Since its apprehensive ancestry criticized as a rip-off of The Simpsons, Family Guy has morphed into its own thing as a darker version of The Simpsons. While The Simpsons goes to great lengths to remind audiences that, ultimately, Homer and Marge have a strong wedlock, Family Guy has gone the other mode and regularly tells audiences that Peter and Lois accept a terrible relationship.

The show has dropped a lot of hints that they've both had affairs, they make no undercover of the fact they don't really dearest their kids, and divorce has e'er been on the table. Peter and Lois have also uttered plenty of iconic quotes throughout the show'southward storied history.

ten Peter: "Yous Know What Really Grinds My Gears?"

There still hasn't been a theatrically released Family unit Guy film — although the evidence'south staff have repeatedly teased that it's a possibility — simply three episodes were strung together to make a movie of sorts called Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story.

While Stewie was searching San Francisco for his biological male parent (who turns out to be his hereafter self), Peter became a local celebrity with a news segment in which he complained nearly "what actually grinds my gears."

nine Lois: "Okay, Everyone, It's 2:30! Time For Dinner! 'Crusade On Thanksgiving, ii:thirty Is Dinnertime For Some Reason!"

At that place accept been a few Thanksgiving-themed episodes of Family Guy, including one in which Peter and Brian have to discover a new turkey afterward drunkenly eating the one Lois prepared and one in which Joe and Bonnie's presumed-dead son returns.

1 thing is the same in all of them: Lois is e'er in charge of dinner. In one hilarious ascertainment, she says, "Okay, everyone, it's 2:30! Time for dinner! 'Cause on Thanksgiving, 2:xxx is dinnertime for some reason!"

eight Peter: "Bon Jovi, Everyone."

When Lois inherits a giant mansion from one of her older relatives, it doesn't take long for the Griffins to arrange to their new flush lifestyle — especially Peter, who instantly becomes a snob.

In an effort to audio fancy, he says, "Bon Jovi, everyone." Brian eventually snaps Peter out of his rich guy trance past smashing his Star Wars glass.

seven Lois: "Peter, Nosotros Take A Hamper. Stop Throwing Your Muddy Clothes In The Toilet."

Homer doesn't help Marge with the housework and is a pretty negligent parent, simply he's a saint compared to Peter Griffin. Peter doesn't but turn down to assistance Lois with anything around the house; he actively makes her life harder.

For case, instead of throwing his dirty apparel in the hamper, Peter throws them in the toilet. Laundry is enough of a pain without having to fish your married man's clothes out of the toilet.

vi Peter: "Dear Is Like A Fart. If You Have To Force It, It's Probably Crap."

When Peter reluctantly takes Meg on a trip, they finish upward bonding a lot more than than he expected. He even offers his daughter some sage advice: "Love is similar a fart. If you have to forcefulness information technology, it'southward probably crap."

Despite the colorful metaphor making it a delightfully crass gag, the sentiment here is pretty poignant. One shouldn't have to forcefulness love — or a fart.

5 Lois: "The Secret To Happiness Is Burying All Your True Feelings And Living A Life Of Banal Compromise."

Lois does picayune to hide the fact that she's more often than not unhappy. Whenever Peter asks how their marriage is doing, she says they should just stick it out until the kids go out dwelling and then appraise.

But she has a "great" solution for dealing with this unhappiness: "The secret to happiness is burying all your true feelings and living a life of bland compromise." This isn't the real key to happiness just is definitely one of the most open up ways Lois has communicated how she feels about her life.

4 Peter: "Oh My God, Who... The Hell... Cares?!"

When Peter'south bosses find out he never passed the 3rd grade in season 7's "Tales of a Third Form Nothing," he's forced to get back to school and sit in a classroom with a agglomeration of kids.

In many ways, he's more kittenish than his new classmates. During a particularly boring show-and-tell presentation, he yells out, "Oh my God, who... the hell... cares?!"

3 Lois: "Breakfast For Dinner Is Chaos!"

When Joe confiscates a Harvard student's I.D., he and the guys bulldoze down to the prestigious school for a night on the boondocks. In the college'due south dining hall, Peter sees that they're serving breakfast for dinner and calls Lois to tell her.

Apparently, this is a hot-push button effect in their wedlock. An enraged Lois yells downwards the phone, "Peter, breakfast for dinner is anarchy!" Peter says, "It's fun, Lois! Information technology'south whimsical!" She says, "It'south ridiculous! Pancakes are not a night-fourth dimension nutrient!"

ii Peter: "Lois Might Exist Worth A Million Dollars To You, But To Me, She'due south Worthless."

In an early episode of Family Guy, Peter and Lois' how-we-met story is revealed in a series of flashbacks. Carter offers to give Peter $1 million not to date Lois and Peter responds, "Lois might be worth a one thousand thousand dollars to y'all, but to me, she'southward worthless."

This is a prime example of Peter existence well-meaning but clueless. He tries to say something sugariness and accidentally says something mean-spirited, equally opposed to most contempo episodes in which he'due south just hateful-spirited.

1 Lois: "Wow, Nosotros Rolled Iii Gutter Assurance On These Kids, Huh?"

Throughout the many seasons of Family Guy, Lois has made no secret of her disappointment with her kids. She bullies Meg along with the rest of the family and she's all but lost hope in Chris.

Stewie, of course, has constantly tried to kill her. The one fourth dimension that he showed some affection toward his mom, he became then clingy that she eventually grew to resent him.

NEXT: Family Guy: 5 Reasons Stewie Is The Show'southward Best Character (And His 5 Closest Contenders)

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