Top 10 Times Peter Griffin Got What He Deserved on Family Guy

“Family Guy Viewer Mail #1”

In this somewhat off-brand episode, the show delivers three mini episodes based on fan ideas. In one of them, “No Bones About It,” Peter gets three wishes from a genie, and when he nearly gets into a fight on the bus, he uses one of them to wish he has no bones. He quickly realizes this is a mistake when he becomes a burden on his family and is only useful as a Hollywood stunt mat. This one is kind of a layup to say that Peter got what he deserved - he literally wished for it.

“Da Boom”

When Peter is the only one in town to prepare for or even believe in the apocalypse that Y2K will bring on, he becomes founder and Mayor of New Quahog. Of course, being Peter, he runs the new town like an idiot, assigning people jobs randomly rather than based on any kind of skill or merit or need. Naturally, things descend into madness pretty quickly, and Peter is to blame. It’s hard to feel bad for him when the townspeople inevitably revolt and kick him out of his own town.

“Blind Ambition”

When Quagmire inadvertently saves the life of a woman having a heart attack, Peter becomes jealous of all the attention he gets. In an effort to become famous like Quagmire or Joe, the hero cop, Peter decides to break a world record. And the one he chooses for whatever reason is to eat the most nickels. Peter has never been the brightest guy out there, but he really should have seen this one coming. He gets nickel poisoning and goes loses his vision from his ridiculous attempt. Peter has a lot of terrible things done to him throughout the series, but this one, he does to himself.

“No Meals on Wheels”

Peter and Lois open their own restaurant, which only becomes successful after Joe invites his fellow friends with disabilities to eat there. Peter, unhappy with the clientele, excludes them from the restaurant, and they retaliate, resulting in a huge fight. Literally, a huge fight. The officers in wheelchairs unite into a giant robot, eventually destroying the establishment and leaving Peter injured. Talk about instant karma. We don’t know which is worse, the fact that he rejects people with disabilities or the fact that he does this to his friend. You’d think after being pals with Joe for so long, he would’ve learned a little more compassion.

“Are You There God? It's Me, Peter”

Peter has always been lazy, but who knew his laziness could lead to actual physical harm? When Peter spends an entire weekend binging TV, drinking beer, and eating junk food in his underpants, he ends up getting stuck to the couch in his own grossness. Something like this could only happen to Peter. His slovenly behavior is clearly unmatched by any other. As if that isn’t bad enough, refusing to remove the couch from his back, he falls down the stairs, is knocked unconscious, and finds himself in an elevator with God talking about where he’ll spend eternity based on how he treats his family. But more on that in a moment.

“Lethal Weapons”

If this episode were any indication of where Peter might spend his afterlife, he’d definitely be heading down in God’s elevator. Peter historically is a bad husband to Lois and a bad father to his kids. In fact, he belittles and insults Lois so much that she takes up martial arts in order to regain some of her own strength and power. And when Peter even takes advantage of this, she ends up beating him up because she just can’t take it anymore. And it spreads to the whole family. We’re not condoning domestic violence by any means, but we can’t help but think that Peter had this coming.

“Peter Problems”

Peter’s general level of incompetence spreads to every aspect of his life. Nevertheless, he somehow manages a promotion at work to forklift operator. Surely there was someone more qualified after the previous operator retired. Given this new power, Peter wastes no time in abusing it. He uses the forklift to entertain himself and his friends. He pushes things way too far when he misuses the forklift to save a beached whale, and ends up gruesomely killing it instead. But the final nail in the coffin is when he accidentally crashes the forklift into a company meeting. Peter’s eventually rehired, but it’s honestly a wonder he holds onto his job at the brewery for as long as he does.

“Whistle While Your Wife Works”

This one is no one’s fault but his own. Peter is playing with fireworks that Quagmire brought back home from a trip to Florida. Let’s be honest: Peter might be oblivious, but we all know where this one is going. He basically strings together enough M-80s to equal a full stick of dynamite, and in his excitement, Peter waits too long to set the fireworks while reciting his creation’s long and elaborate name, blowing off all the fingers on one of his hands. Luckily, he’s able to get them reattached. But that should teach him not to play with fireworks.

“Brian’s a Bad Father”

While on a camping trip with his buddies, Peter shoots Quagmire in the arm on purpose. Naturally, this upsets Quagmire, and Peter refuses to take any accountability whatsoever for his actions. Seeing that this is only the latest in a long line of bad behavior from Peter in their friendship, Quagmire wants to even the score to make things right again. After a pretty hilarious argument about the whole thing, Quagmire shoots Peter in the head. Arguably, this isn’t a use of equal force, but we can’t really fault Quagmire for putting Peter in his place.

“Meet the Quagmires”

As we’ve previously stated, Peter is infamous for how bad of a husband he is to Lois. In this episode, he goes back in time to relive his youth, and in skipping his first date with Lois, he wakes up to a new life without her in the future. You’d think Peter would know better than to neglect Lois when only a few episodes before, she cheats on him when he abandons her to spend time with Bill Clinton. In the end, things, of course, go back to normal, but if Peter were stuck in that new reality where Lois is married to Quagmire, we would have no sympathy for him at all.