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** Quagmire's [[Littlest Cancer Patient]] niece (whom Brian mistook for a boy, and further cemented Quagmire's resentment for Brian) in "Road to the North Pole". She was hospitalized somewhere around the start of the third act and that was the last we heard of her.
** The Campbells, the nudist family. They appeared in two episodes early in 2002, and then they completely disappeared except for a short cameo ''eight years later''.
** Although he was never given a name, there's the conspicuous absence of Carol's son, whom she conceived with her eighth husband. Lois and Peter were the only people present at his birth back in the early seasons (discounting an unconscious Dr. Hartman) and this event in turn inspired them to want to have more children of their own for a short while. Fast-forward a few seasons, and Carol's married and divorced her ninth husband, leading her to move in with the
* [["What the Hell?" Dad]]: Peter, at least to Chris
* [[White Anglo Saxon Protestant]]: In "The Son Also Draws", Peter shows Chris a family of WASPS; not the animal, but a family of White Anglo Saxon Protestants who make passive-aggressive remarks towards each other at dinner.
* [[Who's Laughing Now?]]: "Dial Meg For Murder" has Meg Take A Level In Badass and deliver a rather violent retribution on her abusive family and classmates.
** "Stewie Kills Lois"/"Lois Kills Stewie" may also count, at least in Stewie's perspective {{spoiler|even if it was all a simulation}}.
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]'', ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)|Charlie and The Chocolate Factory]]'', ''[[Poltergeist (film series)
** ''[[Blue Harvest|Family Guy Presentslaugh It Up Fuzzball]]'' is this to ''[[Star Wars]]''.
* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: Peter after his boss at Happy-Go-Lucky Toys died, though as of "Jungle Love", Peter is now employed at the Pawtucket Brewery. The myriad of odd jobs that Peter had (like Christina Aguilera's image consultant, a basement rat farmer, Lara Flynn Boyle's means of retaining warmth while sleeping, erotic writer, etc.) as seen through the [[Imagine Spot]]s, flashbacks, [[Aborted Arc]]s, and [[
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Stewie is one year old but can build multi-verse transporters, time machines, and laser weaponry.
* [[Won't Work On Me]]: Quagmire is able to shrug off a variety of different diseases that he is injected with, he notes in particular that he was the patient zero of gonorrhea. Peter Griffin manages to work around it by finding a mosquito from a foreign country and having it drink Quagmire's blood.
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