Current Events > Remember when Brian was the best character in Family Guy?

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They sure did make him a preachy annoying asshole

No

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Remember when Brian died? For like three episodes?

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this. He was always pretentious and it was annoying

He's a selfish dbag

Brian is a big fan of Bill Maher. Probably even moreso today than in that clip

I don't

Remember when Brian was the best character in Family Guy?

No, no I do not.

He was either Seth MacFarlane's mouthpiece insert in the early seasons or a douchey hypocritical liberal stereotype that even Quagmire (sex offender extraordinaire) was able to justifiably rip on.

Take your pick.
I miss Vinny.

Chris > all

Heartomaton posted...

Remember when Brian died? For like three episodes?

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lmao that sucks

He has one of the best episodes of the series with the old lady

What even are these characters at this point, they've been killed serveral times over, sometimes by each other, they've apparently all fucked each other at some point too and seems to treat each other like shit then one of them dramatically calls out that treatment for an episode and they pretend to care only to go right back to it the very next episode. It's a zombie show in every sense of the word, it and Simpsons deserve each other, I still find it funny Matt got legit pissed of Seth having Glenn rape Marge, then kill her whole family that one time.

Brian's one of my least favorite characters.

never watched family guy

whoa, ass ahoy

i guess he could be the best character, but only because all of the Griffins are awful characters.

Buzz Killington is the best character on that show though.

Please return to TDH we need you

I wouldn't have complained if replacing him with Vinny was permanent. I'd love to see them at least make Vinny a recurring minor character.

It's the only show I can think of where my favorite character became my least favorite character.

They really did Brian dirty. He's a total scumbag now. It's gross. He's the least likeable character on the show.

I feel like some people ITT are forgetting pre-cancellation Family Guy where Brian is definitely a candidate for best character.

I liked Brian, then they threw him under the bus for some reason.

How do people still watch family guy?

HairyQueen posted...

How do people still watch family guy?

It's dumb, mindless humor. Sometimes that's just what I'm in the mood for.

pegusus123456 posted...

I feel like some people ITT are forgetting pre-cancellation Family Guy where Brian is definitely a candidate for best character.

I recently went back to Family Guy due to a combination of YouTube clips and me getting really sick and needing to stay home. I had season 3 on DVD when I was a teenager so I started there.

When I started season four, I got reminded of this other YouTube short I saw from that two parter where South Park was ripping on Family Guy. It was that part of an FG episode that plays at the start, where the characters just make meaningless references and go to pointless cutaways. At one point Peter makes a delivery to Captain Kirk, who says "I'll be the Captain, you be Tennille!" - and the comments were like "wow South Park predicted exactly what the show would become, a soulless husk of stale reference humor".

It stood out for two reasons. First, it was genuinely a solid pastiche of a Family Guy plot, especially from season 4. The cutaways are often references for the sake of references. Even a lot of season 3 episodes were like that, filling in time with non-sequitur jokes that banked on references - but season four took the cake.

But secondly, it was laughable that people could see that clip and go "wooooah south park depicted the future of the show", because it was pastiching the then-current state of the show. The episode of South Park where that clip came from was from April 2006. Season four of Family Guy, which was where that style of humor began to come in even more heavily, aired between 2005 and 2006.

But I sincerely think that any self-proclaimed Family Guy fan would go "no it got even worse later on, it wasn't this bad at all until around season 11!" because season four is where a bunch of classic jokes made their debut.

I'm still watching the show, because for better or worse I'm nostalgic for it and its general stupidity is something easy to put on and laugh at. But season four, the first season after their second cancellation, is absolutely where forced reference humor and non-sequiturs began to fill in as much of the episode as the actual plots. The show was always bad for that, at least come season 3, but season 4 is where the show took a turn. Shit, even if she wasn't treated the best in prior seasons, season 4 is (I think) the first season where Meg began to get regularly bashed, and the first season where someone said "shut up, Meg".

All of that to say - personally, I prefer Stewie. Brian is a good character, he's a devoted friend to Peter and he seems like a good person caught up in his ego and in an environment where he isn't thriving as much as he would like to. But come season four, he's lusting after Lois about as much as Quagmire is, and the show is outright saying "if Peter wasn't in the picture, Brian would 100% be making a move on Lois". There's an early episode where Peter gets lost at sea and Lois marries Brian because he became a provider, and a later episode outright has Peter and Lois commenting on how badly Brian wants to fuck her.

Stewie isn't consistent with his supervillain thing, but I would say that his character stays the most entertaining. He switches between upper crust supervillain and emotionally immature baby, and maybe I'm a dope for liking that contrast but it's always funny when the show plays with that. He's always selfish and murderous, and that only changes as much as his more metrosexual personality style comes into focus.

Peter becomes a cruel, child-abusing idiot, Lois becomes a physically abusive rapist, Chris is always an idiot, Meg is the show's designated butt-monkey, Brian goes from loyal friend to wanting to stab his best friend in the back to fuck his wife. I think Stewie ends up being the most well-rounded and entertaining character.

i feel like YouTube shorts work well for Family Guy. only clips of funny scenes without having to watch the full episodes

You know what the show needs? A 37th episode about Brian's failed relationship because he's an asshole to his gf. That's what they've done to him

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This is funny because Bill Mar was already on family guy in animated form in that episode with asa akira

To all the Brian haters, enjoy.
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Ricemills posted...

i feel like YouTube shorts work well for Family Guy. only clips of funny scenes without having to watch the full episodes

Yeah it's weird, all the little clips make it look like a funny show

i always loved this scene as a kid
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Blue_Inigo posted...

They sure did make him a preachy annoying asshole

That Brian is long gone. Now he's a two-faced phony with no real opinion of his own who thinks he's a genius when he's an idiot. I miss the preachy annoying asshole.

32Legend posted...

Yeah it's weird, all the little clips make it look like a funny show

A typical modern Family Guy episode tends to have one or two good gags with a bunch of groaners

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You guys got too attached. His pretentious douchebag personality is one the funnier parts of the later seasons. Him and Stewie together are the only good thing about it. Making the focus on them being friends instead of Peter and Brian was their best idea. I would say just make the show theirs. But it's probably more special because it's not too much.

Im all for the subtle humor over in your face humor. But with Brian I like the latter morr

I hated Family Guy after the Brian Quagmire scene. I quit watching.

Nazanir posted...

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He's only the worst person he knows because he doesn't know himself

Im just confused why people are watching Family Guy looking for genuine likable characters. That's what we have Bob's Burgers for.

@Lost_All_Senses thats why I stopped watching. the show took itself too seriously and quagmire was a huge buzzkill

I stopped watching Family Guy years ago because MacFarlane started to use it as a soapbox for his political views. I'm not a political person and I wish politics(from both sides) would stay out of shows which were intended to be funny, goofy and off the wall.

My favorite family guy character

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ClockworkHare posted...

To all the Brian haters, enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SrRgXXw9cTI

Funny, but it just can't beat stewie beating him up asking for his money. That scene left me breathless

Blue_Inigo posted...

You know what the show needs? A 37th episode about Brian's failed relationship because he's an asshole to his gf. That's what they've done to him

Seriously... what turned me away from the character is that it seems every episode he is the main character just consist of dating some girl...

frozenstar posted...

@Lost_All_Senses thats why I stopped watching. the show took itself too seriously and quagmire was a huge buzzkill

That's true. For me it would of been the one where Quagmires sister was getting beat. That was way too serious of an episode to also joke around with. It was just uncomfortable. Though, it was funny when the guy thought he killed Quagmire from choking him and then Quagmire opened his eyes and says something like "I choke myself for entertainment, asshole!" and punches him. I butchered it, but it was funny when they did it. It was a clever play on someone who loves rough sex trying to be murdered by choking. Which, most their good jokes are the one's that play off the characters they've created and not just random shit with no real personality behind it