YMMV / Family Guy S 18 E 17 Coma Guy

• Anvilicious: Some things are just unforgivable, and when you make an effort to atone, the other person can still refuse to forgive you. As horrible as it is, some relationships aren't worth saving and you just have to accept that atonement isn't worth so many hurdles. Especially when the other person won't give you a chance and chooses to use the experience to exploit you. Peter is right to be angry with his family for pulling his life support but the fact that he won't forgive them is what drove them away.
• Crosses the Line Twice: The family being delivered the news that Peter's in a coma and unlikely to recover? Heartbreaking. Meg and Chris having the same news be delivered to them via a DJ who incorporates it into a dance mix that they both jam out to? Ridiculously hilarious.
• Don't Shoot the Message: The messages "You can do anything to atone but you won't always be forgiven" and "Forgiveness isn't always worth it because people can still hold grudges and play the victim, even when it's not in their best interests. So move on before they exploit you further or before you feed their ego even more by grovelling for forgiveness" are rare but true lessons in life. However, Peter's request was incredibly simple and disproportionate as he only asked his family to compliment Timothy Olyphant on his Netflix show, Santa Clarita Diet, in order to atone for trying to kill him. A task they found grueling and impossible so they just cut him out of their lives and move away instead since Lois knew Peter would never forgive them for taking him off life support.
• Fridge Horror: Quagmire's sister Brenda is shown alongside the other deceased characters in the afterlife sequence. Brenda's previous appearance ended with her alone and without closure following the death of her abusive boyfriend, and having to raise her unborn child on her own, and her implied death here indicates that her life never changed for the better after that.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The Griffins fall into this category when Peter requests that they compliment Timothy Olyphant on his Netflix show, Santa Clarita Diet whether they watched the show or not, in order to get back into his good graces. Now to anyone who wants someone to forgive them for almost killing them, Peter was actually asking for something very little in return, but the Griffins are too prideful to do so, which makes Peter's lack of forgiveness to them be more sympathetic in comparison.
• Writer Cop Out: Brenda Quagmire being on the boat in Peter's coma dream comes across as poor handling to the ending of "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q.". Rather than show her as having survived her experience with Jeff and having overcome it, the writers just wrote her off as dead to prevent any further controversy the episode generated. This instead came across as suicide being the inescapable result of too much suffering, insulting those who have survived domestic abuse and were able to overcome that trauma.