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** Not to mention Peter's line in "McStroke" about stem cell research. [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Stem_cell_treatments.svg Why AREN'T we funding this?]]
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** Season 9 shows that the writers are now going out of their way to improve the show as much as possible, as the show is now in HD, the stories are much, much better written, there are now actually pretty emotional moments every now and then, and the humor has been stepping up in quality as less and less recycled gags are used. Compared to the travesty that was Season 7 (with terrible humor, terrible stories, and terrible writing) the show has clearly improved quite a bit.
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No, no, no! You capitalize ALL words in trope names, and you don\'t put punctuation like that in names of stuff and don\'t use stupid-sounding things like \"I see\" and BLARG


* [[{{Hanniballecture}} Hannibal Lecture]]: I see Santa's "Christmas time is killing us!" song in "Road to the north pole." being one of these combined with an EarWorm.

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* [[{{Hanniballecture}} Hannibal Lecture]]: I see Santa's HannibalLecture: "Christmas time Time is killing us!" song in "Road Killing Us!" from ''Road to the north pole." being one of these North Pole'' appears to be this in musical form, combined with an EarWorm.
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* TearJerker: In ''New Kidney In Town'', Peter drinks makeshift Red Bull (a key ingredient being kerosene) and must have both of his kidneys taken out. Brian's kidneys are supposedly a match, but because they are dog kidneys, both of them have to be given to Peter. Brian agrees to it, and begins talking about how Peter is his best friend and how Peter always cared for him.
** [[spoiler: Of course, Brian doesn't die and in the end Dr Hartman gives up a kidney instead.]]
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** If it weren't for the usual bits of comedy thrown in, the murder mystery episode would have been a genuinely scary story.

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** If it weren't for the usual bits of comedy thrown in, the murder mystery episode would have been had all the elements to make a genuinely scary story.
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** If it weren't for the usual bits of comedy thrown in, the murder mystery episode would have been a genuinely scary story.
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** In "And I'm Joyce Kinney," there's a news segment about a boy named Angus Reed, who has cerebral palsy. [[spoiler: Tom Tucker says that he looks weird, and asks his co - anchor Joyce about the life expectancy of people with cerebral palsy. Her response? "You never see a gray - haired one."]]

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** Most of the Meg-Bashing especially if it is presented as comedy.
** Some of the jokes involving Joe's handicapability.



* YouFailGeographyForever: All right, it really is a stretch to complain about thi, of all things, but whoever planned the British attack on Berlin in ''Road to Germany'' should get a map of Europe. Delaying over the Black Forest? Are you trying to get your pilots killed? (Though, the writers get credit since it makes sense the plane crashing in the Alps and then drifting the Rhine towards the Black Forest. For the maps earlier which hardly indicate any European landscape... not so much.)

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* YouFailGeographyForever: All right, it really is a stretch to complain about thi, this, of all things, but whoever planned the British attack on Berlin in ''Road to Germany'' should get a map of Europe. Delaying over the Black Forest? Are you trying to get your pilots killed? (Though, the writers get credit since it makes sense the plane crashing in the Alps and then drifting the Rhine towards the Black Forest. For the maps earlier which hardly indicate any European landscape... not so much.)
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*** Or it could just be that he's a baby and he hasn't quite come to terms with his sexuality just yet.
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* {{Squick}}: Peter breastfeeding Stewie.

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* [[{{Hanniballecture}} Hannibal Lecture]]: I see Santa's "Christmas time is killing us!" song in "Road to the north pole." being one of these combined with an EarWorm.



* UnfortunateImplications: If there is a cutaway involving a woman the joke will either be about how "ugly" they look or something far worse. If it's a cutaway involving a man it'll be about ''everything else.''



* YouFailGeographyForever: All right, it really is a stretch to complain about thi, of all things, but whoever planned the British attack on Berlin in ''Road to Germany'' should get a map of Europe. Delaying over the Black Forest? Are you trying to get your pilots killed? (Though, the writers get credit since it makes sense the plane crashing in the Alps and then drifting the Rhine towards the Black Forest. For the maps earlier which hardly indicate any European landscape... not so much.)
* [[{{Hanniballecture}} Hannibal Lecture]]: I see Santa's "Christmas time is killing us!" song in "Road to the north pole." being one of these combined with an EarWorm.

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* YouFailGeographyForever: All right, it really is a stretch to complain about thi, of all things, but whoever planned the British attack on Berlin in ''Road to Germany'' should get a map of Europe. Delaying over the Black Forest? Are you trying to get your pilots killed? (Though, the writers get credit since it makes sense the plane crashing in the Alps and then drifting the Rhine towards the Black Forest. For the maps earlier which hardly indicate any European landscape... not so much.)
* [[{{Hanniballecture}} Hannibal Lecture]]: I see Santa's "Christmas time is killing us!" song in "Road to the north pole." being one of these combined with an EarWorm.
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* DudeNotFunny: Even if you ''do'' like the show, chances are pretty good that some joke or other caused you to say this. For most people, it was the gag about Stewie bombing the [[MisterRogersNeighborhood Town of Happy]]. Even [=McFarlane=] himself admitted that one wasn't funny.

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* DudeNotFunny: Even if you ''do'' like the show, chances are pretty good that some joke or other caused you to say this. For most people, it was the The gag about Stewie bombing the [[MisterRogersNeighborhood Town of Happy]]. Even [=McFarlane=] himself admitted that one wasn't funny.


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* EarWorm: Parodied and played for laughs on the "I Dream Of Jesus" episode with the Trashmen's "Surfing Bird". Peter's obsession for the song quickly degenerates into a nightmare for the rest of the family, with Stewie and Brian eventually stealing and destroying the record.
** ''A bag of weed, a bag of weed! Oh, everything is better with a bag of weed!''
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* ParodySue / PuritySue: In the episode "The Man With Two Brians", Peter buys a new dog under the name of New Brian after Lois says that Brian is getting old. New Brian is polite, perfect, multi-talented and instantly befriends everyone (sans Stewie, who sees hm as a ReplacementScrappy), who rightly realizes that he's Brian's "replacement". New Brian goes on to improve everyone's lives and supplant Brian completely. However makes his fatal mistake when he... gets a little intimate with Rupert the teddy bear.
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* HoYay: [[HoYay/FamilyGuy Has its own page]].ű

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* HoYay: [[HoYay/FamilyGuy Has its own page]].ű
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* BrokenBase: The fanbase has gotten divided to the point that something like Quagmire's [[TakeThatScrappy verbal tirade]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on Brian]] is on both the [[DethroningMoment/FamilyGuy Dethroning Moment Of Suck page]] and the [[Awesome/FamilyGuy Crowning Moment Of Awesome page.]]
** [[JustifyingEdit However,]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext it is only on the Dethroning Moment page as a reference on how that is Quagmire's Crowning Moment]]
** As far as the entire show goes, you're either in the "Family Guy is the Best Show Ever" camp or the "What The Hell Happened After They Brought It Back?" camp.
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* FridgeHorror: The Battle of Endor from ''[[ReturnOfTheJedi It's A Trap!]]'' is a lot more disturbing than what's shown in the actual film, but all they did was avert the BloodlessCarnage trope from the original film. [[NightmareFuel The Ewoks still behave the same as they did in the original film]].
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** Fans also seem divisive as to whether turning Quagmire into a SelfDeprication avatar counts as an AuthorsSavingThrow or CharacterDerailment.

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** Fans also seem divisive as to whether turning Quagmire into a SelfDeprication SelfDeprecation avatar counts as an AuthorsSavingThrow or CharacterDerailment.
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** Fans also seem divisive as to whether turning Quagmire into a SelfDeprication avatar counts as an AuthorsSavingThrow or CharacterDerailment.
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** "Ladies and gentlemen, [[TheScrappy Mr. Conway Twitty]]!
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*** Also, when the gang is shipwrecked, when discussing being blind Glen says "Every girl I'd would be Cheryl Tiegs."

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*** Also, when the gang is shipwrecked, when discussing being blind Glen says "Every girl I'd do would be Cheryl Tiegs."
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*** Also, when the gang is shipwrecked, when discussing being blind Glen says "Every girl I'd would be Cheryl Tiegs."
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*** Maybe he is mocking death.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: "Road to the North Pole". But, that [[YourMileageMayVary could just be me]].
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* DudeNotFunny: Even if you ''do'' like the show, chances are pretty good that some joke or other caused you to say this. For most people, it was the gag about Stewie bombing the [[MisterRogersNeighborhood Town of Happy]]. Even [=McFarlane=] himself admitted that one wasn't funny.
** Even some hardcore fans of Family Guy thought the joke about Quagmire raping [[TheSimpsons Marge Simpson]] then killing her entire family went too far. It almost ruined Matt and Seth's friendship and Seth admitted they went too far.
** The 9-11 jokes wouldn't be too bad if there weren't ''so many of them''. When you couple that with the fact that Seth just barely avoided being one of the victims, it makes him come off as a total JerkAss.
** ''Road to the North Pole'' descends into some pretty unsavoury territory, even by the show's DeadBabyComedy standards.
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* {{Hanniballecture Hannibal Lecture}}: I see Santa's "Christmas time is killing us!" song in "Road to the north pole." being one of these combined with an EarWorm.

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* {{Hanniballecture [[{{Hanniballecture}} Hannibal Lecture}}: Lecture]]: I see Santa's "Christmas time is killing us!" song in "Road to the north pole." being one of these combined with an EarWorm.
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* Hanniballecture: I see Santa's "Christmas time is killing us!" song in "Road to the north pole." being one of these combined with an EarWorm.

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* Hanniballecture: *{{Hanniballecture Hannibal Lecture}}: I see Santa's "Christmas time is killing us!" song in "Road to the north pole." being one of these combined with an EarWorm.
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* YouFailGeographyForever: All right, it really is a stretch to complain about thi, of all things, but whoever planned the British attack on Berlin in ''Road to Germany'' should get a map of Europe. Delaying over the Black Forest? Are you trying to get your pilots killed? (Though, the writers get credit since it makes sense the plane crashing in the Alps and then drifting the Rhine towards the Black Forest. For the maps earlier which hardly indicate any European landscape... not so much.)

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* YouFailGeographyForever: All right, it really is a stretch to complain about thi, of all things, but whoever planned the British attack on Berlin in ''Road to Germany'' should get a map of Europe. Delaying over the Black Forest? Are you trying to get your pilots killed? (Though, the writers get credit since it makes sense the plane crashing in the Alps and then drifting the Rhine towards the Black Forest. For the maps earlier which hardly indicate any European landscape... not so much.))
*Hanniballecture: I see Santa's "Christmas time is killing us!" song in "Road to the north pole." being one of these combined with an EarWorm.
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* EmoTeen: Meg, who claims that her boyfriend is Prince Harry before laughing maniacally and breaking down sobbing, "dates" a decaying corpse, cuts herself (which Meg admitted to on the episode where Lois gains weight after Peter gets a vasectomy), and ties up Brian so she can rape him.
** And also, apparently, has a very morbid sense of humour. [[BeyondTheImpossible Enough to offend her post-flanderization family.]]
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* DethroningMomentOfSuck: It has [[DethroningMoment/FamilyGuy its own section now]].
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** Another example is the actual version of Santa's Workshop in "Road to the North Pole". The elves are bad enough, but those reindeer....you won't sleep well.

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