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• Jaw Drop: 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 "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.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • While it was harsh of Peter Chernin to laugh at Peter for his Handi-Quacks cartoon in "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!
• Jerkass Realization: "Between Sanity and Madness" has one for Francis and Thelma when they realize that their fighting caused the house to be burned ablazed.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
  • In this fanfic, starting around Season 2-ish and semi-flipflopping, Francis graduates from Jerk with a Heart of Jerk 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.
• Jumped at the Call: "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.
• Just Here for Godzilla: In-Universe. In 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.

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• Karma Houdini: 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.
• Karma Houdini Warranty:
  • Geronimo's Palace going out of business from someone wining all the gambling games can be seen as this for the crap they put the Griffins through in "The Son Also Draws".
  • Antonio Monatti trying to brainwash Chris into abandoning his family and deriding Chris' art in "A Picture's Worth $1000" ends up becoming a low life afterwards and gets arrested by Chris for copying his artwork.
• Kick the Dog:
  • 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.
  • During Peter's supposed death in "The Perfect Castaway", Carter spends the whole episode doing nothing but make fun of Peter, who he hates.
  • "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: 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.
• Killed By The Adaptation: Beth, a friend of Meg who stopped appearing after "Peter's Daughter" is revealed to have killed herself off-screen in "One of the Girls" to explain why she doesn't appear anymore.
• Knew It All Along:
  • "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, 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 "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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• Lampshade Hanging: "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 one year old. By this episode, he's two years old while Abby's ten.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • After spending the whole episode tormenting Peter and his family, Francis and Thelma not only are kicked out of the house for their troubles, they also are forced by Peter to work in a drill sergeant-like exercise to even be able to get into the Acres retirement home in "Between Sanity and Madness".
  • Carter's casual nastiness towards Peter's death in "The Perfect Castaway" - making fun of Peter dying before them in front of the whole family (including Francis and Thelma, Peter's parents and the former completely dropping his dislike for Peter because of this death), both whom upset at the thought of Peter being dead, and generally treating his death with zero respect - ends with Peter kicking his ass. With an extra bonus of Lois, Babs and Francis (the latter two outright disgusted by his actions) refusing to help him.
  • "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 undermined in "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, 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 Distant Finale. With them all getting arrested for their crimes, having the entirety of Quahog and their creator turn against them in court, with their Freudian Excuse cards 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.
• Like Father, Like Son: 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.
• Loophole Abuse: In the rewritten version of "The Boys in the Band", Chris tries to pull one when Brian returns an R-Rated film his friends wanted to see and he can keep it while it's still on Brian's tab. However, his loophole is Subverted when Carl fires him because what he did was breaking the transaction of a DVD return, which is a direct violation of the rules.
• Love Potion: Randall Fargus makes on in "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 causes...
• Love Is in the Air: Fargus' chemicals causes multiple Quahog citzens to fall in love with each other. Some examples include Peter, Cleveland, and Joe falling in love with Bonnie, Lois, and Loretta, Change for a Buck falling in love with Mr. Weed and entering a relationship with him, and Meg and Kevin to become an official couple. The only one who doesn't get paired with someone is Neil.
• Love Triangle: Exaggerated in "The Fat Man and the Sea". As is not as much of a "Love Triangle", but more of a "Love Square". With the main members of it being Meg, Kevin, Neil and Anthony. Meg has a crush on Kevin, can't stand Neil and is neutral towards Anthony (at least for now). Kevin sees Meg as a friend, but barely acknowledges her flirting advances, while being neutral towards Neil and Anthony. Neil has a major crush on Meg that she constantly rejects his asks for a date, and is jealous towards Kevin and Anthony, seeing them as pawns that are driving Meg away from him. Anthony gains a crush on Meg in that said episode, is neutral towards Kevin, but can't stand Neil like Meg.

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• Manchild: Clyde Richardson, one of Carol's poly husbands, still goes to elementary school, obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine and likes to pick his boogers and then shove them up his ass. He's also obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine. Despite this, Carol still sees something in him.
• Mad Scientist / Absent-Minded Professor: 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.
• Manly Facial Hair: Stan has a rough, stubbly beard and is an ex-Mafia member, filling the criteria.
• Manipulative Bastard: 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.
• Man-Made House Flood: "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
• Married at Sea: Randall and Eliza Fargus host a private wedding on Peter's boat in "A Cheater Runs Through It".
  • Later on, Peter hosts Quagmire's wedding to Joan on the boat in "I Take Thee, Quagmire". Even references the previous wedding.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Meg's full name "Megan" and her middle name "Semanstein" have some meaning behind them as revealed in "The Truth About Meg". Lois liked the name Megan because it sounded pretty and Peter liked it because the meaning of the name, as given in the book, was "Pearl", and this made him think of a disgusting form of genital mutilation, known as "pearling". Her middle name "Semanstein" is phonetically pronounced "Semen stain", which, as they both decided, was exactly what Meg should have been (this means that Lois wished the sperm that became Meg would have never fertilized her egg and just been a semen stain on the inside of a condom).
  • Bruce's original last name "Straightman" has the meaning of him play the "straight man" in comedic interactions. However, this crosses into Ironic Name, as Bruce said he was gay.
• Middle School Is Miserable: Subverted. During Chris' time at Buddy Cianci Jr. High School, despite struggling in classes, he was a bit of a Foil to Meg in school. While Meg was a social outcast and got bullied all the time by students and teachers alike at her high school, Chris was the opposite and was shown to be more well-liked by the students and teachers (though still had his dislikers at the school, mostly Principal Sloan). In a case for Chris, its a more averted version of this trope, as he seems to have a harder time at James Woods High than Buddy Cianci.
• Mistaken for Cheating: 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 22's "How I Met Your Real Father" has Stan Thompson reveal to Meg that his accidental pregnancy to Lois that resulted in her birth lead to Stan's wife thinking this. However compared to the above example, she kicked him out of their house without giving him so much of an explanation, effectively divorced him.
• Mistaken for Dog: "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.
• Mood Whiplash: Yep. Even the fanfic has bits of this like the original
  • In "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.
• Motive Decay: "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.
• Multi-Part Episode:
  • 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 "A Filler in Need"
  • The story arc "Griffin vs. Thompson" is told in three parts ("How I Met Your Real Father", "The Good Father" and "Battle of the Dads"). Though it could be four if you count "The Truth About Meg".
• Multiple-Choice Past: The work plays more into this with Seamus and makes it a running gag that Seamus tells different stories every time he reminisces about how he lost his limbs, making the true story as to how he lost them ambiguous. At one point in "Flights of Disaster", Seamus changed his story multiple times (from a shark attack, whale attack, dolphin attack, fish attack, then sistema snack attack container) in the same sentence!
• Mystery Episode:
  • 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 "It's in the Yard" features Peter, Joe and Quagmire following a case of who killed Brian in "Life of Brian". They don't find the murderer.

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• Named by the Adaptation:
  • 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, Lois' friend group who drink at the House of Brews and Meg's friend group at James Woods/Adam West High are now called the Beer Bar Buddies (originally called the Drunk Buddies in Season 1 and 2), the Coffee Shop Girls and the Ugly Girls.
  • The Campbell's baby that appeared for a few seconds now goes under Justin Campbell.
  • The guy that introduces Brian to the Suicide Hotline is now named Lancer Prueher (as well as becoming the boss of the hotline).
  • Wild West's horse, which was unnamed in the original show is now named Ginger.
• National Anthem: "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

• Nice Mean And In Between: 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 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 Comedic Sociopathy 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.
• Nightmare Sequence:
  • Peter, Quagmire and Cleveland have one in worry of what Quahog would look like if Lois ruled and sanitized everything with her rules that would limit their fun in "Do and Die".
  • Wild West has one in "Fattest in the West".
• Noodle Incident: "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.
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: 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.
• Nothing Is the Same Anymore: The Season 22 premiere and onwards seasons has 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.
• New Baby Episode: "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.
• New Year Has Come: "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.
• Negative Continuity: While the fanfic is more keen on avoiding this compared to the original, "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.
• Not Helping Your Case: For every reason Meg gives about why she doesn't think Peter's good to be a nurse in "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: 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: U-
  Peter: [blows big raspberrry in Meg's face]
  Meg: Unfriendly,
  Peter: I hate you.
  Meg: And you faint when you see blood.
• Not So Above It All:
  • 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.
• Not So Stoic: The more calmer and down to earth Wild West is given moments of emotion and Large Ham energy in his voice compared to the original.
• No Social Skills: 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.
• N-Word Privileges: Subverted for Chris in "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: Yeah, never try to do that.

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• Oblivious to Love: Kevin's main comedic gimmick when it comes to him and Meg in the first four seasons. With Meg hitting on Kevin many, many, many times in his time before going to Iraq, sometimes in obvious ways, yet Kevin stays blind to all of them.
• Odd Friendship: 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.
• On-Again, Off-Again Relationship: A friendship example. Seamus' relationship with the Beer Bar Buddies follows this trope, as some episodes their close, but some (and by some we mean most) episodes have them want nothing to do with him.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Anytime Thelma refuses to call Peter and/or Francis by her 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] 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.
• One Dialogue, Two Conversations: 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.
• Origins Episode: 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.
• Out of Holiday Episode: In-Universe.
  • Season 1's "Death is a Bitch" is rewritten to be a Halloween Episode, which was actually the original plan, but airs in April, 1999.
  • "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
• Oven Logic: "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 Played for Laughs as they laugh at Randall Fargus' classic mishap, it's then Played for Drama when 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!? You can't go wrong!

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• Parental Neglect: Played with Peter in "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.
• Pet the Dog:
  • 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 "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven"
  • "Meaty Petey" has Peter eat Mc Burgertown meals just to piss off a bunch of vegans who protested to have the Mc Burgertown 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.
  • 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.
  • Seamus is given one in the modern seasons in terms of friends. As he has his own close friends that are not the Beer Bar Buddies (Mort, Dr. Hartman and Buck).
• Playing Pictionary: "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, 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".
• Pub Fight: 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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