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Peter compared to The Simpsons' Homer Simpson (Bumbling Buffoon type)
Because Peter Griffin is such a lazy, fat and stupid character who heads a household consisting of a level-headed mother, (comparatively) intelligent daughter, under-achieving son, and a baby, comparisons to Homer Simpson are inevitable. In The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror XIII, Peter Griffin is shown amongst a crowd of Homer Simpson's clones, implying that the Simpsons creators believe Peter to be a clone of Homer. Unlike Homer, whose destructive acts are played as the result of ineptitude or (more frequently) ignorance, Peter's are just as frequently willful as unintentional. Indeed, Peter has an unerring talent for finding and executing the most damaging possible solution to any given situation.
Both Peter and Homer display occasional effeminate tendencies but react with fear or anger when they see such tendencies or signs of tendencies in their firstborn sons. In the episode "The Son Also Draws", Chris gets advice from Meg on how to tell Peter that he does not want to be in the Boy Scouts anymore. Meg said that whenever she doesn't want to hurt Peter with bad news, she sits on his lap, snuggles up to him, and gives him a kiss on the cheek. Chris tries this, and Peter calmly gets up with a blank look affixed to his face, and tells Chris they will never speak of the incident again.
Peter is not violent towards Chris in the way that Homer is towards Bart, though he can at times be callous, as evidenced in the episode "He's Too Sexy For His Fat." In this episode Peter gets liposuction accompanied by radical plastic surgery (such as pectoral and gluteal augmentation, among other procedures), and then neglects Chris (such as when Chris wasn't allowed to attend a meeting of the Quohog Beautiful People's Club, whereupon Peter insits to the manager in a stern tone of voice, "Well, let me tell you something buddy; if my son can't come in, then I'll just come in! See you at home, Chris.") in specific and his family in general, viewing them as inferior.
The fathers of both Peter and Homer were indifferent to them as children, but their attitudes towards their fathers as adults are quite different. Homer dumped his father off at a retirement home, happy to forget him, while Peter insisted that his father come live with him after retiring (in the episode "Holy Crap"). Peter is eager for his father's approval, while Homer is not. It is interesting to note, however, that Peter's father appeared only in that one episode, whereas Homer's father, despite his supposedly inverse attitude, appears as a regularly recurring character.
Their relationships to their wives' families are not very good; both character's in-laws frown on the marriages, because the husbands are fat, lazy, and incompetent slobs. For Homer, Marge's sisters Patty and Selma (who are regular characters as well) frequently demonstrate their dislike for Homer, although it has also been shown that Marge's mother Jackie and her now-deceased father have also disliked Homer. For Peter, Lois's wealthy parents Carter and Barbara Pewterschmidt are shown having a strong dislike for Peter (although both of them are minor recurring characters) and one unique comparison to this is that they hope that the marriage will end in divorce.
Both Peter and Homer are Christians, however Peter is a Roman Catholic while Homer is (sometimes referred to as a hypocrite) Protestant. While they both occasionally indulge in casual blasphemy, Peter generally comes across as much more casual towards religion and its institutions, reacting to such things with none of the reflexive respect to religious symbolism, language, and iconography that the adherents to those religions would normally expect. (The show itself also shows God, which is unusual for a television program.) For example, in the episode "Holy Crap", Peter decides that the best way to fix his relationship with his father is by kidnapping the Pope, as his father is a devout Catholic. This personality trait of Peter's is mirrored in the tone of the series, as the jokes and humorous situations involving the ridicule of religion and its representatives are numerous.
Both Peter and Homer have injured themselves trying to imitate Henry Winkler's jukebox routine.
Both Peter and Homer have hosted birds in their house at one time or another, Peter hosting a white-rumped swallow in his beard and later the three fledglings ("Brian Wallows, Peter's Swallows"), and Homer hosting a flock (murder) of crows. They have also both put up with bothersome endangered animals, Peter with the aforementioned white-rumped swallows and Homer with the screamapillar.
Both Peter and Homer have suffered animal maulings--Homer by a badger and, on two seperate occassions, bears; Peter was clawed repeatedly about the face by a raccoon while his family was living in the South.
Both Peter and Homer's wives have gotten addicted to gambling and lost large sums (Marge claims a $700 loss; Lois bet the family car).
They have both opened bars in their own homes. Their love of beer is astoundingly similar, but Peter is arguably the heavier drinker. In the beginning of the episode "Wasted Talent", Peter tried to find a "Silver Scroll" (a parody of Willy Wonka's Golden Tickets from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) in Pawtucket Pat beer bottles. He drank continuously for an entire evening. By the morning, the living room was strewn with beer bottles 3 or 4 layers thick. At the end of the episode, the show joked that Peter had only one brain cell left. Peter displays dense packets of knowledge on unexpected topics, although not quite as often as Homer. Advising his son about women, Peter said that women are from Venus, then proceeded to list the chemical composition of the planet.
Both characters seem to have an obsession of spending large amounts of money on items that other members find dubious. In the episode "Mobile Homer" in the Simpsons, Homer is noted for spending his wife's rainy-day fund on a down payment for an RV. A similar event also occurred on Family Guy in the episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein", when Peter spends his wife's savings for volcano insurance.
Despite the fact that both seem to be at the same age, Homer is completely bald while Peter shows no sign of balding at all.
Both wear glasses, though Homer only needs his to read.
Homer tends to get into fistfights frequently with his neighbors and coworkers (Waylon Smithers, Groundskeeper Willie, and former President George H. W. Bush, to name but a few). Peter has gotten into two long drawn-out fights with his arch-nemesis, a gigantic chicken who gave him a bad coupon in "DaBoom", and then came back for a rematch out of nowhere in season four. He also cold-cocked Jimmy Fallon, who had used Meg for sex and hurt her feelings, and a rude pregnant woman who he mistook for a man. The whole family got into a violent brawl on one occassion, trashing the house; the Simpsons would later do the same after a dispute during a Monopoly game.
Both Homer and Peter have dogs.
Both Homer and Peter have met the Grim Reaper and have been forced to sit in as Death temporarily.
Both Homer and Peter have gas problems. Homer belches constantly, and Bart mentions him passing gas in "King-Size Homer", though we never hear him do it. Peter farts uninhibitedly, however, on numerous occassions; he once out-farted Michael Moore, whom ironically (but not surprisingly) he has also been mistaken for.