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* [[Too Dumb to Live]], on which ''Petarded'' [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lantern]].
* [[Took a Level In Dumbass]]: He is much stupider than he was in the early seasons.
** [[Took a Level Inin Jerkass]]: Not to mention a heck of a lot more nasty (for one thing, he is now intentionally abusive).
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Ugly Guy to Lois' Hot Wife.
* [[Unconfessed Unemployment]]: In the pilot.
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* [[Women Are Wiser]]: Most of the time, anyway.
** It DEFINITELY applies with respect to intelligence... she is smarter than Peter by leaps and bounds. The moral component of that trope is where the grey area comes in, and even then [[Psychopathic Manchild|Peter]] hardly prevails here.
*** Even with her own flawed moments and [[Took a Level Inin Jerkass|Taking Several Levels In Jerkass]], Peter has only had moral ground over her ''once'' in twenty years. He savored it well.
 
==== Megan "Meg" Griffin ====
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* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: In “Peter's Two Dads”, Stewie talks to his teddy bear, Rupert, about being spanked by Lois when he comes to this.
** '''Stewie''': I feel terrified, brutalized, and humiliated, and… and… and alive. My god, I never felt alive in years. Rupert… you know. I think perhaps on maybe one of those people… who… gets a jolly out of being hit.
* [[Took a Level In Kindness]]: In comparison to his role as [[Token Evil Teammate]] in early seasons, some consider him the most likeable member of the family after they all [[Took a Level Inin Jerkass]].
* [[Unexplained Accent]]
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: In early seasons. However, it still shows up from time to time.
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* [[Like a Weasel]]: His most common method of picking up women in later seasons. In "Peter's Got Woods" he meets a beautiful black woman and tries to curry her favor by getting Chris' school renamed for Martin Luther King Jr. In another episode, when a woman says magicians turn her on, he ''immediately'' blurts out "I'm a magician!"
* [[Mommy Issues]]: Possible explains his weakness for women.
* [[Motive Decay]]: In early seasons Brian wants to date a woman of depth and substance, having gotten tired of [[Brainless Beauty|Brainless Beauties]] who have no idea what he's talking about when he wants to have meaningful conversations. Later on, the Griffins (Lois especially) make fun of him for dating nothing but said Brainless Beauties and Quagmire even calls him out on this in his [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] from "Jerome Is The New Black" (with Quagmire pointing out his hypocrisy by stating, "Yeah, I date women for their bodies, but at least I'm honest about it...") Not to say that he still end up in dates with women of depth that end badly, most notably Carolyn and Ida, the former who Cleveland snagged, and the latter who turned out to be Quagmire's dad [[TranssexualTranssexualism|post-sex change]].
* [[My Instincts Are Showing]]: Brian acts like a human for most of the time, but sometimes he shows dog traits; for example, he will chase balls, is attracted to the sound of dog food in a bag, and is terrified of the vacuum cleaner.
* [[Off the Wagon]] (but occasionally ends up back on it)