History Recap / FamilyGuyS21E15Adoptation

* JerkassHasAPoint: While Lois was wrong to lash out because she was jealous Carter was spending more time with Tatum than with her, she ''was'' concerned that he would end up neglecting Tatum like he'd done with her as a child.

* KillerGorilla: The gorillas in the zoo are portrayed as quite violent; they surround Tatum menacingly when she ends up in their enclosure, they tear the zookeeper trying to rescue her from limb to limb (with one gorilla putting on his torn-off face as a mask to disguise himself as a human to escape the zoo), they charge at Lois when she climbs into their habitat to rescue Tatum, and finally they brutally beat up Brian because they didn't like his book.

** The episode also claims that Carter and Babs had "three other children who didn't make it" while also seemingly not acknowledging Carol and Patrick's existence.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Stewie states he could not sleep well the previous night due to Meg doing this, or having a "onesome" as he puts it.

* ChekhovsGun: The episode begins with a ColdOpen that sees Lois recall a crazy dream she had, which drives Peter to back away to another show while everyone else commits suicide. Later, when Tatum finds herself trapped in the gorilla exhibit, Lois starts talking about another crazy dream she had and it gets the gorillas, [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere and everyone else,]]to back away from the girl.

* TooDumbToLive: Brian is tricked by a wolf into entering his exhibit when the latter lies that he read Brian's book ''Faster Than the Speed of Love'', and gets mauled as a result. He makes the same mistake and gets mauled ''again'' when entering the gorilla exhibit to ask if the gorillas have read his book as well.

* ChekhovsGun: The episode begins with a ColdOpen that sees Lois recall a crazy dream she had, which drives Peter to back away to another show while everyone else commits suicide. Later, when Tatum finds herself trapped in the gorilla exhibit, Lois starts talking about another crazy dream she had and it gets the gorillas to back away from the girl.

* CallBack: A wolf tricks Brian into entering his exhibit by claiming to have read ''Faster Than the Speed of Love'' and then viciously mauls him.

* SuicideAsComedy: When Lois starts recalling a crazy dream she had, the rest of the Griffin family (sans Peter) start killing themselves to get out of hearing it. Cleveland claims that his uncle died from a "wife dream", implying that he did the same thing.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While Lois was wrong to lash out at Tatum because she was jealous Carter was spending more time with her, she ''was'' concerned that he would end up neglecting Tatum like he'd done with her as a child.

* PetTheDog: Carter genuinely bonds with Tatum and paid attention to her. At the zoo, Carter admits to Lois that not spending time with her as a child, was the biggest regret of his life. While he can’t change it now, the closest thing he has to make up for it is to do it to Tatum.

* {{Crossover}}: The ColdOpen sees Lois recount a crazy dream she recently had. While everyone else commits suicide to get out of hearing the dream, Peter backs off all the way into ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' and decides to hang out with Bob Belcher for a while. [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] also makes a silent cameo there.

* BlackComedySuicide: When Lois starts recalling a crazy dream she had, the rest of the Griffin family (sans Peter) start killing themselves to get out of hearing it. Cleveland claims that his uncle died from a "wife dream", implying that he did the same thing.

* BlackComedySuicide: When Lois starts recalling a crazy dream she had, the rest of the Griffin family (sans Peter) start killing themselves to get out of hearing it. Cleveland states that his uncle died from a "wife dream", implying that he did the same thing.

** The episode also claims that Carter and Babs had "three other children who didn't make it" while seemingly not acknowledging Carol and Patrick's existence.

* BlackComedySuicide: When Lois starts recalling a crazy dream she had, the rest of the Griffin family (sans Peter) start killing themselves to get out of hearing it.

* {{Crossover}}: The ColdOpen sees Lois recount a crazy dream she recently had. While everyone else commits suicide to get out of hearing the dream, Peter backs off into ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' and decides to hang out with Bob Belcher for a while. [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] also makes a silent cameo there.

* SeriesContinuityError: The opening suddenly depicts the entire Griffin family as casual atheists who belittle praying families. The fact that most of them have been shown as loyal Christians in the past is not brought up at all, possibly just for [[RuleofFunny the joke.]]

* ChekhovsGun: The episode begins with a ColdOpen that sees Lois recall a crazy dream she had, which drives Peter to back away to another show while everyone else commits suicide. Later, when Tatum finds herself trapped in the gorilla exhibit, Lois starts talking about her crazy dream and it gets the gorillas to back away from the girl.

* RiddleForTheAges: How did Lois lose Tatum after at least a minute or two in the bathroom?

* HeartwarmingOrphan: Tatum, whom Carter takes a real shine to when he visits the orphanage to do a photo-op. He decides to adopt her afterwards.

* {{Crossover}}: The ColdOpen sees Lois recount a crazy dream she recently had. While everyone else commits suicide to get out of hearing the dream, Peter backs off into ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' and decides to hang out with Bob Belcher for a while. Homer Simpson also makes a silent cameo there.

* {{Crossover}}: The ColdOpen sees Lois recount a crazy dream she recently had. While everyone else commits suicide to get out of hearing the dream, Peter backs off into ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' and decides to hang out with Bob Belcher for a while. Homer Simpson also makes a silent cameo there.