie on occasion (In the first episode, Stewie tells Lois to burn in hell and she punishes him by taking away his dessert. Stewie tells her to burn in hell again in "Mind Over Murder", and she uses it to lead into her next song. In "Brian in Love", Peter offers Stewie a beer and Stewie sarcastically asks if they can light up a doobie and watch porn, to which Peter replies "Y—yeah?") Later episodes seem to operate under the rule that Peter, Lois and Meg can't understand Stewie while Brian and Chris can, though there are exceptions to this.

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** While the show has flip-flopped on whether or not the family can understand Stewie when he talks, early episodes leaned in favor of them being able to understand him to at least some extent, with Peter and Lois directly responding to Stewie on occasion (In the first episode, Stewie tells Lois to burn in hell and she punishes him by taking away his dessert. Stewie tells her to burn in hell again in "Mind Over Murder", and she uses it to lead into her next song. In "Brian in Love", Peter offers Stewie a beer and Stewie sarcastically asks if they can light up a doobie and watch porn, to which Peter replies "Y—yeah?") Later episodes seem to operate under the rule that Peter, Lois and Meg can't understand Stewie while Brian Brian, Chris, and Chris most side and one-off characters can, though there are exceptions to this.

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* {{Deconstruction}}: Some episodes have the characters become incredibly aware of their {{Flanderization}} and CharacterizationMarchesOn and roll with it.
** And as mentioned previously, the Christmas Episode gets deconstructed.
** The RunningGag of Meg being abused by everyone is deconstructed in later seasons by showing her going crazy and unstable from being the ButtMonkey... which became a new RunningGag.
** "Grimm Job" features a more realistic telling of ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'', including [[spoiler:Red immediately realizing the wolf is not her grandmother, and the woodsman cutting the wolf open in a '''very''' violent manner; said woodsman is also not the hero, but a madman going house to house killing people]].

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* {{Deconstruction}}: Some episodes have the characters become incredibly aware of their {{Flanderization}} and CharacterizationMarchesOn and roll with it.
** And as mentioned previously,
it. Additionally, the Christmas Episode gets deconstructed.
** The RunningGag of Meg being abused by everyone is deconstructed in later seasons by showing her going crazy and unstable
show does not shy away from being the ButtMonkey... which became a new RunningGag.
** "Grimm Job" features a
deconstructing various tropes seen in media through CutawayGags. See [[Deconstruction/FamilyGuy here]] for more realistic telling of ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'', including [[spoiler:Red immediately realizing the wolf is not her grandmother, and the woodsman cutting the wolf open in a '''very''' violent manner; said woodsman is also not the hero, but a madman going house to house killing people]].details.
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* ExcusePlot: Especially later on, a lot of episode plotlines seem to exist for little more than an excuse to pile on every CutawayGag and vaguely-relevant that the writers could throw in.
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* FingerSnappingStreetGang: In the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E3ChittyChittyDeathBang Chitty Chitty Death Bang]]", Meg says that she has trouble fitting in with anyone in high school, and Peter says he can relate to that. [[CutawayGag Cut to]] Peter as a part of the Jets from ''Film/WestSideStory''; he snaps his fingers out-of-rhythm with everyone else, messes up the dance steps, and falls over a garbage can.

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* FingerSnappingStreetGang: In the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E3ChittyChittyDeathBang Chitty Chitty Death Bang]]", Meg says that she has trouble fitting in with anyone in high school, and Peter says he can relate to that. [[CutawayGag Cut to]] Peter as a part of the Jets from ''Film/WestSideStory''; ''Film/WestSideStory1961''; he snaps his fingers out-of-rhythm with everyone else, messes up the dance steps, and falls over a garbage can.
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'''Stewie:''' Oh, yeah? How 'bout if I [[LampshadeHanging hold it sideways]] [[AcceptableTargets like a black guy?]]

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'''Stewie:''' Oh, yeah? How 'bout if I [[LampshadeHanging hold it sideways]] [[AcceptableTargets sideways like a black guy?]]

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* FearIsNormal: A CutawayGag from "Herpe the Love Sore" has Peter attending a Cowards Anonymous meeting with the [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Cowardly Lion]]. When the Lion mentions that there are flying monkeys where he comes from, Peter says they really are something to be afraid of and that fear is a logical response to danger. Feeling validated, the Lion then returns to Oz to tell his friends off.
-->"Hey, I'm the ''Rational'' Lion! So, fuck you guys!"



-->'''Cleveland:''' Is there anything that ''doesn't'' give you a boner, Glenn?
-->'''Quagmire:''' People who use the word 'rubbish' when they mean 'garbage'.

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-->'''Cleveland:''' --->'''Cleveland:''' Is there anything that ''doesn't'' give you a boner, Glenn?
-->'''Quagmire:''' --->'''Quagmire:''' People who use the word 'rubbish' when they mean 'garbage'.
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* IntrafamilialClassConflict: The main characters are the Griffin family, a suburban middle class family that lives in Quahog, Rhode Island. Peter works a blue-collar job, and his wife Lois comes from the wealthy Pewterschmidt family. Some of the episodes focus on the antagonism between middle class Peter Griffin and his rich father-in-law Carter Pewterschmidt.
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* FoodAndBodyComparison: In "Mind Over Murder", Peter is getting annoyed that Lois is getting so much attention from other men when she starts performing in his basement bar. When a man at the grocery store compliments Lois' "melons", Peter takes offense until she reveals that she's holding actual melons.
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* DirtyCop: In "Cool Hand Peter", Peter and friends meet a Southern cop who abuses his power on them (breaks their rear-view window, asks for Joe's cop badge to toss it, and plants marijuana in their trunk) and makes them all go to jail. After many trials, however, they escape back to Quahog while being chased, [[LaserGuidedKarma with Joe prepping up his force there to teach the cop a lesson...and shoot his leg]].

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* DirtyCop: In "Cool Hand Peter", Peter and friends meet a Southern cop who abuses his power on them (breaks their rear-view window, asks for Joe's [[GenericCopBadges cop badge badge]] to toss it, and plants marijuana in their trunk) and makes them all go to jail. After many trials, however, they escape back to Quahog while being chased, [[LaserGuidedKarma with Joe prepping up his force there to teach the cop a lesson...and shoot his leg]].
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** In "New Kidney In Town", Brian is willing to give Peter both of his kidneys, even though the procedure will obviously kill him

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** In "New Kidney In Town", Brian is willing to give Peter both of his kidneys, even though the procedure will obviously kill himhim.



** When Brian dies in "Life Of Brian", two episodes later in "Christmas Guy", Stewie goes back in time to save him, even though he knows it will mean CessationOfExistence for his timeline if he does.

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** When Brian dies in "Life Of Brian", two episodes later in "Christmas Guy", Stewie goes back in time to save him, even though he knows it will mean CessationOfExistence for his timeline timeline, and by extension himself, if he does.
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* Heroic Sacrifice:

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** In the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS18E18BetterOffMeg Better Off Meg]]", after Meg comes clean with her family about faking her death, her mother, Lois, empathizes with her, explaining that women fake lots of things. Lois, herself, admits to faking bother her orgasms and being impressed about Peter's accomplishments at work.

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** In the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS18E18BetterOffMeg Better Off Meg]]", after Meg comes clean with her family about faking her death, her mother, Lois, empathizes with her, explaining that women fake lots of things. Lois, herself, admits to faking bother her orgasms and being impressed about Peter's accomplishments at work.
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* DiedOnTheirBirthday: PlayedWith in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS18E18BetterOffMeg Better Off Meg]]", Meg [[FakingTheDead fakes her death]] on her birthday.


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* FakingTheDead: In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS18E18BetterOffMeg Better Off Meg]]", Meg fakes her death [[DiedOnTheirBirthday on her birthday]].
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* FingerSnappingStreetGang: In the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E3ChittyChittyDeathBang Chitty Chitty Death Bang]]", Meg says that she has trouble fitting in with anyone in high school, and Peter says he can relate to that. [[CutawayGag Cut to]] Peter as a part of the Jets from ''Film/WestSideStory''; he snaps his fingers out-of-rhythm with everyone else, messes up the dance steps, and falls over a garbage can.

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