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| 3 | Back to [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Main]]. '''Beware of spoilers!''' |
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| 6 | !!Tropes with their own pages |
| 7 | [[index]] |
| 8 | * [[TakeThat/FamilyGuy Take That]] |
| 9 | [[/index]] |
| 10 | |
| 11 | !!Other Tropes |
| 12 | [[folder:Q-R]] |
| 13 | %%* QueerPeopleAreFunny |
| 14 | * QuicksandSucks: In a deleted scene Peter makes a quicksand pit while drunk, which Lois falls into. |
| 15 | * QuirkyDoctor: Dr. Hartman is the least competent doctor in his hospital. He has a tendency to [[BaitAndSwitch use misleading words and schtick]] to make the characters think they are sick, even when they aren't. He is also an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]]. |
| 16 | * QuitYourWhining: In the episode "Lethal Weapons", while the family is in the car, Meg complains about Chris putting his foot on her side. |
| 17 | -->'''Stewie''': Meg stop your whining. Chris stay on your side. Lois, for God's sake, get off your ass and do some parenting! |
| 18 | * RadiationInducedSuperpowers: Played straight and subverted in the first "Viewer Mail" episode. The Griffin family is exposed to toxic waste and gain superpowers, using them to wreak havoc over the town. Mayor West tries to do the same in order to fight back, but ends up with lymphoma. |
| 19 | * RaidersOfTheLostParody: The show usually throws in an ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' parody (or two), but season four’s "The Courtship of Stewie’s Father" takes the cake by dedicating the entire final act towards the final minutes of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''. |
| 20 | * RaisedByHumans: In "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows", a bird makes a nest in Peter's beard before being frightened away. The bird had laid eggs in said beard which hatch and Peter ends up taking care of them until they are old enough to take care of themselves and fly away. |
| 21 | * RandomPasserbyAdvice: Meg is continually trying to attract her hunky new neighbor, Kevin, throughout his first appearance; however, he seems [[ObliviousToLove completely disinterested]]. Eventually a police officer ([[ItMakesSenseInContext long story]]) suggests that she stop talking about herself and ask something about him. Meg asks Kevin what kind of music he likes and he immediately becomes a chatterbox. |
| 22 | * RapIsCrap: In one episode, Peter listens to the police scanner hoping to pick up a crime in progress so he can stop it and become a hero. Brian overhears a gang shooting being described over the scanner, and says "is it me, or is rap music just getting lazier?" |
| 23 | %%* RapidFireComedy |
| 24 | * RashEquilibrium: Stewie and Bertram's first confrontation. |
| 25 | -->'''Stewie''': You came unarmed?\ |
| 26 | '''Bertram''': As we agreed.\ |
| 27 | '''Stewie''': Admirable - but foolish! ''(pulls out a gun)''\ |
| 28 | '''Bertram''': ''(immediately pulls out his own gun)'' |
| 29 | * RawEggsMakeYouStronger: In "New Kidney in Town", Peter makes his own energy drink. One ingredient is a raw egg, including the shell. |
| 30 | * RealWomenDontWearDresses: The reason why StrawFeminist Gloria Ironbox disliked Lois was because she seemed to be happy as a housewife, and not having a "real" job. Lois then replied saying that [[Awesome/FamilyGuy feminism is about women being free to choose what they want to be, then beats Gloria up when Gloria implies that her mothering is what screwed up her children]]--which, sadly, would be considered true now. |
| 31 | * ReallyGetsAround: Quagmire, Brian, and Lois before she married Peter. |
| 32 | * RearrangeTheSong: During season 3, the end credits music (an instrumental version of the opening theme) was rearranged with a big band motif. It was rearranged again during season 4. |
| 33 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: |
| 34 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS6E10PlayItAgainBrian Play It Again, Brian]]", Brian delivers one to Peter regarding of how bad a husband he is. However, Peter countered with another one regarding Brian's inability to hold a relationship. |
| 35 | ** Quagmire delivers one of these to Brian in "Jerome Is The New Black." |
| 36 | ** Brian is once again on the receiving end of one from Bill Maher, Dana Gould, and Arianna Huffington in "Brian Writes A Bestseller", when he completely dismisses what he said in his own book in a desperate attempt to impress Bill when Brian guest stars on his show. |
| 37 | ** In "Seahorse Seashell Party", Meg gives one each to Chris, Lois, and Peter. |
| 38 | ** In "Valentine's Day in Quahog", Stewie calls over all of Brian's ex-girlfriends in order to find out why all of Brian's dates go wrong. While the speech is very brief, all the women tell Brian that he's egotistical, pretentious, insecure, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and has a tiny penis]]. Naturally, Brain denies all the claims and fires back by telling all the women how flawed they are and then tells Stewie that he acts like a woman the most of out everyone in the room. This gets Brian chased by Stewie and all the women down the street. |
| 39 | * RedShirt: Spoofed with "Ensign Ricky". |
| 40 | -->'''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Capt James T. Kirk]]''': All right, men, this is a dangerous mission, and it's likely one of us will be killed. The landing party will consist of myself, Mr Spock, Dr [=McCoy=], and Ensign Ricky.\ |
| 41 | '''Ensign Ricky''': [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Aww, crap.]] |
| 42 | ** Inverted when William Shatner is the one who dies later in the episode, [[BrickJoke with Ensign Ricky coming out of nowhere]] and stating he "did ''not'' see that coming". |
| 43 | %%* ReferenceOverdosed |
| 44 | * RelationshipReboot: Played with when Quagmire lets slip one of his fantasies about Lois to Peter: |
| 45 | -->'''Quagmire''': Is it possible she's a whore? ...You know, like on weekends, just to pay for her mom's dialysis? ...Like in my fantasy? ...Y'know what, let's start over. Hi, I'm Quagmire! ''(offers his hand)'' |
| 46 | * ReligiousRobot: Apparently [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Optimus Prime]] is Jewish. And [[{{Franchise/Transformers}} Soundwave]] met his wife in a Christian chatroom. |
| 47 | * ReplacementScrappy: InUniverse. When the family fears Brian is getting too old and adopts a new dog, Stewie comes to hate the replacement, since he is unable to troll or tease him. |
| 48 | * RepeatCut: Played straight to the point of being mocked in "Peter's Daughter" with Stewie, Brian, and the exploding, run-down house. |
| 49 | * RepeatedRehearsalFailure: In "Dog Bites Bear", Lois sends Peter out for groceries and, in a direct parody of the ''Series/SesameStreet'' sketch, his memory of her instructions devolves. |
| 50 | -->'''Peter:''' ''[Skipping down the road]'' A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter.\ |
| 51 | A loaf of milk, a container of bread, and a Joe Dirt DVD.\ |
| 52 | A Film/JoeDirt DVD, Creator/ScarlettJohansson, and treasure from a fish tank. |
| 53 | * ResentfulGuardian: Lois Griffin has been shown to have feelings of contempt towards her daughter Meg for being unable to have an abortion and therefore getting disqualified from participating in the Olympics. Instead, she is now stuck raising her. |
| 54 | * ResetButton: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d. |
| 55 | -->'''Peter:''' Yeah, everything'll go back to normal [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall next week]], so who gives a damn? |
| 56 | * {{Retcon}}: |
| 57 | ** The revelation that [[spoiler: Peter's biological father is not Francis, but an Irishman named Mickey [=McFinnigan=]]]. |
| 58 | ** Also the revision of the founding of Quahog and mythicalization of the earlier Magic Clam story. |
| 59 | ** Joe lied [[spoiler:about a fight with the [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas Grinch]] being the reason he's paralyzed]]. He was actually [[spoiler: shot in the legs by a heroin dealer named Bobby Briggs who then went on the lam for 15 years]]. |
| 60 | %%* RetroactiveWish: "Imagine Lindsay Lohan naked and doing a backwards crab walk!" |
| 61 | * RevengeIsNotJustice: Subverted in "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q". Quagmire suggests that he and the guys should kill Jeff (Brenda's [[DomesticAbuse violent boyfriend]]). Joe says he could easily arrest Quagmire just for saying that, and that no matter how awful Jeff is, it's still murder. However, Joe ends up changing his mind once he sees Jeff beating up Brenda, and allows Quagmire to murder Jeff so that Brenda can be free. |
| 62 | --> '''Joe''': Let's waste this dick. |
| 63 | * RevengeViaStorytelling: In one episode, Brian finds out Stewie wrote a book where he is portrayed as an idiot. He gets angry and by the end of the episode writes his own book where Stewie is the idiot. |
| 64 | * RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: From "Chick Cancer": |
| 65 | --> '''Stewie''': I can't hide from this relationship. It's my responsibility to deal with it. I mean, what kind of man would I be if I just left my family and all my responsibilities like that? |
| 66 | --> '''Brian''': Well, you'd be a black man. |
| 67 | --> '''Stewie''': (shocked) Whoa, what was that?! |
| 68 | --> '''Brian''': (realizes what he said) Agh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that was my father talking. |
| 69 | --> '''Stewie''': You, uh, you gotta work on that, man. Bad dog. |
| 70 | * RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Carter Pewterschmidt. |
| 71 | * RidiculouslyAliveUndead: Death (who is TheGrimReaper) can drink coffee, as shown in "Death Lives". In "Wasted Talent", he also ends up getting completely drunk at a frat house. |
| 72 | * RidiculousFutureSequelisation: In ''Franchise/{{Rocky}} VI'' (which came out before ''Film/RockyBalboa'' did) Rocky goes to Mars for a fight. |
| 73 | * RidiculousRepossession: In "Switch the Flip", Brian is convinced by Peter's new virtual assistant into buying a lot of new stuff, eventually maxing out his credit card. When the repo man comes to collect all his purchases, he chooses to take the virtual assistant too, on the grounds that he himself doesn't have one. |
| 74 | * {{Rimshot}}: Done twice: Once in "Meg Stinks!", where the walls of the Griffin house collapsed and Peter is forced to crawl over to his drum kit to play a rimshot for his own joke. Done again in "Yug Ylimaf", where Stewie tells a joke and the rimshot is played in reverse (since time itself was flowing backwards throughout the episode). |
| 75 | * RisingWaterRisingTension: "A Griffin Family History" where the Griffins hide in a panic room when burglars break in, and are trapped inside when the sprinklers go off, causing the room to slowly flood. To pass the time while they wait to drown, Peter tells the story of their ancestors (and caps it off by telling his family that he didn't like ''Film/TheGodfather''). Luckily, they're rescued by Joe before the room is completely full. |
| 76 | * RoadSignReversal: Subverted in "Chitty Chitty Death Bang". In order to get the circus parade to come to Stewie's birthday party, Peter looks as though he's going to do this, then he uses the sign to knock out the parade leader and take his place. |
| 77 | * RoomFullOfCrazy: Patrick, Lois's traumatized brother, came to live with the Griffins. His room (actually Meg's) is decorated with photos of himself strangling fat people. And a dead fat guy and a half dead fat guy who then eats the dead fat guy. |
| 78 | --> '''Stewie''': So we're just gonna look the other way on this one, huh? |
| 79 | * RousingSpeech: |
| 80 | ** Peter gives one to Joe in "Ready, Willing, and Disabled" to build him up during the Special People's Games. Typically of Peter, though, he quickly gets off-track. |
| 81 | ---> '''Joe''': If I couldn't catch a two-bit criminal, how am I supposed to win a race?\ |
| 82 | '''Peter''': Hey, what kind of talk is that? It's un-American! Did George W. Bush quit even after losing the popular vote? No! Did he quit after losing millions of dollars of his father's friends' money in failed oil companies? No! Did he quit after knocking that girl up? No! Did he quit after he got that DUI? No! Did he quit gettin' arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct at a football game? No! Did he quit...\ |
| 83 | '''Joe''': I get the message, Peter. |
| 84 | ** When Peter finds out he is an illegal immigrant in "Padre de Familia." |
| 85 | ---> '''Peter''': This country used to welcome our kind with open arms. But men like Carter Pewterschmidt use us for cheap labor, and then-and then try to punish us when we demand to be treated like human beings. Well, no more! Immigrants built this country, and I say it's time for us to take it back! Who's with me?!\ |
| 86 | '''Immigrant''': Could you say whole speech again in Spanish? |
| 87 | * RuleThirtyFour: Reversed with Quagmire in "Family Goy," where he – the sexual deviant who always tries to corral a woman into bed with him, especially if they are older teenage girls – has no concept of Internet pornography, and is teased because of it. By mid-episode, it is played straight, as he gets a huge muscular left arm from masturbating for a few weeks straight. |
| 88 | * RuleOfThree: |
| 89 | ** In "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci High", the teachers introduce the various classes at the school. For each class, Peter says, "Ah I ''love'' dodgeball/bundt cakes/trombone!" The first two times, he picks up the object in question, shouts "Heads up!", and throws it at a random person, knocking them down. The third time, he grabs the trombone, the guy he kept hitting earlier flinches, but then Peter actually plays the trombone and gets applause... only to then shout "Heads up!", throw the trombone and hit that guy again after finishing. |
| 90 | ** In the Black Eye Griffin segment of "Untitled Griffin Family History", three of Black Eye Griffin's short films end the same way: With the character getting hit in the eye and shrugging at the camera while smiling widely, while "wah wah wah waaaaaaaahh" music plays. |
| 91 | * RunningGag: |
| 92 | ** Cleveland: Peter frequently destroys Cleveland's house while the latter is taking a bath. The neighbour then slowly slides from the upper floor while saying "[[RapidFireNo No. No. No. No. No. No. No. NO!]]", before he crashes on his garden. |
| 93 | ** Someone saying "What the hell?" to someone else happens OncePerEpisode. |
| 94 | ** Peter occasionally gets into a long, complex fist fight with his rival Ernie. The scuffle always ends with the protagonist apparently killing his opponent, though the scene then cuts to the giant chicken regaining conscience to the sound of a ScareChord. |
| 95 | ** Starting in "I Dream of Jesus", Peter develops an obsession with the song "Surfin' Bird", which he sings repeatedly, much to the others' annoyance. |
| 96 | ** In the earlier seasons, every time Chris did something creepy or questionable Peter or Lois would flatly say "Go to your room." |
| 97 | ** The idea of Quagmire getting his own spin-off is usually brought up only to be immediately shot down. |
| 98 | ** Nearly every episode, a character (most likely Peter) would waste an entire minute or two doing something mundane repeatedly ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ2F3D8GgfY like making 'Dad noises']]) while any other character nearby would just watch with an unamused looking expression on their face. |
| 99 | ** Stewie trying to kill Lois. He would have succeeded once, if [[DeathTakesAHoliday Death wasn't on vacation]]. |
| 100 | ** Brian inadvertently offending Quagmire via some misunderstanding, leading to a drawn out rage attack from the latter. |
| 101 | ** Someone (usually Stewie) will recount something shocking happening, but nobody pays attention. |
| 102 | ** As a cop, Joe Swanson shows [[InterserviceRivalry a pretty arrogant disdain towards firefighters]], from speaking about firemen in a disgusted tone, to actually pulling up to a fire station just to taunt the Fire Chief and shoot out the tires on one of the fire trucks. |
| 103 | ** Peter complaining about ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' being a crappy cheap show that shouldn't be so popular while Chris defends and praises it (which his voice actor is the actual creator of) to Peter's chagrin. |
| 104 | %%** Play me off, Johnny! Context? |
| 105 | %%*** In the episode "Saving Private Brian", Stewie terminated this gag with extreme prejudice by shooting Vern and Johnny and proclaiming they will never be seen again. Ironically they were seen again as ghosts in a later episode "Back To The Woods" with Johnny appearing in Hell because, as Vern puts it, "Johnny liked little boys." |
| 106 | %%** Ladies and gentleman, Mr. [[OverlyLongGag Conway Twitty]]. |
| 107 | * RunningGagged: |
| 108 | ** The evil monkey gag ended in Season 8 when he decided his time in Chris' closet has been enough, and leaves to live in Jake Tucker's closet. |
| 109 | ** Vern and Johnny get killed about a season after they were introduced. They come back as a ContinuityNod in ghost form. |
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| 113 | * SadistShow: When the show was uncanceled, cheerful bullying of mentally ill, disabled, or terminally ill constitutes an awful amount of the jokes in the series. If someone is in intense pain to the point of suicidal it will almost invariably be mocked and worsened to the extreme. |
| 114 | * SamusIsAGirl: In the fourth episode of the series Peter punches out a "guy" who badmouths his son once too often, not knowing "he's" a pregnant woman. Justified as she looks like [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090729022060/familyguy/images/0/0f/Soccer_mom.jpg this]]. |
| 115 | -->'''Boy:''' Hey, you hit my mom!\ |
| 116 | '''Peter:''' No, I hit your dad.\ |
| 117 | '''Bystander:''' Whoa, stand back! Give her some air!\ |
| 118 | '''Peter:''' Y-you mean, give ''him'' some air.\ |
| 119 | '''Bystander #2:''' Call an ambulance, she's going into labor!\ |
| 120 | '''Peter:''' ''(clearly confused)'' You mean ''he's'' going into labor! ''(baby crying)'' ...Whoops. |
| 121 | %%* SarcasmFailure: Brian in "Excellence in Broadcasting". |
| 122 | %%* SassyBlackWoman: |
| 123 | %%** Cleveland's ex-wife Loretta. |
| 124 | %%** Spoofed in the ShowWithinAShow [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=PmEvxswn4IY ''Mmhmm'']]. |
| 125 | %%** A CutawayGag references [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AajslFuPro a black woman in hindsight]]. |
| 126 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In "Into Harmony's Way," Peter and Quagmire start a two-man band, but Quagmire's frustration with Peter comes to a head during a live performance on The Conan O'Brien Show, when Peter drops his pick into his guitar's sound hole and spends nearly a minute trying to get it out. Quagmire promptly grabs the guitar out of his hands and smashes it before storming off with "I quit!" |
| 127 | * SeadogPegLeg: Parodied with the character of Seamus. He's a fisherman with a typical pirate getup who has pegs replacing ''all'' his limbs, including his arms. A cutaway in one episode reveals his entire ''torso'' is a peg as well, causing Peter to question how exactly he's still alive. |
| 128 | * SecondAmericanCivilWar: In "Back To The Pilot", Brian warns his past self about 9/11 during a time travel adventure to the first episode of the series, leading to him preventing the destruction of the World Trade Center. [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct As a consequence]], George W Bush loses his re-election campaign and instead ends up leading several southern states into forming a second Confederacy and seceding from the U.S. This spirals into a second Civil War and eventually reduces the East Coast to an irradiated wasteland. |
| 129 | * SecondPersonAttack: In "Stuck Together, Torn Apart", the singer on stage who says the next song is for all the ladies out there is given a punch by Peter, seen from the singer's viewpoint. |
| 130 | * SecondPrize: In [[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E14LetsGoToTheHop "Let's Go to the Hop"]], after reminiscing about a girl he used to crush on in high school, Peter refers to his wife Lois as his "silver medal." Ouch. |
| 131 | %%* SeinfeldianConversation: Often appears in conjunction with an OverlyLongGag. |
| 132 | * SelfDeprecation: |
| 133 | ** In the second half of the two-part season 3 premiere, "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E2BrianDoesHollywood Brian Does Hollywood]]", we get to see the nominees for best score at the Adult Movie Awards. Some of the recipients for this particular Woody include Music/JohnWilliams and long-time ''Family Guy'' composer Walter Murphy. |
| 134 | ** One episode centered around Brian's attempts to befriend Quagmire. When he asks why he dislikes him so much, Quagmire goes off on an incredible tangent, obviously voicing the reaction some fans had toward Brian's AuthorAvatar status, including his religious and political biases. |
| 135 | ** Combining this with when Quagmire thought he was getting the spinoff and when he was trying to make an improv show, it seems that Seth [=MacFarlane=] is using Quagmire as a SelfDeprecation avatar as much as he uses Brian as an AuthorAvatar. |
| 136 | ** In the 100th episode special, Seth [=MacFarlane=] interviews several people about ''Family Guy'' (who don't know who he is). They all say that the show is terrible. |
| 137 | ** In the 150th episode special, when Brian and Stewie are talking about "Peter's Two Dads" where Peter visited Ireland: |
| 138 | --->'''Stewie:''' Did we explore the effects of the difficult political and agricultural dynamics that have rent Ireland for centuries?\ |
| 139 | '''Brian:''' No, we just made them a [[{{Oireland}} country of drunken redheads]].\ |
| 140 | '''Stewie:''' Ah! [[SarcasmMode Groundbreaking]]. |
| 141 | ** In "He's Bla-ack!", the Brown family moves back to Quahog. Many insults are made about the fact ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' failed. |
| 142 | ** A meta example is that one of the writers is Jewish, and in the commentaries he admits most of the Jewish jokes are his. |
| 143 | ** Joyce Kinney's real last name is revealed to be Chevapravatdumrong in "And I'm Joyce Kinney". She mentions that her real last name would never be allowed on TV, so she changed it to 'Kinney'. A Co-executive producer/writer of the show is actually named Cherry ''Chevapravatdumrong''. |
| 144 | * SelfServingMemory: When Peter recalls his prostate exam, it is incredibly sinister, and totally wrong. |
| 145 | * SelfSoothingSong: During Brian's MushroomSamba in "Seahorse Seashell Party", he finds Peter being roasted alive over a fire rotisserie style by demons while singing "Wheels On The Bus." |
| 146 | * SensationalStaircaseSequence: The opening sequence to each show parodies Old Hollywood films by having the Griffins dress up in sparkly outfits and dance on top of a giant staircase, and deconstructs it in one instance when Peter falls and crushes one of the backup dancers beneath his girth. |
| 147 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Stewie spoke long sentences with unusual words during the show's earlier seasons. This gets lampshaded when he and Brian travel back in time to the first episode, and the dog asks if Stewie used to carry a Thesaurus with him back in the days. |
| 148 | * SetWrongWhatWasOnceMadeRight: In "Back to the Pilot", Brian uses Stewie's time machine to [[spoiler:prevent the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. As a result, because that the Iraq War never happened, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush loses the 2004 election and starts a second Confederacy, leading to a nuclear Civil War with a death toll of ''30 million''. The two go back to stop Past!Brian from using the time machine... except Prime!Brian ''then'' uses it to make himself the author of the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' books]]. |
| 149 | -->'''Stewie:''' We did it, Brian! We [[spoiler:made 9/11 happen]]! |
| 150 | -->''(they jump in the air and high-five, then realize that they've just done)'' |
| 151 | -->'''Stewie:''' That probably wouldn't look good out of context. |
| 152 | * SexForServices: In an early episode, [[TheGrimReaper Death]] comes for Peter, but twists his ankle and the Griffins nurse him back to health in the hopes that he'll spare Peter out of gratitude. At one point Death tells Lois that he might consider it if she does something for him. Lois sighs and starts unbuttoning her blouse; [[SubvertedTrope Death quickly interrupts, saying he just wanted more food]]. |
| 153 | * SexForSolace: When Peter caught Loretta, Cleveland's wife, having an affair, he found Cleveland's lack of anger to be surprising. Lois suggested getting him to confront his emotions, but Peter instead insisted that Cleveland just needed a "Revenge Lay" in order to deal with the situation. Of course, [[SubvertedTrope they never quite got that far...]] |
| 154 | * SexSells: In "Baking Bad" this trope is the advice that Glen Quagmire gives to Peter when Peter and Lois open a up a cookie bakery that has trouble attracting more customers — it works when Peter hires six female strippers with cookie-themed names, but, Peter being Peter, he ends up taking it to the extreme when he turns his and Lois's cookie bakery into a full-on strip club that merely distributes free cookies. |
| 155 | * SexualExtortion: Angela with Peter. |
| 156 | * SexualKarma: Peter and Lois had a healthy sex life in early seasons, but as the series progressed and the family got less and less heroic, Lois is shown to be less attracted to him, with ideas ranging from Peter's [[TeenyWeenie "size"]], [[SpeedSex duration]], [[LousyLoversAreLosers lack of skill]] and dwindling interest in her. As such she is shown to have multiple affairs, and it's stated that Meg and Chris aren't Peter's biological children. Lois has also raped Peter, and ''encouraged'' him to break into a woman's house so Lois can watch him rape the woman ''twice''. |
| 157 | * SexySurfacingShot: {{Parodied|Trope}} in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E8TheKissSeenAroundTheWorld The Kiss Seen Around the World]]", with Meg fantasizing about newsreader Tom Tucker coming out of a swimming pool in SlowMotion a [[ShoutOut recreation]] of the ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'' scene. |
| 158 | * SexyWhateverOutfit: In the HalloweenEpisode "Halloween On Spooner Street", Meg wears a slutty cat costume. Lampshaded by Lois that gripes about how Halloween is nothing but this: "I'm a slutty nurse, I'm a slutty pirate, I'm a slutty cancer survivor." Followed by a cut-away with the last example (this scene is deleted in the Tv version). |
| 159 | * ShaggyDogStory: |
| 160 | ** "The Juice Is Loose", where Peter meets OJ Simpson, and, at first, attempts to prove that he murdered his wife and Ron Brown. But then, when he finds out, he despairs that he is innocent and can never get away from the accusations. So Peter lets him stay at his house, but the family is suspicious of him. The entire episode is set up as a twist on the normal narrative about OJ, with him actually being innocent. At the end, the town comes in an angry mob to kick him out, but then O.J. makes an emotional speech about how nobody is perfect, and we shouldn't judge people for making a few mistakes. It works, and the whole town is on his side. But then, he stabs and kills three people for absolutely no reason, and runs off. After which, Peter just nonchalantly says "Oh, I guess he did do it.", and the episode just ends. |
| 161 | ** In "The Simpsons Guy", Pawtucket Patriots gets sued when it's discovered that the beer is just a rip-off of Duff. [[spoiler: Pawtucket ends up losing the case, a big deal because the company is a huge source of income to Quahog's economy, but at the end despite losing Pawtucket stays in business because, as Lois says, "What are they gonna do, come here?"]] |
| 162 | * ShootTheDog: Literally done by the Board of Directors of the El Dorado Cigarette Company in the episode "Mr. Griffin Goes To Washington". |
| 163 | * ShootTheShaggyDog: In "420", Brian manages to convince everybody in Quahog to legalize pot, but Carter doesn't like it because his business starts losing money, and bribes Brian by publishing his horrible novel if he convinces everybody to re-illegalize pot. Brian does, but in the end his novel doesn't sell a single copy. |
| 164 | * TheShowGoesHollywood: "Brian Does Hollywood", in which Brian moves to Los Angeles to become a writer but ends up becoming a porn director. |
| 165 | * ShowerOfAngst: Stewie, after learning Rupert has "cheated" him, along with SanitySlippage. |
| 166 | * ShowgirlSkirt: The showgirl outfit in the opening, and in scenes with showgirls, all have the same design of a leotard and a headdress and skirt [[FluffyFashionFeathers of feathers]]. |
| 167 | * {{Sideboob}}: Ptv's ''The Sideboob Hour''. |
| 168 | * SillyAnimalSound: In a CutawayGag, Stewie plays with a European See-and-Say, getting baffled by the various unconventional sounds the animals make according to it. |
| 169 | --> '''See-and-Say:''' The pig goes "Wank"! The cow goes "Shazoo"!\ |
| 170 | '''Stewie:''' It most certainly does not!\ |
| 171 | '''See-and-Say:''' The rooster goes "Dickeridee"!\ |
| 172 | '''Stewie:''' Where? Where does the rooster say that?\ |
| 173 | '''See-and-Say:''' The monkey goes "Macack"!\ |
| 174 | '''Stewie:''' No, no, no! It does not!\ |
| 175 | '''See-and-Say:''' The elephant goes "Thwoamp"!\ |
| 176 | '''Stewie:''' Yeah, kinda. |
| 177 | * SingleSeasonCountry: When Stewie crashes Brian's Prius, he worries about Brian shipping him off to Russia. In a cutaway gag, Stewie is shown freezing while a Russian woman tells him to drink wolf milk and watch Russian cartoons. |
| 178 | * SitcomArchNemesis: Peter vs Ernie the Giant Chicken. Brian also seems to be gaining a more mutual hatred for Quagmire as episodes progress. |
| 179 | * SingingTelegram: This trope shows up in a few episodes: |
| 180 | ** There's a CutawayGag about Peter being part of a barbershop quartet that's used to inform a patient that they have AIDS via song. |
| 181 | ** In "Sibling Rivalry", group of barber shop singers arrives to explain to the Griffins how [[ItMakesSenseInContext a vasectomy works]]. |
| 182 | * SingleTargetLaw: PlayedForLaughs in ''"Lois Kills Stewie"'' where one of the ridiculous new laws Stewie makes is that whoever sees Peter Griffin ''must'' throw apples at him. |
| 183 | -->'''Peter:''' That's okay, Chris. You're a good boy, following the law. But you, Meg, you're going to jail... |
| 184 | * SitOnTheCamera: in "Viewer Mail No. 2, Point of Stew" where a farting Polish kid lands on Stewie after going on a slide |
| 185 | * SizableSemiticNose: Frequent in the show, especially in season 8, for some reason. |
| 186 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E1RoadToTheMultiverse Road to the Multiverse]]," Brian and Stewie briefly end up in a {{Disneyesque}} universe. When Mort walks in the house, he's shown to be the only character in the Disney universe with a hooked nose. The other characters shout "JEW!" and promptly beat him into a bloody pulp.[[note]]A reference to Creator/WaltDisney's alleged antisemitism[[/note]] Ironically, Mort's nose in the normal show is drawn very similarly to many of the other characters' noses. |
| 187 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E2FamilyGoy Family Goy]]," it's revealed that the distinct shape of Lois's nose is because her mother's family are Jews who fled the Holocaust. Apparently, Lois [[FailedASpotCheck never figured]] that Grandma Hebrewberg might be Jewish. |
| 188 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuy8E7JeromeIsTheNewBlack Jerome Is the New Black]]," Peter sees an ad on TV for a Music/TimeLifeMusic compilation of "the Creator/RatPack's most bigoted songs," including one by Creator/FrankSinatra called "Jewish Nose": |
| 189 | --->''She's got a big, beautiful Jewish nose'' |
| 190 | --->''And it's there two minutes early, wherever she goes'' |
| 191 | ** Subverted in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E15BrianGriffinsHouseOfPayne Brian Griffin's House of Payne]]." Brian meets with two Creator/{{CBS}} executives, makes an ill-timed Hitler joke, and asks "[[TemptingFate Nobody here's Jewish, right?]]" Cue the revelation that both executives have massive hooked noses when they turn to look at each other in annoyance. However, they start laughing and tell Brian they're actually Italian. |
| 192 | * {{Slapstick}}: All examples of physical comedy, from random abuse, to violent murder, and even rape, are PlayedForLaughs regardless of the age or gender of the perpetrator or the victim. |
| 193 | * SleepingWithTheBosssWife: Joked about when Peter is doing a job interview. |
| 194 | -->'''Boss:''' So, where do you see yourself in 5 years?\ |
| 195 | '''Peter:''' (thinking) Don't say "Doin' your wife"! Don't say "Doin' your wife"!\ |
| 196 | '''Peter:''' [[DiggingYourselfDeeper Doing your... *looks at the family photo on the desk* son...?]] |
| 197 | * SlowClap: {{Subverted|Trope}} in "Brian: Portrait of a Dog." After Brian wins his freedom, one man claps slowly to tempt the rest of the audience to join... They are unswayed. |
| 198 | * SmartAnimalAverageHuman: Brian Griffin, the DeadpanSnarker and OnlySaneMan who happens to be the family pet dog of the Griffin family. He is far more intelligent than the others in the family and the only one who competes with his intelligence is Stewie, the youngest boy in the family. But, Brian and Stewie leave this as a ZigZaggingTrope. While Brian and Stewie are very intelligent for their age (and species for that matter), there are some differences between when they are paired up. Stewie is highly intellectual and can build many scientific inventions like time machines while Brian is a cynical but wise atheist who just loves to talk about what is wrong with the world to anybody. However, because Stewie is only a baby, he has a lot to learn about the world around him while Brian has lived much longer and has much more experience with the world than Stewie does and helps Stewie grow. In layman's terms, Stewie is smarter but more naive than Brian, however, Brian is dumber but wiser than Stewie. At best, their duo is "Wise Animal, Smart Human". |
| 199 | * SmugglingWithDolls: Mentioned in one episode where Brian becomes a drug sniffing dog. Although not seen directly, one day when he comes home from work and is asked how his day went, he is furious about the fact that he caught a man hiding drugs in his daughter's doll. |
| 200 | -->'''Lois:''' How was your day? |
| 201 | -->'''Brian:''' My day? Un-freakin-believable. First we nail this bastard who had the gall to hide his stuff in his daughter's doll-- her doll, for God's sake! |
| 202 | * SockItToThem: After Meg gets out of prison, [[AlphaBitch Connie D'Amico]] and her friends are teasing her in the school cafeteria. Meg ignores them and buys a bunch of soda cans from a vending machine. She loads them into a bag, and uses the bag on the group BatterUp style. |
| 203 | * SoHideousItsTerrifying: Meg is treated by her family, and even random people around her, as if she is some hideously deformed freak, even though her appearance could be described as merely plain-looking at the least. In one episode, when Lois takes her clothes shopping, Meg comes out of the dressing room wearing clothes not too dissimilar looking from her regular outfit, and it so horrifies the saleswoman that she douses herself in gasoline and sets herself on fire, right before jumping through a glass window. This is further reinforced in the episode "Road to the Multiverse", where her Disney-esque form bears an uncanny resemblance to [[Franchise/TheLittleMermaid Ursula the Sea Witch]] (tentacles included), unlike the much more friendly-looking versions of her family members. |
| 204 | * SoldHisSoulForADonut: In "A Picture's Worth a Thousand Bucks", Peter says that he'd sell his soul to be famous. The Devil hears him and is eager to buy, but his assistant tells him that Peter already sold his soul in 1976 for [[Music/TheBeeGees Bee Gees]] tickets, and again in 1981 for ''half a Mallomar''. |
| 205 | * SolemnEndingTheme: In "Wasted Talent", Stewie asks Peter to play the sad walking away music from ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977''. During the credits, that music plays while Stewie is walking away. |
| 206 | * SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond: Quagmire with Brian in "Jerome is the New Black" (though granted the latter is a valid ButtMonkey outside of this too). |
| 207 | * SophisticatedAsHell: In "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater": |
| 208 | -->'''Peter:''' That [vase] would look simply smashing in Lois' crapper -- I mean, ''crappiér''.\ |
| 209 | '''Kitty:''' You're so right, Peter. Any woman would love to have that in her ''crappiér''. |
| 210 | * SoulfulPlantStory: Parodied in a cutaway gag where Peter is an apple in an idyllic orchard. He talks about how great life is, but then a maggot eats at him. |
| 211 | * SoundEffectBleep: Used occasionally in the pre-cancellation seasons to bleep out stronger swearing; used frequently when the show was revived in 2005. |
| 212 | * SoundtrackDissonance: |
| 213 | ** The classy, somewhat [[TheFifties 50's-esque]], Music/FrankSinatra-ish BGM playing during many scenes (mostly shots showing the Griffins' house from the outside, anyway) just ''doesn't fit'' what this show is about. For starters, it's a Creator/{{Fox}} show. Do the math. |
| 214 | ** Lampshaded in "Dog Bites Bear". An early cutaway depicts Peter as ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} from the [[Film/Deadpool2016 2016 film]]. Just as in the movie, (Peter-as-)Deadpool guns down a bunch of {{mooks}} on a highway while a slow, peaceful song punctuates the carnage. This time, however, the lyrics to [[https://youtu.be/HTzGMEfbnAw the song]] are parodied: |
| 215 | --->'''Singer:''' Just call me anus of the morning (anus) / Just touch my cheek before you leave me (anus) / This violence juxtaposed to music (anus) / Decapitation in slow-motion (anus) |
| 216 | * SpaceWhaleAesop: Don't get too greedy around Christmas time. If you do, Santa Claus will die. |
| 217 | * SpeakingSimlish: In "[=McStroke=]," Peter believes he can speak Italian because he has grown a mustache. However, he only produces a series of "beepity boppity"s. |
| 218 | * SpeakingUpForAnother: Peter insultingly refers to Kenneth, the mail clerk at Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory, as a "Badass" after Kenneth is short with him. He's informed by a co-worker that "That 'Badass' donates half his paycheck to orphans. Orphans with diseases!". Peter decides that Kenneth is a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Badass with a heart of gold.]] |
| 219 | * SpermAsPeople: Before his conception, Stewie used to fight with other sperm. |
| 220 | * SpinOff: ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' follows secondary character Cleveland Brown as he leaves Quahog to have his own adventures in Stoolbend, Virginia. |
| 221 | * SpitTake: In "Peter's Got Woods", Peter does this twice on Meg at the dinner table when Brian tells the family that he's dating Shauna, a teacher he met at the PTA. |
| 222 | * SpiritualAntithesis: For all the comparisons the show got to ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', the two shows are very different in terms of humour and tone. Even in its early days, ''Family Guy'' featured cruder and slightly more edgy humour than ''The Simpsons''. It also manages to somehow be darker, as well as more mean-spirited as time went on. |
| 223 | * SpiritualSuccessor: ''Series/{{Wilfred}}'', adapted by ''Family Guy'' Co-creator David Zuckerman. Though ''Family Guy'' was uncanceled six years before ''Wilfred'' premiered. |
| 224 | * SpontaneousHumanCombustion: PlayedForLaughs in a CutawayGag in the episode "A Fish Out of Water," when Stewie imagines how his family would look if they were more cultured. Cue the Griffin men sitting in the living room wearing formal clothes, drinking wine, talking with British accents... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjmMC-DLAY4 and Peter spontaneously bursting into flames.]] |
| 225 | * SpontaneousSkeetShooting: When Peter joins the NRA after finding out his son is more..."endowed" than him. He practices skeet shooting old Madonna and Janet Jackson [=CDs=]. |
| 226 | * SpoofAesop: Many of the early episodes ended this way with Peter or another character learning either something completely different from the events they experienced or bluntly admiring to learning jack squat like nothing ever happened. Commentary from Seth and the other writers state that this was their way of ending the episode without filling it with nonsensical bullshit with a mix ofthe writers not giving a damn how the story ended. |
| 227 | * SpotTheImposter: |
| 228 | ** Done in "The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair" when Brian has to differentiate Stewie and [[EvilTwin Evil Stewie]]. |
| 229 | --->'''Brian:''' [[LampshadeHanging Oh, come on, not this thing, really?!]] |
| 230 | ** In "German Guy", Chris turns the tables on an elderly Nazi who was holding him and Peter at gunpoint. Chris, however, can't tell them apart and doesn't know who to shoot. Peter remarks that they don't look anything alike, but it doesn't help. [[EpicFail Chris shoots Peter when the old Nazi knows Chris' birthday, but Peter doesn't]]. |
| 231 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: Stewie and Brian. |
| 232 | * SprayingDrinkFromNose: Peter doing this and hitting Brian and a blonde provides the page picture. |
| 233 | * SpringtimeForHitler: InUniverse. Brian's second book, ''Wish It, Want It, Do It''. |
| 234 | * StableTimeLoop: Stewie ends up outside of the space-time continuum and has to overload the return pad to his time machine in order to return to existence. This event turns out to have been the cause of the Big Bang. |
| 235 | * StalkerShrine: Quagmire has a secret shrine dedicated to Lois. |
| 236 | * StatusQuoIsGod: A few minor changes have stuck, such as Cleveland moving away (to get [[WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow his own show]]) and Brian's relationship status. But for the most part, this is strictly enforced. |
| 237 | ** Spoofed in "Da Boom", where things are set back to normal by recreating the infamous AllJustADream ending from ''Series/{{Dallas}}'', complete with the original actors. |
| 238 | ** Another episode has Chris being chased by poachers in Africa. It's never resolved, but during the end credits Stewie says to Brian that "the Chris thing was just a gag, he'll be back next week like always." |
| 239 | * StealingFromThieves: In "Brian: Portrait of a Dog", Chris admits to stealing $10 from Meg's room, Meg admits to stealing $10 from her mom's purse, and Lois admits to making counterfeit $10 bills. |
| 240 | * StealthHiBye: |
| 241 | ** In Consuela's debut episode, Peter goes to use the bathroom and closes the door behind him. Consuela then suddenly and soundlessly appears in the bathroom, asking Peter if she should clean the toilet. |
| 242 | ** Peter makes an attempt in the episode "An App a Day": |
| 243 | --->'''Peter:''' Well, I'm not about to make a Batman exit right now, but has that thing always been over there?\ |
| 244 | '''Joe:''' Over where? ... what are you doing, Peter?\ |
| 245 | '''Peter:''' ''[halfway out of the window]'' Ah, you looked back too fast. |
| 246 | * StealthPun: |
| 247 | ** In "Death Lives", Carter offers Peter $1 million to stay away from Lois. Peter replies: |
| 248 | ---> '''Peter''': She may be worth a million dollars to you, but to me, she's ''worthless''! |
| 249 | ** In "I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar", we have the ultra-feminist, possibly lesbian caseworker Gloria '''''Ironbox'''''. |
| 250 | ** In "Life of Brian"' the Indians chase Brian and Stewie in Cherokee Jeeps. |
| 251 | * StockAudioClip: Every time Cleveland falls to the ground in his bathtub after part of his house is destroyed, the exact same vocal clip plays. |
| 252 | --> '''Cleveland''': What the hell?! No, no no no no NOOOOOOOO!!! |
| 253 | ** Lois's scream in the MUCH later seasons is the same one from the episode "Petarded", when fry oil is splashed onto her when Peter removes the fryolator from its location. |
| 254 | * TheStoryThatNeverWas: In the episode "Back to the Pilot", Brian asks for Stewie's help in finding a lost tennis ball. Stewie agrees to take Brian back in time so he can see the location, but Brian fails to listen ends up telling his past self about the 9/11 attacks. [[spoiler: This results in an apocalyptic BadFuture from the result of nuclear attacks. After multiple trips result in [[MesACrowd dozens of Stewies and Brians]] from the future arguing it out on whether or not to prevent 9/11, one of the Stewies decides to hold a vote. Upon the majority agreeing to allow 9/11 to happen, this Stewie and Brian then travel one minute back in time to the very first point they arrived via time travel, before they made ''any'' changes. Stewie then draws a gun on the past Stewie and Brian and forces them to go back to the present. By doing so, Stewie managed to [[CosmicRetcon erase the entire timeline]] created by the time travel along with this version of Brian and Stewie.]] |
| 255 | * StraightMan: Brian originally existed simply as a foil to Peter's antics. |
| 256 | * StrawCharacter: Christians and Conservatives, the episode with Radio/RushLimbaugh being the one exception, and even then only Limbaugh himself (who's voicing himself) isn't a straw man. |
| 257 | * StrawLoser: |
| 258 | ** Inverted by Derek Wilcox, Jillian's [[spoiler: late]] husband, who's good looking, speak many languages, has [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower superhuman reflexes]] and a [[GagPenis huge penis]], and repeatedly make Brian to look like a loser. |
| 259 | ** And of course even Peter can stand tall against Meg, who the whole universe seems designated to hate. |
| 260 | * StumblingInTheNewForm: In "Switch the Flip", Brian and Stewie [[FreakyFridayFlip swap bodies]]. Brian initially has trouble standing up due to Stewie's oversized, football-shaped head. |
| 261 | * StupidQuestionBait: |
| 262 | ** Stewie goes to a ''Star Trek'' convention because he wants to see the actors from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. He finds a Q&A session where all the questions are completely unrelated to show. Stewie is annoyed because the questions aren't about ''Franchise/StarTrek''. Ultimately he decides to use his time machine to kidnap the cast and force them to hang out with him. |
| 263 | --->'''Fan 1:''' Um, often times my household's sponges accumulate an awful amount of build-up. What can I do to prevent this? \ |
| 264 | '''Patrick Stewart:''' That's an excellent question. It's very important to thoroughly wring out your sponges after every usage. This will prevent the accumulation of grime and bacteria. A dry sponge is a happy sponge. |
| 265 | --->'''Stewie:''' That's not a Star Trek question! \ |
| 266 | '''Fan 2:''' I have a question for Jonathan Frakes. I have this itch on the back of my leg. And I can't figure out if it's a bug bite or dry skin? |
| 267 | --->'''Frakes:''' Do you take hot showers? \ |
| 268 | '''Fan 2:''' Yes. \ |
| 269 | '''Frakes:''' Dry skin. \ |
| 270 | '''Fan 2:''' Thanks. \ |
| 271 | '''Stewie:''' These aren't Star Trek questions, what the hell? \ |
| 272 | '''Fan 3:''' I have a question for Gates [=McFadden=]. I've got an artesian well on my property and the water pressure is lousy. Any suggestions? |
| 273 | --->'''[=McFadden=]:''' I would check the point first, before re-priming it. But remember that the summer months take a particular toll on any region's aquafer, depending on the local climate. |
| 274 | --->'''Stewie:''' This is horseshit!\ |
| 275 | '''Moderator:''' And that's the last question. |
| 276 | ** Appeared in a CutawayGag to one time when Peter had cow udders. He's making a presentation to a business meeting. |
| 277 | --->'''Peter:''' Any questions? \ |
| 278 | ''all hands go up'' \ |
| 279 | '''Peter:''' Not about my udders. \ |
| 280 | ''all hands go down'' \ |
| 281 | '''Peter:''' All right, looks like we have a deal! |
| 282 | %%* SubliminalAdvertising |
| 283 | %%-->'''Jerry''': Are ya smoking yet? |
| 284 | * SubParSupremacist: One gag shows a scrawny Hitler in a gym struggling to lift weights, then glaring venomously at a hugely muscular rabbi being fawned over by women, implicitly launching his anti-Semitic policies. |
| 285 | * SuckECheeses: Cheesie Charlie's in "Chitty Chitty Death Bang". |
| 286 | * SuckinessIsPainful: InUniverse, Brian's novel, "Faster Than the Speed of Love". In one episode, his book wins an award by a special organization. Emphasis on ''special'', much to Brian's dismay. |
| 287 | * SuddenHumility: Peter starts discriminating against Joe for being handicapped, until the feud leads to an accident that leaves him temporarily wheelchair bound. Despite his initial insistence that he will treat his problem with far more dignity than Joe, it takes 40 minutes for him to breakdown from his incapability and apologize to Joe. |
| 288 | * SuddenlyEthnicity: [[spoiler:Subverted]] in "Halloween on Spooner Street", in which [[spoiler:Quagmire convinces Peter and Joe that he's part Japanese as a set-up for a prank]]. |
| 289 | * SuicideDare: Lois shrewdly hints to Meg doing this in an episode by leaving her a Sylvia Plath book and a bottle of pills, telling Meg, [[AbusiveParents "Whatever happens, happens."]] |
| 290 | * SuicideByPills: |
| 291 | ** A subversion occurs when Stewie says that he replaced Meg's sleeping pills with [=AlkaSeltzers=]. The scene then cuts to Meg in her bedroom, attempting suicide by downing a handful of the pills, only to be unaffected other than burping loudly. |
| 292 | ** Discussed in the episode where Chris becomes the leader of the cool kids. As Chris' party rages downstairs, Lois tries to console Meg who can't go downstairs from her bedroom as she wasn't invited to a party in her own house. She eventually gets fed up and leaves Meg a Sylvia Plath book and a bottle of pills implying that Meg take them. |
| 293 | * SuperBowlSpecial: The show premiered after the 1999 Super Bowl followed by a Super Bowl themed ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode. |
| 294 | * SuppressedHistory: trope quote. Brian and Stewie visit Germany, who has apparently subverted their own history, to omit Nazi action. |
| 295 | * SureLetsGoWithThat: In "When You Wish Upon A Weinstein", Max has dinner at the Griffin's house. He says, "I can't eat this" when Lois presents her bad meal of fish and marshmallows. She asks if it's not a kosher meal, and Max clearly lying pretends that's the reason. |
| 296 | * SurpriseIncest: |
| 297 | ** Happens in the Halloween episode "Halloween On Spooner Street". Meg and her friends actually get invited to a costume party, and she goes dressed as a Slutty Cat, complete with mask covering 75% of her face. One game of spin the bottle/seven minutes of heaven later, she's escorted to the closet with someone in an all-concealing [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]] costume. When they're in there too long, the door is opened to reveal it being Chris... While they're half-naked on the ground making out. [[{{Squick}} They didn't take it well]], and lines like "We did so much!" imply there was more than just lips involved, though they seemed to have gotten over it by the end of the episode, apparently realizing that (given who they are) they were lucky to hook up with anyone at all that night. |
| 298 | ** In "Valentine's Day in Quahog", Stewie decides to go back in time to the 60s to see what love was like. During the trip, he falls for a girl and kisses her, only to find out it is really Lois after she is picked up by Carl Pewterschmidt. Stewie ends up vomiting all the way back to the present. |
| 299 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: [[spoiler: Joyce Kinney, Diane Simmons' substitute]]. |
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| 303 | * TakeThat: It can be argued that this area is where Family Guy remains the most consistently funny and clever; there is ''always'' something they can find to make fun of, whether it be a celebrity, work of fiction or anything else. Many cutaways consist of nothing but one of the characters telling an actor how much they suck. Some examples include Peter as Music/ChristinaAguilera's manager and Stewie trashing Creator/MatthewMcConaughey, who doesn't seem to mind. |
| 304 | --> '''Stewie''': [[Film/{{Bewitched}} "That's not funny!!!"]] |
| 305 | ** Family Guy had one at ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' in "Love Thy Trophy" when Stewie said he spent all of his money on a "insipid ''Rugrats'' video". Hilarious in hindsight when you think Cheryl Chase (voice of Angelica Pickles) is actually a fan of the show according to 100 Greatest Cartoons and was a person that contributed to the DVD sales. |
| 306 | ** The first thing done once Cleveland returned back to Quaghog was Peter, Quagmire and Joe giving [[WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow his show]] a verbal thrashing and how unfunny and unpopular it was despite a very decent four season run. |
| 307 | ** Peter's vestigial twin Chip is a cheery optimist with something nice to say about everything, except ABC's ''Series/TheMiddle''. |
| 308 | --->'''Chip:''' Wow! This is just a whole buncha loud garbage! |
| 309 | * TakeThatAudience: |
| 310 | ** Peter, in "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story": |
| 311 | ---> '''Peter''': You know what else grinds my gears? You, America. [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK YOU!]] Diane? |
| 312 | ** This exchange: |
| 313 | ---> '''Guy #1:''' Outrageous! How ''dare'' he say such blasphemy?! I've got to do something!\ |
| 314 | '''Guy #2:''' There's... there's nothing you ''can'' do.\ |
| 315 | '''Guy #1:''' Huh... well, I guess I'll just learn to develop a sense of humor... |
| 316 | ** Another involving Brian and Stewie after they meet Brian's son, apparently directed at those who nitpick every little detail about the show: |
| 317 | ---> '''Stewie:''' How can you have a 13-year old son when you're only 7?\ |
| 318 | '''Brian:''' That's in dog years.\ |
| 319 | '''Stewie:''' I don't understand.\ |
| 320 | '''Brian:''' You know what, Stewie? If it bothers you that much then just go on the Internet and complain. |
| 321 | ** It's probable [=McFarlane=] was doing this with the increasingly-longer Conway Twitty clips. |
| 322 | * TalkShowAppearance: |
| 323 | ** "Fifteen Minutes of Shame" has Meg tricking the family into appearing on Diane Simmons' talk show to expose their dysfunctional ways. Ultimately, this is parlayed into them getting their own reality show about their lives that ends with them being replaced by celebrity versions of themselves. |
| 324 | ** "Brian Writes a Bestseller" has Brian writing a shameless cash grab that leads to success and to treat his fans and especially Stewie [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism like shit.]] However, once he appears on ''Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher'', he and his guests criticize his book and humiliate him to the point that he wets himself. |
| 325 | ** Another episode has Peter and his friends attempting to make a six ''second'' talk show (even bringing in some big names, including then-Vice President UsefulNotes/JoeBiden). It goes as well as you think. |
| 326 | * TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: In one episode, Peter leaves a tape that tries to hold a conversation with Lois to convince her he's actually there. In a subversion, she figures it out when he starts to drift off topic. |
| 327 | * TeacherStudentRomance: Chris gets infatuated with Mrs. Lockhart, who reciprocates the feeling, but also asks him to kill her husband for her. Her proposal freaks him out, and he stops looking up to her. |
| 328 | %%* TearOffYourFace: Peter does this to Chris in a CutawayGag. |
| 329 | * TheTeaser: More common in the earlier seasons. It almost always featured a TV or movie parody that the family was watching, though there were a few exceptions. Examples: |
| 330 | ** "Death Has a Shadow": The Griffins watch ''Series/TheBradyBunch''. |
| 331 | ** "Brian in Love": In a dream, Stewie destroys the Neighborhood of Make-Believe before getting ready to kill Mr. Rogers himself. |
| 332 | ** "Fifteen Minutes of Shame": Peter watches ''Series/TheJoyOfPainting'' and paints the family from ''Series/FamilyTies''. |
| 333 | ** "The Story on Page 1": The Griffins watch "Sherry and the Anus". |
| 334 | ** "Fore Father": The Griffins watched "Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie". |
| 335 | ** "Brian Does Hollywood": A fake recap of the previous episode (parodying the TV {{Cliffhanger}}) opens the show. |
| 336 | ** "North By North Quahog": Peter tells the family that they've been canceled and names off all the short-lived FOX shows that aired as replacements for ''Family Guy''. |
| 337 | ** "Excellence in Broadcasting": The family watch the widescreen version of ''The Brady Bunch'' (this was the first standard length widescreen episode). |
| 338 | * TeenPregnancy: Meg exploits the trope in "Love Thy Trophy" by pretending Stewie is her son. |
| 339 | ** A more closer example is in "Peter's Daughter", where Meg falls in love with a young doctor named Michael, and has been dating him for a good while, but when the recently overly-protective Peter, who became like this after Meg nearly drowned in the flood, keeps butting in, Michael breaks up with Meg, and two weeks later, Meg believes that she's pregnant with Michael's baby, leading to a ShotgunWedding. [[spoiler: It turns out that Meg isn't pregnant because she had her period.]] |
| 340 | %%* TeenyWeenie: Peter's been the butt of a few jokes of this nature, as seen in "And The Weiner Is...", "Christmas Guy", and "Peter Problems". |
| 341 | * TemporalParadox: Brian telling his past self about the terrorist attacks on 9/11 causes George W. Bush in the present time to not only lose the 2004 election, but he also throws a fit and causes the DeepSouth to break off with the North and basically [[HistoryRepeats repeats the Civil War]], but with nuclear weapons. This causes Stewie and Brian to go back in time where Brian is about to screw up the timeline and tell them not to do anything in the past. This doesn't go over too well. |
| 342 | * TemporaryScrappy: |
| 343 | ** [[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E5TheManWithTwoBrians "The Man with Two Brians"]]: After Peter starts worrying about Brian getting old, he goes out and gets the family another dog known only as "New Brian." Guess who feels jealous of him? Brian and Stewie both dislike New Brian, but all the other characters think he's great. Near the end of the episode, New Brian admits to Stewie that he violated Stewie's teddy bear (Rupert). The next scene has Stewie giving Peter, Lois, and the other characters a quite suspicious story about how New Brian [[NeverSuicide committed suicide]], [[BlatantLies then cut himself up, bagged the pieces, and put the bag in the trash outside]]. |
| 344 | ** And then, there's Vinny, who [[spoiler:replaces Brian after he is killed]]. He's quickly accepted into the Griffin household and accepted by all, even Stewie despite the incident above. Then, [[spoiler:Stewie]] runs into one of his time-traveling selves and uses the opportunity to save [[spoiler:Brian]]. Vinny, seeing how the latter's loss was still affecting the former, [[spoiler:helps out with the plan even though doing so means he would have never been adopted by the Griffins in the first place.]] |
| 345 | * TemptingFate: |
| 346 | ** Seen in the short "He's Quagmire". A stuffy upper class man said: "I do hope nothing happens to spoil our fancy dinner party." Immediately after, Quagmire jumped on the table wearing a leopard G-string and said "Giggity!" over and over. |
| 347 | ** Also in "PTV", after the FCC shuts Peter's TV network down, he says that they can't censor the way people live in real life. Three guesses what happens next. |
| 348 | ** Subverted in "Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure" when Peter launches himself with a catapult: |
| 349 | ---> "Excellent! These dominoes are set up exactly as I want them: right next to the good china. Now I'll just place this priceless faberge egg right in the center, next to my newborn, hemophiliac baby."\ |
| 350 | Peter lands right outside the window- "Hey, those yours?"\ |
| 351 | "Yes."\ |
| 352 | "Oh, those are all really nice things!"\ |
| 353 | "Thank you!" |
| 354 | * TerriblePickUpLines: In the episode [[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E21ForeFather "Fore Father"]], Quagmire teaches Chris pick-up lines but Chris delivers it poorly on a test subject. |
| 355 | -->'''Chris''' (to a girl on the street): You dropped something. My jaw. Ha ha ha ha. |
| 356 | * TerseTalker: Ollie Williams always speaks in BeigeProse. |
| 357 | * ThanksgivingEpisode: The season 10 episode "Thanksgiving" takes place during the eponymous holiday and features the return of Kevin Swanson, who had made his last appearance in season five and was pronounced dead in season 7. The episode reaches its climax when his father, in the spirit of the festivities, forgives Kevin for abandoning his duties during the Iraq War. |
| 358 | * ThatsAllFolks: A parody of the famous ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' rings appears in "The Tan Aquatic With Steve Zissou" after Peter cuts himself shaving with a razor fan. |
| 359 | * ThatsWhatSheSaid: In "Mother Tucker"; |
| 360 | --> '''Brian''': Uh, excuse I- I got to find a lost kid. Can I use your mic?\ |
| 361 | '''Butt''': That's what ''she'' said!\ |
| 362 | '''Weenie''': Whoa, you got Butt-slammed!\ |
| 363 | '''Brian''': Listen, I could really use a hand here.\ |
| 364 | '''Butt''': That's what ''he'' said!\ |
| 365 | '''Weenie''': BUTT-SLAMMED! |
| 366 | * TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Most of the time Joe is treated as [[ButtMonkey the Meg of Peter's friend group]]. However, when he became a quadriplegic and when he tried to commit suicide, his friends showed they really do care about him by taking care of him and trying to talk him out of being suicidal. |
| 367 | * TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Billy Fin, a talking dolphin (played by Creator/RickyGervais) who stays at the Griffins until his wife takes him back. |
| 368 | * TheyKilledKennyAgain: Numerous characters, most notably [[TheChewToy Meg]], have been killed at one point or another. One such instance being when Peter tries to prepare dinner in Lois' absence, and ends up cooking the kids instead. |
| 369 | * ThinksOfSomethingSmartSaysSomethingStupid: At a job interview, Peter is asked where he sees himself in five years. He thinks to himself that he "Don't say doing your wife. Don't say doing your wife." He ends up saying "Doing your" looks at the interviewer's family photo, and follows up what he said with the word "son." |
| 370 | * ThinkUnsexyThoughts: In "Blind Ambition", Peter, Cleveland, and Joe attempt to teach self-control to Quagmire by sticking a ceiling fan a few inches above his crotch. Quagmire desperately tries to avoid getting an erection by thinking of unsexy things. At first, his examples fail him (dead kittens, nuns, really old nuns), but he's finally able to keep it down by thinking of Creator/ReneeZellweger. |
| 371 | * ThisIsForEmphasisBitch |
| 372 | ** Specifically in "The Perfect Castaways" when Brian breaks up with Lois: |
| 373 | ---> '''Stewie:''' "Ah, bitch, you got jacked, bitch." |
| 374 | * ThisLoserIsYou: Being a satire, that's the entire point of the show. Peter in particular is supposed to carry this message, however whenever any character is being a hypocritical (uneducated) bigoted jerkass, you can bet the writers are winking right at you, or at least at the society we live in. It only gets more hilarious - or depressing - when a lot of people who watch and enjoy the show think all the gags and jokes are not meant to be funny because of the critique and irony that lays behind them, but just because [[ComicallyMissingThePoint they're actually funny per se]]. |
| 375 | * ThreeShorts: Often, three shorter stories with a common theme are used to make up an episode. |
| 376 | ** "Family Guy Viewer Mail #1": Three stories taken from suggestions made by viewer mail. |
| 377 | ** "Three Kings": Three stories based off the works of Creator/StephenKing. |
| 378 | ** "Family Guy Viewer Mail #2": Three mores stories taken from viewer mail suggestions. |
| 379 | ** "Grimm Job": Three shorts based on Grimm's fairy tales. |
| 380 | ** "High School English": Three stories based off of literature often read in high school English class. |
| 381 | ** "Three Directors": Three stories, each "Guest directed" by three Hollywood directors. |
| 382 | ** "Family Guy Through the Years": Three PeriodPiece shorts imagining what the show would have been like if it were a live-action show airing in TheFifties, TheSixties, and TheSeventies. |
| 383 | ** "Tales of Former Sports Glory": Three stories showing various characters' history with sports. |
| 384 | ** "Rock Hard": Three tales of rock and roll legends. |
| 385 | ** "HBO-no": Three parodies of HBO shows. |
| 386 | ** "Oscar Guy": Three adaptations of Oscar winning movies, ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', ''Film/AmericanBeauty'' and ''Film/ForrestGump''. |
| 387 | ** "Love Story Guy": Three stories of Peter and the guys meeting their first loves. |
| 388 | ** "Take This Job and Love It": The guys imagine what it would be like to have their dream jobs. Peter pictures himself as a Franchise/JamesBond-esque spy, Quagmire was an 80s areobics insttructor, and the pair of Clevland & Joe are partners in the L.A.P.D., ala ''Film/LethalWeapon''. |
| 389 | * ThrowTheDogABone: While she still is picked on, the writers have started to tone down the Meg bashing in later seasons. |
| 390 | * TimeTravelingJerkass: While Stewie usually uses his time machine for pragmatic purposes, at one point he uses it to troll Brian throughout different time periods so he can get the last word in all their past arguments (over Brian [[DisproportionateRetribution making one gay joke]]). |
| 391 | * TinyGuyHugeGirl: This trope is pulled whenever Brian gets a human girlfriend. |
| 392 | * TitleDrop: |
| 393 | ** Spoofed in "420" where Peter is shown being amused by various title drops in films ("The only way I can stop this crisis is by being ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace!''") Then later, a walk-on character says "I'm a family guy!" and Peter is thrilled. |
| 394 | ** Brian said "Stewie loves Lois!", which is the title of that episode. |
| 395 | ** Parodied in "The Simpsons Guy." |
| 396 | ---> '''Peter''': I'm a family guy.\ |
| 397 | '''Homer''': And I'm a ''The Simpsons''. |
| 398 | * TitlePlease: Exceptions being the Brian & Stewie "Road To..." episodes and "Viewer Mail #1", which had three different title cards for each segment. |
| 399 | * ToadLicking: "Toad" becomes such a popular fad at James Woods High School, after a Colombian drug cartel's plane transporting the toads crashes near Quahog, that Peter winds up going undercover at the school as "Lando Griffin" to get the students to stop. |
| 400 | ** There was even a hilarious [[DrugsAreBad anti-drug]] PSA directly spoofing the classic Tootsie Pop commercial with Mr. Owl. |
| 401 | ---> '''Kid:''' Mr. Toad, how many licks of you does it take to get to the center of a Rhode Island State Prison?\ |
| 402 | ''[Jail Door Closes]''\ |
| 403 | '''Voiceover:''' Just one. |
| 404 | * ToiletPaperSubstitute: |
| 405 | ** In "There's Something About Paulie", while Peter is using the toilet, a member of the Mafia appears to tell him that he has to see the Don to repay his favor. When Peter realizes that he's out of toilet paper, he uses an ''Entertainment Weekly'' magazine as a substitute. |
| 406 | --->'''Peter''': [[TakeThat Well, at least that's one problem solved.]] |
| 407 | ** In "Spies Reminiscent of Us", when Peter tries to use the bathroom in Cleveland's abandoned house, he finds out there's no toilet paper. Peter runs offscreen to Joe's house and asks him if he can borrow something from him, Joe allows it, unaware of what Peter is doing. When he runs back onscreen into Cleveland's house, [[RefugeInAudacity he's carrying the American flag]]. |
| 408 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Brian and Lois were originally meant to be the more level-headed, sensible and well-meaning members of the family. However, starting in season 7, they both TookALevelInJerkass.argu |
| 409 | * TokenHouseguest: The Griffin family is joined by their talking dog Brian. Due to his intelligence, he's not treated as a pet, but as a friend. He has many storylines involving Peter and Stewie, and even develops a crush on Lois at one point. |
| 410 | * TokenMinority: |
| 411 | ** Two in the main cast, Cleveland and Joe; {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Asian Reporter Trisha Takanawa and "Black-u-weather forecaster" Ollie Williams. |
| 412 | ** As well as "Hispanic Reporter Maria Hee-Ji-Jiminez?" |
| 413 | * TollBoothAntics: |
| 414 | ** In the episode "Screwed The Pooch", Peter hangs out with Carter and his rich friends Bill Gates and Michael Eisner. At a toll booth, Peter asks them if they have a spare quarter, to which they are unfamiliar. Peter notes they have to give the guy something and the gang resort to {{mooning}} at the booth. |
| 415 | ** Another episode has Peter wearing a Middle Eastern costume at the toll booth, with the guard checking his skin tone whether he's "Okay". |
| 416 | * TonightSomeoneDies: The plot for the season 9 premiere "And Then There Were Fewer" said that many characters were going to die. However, only one of them was relatively important. |
| 417 | * TooHotForTV: |
| 418 | ** A lot of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episodes (particularly those aired after the show was UnCanceled in 2005) have a lot of scenes and lines that FOX censors won't air or were cut due to time constraints. Cartoon Network airings partially restore some of the scenes and lines that were edited on FOX, but the DVD has all of the scenes and lines that were rejected by censors (either in the episode proper or as part of a deleted scenes reel) |
| 419 | ** Also, two episodes were banned: "When You Wish Upon A Weinstein" (was banned out of fear that Jews and Catholics would find the show's take on religion offensive. The episode aired years later with a line change and some light trimming of one scene) and "Partial Terms of Endearment" (banned for dealing with the hot-button topic of abortion. The episode did air on a UK TV channel and was released on DVD, but FOX is never going to reverse its decision not to air the episode and Cartoon Network might not air it, either). |
| 420 | * TookALevelInJerkass: |
| 421 | ** One episode had Joe regain the ability to walk, which boosts his confidence level tenfold. However, he gets a little too overconfident and starts to berate his friends for not meeting his high demands to improve in whatever activity they are doing. He eventually ditches Bonnie (who is still pregnant) and his friends to hang out with athletic men who can keep up with him. It takes Joe losing his ability to walk again to bring him back down to humble levels. |
| 422 | ** Meg had become less hostile and more humble due to the entire world treating her like crap. However, in "Chris Cross", Meg witnesses Chris stealing money from Lois' purse and decides to blackmail him by forcing him to do all her chores and other tasks while she acted like a smug jerk throughout it all. After Chris had enough and decides to run away, Meg tells Chris that he's a fat loser with no friends and he has nowhere to run away to. Compared to the childish insults that the rest of the family dishes to her, Meg's comments to Chris is quite harsh. |
| 423 | ** Ross Fischman was friendly and down-to-Earth in his first appearance. When he returns in "Into Fat Air", he's a smug jerk who brags about how much better his family is than the Griffins. |
| 424 | * TookALevelInKindness: |
| 425 | ** In contrast to the majority of the cast's increasing sociopathic tendencies, original TokenEvilTeammate Stewie has evolved more and more into JerkWithAHeartOfGold (and at worst AffablyEvil) territory. |
| 426 | ** Meg, originally a BrattyTeenageDaughter that was ashamed of her family's antics, has become more docile and friendly, if only in her desperation for [[AbusiveParents her family's]] love. |
| 427 | * TouchOfDeath: When DeathTakesAHoliday and Peter needs to fill in for him, simply wearing Death's shroud causes anything Peter touches to instantly die, even without intending it. He learns this the hard way. |
| 428 | -->'''Peter''': Note to self... do NOT go to the bathroom. |
| 429 | * TotallyRadical: In "Hot-Pocket Dial" Lois tries to talk like a teenager: |
| 430 | -->'''Quagmire:''' Hey, before you two leave, let's take a photo.\ |
| 431 | '''Lois:''' Yeah! Selfie! ''[laughs]'' I just learned that word!\ |
| 432 | ''[after they take a group pic]''\ |
| 433 | '''Lois:''' See ya tomorrow, hashtags!\ |
| 434 | '''Peter:''' You're not doing that right. |
| 435 | %%* TourGuideGag |
| 436 | * ToxicWasteCanDoAnything: Played with in a "What If" episode. When a truck carrying ''nuclear'' waste crashes in front of the Griffin household, each family member is imbued with a different superpower, which they use to cause mayhem. To combat them, mayor Adam West rolls in ''toxic'' waste... causing him to contract lymphoma. |
| 437 | * TradeYourPassionForGlory: Happened to nearly all the main characters at least once. |
| 438 | * TrainJob: Subverted. Peter and his father-in-law, Carter, try to do this, but the ticket taker tells them that no one rides the trains anymore. |
| 439 | * TransChaser: The episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E18QuagmiresDad Quagmire's Dad]]" deals with Quagmire coping with the news that his father Dan has come out as transgender and now goes by Ida. At the end, he finally accepts Ida's identity as a woman, something reflected by his [[StrangelyArousing inexplicable erection]]. |
| 440 | -->'''Quagmire:''' Sorry, sorry! Damn thing can't tell the difference. |
| 441 | * TransEqualsHypersexual: In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E18QuagmiresDad Quagmire's Dad]]," Glenn's father Dan comes out as transgender and changes her name to Ida. She explicitly talks about what bottom surgery did to her genitals at a family dinner, browses porn on her phone in public, and doesn't disclose to Brian that she's trans before having sex with him. |
| 442 | * TranslationConvention: With baby pronunciations of words being translated into correct pronunciations of words, rather than foreign words being translated into English words. Stewie's pronunciation of a word is left untranslated whenever Brian is teaching him how to pronounce a word correctly. |
| 443 | -->'''Stewie''': We could get a Yuber.\ |
| 444 | '''Brian''': A Yuber?\ |
| 445 | '''Stewie''': Yes, a Yuber.\ |
| 446 | '''Brian''': It’s Uber.\ |
| 447 | '''Stewie''': That’s what I’m saying. Yuber.\ |
| 448 | '''Brian''': You’re adding a “Y.”\ |
| 449 | '''Stewie''': No, that’s a “U.”\ |
| 450 | '''Brian''': Say “underwear.”\ |
| 451 | '''Stewie''': Yunderwear.\ |
| 452 | '''Brian''': Why are we standing here doing this same old bit? |
| 453 | * TranquillizerDart: In an early episode, Peter's boss devises a contest for the company picnic, which involves taking shots at the employees with a tranq rifle and seeing who can last the longest. Most of the employees drop like stones the moment they get shot... except for Peter, who ends up with more than a ''dozen'' tranquillizer needles stuck in him, and still manages to stay conscious long enough to win the contest. It would seem that this is either due to his relatively high body mass, which (in theory) would require longer for the chemicals to spread through his body, or due to the increased amount of fatty deposits, which would help isolate the venom from his bloodstream. |
| 454 | * TrappedInASinkingCar: In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E16TheCourtshipOfStewiesFather The Courtship of Stewie's Father]]", Peter and Stewie do this to Lois as a prank. Fortunately, Lois survives, and when she gets back home, she is not happy with them at all. |
| 455 | * TrappedInATanningBed: In "The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou", Stewie gets a tan and becomes addicted to the "tan" lifestyle, even getting a tanning bed to maintain it. He tells Brian to let him out after 15 minutes, but Brian falls asleep on the couch and, by the time he wakes up, Stewie is badly burned. |
| 456 | -->'''Brian:''' Uh... hey, buddy. I was just comin' to tell ya, it's time to get out. |
| 457 | -->'''Stewie:''' I'VE BEEN IN THERE FOR ''SIX AND A HALF HOURS'', YOU SON OF A BITCH! |
| 458 | * TrashOfTheTitans: When Lois went to jail for stealing, the house became a wreck. |
| 459 | * TrialBalloonQuestion: In one cutaway, [[ItMakesSenseInContext a toilet seat phoned a woman he dated]]: |
| 460 | --> '''Woman''': You know, I had such a great time with you last night.\ |
| 461 | '''Toilet''': Listen, there's something I have to tell you. I just got back from the doctor. I have herpes. I think you should get yourself checked out.\ |
| 462 | '''Woman''': Oh my God!\ |
| 463 | '''Toilet''': Will you stay?\ |
| 464 | '''Woman''': What?\ |
| 465 | '''Toilet''': Will you stay with me, even knowing that I have herpes.\ |
| 466 | '''Woman''': ''[{{beat}}]'' Yes, I will.\ |
| 467 | '''Toilet''': ...Joanie?\ |
| 468 | '''Woman''': Yeah?\ |
| 469 | '''Toilet''': I don't have herpes. I just needed to know that you'd stay. |
| 470 | * TrueLoveIsBoring: Zig-zagged. Lois and Peter have had numerous ups and downs (including infidelity at one point), but they are still together. |
| 471 | %%ZCE* TrustMeImAnX: "Relax, I be a doctor." |
| 472 | * TruthInTelevision: The way DomesticAbuse is portrayed in "Screams of Silence" is '''100% realistic!''' |
| 473 | %%* TVNeverLies |
| 474 | * TwoDecadesBehind: A lot of the references on the show are to 80s-90s stuff, even though quite a bit of their fanbase are college age, meaning they grew up in the late 90s-early 2000s. Specifically: |
| 475 | ** In "Peter's Sister", Karen, a pro wrestler, is shocked when Peter addresses her by her first name. The days of wrestlers' true identities (such as real names, personal lives, etc.) being widely unknown passed after the early 90s at the latest, despite the episode airing in 2016. |
| 476 | * TwoLinesNoWaiting: Many episodes have a main plot and a "sub-plot" that happens during the main one. A notable aversion of this is the special episode "Brian & Stewie". |
| 477 | * TWordEuphemism: SubvertedTrope. |
| 478 | -->'''Brian''': ''[referring to a mole on Stewie]'' I think it could be... [[CountryMatters the c-word]].\ |
| 479 | '''Stewie''': What does that have to do with anything?\ |
| 480 | '''Brian''': No, I mean cancer.\ |
| 481 | '''Stewie''': Oh, oh! Cancer, oh no! |
| 482 | [[/folder]] |
| 483 | |
| 484 | [[folder:U]] |
| 485 | * UglyGuyHotWife: Peter and Lois. A news report once described them as "a fat man inexplicably married to an attractive redhead", along with an artist's sketch of what they might look like - [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred and Wilma Flintstone]]. |
| 486 | * UltimateAuthorityMayor: Mayor Adam West. Being ''Family Guy'' (and Creator/AdamWest), he's insane, but [[PermanentElectedOfficial no one seems to care]]. Lois defeated him in an election, but [[StatusQuoIsGod he got the job back in the end.]] |
| 487 | * UnanthropomorphicTransformation: Happens for a short gag in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': as Brian and Stewie are transported through a number of universes, they briefly arrive to a live-action universe where Brian is portrayed by a regular, non-anthropomorphic dog. |
| 488 | * UncannyFamilyResemblance: Mort and Muriel Goldman are a couple and look identical to each other. |
| 489 | * UnConfession: PlayedForLaughs; in keeping with the show's increasing reliance on [[VulgarHumor shock value]], it normally involves Peter being a total {{Jerkass}} when inappropriate, or Lois admitting to some past (wild) indiscretion. She learned that from her father, who also does it often. |
| 490 | * {{Understatement}}: Lots. Chris's deaf classmate Bill who is [[ThoseWackyNazis "uhhh... kinda conservative"]] comes to mind. |
| 491 | * UnderwaterFartGag: When Meg and Stewie have to take a bath together, they fart in the bath as a joke. Then, Meg queefs (i.e. air comes out of her vagina) and Stewie runs away screaming. |
| 492 | * UndiscriminatingAddict: One joke showed the [[Series/SesameStreet Cookie Monster]] trying to freebase cookie dough in a bathroom stall with a spoon and a lighter, all while anxiously mumbling that it's taking too long. |
| 493 | |
| 494 | %%* UnexpectedInheritance: Aunt Marguerite to Lois. |
| 495 | * UnexpectedKindness: In "Brian the Closer", Brian loses all his teeth thanks to Peter, and the family refuses to pay for new ones. When the despondent Brian encounters Quagmire (whom he has a long-running enmity with), he expects Quagmire to insult him. Instead, Quagmire writes a cheque for Brian to get new teeth. |
| 496 | * UnexplainedRecovery: |
| 497 | ** Happens quite often, given the random CutawayGag nature of the show, but [[ButtMonkey Meg]] is killed for the sake of a joke more often than most, but is fine in the next scene. For example, in "Space Cadet", the whole family gets trapped in space on the space shuttle. Stewie looks on the monitor to see Meg poking around the cargo hold, and tells Brian he's going to give her a scare. Stewie hits a button, opens the cargo hold, and Meg gets blown out into the eternal depths of space. Without making another sound, a look of horror slowly creeps across both their faces as they realize just what happened, and Brian closes the cargo hold and turns off the monitor. In the next scene, she's back to normal without mention. Among other methods that she's been killed were [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk being shot with poison darts while running from a tribe of natives]], having her heart ripped out for interrupting a Jewish prayer at dinner, and being shot in the face by Peter just for casually walking past him and saying hello. |
| 498 | ** In "The Boys in the Band" it's not explained how Olivia survived the fire. They just mention that Stewie left her in a burning cardboard box and that's the last we hear about it. |
| 499 | * TheUnfairSex: |
| 500 | ** Lois, despite often proving to be a terrible human being and a hypocrite on top of it, is generally given moral superiority over Peter in just about everything. |
| 501 | ** Brian is also depicted as a vile, terrible lover in later episodes. While this is hardly a false statement, it rarely acknowledges that half of his girlfriends are also hypocritical {{Jerkass}}es who barely deserve any better. |
| 502 | %%* TheUnfavourite: Meg. |
| 503 | * UnflatteringIDPhoto: |
| 504 | ** Peter's photo on his driver's license has him looking drunk. He claims he did this so that when he does get pulled over for drunk driving, he'll look the same as he does in the photo. |
| 505 | ** The episode "A Lot Going On Upstairs" has Stewie dreaming that he brings in Lois's driver's license for show and tell, with Stewie pointing out how her ID photo shows her being very obviously drunk. |
| 506 | --->'''Stewie:''' You could put a breathalyzer up to the photo and she'd get a DUI. |
| 507 | %%* TheUnintelligible: James William Bottomtooth III |
| 508 | * TheUnishment: In "Business Guy" Peter forces Carter to throw a ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' Viewing Party at his house. Not a single co worker is interested, but Carter finds the show ActuallyPrettyFunny. |
| 509 | %%* UniversalAdaptorCast: The Star Wars specials, "Peter's Progress", and "Three Kings". |
| 510 | %%* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: The exterminators in "He's Too Sexy For His Fat". |
| 511 | %%* UnnecessaryRoughness: Several times. |
| 512 | * UnnecessaryTimePrecision: During the cutaway gag of Peter’s rat farm in [[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E24Peterotica "Peterotica"]], Peter looks at his pocket watch before telling Armando that he is two months behind on paying rent. |
| 513 | * TheUnpronounceable: |
| 514 | ** Brian has trouble pronouncing "Donald Nguyen" in "Model Misbehavior". |
| 515 | ** Don [=LaFontaine=] had trouble pronouncing "Jim Caviezel" in the trailer for ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist 2'', and finally just calls him "the guy from the first one". |
| 516 | ** "Kim... Bassenger? Basenger? Basinger?" |
| 517 | * UnknownRematchConclusion: Quagmire sleeps with Cleveland's wife Loretta in "The Cleveland–Loretta Quagmire". After a violent confrontation between Cleveland and Quagmire that ends with Cleveland and Loretta separating and Cleveland forgiving Quagmire, the episode ends in a recreation of ''Film/RockyIII's'' final scene as the two friends have a fair bout to clear the air. Just as in the movie, it's not shown who wins. |
| 518 | * UnsettlingGenderReveal: "You mean ''three'' filipino women!" *{{Beat}}* "[[BigNo NOOOOOOOOO!]]" |
| 519 | ** The episode "Quagmire's Dad" where Quagmire's father gets a sex change and becomes Ida and Brian later has sex with Ida. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown He]] [[CurbStompBattle isn't]] [[VomitIndiscretionShot too pleased when he finds out.]] |
| 520 | ** In another episode, when "the guys" are discussing their preferred woman: |
| 521 | --> '''Joe:''' [[{{Music/Hanson}} Taylor Hanson]]'s a guy. |
| 522 | ** Subverted on Diane's talk show when a man reveals he's not a man but a woman, then not a woman but a horse, and then not a horse but really a broom. |
| 523 | * UnspokenPlanGuarantee: In "Airport '07", the plan to get Quagmire's job back is explained (with a dramatization even) before it's carried out. Guess how well the original plan went. |
| 524 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Peter of course. And when another character gets ADayInTheLimelight, they are usually this as well. |
| 525 | * UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Seriously, when is someone going to find it weird that a dog can do things that normal people can do like talk, drink, smoke, and have sex with human females (and have human kids with them)... that and the baby can talk. |
| 526 | * UptownGirl: Lois and Peter, as shown by an early episode where Peter is at odds with her tyrannical father in order to gain his approval, which he never does. She marries him despite her father's insistence that she doesn't really love him or his covert attempts to kill Peter. |
| 527 | [[/folder]] |
| 528 | |
| 529 | [[folder:V]] |
| 530 | %%* VehicleVanish: Subverted. "It would probably have been a good idea to get on that truck." |
| 531 | * VictoriasSecretCompartment: Mrs. Lockhart hid ''everything'' in her boobs, including a whole class' worth of tests. She even had a machete in there. |
| 532 | %%* VictimizedBystander: often. |
| 533 | * VideoWills: |
| 534 | ** Peter's boss Mr. Weed leaves one that alerts his employees that the factory is to be destroyed "right now", a second before a wrecking ball crashes through the building. |
| 535 | ** Lois's father Carter keeps quite a few of these, for any situation that might come up...including Death by Chocolate. |
| 536 | %%* VignetteEpisode |
| 537 | %%* VillainProtagonist: Stewie in the early seasons. Peter, nowadays. |
| 538 | * VillainSong: In "Lois Kills Stewie", after successfully taking over the world, Stewie sends a broadcast out to the entire population on various (and gruesome) forms of punishment he will administer to those who irk him. The song is essentially the entirety of his EnemiesList, and is put to the tune of ''[[Theatre/TheMikado The Mikado's]]'' ''The List Song''. |
| 539 | * VinylShatters: In the episode "I Dream of Jesus", Brian and Stewie break Peter's Surfin' Bird record; Stewie stomps on it with his foot and Brian smashes it further with a baseball bat. |
| 540 | * ViolationOfCommonSense: In "Stewie Goes for a Drive", Creator/RyanReynolds is very obviously attracted to Peter that he becomes insulted when Peter tells him he is gay for him...by arguing he "feels attracted to him like a guy is attracted to a woman" and "he wants his essence in him." |
| 541 | %%* ViolentGlaswegian |
| 542 | %%* VitriolicBestBuds: Brian and Stewie. |
| 543 | * VocalEvolution: Peter's voice was deeper and had more of a Boston-sounding accent until the second un-cancellation, and sounded less whiny. Stewie had a lisp with his accent, and Brian, Quagmire, and Meg all had ''much'' higher voices in the pilot episode, "Death Has A Shadow". Lois' voice was notably lower in pitch and less nasal. Also, Chris's voice constantly shifted as though he was going through puberty. Meg's voice actress changed from Creator/LaceyChabert to Creator/MilaKunis sometime in the second season, which explains the change in Meg's voice. |
| 544 | * VomitIndiscretionShot: Used every time somebody throws up, which is not rare. |
| 545 | ** In the episode "Quagmire's Dad", Brian vomits for almost 30 seconds straight without stopping. |
| 546 | ** Used to the extreme in "8 Simple Rules For Buying My Teenage Daughter" where Peter, Chris, Brian, and Stewie drink medicine that induces vomiting and have a contest to see who can be the last guy standing before vomiting. Nearly a minute or two of this gag involves nothing but the four guys vomiting ''constantly'' all over the living room. |
| 547 | *** "Who wants chowder?" |
| 548 | [[/folder]] |
| 549 | |
| 550 | [[folder:W]] |
| 551 | * WalkieTalkieGagOver: When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrVgOcZ7Z2A Stewie and Brian use a walkie-talkie]] while installing a cable, Stewie demands Brian end every transmission with over, to Brian's chagrin. |
| 552 | -->'''Brian:''' I don't want to hang out with you anymore when this (job) is over.\ |
| 553 | '''Stewie:''' When this is what? You gotta finish your sentence. Over.\ |
| 554 | '''Brian:''' That's it. My sentence is over.\ |
| 555 | '''Stewie:''' Your sentence is what, Brian? Over.\ |
| 556 | '''Brian:''' My sentence is... wait a minute, I have to say "over" even if the sentence ends with the word "over?"\ |
| 557 | '''Stewie:''' Ends with the word what, Brian? Over. |
| 558 | * WarMemorial: Mayor West commissions a war memorial to honor Quahog soldiers who perished in the Gulf Conflict. Unfortunately he chooses a solid gold statue of Dig 'em the Sugar Smacks mascot, which is completely inappropriate and [[PointlessCivicProject drains the town's coffers]], leading to protests calling for his resignation. |
| 559 | * WasJustLeaving: In [[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E20PatriotGames "Patriot Games"]], Lois drills a hole in Stewie's bedroom wall to [[ThePeepingTom peep at Tom Brady in the shower]]. As she and Meg are shoving each other to claim the spot, Stewie enters and asks what the hell is going on. Lois evades by telling him that she and Meg were just leaving. Curious, he discovers the hole and [[AmbiguouslyGay becomes entranced too]]. |
| 560 | * WeWantOurJerkBack: |
| 561 | ** "I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar": Peter is sent to a sensitivity camp to deal with his outrageous sexism. When he returns with a more sensitive and mature (albeit comically feminine) understanding of how to treat people, it makes his friends and family very uncomfortable and they try to figure out how to turn him back into a misogynist again. |
| 562 | ** "I Never Met the Dead Man": Peter is forced to cope without Cable TV throughout Quahog, and as a result becomes a happier, active person who genuinely enjoys family life and just living in general. Even though this was Lois' idea, she tries ineffectually to get him out of it. The solution appears nigh when Creator/WilliamShatner's car breaks down in front of the Griffin's house on his way to a conference on how television is great for people's lives...but then Peter gets Shatner to come with him to the Bavarian Folk Festival instead, where Shatner renounces the emphasis TV has had on their lives. [[spoiler:Don't worry, Peter's still turned back to a TV-watching slob by the end of the episode.]] |
| 563 | * WelcomingSong: "This House Is Freakin' Sweet", when the Griffins inherit a mansion, all the mansion's staff sings a song welcoming to their new lifestyle. The song's a parody/SuspiciouslySimilarSong to the welcoming song "I Think I'm Going to Like it Here" from ''Theatre/{{Annie}}''. |
| 564 | %%* WellDoneSonGuy: Chris in earlier episodes. |
| 565 | * WellThisIsNotThatTrope: Played straight in "Three Kings": |
| 566 | -->'''Peter''': ''(introducing the final segment for the episode)'' Remember [[Film/TheShining that movie with the creepy twins, and the guy running around with the axe, and that kid talking to his finger]]? ''(laughs)'' Can't you see Stewie doin' ''that''?! Well, here's ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption.'' |
| 567 | * WhamEpisode: |
| 568 | ** The premiere of season 9 kills off no less than three recurring characters, one of whom had been around since the beginning of the series. |
| 569 | ** The hurricane crossover. [[spoiler: Meg gives most of the family a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, particularly towards Lois.]] This was similar in tone to "Brian and Stewie". |
| 570 | ** Season 19's "Family Cat" reveals that the reason why Quagmire is so obsessed with cats is because [[spoiler:he is infected with toxoplasmosis, which, in the ''Family Guy'' universe, is intentionally spread by cats as a means of securing human slaves. By the end of the episode, his condition becomes irreversible and he accepts his fate as a "CrazyCatLady"]]. The episode also reveals that Meg [[spoiler:is fully aware that Stewie is not an ordinary baby, and actually envies Brian for having many time-travelling adventures with him]]. |
| 571 | * WhamLine: From "Brian and Stewie", when Stewie asks Brian [[spoiler:has a gun in his safety deposit box]]. |
| 572 | -->'''Brian:''' [[spoiler:I keep it in case...I ever want to commit suicide, okay?]] |
| 573 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: |
| 574 | ** Neil Goldman. Okay, he was sort of DemotedToExtra at first, but the entire Griffin family got invited to James Woods's mansion...and yet only the Goldman parents were invited? A few episodes later, in "Road to the North Pole", we see Mort Goldman making some remarks related to him being Jewish in the context of a song about what the characters want for Christmas...with Neil nowhere in sight. Where the hell is he? |
| 575 | ** Quagmire's LittlestCancerPatient niece (whom Brian mistook for a boy, and further cemented Quagmire's resentment for Brian) in "Road to the North Pole". She was hospitalized somewhere around the start of the third act and that was the last we heard of her. |
| 576 | ** The Campbells, the nudist family. They appeared in two episodes early in 2002, and then they completely disappeared except for a short cameo ''eight years later''. |
| 577 | ** Although he was never given a name, there's the conspicuous absence of Carol's son, whom she conceived with her eighth husband. Lois and Peter were the only people present at his birth back in the early seasons (discounting an unconscious Dr. Hartman) and this event in turn inspired them to want to have more children of their own for a short while. Fast-forward a few seasons, and Carol's married and divorced her ninth husband, leading her to move in with the Griffins -- and yet her son, who couldn't be that much older than a baby, is nowhere to be seen. Then she marries and moves in with Mayor West in a record amount of time and STILL her child isn't even referenced, let alone taken along. Was he adopted? Did he die? Does anyone even CARE that Lois and Peter's nephew has melted into thin air? |
| 578 | ** Quagmire was revealed to be bald and his friends even took him to a doctor for treatment, but ever since Brian saw Carter stricken with cancer, [[HalfwayPlotSwitch the plot focused on that and completely drops Quagmire's story without any explanation.]] |
| 579 | ** Given the show's love of reusing bit characters, it's a surprise that Peter's drunken Irish dad has never made another appearance. |
| 580 | ** Brian's (would be) killer is never revealed, the recklessly speeding car that runs him over in the erased continuity is never explained nor is the driver, seemingly nothing more than a DiabolusExMachina. |
| 581 | ** It turns out Olivia survived Stewie's attempt to burn her and her friend Victor alive, but there's no mention of whether Victor survived or not. |
| 582 | ** Derek and Jillian's unborn child, brought up in a one-off joke in the uncut version of "And Then There Were Fewer". |
| 583 | * WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant: In "The Son Also Draws", Peter shows Chris a family of WASPS; not the animal, but a family of White Anglo Saxon Protestants who make passive-aggressive remarks towards each other at dinner. |
| 584 | * WhosLaughingNow: |
| 585 | ** "Dial Meg For Murder" has Meg Take A Level In Badass and deliver a rather violent retribution on her abusive family and classmates. |
| 586 | ** "Stewie Kills Lois"/"Lois Kills Stewie" may also count, at least in Stewie's perspective [[spoiler: even if it was all a simulation]]. |
| 587 | * WholePlotReference: ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', ''{{Film/Poltergeist|1982}}'', ''Film/{{Tootsie}}'', ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''. |
| 588 | ** ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuyPresentsLaughItUpFuzzball'' is this to ''Franchise/StarWars''. |
| 589 | ** "Taken" as well. |
| 590 | * WholesomeCrossdresser: Stewie occasionally crossdresses and nobody has a problem with that, except of course for the [[StrawLoser straw queer-o-phobe]] of the week. |
| 591 | * WilliamTelling: In "Herpe the Love Sore", Peter tries to whip a cigarette out of Meg's mouth. The whip knocks Meg to the floor, but the cigarette stays perfectly in mid-air. |
| 592 | * WireDilemma: |
| 593 | ** In the opening to "Brian Does Hollywood", Meg's trying to disarm a bomb. |
| 594 | --> '''Meg''': What do you ''mean'', "cut the blue wire"? They're ''all'' blue wires! |
| 595 | ** In "Start Me Up", Peter Griffin tries to disarm another bomb and sings [[BlatantLies a helpful song]]. |
| 596 | --> '''Peter''': Green is good, and green is good, and red is good, and yellow is good, so [[TooDumbToLive clip whatever you want]]! |
| 597 | * WiseBeyondTheirYears: Stewie is one year old but can build multi-verse transporters, time machines, and laser weaponry. |
| 598 | * WomenAreWiser: Initially at least, Lois was far more rational and intelligent than her husband. As the shows ComedicSociopathy kicked in however, Lois became more hypocritical, self righteous and out and out sociopathic, though still tends to be given higher moral ground than Peter (who is usually even worse). Inverted in "Forget-Me-Not" where Peter, Brian, Joe, and Quagmire all try investigating what happened after they wake up in a deserted Quahog with no memory and only resort to violence when they find evidence saying Peter killed everyone else. Meg, Bonnie and Lois are put into the same scenario but immediately start fighting each other without saying a word. |
| 599 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[ButtMonkey Meg]] in the episode "Dial Meg For Murder," when she returns from prison and gets revenge on everybody who bullied her by dishing two {{No Holds Barred Beatdown}}s to Peter and the popular kids at her school(by filling a bag with unopened soda cans and hitting them with it). Brian snaps her out of it by showing her an issue of Teen People Magazine and [[Heartwarming/FamilyGuy describing her as "Far sweeter and kinder than the average teenage girl."]] |
| 600 | * WorkingOnTheChainGang: In the episode "Holy Crap," Peter has kidnapped the Pope by posing as his driver and he drives the Pope Mobile past one of these. The Pope doesn't realize anything is wrong and keeps waving at everything, including a chain gang, parodying ''Film/CoolHandLuke'': |
| 601 | -->'''Luke:''' (takes his shirt off) Taking it off there, boss. |
| 602 | -->'''Guard:''' Take it off there, Luke. |
| 603 | -->'''Luke:''' (wipes sweat off his face) Wiping it off there, boss |
| 604 | -->'''Guard:''' Wipe it off there, Luke. |
| 605 | -->'''Luke:''' (waves at the Pope) Waving at the Pope there, boss. |
| 606 | -->'''Guard:''' Wave at the Pope there, Luke. |
| 607 | * WorldOfHam: Ever since [[{{Uncanceled}} the]] [[SeasonalRot revival,]] [[ChewingTheScenery out-of-control volume and behavior]] [[{{Flanderization}} have become common traits]] of practically ''everyone'' to an excessive degree. |
| 608 | * WorthIt: Quoted by Bertram in "The Big Bang Theory". Apparently it is worth destroying the whole time space continuum if [[XMustNotWin it means erasing Stewie from existence]]. |
| 609 | * WouldHurtAChild and WouldHitAGirl: Bread-and-butter tropes in the series. Most often employed by Peter, who has no qualms hitting Lois and/or Meg on many occasions, and he has put Meg in extreme danger on several other occasions, such as in "Peter's Daughter," where he forced her to go into the flooded kitchen to get a can of beer from the submerged refrigerator. |
| 610 | ** Peter's assaulting children should get him arrested, convicted and a lengthy prison term. However, he is allowed on at least one occasion to beat Lucy Van Pelt (from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'') to an inch of her life when he kicks her head and slaps her repeatedly ... all for the "felony" of '''''moving a football out of the way before Charlie Brown can kick it'''''. Peter finally knocks her unconscious when he gives her a roundhouse kick to the back of the head for the capital crime of ... not being a licensed therapist! (Both the football and therapist gags were recurring stories in ''Peanuts''.) |
| 611 | * WrongParachuteGag: At one point in the second season, Brian is going skydiving. Right before he jumps out the instructor stops him and points out he grabbed "the one with silverware" in it. He tosses Brian another parachute... that clearly contains an anvil. |
| 612 | -->"That one's probably fine. [[{{Beat}} ...]]" |
| 613 | * WunzaPlot: Parodied in the cutaway with Stewie and [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] as partners. Also parodied in a deleted song (seen on the Vol. 5 DVD set) about a fictional sitcom called "Hope and Rape", about a former model and a former rapist living together. |
| 614 | [[/folder]] |
| 615 | |
| 616 | [[folder:Y-Z]] |
| 617 | * {{Yandere}}: |
| 618 | ** Meg in the fifth season episode "Barely Legal". Meg in general for the last couple of seasons, really. [[AbusiveParents Completely]] {{justified|Trope}} [[BrokenBird though]]. |
| 619 | ** Also Quagmire's wife in the episode "I Take Thee, Quagmire". |
| 620 | ** Meg again in "The Hand That Rocks The Wheelchair", this time towards [[spoiler: Joe]], even going so far as to [[spoiler: attempt to cripple herself for him]]. |
| 621 | ** Stewie, too, in the episode "Chick Cancer", where he [[spoiler: burns his "wife" and her male friend alive in his playhouse]]. |
| 622 | * YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Peter names the bar in his basement "Ye Old Pube" after mistaking which word was supposed to have the "e" at the end in Old English. |
| 623 | * YesMan: Lampooned in "Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington" when Peter gets his own company suck-up. |
| 624 | --> '''Suck-up''': Morning, nice day! |
| 625 | --> '''Peter''': It's a little cloudy... |
| 626 | --> '''Suck-up''': It's ''absolutely'' cloudy, one of the worst days I've seen in years! So, good news about the Yankees. |
| 627 | --> '''Peter''': I hate the Yankees. |
| 628 | --> '''Suck-up''': ''Pack of cheaters'', that's what they are! I love your tie! |
| 629 | --> '''Peter''': I hate this tie. |
| 630 | --> '''Suck-up''': It's awful, it's gaudy, it's gotta go. |
| 631 | --> '''Peter''': ...I hate ''myself''. |
| 632 | --> '''Suck-up''': I hate you too, you make me sick, you fat sack of crap! |
| 633 | --> '''Peter''': But I'm the ''president''. |
| 634 | --> '''Suck-up''': The ''best'' there is! |
| 635 | * YouAndWhatArmy: Because Peter's house wasn't in the town's map, he turned it into his own nation and named it "Petoria". Wanting respect from others at the United Nations, Peter invaded the United States. Namely, taking over a neighbor's pool. In retaliation, the United States forbade any Petorians from entering American territory. When Chris told Peter a man didn't let him go to school, Peter asked he and what army and Chris answered it was the United States' Army. Peter said it was a good army. |
| 636 | * YouMonster: |
| 637 | ** Said to Peter after he tricks Dr. Hartman into giving him a flu shot that was in short supply and needed for the elderly. He responds with a reference to "Frampton Comes Alive." |
| 638 | ** Also by Brian when Peter tricks the Make-A-Wish foundation into bringing back "Gumble to Gumble" by pretending Chris has a terminal disease. |
| 639 | ** Brian to Stewie in "Brian & Stewie" when Stewie reveals that he made Brian eat his poop for a cheap thrill. |
| 640 | --->'''Brian:''' ''You son of a bitch, I could KILL you for that!'' |
| 641 | * YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Attempted by Lois when a gun is pointed at her to get Peter to realize that something is wrong. Peter wonders why he is trying to comprehend this when he could be listening to his tapes in the car. |
| 642 | * YouSayTomato: Stewie pronounces 'Cool Whip' as 'cool-huwip'. Brian tries fruitlessly to explain that it sounds weird, leading to Stewie using ''other'' w-silent-h words with the same weird pronunciation, totally unaware that he's doing it. |
| 643 | ** This becomes a minor plot point in one episode when Brian gets replaced by New Brain. Stewie begs Brian to come back and uses the "cool-huwip" shenanigans to get Brain to correct him, which Stewie missed a lot since New Brian is SickeninglySweet and doesn't hate anything. |
| 644 | ** Meg gets into it too, with the words "awhile" and "weird". The second is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Brian: "Oh come on, that one doesn't even have an H in it!" |
| 645 | ** "It's all been 'ruweened'." |
| 646 | *** "Oh come on, Brian! Don't be cruwell!" |
| 647 | ** Stewie's shenanigans with words that have an "H" in it could also be chalked up to him doing it on purpose to get a rise out of people since he has said words like ruined normally. |
| 648 | ** [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration "Will HUEETon."]] |
| 649 | ** Another moment inverted this, with Peter making fun of Lois for pronouncing "nuclear" correctly, claiming "it's 'nukular', dummy, the S is silent". |
| 650 | * YouSquared: played for laughs between Brian and his estranged son: |
| 651 | --> "My pot! (''beat'') "''Your'' pot?" |
| 652 | * YouWillBeSpared: |
| 653 | ** Sort of. Stewie tells Peter that his death will be quick and painless when he changes the channel after Stewie got distracted by ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}''. |
| 654 | ** Flappy the pancake man. "Flappy, good news! I've decided not to ''kill'' you!" |
| 655 | * YourMimeMakesItReal: "Foreign Affairs" uses this in a gag regarding "mime on mime" violence in Paris; one mime holds up another, his finger pointing like a gun. After taking his victim's wallet, he "shoots", causing a wound to appear in his chest. After the victim drops, the crooked mime "shoots" him in the head twice, blowing it to bits. |
| 656 | * YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: What, did you ''really'' think the world would end by black hole 15 minutes into the episode? |
| 657 | * YourTelevisionHatesYou: When Peter feels sexually violated after his prostate exam, Brian tries to console him by turning on the TV, but every channel is about fingers and fingering. |
| 658 | * ZeroGSpot: Peter once masturbated in space. |
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