Memes / Family Guy

It's just like that time when we posted about memes and silly phrases from Family Guy on TV Tropes...

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General

• I got a glock in my 'rari!^ExplainationThese memes involving a scene in which Peter has gone deaf lip synced to the song "679" by Fetty Wap became popular in early 2023. This went further and spawned various edits of different media with the same song, as well as cementing the song as an iconic meme sound in general.
• "Shut up, Meg."^ExplanationA Phrase Catcher directed at Meg. The sentence is frequently quoted whenever someone says anything positive about her character or her voice actress. Mila Kunis herself has said that she has grown annoyed with how often fans react to her statements by jokingly telling her to shut up.
• "Family Guy Funny Moments"^ExplanationSome people have taken logos from random works and edited them to say "Family Guy Funny Moments", presumably to make fun of the countless "Family Guy Funniest Moments" compilation videos on YouTube.
• Hey 🅱eter^ExplanationA more surrealistic meme, it consists of extremely distorted and Stylistic Suck-laden comics in which Peter (or rather, 🅱eter) meets a random character from a random piece of media, and accidentally offends them and ends up either having to flee or suffering a nasty fate. The last panel always must have a "Like for a free [prize]".
• Family Guy Effect^ExplanationAnytime the show references an internet meme (e.g. Trololo, Chuck Norris facts), said meme will see a sudden surge of popularity before quickly becoming a Discredited Meme. Usually, it's because the show corrupts the meme with an unpleasant rendition, but it sometimes just tires the audience of hearing the meme overused.
• It's been a popular trend to edit the theme song of the show to either have another song playing over it or altering something in the actual visuals itself, like Lois not appearing at the piano, which itself started as a spin-off of the American Dad! theme song meme where Stan doesn't wake up.
• Peter Explains the Joke^{Peter here to explain the meme}Most likely as a way to poke fun of the show explaining jokes often or particularly unfunny people on social media using Peter Griffin as an avatar, the meme has Peter explaining the jokes of memes, making them funnier.
• Stock Family Guy Death Pose^ExplanationPeople have noticed most people who die or get beaten near to it in the show end up in the same pose, back facing the camera with twisted legs and arms behind their back. It's become common to draw other characters in the same pose as a shorthand for them getting either killed or just getting their shit wrecked, much like Yamcha and his infamous death pose.
• Aww sweet, man made horrors beyond my comprehension.◊^ExplanationBased on the infamous quote by Nikola Tesla, mixed with one of Peter's catchphrases, the image is often edited accompanying messages or news that one finds disturbing, like scary things in video games or cursed memes; although it is sometimes used as a half-sarcastic answer to actually worrisome news.
  • "Aww sweet! A Schizo Thread/Meltdown!"^ExplanationSimilar to the above, but in response to Image Board threads that tend to get quite nutty.
• And don't forget to watch Family Guy! Sunday night at sev-^ExplanationIn the old YouTube video "Congrats to South Park" by protopod, Protopod himself congratulates South Park for having its 200th episode. It seems normal, but then takes a Mood Whiplash where the Griffins all show up and get shot by him. It's often cut off just as Stewie shows up, for comedic effect.
• My Happy Song/Happy Happy Happy^Explanation"My Happy Song" by Super Simple Songs is used as the audio to a viral video of Peter dancing on a car within the Apple Arcade game Warped Kart Racers.
• Family Guy Pipeline Incident^ExplanationBeginning around the latter half of 2022, clips of Family Guy with "ADHD videos" like mobile app gameplay underneath began to pop up on TikTok. The footage underneath the clips is purposely there to prevent any copyright strikes. Much like the "Funny Moments" compilations above, they seem to keep showing up with no signs of stopping. The trend also began being applied to other series like Bluey, The Big Bang Theory, and later on South Park. As for where the "pipeline" term came from, it comes from a trend in said videos that involve an "oddly satisfying" clip of a metal pipe being filled up with cigarettes. The algorithm often recommends "Family Guy Pipeline Incident" in the search bar as a result.
• Peter answers the door/"Holy crap, Lois! It's [X]!"^ExplanationA series of images of Peter opening the door and seeing either a famous fictional character or internet celebrity.
• Lois is a police officer.^ExplanationBecause Chief Misty Luggins from The Bad Guys (2022) is voiced by Alex Borstein, as well as having a similar color palette as Lois, it became very popular for Family Guy fans to joke about Lois becoming a police officer.
• "Giggity!"^ExplanationOne of Quagmire's catch phrases. It is often used outside of the show in response to Accidental Innuendos or anything presented in a sexual manner, sometimes said in rapid succession. (i.e. "Giggity-giggity-giggity-giggity...")
• Gum/Craig Meyer^ExplanationFamily Guy shitposters often refer to Quagmire as either "Gum" or "Craig Meyer". Both names originate from bizarre comments relating to Quagmire and are often paired with particularly Off-Model screenshots of the character.
• Rajshahi Indian Restaurant^ExplanationRajshahi Indian Restaurant is an Australian restaurant that gained infamy in 2022 due to an absolutely bizarre viral marketing campaign, which was in large part comprised of Family Guy shitposts themed around the restaurant. The campaign received enough exposure that the restaurant's owners eventually were interviewed by Know Your Meme.

Season 2

• Big Stu^ExplanationBig Stu is the nickname given by Family Guy shitposters to a version of Stewie that appears in a cutaway gag from "The Story on Page One" as a portly adult who operates a "big and tall" clothing shop. Due to his distinctive appearance, he's become somewhat of an ironic Memetic Badass in shitposting circles.
• "Because you touch yourself at night."^ExplanationFrom "Wasted Talent", this was originally a sarcastic, nonsensical response to young Peter's question of how the dinosaurs died out. Fans have repeatedly employed the quote to express annoyance or simply to make fun of certain questions.
• "Ssss... Ahhh... Ssss... Ahhh..."^ExplanationAn Overly Long Gag from "Wasted Talent", where Peter hurts his shin and spends a long time writhing and nursing the wound. It has seen a sudden abundance of remixes in 2018, where Peter's sounds of pain are replaced by other sounds, or even quotes, from other media.

Season 3

• Taking the audio clips of Bill Cosby from "Brian Does Hollywood" and remixing them to various songs combining them with Cosby's voice clips from The Simpsons was quite popular on websites such as YouTube and YTMND.
• "Thank you, Ted. That was the joke."^Explanation"Screwed the Pooch", spoken when Peter and Carter go to a poker game with Carter's buddies Bill Gates and Michael Eisner, and Ted Turner (who Gates and Eisner both hate) shows up uninvited. When Peter says that Aces "go both ways" (i.e. are both high and low), Bill Gates cracks up and points out the double entendre, and everyone at the table laughs. Then Turner dumbly says, "Like a bisexual!" Used to mock people who make jokes less funny by unnecessarily explaining them.

Season 4

• "Don't go to [X]. Worst mistake of my life."^ExplanationCaptioned pictures of a promotional image for "North by North Quahog" that contains Peter running in fear, with "go to [X]" being directions to a specific place and/or time, from web pages and image searches to historical events, with no indication of what awaits there other than some form of unpleasant information.
  • "I told you, Peter."^ExplanationA piece of fan art of Cloud Strife standing besides a comatose Peter as a result of the above.
• Brian Griffin Jump Scare^ExplanationA clip from "Don't Make me Over" of Brian angrily barking at the viewer while running towards the screen went viral in 2023.
• "Who wants chowder?"^ExplanationIn "8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter", Peter holds a vomiting contest with Brian, Chris, and Stewie; which culminates with the four puking simultaneously when Lois asks them if they want chowder. The scene soon became infamous among fans, who started editing it in numerous ways. Common practices involve inserting audio from the episode in scenes from movies that also have Vomit Indiscretion Shot, or vocoding the family's groans to the tune of famous songs.
• Who else but [X]?^ExplanationA reference to the "Who Else But Quagmire?" bit from "Breaking Out is Hard to Do". Often used to describe an action that a person or company would be well known for by now.
• The Four Peters^ExplanationA gag in "Model Misbehavior" where Peter plus three other Peters start singing "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" acapella. Remixers online have used it to make everything from "MEGALOVANIA" to "A Cruel Angel's Thesis".
• ♫Here's the plain situation! There's no negotiation with the fellas at the Freakin' FCC!♫^ExplanationA song from "PTV" that mercilessly makes fun of the Federal Communications Commission's censorship. It received plenty of AMVs back when that was still popular, and remains a catchy song even still.
• "WHERE'S MY MONEY?"^ExplanationOne of the most memorable moments of the show in "Patriot Games", when Stewie is savagely beating up Brian for not having his money come 24 hours (which is the time slot Stewie gave him). This scene went viral on YouTube and spawned variations, including animations and recreations in other media.
• "What the hell is this?"^ExplanationA cutaway in "You May Now Kiss the...Uh...Guy Who Receives" depicting Noah's Ark has Noah reacting to the hybrid offspring of an elephant and a penguin. The scene became an object-labelling meme where the penguin-elephant is represented as something that would be considered a hybrid of two existing things (ex. Minecraft + PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds = Fortnite).
• Peter did not care for The Godfather.^ExplanationNear the end of "The Griffin Family History", Peter admits that he could not get into The Godfather, with the rest of the family (sans Meg, who was elsewhere) being absolutely flabbergasted at him. This is often made into a snowclone meme used to describe a number of popular things that, for one reason or another, someone just couldn't get into.

Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story

• "You know what really grinds my gears?"^ExplanationFrom "Stewie B. Goode", an image macro used to complain about something you dislike.
• Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube Man^ExplanationA cutaway gag in "Bango Was His Name, Oh!" where the character Al Harrington is trying to sell all of his Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube Men due to a shipping error. The scene became an instant hit for Al's enthusiasm in the commercial, spawning tons of video tributes, groups on Facebook and Flickr, YTMNDs, and merchandise. Nowadays, it's hard to mention the real-life inflatable tube people without someone calling them "wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube men".

Season 5

• Peter watches [X].^Explanation"Mother Tucker" features a parody of The Ring, in which Peter is told that if he watches a video tape, he dies. The scene is often edited so the contents of the tape are changed to random clips, often as a form of Take That! towards a work that the editor dislikes.
• Peter and friends rollerskating at the rink.^ExplanationFrom "Hell Comes to Quahog", the scene where Peter, Joe, Cleveland, and Quagmire rollerskate at the disco rink became popular to edit other music while they're dancing around to express "me and the boys vibing".
• DUDE, THOSE ANIMALS ARE SO FUCKING FUNNY THEY MAKE ME WANNA MERGE WITHOUT LOOKING!^ExplanationA cutaway in "Hell Comes to Quahog" features a jerk driving a Hummer while watching Madagascar, eventually merging while distracted by the animals in the film, causing a car to crash into an oil tank. Edits of this cutaway have been going viral in 2021.
• Remember when TV Tropes only listed tropes about TV shows? Pepperidge Farm remembers.^Explanation"Hell Comes to Quahog" has a Pepperidge Farm commercial that features an old man blackmailing the viewers into buying Milano cookies. The meme has since been used to express the Glory Days, such as MTV playing music videos, YouTube not being as copyright-happy, or how there used to be only 150 Pokémon (and an extra one, Mew).
• "Peter, what are you doing?"^Crack.A scene from "Peter's Two Dads" where Brian and Peter discuss the latter doing cocaine to help with his drinking addiction. It is popular to edit the scene by replacing what Peter is saying or redrawing it. Also, in January 2023, a lot of YouTube Poops of this scene were uploaded.
• Peter is Electric Man Vocoded to [X]^ExplanationVarious vocoded remixes have been made with the scene from "No Meals on Wheels" in which Peter keeps shocking his family using static electricity from his pajamas.
• "You can't catch me, gay thoughts!"^ExplanationIn "Meet the Quagmires", there's a cutaway gag showing that the reason Tom Cruise is running in all of his movies is that he's running from his own gay thoughts. Obviously, it became a reaction to anything someone thinks about that the person might consider "gay".

Season 6

• "I just wanna talk to him."^ExplanationIn "Peter's Daughter", Peter resolves to become a better father to Meg after she nearly drowns. He ends up becoming wildly overprotective and chases away a boy she had recently started dating. After that, Meg confesses that she's worried that she might be pregnant with his child, and Peter does not take the news well, walking to his house while loading a shotgun all while insisting to a protesting Meg that he "just want(s) to talk to him". This clip is often paired with a statement that one strongly disagrees with, is considered ridiculous, or is inaccurate, jokingly implying that the poster wants the person who made the statement to be shot.
• "Why are we not funding this?"^Explanation"McStroke" involves Peter getting a stroke, which is fixed through stem cell research. This is Peter's response to how the treatment only took 5 minutes to take effect, which has been used as a reaction image to anything that deserves more attention.

Season 7

• "Oh, have you not heard? It was my understanding that everyone had heard..."^ExplanationFrom "I Dream of Jesus", right before Peter starts singing The Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird" in front of Brian and Stewie. This phrase is often used to lead into "Surfin' Bird" one way or another, or is sometimes used to describe something else.
  • Peter sings "Surfin' Bird"^ExplanationA Running Gag from the same episode where Peter constantly sings "Surfin' Bird". Everything from the silly way he dances to his continuous singing of the song has been used and parodied in many memes, ranging from playing the Family Guy version over humorous montages to showing characters from other media reacting in annoyance to the song and using the dance in other memes like the "Peter Dances to Happy" meme, and this association has resulted in a renewed popularity of the original song starting in the late 2000s and continuing to this very day.
• "I'm Glenn Quagmire."^ExplanationThis line originates from "The Man with Two Brians" where Quagmire does a Jackass stunt called "Bee Bush", involving putting honey on his crotch and letting bees cover it, it became a popular meme after a bizarre YouTube Poop was made that features the skit for most of the video.
• "Oh my god, who the hell cares?"^ExplanationFrom "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing", where Peter is dissatisfied in show-and-tell. Used as a common reaction image or video for dismissing news one considers irrelevant or unimportant.
• Two and a Half Men's Live Studio Ostrich^ExplanationA cutaway gag in "Ocean's Three and a Half" where an ostrich responds to a joke on the aforementioned show with a small, "haha!" It's often used as a reaction to something funny.
• "Peter... the horse is here."^ExplanationIn "Family Gay", Peter brings a mentally challenged horse into their home, which starts to follow the family everywhere they go, including the kitchen. This scene went viral in 2022, where Peter's reaction after Lois' speech is replaced with a stock cartoon running sound effect. Some edits also often degrade the video's quality to impossible levels.
• "LOIS TRIPS ON HER CHEST AND GRABS HER BOOB. LAAAAAAAAAAME!!!"^ExplanationOriginally from the infamous rant from DogsEatingDogs6; during a segment wherein he criticizes the show's frequent usage of recycled jokes, he shouts this line over "FOX-y Lady"'s reuse of the knee joke from "Wasted Talent". It received an explosion in popularity after YouTuber DeadwingDork covered the video (among other videos from the same user) during one of his livestreams.
• "Ah! Ah! He said it! He said it!"^ExplanationOriginates from a Cutaway Gag in the episode "420" where Peter gets excited when he hears a movie's title being said in the movie. It's used to react to any instance of Title Drop like in the original scene, or for any time a popular phrase is said.

Season 8

• "If that DVD even touches Road House, I'll kill you."^ExplanationIn "Brian's Got a Brand New Bag", Peter excitedly buys a copy of Road House, and the store clerk also gives him a DVD of What Dreams May Come for free, which Peter rejects, and after the clerk insists on taking it, Peter answers with that line. This often used to mock products so poorly received that Even Beggars Won't Choose It.
• "YOU STUPID N-"^Explanation"April in Quahog" ends on a scene of Peter playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. This scene would recieve a voiceover in which Peter rages over being killed by another player, while using the N-word multiple times. Its beginning would become popular on the internet, often inserted into other Family Guy clips and complete with the Hard Cut just as Peter says the word.
• Brian F****d Quagmire's Dad Vocoded to [X]^ExplanationIt's become a meme to take the infamous last five minutes of "Quagmire's Dad" and sync it through vocoding to any memetic material, from "Africa" by Toto to "Take On Me" by a-ha.
• Brian's scream after his Vomit Indiscretion Shot from "Quagmire's Dad" has become a Stock Scream for Brian in most fan edits made about him, including accompanying him being run over in "Life of Brian".

Season 10

• "You guys always act like you're better than me!"^ExplanationIn "Seahorse Seashell Party", Meg gives her family a huge "The Reason You Suck" Speech; after she says this line, the family is suddenly dressed in fancy attire to prove her point. Subsequent versions of the meme depict Meg as an entity complaining about similar things with more mainstream popularity.
• "Oh! Okay!" (Neck Snap)^ExplanationOne Cutaway Gag from "Stewie Goes for a Drive" has Peter cheerfully saying the above line, then snapping his own neck when Lois offers to let him join her book club. Many people replace the book club part with a pet peeve of theirs.
• Peter eating rice cakes^ExplanationFrom "Amish Guy", Peter decides to try out rice cakes after being told it's a good way to start a diet and his subsequent freak-out after trying one is the subject of many parodies on YouTube.
• Stewie is scared of News of the World^ExplanationIn "Killer Queen", Brian discovers that Stewie is very afraid of the album cover for Queen's News of the World (specifically, a robot that appears on it) and decides to mess with him by placing it in various places. Edited clips of those scenes with the album replaced with anything else became popular in 2022, started by a TikTok edit using Your Favorite Martian fanart and one on YouTube with Nathaniel Bandy's profile picture.
• Peter paints the truth. He paints his truth.^ExplanationIn the episode "Tea Peter", Peter Griffin paints a family portrait. His painting shows the mother and daughter in lingerie, making out; the father and son watching calmly. Wanting to know what Peter did, he responds: "I painted the truth. I painted my truth." A standard Shipper on Deck meme, it didn't become popular until Peter painted a picture of Boyfriend and Girlfriend; his "truth" being the two having sex.
• "Who the fuck starts a conversation like that? I just sat down!"^ExplanationFrom "Tea Peter", the scene where Peter responds to this after Quagmire asks him if he ever unwittingly masturbated to pictures of his mother. In terms of memetics, it's used just as the episode codified it: an incredulous response to an extremely eccentric question.

Season 11

• "Hey, you guys. Check out the look on Lois' face when I do this."^ExplanationPeter wrecking the front yard with his car in "Joe's Revenge" has been repeatedly edited to feature Peter causing havoc in all other kinds of works with the car, including running Brian over.
• The skin color chart on Peter.^ExplanationUsed by the toll booth security guard in "Turban Cowboy" where the lighter top half reads "okay" and the darker bottom half "not okay". It's used often to address racial profiling and the double standard hesitating to label domestic white attacks as terrorism.

Season 12

• "BRIAN, LOOK OUT!"^ExplanationStewie says this in "Life of Brian" as Brian is about to be fatally struck by an oncoming car. Due to the episode's negative reception as a Ratings Stunt, the death scene in question is often edited to have the car replaced by a different car, or something else altogether like Galeem's light beams. Other times, the death itself is used for meme fodder, with edits having Brian emit Minecraft "oof" noises or having Brian actually live through the video.
• Toilet Quagmire^ExplanationIn "Baby Got Black", a sleep-deprived Peter hallucinates Quagmire turning into a toilet. The clip was commonly associated with the song "Paralyzer" by Finger Eleven.

Season 14

• "But I want it NOW!!"^ExplanationA cutaway from "Guy, Robot" has Peter destroying the living room in a wild rage when he learns that Laverne & Shirley will return "after these messages". The clip has been used to express a user's impatience, usually with the release of a highly-anticipated movie or show.
• Peter listening to [X] on his car radio^ExplanationIn "Peter, Chris, & Brian", Peter is seen crying while listening to "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls on his car radio, before happily dancing to Pharrell Williams' "Happy". It's become a meme to edit the two songs out and replace them with songs from the same source material, the first one being considered a sad song, and the second being a high-energy song.
• "Dancing, walking, rearranging furniture."^ExplanationIn "Scammed Yankees", Carter Pewterschmidt parodies the music video of "Virtual Insanity" by Jamiroquai in a cutaway. Edits of this cutaway have gone viral on TikTok in 2023.

Season 15

• I'm sorry.^{No. I'm sorry.}A scene from "Inside Family Guy" where Brian stars in a remake of Old Yeller, but it instead ending with him delivering an action one-liner and shooting the kid is popular to label Brian and the kid as different people/companies/objects.

Season 16

• Overenthusiastic Group of Carolers^ExplanationIn "Don't Be a Dickens at Christmas", the overenthusiastic group of carolers are treated as a zombie apocalypse who afflict Quagmire and Joe with The Virus. It's become a meme around the holiday season to replace the carolers with any other group that's considered overzealous and controlling.
• "Do you, or do you not, feel bonita?"^ExplanationIn "Dog Bites Bear", Chris is putting a dress on Brian for his "thriving quinceañera dress business". He asks Brian if he feels bonita, to which Brian says "I feel bonita". This soundbite started going viral on TikTok in the wake of the "ADHD videos" trend.
• "Do atheists go to Hell?"^ExplanationIn "Are You There God!? It's Me, Peter", Peter and God are stuck in an elevator. Peter takes advantage of the situation to ask God some questions. One of them is if atheists go to hell, to which God replies that they don't. Peter then asks about "people who say that they are not religious, but they are spiritual." God replies with: "Straight to Hell. To the boiler room of hell. All the way down." The meme replaces "people who say that they're not religious but they are spiritual" with something that they hate.

Season 21

• PETAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!^ExplanationLois' scream in the climactic scene of "The Munchurian Candidate" instantly struck a chord with viewers for how genuinely horrified Alex Borstein sounds, leading to it being spread around like wildfire and edited to replace various other screams, such as this one in Mudvayne's "Dig", or this one from Neon Genesis Evangelion.

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