12 Of The Best Meg Moments From Family Guy

As a long-running show with a rapid-fire, crude style of humor, "Family Guy" has seemingly had a chokehold on decades of high school-aged fans, following generations into adulthood. In addition to the massive quantity of jokes the animated series slings out each episode, the reason for the popularity of "Family Guy" can be largely attributed to the host of characters that make up the central family.

Peter and Stewie are, of course, among the most popular "Family Guy" characters when it comes to the Griffin family, but each unique character brings something special to the show and has evolved during the 20-plus years it has been on the air. When it comes to Meg Griffin — famously voiced by Mila Kunis – her comedic appeal is that she is wholly insufferable and pretty much universally hated. In honor of Meg being the absolute worst, here are some of her very best moments on "Family Guy."

As demeaning and depressing this universal hate for Meg Griffin can be, it's not entirely unwarranted. While it's true that the snide remarks and abuse constantly thrown at Meg usually comes with no warning or provocation, the oldest Griffin child isn't exactly an innocent. She, like the rest of her family, has glaring flaws that not only make her not such a great person, but also kind of paint her as a total serial killer.

In addition to the baby she keeps hidden in her school locker and her ability to change her personality in order to fit with whoever she is around, shockingly, Meg is an animal killer — one of the most prominent signs of a budding serial killer. She graphically describes the death of stray cats to her brother Chris (via Reddit), responding to his question about how it feels to die. "From the look in a stray cat's eyes when you're pushing on its windpipe, I think it's pretty terrifying. Like, panicky."

In Episode 13 of Season 17, Peter tells his friends that Meg murders people while wearing a wedding dress, so it sounds like she has officially upgraded to full-blooded serial killer over the years. Peter says this while wearing said wedding dress, which is its own kind of freaky. The fact that Meg isn't in this scene herself makes it even better.

The credit for another of Meg's best moments goes to Peter, as he is responsible for Meg's full legal name — Megatron. In "A Fistful of Meg" we learn that Meg is not short for Megan, like her mother intended. In a flashback, after Lois hands her birth certificate to Peter to give to the nurse, he adds "tron" to the end of "Mega." This fact alone is hilarious, but the joke hits even harder when you consider that it is such a small scene and is dropped so nonchalantly in the episode.

The joke is so minuscule that it actually flew under the radar for some time, with a lot of "Family Guy" fans and casual viewers not even knowing what Meg is short for. Diehard "Family Guy" fans hold this small piece of information as a coveted trivia fact, though, and pull it out to great humorous effect. One Twitter user shared the interesting Meg fact, resulting in nothing but laughs. Though her birth name is a small part of who she is, Megatron Griffin is a better character for the quirk.

If the "Family Guy" version of Jimmy Fallon has a thing for blonde underage Meg, we'd hate to know his thoughts on super-hot Meg from an alternate dimension. In the first episode of Season 8, Stewie and Brian go on an epic road trip that takes them dimension hopping through a number of alternate universes. One of these universes is full of beautiful people, and the pair spot Alternate Meg walking down the street in her tube top and space boots. Her long flowy hair is blowing in the wind and even her signature pink hat looks as though it got a major upgrade in the new world.

As desirable as Brian finds Meg in the new world, Stewie hilariously points out that Meg is still considered on the ugly side for this world, as everyone else is so much more attractive — Lois is so hot that, according to Stewie, one look at her would put Brian's penis in a wheelchair. This scene is an extension of the ugly Meg running joke, but it's a pretty creative take on it. In fact, at this point in the show, Meg has actually grown and developed as a character far beyond who she is at the start of "Family Guy." Fans recently took to Reddit to express their desire to see more of her, even going as far to say her own spinoff series wouldn't be a bad idea.

Back in Season 4 of "Family Guy," Meg is so desperate to fit in and make friends that she actually tries to switch sexualities. In "Brian Sings and Swings" (Episode 19) Meg actually manages to make a good friend. Sarah, Meg's new pal, turns out to be a lesbian and invites Meg to join the school's lesbian club. Once Meg figures out that her new group of friends thinks she is a lesbian, she tries to back out and come clean with the truth. After realizing that she is more popular as a lesbian, Meg tries her hand at the lifestyle and pretends she's attracted to girls, starting a romantic relationship with Sarah.

Lois, annoyed that Meg is trying to be someone she isn't, passionately kisses Sarah in order to prove to Meg that she is not a lesbian. This works, and Meg comes clean about only being attracted to men. Between Meg being the typical butt of the joke and Quagmire's creepy obsession with getting lesbian footage by hiding in underage girls' closets, Meg's time as a lesbian is classic "Family Guy" content and reminds us that network TV in 2006 got pretty questionable from time to time.

But to say Meg is merely a fake lesbian might not be the whole story. Showrunner Alec Sulkin told Split Sider (via LGBTG Nation) that it's possible the show will have Meg come out as a real lesbian in the future.

If trying to seduce criminals who are literally in the process of threatening and robbing her own house wasn't sick enough, Meg's infatuation with the family dog should be enough to turn your stomach. Sure, Brian can talk and is articulate enough, but that doesn't make him any less of a dog in the cartoon universe. In Episode 8 of Season 5, Meg develops a large and incredibly unhealthy crush on Brian after he takes her to prom, gets completely plastered, and kisses her. He treats her like an actual person and shows her kindness by standing up for her to her bullies, which Meg is totally unused to.

Meg responds by having a little bit of a psychotic break, becoming obsessed with Brian. She goes as far as baking Brian a pie infused with her own hair and knocking him out in order to kidnap him. This is a great example of just how crazed Meg can be.

"Family Guy" consistently makes references to other TV shows and films that are recognizable in pop culture, and a lot of these references land as solid jokes. One such reference occurs in "Dial Meg for Murder" (Season 8, Episode 11) which sees Meg and Chris enter into an all-out brawl in the school cafeteria where they maim and kill a large number of students to the tune of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird." The scene is straight out of "Kingsman: The Secret Service" where one Kingsman is forced to fight and kill basically an entire church.

The fight breaks out after other students give Chris and Meg a hard time for something that Brian did, and both Griffins react with more skill and violence than most viewers probably thought they had in them. The scene contains one epic move after the next, and it's really no surprise that the action-packed moment was named one of Meg's absolute best in a fan-made YouTube compilation of her various deeds. Not only is it an entertaining scene to watch, but it's also some pretty solid evidence that Meg is not-so-lowkey a sadistic killer.