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Family Guy Running Down Stairs or Griffin Family Running Downstairs is a series of memes based on a scene from Family Guy where the Griffin family runs down the stairs into the basement with serious expressions on their faces. The clip is often edited to feature louder, more intense stepping sounds.
As a meme, the scene is often used as a reaction image and attached to captions using the phrasal template, "There's X upstairs," "X" being a subject like "good writing" or "Arbys," with the clip being used to represent someone avoiding the subject. The meme was popularized on X / Twitter and TikTok throughout April 2026.
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