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* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Quagmire delivers one of these to Brian in "Jerome Is The New Black."
** An earlier example: in "Play It Again, Brian", Brian delivers one to Peter regarding of how bad a husband he is. However, Peter countered with another one regarding Brian's inability to hold a relationship.
** Brian is once again on the receiving end of one from Bill Maher, Dana Gould, and Arianna Huffington in "Brian Writes A Bestseller", when he completely dismisses what he said in his own book in a desperate attempt to impress Bill when Brian guest stars on his show.
** In "Seahorse Seashell Party", Meg gives one each to Chris, Lois, and Peter.
* [[Red Shirt]]: Spoofed with "Ensign Ricky".
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* [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]
* [[Replacement Scrappy]]: [[In-Universe]], New Brian is this to Stewie.
* [[Resentful Guardian]]: Lois Griffin has been shown to have feelings of contempt towards her oldest daughter Meg for being unable to have an abortion and therefore getting disqualified from participating in the Olympics. Instead she is now stuck raising her.
* [[Reset Button]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]].
{{quote|'''Peter:''' Yeah, everything'll go back to normal [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|next week]], so who gives a damn?}}
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** Play me off, Johnny!
*** In the episode "Saving Private Brian", Stewie terminated this gag with extreme prejudice by shooting Vern and Johnny and proclaiming they will never be seen again. Ironically they were seen again as ghosts in a later episode "Back To The Woods" with Johnny appearing in Hell because, as Vern puts it, "Johnny liked little boys."
** Cleveland: [[Big No|No. No. No. No. No. No. No. NO~~]] * bathtub breaks*
{{quote|'''Tim the Bear:''' [[The Cleveland Show|I don't get it.]]}}
** Ladies and gentleman, Mr. [[Overly Long Gag|Conway Twitty]].
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* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Cleveland's ex-wife Loretta.
** A Black woman in hindsight.
* [[Saving Christmas]]: In the episode "Road to the North Pole", Stewie and Brian attempt to do this, because Santa is exhausted to near death due to the increasing demand for presents. Predictably, they [[Epic Fail|fail catastrophically]].
* [[Scratch Damage]]: This is all Meg is capable of in "Viewer Mail."
* [[Second-Person Attack]]: In "Stuck Together, Torn Apart", the singer on stage who says the next song is for all the ladies out there is given a punch by Peter, seen from the singer's viewpoint.
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* [[Shower of Angst]]: Stewie, after learning Rupert has "cheated" him, along with [[Sanity Slippage]].
* [[Showgirl Skirt]]: The showgirl outfit in the opening, and in scenes with showgirls, all have the same design of a leotard and a headdress and skirt [[Fluffy Fashion Feathers|of feathers]].
* [[The Show Goes Hollywood]]: "Brian Does Hollywood", in which Brian moves to Los Angeles to become a writer but ends up becoming a porn director.
* [[Sideboob]]: Ptv's ''The Sideboob Hour''.
* [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]]: Peter vs Ernie the Giant Chicken. Brian also seems to be gaining a more mutual hatred for Quagmire as episodes progress.
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* [[That's All Folks]]: A parody of the famous ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' rings appears in "The Tan Aquatic With Steve Zissou" after Peter cuts himself shaving with a razor fan.
* [[Thanksgiving Episode]]: The Season 10 episode named "Thanksgiving". On the menu? [[Continuity Nod]]{s}, [[Lampshade Hanging|complaints]], and {{spoiler|Kevin Swanson.}}
* [[They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste]]: If you don't take the [[Anvilicious]] animal-friendly message from "Dog Gone" at face value, [[Take That, Scrappy!|you see a whole other anvil]].
* [[The Thing That Would Not Leave]]: Billy Fin, a talking dolphin (played by [[Ricky Gervais]]) who stays at the Griffins until his wife takes him back.
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]
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* [[Trust Me, I'm an X]]: [[Nightmare Fuel|"Relax, I be a doctor."]]
* [[Truth in Television]]: The way [[Domestic Abuse]] is portrayed in "Screams Of Silence" is '''100% realistic!'''
* [[Tour Guide Gag]]
* [[TV Never Lies]]
* [[Two Decades Behind]]: A lot of the references on the show are to 80s-90s stuff, even though quite a bit of their fanbase are college age, meaning they grew up in the late 90s-early 2000s.
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** In another episode, when "the guys" are discussing their preferred woman:
{{quote|'''Joe:''' Um, Quagmire, [[Hanson|Taylor Hanson]]'s a guy.}}
** Subverted on Diane's talk show when a man reveals he's not a man but a woman, then not a woman but a horse, and then not a horse but really a broom.
* [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]: In "Airport '07", the plan to get Quagmire's job back is explained (with a dramatization even) before it's carried out. Guess how well the original plan went.
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Peter of course.
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* [[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)||Poltergeist]]'', ''[[Tootsie]]'', ''[[And Then There Were None]]''.
** ''[[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 [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]s don't count because they're just [[Played for Laughs|put there for laughs]].
* [[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.
* [[Working on the Chain Gang]]: In the episode "Holy Crap," Peter has kidnapped the Pope by posing as his driver and he drives the Pope Mobile past one of these. The Pope doesn't realize anything is wrong and keeps waving at everything, including a chain gang, parodying ''[[Cool Hand Luke]]'':
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* [[Yandere]]: Meg in the fifth season episode "Barely Legal".
** Meg in general for the last couple of seasons, really.
*** [[Abusive Parents|Completely]] [[Justified Trope]] [[Broken Bird|though]].
**** Also Quagmire's wife in the episode "I Take Thee, Quagmire".
** Meg again in "The Hand That Rocks The Wheelchair", this time towards {{spoiler|Joe}}, even going so far as to {{spoiler|attempt to cripple herself for him.}}
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