Running Gag examples in Family Guy.
- Peter blowing off the front of Cleveland's house while he's in the tub (causing the tub to fall off the second floor into the front yard as Cleveland yells "No no no no no noooo!"), Joe re-gaining the ability to walk and instantly becoming crippled, Peter's spontaneous battles with a giant chicken, the evil monkey in Chris's closet (Though this one has been resolved).
- In "To Love And Die In Dixie", Peter is attacked by a raccoon at increasingly random times.
- The Vaudeville duo "Play me off..." (also resolved), Giggity Giggity, and Stewie talking to Brian about the book he is writing in a high pitched voice are other examples.
- Consuela the maid's "No,...no...", and "more Lemon Pledge"
- "[indrawn hiss]...aaaahhhh...[indrawn hiss]...aaaahhhh..."
- Every time Peter asks if someone has heard, the person says "Heard what?" Peter then proceeds to sing the lyrics to "Surfin' Bird" to an annoying degree. Lampshaded in one episode where Peter loses his memory and turns on a jukebox that plays the song, but Peter unplugs it and says the song is annoying.
- Similar to The Simpsons example below where Groundskeeper Willie keeps getting axed in the back, in the episode "Three Kings", which is three short segments parodying Stephen King stories, whatever character Joe portrays will always start with the ability to walk, but will have his legs crippled sometime before the end of the segment.
- The Kool-Aid Man breaking through the wall of a courtroom like he does in the 1970s-80s TV commercials whenever a number of people say "Oh, no!" (The drink-mix mascot also makes cameo appearances in other episodes, including one in which he witnesses something else break through a wall and realizes that it can be annoying.)
- Episodes in Seasons 4 through 8 would often feature some non-human creature having a case of Vocal Dissonance in the form of having Bruce's voice. These included the shark from Jaws (who is also named Bruce), a giant bee, the Xenomorph queen, and a giant rat.
- "Cool Hwhip. Can't have pie without Cool Hwhip." Putting too much emphasis on the "H" has been running so long in various forms that even many characters are self-aware of its memetic status.
- In "Unzipped Code", Peter keeps making racially insensitive jokes offscreen and has to take pictures with Cleveland, and later Mort Goldman, in order to prove that he isn't racist.
