Peter Griffin’s Deeds: Good to Evil

Who doesn’t love Peter Griffin? Well, okay, plenty  of people–but he’s definitely one of our favorite cartoon characters. We guess you could say we’re  lucky there’s a Family guy…Sometimes. The lovable oaf has plenty of nice things he’s done in the  past, but he also has no shortage of evil deeds I’m Kifinosi with WickedBinge, and these  are Peter Griffin’s Deeds: Good to Evil. If we were to rank everything Peter has  done in Family Guy–ESPECIALLY given how many cutaway gags there are–we’d be he

re  all day. So, cutaways are off the table, unless they actually tie into the episode's plot. The Good Deeds First up is Peter Refusing to “Revenge Cheat” on  Lois. Only in Family Guy could there be a plotline as absurd as a man befriending Bill Clinton,  resulting in his wife sleeping with him. Peter understandably feels betrayed when he learns his  wife has been unfaithful with his new friend, and the troubled couple decides on a solution:  Peter will sleep with a woman of his choice to “even

things out.” Peter chooses Lois’s mother…not  gonna think too hard about that…but when the time comes, Peter decides against it–declaring that he  would never want to do anything to hurt his wife. This episode is rightfully cited by many as the beginning of Lois and Peter’s marriage  going further and further down the drain, but if nothing else, Peter was very sweet  here–especially given how hurt he was. Now, just hear us out–Peter Committing Welfare  Fraud…For His Family is counted among his

good deeds. For this entry, we’re going back  to the very first episode of Family Guy. In “Death Has a Shadow”, Peter unwittingly  commits welfare fraud when the government sends him way more money than expected. Not  exactly a great deed to start out…until you realize that it wasn’t done on purpose. When  Peter receives an excessive welfare check, he takes it as a blessing and uses it to give  his family a better life–and when it turns out this was illegal, he rents a blimp to drop  the excess

money back down to the taxpaying citizens of Quahog. It’s still a crime,  but because of his ignorance and genuinely well-meaning intentions, we’re going to  count it as a good mark on his record. Wait, we must be misreading this next entry–Loving  Meg?! Impossible. Ludicrous, even! But believe it or not, after Meg has a near-death experience when  the Griffin house floods in “Peter’s Daughter”, Peter makes a vow to treat her better going  forward. While this newfound mindset doesn’t last foreve

r, it’s a sweet sentiment for this episode.  Peter shows great concern for his daughter, trying his best to make her life better; he’s  nicer to her, he stands up to her bullies, and is protective of her when she falls in love with  a boy who happens to be a nudist. When he sees that her feelings are genuine, he accepts their  relationship–even joining in their..er…culture, to make him feel more at home. It’s kinda sad that  Peter being nice to his daughter for an episode has to be mentioned on

this list, but hey–at least  we know Peter kinda cares about Meg, deep down. Speaking of Meg, next up we have Peter Standing  Up for Meg. While Peter has become a rather infamous character in the later seasons, generally  portrayed as an outright abusive sociopath, he does still have some good moments. In “The Peter  Principal,” Peter becomes an interim principal at Adam West High when Principal Shepherd is  placed on indefinite leave. While Peter does become a bit of a tyrant, using his influen

ce to  assert dominance over the popular kids at school, this can actually be attributed to Meg’s  influence. Peter himself genuinely meant well in this episode, wanting to run the school right–and  he even heartwarmingly stands up for his daughter. When a bully spills her juice pouch on her, he  reprimands him and forces him to lick the mess off of the floor. Maybe a bit extreme, but…nah,  who are we kidding? We love seeing Peter actually stand up to his incredibly unfortunate daughter.  Good w

ork, Peter–you occasionally decent dad, you! Now we move from Meg to Peter’s next child,  Chris–remembering the time Peter Supported Chris’s Passion for Drawing. The best way to  describe Peter as a parent in the first few seasons of the show is ignorant, but genuinely  well-meaning just the same. In “The Son Also Draws,” Peter goes to great lengths to help  Chris regain his place in the Boy Scouts. A sweet gesture already–but what he doesn’t  realize is that Chris doesn’t really care about the

Scouts. He’d rather pursue his hobby of  drawing–and while the two are on a vision quest, Peter realizes he needs to listen to Chris,  and he accepts him and his passion for drawing, supporting him all the way. As  misguided and ignorant as he may be, Peter’s genuinely trying his best to show love and  support to his son here–and that’s worth a lot. He may not be a beacon of morality, but Peter  is at least sometimes willing to stand up for what’s right–like Speaking Out Against Smoking.  One ti

me, a smoking conglomerate bought out Mr. Weed’s toy factory, and upon becoming suspicious  that they were encouraging children to smoke, Peter immediately stood up to them–but he was  instead bought off with the offer to become their president and spokesperson. However, when  he ends up on Capitol Hill to argue in favor of the company, he has a change of heart when  he sees Stewie coughing and suffering from withdrawal–consequently calling out the corrupt  practices of the company. You’ll notic

e a common trend with many of these good deeds that Peter  tends to get himself–and often his family–into messed-up situations, but manages to fix them.  This is one such deed, and that fact is why it’s not any higher, despite it being a pretty noble  act. We have to dock this one a few points, since he was initially blinded by the prospects of money  and power, but the fact that he was ultimately willing to give it all up to speak out against  injustice speaks a lot to the big guy’s character.

Somebody call Long John Peter, because next up is  Hunting Down Daggermouth. What Peter often–okay, almost always lacks in foresight, he makes up for  in wacky schemes that somehow work out. Case in point: when Peter lists his house and everything  in it as collateral to pay for a new fishing boat, he ends up owing $50,000 to the shady bank he got  it from. The only option to save his home is to hunt down the legendary Daggermouth–a trek from  which nobody has ever returned alive. Nonetheless, P

eter still takes it on–and actually  succeeds for the sake of his family. This deed falls into the same boat as the last  one in that, as impressive and noble as it is, Peter still kinda got himself and his  family into it. It wasn’t malicious, sure–but it was reckless and irresponsible,  which docks it just a few points. Returning to the later seasons, we have Peter  Trying to Show Carter the Christmas Spirit. It’s no secret that Peter and Carter have a  pretty toxic relationship–possibly one o

f the most toxic in the whole show. But that doesn’t  stop Peter from trying his best to show him the Christmas spirit in this episode. When the Quahog  Christmas Carnival is suddenly canceled by him, Stewie is understandably upset–so Peter does  his best to change Carter’s mind with various Christmas activities. Drink the nog, Carter. When  all of this ends up unsuccessful, Peter convinces Carter that people will think he’s Jewish if he  doesn’t bring back the carnival. It’s…not the most conven

tional method. But it works, and it gives  Stewie a special experience he would’ve missed out on otherwise. It’s also the reason the family  was able to reunite with Brian, so that’s nice. Speaking of awful father-son relationships,  Peter Trying to Bond with Francis was another pretty good deed in our eyes. Peter was  never the perfect father–not even in the earlier seasons–but when you consider his  upbringing, some of those struggles are more understandable. Peter’s adoptive dad, Francis  Gri

ffin, is a pretty awful guy–he’s bitter, judgmental, incredibly unsupportive of  his son, and downright mean all-around. When he was a kid, he even had to run a father-son  race with a stalk of corn. But nonetheless, Peter genuinely loves his dad and tries his best to bond  with him. In the episode “Holy Crap!” he takes his dad to a ball game–complete with a special  message on the scoreboard–breaks him out of jail, and helps him get a job at the toy factory.  Perhaps most impressively, he manag

es to enlist the help of the Pope to try and build a father-son  bond–and this is AFTER Francis had betrayed Peter by firing him, despite the fact that, again,  Peter was the one who got Francis the job in the first place. Francis is a total jerk, both  as a person and a father, but that makes Peter’s continued love and devotion to both his own  family AND his father that much more impressive. As far as romantic gestures go, Turning Down 1  Million Dollars to Marry Lois is pretty high up there.

The way this episode starts, you’d think  it would belong in the other half of this video. Peter flakes on Lois’s anniversary celebration so  he can spend the day golfing instead. After he’s struck by lightning and has a reunion with Death,  who warns him that his marriage is in jeopardy, Peter is reminded of how he met and fell in  love with Lois in the first place, and how passionate he was about her. This included him  turning down a check of $1,000,000 from Carter, who didn’t approve of thei

r relationship–showing  that no amount of money was enough to make him abandon his one true love. Considering  how greedy Peter can oftentimes be, that’s pretty darn impressive.  Reminded of his passion for Lois, Peter convinces Death to get Peter Frampton to  play a song for Lois as an anniversary gift, showing that he’d learned his lesson, and  that Lois meant more than anything to him. Taking Brian In was another “before-the-series”  deed that paints Peter’s friendship with Brian in a new lig

ht. In “Brian: Portrait of a  Dog”, it’s revealed that Peter took him in from the streets. He was a homeless  stray, struggling to make ends meet, when Peter felt empathy for him and took him home  to become part of his family. This is sweet in and of itself–and it’s even more selfless when  you consider that, since Brian has all the cognitive capabilities of a human in the Family  Guy world, this was basically the equivalent of Peter taking in a homeless man off the streets.  Ever since, the tw

o have become best friends, and while they aren’t perfect to each other,  at the end of the day they’re always there for each other–some examples being Brian  offering to give Peter one of his kidneys, a transfer which would kill him, and Peter  vouching for Brian in court so that he’d be able to keep his children. Even later on in this  same episode, Peter even saves Brian’s life when he’s threatened with lethal injection–one of  many testaments to their bond. It’s clear that this selfless deed

had a HUGE impact on both  their lives, which gains it a lot of points. Peter Standing Up for Immigrant Workers is up  next–and it’s just inside our top five. Peter becomes a patriot, and his newfound  passion leads him to urge his boss, Angela, to perform a background check on the  brewery’s employees to ensure none of them are illegal immigrants. However, this backfires  when Peter’s mother reveals that–gasp–Peter HIMSELF is an illegal immigrant! Having been  born in Mexico, Peter technically

was not an American citizen–so Peter ends up fired thanks  to his own scheme. But this development has a happy ending. When Lois convinces Carter  to hire him on as a servant at his mansion, alongside many other immigrant employees, Peter  realizes just how tough life is on them–so he helps his fellow Mexicans to stand up against  Carter, demanding better conditions and general respect. When Carter offers to pay Peter off by  renewing his citizenship, Peter refuses the offer unless he gives all

his coworkers citizenship.  Unfortunately, Carter refuses to compromise, and Peter’s new friend Gerardo insists that Peter take  the offer. While it didn’t fully work out–and yes, he did more or less get himself into this–Peter’s  strive to help his fellow Mexicans is incredibly admirable, as he was even willing to potentially  give up his citizenship to give them all a fair chance. This is an example of Peter truly  learning his lesson and becoming a better person through his experiences, and

it’s easily  one of his most genuinely respectable moments. We’re moving from Peter Griffin to “Lando  Griffin” for our next entry. When James Woods High has an outbreak of drug use known as “toad  licking”--because that’s quite literally what it is–Peter goes undercover as new-kid-in-town  “Lando Griffin” at the school. Another common trend in Peter’s character is that oftentimes  his wacky schemes come paired with the best of intentions–and this is one of the times when he  actually knew what

he was doing. By befriending the popular kids and convincing them to stop toad  licking for good–with a pretty snazzy musical number, no less–Peter succeeded in making Meg’s  school a better and safer place, even sacrificing his chance to finally be a “popular kid” by going  to the school dance with prom queen Connie D’Amico to declare his love for Meg and thereby boost her  social status. We place this deed close to the top because Peter did this out of the kindness of his  heart, and genuine c

oncern for his children–and when he’s tempted to do things selfishly, he goes  back on it and makes sure his daughter is happy, above all else. We’re….really gonna  miss that side of Peter, later on. If there’s one place every kid in the USA  wants to go, it’s Disney World–so Taking Stewie to Disney World AND Saving Him is  worth some big parenting points. In “The Courtship of Stewie’s Father,” Peter and  Stewie share some quality bonding time in rather…unconventional ways. We’ll get to that  la

ter, but when Stewie being punished by Lois leads to a rift in his newfound love for the  fat man, Peter makes up for it by taking him to Disney World. A sweet gesture by itself, but it  gets better. Chaos ensues when Stewie gets lost, trapped and forced to sing in the “It’s a Tiny  World” ride, but Peter rescues him–as well as a bunch of multicultural slave children who were  also trapped. He defied death through multiple attractions of the park, and even won a fierce  battle against Michael Ei

sner. That took guts, and a lot of heart–Peter may be far from a  perfect dad, but moments like these make us like to believe that he’s got a heart of gold. It may  seem like an odd deed to place quite this high, but think about it: Peter not only took his  baby to Disney World, he also saved him from certain doom–and at least thirty other children  who had been captured for who knows how long? We’d say this is Peter’s most fatherly deed  of all–and one of his most selfless, too. Taking a close

second is Peter Saving a Man’s  Life From a Fire. For a normal person, growing a mustache wouldn’t be a cause to risk your life to  save someone. For Peter, it’s all the motivation he needs. When mistaken for a firefighter, Peter  takes the role surprisingly seriously–and when there’s a major fire at the local McBurgerTown, he  comes in clutch and saves the owner’s life–losing his mustache in the process, which he put a lot  of effort into. What makes this deed have such a high position on our l

ist is that it’s an entirely  altruistic deed on Peter’s part. He doesn’t know the man at all, and he doesn’t expect anything in  return–though he’s rewarded with free burgers–but he did this out of the kindness of his heart,  and the desire to genuinely save someone in need. It’s a tough one to beat, but at the very top  of our list has to be the time Peter Offered to Take a Bullet for Lois. As far as it’s fallen  in recent years, Peter and Lois originally had a very loving–albeit flawed–marria

ge. In “There’s  Something About Paulie,” Peter shows some issues with listening to Lois when it comes to  important decisions, and this ultimately results in him getting involved with the mafia.  When Lois disapproves of his friendship with a man called Big Fat Paulie, the result is Paulie  placing a hit on Lois–so that he won’t have to abandon Peter. Peter somehow continues to make  this worse and worse, but he ultimately redeems himself–when face-to-face with the hitman,  Peter asks the Don t

o do him a favor on this, the day of his daughter’s wedding, by shooting  him instead of Lois. The Don thankfully calls off the hit altogether, so nobody has to  die–but for all his mistakes leading up to it, Peter’s willingness to die for his wife’s sake  is incredibly noble and sweet. Let’s cherish that side of their relationship while it lasts.--and  with that, Peter cements himself as a Family Guy. But for all the things he positively does to  make us laugh, there are things he…negatively do

es to make us cry. Or at least feel  incredibly frustrated. Let’s get into: The Bad Deeds. First up is Peter Becoming Arrogant After  Liposuction. While Peter was a nicer and overall more moral person in the earlier Family Guy  seasons, he still had his moments back then–and this episode was one of his worse appearances.  When Chris becomes insecure about his weight, Peter helps him exercise and even offers to  buy him liposuction–but when Chris decides he’d rather lose weight through exercise a

nd  dieting, Peter gets some liposuction himself, and plastic surgery becomes his new habit.  Eventually he becomes a chiseled hunk, which gives him more than a little bit of an  ego. He starts to treat his family as inferior, particularly Chris; When the Quahog Beautiful  People’s Club excludes him, Peter totally bails on him–despite taking him there in the  first place to encourage him. To his credit, he does apologize to his family after crashing  into a tub of lard and returning to his norma

l self, despite not exactly knowing what  he’d learned. And as rude as Peter was, hey–at least he didn’t kill anyone or commit  any crimes. That’s…something, at least. Lying About Being a Single Dad is up next. Peter  isn’t always the most honest guy around–in “Single White Dad,” Peter has to take care of Stewie while  running errands around Quahog due to Lois’s broken foot, and the women of the town mistake him for  a single father. Relishing in the attention, Peter keeps the charade up, to the

point where  another woman begins coming onto him. Peter seemed relatively unaware of this–even  saying that he only kept up the charade for…free popcorn. He still willingly  deceived the people of Quahog and took advantage of their good nature, but again–at  least he didn’t outright hurt anyone here. We’d gladly support Peter if he ever decided to  transition–but just Pretending to Be Transgender wasn’t cool. When Peter uses the transgender  bathroom at a baseball game out of urgency, it’s the

greatest he’s ever used–and  when he finds out the next day that there are benefits at work for transgender  people, he keeps up the charade that he’s trans–despite having no intention to actually  transition. It’s a pretty nasty thing to do, but while we won’t defend Peter’s actions here,  this is honestly one of the less harmful things he’s done by a pretty good margin. He also did  feel remorse when Ida rightfully called him out on it. As selfish as it was, at least Peter  learned his lesson

, and in the end–you guessed it–nobody was harmed. We’ll certainly  miss being able to say that later on. Peter has enacted his fair share of ludicrous  financial schemes, but Selling Meg to Mort was something else even by his standards. Peter’s  spending habits once again go out of control when he blows up his tab at Mort Goldman’s pharmacy.  In order to pay off his debt, he has one of his more immoral schemes: selling Meg to the Goldman  family, whose son had been stalking Meg for a while. He’

s essentially enslaving his daughter to  the family of a boy who stalks and harasses her to get out of a mess that he got himself into–and  before you claim ignorance, the fact that Peter’s sales pitch to Mort is that he’ll let Neil date  her shows that he’s definitely aware of it. It’s not any higher because when Meg goes through  with it of her own volition and the Goldmans mistreat her, he actually does a lot to help  her out of it–even coming up with a plan to have Lois seduce Neil to have h

im cheat on Meg, thus  violating their contract. Still, the fact that he was willing to even consider this is pretty  awful in and of itself, so it’s worth a mention. We’d feel wrong to not include The Chicken  Feud. Quite possibly the most iconic running gag in the entire series, Peter and this  chicken have had beef–poultry?--since way back in season 2. We feel the need to mention  that this all started because Ernie the Giant Chicken gave Peter an expired coupon. Not only  was this likely not

malicious on Ernie’s part, but even if it were, it’s far from an excuse to  have a brawl across the town that causes mass property damage and uses intense violence. Add on  the fact that this rivalry has been going on for over 20 years–in our time, at least–and you’ve  got one of Peter’s most hilarious, but petty, deeds. But at least Ernie seems to reciprocate the  grudge, so we can’t exactly pin it ALL on Peter. Now let’s join Peter and Stewie for the classic  father/son activity of Bullying L

ois. Going back to the episode “The Courtship of Stewie’s Father,”  when Peter struggles to find an activity both he and Stewie can enjoy, the answer hits him right  on the head…or rather, it hits Lois. After Stewie cracks up at Peter accidentally dropping canned  foods on Lois’s head, Peter takes the hint and keeps the fun going, harassing Lois throughout  the rest of the day. This culminates in the two knocking Lois into the back of her car,  then pushing the car into a river. It’s only not hi

gher because, like with some of these other  bad deeds, Peter actually meant well here–he only wanted to bond with Stewie, which was a request  from Lois herself, and actually showed concern when he realized she might not be able to get out.  It doesn’t excuse straight-up bullying his wife, but he at least meant well–you’ll find that is a  running theme in the earlier Family Guy seasons, even at most of Peter’s worst moments. When  you’re as reckless and ignorant as Peter, good intentions are wo

rth a LOT in a discussion  of morals, so we put this rather low. Peter’s two great loves of manslaughter and  property damage converge when he Blows Up the Quahog Bridge. Only Peter could mistakenly  befriend, and ultimately aid, a terrorist organization. When revisiting this episode, we  almost put his…err…”friendship” with Mahmud in “Turban Cowboy” in the Good category. After all,  he went into it with good intentions–genuinely enjoying the company of his new friend, learning  all about a new

culture, and having no clue of his nefarious intentions. He even helps to thwart  the plot to blow up the Quahog Bridge, despite the great danger. Unfortunately, what knocks this down  to the other side is the very end of the episode, at which point Peter accidentally presses the  remote that blows up the Quahog Bridge. Peter and company then flee the scene immediately–an  even stranger decision considering Joe was literally right there, and he’s a cop. It’s  not like Peter did this maliciously,

which at least keeps us from putting it any higher, but  he still likely killed MANY people here with very minimal concern. And no, it won’t be the last  time he unintentionally blows something up. Burning Jerome’s House Down was not cool–and not  just because it was a fire. Missing Cleveland while he’s in Stoolbend, Peter, Joe, and Quagmire  decide to befriend a new guy at the bar named Jerome to fill the “token black friend” slot in  their friend group. While Jerome is perfectly nice and hits

it off with the group pretty well,  things quickly go south when Peter learns that he’s an ex-boyfriend of Lois’s. When Peter  drunkenly throws a beer bottle through his window out of rage, he ends up accidentally burning  the poor guy’s house down. Although he didn’t mean to go THIS far, we’re putting this pretty  high because this is one of the few misdeeds on the list Peter never actually apologized  for. He let his jealousy lead him to hurt someone who’d been nothing but kind to him–and  ho

nestly, he should count himself lucky that Jerome wants anything to do with him after this. Another example of Peter’s wild jealousy is him Sabotaging Wild West’s Campaign, for instance.  When the town of Quahog needs a new mayor, Peter endorses Wild West, the cousin of  former mayor Adam West–rest in peace, by the way–but things turn south when Lois grows  attracted to Wild West and calls his name in bed. He turns on Wild West immediately, trying his best  to sabotage his campaign. This leads t

o him not only burning down a library–and nearly killing  Elle in the process–but arguably even worse, he tries to cut off Wild West’s incredible  mustache! We get Peter’s frustration, but this was a Lois issue–and it should’ve stayed between  Peter and her, rather than betraying a friend who’d done him no wrong. At least Peter apologized  in the end, but only after West gave him some pet baby mustaches as a gift. Man, what a nice dude–if  only we could say the same about Peter nowadays. Peter B

ecoming a Bully is up next. When Chris  is being bullied at school by a boy named Kyle, Peter wants to chat with him to try and  smooth things out. But while he initially had good intentions here, things quickly went south  when he lost his temper and beat Kyle up. After apologizing, Peter realizes he actually likes  bullying–and starts to torment the whole town, including and not limited to his own family and  children. Chris ends up standing up to Peter, showing him the error of his ways,  but

the sheer delight Peter took in becoming Quahog’s stereotypical  bully is nonetheless concerning. They say winning the lottery changes people, but  unlike Peter, most people wouldn’t end up Shooting His Best Friends. One of many lessons one should  learn about Peter is that he shouldn’t be trusted with excessive wealth. We see an example of this  in “Lottery Fever,” in which the Griffins manage to win the lottery–and Peter’s newfound status as  the “rich friend” goes to his head really quickly.

He begins abusing his friends, forcing them to do  humiliating, painful, and downright lethal things for his amusement. This culminates in Peter  shooting Joe in the eye, and Quagmire in the throat. It wasn’t for any specific reason, or some  horrible accident, or anything–it’s a relatively rare instance of Peter being fully malicious,  and he only apologizes when the Griffins lose everything. When Quagmire is the morally  decent one, you know you’ve done pretty bad. Now let’s talk about the ti

me Peter cheated on  Lois. Hey, remember the good deed we mentioned where Peter refused to cheat on Lois? Good  times, right? In the episode “Call Girl,” Peter’s shenanigans get the Griffins into deep  financial trouble once again. This time, however, it’s Lois who tries to fix it, by working a job  as a phone sex worker. When a sexually frustrated Peter begins calling her, he grows infatuated  with “Classy” and asks to meet up–essentially showcasing that he was willing to cheat on Lois.  If not

hing else, Peter technically didn’t cheat on Lois–as, of course, Classy is Lois. But the  willingness was still there. When Lois rightfully calls Peter out on his unfaithfulness, Peter  insists that something deep inside him knew it was her–and that, at the end of the day, he’d gotten  to fall in love with her again. While that’s…kinda sweet, we don’t buy the whole “knowing it  was Lois” thing, considering that he said a heartfelt goodbye to her and his kids, showing  that as far as he knew, he

was consciously and willingly cheating on his wife. It’s downright sad  how far their marriage has fallen by this point. Peter’s done some nasty stuff, but he really  broke bad when he Became a Meth Cook. This wouldn’t be the only time Peter has done something  immoral or dangerous to provide for his family, but it might have gone the most wrong.  When the Griffins move to a farm to get out of Quahog due to rising crime rates, they  end up in financial trouble–but a meth lab in the basement give

s Peter an idea. Peter becomes  a meth dealer–which is bad in and of itself–but Peter becomes significantly more violent and  money-hungry, peddling much more than the family needs to survive. This is truly the exact moment  Peter Griffin became Heisenberg–and honestly, had he not blown up their new house by  accident, he may well have been even more dangerous. But hey–at least here he’s enabling  drug addicts for the sake of his family. Unlike… Peter Encouraging AA Members to Drink, which  was

just for fun.. When Peter and Brian are forced to join Alcoholics Anonymous in “Friends of  Peter G,” they quickly grow bored of their fellow alcoholics venting about their issues. This alone  shows a complete lack of empathy on Peter’s part, but it only gets worse when Peter brings alcohol  to a meeting and encourages these recovering alcoholics to drink. The sheer lack of compassion  combined with the fact that Peter literally only did this out of boredom is baffling–and had  he not been given

a second chance by Death, he’d have died because of it. The only reason this  isn’t higher is that the whole “encouraging them to drink” thing was actually Brian’s idea, but  Peter is still just…startlingly heartless here. He shows absolutely no empathy for anyone here–we  get that Peter doesn’t care about his own drinking problem, but it’s no excuse to keep others from  trying to better their lives. Not cool, Peter. Peter may not have cared for The Godfather,  but you’d never be able to tell b

y the time He Became a Mobster. When Joe asks Peter to be  his daughter’s godfather for her christening, he takes the role a bit…too literally. He goes  from cosplaying as a stereotypical mob boss to somehow becoming one. Resultantly, he uses his  newfound power to intimidate the citizens of Quahog and go on a crime spree–examples being  robbing Mort Goldman’s pharmacy and literally killing Brian for drinking his last cream  soda. He does ultimately help Joe to take down the mafia once he realiz

es he and his  family are in danger, but he didn’t have any such concerns until it affected him, so we  can’t really give him too many points for that. There are some despicable deeds on this list,  but few feel quite as cold as Peter Admitting He Doesn’t Like His Kids. When a successful April  Fools’ Day prank by Tom and Diane of the Quahog News has the town convinced the end of the world  is coming, Peter admits in his final moments that while he does love Lois, he dislikes being around  his k

ids. Most of the time, we can defend Peter’s poor parenting–emphasis on most of the time– by  chalking it up to ignorance or laziness. But here, Peter just flat-out admits that he doesn’t  like his own children. This very well may be the exact moment Peter Griffin starts to  feel like a completely different character; the once golden-hearted dummy who genuinely  loved his family here openly demonstrates that he flat-out doesn’t like them. While he  does try to connect with his kids throughout th

e remainder of the episode, he  ultimately fails and buys them off with an XBox, which–albeit hilarious–is still  just…really sad. What happened to you, man? But don’t worry–Peter REALLY loved his  kids when He Tried to Marry Chris. And no, it surprisingly wasn’t Herbert in  a Peter costume–though we wouldn’t put it past him. In “Fresh Heir,” one of the  most infamous episodes in Family Guy history, Peter showcases the absolute worst of both  his neglect as a parent and his general greed. When C

arter names Chris the sole heir  of the Pewterschmidt fortune, as he actually enjoys spending time with him without asking  for money, Peter attempts to marry him to get the money. Ignoring the obvious–and utterly  revolting–factor of marrying his own child, Peter is also manipulating him–tricking Chris  into thinking this was just so they could be best friends and spend time together. He ultimately  backed out of it–THANKFULLY–but there’s utterly no justification for not only neglecting Chris t

o  the point where he was remotely okay with this. Taking the Bronze Medal of Evil Deeds is Blowing  Up a Children’s Hospital– which, to be honest, seems like something the lovable Family Guy would  ever do. But in “Tales of a Third Grade Nothing,” Peter makes one of his greatest blunders. Upon  trying to blow up a competing brewery’s billboard to get him closer to a promotion, Peter mistakenly  blows up a Children’s Hospital right next to it. Later in the episode, Angela reveals that Peter  kil

led nineteen children in this mishap. Peter showed very minimal concern about the whole  ordeal; while he is initially horrified by the disaster, when the sign catches fire as intended,  he immediately calms down and seemingly forgets it until the end of the episode–where he’s  genuinely surprised that he’s facing legal consequences for it. Had this been intentional,  it EASILY would have been at the very top of our list. On the other, as horrible as this is–and,  really, Peter ABSOLUTELY should

have seen the obvious danger here–it was a complete freak  accident on his part, and he was genuinely horrified at what happened–even if only for  a moment. But by accident or not, he still killed nineteen children here, so this really  has to be placed near the very top of our list. In an extremely close second is Peter’s favorite  activity–Bullying Meg. In the earlier seasons of the show, Peter and Meg had a relatively sweet  relationship. He teased her often, sure, but there was always a mor

e playful and well-intentioned  vibe. That has all flown out the window over the years, however. From chasing her with his  farts, to constantly insulting and abusing her both emotionally AND physically–heck, we know we  said no cutaways, but there was even that time he shot her in one. Peter has shown time and time  again that he sees his daughter as a punching bag, and almost never shows remorse for it. Sure, there  are moments where Peter sticks up for Meg and is even nice to her, but the fac

t that a few isolated  incidents of Peter caring for his daughter are even worth mentioning as notable good deeds is  a testament to how much of an awful dad Peter has become to Meg. The family guy we know and love  would never treat his own daughter so cruelly, so routinely–and the ONLY reason we aren’t giving it  the very top spot is that he at least occasionally shows care for Meg. It’s nowhere near enough  to redeem him, but it’s SOMETHING, at least. You may not have expected blowing up hosp

itals to  be a running theme on this list, but our pick for Peter Griffin’s worst deed is the time He Blew  Up a Hospital–And Its Vaccines. The episode “Hot Shots” has Peter and Lois become anti-vaxxers.  There are only so many ways this could turn out, but Peter goes above and beyond by blowing  up a hospital in Quahog to destroy all of the vaccines in town. In contrast to the earlier  blowing up of the children’s hospital, this was done with the intent of destruction–and  absolutely no concern

for the many patients therein. He doesn’t stop until every last bit  of the building is destroyed–and what’s worse is that it’s likely not even the only place he  blew up, since he claimed to have destroyed ALL the vaccines in town, so he probably had a  few other stops, too. He shows no remorse, and it’s not even something noteworthy enough  to be brought up again. It has to be the most “Chaotic Evil” thing Peter has EVER done–and  to him, this was just another thing to check off his to-do lis

t. His complete nonchalance  about having caused so much damage and killing so many makes it a surefire choice for the  worst thing Peter Griffin has ever done. But what do you think? Did we miss any of  Peter’s deeds? Tell us about them in the comments–and in return, we’ll tell you all  about the bird. And as always–stay wicked!