During development of Pizza Tower, multiple demo builds were released. Among these was a build known as the "Peter Griffin Experience", built off of the 2018 "early test build". This demo replaced every single sprite of Peppino with a highly compressed edit of a stock image of Peter Griffin from Family Guy made to resemble Peppino, and replaced one of the game's musical tracks with a fan-made Family Guy remix.

After this build, the Peter Griffin "arms resting" pose would appear in some builds as a taunt, albeit as an actual sprite and not an edit. A YouTube video titled "family" would also be posted by developer McPig showcasing the taunt, accompanied by the first note of the Family Guy theme song, likely referencing a Family Guy meme video that plays the first note of the theme song and abruptly ends. This taunt was removed for unknown reasons in the final game.