As of 2009, six books have been released about a Family Guy universe, all published by HarperCollins since 2005. [42] This include Family Guy: It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ( ISBN 978-0-7528-7593-4), which covers the entire events of the episode " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One", [43] and Family Guy and Philosophy: A Cure for the Petarded ( ISBN 978-1-4051-6316-3), a collection of seventeen essays exploring the connections between the series and historical philosophers. [44] which include Brian as a character. Ahsan Haque of IGN has given Brian a positive review, calling him the best talking man-dog. [20] He also praised Brian's adventures with Stewie calling them, "center of many of the show's best bits". [20] Haque later made a list titled "Family Guy: Stewie and Brian's Greatest Adventures", where he stated that "Brian and Stewie paired together has always been a winning formula for Family Guy". They also praised the selection of Brian to play Chewbacca as they stated in the " Blue Harvest" review. In their list of "What Else Should Family Guy Make Fun Of?", IGN commented that Brian would be perfect to play Q, if Family Guy ever decides to make a James Bond parody. [21] Brian is an alcoholic and is very fond of dry martinis and is seen to have withdrawal symptoms in various episodes when he is told or forced to stop drinking. He smokes occasionally, although in the episode "Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington", after seeing Peter promoting a corrupt cigarette company, he quit smoking, a habit he resumed at the end of that episode. He also regularly smokes marijuana. After a brief stint as a drug-sniffing dog, he developed a cocaine addiction, but after spending time in rehab he managed to achieve sobriety. a b Leone, Dominique (27 February 2005). "Giorgio Moroder: From Here to Eternity". Pitchfork . Retrieved 13 March 2019. Meg worries about passing her SAT to get into college, so her friends suggest she hire a smart person to take the test for her. She convinces Brian to do so, inflating his ego by reciting quotes from his novel Faster Than the Speed of Love. Brian disguises himself as Meg, goes to school and takes the test for her. Meg shows Brian that he failed badly, scoring just 1,000 out of 2,400. Deciding to spread the news that the remainder of the story will not be a "Meg episode", Chris rides off on his horse, Artemis. When he arrives in the village, Chris forgets what he is going to say and claims that Brian is getting another book published.

Family Guy' fans protest death of Brian the dog". Yahoo! News. Agence France-Presse. November 25, 2013. Archived from the original on November 28, 2013 . Retrieved November 25, 2013. Goldberg, Lesley (November 25, 2013). " 'Family Guy' Fans Petition Against Brian's Death". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved November 25, 2013.In the episode " 420", Brian finally publishes Faster Than the Speed of Love, and the novel is shipped, but it is critically panned and does not sell a single copy. [6] In the episode " Dog Gone", he receives an invitation from the Rhode Island Society for Special Literary Excellence to an award ceremony celebrating his novel. Brian, convinced that he is a great writer, attempts to gain the family's interest in this piece of news but fails to do so. Once he arrives at the "award ceremony", however, he discovers that he has misunderstood the meaning of the word " special". In three months, MacFarlane created the Griffin family and developed a pilot for the show he called Family Guy. [15] Brian's character was largely based on Steve, and Larry would be the main inspiration for the Peter character. [16] Voice [ edit ] Owen, Rob (May 1, 2005). " 'Family Guy' goes beyond TV with CD, movie". Press-Enterprise. Archived from the original on July 20, 2006 . Retrieved October 19, 2009.

The episode received an audience of 4.12 million, making it the second most watched show on Fox that night after The Simpsons episode " Bart's New Friend". [2] Brian has been featured in many items of merchandise for Family Guy, and he is considered to be one of the series' biggest merchandising characters. He has also made crossover appearances in the other MacFarlane-produced series, such as American Dad! and The Cleveland Show. A diagram showing how events are viewed at different times in different reference frames. (Image credit: By User:Acdx - Self-made, based on Image:Relativity_of_Simultaneity.svg, source code: en:User:Acdx/Relativity_of_Simultaneity_Animation, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5560059) Tachyons paradoxesOur Idiot Brian" is the eighth episode of the thirteenth season of the animated sitcom Family Guy, and the 239th episode overall. It aired on Fox in the United States on January 11, 2015, and is written by Aaron Lee and directed by John Holmquist. [1] The title is a play on the film Our Idiot Brother. The episode centers on Brian failing an SAT test, leading the family into thinking that he is not as smart as he claims to be, although Peter shows him the upside to being unintelligent. The cause of Brian's change in behavior is found to be a brain tumor, and Stewie longs for Brian to have it removed to return to normal. Fowle, Kyle (25 June 2015). "A beginner's guide to dance-music godfather Giorgio Moroder". The A.V. Club . Retrieved 13 March 2019. A book written from Brian's point of view (actually written by Andrew Goldberg) was published in 2006. It was called Brian Griffin's Guide to Booze, Broads and the Lost Art of Being a Man. [45] See also [ edit ] Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club praised the Brian character, and stated that "Brian has always been the show's best character and its most developed one". [24] In a 2004 interview, Seth MacFarlane noted his similarities to Brian. [25] He also revealed that Brian is his favorite character, because he feels most comfortable when playing that role. [26] Commendations [ edit ] Brian Griffin is a fictional character from the American animated sitcom Family Guy. He is one of the main characters of the series and a member of the Griffin family. Created, designed and voiced by Seth MacFarlane, he is an anthropomorphic white labrador retriever who primarily works in the series as a slightly smug [1] and less-than-adept writer struggling to find himself, attempting essays, novels, screenplays, and newspaper articles.