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* NPCAmnesia: Peter manages to get three free samples in a store by first going as himself and then re-entering the queue having put on very obvious incognito disguises (one is a joke nose and the other a fake black bear with a hat). The clerk looks more irritated each time until he snaps and tells Peter he can have all the free samples he wants. Except, it was two men identical to Peter, not just him. So, {{parodied}}.
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* LowerHalfReveal: Joe Swanson's first appearance has him blocked by a hedge, making it seem like he was short. The illusion held up until he rolled up to join a softball game and Peter learned Joe's in a wheelchair.
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* NoFourthWall: Characters all have full MediumAwareness and frequently talk directly to the audience, lampshade basically every single trope on this page, and name-drop both FOX and Creator/SethMacFarlane on a regular basis.
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* MostWritersAreMale: ''Family Guy'' is a show that tends to poke fun at women more often than men. While it's true that many of the show's men are portrayed as stupid, lazy, unattractive drunkards, this is standard fare for sitcom men in adult shows, whereas their jabs at women cut a little deeper. There are stereotypes aplenty that, especially in this era of political correctness, aren't necessarily commonplace (such as women hating literally all other women with constant competition against one another, being passive-aggressive bullies, being defined by their attractiveness, having nothing going on besides taking care of the house, etc). The main cast of women in the show are also far more attractive than the male main cast.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':MistakenForToilet:
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** One episode has Peter being left alone in a massage room by Bruce. When Peter notices the massage table, he pulls down his pants and relieves himself through the face rest thinking it's some kind of toilet due to its shape. Bruce is less than pleased with him for it.
-->'''Bruce:''' Oh, haha, you put some fake poo on the floor- ''(realizes it's real)'' OH NO! [[GetOut Get- Get out! Get out! Scat!]] ''(Peter runs out of the room)''
** A RunningGag has people mistaking Stewie's time machine for a porta-potty due to its similar shape. This becomes a plot point in "Road to Germany" when Mort ends up using Stewie's time machine by mistake and gets sent back to World War II. This is undone when Stewie and Brian go back to before he used the time machine and [[BathroomControl forbid him from going inside]].
** The episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS12E18BabyGotBlack Baby Got Black]]" has Peter and friends [[SleepDeprivation trying to stay awake as long as possible]]. Eventually, said lack of sleep catches up to them, and they start hallucinating. Peter mistakes Quagmire for a toilet, and starts to try and poop on him. Thankfully, Quagmire is able to snap him out of it before anything happened.
** The episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS16E18HTTPete HTTPete]]" revolves around Peter accidentally destroying the internet by urinating on the servers, thinking the room containing them was some kind of hi-tech bathroom. He eventually manages to fix them by sticking them all in giant bags of rice.
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* MistakenForSanta: In the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS20E17AllAboutAlana All About Alana]]", the Griffins allow one of Lois's piano students named Alana to stay with them. However, Alana secretly wants to replace Lois and goes about winning over the other members of the family. To seduce Peter, she puts on lingerie and surprises him when he goes to the kitchen in the middle of the night. Peter initially assumes she's Santa Claus, with the narration explaining that he assumes that everyone up in the middle of the night must be Santa Claus.
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** In the episode "White Meg Can't Jump," Stewie walks in on Peter and Lois, causing him to faint and his spirit leave his body. That spirit then sees the scene again and the spirit of Creator/DavidHydePierce leaves that. The event left Stewie's psyche fratured, and he spends the rest of the episode with Multiple Personality Disorder.

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** In the episode "White Meg Can't Jump," Stewie walks in on Peter and Lois, causing him to faint and his spirit to leave his body. That spirit then sees the scene again and the spirit of Creator/DavidHydePierce leaves that. The event left Stewie's psyche fratured, and he spends the rest of the episode with Multiple Personality Disorder.
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** In the episode "Viewer Mail no 1", Peter wishes he had no bones and is turned to a shapeless blob. At one point he gets thrown out of the Teacups ride at Disneyland and through a window into a locker room, where Creator/MichaelEisner comes out and uses him as one of these, tucking his face into the inside as he walks out of the room.

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** In the episode "Viewer Mail no 1", Peter wishes he had no bones and is turned to a shapeless blob. At one point he gets thrown out of the Teacups ride at Disneyland and through a window into a locker room, where Creator/MichaelEisner Michael Eisner comes out and uses him as one of these, tucking his face into the inside as he walks out of the room.
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* PassingJudgment:
** [[Recap/FamilyGuy4E7BrianTheBachelor "Brian the Bachelor"]]: Not on the street per se, but in one episode Cleveland has an audition for ''Series/TheBachelorette'' and begins getting nervous, so Peter tries to calm Cleveland down. It escalates quickly, with Peter ripping off Cleveland's clothes and his own clothes and holding Cleveland in his chair. Then the executives walk through the door to call in Cleveland.
** There's an incident when Peter wrecked his car and a bus full of supermodels laughed at him.
** [[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E12PerfectCastaway "Perfect Castaway"]]: Peter, Joe, Cleveland, and Quagmire are stuck on a deserted island. Following the cliché, they decide to have an orgy. Realizing they aren't attracted to each other they try to disengage but are too tired to move. Naturally a cruise ship sails by; the tour guide describes the scene in English and Spanish.
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* ObsceneOBGYN:
** One episode has Peter visit a gynecologist and he asks to see some vaginas. The gynecologist lets him without question.
** The idea of a pervert proctologist is invoked in "Stewie Loves Lois". Dr. Hartman gives Peter a prostate exam and the latter mistakes this for an act of sexual harassment even though that's simply how it works.
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* NetworkSideswipe:
** At the end of "Three Kings", Peter remarks "Now stay tuned for whatever FOX is limpin' to the barn with", which was ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''.
** In "Family Gay", Peter enters a horse in the Quahog Derby, where all the horses are named after cancelled FOX shows. Peter names his horse ''Series/TilDeath'' (which was then still running), saying that he's gonna "shove it down America's throat".
** In the alternate reality in "Meet the Quagmires", it is mentioned that Osama bin Laden was hiding within the cast of ''Series/MadTV1995'', "the one place no one would look".
** In "Trump Guy", UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump says that ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' [[DamnedByAFoolsPraise is his favorite show]].
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* ObituaryMontage: [[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E3DaBoom "Da Boom"]] satirizes such montages. A New Year's Eve 2000 news broadcast plays a montage of noted people who passed away in the last millennium, including UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc and, um, Norman Fell.

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* LighterAndSofter: Relatively speaking, the show starting with season 18 is this compared to many of the seasons before, due to being less reliant on shock value and {{Gorn}}, and leaning more heavily into absurdism and LampshadeHanging with it's humor. The characters, while still flanderized, have their JerkAss tendencies toned down, Quagmire's sex offender antics are downplayed to the point of non-existance (which, according to the show, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot is due to the #MeToo movement]]), and even Meg gets far less hate, being treated more like just another member of the family, and as much of a ButtMonkey as every other Griffin. It's still not as light as earlier seasons but still lighter than it's been for the past few years.

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* LighterAndSofter: Relatively speaking, the show starting with season 18 is this compared to many of the seasons before, due to being less reliant on shock value and {{Gorn}}, and leaning more heavily into absurdism and LampshadeHanging with it's humor. The characters, while still flanderized, have their JerkAss tendencies toned down, Quagmire's sex offender antics are downplayed to the point of non-existance non-existence (which, according to the show, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot is due to the #MeToo movement]]), and even Meg gets far less hate, being treated more like just another member of the family, and as much of a ButtMonkey as every other Griffin. It's still not as light as earlier seasons but still lighter than it's been for the past few years.


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* MistakenForDestitute: One episode sees Meg take a job as a waitress while also having to babysit Stewie. The restaurant patrons all think she's a teenage mother and thus leave her bigger tips, and she tries to milk this for all it's worth, claiming that she's very poor and Stewie is a special-needs child. This ends up backfiring when Child Services decides to investigate Meg's family, at a time where they happen to be embroiled in a feud with the neighbors. The neighbors all paint the Griffins in a negative light, and consequently, Stewie is taken away.
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* JawsAttackParody: After Lois temporarily becomes single, your friendly-neighborhood sexual predator, Quagmire sings the Jaws theme as catchprase "gi-gi-gi-gi-giggity" in supermarket while pushing a shopping cart.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK0EV41GqhY Also done with actual sharks]] [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r5XG1PGEoU0 on occasion]], with the shark appearing the same as the movie poster.
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* MistakenForIncest: In "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q", Brenda is overjoyed that Quagmire (her brother) has awakened after he's nearly died from EroticAsphyxiation, and she hugs him in relief. [[CrazyJealousGuy Her boyfriend Jeff becomes pissed]] and yells at Quagmire to get away from his lady.
-->'''Peter''': Relax, Jeff, that's her brother.
-->'''Jeff''': Yeah, that's how it ''starts!''
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* PictorialLetterSubstitution: The title logo dots the "i" with a small image of a television.
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* NotDisabledInVR: In the episode "Brian in Love" Brian falls in love with an old woman who was a jingle singer in the 1930s. He convinces her to step outside of her house for the first time in years, and she gets hit by a car. As she is dying in the hospital, Brian uses a pair of VR goggles to show her a virtual version of them getting married, having kids, etc. so her last moments would be happy.

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* NotDisabledInVR: In the episode "Brian in Love" Wallows and Peter's Swallows" Brian falls in love with an old woman who was a jingle singer in the 1930s. He convinces her to step outside of her house for the first time in years, and she gets hit by a car. As she is dying in the hospital, Brian uses a pair of VR goggles to show her a virtual version of them getting married, having kids, etc. so her last moments would be happy.
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* PokingDeadThingsWithAStick: In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E12ToLoveAndDieInDixie To Love and Die in Dixie]]", Chris and his new friend, Sam, have fun poking a dead body with a stick during their first meeting.
--> '''Chris:''' You know, it's true. The best things in life really are free. ''[Poke, poke]''
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%%* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Parodied in "Saving Private Brian".
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** In Season 16's "Petey IV", Brian's attractive co-worker Martha has a Facebook page that's private, much to his disappointment. However, he finds her sister's page, on which is a picture of Martha in a sexy dress, ''crying at a funeral.'' [[ADateWithRosiePalms Brian still breaks out the lotion and goes to town]].

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** In Season 16's "Petey IV", Brian's attractive co-worker Martha has a Facebook page that's private, much to his disappointment. However, he finds her sister's page, on which is a picture of Martha in a sexy dress, ''crying at a funeral.'' [[ADateWithRosiePalms Brian still breaks out the lotion and goes to town]].town.
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* PrisonersLastMeal: A CutawayGag in the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS11E19SaveTheClam Save the Clam]]" is premised around a prison guard asking a SerialKiller what he wants for his last meal. The serial killer, hesitantly, only asks for a salad with the dressing on the side because he "had a big last lunch."
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** In the episode "White Meg Can't Jump," Stewie walks in on Peter and Lois, causing him to faint and his spirit leave his body. That spirit then sees the scene again and the spirit of Creator/DavidHydePierce leaves that.

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** In the episode "White Meg Can't Jump," Stewie walks in on Peter and Lois, causing him to faint and his spirit leave his body. That spirit then sees the scene again and the spirit of Creator/DavidHydePierce leaves that. The event left Stewie's psyche fratured, and he spends the rest of the episode with Multiple Personality Disorder.

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%%* PrimalScene: Causing Stewie to go ScreamingAtSquick.

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** In "The Son Also Draws":
---> '''Lois:''' Now, you shouldn't be frightened, Stewie. What you saw was actually a very beautiful thing.\\
'''Stewie:''' Evidently, madam, you and I differ ''greatly'' in our conception of beauty.
** There also the episode focusing on Lois's brother, Patrick, who as a child saw his mom having sex with Jackie Gleason. As a result, he went crazy, was shipped off to a mental hospital (at a young age, no less), and developed a pathological hatred for obese people. So much so he goes on a murder spree when Lois temporarily releases him (of course, Peter's idiocy is also to blame).
---> '''Jackie Gleason''': Pow! Right in the kisser!
** A variant is the one where Peter & Lois decide to have sex in his office.
---> '''Peter:''' Opie's right there.\\
'''Lois:''' I want him to look, Peter. ''[Opie runs away in terror]''
** The episode "North By North Quahog" has Peter and Lois going at it while showing Chris and Meg cowering in their own beds, just wanting it to be over. Only the bed squeaks can be heard, but they've been through it enough to know what's going on.
Stewie is already asleep and is dreaming that he is in a rocking chair that is making the same squeaking noise.
** In the "Point of Stew" segment of "Family Guy Viewer Mail #2", Stewie falls asleep and dreams that Peter and Lois are lumberjacks taking turns at chopping down a tree. When Peter finishes up, he asks if he did good, and Lois half-heartedly says he did. We then see her pull out a chainsaw
to go ScreamingAtSquick.finish chopping down the tree while a slow vibrating sound is heard.
** In the episode "White Meg Can't Jump," Stewie walks in on Peter and Lois, causing him to faint and his spirit leave his body. That spirit then sees the scene again and the spirit of Creator/DavidHydePierce leaves that.
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* OffModel: In "Let's Go to the Hop", during the musical number, Peter's head keeps shrinking for no reason. This was even addressed on the DVD audio commentary.
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** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E4OneIfByClamTwoIfBySea One if by Clam, Two if by Sea]]": Peter and his friends are accused of burning down a British Pub that took the place of the Drunken Clam after a hurricane and are sent to prison without bail, where they run into an old nemesis of Joe's, a vicious serial killer named Steve Bellows, who plans to do them in. Their wives, however, believe they were [[FrameUp framed]] and suspect the owner of the pub, Nigel Pinchley, of doing it not only to seduce Lois with Peter out of the way, but also [[InsuranceFraud for the insurance money since he took out a huge policy the day before the fire]]. They are later able to prove it [[EngineeredPublicConfession with the insurance agent hiding in the closet the whole time]], and as a result, Nigel is deported back to England and executed by hanging. Peter and his friends are freed JustInTime before Steve could murder them, prompting a JerkassRealization for him:
--->'''Steve:''' I wonder what this feels like. ''[stabs himself]'' Ow! That hurts! My God, is that what I've been doin' to people? I belong here.
** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E9BreakingOutIsHardToDo Breaking Out is Hard to Do]]": Lois becomes addicted to the adrenaline rush of [[FiveFingerDiscount shoplifting]], but Brian is able to get her under control and convinces her to return everything she stole before the police caught on to her, but they're already too late, because Joe recognized the Matisse painting she stole from the Quahog Museum of Art while watching the news. The judge considered [[PetTheDog going easy on Lois, at first, considering it is her first offense]], but instead, after she steals his gavel, gives her three years in prison, and [[MenCantKeepHouse the house falls apart without her]]. Brian speculates with good behavior, she could be out within two years, but Peter decides to sneak her out, and the family is forced to hide out in Asiantown.
** "Cool Hand Peter": During a road trip to New Orleans while their wives torture Brian, Peter, Quagmire, Joe and Cleveland are arrested on trumped-up charges and because of Cleveland being black while passing through Georgia and running afoul of the corrupt sheriff, Nichols, and receive two weeks of hard labor at his prison camp. However, when those two weeks are about to be up, they could be in for an indefinite sentence, with or without court approval. As such, the men decide to escape. After evading Nichols and company, the men jump on a train back to Quahog, but Nichols and his cronies were waiting for them. However, Joe anticipated this, having called in the Quahog Police Department for assistance during a lunch stop to fight back against Nichols and his cronies. After doing damage to one of Nichols' cruisers, and then to Nichols himself by shooting him in the leg, Joe gives him a big ReasonYouSuckSpeech before demanding to Nichols and his men they leave Quahog and never return:
--->'''Joe:''' [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility You took an oath just the same as me, Sheriff-- to protect and serve, not to harass and douche. Just ‘cause you have a badge doesn’t mean you can treat people anyway you like. And as a law enforcement professional, you have an obligation to be more ethically upstanding than the average man, not less.]] ''Now, get the hell out of my town!''

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* [[Jerkass/FamilyGuy Jerkass]]
* [[OverlyLongGag/FamilyGuy Overly Long Gag]]
* [[PrisonEpisode/FamilyGuy Prison Episode]]
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* OverlyLonGag: See [[OverlyLongGag/FamilyGuy here]]. Yes. There is ''that many''.

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* OverlyLonGag: OverlyLongGag: See [[OverlyLongGag/FamilyGuy here]]. Yes. There is ''that many''.
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* OverlyLonGag: See [[OverlyLongGag/FamilyGuy here]]. Yes. There is ''that many''.

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