History Trivia / FamilyGuy

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Due to ParodyDisplacement, a lot of people outside the United States didn't realise that Pepperidge Farm is a real brand of bakery products, and not just a fictional company ''Family Guy'' invented for a joke.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'', ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' all also have an episode titled "Fish Out of Water".

* IKnewIt: People figured out that [[spoiler:Brian wouldn't stay dead]] minutes after the event in question happened. A number of fans were savvy enough to figure out that [[spoiler:Brian would be saved]] through the summary of the Christmas episode for that year. Some particularly clever fans figured out ''exactly'' how it would happen - it was theorized that [[spoiler:Stewie would encounter his past self ''(seen in a cutaway gag)'' and use time travel to save Brian's life, since he couldn't build another time machine.]]

* RecycledScript: ''The Life of Larry'' pilot (first one) had many gags that would later be used in ''Family Guy'' - some of which appeared on the first episode (the one where Peter gets fired from his job at the toy factory, puts the family on welfare, and ends up rich because his first welfare check is for $150,000 instead of $150 due to a clerical error).

* BabyNameTrendKiller: The name Peter dropped the most it ever had in history in 2000, the year after the series premiered. It's had a steady decline since.

* WordOfGay: According to the DVD commentary track to ''Recap/StewieGriffinTheUntoldStory'', the movie was going to be called ''Queer as Stewie'' and was going to center on Stewie coming to terms with being homosexual. The writers decided against it, as they were getting more mileage out of Stewie being ambiguously bisexual in the regular episodes.

* TheWikiRule: The [[http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Family Guy Wiki]] and [[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Family_Guy_Fanon_Wiki Family Guy Fanon Wiki]] respectively. The latter has [[Website/FamilyGuyFanon a tropes page]].

** The original cut of the episode "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater" had a [=DeBeers=] diamond ring commercial parody that showed the woman sliding down her man to give him a blowjob. The edited cut shows her sliding down for about a second or two before it cuts to a card that reads, "Diamonds: She'll Pretty Much Have To."

* {{Trope Namer|s}}:
** BigStupidDoodooHead: Creator/BillCosby and a girl mention this on [[Series/KidsSayTheDarndestThings his show]].
** IntercourseWithYou: The refrain to a song Brian and Stewie write to try and break away from the rest of the family after they become a singing group in the episode "Don't Make Me Over".
** [[invoked]]ItWasHisSled: What Peter says during his video message for anyone watching ''Film/CitizenKane'' (along with the line, "There, I just saved you two long, boobless hours.")

** Loretta was disliked by the show staff, finding her to be bland and nasty. With the addition of Alex Borstein hating the strain of voicing her ''and'' her unpopularity with the fanbase, she was eventually divorced from Cleveland and later killed in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', with it ending with a eulogy montage for her that only really showed off more of her unlikable traits (namely her constant nagging and her cheating on Cleveland).

* TheWikiRule: The [[http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Family Guy Wiki]] and [[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Family_Guy_Fanon_Wiki Family Guy Fanon Wiki]] respectively. The latter has [[Fanfic/FamilyGuyFanon a tropes page]].

** Creator/JeffBennett reprized his role as [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Sylvester the Cat]] for the Rapid Dave CutawayGag in "Padre De Familia".