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* [[Jaw Drop]]: Shown with Meg, Lois, and Chris after Peter got raped by a "breedin' bull" at a rodeo.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: As of Season 8, it seems they are trying to shift Peter back to this.

** For "Baby, You Knock Me Out", he temporarily goes back to being a Jerkass for nearly 2/3 of the episode.

* [[Jerkass]]: Most of the cast and characters.

** Some more so than others.

* [[Jittercam]]: Used very noticeably each time an airplane was on a collision course in "Airport 'O7".

* [[Jumping Out of a Cake]]: Peter accidentally kills a stripper while cutting the cake, [[Comically Missing the Point|but is concerned only that the cake has coconut frosting]].

* [[Just Plane Wrong]]: Japanese Zero's are not three seaters but [[Rule of Cool]] probably applies.

* [[Kafka Komedy]]: Happens frequently, especially with Brian who frequently finds himself on the receiving end of endless [[Comedic Sociopathy]] due to [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin'|some minor or inadvertent offense]], [[Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond|especially if it involves Quagmire]].

* [[Kangaroo Pouch Ride]]: Peter climbs into the pouch of a kangaroo, but the poor kangaroo can barely move.

* [[Kill the Poor]]: In "A Picture is Worth 1,000 Bucks", Peter remarks that [[New York City]] is a lot nicer ever since Rudy Giuliani secretly had the homeless killed.

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Francis Griffin, Mr. Weed. {{spoiler|Murial Goldman, Derek (Jillian's husband), James Woods, Bertram, and Diane Simmons}} as of Season 9. Subverted in that {{spoiler|James Woods}} [[Death Is Cheap|later came back]].

** Al Harrington of Wacky Waving Inflatable Flailing Arm Tube Men Emporium.

** When Peter becomes one of the New England Patriots, he does a local spot for a car dealership complete with monotone reading, eyes following cue-cards, forced football references, and crappy redundant jingle.

* [[Knock-Knock Joke]]

* [[Knockout Gas]]: Peter gave his rival a statue of himself that sprayed "Crazy Purple Knockout Gas!"

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Lots of it:

** In "Dog Gone," Peter and Lois get into a pronunciation argument, just like Brian and Stewie often do. Stewie asks "Are we really doing this?"

*** That seemed more like a [[Who's on First?]] joke to me.

** When Brian found his long lost son, Stewie asked what we were all thinking:

'''Brian:''' You know what, Stewie? [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|If you don't like it, go on the Internet and complain.]] }}

** From "The Big Bang Theory", when Stewie is explaining how he and Brian have traveled outside of the space-time continuum. Doubles as [[Medium Awareness]]:

** In ''Back to the Pilot'' we get this bit:

'''Stewie:''' Well, the Stewie from the past has a lot more gadgets and things than I do, [[Flanderization|I've kinda slacked off a little bit.]] }}

* [[The Last Horse Crosses the Finish Line]]- The [[Trope Namer]]. Several people have fallen victim to it over the years, namely every single adult male (save for Brian) on Spooner Street, and several of the adult women, including Lois, who provides this quote through a dream she has about accidentally stumbling upon Stewie's lair while cleaning, and Stewie killing her upon uttering that line and a rather scathing dialogue.

** "That's classic travelin' music."

* [[Let's Have Another Baby]]: After assisting his sister-in-law in giving birth, Peter first suggests stealing her baby, but then says this to Lois who agrees. That is, until they realize that they're too busy with Stewie to take care of another baby.

* [[Limited Animation]]: Taken to extremes post-cancelation. Lampshaded like almost everything else at one point.

* [[Lint Value]]: Implied when the family is stranded in another country without money -- they go to the black market to be smuggled back into America, where there's a sign already posted that they do not except lint or bits of string as payment.

* [[Locked in a Room]]: "Brian & Stewie", where the duo is stuck in a bank vault all night.

* [[Logic Bomb]]: Peter does this to a robotic office suck-up that agrees with everything he says to try to make him stop:

'''Suck-up:''' ''(malfunctioning)'' But--not you the president--that you who said you hated--you, you who love--hate... {{smallcaps|'''''Yankees... Clouds...'''''}} ''[[Your Head Asplode|(head explodes)]]'' }}

** An employee said they'll have it fixed. Presumably with a built-in "[[Futurama|paradox-absorbing crumple zones]]".

* [[Lolicon]]: Peter in "Extra Large Medium" [[It Makes Sense in Context|says he needs to touch something that belongs to the buried guy with a bomb strapped to his chest so he can find him (he thinks he's psychic)]], and asks if the guy's 12-year-old daughter is just a kid, or the type of 12-year-old who drinks a lot of milk and had her breasts come in early. Then again, Peter was declared mentally retarded in one episode. He still needs a psychiatrist, though. One with a [[Hyperspace Mallet|sledgehammer]].

** A similiar gag was used again (Family Gay) with race horses named after cancelled Fox shows with the announcer telling their positions.

** Also on "Episode 420," Peter gets so high that, instead of setting up one of his flashback moments, he shows the viewers a list of celebrities he hates, including Stephen Dorff, [[Justin Timberlake]], Dane Cook, Chris O'Donnell, [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], Kathy Griffin, Andy Samberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Andrew McCarthy, Rita Coolidge, David Arquette, Carlos Mencia, [[Amy Winehouse]], every rapper, Ethan Hawke, Dax Sheppard, Toby Keith, Joe Francis, Princess Diana, [[Coldplay|Chris Martin]], Chris Martin again, Chris Martin's parents, Eve Plumb, Bonnie Franklin, Kate Bekinsale, Freddie Prinze Jr., Suri Cruise, The forehead guy from ''[[The Office]]'', Garry Marshal, Paul Tsongas, and Chris Martin's ancestors.

* [[Loud of War]]: In the ''[[Star Wars]]'' spoof "Laugh It Up, Fuzzbal"', the torture scene from Empire is recreated with Han (Peter) being tormented by "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?"

* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: "The life of the wife is ended by the knife!"

* [[Made of Explodium]]: The Amish buggy... and the Amish [[Crowning Moment of Funny|horse]], from "I Never Met the Dead Man".

* [[Made of Iron]]: During their fights, Peter and Ernie the Giant Chicken suffer horrific injuries that should by all rights kill them, but Peter is never more than just breathless after the battle ends.

** Still a [[Mama Bear]] when it comes to Stewie. Willing to fight a vicious dog to get his teddy bear back. Making the mother of the older bully kid who stole Stewie's Halloween candy give it back plus the bully's candy '''plus''' forty dollars! (At 100% interest, compounded daily; when the woman nervously tells Lois she doesn't have forty dollars, Lois tells her that she'll be back the next day for ''eighty'' dollars. God only knows what Lois will do to her if she doesn't eventually cough it up. She even scares ''Stewie'' with that.)

** Subverted at first and then ultimately fulfilled when she tries to save Joe from falling down a sewer waterfall.

'''Joe''': Pretend I'm your child, Lois! (Lois starts to let go) Not Meg, not Meg! (Lois finds the strength to pull him to safety). }}

* [[Man of a Thousand Voices]]: Seth MacFarlane, and to a lesser extent Mike Henry.

** Wasn't she saying "Make love to me, Ziggy Stardust!"?

** An earlier episode (the one where Joe is introduced) had Peter saying, "Me love you long time" to a prospective Asian softball player (as that's the only thing "Asian" Peter knows how to say).

* [[Mediation Backfire]]: Peter is upset that he can't find way to bond with Stewie, until he discovers that beating up Lois is the perfect way to do it. Crosses the Line Twice when they lock her in the trunk of a car and sink it in a lake.

* [[Medium Blending]]: Seen in "Road to Rupert" during the Stewie/Gene Kelly dancing sequence, which combines live action and animation.

* [[Midlife Crisis Car]]: Peter gets one in "And the Wiener Is..."

* [[Misplaced Accent]]: Santos and Pasqual are supposedly Portuguese fishermen yet speak in heavily accented ''Brazilian'' Portuguese.

** In a pre-cancellation episode, after Chris is caught peeping in the girls' locker room, Peter approaches Chris' room, and there's a rapid knocking sound, which turns out to be Chris, playing with a ball-and-paddle. Peter gives Chris his porn collection, then leaves, and the sound continues, then Peter realizes he's holding the paddle

* [[Monkeys on a Typewriter]]: Peter references them in "The King Is Dead". In a twist, the monkeys are fully intelligent and speak exactly like regular humans.

* [[Multi Boobage]]: Meg has 3...well, she has 3 nipples, according to the Count. Yes, that [[Sesame Street|Count]]. They dated briefly.

* [[The Multiverse]]: The season 8 premiere, aptly titled "Road to the Multiverse".

* [[Murder by Mistake]]: {{spoiler|In the 9th season premiere, Diane's mechanism to murder James Woods accidentally kills Stephanie.}}

* [[Mushroom Samba]]: Brian consumes psychedelic mushrooms in "Seahorse Seashell Party", and ends up having a series of horrifying visions.

* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: One episode's opening depicts the Griffin Family as members of the [[Superfriends]]... and Meg.

* [[My Girl Is a Slut]]:

'''Lois:''' Nothing. }}

* [[My Instincts Are Showing]]: Brian is an [[Intellectual Animal]], but his canine behavior still shows up.

** Stewie isn't an animal, but despite being more intelligent than anybody else on the cast, he still has many natural baby instincts, such as loving ''[[The Teletubbies]]'' and going ballistic when he finds out they're going to [[Disney Theme Parks|Disney World]].

* [[Native American Casino]]: The Griffins visit one in "The Son Also Draws".

* [[Negative Continuity]]: In "Baby, You Knock Me Out". Throughout the episode, people are surprised that Lois can fight so well and that she can be so aggressive, including Lois herself. Lois even says something to the effect of how she's never felt so powerful. Apparently everybody (including Seth MacFarlane and the show writers) forgot about "Lethal Weapons", the episode in which she mastered Tae Jitsu and became ultra-aggressive and drunk on power as a result.

* [[Never Live It Down]]: In-universe. Brian once dated a [[Brainless Beauty]] and was conflicted about it, however everyone (including Quagmire, who also dates brainless beauties) accuses Brian of only dating women for their looks (even though Brian once dated Pearl, the elderly woman who used to be a jingle singer, only to exile herself from society after trying to launch a legitimate singing career and being shot down, from season 3's "Brian Wallows and Peter Swallows").

** Lois was in a porno but she learned to live with that and showed the video IN CHURCH.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: Done a lot recently, especially with episodes featuring an A-Plot with Meg or Chris and a B-Plot with Brian and Stewie. The promotional image for "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven" was Stewie with the ST:TNG cast, as well as the summary. Six minutes into the episode, Peter announces that it's going to be a Meg Episode (although in the end it was more about Brian). The Star Trek cast got like one or two lines each. Another similar example is "Stew-Roids". All the promotional images and summary were about Stewie muscling up, and implied that the story involving Chris, Meg, and Connie was a minor subplot.

* [[Nice Character, Mean Actor]]: Mother Maggie.

** "The Hand that Rocks the Wheelchair": every murder committed by Evil Stewie.

* [[No Indoor Voice]]: [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Blac-u Weather]] Reporter Ollie Williams. Except when he's baked.

* [[No Such Thing as HR]]: The Pawtucket Brewery. The plot of one episode has Peter's boss Angela sexually harassing him; never once does Peter even consider taking it up with HR. (or even if the company ''has'' HR).

* [[Nobody Over 50 Is Gay]]: Subverted with Herbert.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: An event Peter refers to in "Don't Make Me Over".

'''Peter:''' ...Oh. }}

* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Meg, Ernie the Giant Chicken, Connie D'Amico, and the Evil Monkey have all been pretty much left for certain death and somehow survived it.

** Except now {{spoiler|he lives in Jake Tucker's bedroom.}}

* [["Not Wearing Pants" Dream]]: Stewie, in "He's Too Sexy For His Fat":

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Brian squirting lotion on Stewie's sunburned body, from a certain angle, looks like he's ejaculating on Stewie, to which a passing-by [[Three's Company|Mr. Furley]] says, "Nevermind, I'll come back later!"

** Played with when Peter gains an attraction to Lois' gained weight and is later found making love to the removed pile of fat from her liposuction.

* [[Notable Commercial Campaigns]]: In 2011 American channel TBS bought the rights to air ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' and advertised it by showing a clip of Peter jumping into midair and getting frozen there. After he says "Call a Scientist!" we cut to a clip from ''Big Bang'' of Leonard answering the phone. Oddly enough, the footage of Peter came from an episode which only five minutes earlier had featured a ''Big Bang'' parody complete with [[Ink Suit Actor|stars Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki]] voicing their characters.

* [[Nothing Personal]]: In true gangster fashion, Stewie is surprised that Brian is so offended about giving him [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|two brutal beatings]] over a late payment of gambling earnings in ''Patriot Games''.

'''Brian:''' You shot me in both my knees, and set me on fire. Piss off. }}

* [[Nuns Are Funny]]: "When You Wish Upon A Weinstien".

* [[N-Word Privileges]]: Referenced in a cutaway in an early episode involving Peter's ancestor [[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|Huck Griffin]] who now referred to his raft partner as "N-word Jim".

** When Peter thinks the world was going to end, he mentions that he is going to go to the black section of town and say the N-word. He returns a short time later wearing a sash that says "King of the Black People," and says "They respected me for saying it."

* [[Obnoxious In-Laws]]: Peter's stepdad, as well as Lois' father.

* [[Off-Model]]: In "Let's Go to the Hop", during the musical number, Peter's head keeps shrinking for no reason. This was even addressed on the DVD audio commentary.

* [[Obvious Object Could Be Anything]]: Used on multiple occasions. The exact execution depends on who's doing the guessing.

* [[Once Per Episode]]: One character says "What the Hell?" to another.

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: {{spoiler|Stewie rescues Lois from being shot to death by Diane Simmons...because no one but ''him'' is allowed to kill Lois!}}

* [[Opening Narration]]: "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci High" features a ''[[Law and Order]]'' parody that opens the episode.

'''Peter''': Oh, sorry. I just farted. }}

* [[Opening Shout-Out]]: One episode has an opening that [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSGgl9jG9vo perfectly mirrors] the [[The Incredible Hulk (TV series)|1977 Incredible Hulk series's]] opening.

* [[Out of Focus]]: Since the show returned, Lois, Meg, and Chris only get one (sometimes two) episodes per season focused on them, while the rest of the season being focused on Brian and Stewie, and to a lesser extent Peter.

** Meg has been hit with this the most. It's to the point that, even in an episode where Meg is the driving force of the plot, she disappears entirely after the first five minutes, does not reappear until five minutes before the end and spends three of those being entirely silent.

* [[Overcrank]]: Parodied, with most anything else, in "The Kiss Seen 'Round the World": Meg swoons over Tom Tucker, who is walking in slow motion. It's assumed that he's only walking in slow motion in her fantasies, but no, that's how slow he actually walks, and people around him walk normal speed.

* [[Overly Polite Pals]]: "The Even Couple".

* [[Overused Running Gag]]: In "Forget-Me-Not" Peter finds a jukebox playing "Surfin' Bird," and turns it off because he finds it annoying.

* [[Palette Swap]]: Lois' sister, Carol, is practically a copy of Lois, the only difference being the clothing and the hair.

* [[Paranoia Gambit]]: Done successfully by Brian in "Patriot Games" when Stewie, as payback for the brutal beating he gave Brian over the money that Brian owed him, offers Brian a free revenge shot. Brian agrees on the terms that he can use it at any time and that Stewie won't know when he will be hit. Brian does not use it, and Stewie goes crazy to the point of harming himself to even the deal. At the end of the episode, Brian evens it out by pushing Stewie in front of a moving bus. Also doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Brian.

** Except for Peter who giggles afterwards.

** There's also the Redneck episode.

** Meg's bachelorette party, where Peter was the stripper.

** When Chris proposes her to Peter to date in the same episode.

* [[Pie in the Face]]: Lois (twice if you count "Saggy Naggy") in "You Can't Do That On Television, Peter," and Herbert in the "It's a Wonderful Day for Pie" sequence in "Road to the Multiverse."

* [[Pineapple Surprise]]: Used in the climactic battle in "Lois Kills Stewie", though she is able to remove the belt before the explosion.

* [[A Pirate 400 Years Too Late]]: Peter goes from stealing a parrot as a pet from a veterinarian's office, to dressing as a stereotypical pirate, then hiring a pirate crew and finally going on the road and engaging a motorist in an epic swashbuckling fight, in the course of which Peter's car [[Coincidental Accidental Disguise|acquires a mast and sails]].

* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]] / [[One-Hour Work Week]]: In the earlier episodes, Lois had a job as an at-home piano teacher. References to this job gradually dropped over time, and she has since been portrayed as a housewife.

* [[Playing Pictionary]]: In "Lois Kills Stewie":

'''Peter''': That was an owl? }}

* [[Police Lineup]]

* [[Poor Man's Porn]]: When Stewie finally succeeds in derailing Peter and Lois' plans to conceive a fourth child (about twenty seconds after he stops trying), Peter takes a lingerie catalogue into the bathroom.

** In "Peter's Two Dads", Brian says, "What the fuck?!" when he sees Peter on the couch, who just got done taking crack.

* [["Previously On..."]]: Parodied and subverted at the start of "Brian Does Hollywood". All of the clips shown never actually occurred in part one, "The Thin White Line", and instead are send-ups of typical crime and court drama tropes.

* [[Primal Scene]]: Causing Stewie to go [[Screaming At Squick]].

* [[Prom Baby]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRj-S8Aklcw "Prom Night Dumpster Baby."]

 

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