About

Peter Hurts His Knee is a parody and remix series based on a clip of the character Peter Griffin from Family Guy falling on a sidewalk and writhing in agony while holding his injured knee.

Origin

On July 25th, 2000, Season 2 Episode 20 of Family Guy titled "Wasted Talent" was released, in which Griffin is shown running home with a hidden scroll and trips, injuring his knee, causing him to double over in pain and wince for 30 seconds (shown below).^[1]

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On October 18th, 2009, YouTuber weirdovideoz uploaded a clip of a man imitating the scene followed by a screen capture of Griffin holding his knee (shown below). Within nine years, the video gained over 426,000 views and 600 comments.

On March 4th, 2012, YouTuber WwieWolff posted a parody of the scene featuring an AT-AT from Star Wars (shown below, left). On April 30th, a remix of the scene was uploaded by YouTuber SMNBA25, featuring the audio of Griffin dubbed over a professional basketball game (shown below, right).

On June 24th, 2017, YouTuber ItsEasyBro uploaded a remix dubbed with the song "Fireflies" by Owl City (shown below).

On March 4th, 2018, Twitter user @vappywave posted an edited version of the scene with graphics from the game Crash Bandicoot (shown below).

On March 5th, 2018, Twitter user @saltykdan uploaded a remix of the scene dubbed with a YouTube review of the Burger King Foot Lettuce meme (shown below). Within 48 hours, the tweet gained over 98,700 likes and 37,400 retweets.

The following day, the Dolan Darkest YouTuber channel uploaded an edited version of the video dubbed with music from the Vsauce YouTube series (shown below).

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