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• Queer Character, Queer Actor: invoked Trans woman Ida Davis is voiced by transgender actress Jamie Clayton during Season 20 and onwards.
• Quest to the West: "Shippnapped!" is focused on Peter, Stan and Hennessey travel the high seas to retrieve Peter's boat back after it was stolen by a gang of teenagers

R

• Raised by Grandparents: 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: Honestly, I don't know and I don't think I wanna know.
• Random Events Plot: "Breadlosers" runs on this. It begins with Peter getting fired from the Brewery due to him goofing off at McBurgertown all the time, and leads to Chris being the main breadwinner and take the shots. So you expect a usual Chris being a dick and Peter trying to find a new job. Which does happen in the first act alone, but then segways into Peter going to his National Association of American Fat People group meeting and decides to make it his new job when he finds out he can use it to get money. And after giving a speech reedited by Brian, Quahog citizens undergoes a surge in obesity and new members, until an overweight Mayor Adam West questions if the biggest person should be the leader of the group, considering Peter's nowhere near as fat as the other members. Which leads to them turning on Peter when he innocently makes a comment about how the thinnest member can be looked at better by comparison, making it seem like he made the group to make himself feel better and gets chased out by his group. Leaving Peter as a pariah and still needing money. So, he goes to Angela and begs for his job back, to which Angela gives it back to him, but only because his replacements weren't doing a better job than him.
• Rapid Aging: 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.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: 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: 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, YOU TWO 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? 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 never. come. back.
  • Lois' Rage Breaking Point 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 Rage Breaking Point and trash talks Family Guy
  Quagmire: He don't have the guts to say anything back.
  Cleveland: [angry] 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 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. 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! 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! You know what? Fuck this.
• Related in the Adaptation:
  • 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.
• Relationship Upgrade:
  • 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"
• Replaced with Replica: The sub-plot in "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 Antonio Monatti, the twist villain from "A Picture's Worth $1000".
• Ret-Canon: Peter's sister 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.
• Rise of Zitboy: "Peter's in Charge" has Chris hit puberty and has multiple pimples on his face.
• Rule of Three:
  • "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.
• Running Gag: While the fanfic has carried all of the show's 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^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.

S

• Sanity Ball:
  • Francis and Thelma: The two play a back-and-forth with this depending on what type of quirks are happening. Whenever its Francis being his crass, Fundamentalist self, Thelma holds it. But whenever Thelma's off in Las Vegas or smoking off, Francis holds it. When both are acting up, Peter off all people holds it.
  • Mayor Wild West usually plays the straight-man voice of reason role in most episodes, but whenever he's in one of his self-conscious episodes, his assistant (or in "City Slackers" all of Quahog) Zephyr holds it and plays the voice of reason to Wild.
• School Play: "A Play on Turds" has Meg and Chris' high school do the play Romeo and Juliet. And Chris gets the role of Romeo in the school play just so he can kiss Anna.
• Screaming at Squick: 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: Haha! You had a big wiener!
• Screwed by the Network: In-Universe and instead a newspaper example. The new sideplot of "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.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: A more husband and wife example. Thelma now plays the Sensitive to Francis’ Manly.
• Series Continuity Error: Invoked, lampshaded, and Played for Laughs in "An Original Age Old Story". Peter tries to bring up a conversation about the Quahog Acres retirement home, but Cleveland, Joe and Quagmire don't know nothing about the place. Despite the fact that in "Between Sanity and Madness", not only was Cleveland the one to recommend the idea of Peter placing his parents in the retirement home to solve his problem, but Joe and Quagmire were also there with them! Which Peter calls them out on.
• Sequel Episode:
  • 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 In Name Only sequel. Compared to "Life of Brian" where Brian was hit by a car and was replaced by Vinny, "Revival Reversal" has Brian be Driven to Suicide and Stewie goes out of his way to save him.
• Shaming the Mob: More of a "Shaming the Crowd" example, but when Adam West gets the voters riled with merely a smile and point during the mayor debate night, Lois lays down a massive rant at them for them letting someone who showed no good reasons to be mayor.
  Lois: You know what? Screw my speech! What the hell is wrong with you people?! What kind of speech is ...[she does the shooting gesture Adam did earlier]? We just got done dealing with a mayor that got arrested for committing racketeering behind our backs, and we should be more focused than ever to vote for the right person for office! A person that can rebuild Quahog and make it safer, more law filled and less prone for crime because the criminals can loophole their way out of an arrest. And yet, despite having the chance to, you're gonna let some Batman celebrity run our town?! What has he shown to be worthy of running a town? [a hand from the audience raises up] And superficial looks don't count! Give me one good reason you all want to make Adam West our mayor!
  [A long beat as nobody has an answer]
  Lois: [puts a hand to her right ear] What's that? No answer? Well, that's what I thought! You don't want him in office because he shows a promising future for Quahog. You want him to be mayor because he's Adam West, and "Oh my God, having Batman as our mayor would be cool!" without actually thinking about what he'll do. The truth is you're all being lied to by a man who's only ability is to use his vast vocabulary to give an illusion as to what he knows what he's doing, when it's clear from his stupid rules and laws he wants to put in motion if he wins that he has NO GODDAMN IDEA WHAT HE'S DOING! This man you want to vote into the mayor office is the same man that a day prior I saw running around Quahog in a Batman costume. If there's any person that should be right for the job as mayor, it's me. Vote for me!
• Shoot the Money: In-Universe, but in a more wasted use. "You Can't Handle the Booth" has an added scene were Bender, who is revealed to have costed four thousand dollars in the commentary, appears for a mere two-second cameo.
• Show Within a Show: One of the recurring elements, which was actually a fan theory started by 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.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • 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. This becomes Subverted as he dies in Season 7's 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"
• Status Quo Is God: The fanfic subverts this quite often: Quagmire has an actual wife named Kimi for seven seasons and has long staying Character Development, Chris' job of the week at the Quahog Mini-Mart is a permanent job he keeps from "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)" and is given a steady girlfriend (alongside Meg, but for her case her and her boyfriend's relationship is kept more of a secret), Peter quits the Brewery at the end of Season 22 and never returns, and Meg's real father Stan Thompson stays as long staying member.
• Story Arc:
  • 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 22 that concerning 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).
• Surprisingly-Similar Stories: An example of the fanfic project having two similar plots. On Family Guy Fanon, Season 6's "Mad Mex" has Consuela get deported after she moves into Spooner Street and becomes a pain in the ass to the neighbors. Whereas The Cleveland Show Fanon Season 4's "To the Mex" is about the Moreno Family getting deported. With both times the husband and wife of the main family group (Family Guy Peter and Lois and Cleveland Show Cleveland and Donna) having to save them and bring them back. The only true difference between the two - aside from episode name changes - is the different sideplots. "Mad Mex" has Cleveland go into the dating ring and begin to date Bernice while "To the Med" has Rallo needing to take responsibility over Rock Hudson with Cleveland and Donna off.
  • To add even more to the repeated storylines, Season 15 of Family Guy Fanon "Maid in China" has Consuela get deported again but this time sent to China. The plot synopsis even mentions that the Griffin Family must save her "for whatever reason".
• Skewed Priorities:
  • In "GriffinTube", what causes the Griffins to freak out at the end of the second act is not Meg being taken away by Child Services because they abused her, but because their YouTube account will be terminated.
  • In one of the edited scenes in "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. The family give her a disgusted look in response.
  Meg: ... Well, he won't ...
  • "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. Not that it matters...

T

• Take a Third Option: "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!
• Take That!:
  • "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, Bless the Harts.
  Peter: Bless the Harts 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, Allen Gregory, High School U.S.A., Axe Cop, Golan the Insatiable, Son of Zorn, Bordertown, some deserved it more than others, but I promise you, Bless the Harts is gunna be the golden ticket.
  Chris: [offscreen] Hey, guys. FOX just announced that Season 1 of Bless the Harts is gunna be the last.
  • "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, Alex Borstein, 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.
• Talk Like a Pirate: Played more straight for Seamus, with all of his dialogue being mostly retranslated to make Seamus sound like a pirate.
• Temporary Bulk Change / The Fat Episode:
  • "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 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.
  • "Breadlosers" has Francis return to his fat appearance when he follows the surge in obesity of town residents due to Peter becomes a fat encourager activist. Alongside Mayor West, the Swansons, the Fargus', Bruce and Jeffrey.
  • "Fattest in the West" has Mayor Wild West undergo a bulk up to upon discovering through a town survey that his reception in Quahog is mixed and the most disliked side is the obese side of Quahog when he tries to get into the most disliked side's lifestyle to make them like him more. Compared to the other examples, the episode ends with Wild still stuck in his fat bulk and spends the good majority of the first half of Season 22 slowly burning weight to get back to his original weight.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • After last being seen in Season 1's "A Picture's Worth $1000", 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 23, when Peter returns to his fisherman job.
• The Other Darrin: In-Universe. 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
• Their First Time: "Peter Pan" has Meg finally have sex with her transgender boyfriend Rosalie. Breaking her her title of being the only virgin in the immediate family.
• They Really Do Love Each Other: 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.
• The Gambling Addict: 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.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: 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.
• The Reveal:
  • "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 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.
• Throw the Dog a Bone:
  • When Randall's toxic love chemicals spread across Quahog in "Good Ol' Fargy Love", Meg and Kevin actually become boyfriend and girlfriend. It's temporary and had her memories of the day wiped at the end of the episode, but for a brief moment, Meg actually had Kevin as her boyfriend.
  • The fanfic actually gives Meg and Chris a permanent boyfriend and girlfriend from Season 20 onwards. Being Anthony Fargus and Anna respectively.
• This Is Not a Drill: "Peter Pan" has the boss of the anthropomorphic creatures working in a vaginal factory inside Meg's body say this to them when Meg has sex for the first time.
  Boss: Everybody! We have an incoming penis right now! A real-life boy penis! This is not a drilldo! I repeat, this is not a drilldo!
• Totally Radical: "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.
• Toilet Paper Prank: Season 16's "Halal-oween" B-plot had Lou gets his apartment complex, Spinazola Apartments, T Ped on Halloween and Brian helps him get revenge on the kids who did it to him.
• Two Lines, No Waiting: "Long John Peter" uses this with the pirate plot and Chris' girlfriend plot. With Shelly hiring goons to kidnapping Lois and Thelma as ransom, and the goons kidnap Anna as well due to seeing her with Chris and assuming them to be dating (which was correct). Leading to both plots coming together for the third act.

U

• Unconfessed Unemployment: As stated above in Adapted Out, 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.
• Unfortunate Names: Jeffery's last name is revealed to be "Hilterdidnothingwrong" in "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.
• Unimpressive Progress Reveal: "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.
• Unmanly Secret: Chris has one in "My Little Brother". With Meg making the horrifying discovery that Chris is secretly a brony and a furry who finds the ponies from My Little Pony Friendshipis Magic, especially Rainbow Dash, to be sexually arousing.
• Unrelated in the Adaptation: The fanfic makes it clear that Meg is not a Griffin and is an adopted child, with her real father is Stan Thompson. With multiple mentions of him and evidence with Peter mentioning Meg's adoption papers. Which becomes important in the Season 21 finale and Season 22.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
  • "Do and Die" has Horace allow the Beer Bar Buddies to take their beers to go, as there's no law saying that they can't do that, unknowingly leading to The Beer Bar Buddies drinking while driving and getting into tons of trouble.
  • "Power Over Peter" has a random wrestling match play from one of the radio stations while Peter drunk drives, that leads to him beating his family thinking he's in a wrestling tournament.
  • "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.

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• Villain Team-Up: "Long John Peter II: Shelly's Return" has Retep, Peter's Evil Twin, and Shelly, a British man that grew a hatred for Peter in "Long John Peter", team up to take on Peter.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: 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.
• Viva Las Vegas!: 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!

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• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Randall and Anthony Fargus play this. With Randall being the goofball of the family and Anthony being more of a Stoner.
• Walking Spoiler: Stan Thompson certainly qualifies. Due to his eventual appearance compared to the original.
• Was It Really Worth It?: "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 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.
• We Are Not Going Through That Again: 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.
• Wedding Episode: "A Cheater Runs Through It" is about Randall getting married to Eliza on Peter's boat and Peter helping Randall get ready for the wedding. Which Lois misinterprets for Peter cheating on her due to him being silent and becomes a...
• Wedding Smashers: Lois performs this in "A Cheater Runs Through It", by driving the family car into the sea and going up to chew Peter out in front of what she assumes is the woman he's cheating with. In reality, she crashed Randall and Eliza Fargus' wedding and instantly regrets it.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: 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 snapping at them, 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.
• We Want Our Jerk Back!: "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.
• What If?: While the whole wiki is one big what-if rewrite, "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.
• What the Hell, Hero?: 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.
• Wham Episode:
  • "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 Bittersweet Ending, 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 Season 21 finale "The Truth About Meg", as the title suggests, tells the true origin story of Meg and how 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, which she does in "Griffin vs. Thompson"
  • The Season 22 premiere arc "Griffin vs. Thompson" is a continuation of "The Truth About Meg". With it ending with Stan deciding to stay in Quahog and find work around, while keeping in contact with Meg. It also changes the dynamics with Peter and Meg.
• Wham Line: "A Cheater Runs Through It" has Peter reveal to Lois the true intentions with the wedding on his boat.
  Peter: What are you talkin' about? This isn't my wedding... it's Mr. Fargus wedding!
• Will They or Won't They?:
  • The first four seasons have multiple Ship Teasing for Meg and Kevin becoming a couple, with "Good Ol' Fargy Love" even having them temporarily become a couple. The answer seems to be they won't as future Kevin appearances have him act cold to Meg like everyone else, and Meg falls out of love with him in "Stand By Meg".
• Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: 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.
• Whole-Plot Reference: "Karma's a Bitch" is one to the The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Finale".
• Workaholic: Chris falls into the trope in "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.
• Would Hurt a Child: "Neighbor Pains" shows Fred Rogers threatening a child at gunpoint to avoid arrestation. The cops complied, and then has this trope Played for Laughs when after getting the cops to accept his demands, Mr. Rogers sneezed out a bunch of cocaine, making him accidentally shoot the gun and kill the kid.

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• Yank the Dog's Chain: 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] What!? Stewie! I saved your 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!
• Younger Than They Look: 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 "Quagmire's Mom".

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