# Peter The Horse Is Here Peter The Horse Is Here, also known as Petah The Horse Is Here, is a creepy audio edit of Lois Griffin's deadpan line from the 2009 Family Guy episode 'Family Gay.' In July 2021, YouTuber ripper slowed the clip, degraded the image and added a tickle sound effect for Peter's response, kicking off a run of unsettling remixes. By August 2022, TikTokers were layering Five Nights at Freddy's ambient audio over it and using the sound to score abandonment skits that pulled millions of plays[1][2]. ## Origin The source clip comes from 'Family Gay,' the eighth episode of Family Guy's seventh season, which aired on March 8th, 2009[3]. Peter buys a racehorse named 'Til Death at a Louisville auction, the horse wanders into the family dining room, and an unsettled Lois tells Peter, 'Peter, the horse is here'[5]. Over twelve years later, on July 16th, 2021, YouTuber ripper uploaded a moldy, low-quality cut of the scene that stretched Lois' line with a long pause and dubbed a tickle sound effect over Peter's lip movement[1][6]. That upload gathered roughly 135,600 views in its first year and became the template every later edit copied. - **Platform:** YouTube (original edit) / TikTok (viral spread) - **Creator:** ripper (YouTuber who created the first slowed, distorted edit) - **Date:** 2021 ## Overview Edits of Peter The Horse Is Here stretch the pause between 'Peter' and 'the horse is here' into an uncomfortably long gap, degrade the video with moldy VHS-style compression, and replace the horse's reaction noise with something unexpected like a cartoon tickle, a Walmart ejection yell or an unhinged scream[1][3]. The payoff is a flinch, because Lois' flat delivery sets you up for a sitcom beat and the edit gives you a cursed one instead. On TikTok, creators often use the audio over footage of empty hallways, dim bedrooms or liminal spaces, with the Five Nights at Freddy's 'Sitting idle' hum layered underneath to sell the dread[2][4]. The joke lives in the tonal gap between a mundane adult-animation line and a horror-game soundscape, which is why the audio became a go-to sound for creepypasta-style skits in 2022. ## How to Use A typical Peter The Horse Is Here edit keeps Lois' line close to the original but drags out the pause, then plays something off-putting where Peter's reaction should go. TikTokers often layer the Five Nights at Freddy's 'Sitting idle' ambiance underneath and pair the audio with slow push-ins on empty rooms, dim corridors or 'POV: you woke up in an asylum' setups[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Peter The Horse Is Here? It is a creepy audio edit of Lois Griffin saying 'Peter, the horse is here' from the 2009 Family Guy episode 'Family Gay,' with a drawn-out pause and an unsettling sound effect replacing Peter's reaction[1][3]. ### Where did Peter The Horse Is Here come from? YouTuber ripper uploaded the first moldy, slowed edit on July 16th, 2021, dubbing a cartoon tickle sound over Peter's lip movement[1][6]. ### What does Peter The Horse Is Here mean? It plays off the tonal gap between Lois' flat sitcom line and a horror-game soundscape, so creators use the audio to score dread or liminal-space skits[2][4]. ### How do you use Peter The Horse Is Here? TikTokers typically pair the slowed line with Five Nights at Freddy's 'Sitting idle' ambiance over slow push-ins on empty rooms or 'POV: you woke up somewhere unsettling' setups[3][4]. ### Is Peter The Horse Is Here still popular? The audio hit its biggest wave in July and August 2022 on TikTok, with @lauren_mlz and @sorryimannaka both scoring millions of plays, and it still gets reused in horror-adjacent edits[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvV_bk51OM8]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu0AP8ZYZSM]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/peter-the-horse-is-here]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JLzR1hENNg]() 5. [https://familyguy.fandom.com/wiki/Family_Gay]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvlo0ayA-wI]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/peter-the-horse-is-here Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library