Lois Griffin

Lois Griffin is a fictional character from the animated television series *Family Guy*, the matriarch of the Griffin household.

She serves as the relatively sensible foil to her buffoonish husband Peter, though the show often subverts this by revealing her own wild streak.

The name functions as cultural shorthand for the exasperated sitcom wife who tolerates her husband's idiotic schemes: He needs someone with the patience of Lois Griffin.