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Darker and Edgier: Some of the added fan episodes, "Between Sanity and Madness", "Power Over Peter" and "The Quagmire Show" are way more character-focused and taken seriously with them being Deconstructions, with few jokes told.
A Day in the Limelight: The fanfic loves to has episodes focusing quite a few.
- For the neighbors, Quagmire and Kimi ("Kimi Stupid Love", "The Quagmire Show" and "You Are Not the Father") the Swansons ("7th Kevin") and the Brown-Tubbs ("Stand Your Brown" and "Black Christmas") all had episodes that mainly focus on their lives when not with the Griffins. In fact, all examples has the Griffins play only made minor and brief appearances, sometimes even going into non-speaking cameo territory.
- "A Woman Walks Into a Bar" has to limelight plots. The main plot focuses majorly on the Fargus family while the side plot has Horace in the main role.
- "The Mortician", "Mort Almighty" and "Bachelor Guy" focus entirely on the Goldman family.
- "In With the News" main plot focuses on Joyce and Tom, with only one of the Griffins (Stewie) being in a side-plot.
- "Three's Company" focus more on Karen and her girlfriend Heather.
- "The Education of Elmer T. Bags" and the side plot of "Swindler's List" focus on Dr. Hartman.
- "A Bottle Episode" and "Home Wreckers Association"'s side plots focus on Change for a Buck and a paired up character (Seamus for the former and Dr. Hartman for the latter).
- "Lover's Queerel" in its main plot focuses on Bruce and Jeffrey, though with Peter and Lois in the same boat as well.
- "Fattest in the West" is a solo Wild West episode, where previous episodes had him bounce off others.
Death by Adaptation: Peter's real father Mickey dies from beer poisoning compared to the real show.
Deconstruction Fic:
- The first six seasons overall deconstructs Francis' Jerkass nature and his mistreatment of his son Peter. In canon, Francis was downright cruel to Peter and times, and despite Francis' abuse, Peter was surprisingly tolerant of Francis' cantankerous behavior. Here, Peter doesn't take it lying down. Peter reacts (sometimes physically) to Francis' abusive treatment in multiple ways. From calling him out, slapping him, to even trying to shoot him. Francis, in turn, gets in trouble for his temper, whether being fired from his job as the Pope’s special assistant and basically being treated worse as a result. Though compared to other examples, it leads to Francis realizing his awful attitude and tries to be a better himself. He still does have his shades of Jerkass, but a lot more downplayed.
- "Break a Leg" deconstructs Joe's job as a cop while being in a wheelchair, with Brian, who had a broken leg and needing money to pay the rent in his apartment, becoming a cop. However, compared to Joe, Brian's broken leg got in the way of his crime fighting. With the difference between Joe and Brian was the fact Joe was a cop in advance before he got crippled and had both of his legs crippled. Brian, meanwhile, became a cop with little previous experience, aside from being a drug-sniffing dog for the police but that's seems to be forgoten, and his broken leg that's sticking up, making it harder for him to fight crime.
- "GriffinTube" deconstructs the way the Griffins treat Meg and what would happen if a family really treated one of their family members. Compared to the other times where its Played for Laughs, it's played more seriously and Meg gets taken away by Child Services and relocated with a foster family.
- "Treasure Map" deconstructs Meg's relationship with Seamus. As the two go on a date after hinting their relationship in "Follow the Money", but Seamus gets boycotted due that regardless of whatever love they have for each other and the fact Meg's legal age to be classed as an adult in some places, Seamus is an eighty year old man and Meg's an eighteen year old woman.
- "The Quagmire Show" deconstructs Quagmire's sexual deviant traits. At his job, Quagmire sexually harasses a female co-worker and - compared to in the show where it be brushed off as Quagmire being Quagmire - ends up being canceled by the #MeToo movement, forbidden from seeing his friends Peter, Joe and Cleveland, loses his job, his respect, and becomes a social pariah everywhere he goes. And despite going to a Sexaholics Anonymous Camp and becoming a better man, Lois still refused to let Quagmire hang out with Peter, not forgiving him for harassing every gross thing he did in the past. It only takes until his wife Kimi divorces him until he's allowed to see Peter again.
- The 500th episode "Karma's a Bitch" deconstructions the Reset Button and Status Quo Is God, with having all of the Griffins past actions coming back to bite them in the ass. They end up being taken to trial and end up being sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.
Decided by One Vote: Played for laughs in "Do and Die" where Peter and Quagmire's idea for the Beer Bar Buddies to do Saturday (Peter tight-roping and Quagmire jetskiing) are tied, but Cleveland can't choose between either one, leaving them tied.
Peter: Damn, we really need to start finding more members.
Defrosting Ice Queen: After spending the whole third act being cold to others in "Between Sanity and Madness", Peter's mood changes when he finds out Francis had a picture of him and hears what Francis speaks about him.
Delayed Reaction:
- Chris has one in "Mind Over Murder" when he wakes up and realizes the bar is on fire.
Chris: [takes a whiff] Hey, is something burning?
Brian: Yes! The whole basement's on fire!
Chris: Oh, that's good- Wait. That's NOT good! [starts running around in circles whilst screaming and shouting] We're gonna die! We're gonna die! We're gonna di-!
- Brian and Francis have this when finding out about Peter smoking crack in "Power Over Peter"
[Noticing the sound too, Brian along with Francis look out the door to the living room, where Peter is sitting there with a lighter and a crack pipe. They exit and approach Peter]
Brian: Peter, what are you doing?
Peter: Crack.
Beat
Brian: Oh, okay.
Francis: Yeah, normal Peter behavior.
[The two head back to the sunroom, but after a small beat, come back to Peter]
Francis/Brian: Wait, what the FUCK?!
Demoted to Extra: Subverted with the Brown-Tubbs, especially Rallo and Roberta (the latter hasn't even said a single line since coming onto the original show) as they are given more episodes to shin when on Family Guy and don't fall into become non-speaking crowd extras like in the original show. They still do some of that in this adaption, but its more downplayed.
Didn't Think This Through: Wild West, to appeal to the negativity from the fat community he's gotten, doubles his weight to become an overweight cowboy to please them in "Fattest in the West". But Wild doesn't account for how it would effect him riding his horse Ginger (with her collapsing due to his weight), how it would effect his life (his eyesight deteriorating and needing to wear glasses), how it would effect going to his locations (having trouble fitting through doors and needs to either open both doors or just ram through for places with one door, leaving holes in his path) and most importantly, how the rest of Quahog would react to it. As when he reveals his new bulk change as a permanent change, it's given a negative backlash.
Dies Differently in Adaptation:
- While Randall Fargus died from the XL-K shooting him in "Running Mates", he instead dies five seasons later from colon cancer in "How Farg is Heaven?".
- Compared to the original where she died off-screen from a stroke, Thelma dies in "Roads to Vegas" from taking the role of the Unlucky Brian from the original.
Disappeared Dad: Meg's biological father Stan Thompson abandoned her before she was even born and spent most of her life thinking Peter was her real dad. Subverted in Season 22 when she goes to find him and Stan decides to be more in her daughter's life. With it later on the two become quite close in future seasons.
Disproportionate Retribution:
- "Mind Over Murder" has Peter keep Meg chained up in the cellar for days on end as punishment for touching the thermostat.
- "Screams of Silence: Story of Brenda Q." has Jeff, shake, throw violently on the floor and kick Brenda, all because she changed the channel from Leno to Letterman while he was getting a beer.
- "My Little Brother" has Connie, Gina, Doug and Scott beat up Meg so hard she need to wear a neck brace because she invading the popular kid space.
Distant Finale: "Karma's a Bitch" is written to be one.
Despair Event Horizon: "How Farg is Heaven?" has a moment of this. With Peter's friend Randall Fargus in the hospital with little chance of living and Chris losing credibility from his friends for surrendering his art for the anime style, both loses hope in different ways. Chris quits his artistic work and Peter becomes stricken.
Development Gag: In-Universe. Lois' blonde hair from the Pilot Pitch actually comes up a few times. With "Employee for Fire" revealing Lois dyes her hair redhead and blonde is her real hair color, and her hair occasionally reverts to blond when sprayed with water. This actually fixes a Plot Hole with Chris having blonde hair.
Domestic Abuse: Yousief reveals to be one in "Poly-hu Akbar!". In fact, when Kimi is caught having sex with a pig due to her being used to her polyamory relationship, Yousief is ready to decapitate her and would have got away with it had Quagmire didn't come to save her in time.
Doomed by Canon: All the character who die in the real show still die in their said death episodes.
Downer Ending:
- "Peter's Two Dads" has Peter, after winning over his biological dad Mickey, see him die from beer posioning.
- "Life of Brian" ends with the family, hours after the funeral being over and after everyone has gone home, continuing starring at Brian's grave in the rain.
Dramatic Irony:
- In "Between Sanity and Madness", after taking the rap for Brian making a quip about Thelma, Francis beats Peter with a newspaper and calls him an ungrateful bastard, despite the fact that Francis himself is.
- "Brian Come Home for Christmas" has Lance Prueher, the boss of a Suicide Hotline (which is suppose to talk people out of killing themselves) commits suicide himself when the Suicide Hotline goes down under.
Drinking Contest: One of the challenges in the Dad-Off in "Battle of the Dads" is how can drink the most. Peter wins against Stan due to him having access to containers of beer from the Pawtucket Brewery.
Dude Looks Like a Lady: "Shankgiving" has Benjamin Pewterschmidt mistake Chris for a girl.
Benjamin: And who might you young girls be?
Chris: I'm a boy!
Benjamin: What!? Sheesh, son. Get a damn haircut!
Meg: Ha ha! Looks like for once, it's you who's getting misgendered!
Dude, Not Funny!: Played for Drama at Peter's "funeral" in "The Perfect Castaway", Carter makes a joke about him thinking Peter would die before and him, and how this proved his statement right. Lois and Thelma both burst into tears and Francis does not have it.
Babs: Carter!
Francis: What the hell is wrong with you, man?! My son just died!!
Carter: I'm guessing it was not the best time to add some comedy to liven things up.
Francis: You GUESS?!
Dumbass Has a Point:
- In "Flights of Disaster", Francis, in trying to do a reference to The Honeymooners, threatens to send Peter straight to the moon and Peter berates him for the magnitude of the comment.
Francis: TO THE MOON, PETER!
Peter: To the moon? Wha ... what the hell does that mean?
Francis: You know, to ... to the moon. Like The Honeymooners.
Peter: Okay, so you're basically threatening to punch me so hard, I'm gonna fly to the moon? Like ... like it's so fucking funny to hit me so violently, my body will fly out of the atmosphere.
[Francis awkwardly pauses and looks at the camera]
Francis: Well, it's not funny anymore. You seem to have a knack for ruining things.
- In "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Fonz", Peter genuinely questions if Francis' statements about him loving his family are true considering what he's done in the past.
Peter: Are you sure you love this family? Are you 100% sure?

Earn Your Happy Ending:
- After going through hell and back in both "Holy Crap" and "Between Sanity and Madness", from dealing with his parent's crap and losing it on both of them, Peter finally not only gets the respect and approval from his parents, from putting up with them for so long, he also gets a hug from his father (as noted in Adapted Out, the hug in "Holy Crap" didn't happen, making it more heartwarming)
- After seasons of trying to be Roberta's friend, but being rejected because of her being lame, Meg finally is able to become Roberta's friend in "Accidents Crappen" when she prove herself to be cool to her when she eggs her and her friends during one of their nights on the town.
Easily-Overheard Conversation: "The Truth About Meg" has Peter and Lois tell Chris and Stewie the true origin story of Meg's birth, with Meg overhearing it due her about to head out to the bowling arena and walked around the right time, and was secretly shocked at the revelation.
Eat the Evidence: While Lois gives the family a Long List of chores in "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas", Chris shows the rest of the family he drew a picture of Lois while she's talking that portrays her as a naggy bitch. The family laughs at this until Lois gets suspicious and Chris does the trope to avoid getting in trouble.
Eccentric Artist: Chris becomes one, with him being an slow-witted teenager who makes strange art.
Egging: Meg and Jennifer do this to Roberta and her friends as an act of sweet revenge in "Accidents Crappen".
Election Day Episode:
- "Do and Die" has Lois run against Adam West for mayor due to not being pleased with a loony idiot like him becoming mayor. Due to her strict agenda, she loses support and most of the votes are directed to Adam West.
- "In With the News" has a subplot where Stewie competes with Mayor West to become the new mayor of Quahog, so that he can take over the city and rule it like an evil dictator.
Establishing Character Moment:
- "Death Has a Shadow" adds one for Cleveland and Quagmire (the former wasn't introduced until "Mind Over Murder" while the latter wasn't established yet as Peter's friend) to establish them as Peter's friends and bits of their personalities (Cleveland being the slow monotone man while Quagmire as the Lovable Sex Maniac).
Cleveland: Hello, Peter. I didn't expect to see you here.
Peter: Oh, hey, Cleveland! Hey, it's quick-lipped Cleveland. Cleveland, recite all the states in 60 seconds, go.
Cleveland: Oh, okay then. Alabama ... Alaska ... Arkansas ...
Peter: Oh, heh, wait. I forgot. You don't talk fast at all.
Quagmire: No, you're thinking of me, quick-lipped Quagmire, but I don't use my lips for talking fast. [pretends to motorboat a girl]
- "Do and Die":
  - The first scene gives one for Horace, establishing his friendship with Peter, Cleveland and Quagmire (giving them all nicknames like "The Pete-boy", "Dark Choclate" and "The Q-Man").
  - The first Cutaway Gag also gives a small one for Cleveland Jr.. Showcasing him as a troublemaker who likes to prank and troll people for fun.
Et Tu, Brute?: Chris pulls one to Meg in "My Little Brother", where he redirects her to the janitors' closet to hide from Connie and her friends to avoid a beating from her invading the popular kid space. But when they come for Meg, Chris immediately rats Meg's position out to look cool and leaves Meg to get a beating.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Francis shows that despite his crabby attitude, he does truly care about Thelma (and Peter to a lesser extent).
Everyone Has Standards:
- As said above in Dude, Not Funny! for "The Perfect Castaway", Francis is downright furious at Carter for joking about his "dead" son. Even mentioning that as much as he snarked about Peter, he never outright wished death upon him.
- "The Mortician" has Brian try to seize this opportunity of Jillian's husband Derek dying to get her to fall back in love with him. However, Brian backs out of it when he realized he was being a bit of a prick, taking advantage of a grieving woman just to get into her pants.
- While Roberta does fall into line with Connie's clique and bully the kids at James Woods High in "He's Bla-ack!", she draws a line when they bully her brother Cleveland Jr.
- "Disney's the Reboot" has Peter disgusted by the Big Mouth interpretation of Family Guy.
Peter: STOP! STOP! STOP! We can't show this on network TV. This is inappropriate even for this show's standards.
Excuse Plot:
- "Employee for Fire" has a simple main plot. Peter gets fired from his job, as usual, and applies for jobs.
- "Flights of Disaster" starts the same way until the real plot kicks in, with Peter looking for a new permanent job.

Family Business: Subverted. Randall Fargus opens an attraction called Fargus' Wacky World of Mayhem, but his wife Eliza is not considered a joint owner. This becomes Double Subverted when she takes over running the attraction in Season 8's "Holly Jolly Folly"
Fantasy Sequence: Stewie has one in "Do and Die", where he imagines being the mayor of a now destroyed Quahog, with the Griffins being used as his slaves. Complete with whipping them when they fall out of line.
Fatal Flaw: Wild West's new one is self-consciousness about himself and his position as mayor. With it in his episodes being a cause for him to go into far extremes that cause more problems. Examples include "City Slackers", when after getting a comment about how city-like Wild's becoming now with being in Quahog when he's seen using a cellphone, Wild in worry he would lose his cowboy roots, went and did an overnight remodel of Quahog in a Western style using the taxpayer's money (alongside destroying his phone), which led to the town being under attack by bandits. And a far more disastrous example was Season 22's "Fattest in the West", when upon seeing his reception was mixed and the most unpopular side for him was the fat community, he changed his whole lifestyle and doubled his weight in an attempt to win them over. Wild was fully aware of the metal and physical harm he was doing to himself - as well as the restrictions with his new weight - but he still continued on, regardless of his assistant Zephyr was against it, and only took an angry mob forming for him to stop this whole charade.
Fat and Proud:
- Francis comes to embrace his morbid lard obesity with the help of Peter in "A Star is Born... Kind Of", not really minding it anymore and gorge on food with Peter.
- The residents of Quahog also don't mind the weight gain when Peter becomes a fat activist and encourages obesity in "Breadlosers"
- Despite all the new hardships he faces, Wild West seems rather calm about his newly gained weight in "Fattest in the West". Though this is Justified as he did this to win over the obese community and anything he faces he'd shrug off as new inconveniences that don't matter to him
Faux Horrific: Wild West's nightmare from "Fattest in the West" has Wild be the most scared not from the town revolting on him, not from them tying him up, but them planning to cut his mustache off.
Fight Fire with Fire: "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Fonz" has Peter and Francis, to snap Brian out of his Fonz delusions, start their own religion based on Chachi.
Flash Forward: The ending of "A Play on Turds" has a flash forward to Stewie as a teenager still in diapers.^note
Floating in a Bubble: One of Fargus' inventions here is Super Bubble Mixture, something that can create huge bubbles people can get stuck in and float in. He and Peter used it at the end of "Running Mates" and the two are seen using it in "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High".
Foil:
- The fanfic does one for Meg to Chris in terms of school life. Though they're both teenagers (okay, Chris is an early teenager, but still), Meg is a social outcast at James Woods High, where she faces being bullied on by students, teachers, and even Principal Shephard, with one episode revealed that Shephard made a rule where Meg had to wear a brown paper bag over her head when she went to school. Chris on the other hand, is more well liked at Buddy Cianci Jr. High, as he well-liked by a good majority of students and even some off the teachers as shown with his friendship with Randall Fargus. The only expectation this is Principal Sloan.
  - In Season 5 when Chris starts attending James Woods High, he's more on equal footing with Meg, but still foils with her in some ways. While Meg is constantly trying to fit in and be in the "in" crowd, Chris more likes where he is as an outcast. Though this may be because he is not as unpopular as Meg, but has shown to be dangerously close, and led to him trying his best to stay where he is and not sink any deeper.
- Peter to Stan Thompson. Both are fathers that are related to the Griffin family in one way, but both are completely different than more in terms of size. Peter's a blue-collar worker with a livable income and has a more laid-back persona, while Stan is a lower worker, being an ex-Mafia member and having a way stricter persona due to his Mafia past.
Foregone Conclusion:
- "Do and Die" has Lois run against Adam West because of her not wanting someone as loose and silly as him becoming mayor. Guess who ends up winning the election?^note
- "Neighbor Pains" has Joe and Mort compete for the role of the Beer Bar Buddies' fourth member. With Joe in the modern day already being known as a member in the friend group, no surprise he wins the role.
Forgettable Character: Best shown with Meg in "The Fat Man and the Sea". There, Randall Fargus takes his then-upcoming wife Eliza and adoptive son Anthony to meet the Griffins, by talking highly about their accomplishments and greatness, and completely forgetting about Meg. But when Randall is reminded of Meg, the only thing he can muster up to say about her is: "Oh, that's Meg. She's forgettable". Ironically, Meg is the only Griffin member who ended up getting the attention of Randall's kid Anthony, who was tuning the rest of the family out on his Walkman.
Forgot Flanders Could Do That:
- At one point in the original, Chris showed signs of being an artist in the first two seasons, before being completely abandoned. However in this fanfic, Chris still shows that artistic side to him that shins more in episodes, mostly side plots
- Stewie has a temporary Snap Back to his original characterization in "In With the News". With him running against Mayor Adam West in the upcoming mayoral re-election to take over Quahog and rule it like an evil dictator, something actually brought up he would do in "Do and Die".
Foreshadowing:
- Peter's comment in "Do and Die" about the Beer Bar Buddies needing to find more members foreshadows the subplot of "Neighbor Pains" where they try to find a fourth member.
- In "The Sound of Violence", the Act 1 twist of Dearil Manteufel being more than he seems could be seen just in his name. His first name "Dearil" means "Call of death" and his last name Manteufel means "devil's fellow". Foreshadowing in a loose way that he's a cult leading leading everyone to kill themselves.
"Freaky Friday" Flip: In "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High", Peter, Fargus and Chris swap bodies through Fargus' body-swap machine, as Fargus was planning on showing it off at a Science Expo and needed data. The Brian becoming a teacher and Chris falling in love with his teacher subplots are adapted for this new change in the story, with Brian being replaced with Peter (in Fargus' body) and Chris being substituted with Fargus (in Chris' body).

Gender-Bent Alternate Universe: One of the segments in "Family Guy Viewer Mail #3" is a genderbent version of Family Guy called Family Gal.
Getaway Driver: Chris ends becoming a dangerous one in "Student Driver" when he goes to get a driver's license, but becomes manipulated by a criminal pretending to be a driver instructor.
Gone Horribly Right: "Between Sanity and Madness" has Francis and Thelma find ways to make the Griffins lives a living hell enough for Peter to change his mind about putting them in a retirement home. And it works... as Peter ends up snapping and kicks the two out.
Gone Horribly Wrong: "Fattest in the West" has Wild West gain weight to look like he's more into accepting other groups and to gain the love of the fat community, only it backfires when it make him more divided across Quahog.
Graduation for Everyone: "Full Metal Jackass" has Chris, a Book Dumb teenager that was shown to be a C- to D student in all his classes (aside from Art and Science) be able to graduate from Buddy Cianci Junior High.
Grandparent Favoritism: When he puts his Catholic ways behind him, Francis reveals he can surprisingly get along well with the kids. Stewie's happy to see him and he bonds with Chris through... interesting ways in "Between Sanity and Madness"

HA HA HA—No: At the end of "A Picture's Worth $1000", Meg asks Peter if one day he could help her express her talent to the world like Chris, which the whole family laughs at her and tell her "No".
Halloween Episode: While the fanfic still carries the same Halloween episodes from the original ("Halloween on Spooner Street", "Peternormal Activity", "Must Love Dogs" and "Happy Holo-ween"), it adds new Halloween specials to it ("Death is a Bitch" - which originally was planned to be a Halloween episode in the OG show -, "House in Horror Hell", "Peter in Purgatory", "Halal-oween" and "The Sound of Violence")
Hard Truth Aesop:
- While "Honor Your Father" is normally a good virtue, if your elder is an entitled asshole who mistreats you, it will enable them to hurt you more. Peter puts up with a lot from Francis but realizes toadying to his father isn't worth it.
- Adding to that, Turn the Other Cheek doesn't work toward entitled abusers, and you have to get confrontational, physical, or throw them out of your life if you want them to change. Only when Peter stands up to Francis does the latter's Jerkass tendencies start to diminish.
- While people will be sad when you die, time will still move and everyone, including your family, will move on without you. Season 11's "Replaced: Brian's Story" has Brian realize this when he come down as a ghost and sees how the Griffins pretty much forgotten about him and moved on to having a new dog.
Harsher in Hindsight: In-Universe example done in "Do and Die". When Buddy Cianci gets arrested for being charged with racketeering while sober, Chris mentions that it makes his middle school's name, Buddy Cianci Junior High, and the reason why Principal Sloan named the school that age poorly, with a Cutaway Gag showing a presentation that had Principal Sloan say that he named the middle school after Buddy Cianci because he was such a great person and would never betray them.
Happily Married:
- Francis and Thelma in the first three seasons surprisingly, consider this is a marriage between a Fundamentalist and a Gambling Addict. The two seem to stuck in the "Honeymoon Phase", calling each other sweet nicknames and being so into each other. It does subvert in the fourth season, when their relationship reaches the Conflict Stage and become slowly sick of each other until their divorce in "Mother Tucker".
- Played straight with Carol's marriage to Adam West and Randall's marriage to Eliza. Both lasted until the males died (Season 17 for Adam and Season 7 for Randall) and both had been no signs of arguments or troubles in their marriage.
Hidden Depths:
- Francis reveals that he was a baseball player in his youth in "Peter Griffin's All-Stars", to the surprise of everyone
Francis: What?! There's more to me than being a Christian wack-job you know!
- Peter reveals to have a semi-good memory for remembering certain details as shown in "Peter Runs a Marathon", as a cutaway and Lois bring up how he watched Star Trek so much he knows how each episode goes and can say all the lines verbatim in the exact voices of the actors. Lois lampshades on this, and mentions how if he put that level of effort into his job, he could make a better image for himself, which Peter in typical Peter fashion ignores.
- While Kimi loves having sex with guys more than anything in the world, it's revealed later on in episodes like "Peter Pan" or "Three's Company" that Kimi does dabble in lesbianism and is a bisexual that enjoys having sex with girls as well.
- Kevin reveals that he became a content streamer in "Don't Fall in Love With a Streamer", though mostly as a way to help him recover from his Iraq PTSD.
Hoist by His Own Petard: "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Fonz" has Francis stubbornly believe there's no such thing as tainted holy water when trying to baptize Stewie. However, compared to the original, he gets drenched in the tainted water (alongside Peter) instead of Stewie and gets sick.
Holiday Ceasefire: The adaptation of "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" has Francis and Thelma spend Christmas with the Griffins.
Holiday Episode: "Chick Cancer"'s new side plot centers on Mother's Day, and Peter and Francis trying to set up a Mother's Day (or a Wife Day) dinner for Lois and Thelma after forgetting it was Mother's Day. Due to this being Peter and Francis, two people who have a dysfunctional relationship at best, the situation quickly gets out of hand.
Hope Spot: "Mind Over Murder" has Peter notice a chained-up Meg in the cellar while he's remodeling the basement to be his pub, saying he forgot about her. He leaves for a second, but instead of returning with something to take off Meg's chains, he instead brings a handkerchief and ties it around her mouth, and puts a wall to hide her instead.
Peter: I don't want you making a fuss and causing the police to get called on me.
Horrible Housing: While implied in the original, the fanfic goes all in in portraying Spinazola Apartments as a rundown apartment complex.
How Dad Met Mom: The episode "Good Ol' Fargy Love" provides a flashback for how Cleveland and Loretta met.
How We Got Here: Played straight for the beginning of the Brian Moves Out arc, with it beginning around the climax of "Crimes and Meg's Demeanor" and Brian rewinding to the arc's starting point.
Human Mail: In "The Son Also Draws", Meg says how excited her is to be going to New York, with her family for once. With a cutaway showing her being trapped in a package and getting sent to New York. The man who opens the package and sees her implies this isn't the first time this happened.
Man: Aw, not you again. Send her back!
Humiliation Conga: Part of Peter's angry speech to his parents involves him describing every bad thing that's happened to him in both the episode, "Between Sanity and Madness" and "Holy Crap"
Peter: Listen you cantankerous horrible excuse for a father! I've accepted you into my house twice, dealt with your shenanigans, got fired from my job thanks to you, beaten up by you - again - for taking a fall for my dog, embarrassed in front of my friends, my co-workers and boss, keep up all night, assaulted in my bed, and nearly DROWNED TO DEATH, and I still gave you chances!
Hypocrite:
- In "Employee for Fire", Lois gets on Meg for getting a voice change and not being true to herself. But later on, she reveals to secretly dye her hair, with her real hair color being blonde.
- Francis:
  - In "Between Sanity and Madness", Francis pushes Chris away from Herbert, and actually saved Chris as Herbert tried to get Chris into bed with him, and told him not waste his time on the elderly (despite the fact that he himself is elderly). Which Chris calls him out on.
Francis: Chris, it's best not to waste time on the elderly.
Chris: But you're elderly, Grampa!
Francis: Yes, but compared to [Herbert], I can fill in the wrinkles.
- Francis scolds Peter for drinking in "Power Over Peter", yet Peter finds Francis drinks himself in private.
- "Chick Cancer" has him get on Thelma for how she was neglectful to Peter in his youth by leaving him to go gambling, despite the fact he himself as was neglectful to Peter (and also abusive).
- Peter:
  - "Full Metal Jackass" has Peter scold Chris for being a coward, not wanting to join the military. Despite the fact he never had gone to the military himself for the same reasons as Chris.
  - "Girlfriend, Eh?" has Peter talk about Lois' negative aspects and how she's not a good person. And like Herbert, he's not wrong, but he's no better than her as Chris points out.
- "Neighbor Pains" has Herbert come over to the Griffin house to talk to them over the breaking and entering violation Brian committed earlier. And while Herbert does have a valid reason to be mad, Herbert himself has done multiple instances of breaking-and-entering if him being charged for child abduction implies.
- "North by North Quahog" Principal Sloan when he got mad at Chris and his friends drinking vodka in the school bathroom, yet when they left, he drank some of the vodka himself.
- "Running Mates", Principal Sloan where he scolded Chris for peeping in the girls' locker room. yet after Peter, Lois and Chris left, he peeped through a peephole behind a bookshelf in his room, where he could see into the girls' locker room.
Hypocrite Has a Point:
- Lois still is in the right to call out Meg for getting her voice transplant in "Employee for Fire", as compared to Lois' case, where she still has the original hair color, Meg changed her voice behind her parents back even after they told her no.
- While he himself is no better, Herbert has every right to be pissed off and call Brian out for breaking into his house and looking through his stuff in "Neighbor Pains"
- Same for Peter in "Girlfriend, Eh?". With him being right to say Lois is not a good person.
Hypocritical Humor: "Disney's the Reboot" has an old man says he found the Black Mirror version of Family Guy hilarious, noting how kids today are glued to their technology... as he takes out his cellphone and starts texting.

Identity Impersonator: Non superhero example. In "Between Sanity and Madness", Francis and Thelma take over Peter and Lois' roles as the parents in the second act to steal their kids. Needless to say, when Peter found out, he was not happy.
Idiot Ball: Brian holds this in the additional scene in "Jerome is the New Black". When he slips to Brenda's abusive boyfriend Jeffery that she's hiding from him in the garage while trying to defuse the situation, which Quagmire is not happy with.
Quagmire: [pissed off] Oh, thank you! Thank you, Brian! THANKS FOR THAT!
Idiot Houdini: "Do and Die" has Peter wreck a bunch of cars and buildings and killed a bunch of people, while he was drunk. Yet he doesn't go to prision because Quahog law says that "inebriated felonies" are not illegal, since you can't blame someone for doing something bad, while intoxicated.
- Subverted around the end, as the next time Peter goes on another one of his drunken crime sprees after Adam West becomes mayor, "Batman" shows up and kicks his ass.
I Just Want to Be You: A Running Gag unique to Francis and Thelma in this adaptation is their want to replace Peter and Lois. It seemed to calm down after Season 4
I Just Want to Have Friends: Horace has shown to be someone who actively wants to be a member of the Beer Bar Buddies
Innocently Insensitive: "Full Metal Jackass" has Peter scold Chris for being a coward, not wanting to join the military. When Meg asks, in a way that wasn't meant to attack or contradict Peter, how brave he was, when he joined the military. With him knowing he didn't join, Peter shuts her up to not be exposed as a hypocrite.
Instantly Proven Wrong: "Death Has a Shadow"'s new cold open, ripped from one of the old FOX.com promos, has Peter claim his family, the Griffins, show and talk about good old-fashioned family values, when he farts and blames it on Brian.
Peter: Hi! We're the Griffins. You know, our family shares the same values that your fam-
[Peter's interrupted by a short, loud fart coming out, catching the family off-guard. They look to Peter who has a surprised look]
Peter: Brian!
Brian: Oh sure, blame the dog!
In-Series Nickname / Affectionate Nickname:
- Thelma often calls Peter "Petey" (which she actually did call him in a past flashback in "Don't Be a Dickens at Christmas"). In fact, she's called him that since birth as revealed in "And the Wiener Is ..."
Young Thelma: D'awww. He's so cute.
Young Francis: I guessing adoption's now out of the equation.
Young Thelma: Francis! Don't say that in front of Petey.
It's Not You, It's Me: Though not said, "The Quagmire Show" follows a semi use of the trope when Kimi tells Quagmire she wants to Quagmire. With Quagmire tries to tell her that he's a changed man but Kimi telling him that it's not about that, but of her wanting to live a normal life.
Internal Deconstruction: "Power Over Peter" does this by showing what happens when Peter's drunken habits aren't Played for Laughs. Peter going on a drunken spree leads to him beating up his entire family (both on his and Lois' side) in a drunken fantasy, and leads to him wearing a Shock Collar that shocks him in any case the word beer is said after multiple attempts go wrong.

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