Top 20 Family Guy Moments That Made Fans Rage Quit
#19: Brian Switches Political Ideologies
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“Excellence in Broadcasting” For a long time in the show’s history, Brian acted as the conscience of the Griffin family. He was a cynical liberalist, leaning left with his antics, including weed legalization and jabs at George W. Bush. In “Excellence in Broadcasting,” Brian does a complete 180 and aligns himself with Rush Limbaugh, a premiere American conservative. Through this moment, Brian’s ideology became less about what he believed in and more about how he could pretentiously laud his intelligence over everyone else. Of course, this made you lose any kind of respect for the character, but it’s not the last controversial moment featuring the anthropomorphic canine.
#18: Diaper Eating
“Brian & Stewie” “Family Guy” has a consistently outlandish and hilarious tone throughout, but it isn’t afraid to get serious when it needs to. The Season 8 episode “Brian & Stewie” is such an episode, featuring the iconic duo getting stuck in a bank vault and going to some dark places. A lot of fans love this episode for showing development in the pair’s relationship. So it’s a shame the writers ruined it with this disgusting and unnecessary moment. It goes on for a long time and makes viewers genuinely uncomfortable. Maybe that was what they were going for, but if you hate gross-out humor, this quite possibly made you switch channels and miss out on what else the episode had to offer.
#17: Time-Filling Gags and Morbid Premise
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“Con Heiress” For many fans, the golden age of “Family Guy” had long passed by the time Season 17 rolled around. Just like how the Conway Twitty gag felt like the show was just padding for time, “Con Heiress” suffered the same problem throughout. The premise of Brian, Stewie and Quagmire trying to inherit elderly women’s fortunes is morbid enough, but what might’ve made you lose interest was something much more straightforward. The episode felt dragged out, like there wasn’t much there, especially during the long name joke. There are plenty of elongated jokes like this throughout the series, but the punchline wasn’t funny enough to justify the setup.
#16: DVD Commentary
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“You Can’t Handle the Booth!” When a show becomes a staple of American television, you can experiment and get creative with episodes. While some of these break-the-formula concepts have done reasonably well, “You Can’t Handle the Booth!” from Season 17 did not. An episode plays out as expected in front of us, but the difference is the fictional cast of Griffins gets frustrated while recording DVD commentary. While there are plenty of funny, fourth-wall-breaking moments, it proved a little too hard to follow for some. As a result, the episode became one of the lowest ever rated on IMDb. There wasn’t a single “final straw,” as many user reviews claimed it was too dull to finish, pointing to a decline in the show's overall quality.
#15: Peter “Saving” the Whale
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“Peter Problems” When Peter gets promoted to forklift operator at work, he naturally starts having too much fun with his new vehicle. He tries to use it to rescue a beached sperm whale… only to accidentally impale the poor mammal. Afterward, we’re subjected to a whole minute of Peter trying to dislodge the creature - only for it to fall completely apart in a grotesque display, as blood and organs topple out of the carcass. While we should maybe give props to the art directors and animators for not missing any gruesome details, fans were too busy gagging at the scene and feeling disheartened over the poor whale’s suffering.
#14: Vern & Johnny
Various Every now and then in the first few seasons, the action would be interrupted by two vaudevillian performers named Vern and Johnny. While Vern tried – and usually fails - to entertain viewers, Johnny was just there to play him off on a piano. Don’t ask where the piano comes from. While their antics were mostly harmless, fans got tired of them disrupting the episode, and even then-producer David Goodman admitted that they used the duo way too much. The gag was finally laid to rest when Stewie shot them to death in season five, and aside from a few brief cameos, they haven’t bothered us since.
#13: Making Fun of President Trump
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“Trump Guy” “Family Guy” and its various animated sitcom competitors have never shied away from taking shots at high-profile figures. Political satire is an essential part of our media, but unfortunately, “Trump Guy” wasn’t an excellent example of it. In this episode, Peter assists then-US President Donald Trump, getting into all sorts of shenanigans as his press secretary. The episode is obviously taking shots at the man and his various controversies, but many fans found his depiction lazy. It was a pretty gross depiction, at that, but the last straw for some was when he makes “advances” towards Meg. Some might’ve quit this episode for making fun of a president they admired, while others just got agitated by the cheap humor.
#12: Jesus Is a Virgin
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#11: Stewie’s Therapist
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“Send in Stewie, Please” Stewie has . . . a lot of issues, so it’s no surprise that a visit to a child psychologist sees him sharing his a lot of secrets and insecurities. Towards the end of the session however, the doctor starts having a heart attack, and asks Stewie to hand him his medicine… but Stewie refuses. It’s true that Stewie’s a sadistic little toddler and has killed plenty of times, but this was especially shocking because he didn’t even get his hands dirty. Instead, he elected to ignore the pleas of someone who only wanted to help him, and let the poor therapist suffer a slow, agonizing death –taking all of Stewie’s secrets with him to the grave.
#10: Male Sexual Assault Is Disregarded
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“Peter-assment” Humor can be a great way to bring awareness to serious topics in the real world, but the “Family Guy” team poorly handled this one. In “Peter-assment,” Peter gets blackmailed and inappropriately harassed by his boss Angela. The episode plays out very cynically, with one particular moment between Peter and Lois hitting a sore point for male victims. While this highlights a real problem with these cases, the episode ends trying to create sympathy for the perpetrator. It was a bizarre episode and even weirder for the late Carrie Fisher to be playing the role of a sexual aggressor when she was a silent champion to victims of sexual assault.
#9: Stewie Gets Herpes
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“Herpe, the Love Sore” This moment removed any shadow of likeability for Brian Griffin. After seeing a “blood brothers” ritual on television, Stewie asks Brian if they can share blood in the same way. Brian accepts, knowing full well he has a transmittable disease, and ends up getting Stewie infected. The show pulls no punches, showing disgusting, hard-to-watch imagery relating to the condition. While Stewie has been horrendously hurt before in episodes like “Brian Griffin's House of Payne,” the difference here is the perpetrator shows no remorse for his actions. It transforms Brian’s character into an insensitive jerk, which we saw hints at just episodes before with “Brian's a Bad Father.”
#8: Lois Cheats on Peter
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“Go, Stewie, Go!” Lois and Peter have never had the best marriage in the world, but they’ve always stuck together no matter what. However, this episode destroyed any respect you had for the matriarch of the Griffin household. Peter has been neglecting and insulting Lois recently, so she attempts to get with Meg’s boyfriend, Anthony. The action of cheating on Peter is terrible enough, but what’s worse is her interaction with her daughter afterward. Lois doesn’t face any consequences for her actions and instead lays all the blame on Peter. While it’s a complex situation, it doesn't shine a very nice light on Lois’s character.
#7: Peter in the Boston Marathon
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“Turban Cowboy” While the rest of the episode “Turban Cowboy” was nothing to boast about, the worst moment came when Peter recalled how he won the Boston Marathon. Turns out that he drove his car to the finish line –killing everyone in his path. It was an uninspired joke at the time, but then tragedy struck one month later with the Boston Marathon bombings. Fox pulled the episode from the airwaves and streaming services, and professional conspiracy theorist and tragedy troll Alex Jones went so far as to blame “Family Guy” for inspiring the incident. While that was quite a stretch, any way you look at it, the “gag” was in poor taste - especially in retrospect.
#6: Meg the Martyr
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“Seahorse Seashell Party” Poor Meg can never catch a break. She’s constantly tormented at school, and her own family treats her like garbage. In Season 10’s “Seahorse Seashell Party”, she’s finally had enough and tears Chris, Lois, and Peter a new one. The scene is unbelievably cathartic… until Meg sees the way the family turns on each other, and decides to allow herself to be their lightning rod. This could be seen as a noble act on paper, but it really shows how toxic and dysfunctional the Griffin family is if they have to rely on Meg’s misery to stay somewhat stable. A similar moment that made us rage quit was when Meg faked her death to get away from her family, but eventually came back. So close to freedom!
#5: Quagmire's Trial
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“Quagmire’s Mom” Quagmire is very controversial in this day and age since the character’s humor revolves around questionable intimate situations. During a party, Quagmire hooks up with an underage girl, which gets him promptly arrested. At his trial, he explains he ended up the way he is because his mother was very promiscuous. While this does give context to his character, this shouldn’t absolve him from his antics. In fact, it almost doesn’t, but his mother is able to “curry favor” with the judge. Instead of holding Quagmire somewhat accountable, all the blame is laden on a throwaway character. We could’ve seen a slightly mature response to his hijinks, but it gets disregarded using a lackluster excuse.
#4: Peter Marrying Chris?!
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“Fresh Heir” After Chris bonds with his grandpa Carter, Carter makes him the sole heir of the Pewterschmidt family fortune. A jealous Peter tries unsuccessfully to get on Chris’ good side to earn a chance at the money … but things turn creepy real fast. Peter asks Chris – his own son - to marry him… and Chris agrees. What makes this really tragic is that the only reason Chris went along with the escapade was so that he could spend time with his father – which by itself could’ve made for a decent enough theme . . . without incest thrown into the mix. Peter’s uncomfortable jokes do nothing to help.
#3: Stewie Gets Pregnant
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“Stewie Is Enceinte” We really, REALLY wish we were joking, but no. Wanting to spend more time with Brian, Stewie uses Brian’s DNA to impregnate himself. It might’ve been funny watching Stewie discover the “joys” of being an expectant mother . . . if he wasn’t a toddler himself. When the childbirth finally comes, it’s horrifically gruesome - even without seeing the actual birth. Worst of all, their children turn out to be human-puppy hybrids. Thanks to birth defects, some end up dying, while Stewie and Brian abandon the rest at a shelter. They might be an iconic duo, but this was a huge, disturbing no-no.
#2: Jeff Fecalman
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“Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q.” We first met Quagmire’s sister Brenda in season 8, where we learnt that she’s constantly beaten by her boyfriend Jeff. In Season 10’s “Screams of Silence: the Story of Brenda Q”, we got another look at their toxic relationship . . . and it’s a nightmare to watch. Jeff bullies Brenda for the pettiest of reasons, and a lot of the blame is shifted onto Brenda for staying with him. Domestic abuse is normally played for laughs on “Family Guy”, and in this episode they tried to take it seriously and failed . . . which was somehow even more uncomfortable. Even the ‘happy ending’ was more bittersweet than it should’ve been.
#1: The “Life of Brian” Ratings Trap
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“Life of Brian” In the infamous episode “Life of Brian”, Brian’s unexpected death forced fans to bid a tearful goodbye to one of the show’s most beloved characters. Needless to say, fans were horrified, or just enraged, and even launched a petition to bring the dog back. However, Brian was miraculously saved via time travel two episodes later, and Seth MacFarlane Tweeted that it was supposed to teach viewers a lesson about taking loved ones for granted. Unfortunately, this came off as emotionally manipulative, and felt like a major ratings trap – resulting in probably the biggest backlash in “Family Guy” history.
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