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* LightBulbJoke: Peter tells one in a ''Planet of the Apes'' parody:
--> '''Peter''': How many dirty, stinking apes does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Three; one dirty, stinking ape to put in the lightbulb, and two dirty, stinking apes to throw feces at you.
--> '''Peter''': How many dirty, stinking apes does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Three; one dirty, stinking ape to put in the lightbulb, and two dirty, stinking apes to throw feces at you.
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* KonamiCode: When the whole family gets trapped in space on board a space shuttle, Peter suggests entering in the code to give them all unlimited lives.
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* LethallyStupid: Peter Griffin. Just try to make a kill count.
** Many characters in the cutaway gags are this.
** Many characters in the cutaway gags are this.
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** JerkassBall: Every character has moments as one based on Rule of Funny in later seasons. Even Lois and Brian, who by default are somewhat straight-faced and fairly empathetic characters, can become selfish, vindictive, and outright sociopathic jerks if it helps with the shock value comedy.
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** JerkassBall: Every character has moments as one based on Rule of Funny in later seasons. Even Lois and Brian, who by default are somewhat straight-faced and fairly empathetic characters, can become selfish, vindictive, and outright sociopathic jerks if it helps with the shock value comedy.comedy.
* JesusTheEarlyYears: An episode shows him as a teenager, trying to deal with God being an absentee father who's shacked up with a bimbo.
-->'''Jesus:''' Uhh, Hey dad, so um.. Things aren't working out too well here. Can I come stay with you for a while?
-->'''God:''' Gosh, you know, I'd love to, son, but this isn't a very good time right now. ''[=*Hangs up, and returns to the whore in his bed*=]''\\
'''God:''' Alright then, now where were we?
-->'''Girl:''' Right about here. ''[=*Holds up a condom*=]''\\
'''God:''' Aww come on baby, it's my birthday!\\
'''Girl:''' No.
* JesusTheEarlyYears: An episode shows him as a teenager, trying to deal with God being an absentee father who's shacked up with a bimbo.
-->'''Jesus:''' Uhh, Hey dad, so um.. Things aren't working out too well here. Can I come stay with you for a while?
-->'''God:''' Gosh, you know, I'd love to, son, but this isn't a very good time right now. ''[=*Hangs up, and returns to the whore in his bed*=]''\\
'''God:''' Alright then, now where were we?
-->'''Girl:''' Right about here. ''[=*Holds up a condom*=]''\\
'''God:''' Aww come on baby, it's my birthday!\\
'''Girl:''' No.
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* JitterCam: Used very noticeably each time an airplane was on a collision course in "Airport 'O7".
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* JitterCam: Used very noticeably each time an airplane was on a collision course in "Airport 'O7".'07".
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** There's also the Redneck episode.
--> '''Peter''': Meg, I'm a redneck, which means I am about to do something to you that you will not remember until you're forty! *Meg screams and runs off* Meg, come back here! I meant sex!
--> '''Peter''': Meg, I'm a redneck, which means I am about to do something to you that you will not remember until you're forty! *Meg screams and runs off* Meg, come back here! I meant sex!
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** There's also the Redneck episode.
this from Peter's redneck phase in "Airport '07".
--> '''Peter''': Meg, I'm a redneck, which means I am about to do something to you that you will not remember until you're forty!*Meg ''(Meg screams and runs off* off)'' Meg, come back here! I meant sex!
--> '''Peter''': Meg, I'm a redneck, which means I am about to do something to you that you will not remember until you're forty!
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** [[BastardBoyfriend Jeff]] had absolutely no indoor voice whatsoever. [[HellIsThatNoise Everything that comes out of his mouth is]] ''[[NightmareFuel terrifying]]''.
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* LongestPregnancyEver: Bonnie
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* LongestPregnancyEver: BonnieBonnie was pregnant in her third trimester for a full ten years and six seasons after her introduction.
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* MamaBear: Lois
** Still a MamaBear when it comes to Stewie. Willing to fight a vicious dog to get his teddy bear back. Making the mother of the older bully kid who stole Stewie's Halloween candy give it back plus the bully's candy '''plus''' forty dollars! (At 100% interest, compounded daily; when the woman nervously tells Lois she doesn't have forty dollars, Lois tells her that she'll be back the next day for ''eighty'' dollars. God only knows what Lois will do to her if she doesn't eventually cough it up. She even scares ''Stewie'' with that.)
** Still a MamaBear when it comes to Stewie. Willing to fight a vicious dog to get his teddy bear back. Making the mother of the older bully kid who stole Stewie's Halloween candy give it back plus the bully's candy '''plus''' forty dollars! (At 100% interest, compounded daily; when the woman nervously tells Lois she doesn't have forty dollars, Lois tells her that she'll be back the next day for ''eighty'' dollars. God only knows what Lois will do to her if she doesn't eventually cough it up. She even scares ''Stewie'' with that.)
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* MamaBear: Lois
Lois, at least in the early seasons.
**Still a MamaBear She's still this when it comes to Stewie. Willing to fight a vicious dog to get his teddy bear back. Making the mother of the older bully kid who stole Stewie's Halloween candy give it back plus the bully's candy '''plus''' forty dollars! (At 100% interest, compounded daily; when the woman nervously tells Lois she doesn't have forty dollars, Lois tells her that she'll be back the next day for ''eighty'' dollars. God only knows what Lois will do to her if she doesn't eventually cough it up. She even scares ''Stewie'' with that.)
**
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--> '''Joe''': Pretend I'm your child, Lois! (Lois starts to let go) Not Meg, not Meg! (Lois finds the strength to pull him to safety).
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--> '''Joe''': Pretend I'm your child, Lois! (Lois ''(Lois starts to let go) go)'' Not Meg, not Meg! (Lois finds the strength to pull him to safety).
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** In one episode Stewie abducts the cast of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' after he's unable to get his questions about the show answered at a convention. After he kills Denise Crosby to make sure they don't try anything funny, he spends the day with them, only they turn out to be totally annoying and demanding. By the end of his time with them, he's announced that they've ruined ''Next Generation'' for him and he hopes they all die.
** AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: One could argue that the cast were acting this way on purpose, seeing as how he killed Denise, they probably figured that by acting utterly annoying he'd grow sick of them and send them home. Counts as either a BatmanGambit or ThanatosGambit, because if such was the case, there was just as much chance he'd kill them if they annoyed him too much..
** AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: One could argue that the cast were acting this way on purpose, seeing as how he killed Denise, they probably figured that by acting utterly annoying he'd grow sick of them and send them home. Counts as either a BatmanGambit or ThanatosGambit, because if such was the case, there was just as much chance he'd kill them if they annoyed him too much..
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* ProductPlacement: Done by Stewie for an in-universe joke shop in season Three's "Lethal Weapons". "That's Jack's Joke Shop. Remember, if it ain't funny, it ain't worth '''''Jack.'''''
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* LimbSensationFascination: One episode has Joe Swanson gets new functional legs transplanted, and he proceeds to show off his old athletic and martial arts abilities to the point of becoming arrogant and rejecting his old friends for new ones who can keep up with him. In the end he becomes paralyzed again in AnAesop about pride.
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** JerkassBall: Pretty much every character has moments as one based on Rule of Funny in later seasons. Even Lois and Brian, who by default are somewhat straight-faced and fairly empathetic characters, can become selfish, vindictive, and outright sociopathic jerks if it helps with the shock value comedy.
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** JerkassBall: Pretty much every Every character has moments as one based on Rule of Funny in later seasons. Even Lois and Brian, who by default are somewhat straight-faced and fairly empathetic characters, can become selfish, vindictive, and outright sociopathic jerks if it helps with the shock value comedy.
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* KickTheDog: Stewie quite literally does this to Brian in one episode when Brian owes him some money.
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* KickTheDog: Stewie quite literally does this to Brian in one episode when Brian owes him some money.
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* KnightOfCerebus: [[BastardBoyfriend Jeff]] is an [[CompleteMonster unpleasant individual.]]
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* KnightOfCerebus: [[BastardBoyfriend Jeff]] is an [[CompleteMonster unpleasant individual.]]
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** "Running Mates": An entire studio audience has moved in next door, and Peter gets irritated that they laugh at everything he does.
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** "Running Mates": An entire A studio audience has moved in next door, and Peter gets irritated that they laugh at everything he does.
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* MenCantKeepHouse: Appears in an episode where Lois went to jail. After being arrested the house pretty much goes to hell, with garbage all over the place, Stewie not getting a diaper change in god-knows-how long, and wild animals coming into the house.
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* MenCantKeepHouse: Appears in an episode where Lois went to jail. After being arrested the house pretty much goes to hell, with garbage all over the place, Stewie not getting a diaper change in god-knows-how long, and wild animals coming into the house.
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** In "Road to Rupert" after Meg had enough of being humiliated by Peter and his friends, she stops the car she's driving them in and immediately gets rear-ended. When confronted by the hostile driver of the vehicle behind her, she proceeds to beat the living hell out of the guy.
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** In "Road to Rupert" after Meg had enough of being humiliated by Peter and his friends, she stops the car she's driving them in and immediately gets rear-ended. When confronted by the hostile driver of the vehicle behind her, she proceeds to beat the living hell out of the guy.
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* NotQuiteDead: Meg, Ernie the Giant Chicken, Connie D'Amico, and the Evil Monkey have all been pretty much left for certain death and somehow survived it.
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* NotQuiteDead: Meg, Ernie the Giant Chicken, Connie D'Amico, and the Evil Monkey have all been pretty much left for certain death and somehow survived it.
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* PositiveDiscrimination: Subverted in "Extra-Large Medium" where a girl with Down's Syndrome is portrayed as a total bitch.
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* PositiveDiscrimination: Subverted in "Extra-Large Medium" where a girl with Down's Syndrome is portrayed as a total bitch.
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** Also, the upcoming video game ''Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse''.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As of Season 8, it seems they are trying to shift Peter back to this.
** For "Baby, You Knock Me Out", he temporarily goes back to being a Jerkass for nearly 2/3 of the episode.
** For "Baby, You Knock Me Out", he temporarily goes back to being a Jerkass for nearly 2/3 of the episode.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As of Season 8, it seems they are trying to shift Peter back to this.
** For "Baby, You Knock Me Out", he temporarily goes back toactually started out in this territory. Despite always being selfish to a Jerkass for nearly 2/3 of certain extent, he would often learn from his mistakes at the episode.end of each episode. After the show was brought back, though, he was turned into more of an outright sociopath. Starting with season 8, however, the writers began shifting him more into this territory, and now how much of a jerk he is now depends on the writer.
** For "Baby, You Knock Me Out", he temporarily goes back to
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* JerkAss: Most of the cast and characters.
** Some more so than others.
** Some more so than others.
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* JerkAss: Most of the cast and characters.
** Somecharacters, although some characters shift into JerkAss territory more so than others.
** Some
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* JoinsToFitIn: Peter's reason for founding the NAAFP.
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** JerkassBall: Pretty much every Family Guy character has moments as one based on Rule of Funny in later seasons. Even Lois and Brian, who by default are somewhat straight-faced and fairly empathetic characters, can become selfish, vindictive and outright sociopathic jerks if it helps with the shock value comedy.
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** JerkassBall: Pretty much every Family Guy character has moments as one based on Rule of Funny in later seasons. Even Lois and Brian, who by default are somewhat straight-faced and fairly empathetic characters, can become selfish, vindictive vindictive, and outright sociopathic jerks if it helps with the shock value comedy.
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** In ''Back to the Pilot'' we get this bit:
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** In ''Back "Back to the Pilot'' Pilot" we get this bit:
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* LaserGuidedKarma: A good one happened to [[AlphaBitch Connie D'Amico]] in the episode "Stew-Roids". Connie rebuffs Meg when she tries to give her a High School Musical soundtrack and insults her. One JerkJock farted in her face and had Meg running off crying. As soon as Connie started dating Chris and then Chris has a party at his house,he is caught making out with other girls and then dumps Connie. [[spoiler: Connie then becomes unpopular and when Connie tries to get help from Meg, [[BewareTheNiceOnes Meg]] coldly tells her off. ]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: A good one happened to [[AlphaBitch Connie D'Amico]] in the episode "Stew-Roids". Connie rebuffs Meg when she tries to give her a High School Musical ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' soundtrack and insults her. One JerkJock farted in her face and had Meg running off crying. As soon as Connie started dating Chris and then Chris has a party at his house,he house, he is caught making out with other girls and then dumps Connie. [[spoiler: Connie then becomes unpopular and when Connie tries to get help from Meg, [[BewareTheNiceOnes Meg]] coldly tells her off. ]]
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* TheLastHorseCrossesTheFinishLine- The TropeNamer. Several people have fallen victim to it over the years, namely every single adult male (save for Brian) on Spooner Street, and several of the adult women, including Lois, who provides this quote through a dream she has about accidentally stumbling upon Stewie's lair while cleaning, and Stewie killing her upon uttering that line and a rather scathing dialogue.
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* TheLastHorseCrossesTheFinishLine- The TropeNamer.{{Trope Namer|s}}. Several people have fallen victim to it over the years, namely every single adult male (save for Brian) on Spooner Street, and several of the adult women, including Lois, who provides this quote through a dream she has about accidentally stumbling upon Stewie's lair while cleaning, and Stewie killing her upon uttering that line and a rather scathing dialogue.
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** "Running Mates": An entire studio audience has moved in next door, and Peter gets irriated that they laugh at everything he does.
** "Viewer Mail No. 1": Stewie swiped a laugh box from the set of ''DharmaAndGreg''. [[TakeThat Brian is surprised there's anything left in it.]]
** "Viewer Mail No. 1": Stewie swiped a laugh box from the set of ''DharmaAndGreg''. [[TakeThat Brian is surprised there's anything left in it.]]
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** "Running Mates": An entire studio audience has moved in next door, and Peter gets irriated irritated that they laugh at everything he does.
** "Viewer Mail No. 1": Stewie swiped a laugh box from the set of''DharmaAndGreg''.''Series/DharmaAndGreg''. [[TakeThat Brian is surprised there's anything left in it.]]
** "Viewer Mail No. 1": Stewie swiped a laugh box from the set of
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** "Airport '07": Peter doesn't want to kick Quagmire out of their house, until Quagmire mentions that Stewie should never use a pacifier that he's holding again. Peter says to Lois,the "OK, so I'll talk to him tomorrow?", followed by a laugh track and a parody of the ''Series/WillAndGrace'' eyecatch.
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** "Airport '07": Peter doesn't want to kick Quagmire out of their house, until Quagmire mentions that Stewie should never use a pacifier that he's holding again. Peter says to Lois,the Lois, the "OK, so I'll talk to him tomorrow?", followed by a laugh track and a parody of the ''Series/WillAndGrace'' eyecatch.
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** A similiar gag was used again (Family Gay) with race horses named after cancelled Fox shows with the announcer telling their positions.
** Also on "Episode 420," Peter gets so high that, instead of setting up one of his flashback moments, he shows the viewers a list of celebrities he hates, including Stephen Dorff, Music/JustinTimberlake, Dane Cook, Chris O'Donnell, Creator/GeoffreyChaucer, Kathy Griffin, Andy Samberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Andrew [=McCarthy=], Rita Coolidge, David Arquette, Carlos Mencia, AmyWinehouse, every rapper, Ethan Hawke, Dax Sheppard, Toby Keith, Joe Francis, Princess Diana, [[{{Music/Coldplay}} Chris Martin]], Chris Martin again, Chris Martin's parents, Eve Plumb, Bonnie Franklin, Kate Bekinsale, Freddie Prinze Jr., Suri Cruise, The forehead guy from ''Series/TheOffice'', Garry Marshal, Paul Tsongas, and Chris Martin's ancestors.
** Also on "Episode 420," Peter gets so high that, instead of setting up one of his flashback moments, he shows the viewers a list of celebrities he hates, including Stephen Dorff, Music/JustinTimberlake, Dane Cook, Chris O'Donnell, Creator/GeoffreyChaucer, Kathy Griffin, Andy Samberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Andrew [=McCarthy=], Rita Coolidge, David Arquette, Carlos Mencia, AmyWinehouse, every rapper, Ethan Hawke, Dax Sheppard, Toby Keith, Joe Francis, Princess Diana, [[{{Music/Coldplay}} Chris Martin]], Chris Martin again, Chris Martin's parents, Eve Plumb, Bonnie Franklin, Kate Bekinsale, Freddie Prinze Jr., Suri Cruise, The forehead guy from ''Series/TheOffice'', Garry Marshal, Paul Tsongas, and Chris Martin's ancestors.
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** A similiar similar gag was used again (Family Gay) with race horses named after cancelled Fox shows with the announcer telling their positions.
** Also on "Episode 420," Peter gets so high that, instead of setting up one of his flashback moments, he shows the viewers a list of celebrities he hates, including Stephen Dorff, Music/JustinTimberlake, Dane Cook, Chris O'Donnell, Creator/GeoffreyChaucer, Kathy Griffin, Andy Samberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Andrew [=McCarthy=], Rita Coolidge, David Arquette, Carlos Mencia,AmyWinehouse, Music/AmyWinehouse, every rapper, Ethan Hawke, Dax Sheppard, Toby Keith, Joe Francis, Princess Diana, [[{{Music/Coldplay}} Chris Martin]], Chris Martin again, Chris Martin's parents, Eve Plumb, Bonnie Franklin, Kate Bekinsale, Freddie Prinze Jr., Suri Cruise, The forehead guy from ''Series/TheOffice'', Garry Marshal, Paul Tsongas, and Chris Martin's ancestors.
** Also on "Episode 420," Peter gets so high that, instead of setting up one of his flashback moments, he shows the viewers a list of celebrities he hates, including Stephen Dorff, Music/JustinTimberlake, Dane Cook, Chris O'Donnell, Creator/GeoffreyChaucer, Kathy Griffin, Andy Samberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Andrew [=McCarthy=], Rita Coolidge, David Arquette, Carlos Mencia,
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* LoudOfWar: In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' spoof "Laugh It Up, Fuzzbal"', the torture scene from Empire is recreated with Han (Peter) being tormented by "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?"
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* LoudOfWar: In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' spoof "Laugh It Up, Fuzzbal"', Fuzzball"', the torture scene from Empire is recreated with Han (Peter) being tormented by "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?"
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** Stewie isn't an animal, but despite being more intelligent than anybody else on the cast, he still has many natural baby instincts, such as loving ''TheTeletubbies'' and going ballistic when he finds out they're going to [[DisneyThemeParks Disney World]].
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** Stewie isn't an animal, but despite being more intelligent than anybody else on the cast, he still has many natural baby instincts, such as loving ''TheTeletubbies'' ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'' and going ballistic when he finds out they're going to [[DisneyThemeParks Disney World]].
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Brian squirting lotion on Stewie's sunburned body, from a certain angle, looks like he's ejaculating on Stewie, to which a passing-by [[ThreesCompany Mr. Furley]] says, "Nevermind, I'll come back later!"
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Brian squirting lotion on Stewie's sunburned body, from a certain angle, looks like he's ejaculating on Stewie, to which a passing-by [[ThreesCompany [[Series/ThreesCompany Mr. Furley]] says, "Nevermind, I'll come back later!"
* ObviousObjectCouldBeAnything: Used on multiple occasions. The exact execution depends on who's doing the guessing.
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* OpeningNarration: "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci High" features a ''LawAndOrder'' parody that opens the episode.
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* [[PoorMansPorn Poor Man's Porn]]: When Stewie finally succeeds in derailing Peter and Lois' plans to conceive a fourth child (about twenty seconds after he stops trying), Peter takes a lingerie catalogue into the bathroom.
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* [[PoorMansPorn Poor Man's Porn]]: PoorMansPorn: When Stewie finally succeeds in derailing Peter and Lois' plans to conceive a fourth child (about twenty seconds after he stops trying), Peter takes a lingerie catalogue into the bathroom.
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** The best example: During the FOX airing of "Big Man On Hippocampus", an AdultSwim {{Ad Bumper|s}} pops up before the commercial break to {{lampshade|Hanging}} the EasyAmnesia plot and [[http://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/2084 ask why you're watching the show on FOX]] since Adult Swim doesn't "cut out the funniest jokes". On the actual Adult Swim airing, the exact same ad bumper shows up... segueing into a FOX-style ad bumper reminding you that you're watching the show on "[[http://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/2069 FOX For People Who Watch FOX On Adult Swim]]".
* PowerIsSexy: This is why Cleveland would have sex with Margaret Thatcher, despite the incredulity of the other guys. "Oh, so no-one else here thinks power is sexy?"
* PowerIsSexy: This is why Cleveland would have sex with Margaret Thatcher, despite the incredulity of the other guys. "Oh, so no-one else here thinks power is sexy?"
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** The best example: During the FOX airing of "Big Man On Hippocampus", an AdultSwim Creator/AdultSwim {{Ad Bumper|s}} pops up before the commercial break to {{lampshade|Hanging}} the EasyAmnesia plot and [[http://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/2084 ask why you're watching the show on FOX]] since Adult Swim doesn't "cut out the funniest jokes". On the actual Adult Swim airing, the exact same ad bumper shows up... segueing into a FOX-style ad bumper reminding you that you're watching the show on "[[http://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/2069 FOX For People Who Watch FOX On Adult Swim]]".
* PowerIsSexy: This is why Cleveland would have sex withMargaret Thatcher, MargaretThatcher, despite the incredulity of the other guys. "Oh, so no-one else here thinks power is sexy?"
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* LateToThePunchline: In "The King is Dead":
--> '''Peter''': Hey, hey. I have more creativity in my whole body than most people do before 9 AM!
--> '''Lois''': The only thing you create before 9:00am is exactly what you've turned my show into.
--> '''Peter''': I think my show will speak for itself. (leaves, but comes back) I just got it. A ''poop'' joke? That's real creative, Lois. (leaves again)
--> '''Peter''': Hey, hey. I have more creativity in my whole body than most people do before 9 AM!
--> '''Lois''': The only thing you create before 9:00am is exactly what you've turned my show into.
--> '''Peter''': I think my show will speak for itself. (leaves, but comes back) I just got it. A ''poop'' joke? That's real creative, Lois. (leaves again)
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* LaserGuidedKarma: A good one happened to Connie D'Amico in the episode "Stew-Roids". Connie rebuffs Meg when she tries to give her a High School Musical soundtrack and insults her. One JerkJock farted in her face and had Meg running off crying. As soon as Connie started dating Chris and then Chris has a party at his house, he is caught making out with other girls and then dumps Connie. Connie then becomes unpopular and when Connie tries to get help from Meg, Meg coldly tells her off.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: A good one happened to [[AlphaBitch Connie D'Amico D'Amico]] in the episode "Stew-Roids". Connie rebuffs Meg when she tries to give her a High School Musical soundtrack and insults her. One JerkJock farted in her face and had Meg running off crying. As soon as Connie started dating Chris and then Chris has a party at his house, he house,he is caught making out with other girls and then dumps Connie. [[spoiler: Connie then becomes unpopular and when Connie tries to get help from Meg, Meg [[BewareTheNiceOnes Meg]] coldly tells her off.off. ]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted in that Meg decides to help Connie make Chris become unpopular again, and then Connie goes back to being popular and disliking Meg.]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted in that Meg decides to help Connie make Chris become unpopular again, and then Connie goes back to being popular and disliking Meg.]]
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* PutOnABus: Cleveland, for his [[WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow own series]].
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* MuggingTheMonster: Stewie has been victimized a few odd times by JerkAss characters, thinking he's little more than a baby. Needless to say, [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence they almost]] [[GeneHuntInterrogationTechnique all end up]] [[DisproportionateRetribution completely out of their league]]. Except for Susie Swanson, who managed to kick his butt despite being younger than him.
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* PieInTheFace: Lois (twice if you count "Saggy Naggy") in "You Can't Do That On Television, Peter," and Herbert in the "It's a Wonderful Day for Pie" sequence in "Road to the Multiverse."
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* {{Multiboobage}}: Meg has 3...well, she has 3 nipples, according to the Count. Yes, that [[SesameStreet Count]]. They dated briefly.
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* MediationBackfire: Peter is upset that he can't find way to bond with Stewie, until he discovers that beating up Lois is the perfect way to do it. Crosses the Line Twice when they lock her in the trunk of a car and sink it in a lake.
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* JawDrop: Shown with Meg, Lois, and Chris after Peter got raped by a "breedin' bull" at a rodeo.
** Brian in "I Dream Of Jesus" gets a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkIS3G64ug0 pretty exaggerated one]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As of Season 8, it seems they are trying to shift Peter back to this.
** For "Baby, You Knock Me Out", he temporarily goes back to being a Jerkass for nearly 2/3 of the episode.
** Arguably Stewie, though still not without his evil tendencies, [[TookALevelInKindness has leaned into this in recent seasons]], [[FanOfUnderdog especially in his treatment of Brian]].
* JerkAss: Most of the cast and characters.
** Some more so than others.
* JitterCam: Used very noticeably each time an airplane was on a collision course in "Airport 'O7".
* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Parodied in "Saving Private Brian".
* JumpingOutOfACake: Peter accidentally kills a stripper while cutting the cake, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint but is concerned only that the cake has coconut frosting]].
* JustPlaneWrong: Japanese Zero's are not three seaters but RuleOfCool probably applies.
* KafkaKomedy: Happens frequently, especially with Brian who frequently finds himself on the receiving end of endless ComedicSociopathy due to [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin some minor or inadvertent offense]], [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond especially if it involves Quagmire]].
* KangarooPouchRide: Peter climbs into the pouch of a kangaroo, but the poor kangaroo can barely move.
* KarmaHoudini: Ironically, in "Barely Legal," the one time [[ButtMonkey Meg]] deserved punishment she didn't get it.
** Peter and Stewie get away with rather callous and sometimes outright murderous acts at times. Lois seems to be shifting towards this region too.
* KavorkaMan: Quagmire, and sometimes Peter.
* KickTheDog: Stewie quite literally does this to Brian in one episode when Brian owes him some money.
* KillThePoor: In "A Picture is Worth 1,000 Bucks", Peter remarks that NewYorkCity is a lot nicer ever since Rudy Giuliani secretly had the homeless killed.
* KilledOffForReal: Francis Griffin, Mr. Weed. [[spoiler: Murial Goldman, Derek (Jillian's husband), James Woods, Bertram, and Diane Simmons]] as of Season 9. Subverted in that [[spoiler:James Woods]] [[DeathIsCheap later came back]].
* KitschyLocalCommercial:
** Al Harrington of Wacky Waving Inflatable Flailing Arm Tube Men Emporium.
** When Peter becomes one of the New England Patriots, he does a local spot for a car dealership complete with monotone reading, eyes following cue-cards, forced football references, and crappy redundant jingle.
* KnightOfCerebus: [[BastardBoyfriend Jeff]] is an [[CompleteMonster unpleasant individual.]]
* KnockKnockJoke
* KnockoutGas: Peter gave his rival a statue of himself that sprayed "Crazy Purple Knockout Gas!"
* LampshadeHanging: Lots of it:
** In "Dog Gone," Peter and Lois get into a pronunciation argument, just like Brian and Stewie often do. Stewie asks "Are we really doing this?"
*** That seemed more like a WhosOnFirst joke to me.
** When Brian found his long lost son, Stewie asked what we were all thinking:
-->'''Stewie:''' How can you have a 13-year-old son when you're only 7?
-->'''Brian:''' Those are dog years.
-->'''Stewie:''' That doesn't make any sense.
-->'''Brian:''' You know what, Stewie? [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall If you don't like it, go on the Internet and complain.]]
** From "The Big Bang Theory", when Stewie is explaining how he and Brian have traveled outside of the space-time continuum. Doubles as MediumAwareness:
-->'''Stewie:''' Non-existence. No past, no present, no future. No universe. ''(a promo logo for WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow appears)'' But still, somehow, a large, brightly-colored promo for The Cleveland Show.
** In ''Back to the Pilot'' we get this bit:
-->'''Stewie:''' ''(flies in with a jetpack)'' Brian, are you alright?
-->'''Brian:''' Yeah, I'm fine. Where'd you get that?
-->'''Stewie:''' Well, the Stewie from the past has a lot more gadgets and things than I do, [[{{Flanderization}} I've kinda slacked off a little bit.]]
* TheLastHorseCrossesTheFinishLine- The TropeNamer. Several people have fallen victim to it over the years, namely every single adult male (save for Brian) on Spooner Street, and several of the adult women, including Lois, who provides this quote through a dream she has about accidentally stumbling upon Stewie's lair while cleaning, and Stewie killing her upon uttering that line and a rather scathing dialogue.
* LaughTrack: Parodied in a few episodes:
** "A Hero Sits Next Door": Brian delivers a one-liner and Peter begins to respond, but waits until the laugh track finishes.
** "Running Mates": An entire studio audience has moved in next door, and Peter gets irriated that they laugh at everything he does.
** "Viewer Mail No. 1": Stewie swiped a laugh box from the set of ''DharmaAndGreg''. [[TakeThat Brian is surprised there's anything left in it.]]
** "PTV": Stewie supplies his own exaggerated laughter (and applause) for the low budget sitcom "Cheeky Bastards".
** "Airport '07": Peter doesn't want to kick Quagmire out of their house, until Quagmire mentions that Stewie should never use a pacifier that he's holding again. Peter says to Lois,the "OK, so I'll talk to him tomorrow?", followed by a laugh track and a parody of the ''Series/WillAndGrace'' eyecatch.
** "Chick Cancer": A cutaway gag features "The Mayor of Comedy" pitching a Time-Life Music-type compilation called "Sitcom Punchlines of the '80s," with one of the volumes titled "Sounds of the '80s: Studio Audience," that volume being various canned studio and "laugh track" responses to stock jokes and cliches. (The albums were also a parody of various Time-Life Music series, one of which was "Sounds of the Eighties.")
* LeadIn: Almost every episode.
* LeftItIn: When Brian joins ''{{The Bachelor}}ette'', he makes some comments about Chevy Chase to the ConfessionCam and then asks if they can cut that part out...and then goes on to say even more things about Chevy.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn
** "That's classic travelin' music."
* LetsHaveAnotherBaby: After assisting his sister-in-law in giving birth, Peter first suggests stealing her baby, but then says this to Lois who agrees. That is, until they realize that they're too busy with Stewie to take care of another baby.
* LetsSeeYouDoBetter: In "Brian Griffin's House of Payne," at the premiere party of Brian's new sitcom, the cast of ''TwoAndAHalfMen'' are also at the party, much to Brian's surprise. When asked why they're here, CharlieSheen responds, "Well you're always ripping on our show, let's see yours."
* LimitedAnimation: Taken to extremes post-cancelation. Lampshaded like almost everything else at one point.
* LintValue: Implied when the family is stranded in another country without money -- they go to the black market to be smuggled back into America, where there's a sign already posted that they do not except lint or bits of string as payment.
* LittlestCancerPatient: Poor, poor Abbie, Quagmire's five-year-old niece. She makes an appearance in "Road to the North Pole", and Brian mistakes her for a boy because she lost her hair from chemo.
* LivingMotionDetector: Parodied in an episode where Peter and Lois encounter a prostitute like this.
* LockedInARoom: "Brian & Stewie", where the duo is stuck in a bank vault all night.
* LogicBomb: Peter does this to a robotic office suck-up that agrees with everything he says to try to make him stop:
-->'''Peter:''' ...And I hate myself.\\
'''Suck-up:''' I hate you, too. You make me sick, you fat sack of crap!\\
'''Peter:''' But I'm the president.\\
'''Suck-up:''' The best there is!\\
'''Peter:''' But you just said you ''hated'' me...\\
'''Suck-up:''' ''(malfunctioning)'' But--not you the president--that you who said you hated--you, you who love--hate... [[AC:'''''Yankees... Clouds...''''']] ''[[YourHeadAsplode (head explodes)]]''
** An employee said they'll have it fixed. Presumably with a built-in "[[{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} paradox-absorbing crumple zones]]".
* {{Lolicon}}: Peter in "Extra Large Medium" [[ItMakesSenseInContext says he needs to touch something that belongs to the buried guy with a bomb strapped to his chest so he can find him (he thinks he's psychic)]], and asks if the guy's 12-year-old daughter is just a kid, or the type of 12-year-old who drinks a lot of milk and had her breasts come in early. Then again, Peter was declared mentally retarded in one episode. He still needs a psychiatrist, though. One with a [[HyperspaceMallet sledgehammer]].
* LongList: most famously, after the series is brought back, Peter recites a long list of {{Fox}} programs that bombed while ''Family Guy'' was off the air, sarcastically calling them great shows. He then goes on to say that maybe ''Family Guy'' can come back on the air when they fail.
** A similiar gag was used again (Family Gay) with race horses named after cancelled Fox shows with the announcer telling their positions.
** Also on "Episode 420," Peter gets so high that, instead of setting up one of his flashback moments, he shows the viewers a list of celebrities he hates, including Stephen Dorff, Music/JustinTimberlake, Dane Cook, Chris O'Donnell, Creator/GeoffreyChaucer, Kathy Griffin, Andy Samberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Andrew [=McCarthy=], Rita Coolidge, David Arquette, Carlos Mencia, AmyWinehouse, every rapper, Ethan Hawke, Dax Sheppard, Toby Keith, Joe Francis, Princess Diana, [[{{Music/Coldplay}} Chris Martin]], Chris Martin again, Chris Martin's parents, Eve Plumb, Bonnie Franklin, Kate Bekinsale, Freddie Prinze Jr., Suri Cruise, The forehead guy from ''Series/TheOffice'', Garry Marshal, Paul Tsongas, and Chris Martin's ancestors.
** In "Ocean's Three and a Half" Brian recites a list of songs named after a girl, when Stewie challenges him to do so
** Quagmire's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Brian. Supporters call it a long overdue callout to Brian that outlines exactly why he's considered a CreatorsPet, while the detractors claim it's pure hypocrisy given that Quagmire...isn't exactly a pillar of morality himself (which he slightly acknowledges in it...).
* LongestPregnancyEver: Bonnie
* LoudOfWar: In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' spoof "Laugh It Up, Fuzzbal"', the torture scene from Empire is recreated with Han (Peter) being tormented by "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?"
* LyricalDissonance: "The life of the wife is ended by the knife!"
* MadeOfExplodium: The Amish buggy... and the Amish [[CrowningMomentOfFunny horse]], from "I Never Met the Dead Man".
* MadeOfIron: During their fights, Peter and Ernie the Giant Chicken suffer horrific injuries that should by all rights kill them, but Peter is never more than just breathless after the battle ends.
* TheMakeover: Meg in "Don't Make Me Over".
* MalignantPlotTumor: Stewie, in that episode where he was an octopus.
* MamaBear: Lois, then CharacterDerailment [[AbusiveParents kicks]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing in]]...
** Still a MamaBear when it comes to Stewie. Willing to fight a vicious dog to get his teddy bear back. Making the mother of the older bully kid who stole Stewie's Halloween candy give it back plus the bully's candy '''plus''' forty dollars! (At 100% interest, compounded daily; when the woman nervously tells Lois she doesn't have forty dollars, Lois tells her that she'll be back the next day for ''eighty'' dollars. God only knows what Lois will do to her if she doesn't eventually cough it up. She even scares ''Stewie'' with that.)
** Subverted at first and then ultimately fulfilled when she tries to save Joe from falling down a sewer waterfall.
--> '''Lois''': I can't hold on, Joe!
--> '''Joe''': Pretend I'm your child, Lois! (Lois starts to let go) Not Meg, not Meg! (Lois finds the strength to pull him to safety).
* ManOfAThousandVoices: Seth [=MacFarlane=], and to a lesser extent Mike Henry.
* MarshmallowDream: Played with. Peter wakes up to find a half-eaten sheep in his room trying to crawl to safety.
* MassHypnosis: Stewie tries to do this on ''KidsSayTheDarndestThings'', but gets hypnotized himself.
* [[AsianGalWithWhiteGuy Me Love You Long Time]]: Lampshaded when Trisha Takanawa, upon meeting David Bowie, blurts out "Me love to meet Ziggy Stardust! I take you home! I make you fish ball soup!"
** Wasn't she saying "Make love to me, Ziggy Stardust!"?
** An earlier episode (the one where Joe is introduced) had Peter saying, "Me love you long time" to a prospective Asian softball player (as that's the only thing "Asian" Peter knows how to say).
* MeaningfulName: Peter the Apostle of Literature/TheBible is an IdiotHero, though nowhere near as bad.
* MediumBlending: Seen in "Road to Rupert" during the Stewie/Gene Kelly dancing sequence, which combines live action and animation.
** Also seen in "Let's Go to the Hop" when Peter said that doing drugs caused things to get too real for him, and the show cutaways to a live action Peter on a park bench saying: "Holy crap, I am freaking out!"
** They use puppetry in "Foreign Affairs".
* MenCantKeepHouse: Appears in an episode where Lois went to jail. After being arrested the house pretty much goes to hell, with garbage all over the place, Stewie not getting a diaper change in god-knows-how long, and wild animals coming into the house.
* MidlifeCrisisCar: Peter gets one in "And the Wiener Is..."
* MisplacedAccent: Santos and Pasqual are supposedly Portuguese fishermen yet speak in heavily accented ''Brazilian'' Portuguese.
* MistakenForMasturbating: Chris was once really just using the bathroom, but his HolierThanThou grandfather assumed he was masturbating and railed against its sinfulness, scaring poor Chris away from what he was really doing for the rest of the episode. "God's watching me do Number Two? Aw man, I'm a sinner and God's a pervert!"
** In a pre-cancellation episode, after Chris is caught peeping in the girls' locker room, Peter approaches Chris' room, and there's a rapid knocking sound, which turns out to be Chris, playing with a ball-and-paddle. Peter gives Chris his porn collection, then leaves, and the sound continues, then Peter realizes he's holding the paddle
* MonkeysOnATypewriter: Peter references them in "The King Is Dead". In a twist, the monkeys are fully intelligent and speak exactly like regular humans.
* MoodWhiplash: Dr. Hartman's conversation with Peter [[spoiler: and Brian over a much needed kidney transplant. He tells Brian that because his kidneys are smaller, Peter would need both of his in order to keep living. He tells Brian that the procedure would kill him]]... Then he laughs as he notices a car being towed outside.
** In "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows", there's a big mood whiplash after Brian tearfully says goodbye to a dying Pearl. Immediately after, Dr. Hartman comes in and says, "Hey, anybody wanna see a dead body?"
* MotivationOnAStick: In "He's Too Sexy for His Fat", Peter gets Chris to run on a treadmill by sticking a plumber's helper to his forehead with a twinkie hanging from it.
* MrsClaus: Appears in a ShowWithinAShow helping {{Music/KISS}} in SavingChristmas.
* MuggingTheMonster: Stewie has been victimized a few odd times by JerkAss characters, thinking he's little more than a baby. Needless to say, [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence they almost]] [[GeneHuntInterrogationTechnique all end up]] [[DisproportionateRetribution completely out of their league]]. Except for Susie Swanson, who managed to kick his butt despite being younger than him.
* {{Multiboobage}}: Meg has 3...well, she has 3 nipples, according to the Count. Yes, that [[SesameStreet Count]]. They dated briefly.
* TheMultiverse: The season 8 premiere, aptly titled "Road to the Multiverse".
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Herbert's fight with [[spoiler: Mr. Gutentag in order to save Chris and Peter.]] The fight itself is extremely awkward, but the music was epic and [[spoiler: Gutentag's death was just a fall from a porch, but the camera angle and slo-mo '''really''' invoked this trope.]]
* MurderByMistake: [[spoiler: In the 9th season premiere, Diane's mechanism to murder James Woods accidentally kills Stephanie.]]
* MushroomSamba: Brian consumes psychedelic mushrooms in "Seahorse Seashell Party", and ends up having a series of horrifying visions.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: One episode's opening depicts the Griffin Family as members of the WesternAnimation/SuperFriends... and Meg.
* MyGirlIsASlut:
-->'''Peter:''' [triumphantly] My wife did Music/{{KISS}}!
-->'''Lois:''' And J. Geils.
-->'''Peter:''' What?
-->'''Lois:''' Nothing.
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Brian is an IntellectualAnimal, but his canine behavior still shows up.
** Stewie isn't an animal, but despite being more intelligent than anybody else on the cast, he still has many natural baby instincts, such as loving ''TheTeletubbies'' and going ballistic when he finds out they're going to [[DisneyThemeParks Disney World]].
* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe
* NativeAmericanCasino: The Griffins visit one in "The Son Also Draws".
* NegativeContinuity: In "Baby, You Knock Me Out". Throughout the episode, people are surprised that Lois can fight so well and that she can be so aggressive, including Lois herself. Lois even says something to the effect of how she's never felt so powerful. Apparently everybody (including Seth [=MacFarlane=] and the show writers) forgot about "Lethal Weapons", the episode in which she mastered Tae Jitsu and became ultra-aggressive and drunk on power as a result.
** In "The Fat Guy Stranger" (airdate- 2005) Lois revealed she was in her forties. "Meet The Quagmires" (2007) revealed Lois was 18 in 1984. "And I'm Joyce Kinney" (2011) revealed she legally starred in a porno film in 1981.
* NestedStoryReveal: As it turns out, all the events of "Stewie Kills Lois"/"Lois Kills Stewie" was [[spoiler: just a simulation that Stewie was running to see what would happen if he succeeded in his plan to TakeOverTheWorld.]]
* NeverBareheaded: Meg and Chris are almost never seen hatless. Meg is especially notable: going hatless appears to be [[OurNudityIsDifferent akin to nudity for her]] (she quickly covers up when discovered brushing her hair, and a makeout fantasy has her inexplicably hatless).
* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe. Brian once dated a BrainlessBeauty and was conflicted about it, however everyone (including Quagmire, who also dates brainless beauties) accuses Brian of only dating women for their looks (even though Brian once dated Pearl, the elderly woman who used to be a jingle singer, only to exile herself from society after trying to launch a legitimate singing career and being shot down, from season 3's "Brian Wallows and Peter Swallows").
** Lois was in a porno but she learned to live with that and showed the video IN CHURCH.
--> '''Priest''': "I may be a man of God, but '''THAT SHIT IS HOT!!!'''"
* NeverTrustATrailer: Done a lot recently, especially with episodes featuring an A-Plot with Meg or Chris and a B-Plot with Brian and Stewie. The promotional image for "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven" was Stewie with the ST:TNG cast, as well as the summary. Six minutes into the episode, Peter announces that it's going to be a Meg Episode (although in the end it was more about Brian). The Star Trek cast got like one or two lines each. Another similar example is "Stew-Roids". All the promotional images and summary were about Stewie muscling up, and implied that the story involving Chris, Meg, and Connie was a minor subplot.
* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Mother Maggie.
* NightmarishFactory: "The Road to the North Pole" has Santa's workshop like this.
* NixonMask: Masks of RonaldReagan and JimmyCarter specifically, at two different points in the series.
* NoAccountingForTaste: Peter and Lois, which is quite frequently lampshaded in the show.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Several of them.
** "Patriot Games" has Stewie smashing a glass on a Brian's face, smacking Brian around, repeatedly punches Brian in the face, picking up a towel rack and repeatedly hitting Brian in the head with it, holding Brian's head into the toilet, then throwing Brian onto the floor saying the dog has until 5:00 to pay up. (Brian owed Stewie money because of a bet.)
*** He then shot him in both of his knees and lit him on fire.
** In "Road to Rupert" after Meg had enough of being humiliated by Peter and his friends, she stops the car she's driving them in and immediately gets rear-ended. When confronted by the hostile driver of the vehicle behind her, she proceeds to beat the living hell out of the guy.
** In "Dial Meg for Murder" Meg comes out of jail as a hardened psychopath and gets revenge on her abusive family and classmates. In it she beats the crap out of Peter twice and beats up the popular kids with a pillowcase full of unopened sodas.
** In "Quagmire's Dad", Quagmire administers a brutal beat-down to Brian after he finds out that [[ItMakesSenseInContext Brian had sex with his father.]]
** "Peter's Daughter"; "Hey Connie. Hi. I'm Peter Griffin, Meg's father. Say could you do me a favor? Ya see that fire extinguisher over there?..."
** "The Hand that Rocks the Wheelchair": every murder committed by Evil Stewie.
* NoIndoorVoice: [[IncrediblyLamePun Blac-u Weather]] Reporter Ollie Williams. Except when he's baked.
* NoSuchThingAsHR: The Pawtucket Brewery. The plot of one episode has Peter's boss Angela sexually harassing him; never once does Peter even consider taking it up with HR. (or even if the company ''has'' HR).
* NobodyOver50IsGay: Subverted with Herbert.
* NonSpecificallyForeign: The two long-haired blond guys first introduced in a cutaway about people whose English is just off enough that you can tell they aren't native speakers, but not bad enough to reveal where they're from.
* NoodleIncident: An event Peter refers to in "Don't Make Me Over".
-->'''Peter:''' ''(after seeing Meg made over, but not knowing it was her)'' Oh, my god, Lois, it was twenty years ago, I'd never even heard the word "rubber"...!
-->'''Lois:''' Peter, this is Meg.
-->'''Peter:''' ...Oh.
* NotQuiteDead: Meg, Ernie the Giant Chicken, Connie D'Amico, and the Evil Monkey have all been pretty much left for certain death and somehow survived it.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: The Evil Monkey in Chris' bedroom closet.
** Except now [[spoiler: he lives in Jake Tucker's bedroom.]]
* NotWearingPantsDream: Stewie, in "He's Too Sexy For His Fat":
--> '''Stewie''': Attention, world leaders: I have 137 nuclear warheads trained on every capital city around the globe. The world is now under my control! (camera zooms out) But oh no, I'm naked. (world leaders laugh)
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Brian squirting lotion on Stewie's sunburned body, from a certain angle, looks like he's ejaculating on Stewie, to which a passing-by [[ThreesCompany Mr. Furley]] says, "Nevermind, I'll come back later!"
** Played with when Peter gains an attraction to Lois' gained weight and is later found making love to the removed pile of fat from her liposuction.
-->'''Peter:''' Errr, (defeated) this is ''exactly'' what it looks like.
* NotableCommercialCampaigns: In 2011 American channel TBS bought the rights to air ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' and advertised it by showing a clip of Peter jumping into midair and getting frozen there. After he says "Call a Scientist!" we cut to a clip from ''Big Bang'' of Leonard answering the phone. Oddly enough, the footage of Peter came from an episode which only five minutes earlier had featured a ''Big Bang'' parody complete with [[InkSuitActor stars Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki]] voicing their characters.
* NothingPersonal: In true gangster fashion, Stewie is surprised that Brian is so offended about giving him [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown two brutal beatings]] over a late payment of gambling earnings in ''Patriot Games''.
-->'''Stewie:''' I got my money and your wounds are clearing up nicely, can't we just let bygones be bygones?
-->'''Brian:''' You shot me in both my knees, and set me on fire. Piss off.
* NunsAreFunny: "When You Wish Upon A Weinstien".
* NWordPrivileges: Referenced in a cutaway in an early episode involving Peter's ancestor [[Literature/AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn Huck Griffin]] who now referred to his raft partner as "N-word Jim".
** When Peter thinks the world was going to end, he mentions that he is going to go to the black section of town and say the N-word. He returns a short time later wearing a sash that says "King of the Black People," and says "They respected me for saying it."
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Peter's stepdad, as well as Lois' father.
* ObviousBeta: Seth's earliest work, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H1HYYKplBE Life With Larry]]", is quite clearly a very early version of Family Guy. Some of the jokes even carried over (see RecycledScript below).
* 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.
* ObviousObjectCouldBeAnything: Used on multiple occasions. The exact execution depends on who's doing the guessing.
* OfficerOHara: Subverted: the Irish cop on the police force is actually a guy who's good with impressions.
* OhCrap: Lois has a terrifying one when she realizes that [[spoiler:Diane Simmons]] is the killer at James Woods's mansion.
* OlderThanTheyLook: One one-off joke shows Quagmire is actually in his 60's, despite looking younger than that.
** What really makes this odd is when Quagmire's dad shows up, and ''he's'' the one who looks to be in his 60's, especially since he served in Vietnam.
* OncePerEpisode: One character says "What the Hell?" to another.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: [[spoiler: Stewie rescues Lois from being shot to death by Diane Simmons...because no one but ''him'' is allowed to kill Lois!]]
* OnlySaneMan: Lois and Brian exchanging the role, albeit more and more in a [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative comparison only state]] [[TookALevelInJerkass as their characters evolve]].
* OpeningNarration: "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci High" features a ''LawAndOrder'' parody that opens the episode.
--> '''Narrator''': In the television comedy world, the people are entertained by two separate yet equally important types of shows: Traditional sitcoms that get laughs out of everyday situations, like trying to fix your own plumbing or inviting two dates the same dance, and animated shows that make jokes about farting. This is the latter.
--> '''Peter''': Oh, sorry. I just farted.
* OpeningShoutOut: One episode has an opening that [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSGgl9jG9vo perfectly mirrors]] the [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk 1977 Incredible Hulk series's]] opening.
* OutOfFocus: Since the show returned, Lois, Meg, and Chris only get one (sometimes two) episodes per season focused on them, while the rest of the season being focused on Brian and Stewie, and to a lesser extent Peter.
--> '''Peter''': That's right...this week's episode is going to be a Meg episode. (Beat) It's ok, we understand...see you next week.
* {{Overcrank}}: Parodied, with most anything else, in "The Kiss Seen 'Round the World": Meg swoons over Tom Tucker, who is walking in slow motion. It's assumed that he's only walking in slow motion in her fantasies, but no, that's how slow he actually walks, and people around him walk normal speed.
* OverlyLongAirplaneBannerGag: Neil sends a message to Meg, declaring his love and asking if she'd seen his good pen.
* OverlyLongGag: A self-admitted favourite of series creator Seth [=MacFarlane=]. Opinion is constantly divided over whether such gags make the show better or worse.
* OverlyLongScream: Peter does it when the experimental drug that temporarily turned him gay wears off in the middle of a group sex session. Also his shriek of acclamation when the drug first kicks in and Lois asks if he has turned gay. Also when his doctor performs an intimate anal examination.
* OverlyPolitePals: "The Even Couple".
* OverusedRunningGag: In "Forget-Me-Not" Peter finds a jukebox playing "Surfin' Bird," and turns it off because he finds it annoying.
* PaletteSwap: Lois' sister, Carol, is practically a copy of Lois, the only difference being the clothing and the hair.
* ParanoiaGambit: Done successfully by Brian in "Patriot Games" when Stewie, as payback for the brutal beating he gave Brian over the money that Brian owed him, offers Brian a free revenge shot. Brian agrees on the terms that he can use it at any time and that Stewie won't know when he will be hit. Brian does not use it, and Stewie goes crazy to the point of harming himself to even the deal. At the end of the episode, Brian evens it out by pushing Stewie in front of a moving bus. Also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for Brian.
* ParentalIncest: Oddly enough, One of the few things NOT poked fun of. Couple of examples would be the "incest episode" Peter mentioned after the Untold Story movie, and Meg getting yelled at by the family for making an incest joke.
** Except for Peter who giggles afterwards.
** There's also the Redneck episode.
--> '''Peter''': Meg, I'm a redneck, which means I am about to do something to you that you will not remember until you're forty! *Meg screams and runs off* Meg, come back here! I meant sex!
** Meg's bachelorette party, where Peter was the stripper.
** When Chris proposes her to Peter to date in the same episode.
* PetTheDog: Both Stewie and Quagmire have certainly had moments where they have done this.
* PineappleSurprise: Used in the climactic battle in "Lois Kills Stewie", though she is able to remove the belt before the explosion.
* APirate400YearsTooLate: Peter goes from stealing a parrot as a pet from a veterinarian's office, to dressing as a stereotypical pirate, then hiring a pirate crew and finally going on the road and engaging a motorist in an epic swashbuckling fight, in the course of which Peter's car [[CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise acquires a mast and sails]].
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything / OneHourWorkWeek: In the earlier episodes, Lois had a job as an at-home piano teacher. References to this job gradually dropped over time, and she has since been portrayed as a housewife.
* PlanetOfHats: Played straight in "Road to the Multiverse". Each universe that Stewie and Brian travel to has it's own special attribute; there's the universe where humans and dogs switch places, and then there's the universe where there's just ''one guy'' who gives compliments from far away.
* PlayingPictionary: In "Lois Kills Stewie":
-->'''Peter''': Stewie, uh, how long you been all messed up and evil like this?\\
'''Stewie''': Oh, so now you're interested in Stewie. Last week when I made that macaroni picture of an owl, you didn't give a damn!\\
'''Peter''': That was an owl?
* PlotHole: A big one that is attributed to Brian being the AuthorAvatar. Brian is an Atheist despite meeting God AND Jesus on several occasions.
* PoliceLineup
* [[PoorMansPorn Poor Man's Porn]]: When Stewie finally succeeds in derailing Peter and Lois' plans to conceive a fourth child (about twenty seconds after he stops trying), Peter takes a lingerie catalogue into the bathroom.
* PositiveDiscrimination: Subverted in "Extra-Large Medium" where a girl with Down's Syndrome is portrayed as a total bitch.
** [[{{YMMV}} This is somewhat debatable however]] in that while she isn't portrayed in a positive light, it also doesn't portray her as being excessively stupid or other various stereotypes for people with this condition.
* PossessionImpliesMastery: "Peter, you can't speak Italian just because you have a mustache."
* PostModernism: By the truckload.
** The best example: During the FOX airing of "Big Man On Hippocampus", an AdultSwim {{Ad Bumper|s}} pops up before the commercial break to {{lampshade|Hanging}} the EasyAmnesia plot and [[http://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/2084 ask why you're watching the show on FOX]] since Adult Swim doesn't "cut out the funniest jokes". On the actual Adult Swim airing, the exact same ad bumper shows up... segueing into a FOX-style ad bumper reminding you that you're watching the show on "[[http://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/2069 FOX For People Who Watch FOX On Adult Swim]]".
* PowerIsSexy: This is why Cleveland would have sex with Margaret Thatcher, despite the incredulity of the other guys. "Oh, so no-one else here thinks power is sexy?"
* PrecisionFStrike: Peter tells America to go fuck itself in "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story".
** In "Peter's Two Dads", Brian says, "What the fuck?!" when he sees Peter on the couch, who just got done taking crack.
* PreviouslyOn: Parodied and subverted at the start of "Brian Does Hollywood". All of the clips shown never actually occurred in part one, "The Thin White Line", and instead are send-ups of typical crime and court drama tropes.
--> '''Stewie''': You want my badge number? Here! Here's my freakin' badge number!
* PrimalScene: Causing Stewie to go ScreamingAtSquick.
* PromBaby: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRj-S8Aklcw "Prom Night Dumpster Baby."]]
* PutOnABus: Cleveland, for his [[WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow own series]].
** Brian in "I Dream Of Jesus" gets a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkIS3G64ug0 pretty exaggerated one]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As of Season 8, it seems they are trying to shift Peter back to this.
** For "Baby, You Knock Me Out", he temporarily goes back to being a Jerkass for nearly 2/3 of the episode.
** Arguably Stewie, though still not without his evil tendencies, [[TookALevelInKindness has leaned into this in recent seasons]], [[FanOfUnderdog especially in his treatment of Brian]].
* JerkAss: Most of the cast and characters.
** Some more so than others.
* JitterCam: Used very noticeably each time an airplane was on a collision course in "Airport 'O7".
* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Parodied in "Saving Private Brian".
* JumpingOutOfACake: Peter accidentally kills a stripper while cutting the cake, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint but is concerned only that the cake has coconut frosting]].
* JustPlaneWrong: Japanese Zero's are not three seaters but RuleOfCool probably applies.
* KafkaKomedy: Happens frequently, especially with Brian who frequently finds himself on the receiving end of endless ComedicSociopathy due to [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin some minor or inadvertent offense]], [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond especially if it involves Quagmire]].
* KangarooPouchRide: Peter climbs into the pouch of a kangaroo, but the poor kangaroo can barely move.
* KarmaHoudini: Ironically, in "Barely Legal," the one time [[ButtMonkey Meg]] deserved punishment she didn't get it.
** Peter and Stewie get away with rather callous and sometimes outright murderous acts at times. Lois seems to be shifting towards this region too.
* KavorkaMan: Quagmire, and sometimes Peter.
* KickTheDog: Stewie quite literally does this to Brian in one episode when Brian owes him some money.
* KillThePoor: In "A Picture is Worth 1,000 Bucks", Peter remarks that NewYorkCity is a lot nicer ever since Rudy Giuliani secretly had the homeless killed.
* KilledOffForReal: Francis Griffin, Mr. Weed. [[spoiler: Murial Goldman, Derek (Jillian's husband), James Woods, Bertram, and Diane Simmons]] as of Season 9. Subverted in that [[spoiler:James Woods]] [[DeathIsCheap later came back]].
* KitschyLocalCommercial:
** Al Harrington of Wacky Waving Inflatable Flailing Arm Tube Men Emporium.
** When Peter becomes one of the New England Patriots, he does a local spot for a car dealership complete with monotone reading, eyes following cue-cards, forced football references, and crappy redundant jingle.
* KnightOfCerebus: [[BastardBoyfriend Jeff]] is an [[CompleteMonster unpleasant individual.]]
* KnockKnockJoke
* KnockoutGas: Peter gave his rival a statue of himself that sprayed "Crazy Purple Knockout Gas!"
* LampshadeHanging: Lots of it:
** In "Dog Gone," Peter and Lois get into a pronunciation argument, just like Brian and Stewie often do. Stewie asks "Are we really doing this?"
*** That seemed more like a WhosOnFirst joke to me.
** When Brian found his long lost son, Stewie asked what we were all thinking:
-->'''Stewie:''' How can you have a 13-year-old son when you're only 7?
-->'''Brian:''' Those are dog years.
-->'''Stewie:''' That doesn't make any sense.
-->'''Brian:''' You know what, Stewie? [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall If you don't like it, go on the Internet and complain.]]
** From "The Big Bang Theory", when Stewie is explaining how he and Brian have traveled outside of the space-time continuum. Doubles as MediumAwareness:
-->'''Stewie:''' Non-existence. No past, no present, no future. No universe. ''(a promo logo for WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow appears)'' But still, somehow, a large, brightly-colored promo for The Cleveland Show.
** In ''Back to the Pilot'' we get this bit:
-->'''Stewie:''' ''(flies in with a jetpack)'' Brian, are you alright?
-->'''Brian:''' Yeah, I'm fine. Where'd you get that?
-->'''Stewie:''' Well, the Stewie from the past has a lot more gadgets and things than I do, [[{{Flanderization}} I've kinda slacked off a little bit.]]
* TheLastHorseCrossesTheFinishLine- The TropeNamer. Several people have fallen victim to it over the years, namely every single adult male (save for Brian) on Spooner Street, and several of the adult women, including Lois, who provides this quote through a dream she has about accidentally stumbling upon Stewie's lair while cleaning, and Stewie killing her upon uttering that line and a rather scathing dialogue.
* LaughTrack: Parodied in a few episodes:
** "A Hero Sits Next Door": Brian delivers a one-liner and Peter begins to respond, but waits until the laugh track finishes.
** "Running Mates": An entire studio audience has moved in next door, and Peter gets irriated that they laugh at everything he does.
** "Viewer Mail No. 1": Stewie swiped a laugh box from the set of ''DharmaAndGreg''. [[TakeThat Brian is surprised there's anything left in it.]]
** "PTV": Stewie supplies his own exaggerated laughter (and applause) for the low budget sitcom "Cheeky Bastards".
** "Airport '07": Peter doesn't want to kick Quagmire out of their house, until Quagmire mentions that Stewie should never use a pacifier that he's holding again. Peter says to Lois,the "OK, so I'll talk to him tomorrow?", followed by a laugh track and a parody of the ''Series/WillAndGrace'' eyecatch.
** "Chick Cancer": A cutaway gag features "The Mayor of Comedy" pitching a Time-Life Music-type compilation called "Sitcom Punchlines of the '80s," with one of the volumes titled "Sounds of the '80s: Studio Audience," that volume being various canned studio and "laugh track" responses to stock jokes and cliches. (The albums were also a parody of various Time-Life Music series, one of which was "Sounds of the Eighties.")
* LeadIn: Almost every episode.
* LeftItIn: When Brian joins ''{{The Bachelor}}ette'', he makes some comments about Chevy Chase to the ConfessionCam and then asks if they can cut that part out...and then goes on to say even more things about Chevy.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn
** "That's classic travelin' music."
* LetsHaveAnotherBaby: After assisting his sister-in-law in giving birth, Peter first suggests stealing her baby, but then says this to Lois who agrees. That is, until they realize that they're too busy with Stewie to take care of another baby.
* LetsSeeYouDoBetter: In "Brian Griffin's House of Payne," at the premiere party of Brian's new sitcom, the cast of ''TwoAndAHalfMen'' are also at the party, much to Brian's surprise. When asked why they're here, CharlieSheen responds, "Well you're always ripping on our show, let's see yours."
* LimitedAnimation: Taken to extremes post-cancelation. Lampshaded like almost everything else at one point.
* LintValue: Implied when the family is stranded in another country without money -- they go to the black market to be smuggled back into America, where there's a sign already posted that they do not except lint or bits of string as payment.
* LittlestCancerPatient: Poor, poor Abbie, Quagmire's five-year-old niece. She makes an appearance in "Road to the North Pole", and Brian mistakes her for a boy because she lost her hair from chemo.
* LivingMotionDetector: Parodied in an episode where Peter and Lois encounter a prostitute like this.
* LockedInARoom: "Brian & Stewie", where the duo is stuck in a bank vault all night.
* LogicBomb: Peter does this to a robotic office suck-up that agrees with everything he says to try to make him stop:
-->'''Peter:''' ...And I hate myself.\\
'''Suck-up:''' I hate you, too. You make me sick, you fat sack of crap!\\
'''Peter:''' But I'm the president.\\
'''Suck-up:''' The best there is!\\
'''Peter:''' But you just said you ''hated'' me...\\
'''Suck-up:''' ''(malfunctioning)'' But--not you the president--that you who said you hated--you, you who love--hate... [[AC:'''''Yankees... Clouds...''''']] ''[[YourHeadAsplode (head explodes)]]''
** An employee said they'll have it fixed. Presumably with a built-in "[[{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} paradox-absorbing crumple zones]]".
* {{Lolicon}}: Peter in "Extra Large Medium" [[ItMakesSenseInContext says he needs to touch something that belongs to the buried guy with a bomb strapped to his chest so he can find him (he thinks he's psychic)]], and asks if the guy's 12-year-old daughter is just a kid, or the type of 12-year-old who drinks a lot of milk and had her breasts come in early. Then again, Peter was declared mentally retarded in one episode. He still needs a psychiatrist, though. One with a [[HyperspaceMallet sledgehammer]].
* LongList: most famously, after the series is brought back, Peter recites a long list of {{Fox}} programs that bombed while ''Family Guy'' was off the air, sarcastically calling them great shows. He then goes on to say that maybe ''Family Guy'' can come back on the air when they fail.
** A similiar gag was used again (Family Gay) with race horses named after cancelled Fox shows with the announcer telling their positions.
** Also on "Episode 420," Peter gets so high that, instead of setting up one of his flashback moments, he shows the viewers a list of celebrities he hates, including Stephen Dorff, Music/JustinTimberlake, Dane Cook, Chris O'Donnell, Creator/GeoffreyChaucer, Kathy Griffin, Andy Samberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Andrew [=McCarthy=], Rita Coolidge, David Arquette, Carlos Mencia, AmyWinehouse, every rapper, Ethan Hawke, Dax Sheppard, Toby Keith, Joe Francis, Princess Diana, [[{{Music/Coldplay}} Chris Martin]], Chris Martin again, Chris Martin's parents, Eve Plumb, Bonnie Franklin, Kate Bekinsale, Freddie Prinze Jr., Suri Cruise, The forehead guy from ''Series/TheOffice'', Garry Marshal, Paul Tsongas, and Chris Martin's ancestors.
** In "Ocean's Three and a Half" Brian recites a list of songs named after a girl, when Stewie challenges him to do so
** Quagmire's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Brian. Supporters call it a long overdue callout to Brian that outlines exactly why he's considered a CreatorsPet, while the detractors claim it's pure hypocrisy given that Quagmire...isn't exactly a pillar of morality himself (which he slightly acknowledges in it...).
* LongestPregnancyEver: Bonnie
* LoudOfWar: In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' spoof "Laugh It Up, Fuzzbal"', the torture scene from Empire is recreated with Han (Peter) being tormented by "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?"
* LyricalDissonance: "The life of the wife is ended by the knife!"
* MadeOfExplodium: The Amish buggy... and the Amish [[CrowningMomentOfFunny horse]], from "I Never Met the Dead Man".
* MadeOfIron: During their fights, Peter and Ernie the Giant Chicken suffer horrific injuries that should by all rights kill them, but Peter is never more than just breathless after the battle ends.
* TheMakeover: Meg in "Don't Make Me Over".
* MalignantPlotTumor: Stewie, in that episode where he was an octopus.
* MamaBear: Lois, then CharacterDerailment [[AbusiveParents kicks]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing in]]...
** Still a MamaBear when it comes to Stewie. Willing to fight a vicious dog to get his teddy bear back. Making the mother of the older bully kid who stole Stewie's Halloween candy give it back plus the bully's candy '''plus''' forty dollars! (At 100% interest, compounded daily; when the woman nervously tells Lois she doesn't have forty dollars, Lois tells her that she'll be back the next day for ''eighty'' dollars. God only knows what Lois will do to her if she doesn't eventually cough it up. She even scares ''Stewie'' with that.)
** Subverted at first and then ultimately fulfilled when she tries to save Joe from falling down a sewer waterfall.
--> '''Lois''': I can't hold on, Joe!
--> '''Joe''': Pretend I'm your child, Lois! (Lois starts to let go) Not Meg, not Meg! (Lois finds the strength to pull him to safety).
* ManOfAThousandVoices: Seth [=MacFarlane=], and to a lesser extent Mike Henry.
* MarshmallowDream: Played with. Peter wakes up to find a half-eaten sheep in his room trying to crawl to safety.
* MassHypnosis: Stewie tries to do this on ''KidsSayTheDarndestThings'', but gets hypnotized himself.
* [[AsianGalWithWhiteGuy Me Love You Long Time]]: Lampshaded when Trisha Takanawa, upon meeting David Bowie, blurts out "Me love to meet Ziggy Stardust! I take you home! I make you fish ball soup!"
** Wasn't she saying "Make love to me, Ziggy Stardust!"?
** An earlier episode (the one where Joe is introduced) had Peter saying, "Me love you long time" to a prospective Asian softball player (as that's the only thing "Asian" Peter knows how to say).
* MeaningfulName: Peter the Apostle of Literature/TheBible is an IdiotHero, though nowhere near as bad.
* MediumBlending: Seen in "Road to Rupert" during the Stewie/Gene Kelly dancing sequence, which combines live action and animation.
** Also seen in "Let's Go to the Hop" when Peter said that doing drugs caused things to get too real for him, and the show cutaways to a live action Peter on a park bench saying: "Holy crap, I am freaking out!"
** They use puppetry in "Foreign Affairs".
* MenCantKeepHouse: Appears in an episode where Lois went to jail. After being arrested the house pretty much goes to hell, with garbage all over the place, Stewie not getting a diaper change in god-knows-how long, and wild animals coming into the house.
* MidlifeCrisisCar: Peter gets one in "And the Wiener Is..."
* MisplacedAccent: Santos and Pasqual are supposedly Portuguese fishermen yet speak in heavily accented ''Brazilian'' Portuguese.
* MistakenForMasturbating: Chris was once really just using the bathroom, but his HolierThanThou grandfather assumed he was masturbating and railed against its sinfulness, scaring poor Chris away from what he was really doing for the rest of the episode. "God's watching me do Number Two? Aw man, I'm a sinner and God's a pervert!"
** In a pre-cancellation episode, after Chris is caught peeping in the girls' locker room, Peter approaches Chris' room, and there's a rapid knocking sound, which turns out to be Chris, playing with a ball-and-paddle. Peter gives Chris his porn collection, then leaves, and the sound continues, then Peter realizes he's holding the paddle
* MonkeysOnATypewriter: Peter references them in "The King Is Dead". In a twist, the monkeys are fully intelligent and speak exactly like regular humans.
* MoodWhiplash: Dr. Hartman's conversation with Peter [[spoiler: and Brian over a much needed kidney transplant. He tells Brian that because his kidneys are smaller, Peter would need both of his in order to keep living. He tells Brian that the procedure would kill him]]... Then he laughs as he notices a car being towed outside.
** In "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows", there's a big mood whiplash after Brian tearfully says goodbye to a dying Pearl. Immediately after, Dr. Hartman comes in and says, "Hey, anybody wanna see a dead body?"
* MotivationOnAStick: In "He's Too Sexy for His Fat", Peter gets Chris to run on a treadmill by sticking a plumber's helper to his forehead with a twinkie hanging from it.
* MrsClaus: Appears in a ShowWithinAShow helping {{Music/KISS}} in SavingChristmas.
* MuggingTheMonster: Stewie has been victimized a few odd times by JerkAss characters, thinking he's little more than a baby. Needless to say, [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence they almost]] [[GeneHuntInterrogationTechnique all end up]] [[DisproportionateRetribution completely out of their league]]. Except for Susie Swanson, who managed to kick his butt despite being younger than him.
* {{Multiboobage}}: Meg has 3...well, she has 3 nipples, according to the Count. Yes, that [[SesameStreet Count]]. They dated briefly.
* TheMultiverse: The season 8 premiere, aptly titled "Road to the Multiverse".
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Herbert's fight with [[spoiler: Mr. Gutentag in order to save Chris and Peter.]] The fight itself is extremely awkward, but the music was epic and [[spoiler: Gutentag's death was just a fall from a porch, but the camera angle and slo-mo '''really''' invoked this trope.]]
* MurderByMistake: [[spoiler: In the 9th season premiere, Diane's mechanism to murder James Woods accidentally kills Stephanie.]]
* MushroomSamba: Brian consumes psychedelic mushrooms in "Seahorse Seashell Party", and ends up having a series of horrifying visions.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: One episode's opening depicts the Griffin Family as members of the WesternAnimation/SuperFriends... and Meg.
* MyGirlIsASlut:
-->'''Peter:''' [triumphantly] My wife did Music/{{KISS}}!
-->'''Lois:''' And J. Geils.
-->'''Peter:''' What?
-->'''Lois:''' Nothing.
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Brian is an IntellectualAnimal, but his canine behavior still shows up.
** Stewie isn't an animal, but despite being more intelligent than anybody else on the cast, he still has many natural baby instincts, such as loving ''TheTeletubbies'' and going ballistic when he finds out they're going to [[DisneyThemeParks Disney World]].
* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe
* NativeAmericanCasino: The Griffins visit one in "The Son Also Draws".
* NegativeContinuity: In "Baby, You Knock Me Out". Throughout the episode, people are surprised that Lois can fight so well and that she can be so aggressive, including Lois herself. Lois even says something to the effect of how she's never felt so powerful. Apparently everybody (including Seth [=MacFarlane=] and the show writers) forgot about "Lethal Weapons", the episode in which she mastered Tae Jitsu and became ultra-aggressive and drunk on power as a result.
** In "The Fat Guy Stranger" (airdate- 2005) Lois revealed she was in her forties. "Meet The Quagmires" (2007) revealed Lois was 18 in 1984. "And I'm Joyce Kinney" (2011) revealed she legally starred in a porno film in 1981.
* NestedStoryReveal: As it turns out, all the events of "Stewie Kills Lois"/"Lois Kills Stewie" was [[spoiler: just a simulation that Stewie was running to see what would happen if he succeeded in his plan to TakeOverTheWorld.]]
* NeverBareheaded: Meg and Chris are almost never seen hatless. Meg is especially notable: going hatless appears to be [[OurNudityIsDifferent akin to nudity for her]] (she quickly covers up when discovered brushing her hair, and a makeout fantasy has her inexplicably hatless).
* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe. Brian once dated a BrainlessBeauty and was conflicted about it, however everyone (including Quagmire, who also dates brainless beauties) accuses Brian of only dating women for their looks (even though Brian once dated Pearl, the elderly woman who used to be a jingle singer, only to exile herself from society after trying to launch a legitimate singing career and being shot down, from season 3's "Brian Wallows and Peter Swallows").
** Lois was in a porno but she learned to live with that and showed the video IN CHURCH.
--> '''Priest''': "I may be a man of God, but '''THAT SHIT IS HOT!!!'''"
* NeverTrustATrailer: Done a lot recently, especially with episodes featuring an A-Plot with Meg or Chris and a B-Plot with Brian and Stewie. The promotional image for "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven" was Stewie with the ST:TNG cast, as well as the summary. Six minutes into the episode, Peter announces that it's going to be a Meg Episode (although in the end it was more about Brian). The Star Trek cast got like one or two lines each. Another similar example is "Stew-Roids". All the promotional images and summary were about Stewie muscling up, and implied that the story involving Chris, Meg, and Connie was a minor subplot.
* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Mother Maggie.
* NightmarishFactory: "The Road to the North Pole" has Santa's workshop like this.
* NixonMask: Masks of RonaldReagan and JimmyCarter specifically, at two different points in the series.
* NoAccountingForTaste: Peter and Lois, which is quite frequently lampshaded in the show.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Several of them.
** "Patriot Games" has Stewie smashing a glass on a Brian's face, smacking Brian around, repeatedly punches Brian in the face, picking up a towel rack and repeatedly hitting Brian in the head with it, holding Brian's head into the toilet, then throwing Brian onto the floor saying the dog has until 5:00 to pay up. (Brian owed Stewie money because of a bet.)
*** He then shot him in both of his knees and lit him on fire.
** In "Road to Rupert" after Meg had enough of being humiliated by Peter and his friends, she stops the car she's driving them in and immediately gets rear-ended. When confronted by the hostile driver of the vehicle behind her, she proceeds to beat the living hell out of the guy.
** In "Dial Meg for Murder" Meg comes out of jail as a hardened psychopath and gets revenge on her abusive family and classmates. In it she beats the crap out of Peter twice and beats up the popular kids with a pillowcase full of unopened sodas.
** In "Quagmire's Dad", Quagmire administers a brutal beat-down to Brian after he finds out that [[ItMakesSenseInContext Brian had sex with his father.]]
** "Peter's Daughter"; "Hey Connie. Hi. I'm Peter Griffin, Meg's father. Say could you do me a favor? Ya see that fire extinguisher over there?..."
** "The Hand that Rocks the Wheelchair": every murder committed by Evil Stewie.
* NoIndoorVoice: [[IncrediblyLamePun Blac-u Weather]] Reporter Ollie Williams. Except when he's baked.
* NoSuchThingAsHR: The Pawtucket Brewery. The plot of one episode has Peter's boss Angela sexually harassing him; never once does Peter even consider taking it up with HR. (or even if the company ''has'' HR).
* NobodyOver50IsGay: Subverted with Herbert.
* NonSpecificallyForeign: The two long-haired blond guys first introduced in a cutaway about people whose English is just off enough that you can tell they aren't native speakers, but not bad enough to reveal where they're from.
* NoodleIncident: An event Peter refers to in "Don't Make Me Over".
-->'''Peter:''' ''(after seeing Meg made over, but not knowing it was her)'' Oh, my god, Lois, it was twenty years ago, I'd never even heard the word "rubber"...!
-->'''Lois:''' Peter, this is Meg.
-->'''Peter:''' ...Oh.
* NotQuiteDead: Meg, Ernie the Giant Chicken, Connie D'Amico, and the Evil Monkey have all been pretty much left for certain death and somehow survived it.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: The Evil Monkey in Chris' bedroom closet.
** Except now [[spoiler: he lives in Jake Tucker's bedroom.]]
* NotWearingPantsDream: Stewie, in "He's Too Sexy For His Fat":
--> '''Stewie''': Attention, world leaders: I have 137 nuclear warheads trained on every capital city around the globe. The world is now under my control! (camera zooms out) But oh no, I'm naked. (world leaders laugh)
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Brian squirting lotion on Stewie's sunburned body, from a certain angle, looks like he's ejaculating on Stewie, to which a passing-by [[ThreesCompany Mr. Furley]] says, "Nevermind, I'll come back later!"
** Played with when Peter gains an attraction to Lois' gained weight and is later found making love to the removed pile of fat from her liposuction.
-->'''Peter:''' Errr, (defeated) this is ''exactly'' what it looks like.
* NotableCommercialCampaigns: In 2011 American channel TBS bought the rights to air ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' and advertised it by showing a clip of Peter jumping into midair and getting frozen there. After he says "Call a Scientist!" we cut to a clip from ''Big Bang'' of Leonard answering the phone. Oddly enough, the footage of Peter came from an episode which only five minutes earlier had featured a ''Big Bang'' parody complete with [[InkSuitActor stars Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki]] voicing their characters.
* NothingPersonal: In true gangster fashion, Stewie is surprised that Brian is so offended about giving him [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown two brutal beatings]] over a late payment of gambling earnings in ''Patriot Games''.
-->'''Stewie:''' I got my money and your wounds are clearing up nicely, can't we just let bygones be bygones?
-->'''Brian:''' You shot me in both my knees, and set me on fire. Piss off.
* NunsAreFunny: "When You Wish Upon A Weinstien".
* NWordPrivileges: Referenced in a cutaway in an early episode involving Peter's ancestor [[Literature/AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn Huck Griffin]] who now referred to his raft partner as "N-word Jim".
** When Peter thinks the world was going to end, he mentions that he is going to go to the black section of town and say the N-word. He returns a short time later wearing a sash that says "King of the Black People," and says "They respected me for saying it."
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Peter's stepdad, as well as Lois' father.
* ObviousBeta: Seth's earliest work, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H1HYYKplBE Life With Larry]]", is quite clearly a very early version of Family Guy. Some of the jokes even carried over (see RecycledScript below).
* 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.
* ObviousObjectCouldBeAnything: Used on multiple occasions. The exact execution depends on who's doing the guessing.
* OfficerOHara: Subverted: the Irish cop on the police force is actually a guy who's good with impressions.
* OhCrap: Lois has a terrifying one when she realizes that [[spoiler:Diane Simmons]] is the killer at James Woods's mansion.
* OlderThanTheyLook: One one-off joke shows Quagmire is actually in his 60's, despite looking younger than that.
** What really makes this odd is when Quagmire's dad shows up, and ''he's'' the one who looks to be in his 60's, especially since he served in Vietnam.
* OncePerEpisode: One character says "What the Hell?" to another.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: [[spoiler: Stewie rescues Lois from being shot to death by Diane Simmons...because no one but ''him'' is allowed to kill Lois!]]
* OnlySaneMan: Lois and Brian exchanging the role, albeit more and more in a [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative comparison only state]] [[TookALevelInJerkass as their characters evolve]].
* OpeningNarration: "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci High" features a ''LawAndOrder'' parody that opens the episode.
--> '''Narrator''': In the television comedy world, the people are entertained by two separate yet equally important types of shows: Traditional sitcoms that get laughs out of everyday situations, like trying to fix your own plumbing or inviting two dates the same dance, and animated shows that make jokes about farting. This is the latter.
--> '''Peter''': Oh, sorry. I just farted.
* OpeningShoutOut: One episode has an opening that [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSGgl9jG9vo perfectly mirrors]] the [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk 1977 Incredible Hulk series's]] opening.
* OutOfFocus: Since the show returned, Lois, Meg, and Chris only get one (sometimes two) episodes per season focused on them, while the rest of the season being focused on Brian and Stewie, and to a lesser extent Peter.
--> '''Peter''': That's right...this week's episode is going to be a Meg episode. (Beat) It's ok, we understand...see you next week.
* {{Overcrank}}: Parodied, with most anything else, in "The Kiss Seen 'Round the World": Meg swoons over Tom Tucker, who is walking in slow motion. It's assumed that he's only walking in slow motion in her fantasies, but no, that's how slow he actually walks, and people around him walk normal speed.
* OverlyLongAirplaneBannerGag: Neil sends a message to Meg, declaring his love and asking if she'd seen his good pen.
* OverlyLongGag: A self-admitted favourite of series creator Seth [=MacFarlane=]. Opinion is constantly divided over whether such gags make the show better or worse.
* OverlyLongScream: Peter does it when the experimental drug that temporarily turned him gay wears off in the middle of a group sex session. Also his shriek of acclamation when the drug first kicks in and Lois asks if he has turned gay. Also when his doctor performs an intimate anal examination.
* OverlyPolitePals: "The Even Couple".
* OverusedRunningGag: In "Forget-Me-Not" Peter finds a jukebox playing "Surfin' Bird," and turns it off because he finds it annoying.
* PaletteSwap: Lois' sister, Carol, is practically a copy of Lois, the only difference being the clothing and the hair.
* ParanoiaGambit: Done successfully by Brian in "Patriot Games" when Stewie, as payback for the brutal beating he gave Brian over the money that Brian owed him, offers Brian a free revenge shot. Brian agrees on the terms that he can use it at any time and that Stewie won't know when he will be hit. Brian does not use it, and Stewie goes crazy to the point of harming himself to even the deal. At the end of the episode, Brian evens it out by pushing Stewie in front of a moving bus. Also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for Brian.
* ParentalIncest: Oddly enough, One of the few things NOT poked fun of. Couple of examples would be the "incest episode" Peter mentioned after the Untold Story movie, and Meg getting yelled at by the family for making an incest joke.
** Except for Peter who giggles afterwards.
** There's also the Redneck episode.
--> '''Peter''': Meg, I'm a redneck, which means I am about to do something to you that you will not remember until you're forty! *Meg screams and runs off* Meg, come back here! I meant sex!
** Meg's bachelorette party, where Peter was the stripper.
** When Chris proposes her to Peter to date in the same episode.
* PetTheDog: Both Stewie and Quagmire have certainly had moments where they have done this.
* PineappleSurprise: Used in the climactic battle in "Lois Kills Stewie", though she is able to remove the belt before the explosion.
* APirate400YearsTooLate: Peter goes from stealing a parrot as a pet from a veterinarian's office, to dressing as a stereotypical pirate, then hiring a pirate crew and finally going on the road and engaging a motorist in an epic swashbuckling fight, in the course of which Peter's car [[CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise acquires a mast and sails]].
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything / OneHourWorkWeek: In the earlier episodes, Lois had a job as an at-home piano teacher. References to this job gradually dropped over time, and she has since been portrayed as a housewife.
* PlanetOfHats: Played straight in "Road to the Multiverse". Each universe that Stewie and Brian travel to has it's own special attribute; there's the universe where humans and dogs switch places, and then there's the universe where there's just ''one guy'' who gives compliments from far away.
* PlayingPictionary: In "Lois Kills Stewie":
-->'''Peter''': Stewie, uh, how long you been all messed up and evil like this?\\
'''Stewie''': Oh, so now you're interested in Stewie. Last week when I made that macaroni picture of an owl, you didn't give a damn!\\
'''Peter''': That was an owl?
* PlotHole: A big one that is attributed to Brian being the AuthorAvatar. Brian is an Atheist despite meeting God AND Jesus on several occasions.
* PoliceLineup
* [[PoorMansPorn Poor Man's Porn]]: When Stewie finally succeeds in derailing Peter and Lois' plans to conceive a fourth child (about twenty seconds after he stops trying), Peter takes a lingerie catalogue into the bathroom.
* PositiveDiscrimination: Subverted in "Extra-Large Medium" where a girl with Down's Syndrome is portrayed as a total bitch.
** [[{{YMMV}} This is somewhat debatable however]] in that while she isn't portrayed in a positive light, it also doesn't portray her as being excessively stupid or other various stereotypes for people with this condition.
* PossessionImpliesMastery: "Peter, you can't speak Italian just because you have a mustache."
* PostModernism: By the truckload.
** The best example: During the FOX airing of "Big Man On Hippocampus", an AdultSwim {{Ad Bumper|s}} pops up before the commercial break to {{lampshade|Hanging}} the EasyAmnesia plot and [[http://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/2084 ask why you're watching the show on FOX]] since Adult Swim doesn't "cut out the funniest jokes". On the actual Adult Swim airing, the exact same ad bumper shows up... segueing into a FOX-style ad bumper reminding you that you're watching the show on "[[http://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/2069 FOX For People Who Watch FOX On Adult Swim]]".
* PowerIsSexy: This is why Cleveland would have sex with Margaret Thatcher, despite the incredulity of the other guys. "Oh, so no-one else here thinks power is sexy?"
* PrecisionFStrike: Peter tells America to go fuck itself in "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story".
** In "Peter's Two Dads", Brian says, "What the fuck?!" when he sees Peter on the couch, who just got done taking crack.
* PreviouslyOn: Parodied and subverted at the start of "Brian Does Hollywood". All of the clips shown never actually occurred in part one, "The Thin White Line", and instead are send-ups of typical crime and court drama tropes.
--> '''Stewie''': You want my badge number? Here! Here's my freakin' badge number!
* PrimalScene: Causing Stewie to go ScreamingAtSquick.
* PromBaby: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRj-S8Aklcw "Prom Night Dumpster Baby."]]
* PutOnABus: Cleveland, for his [[WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow own series]].
