Brian Griffin is NOT DEAD!!! (READ DETAILS!!)?

Question

I just saw the family guy episode. Fair enough.

However, consider the following. First, here is an article:

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/10/29/family-guy-maya-rudolph-glenn-howerton/

Quote from the article:

"Family Guy has recruited two familiar TV voices for an upcoming episode, and those voices belong to Maya Rudolph and Glenn Howerton. Rudolph, a veteran of SNL and Up All Night, will assume the role of an avid runner who catches Brian’s eye. To win her over, he pretends to be a fellow jogger. “After Brian experiences the ‘runner’s high’, he becomes a distance running douche, and even signs himself up to run a marathon,” Family Guy executive producer Steve Callaghan tells EW."

This episode has not yet been aired yet includes Brian in the plot... How is this possible if Brian is really gone for good?

Further more, check out this link:

http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_Guide#Season_12:_2013-2014

Go down to season 12 episodes and two upcoming episodes, "Brian's a Bad Father" and "Brian the Closer" both include Brian's name in the title.

Also note that the promo poster for "Grimm Job", another later episode, includes Brian in the background.

I don't think Brian Griffin is really gone. The writers are just screwing with our emotions.

Answer 1

From several people, I've heard that the show is becoming sucky. I wouldn't know because I lost cable over a year ago. This is just a theory about maybe not a populous opinion but, maybe the producers realize that people are not as amused with the show as they were half a decade ago, when I had cable and was still thrilled by the comedy. But I've heard several people of different age groups say that it's dulling away. It's getting corny or whatever. Maybe they're beginning a slow gradual conclusions due to similar criticisms. But who knows? Not me.

Answer 2

here's a few reasons why Brian isn't dead.

1.) hes scripted in multiple episodes featured in the rest of this season as well as being included in the summaries and episode titles.

2.) he's featured in the 13th season episode "simpsons guy"

3.) the show was losing ratings, and fast, killing him off was just a way of drawing more attention to show to boost there fan ratings way back up.

4.) the episodes prior to this on in the season were average at best to kill attention and make people think maybe time is up for family guy, only to top off the doubt by killing Brian forcing some to really hate the show now but at the same time be drawn to it, boosting ratings.

5.) Actor Tony Sirico is only listed as a "guest star" in family guy and is far to expensive to keep full time.

and reason 6 the most important

6.) over the summer upon announcing the death of one of the griffins it was revealed that the death would be based of Grimms fairytales if you look at season 12 episode 9 it is titled "Grimm Job". see the connection yet? for those of you still lost according to Grimms fairytales Brian will return and "duel" with Vinnie to become king of the castle once again hence the episode labeled "Brian and Vinnie play ball" which was recently relabeled "Grimm Job" if your still lost their not exactly "playing ball" if you dont believe it look it up.

Answer 3

No! How can anyone think that losing a family member in the show is more tragic than losing a family pet?! No! Unacceptable! Brian and Stewie are what made the show funny! Here's the question: If you were watching a horror movie, and it came down to a dog and person, who would you want to die? The dog or person, I'd pick the dog because dogs have unconditional love unlike a human, it's like were all ok with the human dying, but the dog? Really? No. This is bullshit.

Answer 4

Don't worry, he'll be back

Answer 5

Yeah - I believe this.



Why? Because everything in Family Guy is a Joke. So the idea that they would just randomly kill off one of their main characters and replace him with something else, is frankly disturbing. Let's face it - Family Guy is a Cartoon Show about Jokes; that's it. There's no character building, no emotional growth, and most importantly - no story arch.



Plus - they've killed off many of other characters and yet they've always come back - Meg, Stewie, Cleveland, etc. The point is - this show does in fact kill people off for the sake of being funny (and fails at trying to be edgy). So bottom line - I don't think Brian is dead. I'm confident that he'll be back before we know it.

Answer 6

Not gonna lie. When Brian died I cried..the show wouldn't be the same. And reading all these answers above me, I'm getting more and more hope that he'll be back. If Seth wants the show to continue, he's gonna have to bring him back. Otherwise, the show would be cancelled very soon. And plus, Brian is still in the opening theme song to the show. I have a feeling he'll be back :)

Answer 7

Someone on Facebook said: "In this episode, Stewie admits that he doesn't like waiting for his xmas presents so he uses the time machine to go into the future so he doesn't have to wait til the holiday.

They destroy this time machine and cannot get the parts to fix it, but if Stewie waits until Xmas, he can bump into his "future-self" and use his time machine to go back in time and save Brian."





This theory makes the most sense because why else would the writers show Stewie getting a Christmas present? Why would they show Stewie using the time machine one last time to go to the future? They made Stewie go to the future before he destroyed his machine because that's a way to get Brian back!

Answer 8

Also now that all this came up another good point is that Brian is in the Simpsons episode due to air next fall... Yeah he can't be gone forever

Answer 9

They could be switching Brian out with Vinnie in upcoming plots. In any case, I expect it to be permanent. Family Guy does have some form of continuity.

Answer 10

do people really think he's gone for good? Are you guys really that dumb?

It's obviously just a publicity move to scrounge up more views, and

deliberately cause a ruckus online.

Guarantee this is going to be the beginning

of some multi-week story arc in which brian comes back at the end.

Answer 11

I think when the time comes bringing brian's death will be a giant middle finger to the world and will be a christmas present to bring him back. Hence be the christmas episode with stewie

Answer 12

Is it possible that future episodes with Brian are simply flashbacks? Maybe the Griffins are remembering him or telling their new dog Vinny about him?

Answer 13

hey in south park they killed kenny off suposedly for good in the first episode of some old season. They litteraly brought him back in the last 10 seconds of the last episode of the same season. Who knows? they may do somthing like that

Answer 14

No there is a hole growing bigger and bigger in stewies room. every episode it gets bigger. vinny explains he is brian from a different universe. in reality he is a drug distributor. he is trying to blackmail the real alternate universe brian and the drug dealers attack him. louis,peter, and stewie try to intervene meanwhile meg and chris are trying to close the rift and only one man can help. guest starring matt smith and aaron paul

Answer 15

Yup, he'll be back. Upcoming episodes are already known to include him, which makes you wonder why the writers decided to "kill" him with those episodes already being known.

Answer 16

Remember when M*A*S*H killed off Henry Blake? It ran for another 8 years. Just sayin'...

Answer 17

Don't forget that Diane Simmonds and Muriel Goldman are also dead and have not returned.

just sayin'

Answer 18

Face it brain is gone RIP wish it was meg and I can't believe they would kill him off wish it was a retard character like meg

Answer 19

Stewie told us about his trip forward to cristmas!!!! He is going to tell himself about brians deth

Answer 20

There's also an episode listed on Wikipedia called " Brian and Vennie play ball, maybe Stewie fixes his time machine and brings him back, and there two dogs in the show from now on, that would be interesting,,, not to mention the three other episodes with his name in it... I guess we can only hope hes not dead! got my fingers crossed !!! Either way im ****** pissed

Answer 21

seth even said hes gone man....get over it. rip brian

Answer 22

Dream sequence coming up...Like the old Dallas one...

Answer 23

Brain will come back! Scroll down to death on this website it says he will come back

Answer 24

Maybe Death is going to bring him back? (I mean he does that for Peter all the time)

Answer 25

hes not dead,..its for ratings and publicity,.. check it out.. this story is practically national news now. lol good job seth,..

Answer 26

Their bringing back Cleveland and his family atleast! x

Answer 27

you're going to base your argument off of a wiki site that is easily edited??? now i see why they wont let us use wikis on papers in school...

Answer 28

Face the facts... he's gone. RIP Brian. You will be missed.

Answer 29

I love your hope!

Answer 30

https://www.facebook.com/BringBrianBack

Answer 31

He isn't alive either. You know why? Because he is a cartoon.