History FamilyGuy / TropesJToP

* LockedInARoom: "Brian & Stewie", the duo is stuck in a bank vault all night.

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* LampshadeHanging: Lots of it:

** When Brian found his long lost son, Stewie asked what we were all thinking:

** In "Back to the Pilot" we get this bit:

** Lois gets pissy about the fact that some families tend to eat Thanksgiving dinner as soon as it's done being prepared, even if it's in the middle of the afternoon.

* LargeHam: Nearly everyone on the show. Joe and Quagmire for starters.
* 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 ''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 is caught making out with other girls and then dumps Connie. Connie then becomes unpopular and when Connie tries to get help from Meg, [[BewareTheNiceOnes Meg]] coldly tells her 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.]]
** 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.

* LeadIn: Almost every episode.

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: "That's classic travelin' music."
* LethallyStupid: Peter Griffin. Just try to make a kill count. Many characters in the cutaway gags are this.

* 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.
* LimitedAnimation: Taken to extremes post-cancellation. Lampshaded like almost everything else at one point.

* 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.

** 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, Creator/DaneCook, Creator/ChrisODonnell, Creator/GeoffreyChaucer, Creator/KathyGriffin, Andy Samberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Andrew [=McCarthy=], Rita Coolidge, Creator/DavidArquette, Carlos Mencia, Music/AmyWinehouse, every rapper, Creator/EthanHawke, Dax Sheppard, Music/TobyKeith, Joe Francis, Princess Diana, [[{{Music/Coldplay}} Chris Martin]], Chris Martin again, Chris Martin's parents, Eve Plumb, Bonnie Franklin, Kate Bekinsale, Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr, Suri Cruise, The forehead guy from ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'', Garry Marshal, Paul Tsongas, and Chris Martin's ancestors.
** In "Ocean's Three and a Half" Stewie writes a song for Susie named after her. Brian sarcastically comments that's the first time a song has been named after a girl. Stewie asks him to mention 20. Then 6 more. Then 5 more. Brian is able to do so every time, to which Stewie storms off while telling him to go fuck himself.
** 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 does slightly acknowledge in it).

* LyricalDissonance: "The life of the wife is ended by the knife!"

* 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]].

** Ironically, in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E8BarelyLegal Barely Legal]]," the one time [[ButtMonkey Meg]] actually 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.
** Quagmire raped an underaged girl and eventually got off "scott free"
*** Got off, Giggiddy.
** Joe has murdered three men that he has erroneously believed committed crimes.
** Connie, who has tormented Meg for many years, was last seen pelting her with dodgeballs with the rest of her gym class. Despite her earlier punishments, especially from Brian (in "Barely Legal") and Stewie (in "[=McStroke=]"), she hasn't learned from her mistakes.
** The girl who Quagmire is charged with statutory rape for sleeping with lies about her age; nobody ever brings this up and she's never punished.

** The mysterious driver in "Life of Brian." It was not known who was driving the car, as this person left the scene.

** Quagmire, and sometimes Peter.

** Chris too, despite being a younger version of his father.

* KickTheDog: Pretty much ''everyone'' does this to [[TheChewToy Meg]].
* KidsAreCruel: Poor, poor Meg....

* 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]].
** [[spoiler: Lois was seemingly this in "Stewie Kills Lois", but turned out to have survived. More recently, Brian actually was for three episodes, [[DeathIsCheap but was rescued by Stewie from getting killed in "Christmas Guy" a couple episodes later, stopping his death from ever actually happening.]]]]
* 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.
* TheKlan: The KKK is often mocked.

* KnightOfCerebus:
** [[BastardBoyfriend Jeff]] is an unpleasant individual.
** Sonja, Quagmire's ex-girlfriend from the season 12 episode "Quagmire's Quagmire" was also one of these. She humiliates Quagmire in public, beats him over the head and puts him in the trunk of his car, fully intending on making him into her sex slave.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Quagmire, due to the treatment his sister suffers from the aforementioned Jeff.

* 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 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkIS3G64ug0 pretty exaggerated one]].
** Quagmire in "And I'm Joyce Kinney" when he sees Lois' porn video.

** Peter actually started out in this territory. Despite always being selfish to a certain extent, he would often learn from his mistakes at the end of each episode. After the show was brought back, though, he was turned into more of an outright sociopath.
** Stewie, though still not without his evil tendencies, [[TookALevelInKindness has leaned into this in recent seasons]], [[FanOfUnderdog especially in his treatment of Brian]].

* {{Jerkass}}: Everyone, although some characters shift into Jerkass territory more than others.
** JerkassBall: Every character has moments being one based on RuleOfFunny 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.

* JitterCam: Used very noticeably each time an airplane was on a collision course in "Airport '07".
* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Parodied in "Saving Private Brian".
* JoinsToFitIn: Peter's reason for founding the NAAFP.

** Chris becomes a bully after Connie makes him popular in the episode [[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E13StewRoids “Stew-Roids”]]

** Lois was an AlphaBitch in high school, pulling a [[Literature/Carrie Chris Hargensen]]-level prank on an unlucky fat girl. Inverted in that she still carries some of her AlphaBitch behaviors with her into adulthood.

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

* LighterAndSofter: Relatively speaking, the show starting with season 18 is this compared to many of the seasons before, due to being less reliant on shock value and {{Gorn}}, and leaning more heavily into absurdism and LampshadeHanging with it's humor. The characters, while still flanderized, don't engage in as much extreme JerkAss behavior, and even Quagmire's sex offender antics are downplayed to the point of non-existance (which, according to the show, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot is due to the #MeToo movement]]). It's still not as light as earlier seasons but still lighter than it's been for the past few years.

* LighterAndSofter: Relatively speaking, season 19 is this compared to many of the seasons before, due to being less reliant on shock value and {{Gorn}}, and leaning more heavily into absurdism and LampshadeHanging with it's humor. The characters, while still flanderized, don't engage in as much extreme JerkAss behavior, and even Quagmire's sex offender antics are downplayed to the point of non-existance (which, according to the show, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot is due to the #MeToo movement]]). It's still not as light as earlier seasons but still lighter than it's been for the past few years.

* PinkIsErotic: Lois is the family matriarch and is shown to have a [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex healthy sex life]]. She wears a pink nightie and wears pink boots in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS11E6LoisComesOutOfHerShell Lois Comes Out Of Her Shell]]." Lois also wears a pink outfit with pink lipstick while making a plaster body-part cast of [[Music/DarylHallAndJohnOates Daryl Hall]]'s penis.

* PinkIsErotic: Lois is the family matriarch and is shown to have a [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex healthy sex life]]. She wears a pink nightie and wears pink boots in [[Recap/FamilyGuyS11E6LoisComesOutOfHerShell Lois Comes Out Of Her Shell]]. Lois also wears a pink outfit with pink lipstick while making a plaster body-part cast of [[Music/DarylHallAndJohnOates Daryl Hall]]'s penis.

* TheMakeover: Meg in "Don't Make Me Over".
* MalignantPlotTumor: Stewie, in that episode where he was an octopus.

* ManChild: Peter. Where to begin?
* ManOfAThousandVoices: Creator/SethMacFarlane, and to a lesser extent Mike Henry.

* LimitedAnimation: Taken to extremes post-cancelation. Lampshaded like almost everything else at one point.

* OpeningShoutOut: One episode has an opening that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSGgl9jG9vo perfectly mirrors]] the [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk 1977 Incredible Hulk series's]] opening.

* [[invoked]]NeverLiveItDown:
** 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 Rita, an elderly woman).
** 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!!!'''"

* NobodyOver50IsGay: Subverted with Herbert.