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* ArtifactTitle: Peter turning ''Series/OneTreeHill'' into this by adding a second tree causes Mayor West to [[DisproportionateRetribution shoot up the house]].

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* ComicalOverreacting: Everyone in Quahog does this when they get angry over the fact that their favorite TV shows got ruined by Peter

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* ComicalOverreacting: Everyone in Quahog does this when they get angry over the fact that their favorite TV shows got ruined by PeterPeter.



* PanderingToTheBase: InUniverse, the networks are too concerned with Peter’s influence over the Neilsen ratings and blindly implement all of his bad ideas without any consideration. This is [[LampshadeHanging ultimately lampshaded]] by Brian after Quahog turns on Peter because his changes ultimately ruin television, with him telling Peter that the networks - as the ones who actually control the shows Peter influenced - are the ones truly at fault for the state of television, because they were too concerned with appealing to a vocal minority instead of making quality television.
* ParentalAbandonment: The very first cutaway features Peter and Lois abandoning an infant Meg at a fire station.[[note]] U.S. states allow newborn infants to be "safely surrendered" at designated safe surrender sites, which include fire stations.[[/note]]

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* PanderingToTheBase: InUniverse, the networks are too concerned with Peter’s Peter's influence over the Neilsen ratings and blindly implement all of his bad ideas without any consideration. This is [[LampshadeHanging ultimately lampshaded]] by Brian after Quahog turns on Peter because his changes ultimately ruin television, with him telling Peter that the networks - as the ones who actually control the shows Peter influenced - are the ones truly at fault for the state of television, because they were too concerned with appealing to a vocal minority instead of making quality television.
* ParentalAbandonment: The very first cutaway features Peter and Lois abandoning an infant Meg at a fire station.[[note]] U.[[note]]U.S. states allow newborn infants to be "safely surrendered" at designated safe surrender sites, which include fire stations.[[/note]]



** The episode can be seen as one to the Neilsen ratings system and networks putting too much stock in their figures, which doesn’t consider actual viewership but only the viewing habits of the fraction of the population that have a superfluous box installed in their home.

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** The episode can be seen as one to the Neilsen Nielsen ratings system and networks putting too much stock in their figures, which doesn’t doesn't consider actual viewership but only the viewing habits of the fraction of the population that have a superfluous box installed in their home.



* YouMonster: Quagmire calls Peter this after he makes every show ridiculous.

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* YouMonster: Quagmire calls Peter this after he makes every show ridiculous.ridiculous.
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* SkewedPriorities: Of all the heinous acts Peter has committed upon the residents of Quahog, [[SeriousBusiness ruining TV]] is treated as the one truly unforgivable crime against them. His friends disown him, Horace bans him from the Clam and assaults him, with Dr Hartman refusing to treat the wounds, while Mayor West even instigates a HeelFaceDoorSlam by destroying all his Nielsen boxes when Peter tries to use them to fix TV. Peter ''is'' forgiven in the end, but only after he takes the more manual approach to mending the network.
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* IdeaBulb: After the Neilson boxes get destroyed by Mayor West, Peter comes up with an idea to save television by going to the networks directly, only to get shards of light bulb in his face and forget it when getting up to execute it. Completely forgetting said idea in the process. The moment he gets it again, another bulb pops up just in time to get smashed into his face.

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* IdeaBulb: After the Neilson boxes get destroyed by Mayor West, one pops up as Peter comes up with an the idea to save television by going to the networks directly, only to get shards of light bulb in his face and forget it when getting as he gets up to execute it. Completely it and completely forgetting said idea in the process. The moment he gets it again, another bulb pops up just in time to get smashed into his face.
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* IdeaBulb: After the Neilson boxes get destroyed by Mayor West, Peter comes up with an idea to save television by going to the networks directly, only to get shards of light bulb in his face and forget it when getting up to execute it. Completely forgetting said idea in the process. The moment he gets it again, another bulb pops up just in time to get smashed into his face.
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* MurderSuicide: Committed by a ''sentient fire'' of all things, which shoots the fireman trying to put it out, then itself.

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* MurderSuicide: Committed by a ''sentient fire'' of all things, which shoots the fireman trying to put it out, then itself. Even Lois is unable to comprehend any of it.

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