Culturally significant words and phrases from Family Guy

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Family Guy, an animated television series, has used and coined many words and phrases for humorous effect. The most famous example might be Quagmire's "giggity," elaborated by many repetitions and sometimes terminated with "goo," or a single "giggity" followed by "awwwright..."; this particular variation was the number 3 ring tone for the week ending February 7, 2007.^[1]

Peter's use of the word "sideboob" in the episode "PTV" inspired the creation of the website www.sideboob.org ([1]) which posts sideboob pictures of singers, actresses and models. The term has also acquired widespread use in Internet entertainment tabloids.

1 Catchphrases and monologues
2 Neologisms
3 Sea also
4 References

[edit] Catchphrases and monologues

Stewie's "Damn you, vile woman!" is a popular ringtone even among female cellphone users. The official Family Guy website offers Stewie's high-pitched monologue in which he harrasses Brian about his novel (from "Brian the Bachelor").

Some of the catchphrases of the characters have become indelibly associated with those characters, such as Brian's "Whose leg do you have to hump to get a dry martini around here?" and Stewie's "Victory is mine!" both of which were parodied at the end of "Fifteen Minutes of Shame" and again in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story.

[edit] Neologisms

The show's writers have come up with some new words, and in some cases they've promoted existing neologisms and are sometimes wrongly credited with these (for example, "chumba-wumba" and "shipoopie"). Urban Dictionary acknowledges the following as originating from Family Guy: clemen (from "Patriot Games"), dipsoluscious vacation (from "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas",fastizio (from "The Thin White Line"), Gatilsday (from "If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'"), hic-a-doo-la (from "Fore Father"), the aforementioned "sideboob", "slappywag" (from "E Peterbus Unum") and "tumorsyphilisitisosis" (from "If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'")

[edit] Sea also

Culturally significant words and phrases from The Simpsons

[edit] References

Callaghan, Steve. "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater ." Family Guy: The Official Episode Guide Seasons 1-3. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 210. Michael Shipley is quoted as saying that the Family Guy writers have come to use this term as the name for their own extreme brand of coin pitching.
A. Delarte, "Nitpicking Family Guy: Season 2" in Bob's Poetry Magazine, 2.May 2005: 29 http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs02My.pdf