NaBloPoMo Month - "RIP Brian..."

NaBloPoMo Month - "RIP Brian..."
Entry #25 - 11/25/2013

Lost and Grey’s Anatomy have made the killing of a major character an art form on their respective shows, but it was Family Guy who broke our hearts last night and killed man’s (and Stewie’s) best friend.

Not to be outdone by its fellow cartoon-comedy The Simpsons, who announced last month that they would kill a character voiced by an Emmy award winner in Season 25 or Season 26, Family Guy with much less fanfare killed Brian “The Dog” Griffin, an original character on the animated series.

  

 

The storyline saw Stewie destroying his time machine and while at the local dump Brian found a soccer goalie that he took home to play with in the street, no less...only further proving that Family Guy is not Sesame Street. In a scene very familiar of when Andrew Van de Camp ran down Momma Solis on Desperate Housewives a mad driver came and ran down Brian. He later died at the vets office while a chicken with it's head cut off waited to be helped!

 

By the end of the episode the Griffin's had welcomed a new dog into their home and into their lives named Vinnie - who bonded with Stewie and slept by his bed.

I was introduced to first introduced to Family Guy shortly after I started working at IGT in 2008...and immediately fell in love with the Griffins...with Stewie and of course Brian. My own personal favorite Brian moment...

 

Sadly though, Brian’s death was overshadowed by a suicide of sorts…the suicide of Katie Couric’s career as a network broadcast journalist…as confirmation came today that she was in fact leaving ABC News for a job as a Global Anchor…whatever that means!