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''Family Guy Fanon'' is a fan wiki based on the 1999 AnimatedSitcom ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', which needs no introduction, founded on December 10, 2008 by user Dancing Penguin, and currently ran by Boyariffic and Tropers/TheSuperBlackwing1. Compared to TheWikiRule, where it's faithful to the show and takes anything that's said or done as fact, ''Family Guy Fanon'' stands out by adding multiple changes to the show's foundation that makes it stand out from the original. Changes in characters, episodes, timeline in general. Basically, think of the site as "Family Guy Rewritten".

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''Family Guy Fanon'' is a fan wiki based on the 1999 AnimatedSitcom ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', which needs no introduction, founded on December 10, 2008 by user Dancing Penguin, and currently ran by Boyariffic and Tropers/TheSuperBlackwing (the one who's also working on this page as a way to expand the knowledge of the wiki). Compared to TheWikiRule, where it's faithful to the show and takes anything that's said or done as fact, Family Guy Fanon stands out by adding multiple changes to the show's foundation that makes it stand out from the original. Changes in characters, episodes, timeline in general. Basically, think of the site as "Family Guy Rewritten"

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* RaisedByGrandparents: Subverted for Anthony Fargus. While his mother Eliza and step-dad Randall Fargus are old enough to be his grandparents, they're actually his parents. Lampshaded in "A Cheater Runs Through It"
-->'''Peter''': Wha-What? But they're old enough to be your grandparents. How are they you're parents?
-->'''Anthony''': [[HandWave Honestly, I don't know and I don't think I wanna know]].
* RapidAging: A cutaway from "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High" reveals that when Peter and Randall Fargus did a Science Expo one year, the two brought a Time Clock (a machine Fargus made to control age) to it. Needless to say, it resulted in a crowd of old people walking out complaining and Peter and Fargus, who are now grotesquely old, walk out holding canes and trembling. With the obvious implications of how it went.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation:
** Kira, an underage girl Quagmire had sex with in "Quagmire's Mom" is made to be Kimi's younger sister... by three years.
** Anthony, a boy Meg dated in "Go, Stewie, Go!", is now made to be the son of Eliza Fulton, as well as Randall Fargus when he marries Eliza.
* RelationshipUpgrade:
** Randall Fargus gets one. With him bumping into an old lady named Eliza in "Good Ol' Fargy Love" and deciding to go steady with her. With them getting married and becoming a couple a season later in "A Cheater Runs Through It" and becoming the adoptive father of her son Anthony
** Quagmire and Kimi get one too. With them realizing that their relationship was a lot more than just a way to go on vacation and that they had legitimate feelings for each other. Which led to them getting married in "Kimi Stupid Love" and staying that way until "The Quagmire Show"
* ReplacedWithReplica: The sub-plot in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_Gets_Served Peter Gets Served]]" has Chris be commissioned to paint a mural for the Quahog Art Museum, but when he goes to see the finished product with Brian and Stewie, they find that someone has stolen Chris's artwork and replaced it with a near identical version, signed by another artist called: "Ant Mont". This leads to a {{Whodunnit}} mystery to find out who's copying Chris. It actually turns out to be [[spoiler: Antonio Monatti, the twist villain from "A Picture's Worth $1000"]].
* RetCanon: Peter's sister [[spoiler:Karen]], who never was mentioned or appeared before "Peter's Sister", actually has some foreshadowing, with Francis mentioning her multiple times and even trying to call her before being tackled by Peter.
* RiseOfZitboy: "Peter's in Charge" has Chris hit puberty and has multiple pimples on his face.
* RuleOfThree:
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Dammit_Janet! Dammit Janet!]]" does one for Meg. First, Chris throws a rock through Meg's window, damaging her room and fish bowl. Then he throws another rock through Meg's other window, smacking her in the face and breaking her glasses. Finally, when Meg comes out of the house to complain about the rocks being thrown at her, the Christmas decorations drop down and crush her.
* RunningGag: While the fanfic has carried all of the show already existing running gags. It adds a few
** Chris breaking through the ceiling of a room, and drops into the scene. Chris makes some kind of random non-sequitur to the people in the scene, which often receives a piece of negative backlash from one of the characters.
** Peter getting hit in the crotch with a bag of nickels, which happens once or twice a season[[labelnote:note]]This gag was actually turning a bit from "Inside Family Guy", where edited scenes from moments in the series feature Peter getting hit in the testicles with bags of nickles, despite no episode prior actually showing this, true now.[[/labelnote]]
* SanityBall: Peter holds this anytime he's around Francis and Thelma.
* SchoolPlay: "A Play on Turds" has Meg and Chris' high school do the play ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. And Chris gets the role of Romeo in the school play just so he can kiss Anna.
* ScreamingAtSquick: Peter, Francis and Randall Fargus do this in "Long John Peter" when Seamus pulled down his pants to reveal his penis was also a missing limb, replaced with a peg.
-->'''Peter''': Ahh!
-->'''Francis''': Oh God!
-->'''Fargus''': Gross!
-->'''Chris''': [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLiketheOthers Haha! You had a big wiener!]]
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: InUniverse and instead a newspaper example. The new sideplot of "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Story_On_Page_One The Story On Page One]]" has Chris become a cartoonist for his middle school's newspaper. But has his strips get censored or completely rewritten.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: A more husband and wife example. Thelma now plays the Sensitive to Francis’ Manly.
* SequelEpisode:
** Season 15's "Long John Peter II: Shelly's Return", as it say in the title, is a sequel to Season 5's "Long John Peter". With Shelly returning after his supposed death for revenge against Peter and challenges him to a swordfight for the fate of Quahog.
** Subverted with Season 16's "Life of Brian 2: Revival Reversal", which is a InNameOnly sequel. Compared to "Life of Brian" where Brian was hit by a car and was replaced by Vinny, "Revival Reversal" has Brian be DrivenToSuicide and Stewie goes out of his way to save him.
* ShootTheMoney: InUniverse, but in a more wasted use. "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/You_Can%27t_Handle_the_Booth! You Can't Handle the Booth]]" has an added scene were [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender]], who is revealed to have costed '''''four thousand dollars''''' in the commentary, appears for a mere ''two-second cameo''.
* ShowWithinAShow: One of the recurring elements, [[AscendedFanon which was actually a fan theory started by]] [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ToonrificTariq ToonrificTariq]] is that Family Guy is now a show about a bunch of actors (in this case our characters) putting on a show every week.
* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** Compared to the show where he dies in his debut episode, "Running Mates", Fargus is alive due to the rewritten ending of the episode and has many adventures for seasons to come. [[spoiler: This becomes [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] as he dies in Season 7's [[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/How_Farg_is_Heaven%3F How Farg is Heaven?]], but it's more from having cancer rather than being killed like his real counterpart]].
** Same story for Peter's parrot Adrianne Beaky. Who stays alive due to the rewritten ending of "Long John Peter", but dies in Season 15's "Long John Peter II: Shelly's Return"
* StatusQuoIsGod: The fanfic subverts this quite often: Quagmire has an actual wife named Kimi for seven seasons and has long staying CharacterDevelopment, Chris and Meg are given long-staying love interests and [[spoiler:Meg's real father Stan Thompson stays as long staying member]].
* StoryArc:
** '''Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story''': A three-part story arc in Season 4 concerning Stewie trying to find his real father (the only story arc originally from Family Guy to not be tampered).
** '''Brian's Death''': A full season story arc in Season 11 that concerning Brian dying and the Griffins getting a new dog to replace him, with Stewie having to accept the fact Brian's gone.
** '''Brian Moves Out''': A story arc in Season 16 that lasts the first half of the season concerning Brian moving out of the house after he makes a bad tweet.
** '''Griffin vs. Thompson''': A three-part story arc in Season 21 that concerning [[spoiler: Meg's real father Stan Thompson returning and kicking Peter out of his house, and him needing to get his family back]] (the first original story arc).
* SkewedPriorities:
** In one of the edited scenes in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Griffin_Winter_Games Griffin Winter Games]]", a flashback to "Life of Brian" has Meg be more concerned about Brian not being able to see her at skiing practice that day. [[EveryoneHasStandards The family give her a disgusted look in response]].
-->'''[[ItsAllAboutMe Meg]]''': ... Well, he won't ...
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_of_Former_Sports_Glory Tales of Former Sports Glory]]" has Stewie be mad at the fact that he found a gallon of empty bleach in the cupboards rather than the fact that Meg drunk the gallon and is dead on the kitchen floor. [[NegativeContinuity Not that it matters]]...
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* TakeAThirdOption: "The Guyfathers" has Thelma give Peter and Francis an ultimatum of that either Big Fat Paulie leaves, or the family leaves. The duo responds to this by instead ditching the family to go drinking.
-->'''Thelma''': Peter, Francis, this is serious! Ethier he leaves or ''we'' leave! What's it gonna be?!
-->'''Francis''': Yeah, can we take option C?
-->'''Lois''': Francis, there's no Option C in this.
-->'''Peter''': Oh?
-->''[Smash cuts to the fathers leaving out with Paulie to go drinking]''
-->'''Peter''': Well, our option C is to go drinking with Paulie! We don't need you guys bringing in negative energy to our group!
* TakeThat:
** "Disney's the Reboot" does a take that to Fox's Animation Domination's fourth slot constantly circulating shows that got cancelled one or two seasons in
-->'''Peter''': You can't cancel me! We're one of the only three ongoing shows keeping FOX's animation block standing.
-->'''Von Jiner''': Uh, four ongoing shows. I assume you're leaving out out newest addition, ''WesternAnimation/BlessTheHarts''.
-->'''Peter''': ''[[BrutalHonesty Bless the Harts]]'' [[BrutalHonesty isn't gunna make it]].
-->'''Von Jiner''': Yes, it's true Animation Domination's "fourth slot" has constantly been circulating tons of shows that have been getting cancelled after one or two seasons, WesternAnimation/AllenGregory, WesternAnimation/HighSchoolUSA, WesternAnimation/AxeCop, WesternAnimation/GolanTheInsatiable, Series/SonOfZorn, {{WesternAnimation/Bordertown}}, some deserved it more than others, but I promise you, [[TemptingFate Bless the Harts is gunna be the golden ticket]].
-->'''Chris''': [offscreen] [[InstantlyProvenWrong Hey, guys. FOX just announced that Season 1 of Bless the Harts is gunna be the last]].
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_%26_Lois%27_Wedding Peter & Lois' Wedding]]" includes a scene where Lois complains about "having to do Loretta's voice again" due to Loretta Brown appearing in the flashback, being a reference to how Lois' voice actor, Creator/AlexBorstein was also Loretta's voice actor as well as a jab at how Borstein has been known to make behind-the-scenes complaints about having to voice her, deeming her deep and gruff voice as too "strenuous", hence the character's resignation from the show.
* TheFatEpisode: "A Star is Born, Kind Of"'s B-plot involves Francis becomes as obese as Peter after accidentally falling into a vat of lard. Peter helps Francis discover the joys in being overweight, which sells Francis accepting his new body more as they bond over their shared love of food. However, the two eat so much and gain so much weight that [[HelpImStuck they get stuck in a booth at one of the restaurants they stop at]] and need to be hoisted out by a cranes. This, alongside the cranes breaking from their weight and getting injured, gets them to call it off and get some liposuction, restoring both to their original size.
* TheBusCameBack:
** After last being seen in Season 1's "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/A_Picture%27s_Worth_$1000 A Picture's Worth $1000]]", [[spoiler:Antonio Monatti returns in "Peter Gets Served" as the art thief who copied Chris' work]].
** While Anna disappears at first like the original, she did reappear in Season 11's "A Play on Turds". Afterwards she would get split reappearances until Season 20, when she return as a recurring character and becomes Chris' permanent girlfriend.
** Peter's fishing boss Hennessey O'Callaghan, who previously last seen in Season 4's "Flights of Disaster", returns as one of Carol's polyamorous husbands in "Another Widow Opens". He gains a bigger role in Season 22, when Peter returns to his fisherman job.
* TheOtherDarrin: InUniverse. In Season 20, multiple characters get played by new voice actors of the minority characters:
** Arif Zahir replaces Mike Henry as Cleveland Brown and Rallo Tubbs to give them a black voice actor (the only voice actor change that happens in the original).
** Sonia Manzano replaces as Consuela De La Morrela to give her a Hispanic voice actor.
** Joan Chen as Tricia Takanawa to give her an Asian voice actor.
** John Roberts replace Mike Henry as Bruce and Jeffrey to give them an LGBT voice actor
** Richard Chamberlain replaces Mike Henry as Herbert the Pervert to give him an LGBT voice actor.
** Jamie Clayton as Ida Davis to give her a transgender voice actor.
** Aasif Mandvi as Yousief, Fouad, and Jesus Christ to give them a Muslim voice actor.
** Zahn [=McClarnon=] replaces Bill Fagerbakke as Change for a Buck to give him a Native American voice actor.
** Aubrey Plaza as Juanita to give her a Latina voice
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Even in this fanfic, there are still those moments from Family Guy.
** In "Between Sanity and Madness", after holding it together throughout Francis and Thelma's nonsense, with it finally breaking with the two trying to drown him and Lois, Peter finally snaps and loses it.
-->'''Francis''': What the hell has gotten into you?
-->'''Peter''': '''''SHUT UP!''''' Meg, Chris, take Stewie upstairs and go to your rooms! ''[to Francis and Thelma]'' '''YOU TWO! I WANT TO HAVE A WORD WITH YOU!''' I've dealt with you for forty-three years, and not once did I lose it on you. But now, I lost all of my patience on you! Not only have you proven your horrible parents ''and'' grandparents, but I've finally seen what you truly are.
-->'''Francis''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Aw, look Thelma. He finally saw me as a righteous Man of God and have come for my forgiveness.]]
-->'''Peter''': No! You're not that way at all! You're the most dishonest, disrespectful, selfish, self-absorbed, ungrateful pricks that I've ever had to experience! I don't even think we've '''ever''' had a moment where I can, truly think of you as my father. You don't deserve forgiveness for what you've done to me and my family. As far as I can tell, '''[[WhamLine YOU TWO]]''' [[WhamLine the sinners, Francis!]]
-->''[Lois and Thelma gasped in shock at what Peter called Francis]''
-->'''Francis''': You-did you call me "Francis"? You-! You-!
-->'''Peter''': Yeah, I did! Because I'm pissed off at you two and done trying to be nice! I would have done this sooner, but I still had the ''smallest'' hope that you would change and treat me and my family with a little bit of respect if we treated you two nicely. But clearly, I was wrong. I was wrong to care about you two. I was wrong to bail you out of jail, Francis. I was wrong to accept in my home twice. And now, I was wrong to even put you two in a retirement home. Because you don't deserve it!
-->'''Thelma''': Petey, wha... what are you saying?
-->'''Peter''': I'm saying, ''Thelma, ''you two being part of my family and my parents is '''over'''! You two can forget the damn retirement home, because I'm doing what I should have done, kicking you two out of the house to sleep in filth! '''Where you two belong.'''
-->'''Francis''': You ungrateful bastard! Raised you for all our lives and ''that's'' how you treat us?! Throw us out like trash? [[CurseCutShort You no good piece of-!]]
-->''[Peter grabs Francis by his vest]''
-->'''Peter''': Listen you cantankerous horrible excuse for a father! I've accepted you into my house twice, dealt with your shenanigans, got fired from my job thanks to you, beaten up by you - ''again'' - for taking a fall for my dog, embarrassed in front of my friends, my co-workers ''and'' boss, keep up all night, assaulted in my bed, and nearly '''''DROWNED TO DEATH''''', and I ''still'' gave you chances! And even you still screwed it up! Like you ''always'' do!
-->'''Thelma''': Petey, we didn't mean to...
-->'''Peter''': Shut up!
-->'''Francis''': P-P-Peter, we...
-->'''Peter''': ''[coldly]'' Shut up. Stop trying to save your asses. It's over. If you have any respect for me left, you would leave. And [[PunctuatedForEmphasis never. come. back.]]
** Lois' RageBreakingPoint speech in "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" is expanded to be one
-->'''Lois''': You all think Christmas just ''happens''? You think all this goodwill just falls from the freakin' sky? Well, '''''it doesn't!''''' It falls out of my holly jolly ass! Every year, I run marathons to ensure that Christmas happens without a hitch! Making sure everything's perfect and keeping everyone from getting at each other's throats so you all can have a good Christmas! And the ''one'' time I ask you all for the tiniest help to take the weight of the holidays off my back, '''YOU ALL CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT!!''' So, you can cook your own damn turkey, wrap your own damn presents, decorate your own damn tree, watch your own damn movies! And hey, while you're at it, you can all ride a one-horse open sleigh to hell!
** "He's Bla-ack!" has Cleveland, after spending the whole episode having his friends shun him for how bad his show was, finally reaches his RageBreakingPoint and trash talks ''Family Guy''
-->'''Quagmire''': He don't have the guts to say anything back.
-->'''Cleveland''': ''[angry]'' [[RageBreakingPoint Actually, you know what? Yes I do! Boy I'm glad to be back in good ol' cracker-ass Quahog!]] You know, my show might not have been the best thing since sliced bread, but it actually ''tried'' to be something of itself. It offered a joke every now and then, and some shock value jokes, or [[OverlyLongGag some unnecessary cutaway gags or some fuckin' two-minute long extended gag that didn't need to be that long]]. You may not have been enticed with the show, because it didn't include any of that. Sorry, we didn't have time, because of the damn plot! Something you guys completely forgot about. Oh, and we also used a certain element, not sure if you know, called ''continuity''. It kept the show fresh, without us needing to make everyone into an unlikeable cruel asshole or kill off a main character, that by the way up to that point you've spent five to ten years portraying as a pretentious, whiny depressive douchbag, in some forced display of sadness and introduce a Taco Bell-lookin' dumbass to the home for the mere want of getting buzz. Also, did you know character development is supposed to make people ''better''? Not more misogynistic, or hateful or more prone to rape? The '''''only''''' reason people prefer you over me is because you've been on longer. You have history. You're marketable. If you guys were cancelled like after your first or second run years ago, like you ''should have been'' with the current state of the show, we wouldn't have been overshadowed by you and we'd probably make a full series. But who gives a damn about us? Let's watch Peter Griffin, who's now a complete monstrous shadow of his former self, abuse his family for no reason other than "the funnies". Let's watch him shin his knee and make annoying noises for the five thousandth damn time! Let's watch him make five hundred rape jokes about random celebrities, to distract people from the show's complete lack of substance nowadays. [[SarcasmMode Hooray!]] My God, you were doing so ''well'' before I left. Interesting. It's like the creativity of Family Guy left and went over to my show. Well maybe, just maybe, me and a few of my writers can pump even if it's just the tiniest bit of that original spark back into this show that's been lost for years, now that I've returned. So, yeah. I guess I'm doing you guys a favor. Great to be back, you fucking dickheads.
** Peter delivers one to Lois in "Girlfriend, Eh?"
-->'''Chris''': Oh, please. Mom's way out of your league.
-->'''Peter''': Chris, your mom's only good quality is that she is hot and has rich parents that could probably help us if we were ever desperately needed money. She has tried to cheat on me multiple times with men. She criticizes that I do nothing to help around the house, but when I do, she gets upset. She has a drinking, smoking and stealing problem, she tries to convince people she is a good person when she isn't. She has constantly belittled me at every turn in order to make herself feel like a bigger person when she in fact isn't. She has treated Meg with no respect, barely even takes care of you and still treats Stewie like a baby. I mean, Lois, the baby talks and goes on adventures with our dog behind our back for God's sake! Cut the damn umbilical cord already.
** And to respond to his hypocrisy, Chris gives Peter one back in the same episode:
-->'''Chris''': Okay, then how about you? You openly admitted to hating me, Meg and Stewie. You barely spend time with us, as you spend more time at the Clam with your friends who is a black guy that had a failed spin-off, an old pervert that has tried having sex with Meg and Mom, and a cripple guy who you constantly belittle. You constantly make financial decisions without telling anyone, you also treat Meg worse than ''literally anyone else'', you barely hang out with your baby son despite the fact you can understand him. Also, remember the time we hurt him, and you said we should blame it on Mom, making her feel guilty? And you only hang out with me when there is something in it for you, like when you sold a painting I made for ''you only'' to an art aficionado, or when you joined the National Gun Association because you were jealous of my penis size, and let's not forget when Grandpa made me his inheritor. And what's funny about that, is that we ''all'' remember what your dad did to you as a child, neglecting you and acting cold towards you, and how all you wanted was to spend time with him and have father-son time. Yet here you are, as a grown adult, and you seem to be doing the same things that your father did, except even worse! [[AtLeastIAdmitIt At least Grampa was able to have the decency to admit he was an awful father!]] You're too stubborn to admit that yourself! Let alone admit you're a bad person. Oh, and let's not talk about your current job. You go to work at a brewery and do nothing but complain or get fired, which I found astonishing, because I managed to contribute to the company in a ''week'' more than you did ''your entire life!'' And yet you still find a way to complain when you work at your dream job. You got jealous when Mom's old boyfriend, Jerome, appeared, even though you had no reason to be jealous except your fat and your dick size is probably nothing compared to him. You constantly put other people in danger and try to make yourself the victim. Your internet history is full of questionable girls. I have seen you try to hump any girl that isn't Mom and is over 18. Anytime Mom asks you to do anything, you throw a big fit like a big baby because you're lazier than me. You have been to jail for so many crimes you committed and counting the other crimes you have committed, I'm surprised you aren't in jail for life. Maybe because you have a cop as a friend who can just bail you out anytime you want and claim it's the government's fault? Bold of you to also claim Mom has a drinking problem when you not only have been sentenced to go to Alcoholics Anonymous, but also ''knew'' your drinking was a problem beforehand when you beat us up in your drunken fantasies, and after all that, ''still'' state you don't have a problem. True, Mom may not be perfect, but you're even worse than her! [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere You know what? Fuck this.]]
* TheirFirstTime: "Peter Pan" has Meg [[spoiler:finally have sex with her transgender boyfriend Rosalie. Breaking her her title of being the only virgin in the immediate family]].
* TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Peter and Francis have a complicated and somewhat at points antagonistic relationship with each other, but in between trying to shoot the other and getting into fights, they show that when push came to shove, they still refer to themselves as family and can count on each other. If anything, when they do find something in common to like, Francis can have a similar sense of humor as Peter and the two often have fun together.
* TheGamblingAddict: Thelma is expanded to have one. With her usually leaving often to going on gambling streaks in Las Vegas which usually end in her losing all her money.
** Francis even showed to having a bit of an addiction to it too if anything from him occasionally going with her to Vegas mean anything.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The fanfic actually averts this trope with Cleveland's Deli and Peter's job as a fisherman. With multiple episodes both from the OG and added to the fanon now are rewritten to show Cleveland working at his deli more often, and Peter being a fisherman as devoted episodes to it (both the first time and second time). Though Peter's job at the Brewery is still not seen as much compared to the first two.
* TheReveal:
** "E. Peterbus Fargnum" has Randall Fargus reveal he cut out the Griffin's property off the map of Quahog.
** "Peter Gets Served" has the art thief culprit be none other than [[spoiler:Antonio Monatti. Who has become a low life artist after passing the deal with Chris in "A Picture's Worth $1000" and has been copying others work and passing it off as their own to make a living]].
* ThrowTheDogABone: The fanfic actually gives Meg and Chris a permanent boyfriend and girlfriend from Season 20 onwards. Being Anthony Fargus and Anna respectively.
* ThisIndexTouchesItself: While the fanfic ''does'' [[DownplayedTrope downplay]] Chris' masturbation habits seen by his original counterpart to highlight his artistic talents, he does still show signs of it. An example includes Season 2's "Between Sanity and Madness", with him helping Francis, who was trying to be his father (and completely forgot about accusing him of masturbating in "Holy Crap"), blow off some sexual frustration he had by teaching him how to masturbate. And the two came down with ruffled hair and clothes, with the obvious implication.
** Another comes in Season 21's "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Real_Father How I Met Your Real Father]]". When Chris, in the middle of Peter and Lois finding out Meg [[spoiler:brought her real father Stan Thompson home]], declares he masturbated for the 300th time. Much to the disgust of [[spoiler:Stan]].
* ThisIsNotADrill: "Peter Pan" has the boss of the anthropomorphic creatures working in a vaginal factory inside Meg's body say this to them when [[spoiler:Meg has sex for the first time]].
-->'''Boss''': Everybody! We have an [[spoiler:incoming penis right now! A real-life boy penis!]] This is not a drill[[spoiler:do]]! I repeat, this is not a drill[[spoiler:do]]!
* TotallyRadical: "Between Sanity and Madness" has Francis and Thelma dress in 90's clothing and use 90's slang to appeal to Meg and Chris. They have the reaction one expected to seeing their grandparents trying to be hip with the kids.
-->'''Meg''': I think I just threw up in my mouth.
-->'''Chris''': That's better than me dying a little inside.
* TransgenderFetishization: "Peter Pan" has Meg gets a transgender boyfriend that was originally a male named Lucas who now goes by the name "Rosalie", identifies as a female. And the episode portrays Rosalie as extremely attractive, especially to Meg—who ends up [[spoiler:having sex with her and loses her virginity for the first time after that episode]].
* UnconfessedUnemployment: As stated above in AdaptedOut, Peter not telling Lois in "Death Has a Shadow" is adapted out and replaced with the Pilot Pitch version where he tells her, but in "Employee for Fire", he does hide his firing from Lois for the different reason of him being too afraid to tell Lois that he got fired again.
* UnfortunateNames: Jeffery's last name is revealed to be "Hilterdidnothingwrong" in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Meg%27s_Wedding Meg's Wedding]]". This also becomes Bruce's last name when he and Jeffery agreed that "Straightman" is an ironic name for a gay couple, so marries under Jeffery's last name.
* UnimpressiveProgressReveal: "A Cheater Runs Through It"'s subplot is about Brian trying to write a book, but procrastinates so hard that when Stewie checks on him around the end of the episode, ''he hasn’t even wrote a single word down or even jotted down any story ideas''.
* UnmanlySecret: Chris has one in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/My_Little_Brother My Little Brother]]". With Meg making the horrifying discovery that Chris is secretly a brony and a [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] who finds the ponies from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipisMagic'', especially Rainbow Dash, to be sexually arousing.
* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: The fanfic makes it clear that Meg is not a Griffin and is an adopted child, with her real father is [[spoiler:Stan Thompson]]. With multiple mentions of him and evidence with Peter mentioning Meg's adoption papers. [[spoiler:Which becomes important in Season 21]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: "A Star is Born, Kind Of" has Weenie and The Butt give away two tickets for a free tour of the Quahog Lard Factory as a mystery prize, which Peter ended up winning. But Peter instead decided to give them to his parents Francis and Thelma, inadvertently helping set the stage for what happens to Francis.
* VillainTeamUp: "Long John Peter II: Shelly's Return" has Retep, Peter's EvilTwin, and Shelly, a British man that grew a hatred for Peter in "Long John Peter", team up to take on Peter.
* VitriolicBestBuds: A more family example. Peter and Francis' relationship get upgraded to this, with them constantly having spats, arguments and both have even tried to ''kill'' each other. However, they still care about each other nonetheless and you can bet that they ''will'' be there for each other in dire situations.
* VivaLasVegas: Episodes like "Chick Cancer" and "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Fonz" have Lois and Thelma ditch Peter and Francis to go on Las Vegas trips together. And this is revealed to happen often in the latter.
-->'''Peter/Francis/Brian''': (Peter/Brain points to Francis while Francis points to Peter) Stuck with him for a week? Aw man, not again!
* WackyParentSeriousChild: Randall and Anthony Fargus play this. With Randall being the goofball of the family and Anthony being more of a [[TheStoner Stoner]].
* WalkingSpoiler: Stan Thompson certainly qualifies. Due to [[spoiler:his eventual appearance]] compared to the original.
* WasItReallyWorthIt: "You Can't Handle the Booth!" reveals that they spent four thousand dollars to hire Bender from ''Futurama'' for a two-second cameo, and the Griffins - sans Peter, who insisted on it in the first place - agree it wasn't worth it.
-->'''Lois''': ''[in the commentary]'' Here's an interesting fact. It cost us $4,000 to hire that actor. $4,000. It was only for a two second long cameo and [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment it had no purpose in the storyline]], but Peter ''insisted'' on hiring him.
-->'''Peter''': ''[in the commentary]'' Hey, but it was worth every penny, wasn't it?
-->'''Lois''': ''[in the commentary]'' No.
-->'''Brian''': ''[in the commentary]'' No, it wasn't.
-->'''Meg''': ''[in the commentary]'' Yeah, I agree with mom.
* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain: Similar to the ending of "Holy Crap", "Between Sanity and Madness"'s ending has Francis' own father shows up to the Griffin house, wishing to live with the family. To which the Griffins immendantly book it to the car.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Deconstructed at first. Peter truly tries to make his Jerkass father (and to a lesser extent, mother) be proud of him. But no matter how hard he tried in "Holy Crap" and "Between Sanity and Madness", it never seems to work. It reaches a boiling point when he Francis and Thelma drop their car with him and Lois inside into a lake and lie to the kids that they were put in eternal vacation to become their parents and steal Peter and Lois' lives. This leads to Peter [[RageBreakingPoint snapping at them]], [[GetOut kicking the two parents out]], and becoming colder, and ready to lash out at everyone and everything. It then becomes Reconstructed when Peter still saves Francis and Thelma from dying when they try to end it all by jumping off the Holy Christ Chruch roof. Making them realize Peter still will love and defend them regardless. The result is that Francis lightens up and apologizes to Peter for everything.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: "A Star is Born... Kind Of"'s subplot has Francis be forced to be as fat as his son Peter after an accident at a lard factory, but learns the love of being overweight and bonds with his son over being "fat bros". Over the months of this, Thelma tries to talk him into being his old self again.
* WhatIf: While the whole ''wiki'' is one big what-if rewrite, "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Need_for_Weed Need for Weed]]" is one as it poses a question for one of the biggest Status Quo changes: What if Mr. Weed didn't die in "Mr. Saturday Knight"? It's reverted in the end, but it does show an interesting what-if.
* WhatTheHellHero: In the extended version of "Love Thy Trophy/Love Your Trophy", Lois scolds Meg for using Stewie for tips and getting him taken away by Child Services.
-->'''Meg''': ''(quietly)'' Hey.
-->'''Lois''': Meg, what did you honestly think you were trying to achieve? Do you have any idea how much stress you put me and your dad through?
-->'''Meg''': I just wanted a new Prada bag...
-->'''Lois''': A-and so what, you decided to go behind our backs and use your own baby brother to get it? After we explicitly told you it was too expensive.
-->'''Meg''': I-I just thought I'd be able to impress people by showing off a fancy new one.
-->'''Lois''': Well, I'm very disappointed in you, young lady, I thought we taught you better than that! I trusted you to look after Stewie. I thought it was nice that you two were spending so much time together, but now I find that my own daughter went behind me and your dad's backs, and that she used her own brother while lying and exploiting the goodwill and kindness of others. And because of that, Stewie got taken away by Child Services. Did you even think of how terrified me and your dad were, or the hell we had to go through to get Stewie back? Did you even care about Stewie's safety and what he was thinking? No you didn't, you put your own selfish needs before your own family!
-->'''Meg''': Mom, I'm really sorry.
* WhamEpisode:
** "Play it Again, Brian" becomes one in this adaption as it has Peter and Brian not being friends anymore due to Brian trying to fuck the former's wife Lois, ending their friendship.
** "Kimi Stupid Love" has Quagmire get a true lover in Kimi and marries her. And the two stay married for over seven seasons.
** "The Quagmire Show" is another big wham episode for Quagmire. As Quagmire goes under fire from the [=#MeToo=] movement and goes through character development in this episode and stops being a pervert. And as stated above in BittersweetEnding, Quagmire and Kimi get divorced in this episode, with Kimi deciding to leave Quagmire to go back and finish high school and live the life of a normal teenage girl.
** "The Truth About Meg", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the title suggests]], tells the true origin story of Meg and how [[spoiler:Stan Thompson]] fell into it. It also ended with Meg secretly finding out, kicking a mini side plot of her trying to find her real dad, [[spoiler: which she does in "Griffin vs. Thompson"]]
** The Season 21 [[spoiler:finale arc "Griffin vs. Thompson" is a continuation of "The Truth About Meg". With it ending with [[spoiler:Stan]] deciding to stay in Quahog and find work around, while keeping in contact with Meg. [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore It also changes the dynamics with Peter and Meg]].
* {{Whodunnit}}:
** The sub-plot of "Peter Gets Served" is about Brian and Stewie helping Chris find out who's the mysterious art thief.
** The main plot of "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/It%27s_in_the_Yard It's in the Yard]]" features Peter, Joe and Quagmire following a case of who killed Brian in "Life of Brian". [[ShaggyDogStory They don't find the murderer]].
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Bruce, the regular performance artist who has multiple jobs, gives a reason why he keeps changing jobs in "Employee for Fire".
-->'''Bruce''': [to Peter] Well, the reason I keep changing jobs is because I keep getting fired due to various different reasons. Though the most of my firings all boil down to incompetence, tardiness, laziness, and stupidity.
-->''{{Beat}}''
-->'''Peter''': I think I finally met someone who understands me.
* {{Workaholic}}: Chris falls into the trope in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Junior_Sized Junior Sized]]", when he enters into an animation contest and has to do an animated short. Chris works for several hours to complete it, constantly pulling all-nighters and even not heading to school for multiple days. He worked so hard that ''his eyes were bloodshot from his lack of sleep''.
* YankTheDogsChain: Poor Meg in "Stand By Meg", after having Stewie be her guardian to help her, gets attacked by Chris' gang group for taking a fall for Chris bailing on them. And when she begs Stewie to call for help ''while bleeding'', he doesn't out of cowardness.
-->'''Meg''': ''[in pain]'' Stewie ... I need a doctor. Call an ambulance, ... or I might die!
-->'''Stewie''': Yeah, I already helped you with getting a date, sooooo ... I've paid my dues.
-->'''Meg''': ''[angered, but still in pain]'' [[WhatTheHellHero What!? Stewie! I saved]] ''[[WhatTheHellHero your]]'' [[WhatTheHellHero life! This is equally returning the favor!]]
-->'''Stewie''': Yeah, but when you saved ''my'' life, you weren't at risk of getting blacklisted by Italian mobsters, sooooo ... no.
-->'''Meg''': Fuck you!
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Kimi, a sixteen year old girl, looks very grown up for her age, so much so, that she can easily pass as a full grown adult to strangers. In fact, Quagmire thought for a long time she ''was'' an adult until "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Quagmire%27s_Mom Quagmire's Mom]]".
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* JawDrop: Connie Damico, Neil Goldman, Principal Shepherd and other members at James Woods High do this when Meg walks down the hall with her transexual girlfriend Rosalie in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_Pan Peter Pan]]". With everyone else at the school seeing Rosalie as a male, and they find it surprising that Meg is able to get a guy this hot.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** While it was harsh of Peter Chernin to laugh at Peter for his Handi-Quacks cartoon in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/FOX-y_Lady FOX-y Lady]]", he's not wrong for rejecting the pitch. Seeing as the pitch was low-quality and didn't show any reason to buy the show
-->'''Peter Chernin''': Well, if you're gonna try to have a cartoon, you've gotta at least show to have something to want us buy in the pilot pitch. The animation's poor, the voice acting's dog water and the theme song, oh don't get me started on that theme song.
** In "Replaced: Brian's Story", when Brian gets furious how the family just replaced him, Francis points out how, despite replacing him, they still loved him enough to give him a funeral and not celebrate his death. And what makes Francis' point stick out more is that what he mentioned about the celebrating in the yard and burning a body in a fire is what the Griffins did to Francis when he died. So him chewing Brian out feels justified.
-->'''Francis''': Hey, they might have replaced you but at least they didn't celebrate in the damn yard about you dying and burned your body in a fire! At least they had the decency to bury you and give a funeral, '''''UNLIKE OTHERS!'''''
* JerkassRealization: "Between Sanity and Madness" has one for Francis and Thelma when they realize that their fighting caused the house to be burned ablazed.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** In this fanfic, starting around Season 2-ish and semi-flipflopping, Francis graduates from JerkWithAHeartOfJerk to this for the most part. Although he can abusive and neglectful to Peter and Thelma, he does love them deeply and can actually be quite caring. His softer side is most prominent when around Thelma.
** Lance Prueher, Brian's boss at the Suicide Hotline, is one. He was bit of a hardass, it mostly came from his job working at a suicide hotline, so when it came to employees doing their job, (this job being to talk people out of killing themselves), he doesn't really have a lot of room for failure. And Lance still shows that he's a nice guy and he will cut his employees some slack when needed.
* JumpedAtTheCall: "Long John Peter" had Seamus want to get back in the saddle and feel like a pirate once again. So when Peter asked him to join his piratey group, he immediately joined Peter and had a blast.
* JustHereForGodzilla: InUniverse. In [[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Fifteen_Minutes_of_Shame Fifteen Minutes of Shame]], Francis watches ''Diane!'', a show Thelma watched and loved not to get into her interests, but specifically because he saw Peter was on TV and wanted to see him be humiliated.
* KarmaHoudini: Peter in "Mind Over Murder" gets away with chaining up Meg in the cellar for ''days'' in both timelines. The worse he gets is a scolding from Lois.
* KickTheDog:
** In "A Picture's Worth $1000", the family leaves Meg behind instead of taking her to New York in the real episode. Peter even brings up how more peaceful it is without Meg around and notes to ''exclude her from family trips more often''.
** "E. Peterbus Fargnum" has Randall Fargus holds what is said to be the deed to the Griffin house close to a torch to get Peter to give him control of Petoria. When Peter accepts, he finds out the deed was a restaurant placemat, and the torch was the flag of Petoria being burned.
** "Seahorse Seashell Party" has the Griffins lock Meg out of the house while they're in the eye of the hurricane, in hopes it will kill her.
-->'''Meg''': Hey, what the Hell!? Let me in!
-->'''Peter''': Uh, Meg? ... Maybe you should stay outside, you know, do that whole "lightning rod" thing you were talking about earlier.
-->'''Meg''': I'm going to die out here, you bastard!
-->'''Peter''': [[BrutalHonesty That's kind of the idea]].
-->[...]
-->'''Chris''': ''[calling outside]'' Meg! Absorb the storm's negative energy and It'll go away!
-->'''Meg''': You guys are jerks! When I said you could abuse me, I didn't mean you could endanger my life!
-->'''Chris''': She's so annoying.
-->'''Lois''': Just leave her be. She's gunna die soon, anyway.
-->'''Peter''': Yeah, goodbye, Meg. Rest in peace.
** "Long John Peter II: Shelly's Return" has Retep majorly injured Peter's pet parrot Adrianne Beaky, even though he was focusing on Peter exclusively, to drive him over the edge.
* KilledByTheAdaptation: Beth, a friend of Meg who stopped appearing after "Peter's Daughter" is revealed to have killed herself off-screen in "Scammed Yankies" to explain why she doesn't appear anymore.
* KnewItAllAlong:
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Family_Cat Family Cat]]" adds an extra detail to Meg knowing about Stewie's time machine. With her revealing her room was also caught in all the time machine blasts, making her unaffected by their manipulation, giving her full knowledge and memory of everything Stewie and Brian have done even in alternate timelines that don't exist anymore.
-->'''Meg''': By the way, [[SarcasmMode thanks for blaming me for reversing time dilation]].
-->'''Brian''': What how ... h-how do you know about that?
-->'''Meg''': My bed is right in the time machine's blast zone. Every time you alter history, I'm unaffected so I remember all of it.
** Subverted in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Baby_Stewie,_Doo_Doo_Doo_Doo_Doo_Doo_Doo! Baby Stewie, Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo!]]". Roberta complains about not wanting to be in an escape room, but Donna tells her she'll think she'll be good at this, saying it's like escaping her own room when she's grounded. Causing Roberta to be surprised that she knew. Donna reveals that she was joking, but now knows, so grounds her.

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* LampshadeHanging: "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/You_Are_Not_the_Father You Are Not the Father]]" lampshades on the floating timeline, when Stewie questions how Abby, Brenda's child, could be older than him if she was born after him. At the time Brenda was pregnant with Abby in "Screams of Silence", Stewie was 1 year old. By this episode, he's 2 years old while Abby's ''10''.
* LaserGuidedKarma:
** After spending the whole episode tormenting Peter and his family, Francis and Thelma are forced by Peter to work in a drill sergeant-like exercise as payback in "Between Sanity and Madness"
** "Seahorse Seashell Party" ends with the Griffins locking Meg outside of the house while they're in the eye of the hurricane in hopes of killing her, and even barricades the doors so she can't get in. However, they get their karma when a double decker bus flies straight into the Griffin house and slams into the house, knocking it off it's foundation and getting the house launched up to higher air, endangering their lives.
*** The karma however does get underminded in "[[https://the-cleveland-show-fanon.fandom.com/wiki/This_One_Thought_at_Bible_Camp This One Thought at Bible Camp]]", when Peter used his magic powers to get whatever he wanted to move his house back and crushes Meg under the house.
** Cleveland gives some to Mr. Waterman in "Cleveland Moves Out". With him getting revenge on him for abusing him and his friends by crushing his desk in an attempt to shit on it.
** After pretending to be old so they can get free service at Quahog Acres in "An Original Age Old Story", the Beer Bar Buddies get hit with some hard when one of the staff members recognizing Peter from him signing up his parents to the Acres and call the police. Which leads to them getting arrested and charged with fraud and impersonation, and sentenced to community service at the Quahog Acres.
** After spending Brian's time working at the Suicide Hotline belittling and snidely humiliating him in front of the other workers whenever he messes up, Lance's rudeness toward Brian kind of came back to bite him on the ass in "Brian Come Home for Christmas", where Brian quit his job and the entire suicide hotline went down under because of it, [[spoiler: [[DrivenToSuicide driving Lance to commit suicide of his very own by jumping off the building of his crumbling business]]]].
** Stewie gets some in "In With the News" as he gets arrested and thrown in jail for rigging the mayor election to make him win.
** The 500th episode "Karma's a Bitch" is one big karma episode for the Griffins, as it was written as a DistantFinale. With them all getting arrested for their crimes, having the entirety of Quahog and ''[[Creator/SethMacFarlane their creator]]'' turn against them in court, with their FreudianExcuse cards [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse becoming no excuse for all they done]], sentenced to ''life imprisonment'' with no possibility of parole, and even though they do escape, they lose everything they had and are banned from Quahog.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: While Peter's real father has more in common with him, Francis in this adaptation does show that sometimes he has some traits to relate him to Peter. Whether him in rare points having his laugh or other related likes and hobbies.
* LovePotion: Randall Fargus makes on in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Good_Ol%27_Fargy_Love Good Ol' Fargy Love]]" after his dating attempts fail. After he uses it, he carelessly dumps the toxic chemicals away and the toxic chemicals get released into the air and it causes everyone in Quahog to act funny.
* MadScientist / AbsentMindedProfessor: Randall Fargus here. He loves to invent and create things to have fun, but due to his age, he's more scatter-brained and doesn't think most of his inventions' dangerous consequences through until it's too late.
* ManipulativeBastard: Randall Fargus pulls on in "E. Peterbus Fargnum". From cutting out a property out of the city's map, him tricking Peter to give him control of Petoria, to using his machines to turn the tide against the military and holding everyone in Town Hall ''at gunpoint''. And the reason why he did this? To get the Griffins a tax refund so they can have a pool.
* ManMadeHouseFlood: "Chick Cancer" has Peter and Francis flood the entire bottom floor of the house while making a trying to set up a Mother's Day (or a Wife Day) dinner
* MarriedAtSea: Randall and Eliza Fargus host a private wedding on Peter's boat in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/A_Cheater_Runs_Through_It A Cheater Runs Through It]]".
** Later on, Peter hosts Quagmire's wedding to Joan on the boat in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/I_Take_Thee_Quagmire I Take Thee, Quagmire]]". Even references the previous wedding.
* MistakenForCheating: The main plot in "A Cheater Runs Through It". With Lois thinking he's cheating on her overseas due to him being suspicious and spending more time overseas. The real reason was that Peter was rearranging his boat to host a wedding for Randall Fargus and his new wife Eliza.
** Season 21's "How I Met Your Real Father" has [[spoiler:Stan Thompson]] reveal to Meg that his accidental pregnancy to Lois that resulted in her birth lead to [[spoiler:Stan's]] wife thinking this. However compared to the above example, [[spoiler:she kicked him out of their house without giving him so much of an explanation, effectively divorced him]].
* MistakenForDog: "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Screwed_the_Pooch Screwed the Pooch]]" has an added gag where Meg is mistaken for a dog and some guys try to pull her into the race track.
* MoodWhiplash: Yep. Even the fanfic has bits of this like the original
** In "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Power_Over_Peter Power Over Peter]]", Meg gives Peter a heartfelt speech from her heart about how they genuinely care about him and don't mean to be hard on him when they intervene him about his alcohol problems... which is ruined by Peter belching in her face, clearly showing he was ignoring what she was saying. And it's pushed even ''further'' with the family, sans Peter, noting how Meg's speech would have had more weight if it was said by ''anyone else'', and telling her she's not ready for emotional speeches.
* MotiveDecay: "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Fonz" has Brian instead make the Fonz to raise a point how stupid religion is. By the time he's doing his first service, he's so deep he doesn't remember the original goal he had.
* MultiPartEpisode: The original "Life of Brian" was split into two parts. Part one, which is centered around Brian's death and the effects of it, is "Life of Brian" and part two, which is centered around Vinny coming into the family is "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/A_Filler_in_Need A Filler in Need]]"
* NamedByTheAdaptation:
** A building example. The apartment complex Brian stays at for a majority of Season 16 is now called Spinazola Apartments, off the last name of the apartment manager Lou Spinazola.
** Group examples. Peter's friend group that drinks at the Drunken Clam and Lois' friend group who drink at the House of Brews are now called the Beer Bar Buddies (originally called the Drunk Buddies in Season 1 and 2) and the Coffee Shop Girls. Meg's friend group isn't given a name, but in the category it's called the "Ugly Girl Friend Circle"
** Peter's Drunken Clam group consisting of him, Quagmire, Cleveland and Joe is called the Beer Bar Buddies.
* NationalAnthem: "E. Peterbus Fargnum" gives Petoria a national anthem to the theme of the Oceania's national anthem "'Tis for Thee".
--->''From my small house in Quahog''
--->''Lies the greatest empire of them all''
--->''I, Peter Griffin, wave the flag up high''
--->''To keep my great family alive''
--->''Open the front door, hoist up the flag''
--->''Never before has such glory been seen''
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Out of Peter and his parents:
** Nice: Peter, surprisingly. While he does have his questionable moments in the early seasons, at the end of the day he's a relatively good person in terms of his parents.
** Mean: Francis. A {{Jerkass}} [[TheFundamentalist Fundamentalist]] who openly insults and mocks his son. He does lighten up in Seasons 3-6, but he's still carries his Jerkass nature and prone to ComedicSociopathy than his son and ex-wife.
** In-Between: Thelma. While she can be prone to Jerkass tendencies like her ex-husband, she is still more supportive of her son and his family compared to Francis.
* NoodleIncident: "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/A_Call_Too_Far A Call Too Far]]" has Chris and Neil be banned from the school bus and have to walk home due to them doing something that involved throwing water balloons filled with ink on the bus.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Stewie actually gets a small subversion. As in Season 16, he has his second birthday in "Life of Brian 2: Revival Reversal", ''fifteen seasons after his first birthday''.
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The Season 21 finale and onwards seasons has [[spoiler:Stan Thompson meet Meg and reside in Quahog. And with that comes a shift in Meg and Peter's relationship. With Meg starting to call Stan "Dad" and never refer to Peter as Dad anymore and more refer to him as nicknames]].
* NewBabyEpisode: "Peter Runs a Marathon" is focused on Carol giving birth to her and Adam's new baby daughter, Carol West. Which Peter missed because he was too busy watching a ''Star Trek'' marathon.
* NewYearHasCome: "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Happy_New_Year_Guy Happy New Year Guy]]" centers on the people of Spooner Street taking extra precautions to make sure that 2022 doesn't turn out the same way as 2021.
* NegativeContinuity: "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Break_a_Leg Break a Leg]]" has Brian get beaten up by all the criminals he persecuted while being a cop, resulting in him breaking many other bones in his body. But compared to his left leg, the injuries would be forgotten.
* NotHelpingYourCase: For every reason Meg gives about why she doesn't think Peter's good to be a nurse in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Fecal_Matters Fecal Matters]]", Peter shows it to be true
-->'''Meg''': I don't think you have the makeup to be a nurse. You're ignorant,
-->'''Peter''': What's that?
-->'''Meg''': Impatient,
-->'''Peter''': Are you done?
-->'''Meg''': Short-tempered,
-->'''Peter''': ''[slams fists on table]'' ENOUGH!
-->'''Meg''': Lazy,
-->'''Peter''': I'd argue but ... meh.
-->'''Meg''': Rude,
-->'''Peter''': [[{{Catchphrase}} Shut up, Meg]].
-->'''Meg''': Profane,
-->'''Peter''': Bullshit.
-->'''Meg''': Sarcastic,
-->'''Peter''': Pfft. Yeah, I'm ''real'' sarcastic. Keen observation, Einstein.
-->'''Meg''': Annoying.
-->'''Peter''': ''[makes buzzer sound]'' WROOOOOOOOOOOONGUH! ''[blows raspberry]''
-->'''Meg''': Unfri-
-->'''Peter''': ''[blows raspberry]''
-->'''Meg''': Un-
-->'''Peter''': ''[blows raspberry]''
-->'''Meg''': [[RuleOfThree U-]]
-->'''Peter''': ''[blows big raspberrry in Meg's face]''
-->'''Meg''': Unfriendly,
-->'''Peter''': I hate you.
-->'''Meg''': And you faint when you see blood.
* NotSoAboveItAll:
** Despite her more nicer demeanor, Thelma has shown at times that she can be just as bad - if not ''worse'' - at parenting than Francis.
** In "Long John Peter", Francis additional joins Peter in his pirate scheme.
* NoSocialSkills: Randall Fargus fit the bill in "Good Ol' Fargy Love". As he gets into the dating game and tries to go after women. But due to him rarely talking to people, his reputation as a nutjob, or sometimes both, they end in failure.
* NWordPrivileges: Subverted for Chris in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_Griffin:_Husband,_Father,_..._Brother%3F Peter Griffin: Husband, Father, ... Brother?]]", with a scene having Chris believe that now that he has a black ancestor, he believes he has an N-word Pass and can say it with no issues. Thankfully, Peter covers Chris' mouth at the last second before he says it.
-->'''Peter''': [[EveryoneHasStandards Yeah, never try to do that]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** Anytime Thelma refuses to call Peter and/or Francis by her [[AffectionateNickname Affectionate Nicknames]] means they ''really'' fucked up. Best seen in "Roads to Vegas" after Peter chickens out of killing themselves and yells her final line to him.
-->'''Thelma''': ''[falling]'' [[DyingDeclarationOfHate PETER, YOU DICK!!]]
** "The Guyfathers" has one for Paulie. He usually has a warped sense of humor and often says "Gotcha!" for his dark laughs from unfortunate situations. However, upon telling Peter and Francis his attempts to call off their hits go ignore, he refuses to might light of the situation.
-->'''Peter''': Is it too late to have it called off?
-->'''Big Fat Paulie''': Yeah... All my attempts to call it off have gone on deaf ears.
-->'''Francis''': Oh...
-->'''Peter''': Dad, this is Paulie. He's pulling our chain with his warped sense of humor. In a few seconds, he'll say: "Gotcha!", and we'll all have a good laugh about it as he calls it off. Right Paulie?
-->''[Paulie says nothing]''
-->'''Peter''': P-Paulie? Y-Y-You're joking right?
-->'''Big Fat Paulie''': I wish I was, pals... I'm sorry.
* OddFriendship: Brian and Francis form one in Season 11's Replaced: Brian's Story after finding some mutual understanding of feeling left behind. It gets reverted after Brian's brought back to life.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: The cold open to "Power Over Peter" starts with Stewie telling the family his plans to give them quick and painless deaths when the world is his, just as they're watching an NHL hockey game with the Bruins against the Rangers. However, the whole family are all focused on the game, so when the Rangers score a point against the Bruins just as Stewie finishes his speech, they boo the team and unintentionally Stewie. Leading him to take back his comment and make their deaths all slow and painless, to which the Bruins score back against the Rangers and the family cheers them and again unintentionally Stewie's comment.
* OriginsEpisode: The fan-made "Do and Die" serves as one for Mayor Adam West and how he got his job as mayor. Compared to usual examples, it's not told in a flashback.
* OutOfHolidayEpisode: InUniverse.
** Season 1's "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Death_is_a_Bitch Death is a Bitch]]" is rewritten to be a HalloweenEpisode, which was actually the original plan, but airs in April, 1999.
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Da_Boom Da Boom]]" is now the Season 1 finale and its air-date being pushed back to May 30th, 1999.
** "Chick Cancer"'s subplot has the episode take place around Mother's Day, despite it airing on October 1st, 2006
* OvenLogic: "How Farg is Heaven?" has Randall Fargus showing off his newest invention he calls "Microwave-ception", where he microwaves a bag of popcorn inside of a small microwave and has that microwave inside of another microwave and that microwave is inside of another microwave, etc. until the thing is inside of five different microwaves. Randall Fargus explains how this is going to help the microwaving process of popcorn go by all the more quicker. Randall Fargus turns on the Microwave-ception and, unsurprisingly, this causes a nuclear explosion, which launches him across the room and slams him into a wall. While this is at first PlayedForLaughs as they laugh at Randall Fargus' classic mishap, it's then PlayedForDrama when [[spoiler:Randall reveals he got colon cancer from the experiment and ends up dying from it]].
-->'''Randall Fargus''': You see, microwaved popcorn generally takes about 5 minutes to pop but what if I were to put a simple bag of popcorn inside of five different microwaves at once!? Then I could pop through all that popcorn in just one minute! I mean, a delicious bag of popcorn being made in just a fifth of the time!? [[TemptingFate You can't go wrong!]]
* ParentalNeglect: Played with Peter in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Peter%27s_in_Charge Peter's in Charge]]", when he's left looking after the kids while Lois is away. While he does neglect Meg and Chris in feeding and caring for them, he does still cares for Stewie, mostly since he's a baby and needs protection.
* PetTheDog:
** Francis gets a few extra moments with his increase screentime. Examples inculde:
*** While this moment is undermined by the fact he and Thelma were doing this as a way to steal Peter and Lois' kids, if anything from what Meg noted, Francis went to her school and whacked her bullies with a bible thirteen times in "Between Sanity and Madness"; But a more heartwarming example later on is Francis apologizing to Peter about his cantankerous behavior.
*** Despite holding a sign that says "''Kick ass or else I disown you''" and making fun of him loses his clothes, he attends Peter's baseball game alongside the others and helps him get a close victory in Season 3's "Peter Griffin's All-Stars".
*** In "Live in Vegas", he sold his signature Bible to get Thelma a ring to make up for missing their anniversary.
*** Teaming up with Peter to set up a Mother's Day (or Wife Day) dinner for Lois and Thelma in "Chick Cancer"
*** Having empathy for Meg, who had the mumps in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Not_All_Dogs_Go_to_Heaven Not All Dogs Go to Heaven]]"
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Meaty_Petey Meaty Petey]]" has Peter eat McBurgertown meals just to piss off a bunch of vegans who protested to have the McBurgertown closed because it killed cows. However, despite being able to get his food for free with his lifetime supply, Peter paid for it all and even left a generous tip.
** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with Lance Prueher in "Break a Leg". While he does give Brian time off work on account of his broken leg, his dickery still kind of showed through when he hired a monkey to cover for Brian in his absence and the monkey ended up doing a better job than he did.
*** Played more straight at the end of the episode with Lou, the manager of the apartment complex Brian stayed at. As he decides that Brian's gone through enough from losing his job at the Suicide Hotline, to breaking his leg, and getting his ass beat from being a failed cop and has the heart to let Brian stay in the apartment, without paying the rent.
* PlayingPictionary: "A Cheater Runs Through It" has the Griffin family - minus Peter, who was out on his boat - play this game during family game night. For Chris' turn, [[EccentricArtist he draws an abstract art piece that for some reason is Spooner Street]].
* {{Polyamory}}:
** Quagmire and his ex-wife Kimi agree to have this type of marriage in "Kimi Stupid Love".
** Lois' sister Carol gets into a polygamous marriage with ''twelve other men'' in "Another Widow Opens".
* PubFight: In "Peter Gets Served", a huge one breaks out at The Drunken Clam between Peter and Ernie the Giant Chicken. With Peter having Jerome and the other bar workers by his side and Ernie having an entire league of chickens .
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* RaisedByGrandparents: Subverted for Anthony Fargus. While his mother Eliza and step-dad Randall Fargus are old enough to be his grandparents, they're actually his parents. Lampshaded in "A Cheater Runs Through It"
-->'''Peter''': Wha-What? But they're old enough to be your grandparents. How are they you're parents?
-->'''Anthony''': [[HandWave Honestly, I don't know and I don't think I wanna know]].
* RapidAging: A cutaway from "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High" reveals that when Peter and Randall Fargus did a Science Expo one year, the two brought a Time Clock (a machine Fargus made to control age) to it. Needless to say, it resulted in a crowd of old people walking out complaining and Peter and Fargus, who are now grotesquely old, walk out holding canes and trembling. With the obvious implications of how it went.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation:
** Kira, an underage girl Quagmire had sex with in "Quagmire's Mom" is made to be Kimi's younger sister... by three years.
** Anthony, a boy Meg dated in "Go, Stewie, Go!", is now made to be the son of Eliza Fulton, as well as Randall Fargus when he marries Eliza.
* RelationshipUpgrade:
** Randall Fargus gets one. With him bumping into an old lady named Eliza in "Good Ol' Fargy Love" and deciding to go steady with her. With them getting married and becoming a couple a season later in "A Cheater Runs Through It" and becoming the adoptive father of her son Anthony
** Quagmire and Kimi get one too. With them realizing that their relationship was a lot more than just a way to go on vacation and that they had legitimate feelings for each other. Which led to them getting married in "Kimi Stupid Love" and staying that way until "The Quagmire Show"
* ReplacedWithReplica: The sub-plot in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_Gets_Served Peter Gets Served]]" has Chris be commissioned to paint a mural for the Quahog Art Museum, but when he goes to see the finished product with Brian and Stewie, they find that someone has stolen Chris's artwork and replaced it with a near identical version, signed by another artist called: "Ant Mont". This leads to a {{Whodunnit}} mystery to find out who's copying Chris. It actually turns out to be [[spoiler: Antonio Monatti, the twist villain from "A Picture's Worth $1000"]].
* RetCanon: Peter's sister [[spoiler:Karen]], who never was mentioned or appeared before "Peter's Sister", actually has some foreshadowing, with Francis mentioning her multiple times and even trying to call her before being tackled by Peter.
* RiseOfZitboy: "Peter's in Charge" has Chris hit puberty and has multiple pimples on his face.
* RuleOfThree:
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Dammit_Janet! Dammit Janet!]]" does one for Meg. First, Chris throws a rock through Meg's window, damaging her room and fish bowl. Then he throws another rock through Meg's other window, smacking her in the face and breaking her glasses. Finally, when Meg comes out of the house to complain about the rocks being thrown at her, the Christmas decorations drop down and crush her.
* RunningGag: While the fanfic has carried all of the show already existing running gags. It adds a few
** Chris breaking through the ceiling of a room, and drops into the scene. Chris makes some kind of random non-sequitur to the people in the scene, which often receives a piece of negative backlash from one of the characters.
** Peter getting hit in the crotch with a bag of nickels, which happens once or twice a season[[labelnote:note]]This gag was actually turning a bit from "Inside Family Guy", where edited scenes from moments in the series feature Peter getting hit in the testicles with bags of nickles, despite no episode prior actually showing this, true now.[[/labelnote]]
* SanityBall: Peter holds this anytime he's around Francis and Thelma.
* SchoolPlay: "A Play on Turds" has Meg and Chris' high school do the play ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. And Chris gets the role of Romeo in the school play just so he can kiss Anna.
* ScreamingAtSquick: Peter, Francis and Randall Fargus do this in "Long John Peter" when Seamus pulled down his pants to reveal his penis was also a missing limb, replaced with a peg.
-->'''Peter''': Ahh!
-->'''Francis''': Oh God!
-->'''Fargus''': Gross!
-->'''Chris''': [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLiketheOthers Haha! You had a big wiener!]]
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: InUniverse and instead a newspaper example. The new sideplot of "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Story_On_Page_One The Story On Page One]]" has Chris become a cartoonist for his middle school's newspaper. But has his strips get censored or completely rewritten.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: A more husband and wife example. Thelma now plays the Sensitive to Francis’ Manly.
* SequelEpisode:
** Season 15's "Long John Peter II: Shelly's Return", as it say in the title, is a sequel to Season 5's "Long John Peter". With Shelly returning after his supposed death for revenge against Peter and challenges him to a swordfight for the fate of Quahog.
** Subverted with Season 16's "Life of Brian 2: Revival Reversal", which is a InNameOnly sequel. Compared to "Life of Brian" where Brian was hit by a car and was replaced by Vinny, "Revival Reversal" has Brian be DrivenToSuicide and Stewie goes out of his way to save him.
* ShootTheMoney: InUniverse, but in a more wasted use. "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/You_Can%27t_Handle_the_Booth! You Can't Handle the Booth]]" has an added scene were [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender]], who is revealed to have costed '''''four thousand dollars''''' in the commentary, appears for a mere ''two-second cameo''.
* ShowWithinAShow: One of the recurring elements, [[AscendedFanon which was actually a fan theory started by]] [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ToonrificTariq ToonrificTariq]] is that Family Guy is now a show about a bunch of actors (in this case our characters) putting on a show every week.
* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** Compared to the show where he dies in his debut episode, "Running Mates", Fargus is alive due to the rewritten ending of the episode and has many adventures for seasons to come. [[spoiler: This becomes [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] as he dies in Season 7's [[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/How_Farg_is_Heaven%3F How Farg is Heaven?]], but it's more from having cancer rather than being killed like his real counterpart]].
** Same story for Peter's parrot Adrianne Beaky. Who stays alive due to the rewritten ending of "Long John Peter", but dies in Season 15's "Long John Peter II: Shelly's Return"
* StatusQuoIsGod: The fanfic subverts this quite often: Quagmire has an actual wife named Kimi for seven seasons and has long staying CharacterDevelopment, Chris and Meg are given long-staying love interests and [[spoiler:Meg's real father Stan Thompson stays as long staying member]].
* StoryArc:
** '''Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story''': A three-part story arc in Season 4 concerning Stewie trying to find his real father (the only story arc originally from Family Guy to not be tampered).
** '''Brian's Death''': A full season story arc in Season 11 that concerning Brian dying and the Griffins getting a new dog to replace him, with Stewie having to accept the fact Brian's gone.
** '''Brian Moves Out''': A story arc in Season 16 that lasts the first half of the season concerning Brian moving out of the house after he makes a bad tweet.
** '''Griffin vs. Thompson''': A three-part story arc in Season 21 that concerning [[spoiler: Meg's real father Stan Thompson returning and kicking Peter out of his house, and him needing to get his family back]] (the first original story arc).
* SkewedPriorities:
** In one of the edited scenes in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Griffin_Winter_Games Griffin Winter Games]]", a flashback to "Life of Brian" has Meg be more concerned about Brian not being able to see her at skiing practice that day. [[EveryoneHasStandards The family give her a disgusted look in response]].
-->'''[[ItsAllAboutMe Meg]]''': ... Well, he won't ...
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_of_Former_Sports_Glory Tales of Former Sports Glory]]" has Stewie be mad at the fact that he found a gallon of empty bleach in the cupboards rather than the fact that Meg drunk the gallon and is dead on the kitchen floor. [[NegativeContinuity Not that it matters]]...
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* DeathByAdaptation: Peter's real father Mickey dies from beer posioning compared to the real show.
* DeconstructionFic:
** The first six seasons overall deconstructs Francis' {{Jerkass}} nature and his mistreatment of his son Peter. In canon, Francis was downright cruel to Peter and times, and despite Francis' abuse, Peter was surprisingly tolerant of Francis' cantankerous behavior. Here, Peter doesn't take it lying down. Peter reacts (sometimes physically) to Francis' abusive treatment in multiple ways. From calling him out, slapping him, to even trying to shoot him. Francis, in turn, gets in trouble for his temper, whether being fired from his job as the Pope’s special assistant and basically being treated worse as a result. Though compared to other examples, it leads to Francis [[JerkassRealization realizing his awful attitude]] and tries to be a better himself. He still does have his shades of Jerkass, but a lot more downplayed.
** "Break a Leg" deconstructs Joe's job as a cop while being in a wheelchair, with Brian, who had a broken leg and needing money to pay the rent in his apartment, becoming a cop. However, compared to Joe, Brian's broken leg got in the way of his crime fighting. With the difference between Joe and Brian was the fact Joe was a cop in advance before he got crippled and had ''both'' of his legs crippled. Brian, meanwhile, became a cop with little previous experience, aside from being a drug-sniffing dog for the police but that's seems to be forgoten, and his broken leg that's sticking up, making it harder for him to fight crime.
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/GriffinTube GriffinTube]]" deconstructs the way the Griffins treat Meg and what would happen if a family really treated one of their family members. Compared to the other times where its PlayedForLaughs, it's played more seriously and Meg gets taken away by Child Services and relocated with a foster family.
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Treasure_Map Treasure Map]]" deconstructs Meg's relationship with Seamus. As the two go on a date after hinting their relationship in "Follow the Money", but Seamus gets boycotted due that regardless of whatever love they have for each other and the fact Meg's legal age to be classed as an adult in some places, Seamus is an ''eighty year old man'' and Meg's ''an eighteen year old woman''.
** The 500th episode "Karma's a Bitch" deconstructions the ResetButton and StatusQuoIsGod, with having all of the Griffins past actions coming back to bite them in the ass. They end up being taken to trial and end up being sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.
* DefrostingIceQueen: After spending the whole third act being cold to others in "Between Sanity and Madness", Peter's mood changes when he finds out Francis had a picture of him and hears what Francis speaks about him.
* DelayedReaction:
** Chris has one in "Mind Over Murder" when he wakes up and realizes the bar is on fire.
-->'''Chris''': [takes a whiff] Hey, is something burning?
-->'''Brian''': Yes! The whole basement's on fire!
-->'''Chris''': Oh, that's good- Wait. That's NOT good! ''[starts running around in circles whilst screaming and shouting]'' '''[[SuddenlyShouting We're gonna die! We're gonna die! We're gonna di-!]]'''
** Brian and Francis have this when finding out about Peter smoking crack in "Power Over Peter"
-->''[Noticing the sound too, Brian along with Francis look out the door to the living room, where Peter is sitting there with a lighter and a crack pipe. They exit and approach Peter]''
-->'''Brian''': Peter, what are you doing?
-->'''Peter''': Crack.
-->{{Beat}}
-->'''Brian''': Oh, okay.
-->'''Francis''': Yeah, normal Peter behavior.
-->''[The two head back to the sunroom, but after a small beat, come back to Peter]''
-->'''Francis/Brian''': Wait, what the '''[[PrecisionFStrike FUCK?!]]'''
* DemotedToExtra: Subverted with the Brown-Tubbs, especially Rallo and Roberta (the latter ''hasn't even said a single line since coming onto the original show'') as they are given more episodes to shin when on Family Guy and don't fall into become non-speaking crowd extras like in the original show. They still do some of that in this adaption, but its more downplayed.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation:
** While Randall Fargus died from the XL-K shooting him in "Running Mates", he instead [[spoiler: dies five seasons later from colon cancer in "How Farg is Heaven?"]].
** Compared to the original where she died off-screen from a stroke, Thelma dies in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Roads_to_Vegas Roads to Vegas]]" from taking the role of the Unlucky Brian from the original.
* DisproportionateRetribution:
** "Mind Over Murder" has Peter keep Meg chained up in the cellar for days on end as punishment for touching the thermostat.
** "Screams of Silence: Story of Brenda Q." has Jeff, shake, throw violently on the floor and kick Brenda, all because she changed the channel from Leno to Letterman while he was getting a beer
* DistantFinale: "Karma's a Bitch" is written to be one.
* DespairEventHorizon: "How Farg is Heaven?" has a moment of this. With Peter's friend Randall Fargus in the hospital with little chance of living and Chris losing credibility from his friends for surrendering his art for the anime style, both loses hope in different ways. Chris quits his artistic work and Peter becomes stricken.
* DevelopmentGag: InUniverse. Lois' blonde hair from the Pilot Pitch actually comes up a few times. With "Employee for Fire" revealing Lois dyes her hair redhead and blonde is her real hair color, and her hair occasionally reverts to blond when sprayed with water. This actually fixes a PlotHole with Chris having blonde hair.
* DomesticAbuse: Yousief reveals to be one in "Poly-hu Akbar!". In fact, when Kimi is caught having sex with a pig due to her being used to her polyamory relationship, Yousief is ''ready to decapitate her and would have got away with it'' had Quagmire didn't come to save her in time.
* DoomedByCanon: All the character who die in the real show still die in their said death episodes.
* DownerEnding:
** "Peter's Two Dads" has Peter, after winning over his biological dad Mickey, see him die from beer posioning.
** "Life of Brian" ends with the family, hours after the funeral being over and after everyone has gone home, continuing starring at Brian's grave in the rain.
* DramaticIrony:
** In "Between Sanity and Madness", after taking the rap for Brian making a quip about Thelma, Francis beats Peter with a newspaper and calls him an ungrateful bastard, despite the fact that Francis himself ''is''.
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Brian_Come_Home_for_Christmas Brian Come Home for Christmas]]" has Lance Prueher, the boss of a Suicide Hotline (which is suppose to talk people out of killing themselves) [[spoiler: commits suicide himself when the Suicide Hotline goes down under]].
* DudeLooksLikeALady: "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Shanksgiving Shankgiving]]" has Benjamin Pewterschmidt mistake Chris for a girl.
-->'''Benjamin''': And who might you young girls be?
-->'''Chris''': I'm a boy!
-->'''Benjamin''': What!? Sheesh, son. Get a damn haircut!
-->'''Meg''': Ha ha! Looks like for once, it's you who's getting misgendered!
* DumbassHasAPoint:
** In "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Flights_of_Disaster Flights of Disaster]]", Francis, in trying to do a reference to Series/TheHoneymooners, threatens to send Peter straight to the moon and Peter berates him for the magnitude of the comment.
-->'''Francis''': TO THE MOON, PETER!
-->'''Peter''': To the moon? Wha ... what the hell does that mean?
-->'''Francis''': You know, to ... to the moon. Like ''Series/TheHoneymooners.''
-->'''Peter''': [[DudeNotFunny Okay, so you're basically threatening to punch me so hard, I'm gonna fly to the moon?]] Like ... like it's so fucking funny to hit me so violently, my body will fly out of the atmosphere.
-->''[Francis awkwardly pauses and looks at the camera]''
-->'''Francis''': Well, it's not funny anymore. You seem to have a knack for ruining things.
** In "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Father,_The_Son,_and_The_Holy_Fonz The Father, The Son, and The Holy Fonz]]", Peter genuinely questions if Francis' statements about him loving his family are true considering what he's done in the past.
-->'''Peter''': Are you sure you love this family? Are you 100% sure?

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* EarnYourHappyEnding:
** After going through hell and back in both "Holy Crap" and "Between Sanity and Madness", from dealing with his parent's crap and losing it on both of them, Peter ''finally'' not only gets the respect and approval from his parents, from putting up with them for so long, he also gets a hug from his father (as noted in AdaptedOut, the hug in "Holy Crap" didn't happen, making it more heartwarming)
** After seasons of trying to be Roberta's friend, but being rejected because of her being lame, Meg ''finally'' is able to become Roberta's friend in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Accidents_Crappen Accidents Crappen]]" when she prove herself to be cool to her when she eggs her and her friends during one of their nights on the town.
* EasilyOverheardConversation: "The Truth About Meg" has Peter and Lois tell Chris and Stewie the true origin story of Meg's birth, with Meg overhearing it due her about to head out to the bowling arena and walked around the right time, and was secretly shocked at the revelation.
* EatTheEvidence: While Lois gives the family a LongList of chores in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/A_Very_Special_Family_Guy_Freakin%27_Christmas A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas]]", Chris shows the rest of the family he drew a picture of Lois while she's talking that portrays her as a naggy bitch. [[ActuallyPrettyFunny The family laughs at this]] until Lois gets suspicious and Chris does the trope to avoid getting in trouble.
* EccentricArtist: Chris becomes one, with him being an slow-witted teenager who makes strange art.
* {{Egging}}: Meg and Jennifer do this to Roberta and her friends as an act of sweet revenge in "Accidents Crappen".
* ElectionDayEpisode:
** "Do and Die" has Lois run against Mayor West due to not being pleased with a loony idiot like Adam West becoming mayor.
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/In_With_the_News In With the News]]" has a subplot where Stewie competes with Mayor West to become the new mayor of Quahog, so that he can take over the city and rule it like an evil dictator.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: "Death Has a Shadow" adds one for Cleveland and Quagmire (the former wasn't introduced until "Mind Over Murder" while the latter wasn't established yet as Peter's friend) to establish them as Peter's friends and bits of their personalities (Cleveland being the slow monotone man while Quagmire as the LovableSexManiac).
-->'''Cleveland''': Hello, Peter. I didn't expect to see you here.
-->'''Peter''': Oh, hey, Cleveland! Hey, it's quick-lipped Cleveland. Cleveland, recite all the states in 60 seconds, go.
-->'''Cleveland''': Oh, okay then. Alabama ... Alaska ... Arkansas ...
-->'''Peter''': Oh, heh, wait. I forgot. You don't talk fast at all.
-->'''Quagmire''': No, you're thinking of me, quick-lipped Quagmire, but I don't use my lips for talking fast. ''[pretends to motorboat a girl]''
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Francis shows that despite his crabby attitude, he does truly care about Thelma (and Peter to a lesser extent).
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** While Roberta does fall into line with Connie's clique and bully the kids at James Woods High in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/He%27s_Bla-ack! He's Bla-ack!]]", she draws a line when they bully her brother Cleveland Jr.
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Disney%27_the_Reboot Disney's the Reboot]]" has Peter disgusted by the ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'' interpretation of Family Guy.
-->'''Peter''': STOP! STOP! STOP! We can't show this on network TV. This is inappropriate even for ''this show's'' standards.
* ExcusePlot:
** "Employee for Fire" has a simple main plot. Peter gets fired from his job, as usual, and applies for jobs.
** "Flights of Disaster" starts the same way until the real plot kicks in, with Peter looking for a new permanent job.
* FamilyBusiness: Subverted. Randall Fargus opens an attraction called Fargus' Wacky World of Mayhem, but his wife Eliza is not considered a joint owner. This becomes Double Subverted when she takes over running the attraction in Season 8's "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Holly_Jolly_Folly Holly Jolly Folly]]"
* FightFireWithFire: "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Fonz" has Peter and Francis, to snap Brian out of his Fonz delusions, start their own religion based on Chachi.
* FloatingInABubble: One of Fargus' inventions here is Super Bubble Mixture, something that can create huge bubbles people can get stuck in and float in. He and Peter used it at the end of "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Running_Mates Running Mates]]" and the two are seen using it in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Fast_Times_at_Buddy_Cianci_Jr._High Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High]]".
* {{Foil}}: Peter to [[spoiler:Stan Thompson]]. Both are fathers that are related to the Griffin family in one way, but both are completely different than more in terms of size. Peter's a blue-collar worker with a livable income and has a more laid-back persona, while [[spoiler:Stan]] is a lower worker, being an ex-Mafia member and having a way stricter persona due to his Mafia past.
* ForegoneConclusion: "Do and Die" has Lois run against Adam West because of her not wanting someone as loose and silly as him becoming mayor. [[SarcasmMode Guess who ends up winning the election?]]
* ForgettableCharacter: Best shown with Meg in "The Fat Man and the Sea". There, Randall Fargus takes his then-upcoming wife Eliza and adoptive son Anthony to meet the Griffins, by talking highly about their accomplishments and greatness, and completely forgetting about Meg. But when Randall is reminded of Meg, the only thing he can muster up to say about her is: "Oh, that's Meg. [[BrutalHonesty She's forgettable]]". [[Main/{{Irony}} Ironically, Meg is the only Griffin member who ended up getting the attention of Randall's kid Anthony, who was tuning the rest of the family out on his Walkman]].
* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler:Meg's real father Stan Thompson returns in a Season 21 story arc.]]
* FreakyFridayFlip: In "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High", Peter, Fargus and Chris swap bodies through Fargus' body-swap machine, as Fargus was planning on showing it off at a Science Expo and needed data. The Brian becoming a teacher and Chris falling in love with his teacher subplots are adapted for this new change in the story, with Brian being replaced with Peter (in Fargus' body) and Chris being substituted with Fargus (in Chris' body).
* GoneHorriblyRight: "Between Sanity and Madness" has Francis and Thelma find ways to make the Griffins lives a living hell enough for Peter to change his mind about putting them in a retirement home. And it works... as Peter ends up [[RageBreakingPoint snapping]] and kicks the two out.
* GoodTroiEpisode: The fanfic has quite a few.
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/7th_Kevin 7th Kevin]]" focuses entirely on the Swanson family alone.
** "Kimi Stupid Love" and "The Quagmire Show" both focus mainly on Quagmire and Kimi. With the former being about them finding feelings and getting married and the latter being about Quagmire going under heat and the two divorcing.
** "Three's Company" focus more on [[spoiler:Karen and her girlfriend Heather]].
* GrandparentFavoritism: When he puts his [[TheFundamentalist Catholic ways]] behind him, Francis reveals he can surprisingly get along well with the kids. Stewie's happy to see him and he bonds with Chris through... interesting ways in "Between Sanity and Madness"
* HaHaHaNo: At the end of "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/A_Picture%27s_Worth_$1000 A Picture's Worth $1000]]", Meg asks Peter if one day he could help her express her talent to the world like Chris, which the whole family [[{{Jerkass}} laughs at her and tell her "No"]].
* HardTruthAesop:
** While "Honor Your Father" is normally a good virtue, if your elder is an entitled asshole who mistreats you, it will enable them to hurt you more. Peter puts up with a ''lot'' from Francis but realizes toadying to his father isn't worth it.
** Adding to that, TurnTheOtherCheek doesn't work toward entitled abusers, and you have to get confrontational, physical, or throw them out of your life if you want them to change. Only when Peter stands up to Francis does the latter's {{Jerkass}} tendencies start to diminish
** While people will be sad when you die, time will still move and everyone, including your family, will move on without you. Season 11's "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Replaced:_Brian%27s_Story Replaced: Brian's Story]]" has Brian realize this when he come down as a ghost and sees how the Griffins pretty much forgotten about him and moved on to having a new dog.
* HiddenDepths:
** Francis reveals that he was a baseball player in his youth in "Peter Griffin's All-Stars", to the surprise of everyone
-->'''Francis''': What?! There's more to me than being a Christian wack-job you know!
** While Kimi loves having sex with guys more than anything in the world, it's revealed later on in episodes like "Peter Pan" or "Three's Company" that Kimi does dabble in lesbianism and is a bisexual that enjoys having sex with girls as well.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Fonz" has Francis stubbornly believe there's no such thing as tainted holy water when trying to baptize Stewie. However, compared to the original, he gets drenched in the tainted water (alongside Peter) instead of Stewie and gets sick.
* HolidayCeasefire: The adaptation of "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" has Francis and Thelma spend Christmas with the Griffins.
* HolidayEpisode: "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Chick_Cancer Chick Cancer]]"'s new side plot centers on Mother's Day, and Peter and Francis trying to set up a Mother's Day (or a Wife Day) dinner for Lois and Thelma after forgetting it was Mother's Day. Due to this being [[FatIdiot Peter]] and [[GrumpyOldMan Francis]], two people who have a dysfunctional relationship at best, the situation quickly gets out of hand.
* HopeSpot: "Mind Over Murder" has Peter notice a chained-up Meg in the cellar while he's remodeling the basement to be his pub, saying he forgot about her. He leaves for a second, but instead of returning with something to take off Meg's chains, [[KickTheDog he instead brings a handkerchief and ties it around her mouth, and puts a wall to hide her instead]].
-->'''Peter''': [[SkewedPriorities I don't want you making a fuss and causing the police to get called on me]].
* HumanMail: In "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Son_Also_Draws The Son Also Draws]]", Meg says how excited her is to be going to New York, ''with her family for once''. With a cutaway showing her being trapped in a package and getting sent to New York. The man who opens the package and sees her implies [[NoodleIncident this isn't the first time this happened]].
-->'''Man''': Aw, not you again. Send her back!
* HumiliationConga: Part of Peter's angry speech to his parents involves him describing every bad thing that's happened to him in both the episode, "Between Sanity and Madness" and "Holy Crap"
-->'''Peter''': Listen you cantankerous horrible excuse for a father! I've accepted you into my house twice, dealt with your shenanigans, got fired from my job thanks to you, beaten up by you - ''again'' - for taking a fall for my dog, embarrassed in front of my friends, my co-workers ''and'' boss, keep up all night, assaulted in my bed, and nearly '''''DROWNED TO DEATH''''', and I ''still'' gave you chances!
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** In "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Between_Sanity_and_Madness Between Sanity and Madness]]", Francis pushes Chris away from Herbert, and actually saved Chris as Herbert tried to get Chris into bed with him, and told him not waste his time on the elderly (despite the fact that he ''himself'' is elderly)
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Chick_Cancer Chick Cancer]]" has him get on Thelma for how she was neglectful to Peter in his youth by leaving him to go gambling, despite the fact he himself as was neglectful to Peter (and also [[AbusiveParents abusive]]).
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Full_Metal_Jackass Full Metal Jackass]]" has Peter scold Chris for being a coward, not wanting to join the military. Despite the fact he never had gone to the military himself for the same reasons as Chris.
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Girlfriend,_Eh%3F?v Girlfriend, Eh?]]" has Peter talk about Lois' negative aspects and how she's not a good person. And like Herbert, he's not wrong, but he's no better than her as Chris points out.* "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Neighbor_Pains Neighbor Pains]]" has Herbert come over to the Griffin house to talk to them over the breaking and entering violation Brian committed earlier. And while he [[HypocriteHasAPoint does have a reason to be mad]], Herbert himself has done multiple instances of breaking-and-entering if him being charged for child abduction implies.
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/North_by_North_Quahog North by North Quahog]]" Principal Sloan when he got mad at Chris and his friends drinking vodka in the school bathroom, yet when they left, he drank some of the vodka himself.
** Francis scolds Peter for drinking in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Power_Over_Peter Power Over Peter]]", yet Peter finds Francis drinks himself in private.
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Running_Mates Running Mates]]", Principal Sloan where he scolded Chris for peeping in the girls' locker room. yet after Peter, Lois and Chris left, he peeped through a peephole behind a bookshelf in his room, where he could see into the girls' locker room.
* HypocriteHasAPoint:
** While he himself is no better, Herbert is right to call Brian out for breaking into his house and looking through his stuff in "Neighbor Pains"
** Same for Peter in "Girlfriend, Eh?". With him being right to say Lois is not a good person.
* HypocriticalHumor: "Disney's the Reboot" has an old man says he found the ''Black Mirror'' version of Family Guy hilarious, noting how kids today are glued to their technology... as he takes out his cellphone and starts texting.
* IdentityImpersonator: Non superhero example. In "Between Sanity and Madness", Francis and Thelma take over Peter and Lois' roles as the parents in the second act to steal their kids. Needless to say, when Peter found out, he was [[{{Understatement}} not happy]].
* IdiotHoudini: "Do and Die" has Peter wreck a bunch of cars and buildings and killed a bunch of people, while he was drunk. Yet he doesn't go to prision because Quahog law says that "inebriated felonies" are not illegal, since you can't blame someone for doing something bad, while intoxicated.
* IJustWantToBeYou: A RunningGag unique to Francis and Thelma in this adaptation is their want to replace Peter and Lois. It seemed to calm down after Season 4
* InnocentlyInsensitive: "Full Metal Jackass" has Peter scold Chris for being a coward, not wanting to join the military. When Meg asks, in a way that wasn't meant to attack or contradict Peter, how brave he was, when he joined the military. With him knowing he didn't join, Peter shuts her up to not be exposed as a hypocrite.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: "Death Has a Shadow"'s new cold open, ripped from one of the old FOX.com promos, has Peter claim his family, the Griffins, show and talk about good old-fashioned family values, when he farts and blames it on Brian.
-->'''Peter''': Hi! We're the Griffins. You know, our family shares the same values that your fam-
-->''[Peter's interrupted by a short, loud fart coming from the left, catching the family off-guard. They look to Peter who has a surprised look]''
-->'''Peter''': Brian!
-->'''Brian''': Oh sure, blame the dog!
* InSeriesNickname / AffectionateNickname:
** Thelma often calls Peter "Petey" (which she actually ''did'' call him in a past flashback in "Don't Be a Dickens at Christmas"). In fact, she's called him that since birth as revealed in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/And_the_Wiener_Is_..._ And the Wiener Is ...]]"
-->'''Young Thelma''': D'awww. He's so cute.
-->'''Young Francis''': [[KickTheDog I guessing adoption's now out of the equation]].
-->'''Young Thelma''': Francis! Don't say that in front of Petey.
* ItsNotYouItsMe: Though not said, "The Quagmire Show" follows a semi use of the trope when Kimi tells Quagmire she wants to Quagmire. With Quagmire tries to tell her that he's a changed man but Kimi telling him that it's not about that, but of her wanting to live a normal life.
* JawDrop: Connie Damico, Neil Goldman, Principal Shepherd and other members at James Woods High do this when Meg walks down the hall with her transexual girlfriend Rosalie in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_Pan Peter Pan]]". With everyone else at the school seeing Rosalie as a male, and they find it surprising that Meg is able to get a guy this hot.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** While it was harsh of Peter Chernin to laugh at Peter for his Handi-Quacks cartoon in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/FOX-y_Lady FOX-y Lady]]", he's not wrong for rejecting the pitch. Seeing as the pitch was low-quality and didn't show any reason to buy the show
-->'''Peter Chernin''': Well, if you're gonna try to have a cartoon, you've gotta at least show to have something to want us buy in the pilot pitch. The animation's poor, the voice acting's dog water and the theme song, oh don't get me started on that theme song.
** In "Replaced: Brian's Story", when Brian gets furious how the family just replaced him, Francis points out how, despite replacing him, they still loved him enough to give him a funeral and not celebrate his death. And what makes Francis' point stick out more is that what he mentioned about the celebrating in the yard and burning a body in a fire is what the Griffins did to Francis when he died. So him chewing Brian out feels justified.
-->'''Francis''': Hey, they might have replaced you but at least they didn't celebrate in the damn yard about you dying and burned your body in a fire! At least they had the decency to bury you and give a funeral, '''''UNLIKE OTHERS!'''''
* JerkassRealization: "Between Sanity and Madness" has one for Francis and Thelma when they realize that their fighting caused the house to be burned ablazed.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** In this fanfic, starting around Season 2-ish and semi-flipflopping, Francis graduates from JerkWithAHeartOfJerk to this for the most part. Although he can abusive and neglectful to Peter and Thelma, he does love them deeply and can actually be quite caring. His softer side is most prominent when around Thelma.
** Lance Prueher, Brian's boss at the Suicide Hotline, is one. He was bit of a hardass, it mostly came from his job working at a suicide hotline, so when it came to employees doing their job, (this job being to talk people out of killing themselves), he doesn't really have a lot of room for failure. And Lance still shows that he's a nice guy and he will cut his employees some slack when needed.
* JumpedAtTheCall: "Long John Peter" had Seamus want to get back in the saddle and feel like a pirate once again. So when Peter asked him to join his piratey group, he immediately joined Peter and had a blast.
* JustHereForGodzilla: InUniverse. In [[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Fifteen_Minutes_of_Shame Fifteen Minutes of Shame]], Francis watches ''Diane!'', a show Thelma watched and loved not to get into her interests, but specifically because he saw Peter was on TV and wanted to see him be humiliated.
* KarmaHoudini: Peter in "Mind Over Murder" gets away with chaining up Meg in the cellar for ''days'' in both timelines. The worse he gets is a scolding from Lois.
* KickTheDog:
** In "A Picture's Worth $1000", the family leaves Meg behind instead of taking her to New York in the real episode. Peter even brings up how more peaceful it is without Meg around and notes to ''exclude her from family trips more often''.
** "E. Peterbus Fargnum" has Randall Fargus holds what is said to be the deed to the Griffin house close to a torch to get Peter to give him control of Petoria. When Peter accepts, he finds out the deed was a restaurant placemat, and the torch was the flag of Petoria being burned.
** "Seahorse Seashell Party" has the Griffins lock Meg out of the house while they're in the eye of the hurricane, in hopes it will kill her.
-->'''Meg''': Hey, what the Hell!? Let me in!
-->'''Peter''': Uh, Meg? ... Maybe you should stay outside, you know, do that whole "lightning rod" thing you were talking about earlier.
-->'''Meg''': I'm going to die out here, you bastard!
-->'''Peter''': [[BrutalHonesty That's kind of the idea]].
-->[...]
-->'''Chris''': ''[calling outside]'' Meg! Absorb the storm's negative energy and It'll go away!
-->'''Meg''': You guys are jerks! When I said you could abuse me, I didn't mean you could endanger my life!
-->'''Chris''': She's so annoying.
-->'''Lois''': Just leave her be. She's gunna die soon, anyway.
-->'''Peter''': Yeah, goodbye, Meg. Rest in peace.
** "Long John Peter II: Shelly's Return" has Retep majorly injured Peter's pet parrot Adrianne Beaky, even though he was focusing on Peter exclusively, to drive him over the edge.
* KilledByTheAdaptation: Beth, a friend of Meg who stopped appearing after "Peter's Daughter" is revealed to have killed herself off-screen in "Scammed Yankies" to explain why she doesn't appear anymore.
* KnewItAllAlong:
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Family_Cat Family Cat]]" adds an extra detail to Meg knowing about Stewie's time machine. With her revealing her room was also caught in all the time machine blasts, making her unaffected by their manipulation, giving her full knowledge and memory of everything Stewie and Brian have done even in alternate timelines that don't exist anymore.
-->'''Meg''': By the way, [[SarcasmMode thanks for blaming me for reversing time dilation]].
-->'''Brian''': What how ... h-how do you know about that?
-->'''Meg''': My bed is right in the time machine's blast zone. Every time you alter history, I'm unaffected so I remember all of it.
** Subverted in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Baby_Stewie,_Doo_Doo_Doo_Doo_Doo_Doo_Doo! Baby Stewie, Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo!]]". Roberta complains about not wanting to be in an escape room, but Donna tells her she'll think she'll be good at this, saying it's like escaping her own room when she's grounded. Causing Roberta to be surprised that she knew. Donna reveals that she was joking, but now knows, so grounds her.
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* AbusiveOffspring: Peter becomes this to Francis in this adaptation. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as Francis [[AbusiveParents was abusive to him growing up]], and Peter uses this to seek revenge.
* AbusiveParents: While it's more downplayed, Peter and Lois still have their moments. If fact, they have it as early as Season 1! As "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Mind_Over_Murder Mind Over Murder]]" has Peter chain up Meg in the cellar as punishment for [[DisproportionateRetribution touching the thermostat]].
* AccidentalKidnapping: "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Long_John_Peter Long John Peter]]" has Shelly Boothbishop hire a group of goons to kidnap Peter and Francis' wives Lois and Thelma after the two, alongside Seamus and Randall Fargus, loot his car full of sugar cane, tobacco, and spices. However, Anna, Chris' girlfriend, gets kidnapped while on a date with Chris, thinking she’s his girlfriend.
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding:
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Running_Mates Running Mates]]" instead ends with Peter gleefully having fun with his teacher Mr. Fargus. Setting a stage of Randall Fargus becoming a recurring in the adaptation.
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Peter%27s_Two_Dads Peter's Two Dads]]" instead ends with Peter's real father Mickey [[DownerEnding dying due to the beer he drinks in a beer glass being poisoned]].
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Seahorse_Seashell_Party Seahorse Seashell Party]]" adds an extended ending where the family lock Meg out, hoping to kill her, but the hurricane rips their house off it's hinges and send them all flying away with it, endangering the lives of everybody except for Meg, who stands in the front yard, completely safe and unharmed.
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Stand_By_Meg Stand By Meg]]" ends with Chris being chased by his former gang and puts his clothes on Meg. When the gang busts in, they think Meg is Chris and hit her for bailing on the gang. After they leave, Meg lies bleeding on the ground and begs Stewie to call the doctor, but Stewie fears getting involved with gang activity, and convinces himself that he already paid his dues as Meg's servant, by hooking her up with Kevin and making her feel superior.
* AdaptationalBadass: Peter when it comes to Francis. While he still loves him like in the OG show, he no longer bothers to seek approval from Francis after Season 2, as he knows already that it's not worth the work. He also stands up for against Francis more often, whether using Francis' devote Catholic nature to his advantage or as revealed in ''[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Family_Guy:_Live_in_Vegas Live in Vegas]]'', not only blackmailed Francis to come to the episode, but also got to him with mind games. Things that original incarnation of Peter in regard to his relationship with Francis wouldn't be capable of doing.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance:
** Cleveland, who didn't appear until "Mind Over Murder", appears in the pilot "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Has_a_Shadow Death Has a Shadow]]" in this adaptation.
** Mayor Adam West, who doesn't appear until Season 2's "Fifteen Minutes of Shame" appears in Season 1.
** Herbert, who didn't appear until Season 3's "To Do or Die in Dixie" appears earlier into the show in this adaptation, debuting in Season 2's "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Neighbor_Pains Neighbor Pains]]"
* AdaptationExpansion: [[AdaptationExpansion/FamilyGuyFanon Enough to justify it's own page.]]
* AdaptationalExplanation:
** Compared to the real show when he was always mayor until his death, Adam West has a whole episode to introduce him in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Do_and_Die Do and Die]]". It also adds Buddy Cianci, the real mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, in the episode, and shows that he was forced to resign from his job after being charged with racketeering, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot which happened in real life]].
** In terms of the Meg voice actor change from Creator/LaceyChabert to Creator/MilaKunis, it's made to be that the voice change was due to Meg getting a voice transplant in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Employee_for_Fire Employee for Fire]]", replacing her Lacey voice with her well-known Mila voice.
** Kevin actually is shown signing up and getting shipped to fight the Iraq War in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Full_Metal_Jackass Full Metal Jackass]]". In the same episode, Chris also graduates from Buddy Cianci Jr. High.
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Birthday_Bootlegger The Birthday Bootlegger]]" explains Bert and Sheila's sudden replacement. It turns out Bert and Sheila were at the [[WashingtonDCInvasion United States Capitol on January 6, revealing that their progressive views were a facade]], and that they were actually staunch supporters of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.
** In "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Karma%27s_a_Bitch Karma's a Bitch]]", it explains two changes in the show: the living room carpet's color and Chris' earrings. Peter states he hated the yellow carpet, so he burned it, and Chris explains he just didn't want to wear them anymore. Though compared to Peter's explanation to why the Griffin Living Room carpet has changed color, Chris still kept them in their box in his room and put them on to show his still had them, and they remained on him for the rest of the episode.
* AdaptationalIntelligence:
** [[DownplayedTrope While Peter is no Einstein]], he does get far more moments of genuine wisdom and insight, especially [[CallingTheOldManOut when dealing with Francis]].
** Brenda's abusive boyfriend Jeff in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Screams_of_Silence:_Story_of_Brenda_Q._ Screams of Silence: Story of Brenda Q.]]" gets some. In the original, Jeffery blatantly abused her ''in public''. Making him sort-off a generic, one-dimensional strawman villain of domestic abusers. Here, Jeffrey's abuse toward Brenda is made more subtle to both the characters and the audience, and only show his dark side in private, when nobody else was around. This which greatly helped improve the episode, as not only did this make the plot better, because we don't know from the start that Jeffrey is abusive until TheReveal, but it also made the domestic abuse more realistic, portraying abusive relationships in a way that emulates real-life abusive relationships.
* AdaptationalJerkass:
** Bernice. While in the original she was a little bland and had no real personality, here she does have a personality... that being of a [[SassyBlackWoman sassy]] abusive girlfriend that's no better than Loretta. Of course, Cleveland dumped her in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_of_a_Third_Grade_Nothing Tales of a Third Grade Nothing]]".
** Roberta Tubbs. In both the original and this version of The Cleveland Show, Roberta was a popular, but polite girl, [[ClassPrincess who had respect for those less fortunate than her]]. However, when she came to Quahog, she fell victim to the CrapsackWorld clique at James Woods High set by Connie D'amico and [[TookALevelInJerkass became now a stuck-up bully]]. However, she does still have her standards, as when they bully her brother Cleveland Jr., Roberta makes a deal with the clique, saying that they can't bully members of their own family.
* AdaptationalJobChange: Hennessey. While in the original, he was a [[TheRival rival fisherman]] to Peter, here he's Peter's boss.
** For Peter, it's more of a Job Return. As in Season 22, he returns to being a fisherman.
* AdaptationalKarma:
** Meg gets an expanded bit of it in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Love_Your_Trophy Love Your Trophy]]". While she did get some karma in the original episode by being forced to give the purse up so they can get Stewie back, she was never told off for her actions in the episode, or that Lois never said anything, despite the seriousness of what Meg had done. In this episode, it adds an extended scene of Lois scolds Meg over her put her own selfish desires over her little brother, grounds her for a month, and tells her she's going to clear things up to everyone. Including at Flappy Jack's. She also gets fired from Flappy Jack's because of that.
** Brian gets hit hard with on in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Play_it_Again,_Brian Play it Again, Brian]]". With him now losing his friendship with Peter due to him trying to hit on his wife.
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/April_in_Quahog April in Quahog]]" has Channel 5 getting heat for the whole "black hole" prank and the building is getting attack by angry Quahog residents.
** Peter and the whole family gets some of this in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Brian_the_Closer Brian the Closer]]". While in the original, Peter got away with [[KarmaHoudini messing up Brian's face]] and when Brian begged the family for help, they all but laughed in his face. Here, instead of tricking Quagmire into buying a rundown condo, he tricks the Griffins instead. In fact, Quagmire [[EnemyMine helps Brian in his scheme]].
* AdaptationalNameChange:
** [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] InUniverse. Chris' old middle school Buddy Cianci Jr. High School was renamed after Creator/CarrieFisher in Season 17's "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Another_Widow_Opens Another Widow Opens]]", as she was a far more respectable historical figure, who deserved to be honored.
** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], but Peter's parrot Adrien Beaky is renamed to Adrianne Beaky.
** While Hennessey still has his first name, he does get a last name, O'Callaghan.
** While Meg's friends still retain their first names, they gain last names. Patty Patterson, Esther Esthederm, Ruth Rutherford and Beth Bethany.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy:
** Mr. Fargus in "Running Mates". While he still loses his job due to violating the School Board's order of taking his pills, he only egged other students and teachers with normal chicken eggs, whereas in the real episode, he dropped eggs of the "endangered California condor" during the Annual Egg Drop.
** Although he's still a devout Catholic {{Jerkass}}, Francis does qualify in this. In canon, Francis was a Catholic Jerkass who really disliked Peter and was a genuine unpleasant person to be around. Here, while starts out the same way, he does lighten up and his devout Catholic and Jerkass nature become toned down by a lot, save for a few episodes, and has a lot more PetTheDog moments to Peter, not to mentioning getting more involved in the famiy's shenanigans. He also changes to have a more JerkWithAHeartOfGold personality, as he shows to deeply care about Peter and Thelma.
* AdaptedOut:
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Peter not telling Lois he got fired in "Death Has a Shadow". Compared to the real episode, Peter tells Lois he got fired from his job[[labelnote:note]]Which he actually ''did'' in the original Pilot Pitch.[[/labelnote]], though still hides him getting welfare from Lois, but in "Employee for Fire", he does hide his firing from Lois, and for a different reason of not wanting Lois to be mad he got fired again.
** The hug Peter and Francis have in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Holy_Crap Holy Crap]]" is removed, with Francis [[KickTheDog pushing Peter away before he could hug him, telling him to not push it]]. This becomes important as they ''do'' hug in "Between Sanity and Madness", and it has more weight because of that.
** Strange example with Ellen and her sup-plot in "Extra Large Medium". Her sub-plot is scrapped, but the song is readapted to "Sweet Old Lady" for Season 2's "Good Ol' Fargy Love". And Ellen is now used in Season 11's "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/A_Play_on_Turds A Play on Turds]]" as the ugly girl playing Juillet and making Anna her understudy. She still retails her BitchInSheepsClothing persona.
** The third plot switch in "April in Quahog", involving Peter admitting he hates being around the kids, and trying to win them back is scrapped and replaced with instead Peter, after getting a heartfelt speech from Randall, spend his last few hours with his family.
** Played straight in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Finders_Keepers Finders Keepers]]", with the beginning about Peter having bad breath is scrapped from the episode.
** Played straight again in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Life_of_Brian Life of Brian]]", with the Native American intro plot is scrapped entirely
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Lois and Thelma get one. In the original, they rarely interacted, but when they did they were shown to be on friendly terms. Here, while they both had a bit of a rivalry alongside Peter and Francis early on, they grew to have a friendship and actually respect each other now. Even having episodes like "Chick Cancer" and "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Fonz" have Lois and Thelma ditch Peter and Francis to go on Las Vegas trips together.
* AdaptationTitleChange: While there's episodes with uppercase or lowercase capitalization for some words compared to the original, there are quite a few episodes with different titles:
** "I Never Met the Dead Man" is now "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/I_Never_Met_Mr._Deaddy I Never Met Mr. Deaddy]]"
** "Love Thy Trophy" is now "Love Your Trophy"
** "Emission Impossible" is now "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Missionary_Impossible Missionary Impossible]]"
** "There's Something About Paulie" is now "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Guyfathers The Guyfathers]]"
** "Fifteen Minutes of Shame" is now "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/15_Minutes_of_Embarrassment 15 Minutes of Embarrassment]]"
** "Wild Wild West" is now "[[https:/familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/There%27s_a_New_Mayor_in_Town There's a New Mayor in Town]]"
** A Clevland Show example. "Pilot" is now called "[[https://the-cleveland-show-fanon.fandom.com/wiki/Cleveland_Moves_In Cleveland Moves In]]"
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** Shelly becomes this. While in the original he was more neutral aside from "Long John Peter", here he's show doing more villainous deeds. In this version's of "Long John Peter", he hires goons to kidnap Lois, Thelma and by accident Anna and held them hostage on his ship. And in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Long_John_Peter_II:_Shelly%27s_Return Long John Peter II: Shelly's Return]]", he returns to get revenge against Peter and ''threatens Quahog'' unless Peter fights him. [[JustifiedTrope Semi-Justified]], as he only did the kidnapping because of Peter's pirate group provoking him and messing up his tea delivery, and it can also be due to a SanitySlippage.
** Retep also falls into this. In the original, he was a more joke villain, while here the EvilTwin aspect is played straighter and becomes more as a secondary threat for Peter.
* AesopAmnesia:
** Zigzagged with Peter in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/A_Star_is_Born..._Kind_Of A Star is Born... Kind Of]]". While he does go to another stag party even after what happened in "Death Has a Shadow", he at least plans ahead compared to last time.
-->'''Peter''': Honey look, I know I disobeyed you again, but I at least planned ahead compared to last time. We took a cab home, slept on the table so we wouldn't wake you up, and I called sick from work so I didn't get my ass fired for negligence. Nothing bad will happen this time.
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Breadlosers Breadlosers]]" has Peter spend all his time clowning around at [=McBurgertown=], using his pass to get free burgers for life to the point he gets fired from the Pawtucket Brewery. He ends up working at [=McBurgertown=], with a ton of customers coming, but the demand for food outweighs their food supply and Peter only has himself to blame because of all the free food he took from their restaurant. Peter learns how annoying of a customer he is... but completely unlearns it at the end, clowning around at [=McBurgertown=] again, [[HereWeGoAgain only to get fired]] ''[[HereWeGoAgain again]]'' [[HereWeGoAgain at the end of the episode]].
** Lampshaded by ''[[TheDitz Chris]]'' of all people at the end of "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/An_Original_Age_Old_Story An Original Age Old Story]]" when Peter declares he learned his lesson from pretending to be old.
-->'''Peter''': The important thing is that I learned my lesson.
-->'''Chris''': [[DumbassHasAPoint Yeah, you're not gunna]] ''[[DumbassHasAPoint keep]]'' [[DumbassHasAPoint the lesson]], but at least ya learned it, Dad.
* AgeLift:
** More of an age reveal in terms of Randall Fargus, as the adaption reveals that Randall is ninty-six,something that was unexplained in the original show, though the fanfic does lift the years he worked at Buddy Cianci, with him working there for sixty years compared to the thirty two in the original.
** Played straight with Quagmire. As in "Underage Peter", his age goes from being 61 to being 49, still making him slightly older than the other Beer Bar Buddies
* AgeGapRomance: "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Kimi_Stupid_Love Kimi Stupid Love]]" has Quagmire - a sixty-one-year-old man - get married to Kimi - ''a sixteen-year-old teenager''. Thankfully, they agreed to have an open marriage, allowing each other to have sex with smash & pass strangers, while still loving each other as husband and wife.
* AllForNothing: The sub-plot of "How Farg is Heaven?" has Chris surrender his art style to learn the anime art style to impress a girl named Keiko. And after all the hard work of learning the style, she laughs her ass off at him and leaves, leaving Chris heartbroken and betrayed. Even worse, he loses credibility with his friends because they all liked his old art style better and hate the anime-style new stuff.
* AlliterativeName: As seen above with AdaptationalNameChange, Meg's friends follow this trope. '''P'''atty '''P'''atterson, '''E'''sther '''E'''sthederm, '''R'''uth '''R'''utherford and '''B'''eth '''B'''ethany
* AlternateContinuity: The whole fanon wiki is built around this concept. With completely different changes in seasons, episodes, characters and even events (Ex: The two cancelations are changed around. The first cancelation happens after Season 3 instead of Season 2, and the second cancelation happens after Season 4 instead of Season 3).
* ArchiveBinge: Done InUniverse with "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_Runs_a_Marathon Peter Runs a Marathon]]". As Peter binges a marathon of every episode of ''Series/StarTrek'', and miss the birth of Adam and Carol West's new baby.
* ArchnemesisDad: Francis is a downplayed example of this trope. Since Peter is more willing to stand up to his father, Francis is quite confrontational to Peter. But they'll occasionally put aside their differences to solve a bigger problem.
* AscendedExtra:
** Randall Fargus and Change for a Buck/Buck, two characters originally made as bit characters for "Running Mates" and "The Son Also Draws" respectively, get boosted to the recurring character roles.
** Francis and Thelma, Peter's parents, two characters that have gotten only a select few episodes, get put into the recurring roles. Compare Francis' episode count before his death in the original (three, not counting cameos and mentions) to his episode count before his death in here (over ''twenty'', not counting cameos and mentions) and the difference is night and day.
** Bernice, a girlfriend of Cleveland's, now has a story arc about the two dating
** Peter's parrot Adrien Beaky, renamed to Adrianne Beaky, he bought in "Long John Peter" becomes a recurring housepet as to follow along with him being alive after his debut episode, until he's killed in "Long John Peter II: Shelly's Return".
** Vinny, the Wisedog with an Italian accent that was purchased at the pet store by the Griffins after Brian's now undone death, is given an ''entire season'' to be the family's new dog instead of the two and a half episodes he got in the original. And even though he does still have his timeline erased, he does still do rare cameos.
** Kimi, Quagmire's date when the Griffins and their neighbors attend a couple retreat in the Bahamas in "Take My Wife", ends up becoming Quagmire's wife in "Kimi Stupid Love" and ends up becoming a recurring character until "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Quagmire_Show_(Episode) The Quagmire Show]]", with Quagmire and Kimi get divorced in this episode
** The Brown-Tubbs family, which ever since moving to Quahog have had non-speaking roles, have episodes dedicated to them and speak more in this adaptation.
** Peter's EvilTwin Retep from "Meg Stinks" becomes a semi-recurring villain, and this adaption [[BewareTheSillyOnes actually shows him to be a threat]].
* BackToSchool: "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Education_of_Elmer_T._Bags The Education of Elmer T. Bags]]" has Dr. Hartman lose his job because he never graduated high school. So, he started going to James Woods Regional High School to get his qualifications for his back.
* BadassBoast: Randall Fargus has one in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/E._Peterbus_Fargnum E. Peterbus Fargnum]]".
-->'''Randall Fargus''': Come on you bastards. '''GIVE US YOUR BEST SHOT!'''
* BadBoss: Hennessey proves to be one to Peter, with him constantly tricking Peter into failing his fisherman job.
* BaseballEpisode: Season 3's "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_Griffin%27s_All-Stars Peter Griffin's All-Stars]]" and [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Season 21's "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sandloss The Sandloss]]".
* BerserkButton:
** A lot of Francis' buttons are still here, but do ''not'' light his pocket Bible on fire. Peter learns this the hard way in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Between_Sanity_and_Madness Between Sanity and Madness]]".
** Thelma's new berserk button is to ''never'', if you value your life, steal her cigarettes as shown in "Power Over Peter".
** If you value anything, ''do not bullying one of Bruce' friends or loved ones in front of him''. Connie learns the hard way in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/A_Thug%27s_Life A Thug's Life]]"
* BewareTheNiceOnes: As said above in BerserkButton, Bruce is a very lenient and mellow guy who pretty much never gets mad about anything unless you mess with his friends or loved ones. "A Thug's Life" has Bruce get mad at Connie for bullying Meg and beat the living crap out of her, scaring her away.
* BewareTheSillyOnes:
** Randall Fargus is shown to be a goofy guy, but does have a cunning nature as seen in "E. Peterbus Fargnum", where he tricked Peter into giving him Petoria.
** Retep is a big one. For a throwaway gag character that's nothing more than a color swap character in his debut episode, he shows a surprising amount of cunning and intelligence.
* BigDamnHeroes: ''Quagmire'' of all people pull one in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Poly-hu_Akbar! Poly-hu Akbar!]]". With him saving his wife Kimi before Yousief decapitated her.
* BirthdayEpisode:
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Fat_Man_and_the_Sea The Fat Man and the Sea]]" has Cleveland celebrate his 40th birthday.
** "Long John Peter" is rewritten to start on Brian 8th birthday, as a way to age him up compared to have it off-screen in the original [[labelnote:note]]In "Brian in Love" he revealed to by 7 years old, but in "Underage Peter" got aged up a year off-screen.[[/labelnote]]
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Life_of_Brian_2:_Revival_Reversal Life of Brian 2: Revival Reversal]]" takes place on Stewie's second birthday. However...
* ABirthdayNotABreak: Stewie celebrates his second birthday on the same day Brian commits suicide in "Revival Reversal".
* BittersweetEnding:
** "The Guyfathers" ends with Paulie dying and Peter and Francis being upset, but despite it are thankful he saved them and wouldn't forget him.
** The Cleveland Show's newly added finale "[[https://the-cleveland-show-fanon.fandom.com/wiki/Cleveland_Moves_Out Cleveland Moves Out]]" becomes one. The Brown-Tubbs family is able to [[spoiler:successfully blow up the meteor, saving the Earth, but one of the blown-up pieces of the meteor crushes The Brown-Tubbs House and there's no hope in repairing their house because Cleveland and Donna got fired from their jobs and can't get money anymore. And to add salt to the wound, Roberta and Rallo are now social outcasts at school and can never show their faces in public again. With Cleveland deciding to move back to Quahog, Rhode Island with his family so he can go back to his old house and get his old job as a deli worker back again. Then, they can live their lives normally]].
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Quagmire_Show_(Episode) The Quagmire Show]]" ends with Quagmire and Kimi divorcing after being together for seven years, but both parties are on better roads from when they started out as. Quagmire became a better man and ditched his pervert ways while Kimi gets her life back together with the help of her sister Kira, heading to a new high school to return to her normal life as a teenager.
** "Karma's a Bitch", despite being a far-off DistantFinale, still has one. The episode ends with the Griffins losing their home, their lives and essentially are banned from Quahog for all the hell they caused. However, Peter remains hopeful and tells the family they'll start a new life somewhere else in the world, whether under fake identities or not.
* BlatantLies: In "Between Sanity and Madness", Francis tells Peter he quit his job as the Pope’s special assistant and did some soul searching with Thelma and decided to make amends with Peter. In reality, Francis got fired due to being a nuisance and went with Thelma to gamble in Las Vegas until they lost their money. And went to Peter to {{Blackmail}} him into giving him more money, considering he’d did so in the past.
* BleakAbyssRetirementHome: Subverted. Francis and Thelma dread getting sent to the Quahog Acres retirement home, so much that they actively make the Griffins' lives a living hell enough for Peter to change his mind. But when they go, they admit it's not so bad.
* {{Bookends}}:
** "Between Sanity and Madness" begins with the Griffins hurrying into the car and driving off to avoid Francis and Thelma. The episode ends with them again hurrying into a car, but instead with Francis and Thelma, and to avoid ''Francis''' father.
** The Cleveland Show's newly added finale uses a bookend naming scheme. The show's first episode is called "Cleveland Moves In". Whereas the show's new finale, "Cleveland Moves Out" is the inversion of the show's first episode.
* BreakoutCharacter:
** Peter's old science teacher from middle school Randall Fargus, who originally only appeared in "Running Mates" (not counting his cameo in "The King is Dead"), gets way more expansion in this. Appearing in multiple episodes throughout the second to seventh seasons and is expanded to be a bit of a MadScientist...that's a somewhat GeniusDitz
** Francis and Thelma heavily, thanks to their increased screentime. Especially the former, who takes TookALevelInKindness (albeit [[DownplayedTrope small]]) and shows a more softer and playful side.
* BrickJoke: "Poly-hu Akbar!" Kimi goes to the farmer's market with her friends, Lois, Bonnie, and Donna to find someone, with Bonnie planing on cheating on her husband with someone because she hates him. Later at the Drunken Clam, Joe complains about Bonnie cheating on him, but [[ButtMonkey everybody ignores him]].
* BungledSuicide:
** "Between Sanity and Madness" have Francis and Thelma attempt to jump off the Holy Christ Church after Peter tells them he'll never love them again. This however, causes Peter, who was acting cold throughout the third arc, to melt and save them from death.
** "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Truth_About_Meg The Truth About Meg]]" has Lois, being put under the pressure of what to do with Meg, attempt at committing suicide, but luckily failed.
* ButtMonkey: Brian, Meg and Joe are the main monkeys as usual, in fact the Meg's butt monkey traits are being something seen more in the first few seasons rather than something that comes up more ovetime, but also Francis sometimes, mostly thanks to his [[AssholeVictim cantankerous behavior and mistreatment of Peter]].
* CallBack: When Brian is shot dead in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Nanny_Goats Nanny Goats]]", Vinny immediately enters, in reference to Brian's famous death in "Life of Brian" and his being replaced by Vinny.
-->'''Vinny''': Ay! Anyone in need of a pet dog slash false babysitter-assasin?
* CallingParentsByTheirName: Owing to their [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood strained relationship]], Peter in the adaptation often calls Francis "Francis" or "Howard" instead of "Dad". Compared to [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer's frustration with it]], Francis normally shrugs it off.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Peter does this more often than the original to Francis, and on a more upped angle
* TheCasanova: Big Fat Paulie is revealed to be one in "The Guyfathers" to the surprise of Peter and Francis (who placed a bet on him that he owes them $20 if he can score a chick).
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** A strange case. While he does end up the same in the end, Herbert's first appearances have him written as more of an antagonistic [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]]. With his debut episode "Neighbor Pains" have him hire Chris for chores so nobody would get suspicious.
*** Another example of different characterization in early appearances that change to the more well known portrays. Bruce, the TokenGoodTeammate of the cast, is surprisingly more [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] towards Meg in Season 1's "Meg for Mercy", and even bluntly admits his dissatisfaction with her progress. Traits of him that seem off in a modern reading and even get removed in the second season get phased out to have him be in his more original personalty.
** In early episodes, Francis talks very well about [[spoiler:Karen]] and seems to hint at him having ParentalFavoritism to her. With him even mentioning he likes her more than Peter and even does a playful tease to Peter by trying to call her at the end "Between Sanity and Madness" to have her come for a visit, to which Peter tackled Francis to avoid said visit. This comes off as really jarring when [[spoiler:Season 14's "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Handling_Karen Handling Karen]]" reveals that Francis kicked her out of the house when she came out as a lesbian, practically disowning her]].
* CoolOldGuy: Fargus becomes one. An old guy that's a fun-loving guy, has many ways to teach his kids, makes tons of inventions and is completely spry and lively despite being in his ninety's.