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It's just like that time when we posted about memes and silly phrases from Family Guy on TV Tropes...

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• "Because you touch yourself at night." ^note From "Wasted Talent", this was originally a sarcastic, nonsensical response to young Peter's question of how the dinosaurs died out. Fans have repeatedly employed the quote to express annoyance or simply to make fun of certain questions.
• "Ssss... Ahhh... Ssss... Ahhh..." ^note Overly Long Gag from "Wasted Talent", where Peter hurts his shin and spends a long time writhing and nursing the wound. It has seen a sudden abundance of remixes in 2018, where Peter's sounds of pain are replaced by other sounds, or even quotes, from other media.
• Who else but X? ^note A reference to the "Who Else But Quagmire?" bit from "Breaking Out is Hard to Do". Often used to describe an action that a person or company would be well known for by now.
• "You know what really grinds my gears?" ^note Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story Used to complain about something you dislike.
• Peter watches X. ^note "Mother Tucker" features a parody of The Ring, in which Peter is told that if he watches a videotape, he dies. The scene is often edited so the contents of the tape are changed to random clips, often as a form of Take That! towards a work that the editor dislikes.
• Remember when TV Tropes only listed tropes about TV shows? Pepperidge Farm remembers. ^note "Hell Comes to Quahog" has a Pepperidge Farm commercial that features an old man blackmailing the viewers into buying Milano cookies. The meme has since been used to express the Glory Days, such as MTV playing music videos, YouTube not being as copyright-happy, or how there used to be only 150 Pokémon.
• ♫ Here's the plain situation! There's no negotiation with the fellas at the Freakin' FCC! ♫ ^note A song from "PTV" that mercilessly makes fun of the Federal Communications Commission's censorship. It received plenty of AMVs back when that was still popular, and remains a catchy song even still.
• Oh, have you not heard? It was my understanding that everyone had heard... ^note From "I Dream of Jesus", right before Peter starts singing The Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird" in front of Brian and Stewie. This phrase is often used to lead into "Surfin' Bird" one way or another, or is sometimes used to describe something else.
• "Oh my God, who the hell cares?" ^note "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing" Used as a common reaction image.
• Two and a Half Men's Live Studio Ostrich. ^note A cutaway gag in "Ocean's Three and a Half" where an ostrich responds to a joke on the aformentioned show with a small "haha!" It's often used as a reaction to something funny.
• "Why are we not funding this?" ^note "McStroke" involves Peter getting a stroke, which is fixed through stem cell research. This is Peter's response to how the treatment only took 5 minutes to take effect, which has been used as a reaction image to anything that deserves more attention.
• "Shut up, Meg." ^Explanation A Phrase Catcher directed at Meg. The sentence is frequently quoted whenever someone says anything positive about her character or her voice actress. Mila Kunis herself has said that she has grown annoyed with how often fans react to her statements by jokingly telling her to shut up.
• "Thank you, Ted. That was the joke." ^Explanation "Screwed the Pooch", spoken when Peter and Carter go to a poker game with Carter's buddies Bill Gates and Michael Eisner, and Ted Turner (who Gates and Eisner both hate) shows up uninvited. When Eisner says that Aces "go both ways" (i.e. are both high and low), Bill Gates cracks up and points out the double entendre, and everyone at the table laughs. Then Turner dumbly says "Like a bisexual!" Used to mock people who make jokes less funny by unnecessarily explaining them.
• "Family Guy Funny Moments" ^Explanation Some people have taken logos from random works and edited them to say "Family Guy Funny Moments", presumably to make fun of the countless "Family Guy Funniest Moments" compilation videos on YouTube.
• Hey 🅱eter ^Explanation A more surrealistic meme, it consists of extremely distorted and Stylistic Suck-laden comics in which Peter (or rather, 🅱eter) meets a random character from a random piece of media, and accidentally offends them and ends up either having to flee or suffering a nasty fate. The last panel always must have a "Like for a free [prize]"
• "Who wants chowder?" ^note In "8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter", Peter holds a vomiting contest with Brian, Chris and Stewie; which culminates with the four puking simultaneously when Lois asks them if they want chowder. The scene soon became infamous among fans, who started editing it in numerous ways. Common practices involve inserting audio from the episode in scenes from movies that also have Vomit Indiscretion Shot, or vocoding the family's groans to the tune of famous songs.
• "You Can't Catch Me, Gay Thoughts" ^Explanation In "Meet the Quagmires", there's a cutaway gag showing that the reason Tom Cruise is running in all of his movies is that he's running from his own gay thoughts. Obviously, it became a reaction to anything someone thinks about that the person might consider "gay".
• The Four Peters ^Explanation A gag in "Model Misbehavior" where Peter plus three other Peters start singing "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" acapella. Remixers online have used it to make everything from "MEGALOVANIA" to "A Cruel Angel's Thesis".
• Family Guy Effect ^Explanation Anytime the show references an internet meme (e.g. Trololo, Chuck Norris facts), said meme will see a sudden surge of popularity before quickly becoming a Discredited Meme.
• "You guys always act like you're better than me!" ^note In "Seahorse Seashell Party", Meg gives her family a huge "The Reason You Suck" Speech; after she says this line, the family is suddenly dressed in fancy attire to prove her point. Subsequent versions of the meme depict Meg as an entity complaining about similar things with more mainstream popularity.
• Taking the audio clips of Bill Cosby from "Brian Does Hollywood" and remixing them to various songs combining them with Cosby's voice clips from The Simpsons was quite popular on websites such as YouTube and YTMND.
• It's been a popular trend to edit the theme song of the show to either have another song playing over it or altering something in the actual visuals itself, like Lois not appearing at the piano, which itself started as a spin-off of the American Dad! theme song meme where Stan doesn't wake up.
• "Do Atheists go to Hell?" ^note In "Are You There God? It's Me, Peter", Peter and God are stuck in an elevator. Peter takes advantage of the situation to ask god some questions. One of them is if atheists go to hell, to which God replies that they don't. Peter then asks about "people who say that they are not religious, but they are spiritual." God replies with: "Straight to Hell. To the boiler room of hell. All the way down." The meme replaces "people who say that they're not religious but they are spiritual" with something that they hate.
• "BRIAN, LOOK OUT!" ^note Stewie says this in "Life of Brian" as Brian is about to be fatally struck by an oncoming car. Due to the episode's negative reception as a Ratings Stunt, the death scene in question is often edited to have the car replaced by a different car, or something else altogether like Galeem's light beams. Other times, the death itself is used for meme fodder, with edits having Brian emit Minecraft "oof" noises or having Brian actually live through the video.
• Peter did not care for The Godfather. ^note Near the end of "Untitled Griffin Family History", Peter admits that he could not get into The Godfather, with the rest of the family (sans Meg, who was elsewhere) being absolutely flabbergasted at him. This is often made into a snowclone meme used to describe a number of popular things that, for one reason or another, someone just couldn't get into.
• Peter Explains the Joke ^note Most likely as a way to poke fun of the show explaining jokes often or particularly unfunny people on social media using Peter Griffin as an avatar, the meme has Peter explaining the jokes of memes, making them funnier.
• Peter eating rice cakes ^note From "Amish Guy", Peter decides to try out rice cakes after being told it's a good way to start a diet and his subsequent freak-out after trying one is the subject of many parodies on YouTube.
• The skin color chart on Peter. ^note Used by the toll booth security guard in "Turban Cowboy" where the lighter top half reads "okay" and the darker bottom half "not okay". It's used often to address racial profiling and the double standard hesitating to label domestic white attacks as terrorism.
• "Don't go to X. Worst mistake of my life." ^note Captioned pictures of a promotional image for "North By North Quahog" that contains Peter running in fear, with "go to X" being directions to a specific place and/or time, from web pages and image searches to historical events, with no indication of what awaits there other than some form of unpleasant information.
• Peter paints the truth. He paints his truth. ^note In the episode "Tea Peter", Peter Griffin paints a family portrait. His painting shows the mother and daughter in lingerie, making out; the father and son watching calmly. Wanting to know what Peter did, he responds: "I painted the truth. I painted my truth." A standard Shipper on Deck meme, it didn't become popular until Peter painted a picture of Boyfriend and Girlfriend; his "truth" being the two having sex.
• DUDE, THOSE ANIMALS ARE SO FUCKING FUNNY THEY MAKE ME WANNA MERGE WITHOUT LOOKING! ^note A cutaway in "Hell Comes to Quahog" features a jerk driving a Hummer while watching Madagascar, eventually merging while distracted by the animals in the film, causing a car to crash into an oil tank. Edits of this cutaway have been going viral in 2021.
• Stock Family Guy Death Pose ^Explanation People have noticed most people who die or get beaten near to it in the show end up in the same pose, back facing the camera with twisted legs and arms behind their back. It's become common to draw other characters in the same pose as a shorthand for them getting either killed or just getting their shit wrecked, much like Yamcha and his infamous death pose.
• Peter and friends rollerskating at the rink. ^Explanation From "Hell Comes to Quahog", the scene where Peter, Joe, Cleveland, and Quagmire rollerskate at the disco rink became popular to edit other music while they're dancing around to express "me and the boys vibing".
• Aww sweet, man made horrors beyond my comprehension. ◊ ^Explanation Based on the infamous quote by Nikola Tesla, mixed with one of Peter's catchphrases, the image is often edited accompanying messages or news that one finds disturbing, like scary things in video games or cursed memes; although it is sometimes used as a half-sarcastic answer to actually worrisome news.
  • "Aww sweet! A Schizo Thread/Meltdown! ^Explanation Similar to the above, but in response to Image Board threads that tend to get quite nutty.
• And don't forget to watch Family Guy! Sunday night at sev- ^Explanation In the old YouTube video Congrats to South Park by protopod, Protopod himself congratulates South Park for having its 200th episode. It seems normal, but then takes a Mood Whiplash where the Griffins all show up and get shot by him. It's often cut off just as Stewie shows up, for comedic effect.
• Peter, what are you doing? ^Crack. A scene from Peter's Two Dads where Brian asks Peter what he is doing, with Peter responding with "Crack.", and Brian responding with "What the fuck?". It is popular to edit the scene by replacing what Peter is saying or redrawing it.
• Who The Fuck Starts A Conversation Like That? I Just Sat Down! ^Explanation From "Tea Peter", the scene where Peter responds to this after Quagmire asks him if he ever unwittingly masturbated to pictures of his mother. In terms of memetics, it's used just as the episode codified it: an incredulous response to an extremely eccentric question.

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