Brian the Bachelor
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| Family Guy Episode | |
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| "Brian the Bachelor" | |
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| Episode no.: | 57 |
| Prod. code: | 4ACX10 |
| Airdate: | June 26, 2005 |
| Writer(s): | Mark Hentemann |
| Director: | Dan Povenmire |
| Guest star(s): | Jessica Biel |
"Brian the Bachelor" is the seventh episode from the fourth season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. Guest starring Jessica Biel as Brooke.
[edit] Plot summary
Peter, Joe and Quagmire drag Cleveland to a bar to get him to meet some women after Loretta left him. It doesn't work so well, so when The Bachelorette comes to Quahog, Peter takes Cleveland to try and join. Cleveland gets nervous at the audition and in an effort to calm him, Peter removes Cleveland's clothes and then his own. The producers see this and Brian apologizes for what happened with Peter and Cleveland. After meeting Brian, they recruit him to be a contestant. He signs up for the free martinis and food, but ends up falling in love with the reality starlet, Brooke.
Brian wins her heart and the final rose, but when the cameras are turned off, Brooke suddenly turns cold to Brian. Brian leaves dozens of messages on Brooke's answering machine but she doesn't answer, so Brian goes to see her in person. Brooke throws an answering machine at him and he finally gets the hint.
Meanwhile, Chris has a zit on his face which he names "Doug". Lois worries about Chris, as Doug tells Chris to make some mischief. He goes to Swanson's house and sets a bag on their porch on fire, and writes "That's enough, John Mayer" in spraypaint on the wall of the Quahog Mini-Mart. Lois sees Chris sneaking back into his room and is going to punish him but Chris tells her that Doug said he doesn't have to listen to her. This outrages Lois, deciding to go to Goldman's Pharmacy the next day and get some astringent to get rid of Doug. However, the next day, as Peter and Lois head to Goldman's, they realize there has been a break-in, and someone has destroyed Mort's entire stock of acne medication.
That night, when Brooke comes over for dinner to meet Brian's family, Doug tells Chris to lift up Brooke's shirt. He does this, shocking and offending the family. Joe comes in, saying he has proof that it was Chris who broke into Goldman's Pharmacy and stole his acne medication. Chris decides he no longer wants to listen to Doug after he made his mom cry, but Doug says he could make Chris punch himself, or even worse, shoot him in the brain. Right after the scene where Brooke tells Brian that they are breaking up, Chris is at the dermatology clinic, desperate to get rid of the zit. Doug tries to shoot him in the brain, but Chris manages to use the cortisone on the zit, finally taking it out.
[edit] Notes
- Nancy Cartwright, voice of Bart Simpson of The Simpsons, plays as one of the Snorks.
- According to the DVD audio commentary on this episode, on the cutaway about Brooke spending the evening with Quagmire and his mother, the original name of the cat was "Pussy", but the censors found it to be too tasteless and it was changed to "Mittens" (however, they didn't object to the implication that Quagmire intended to have a threesome with his mother and the Bachelorette).
- Allusions to Quagmire being incestuous later appear in "Petergeist" when he mentions his family coming over to play sex.
- A flashback implies Peter was once a woman, and has had a sex-change, although this is most likely a one-off joke. This is contradicted by other flashbacks to Peter's past which show him as a boy. One flashback in "And the Wiener Is..." even has a doctor saying "It's a boy" to Peter's mother.
- Stewie talks extensively about the novel that he believes Brian is writing. In Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, Brian says that in his time away from the series, he had some time to work on his novel.
[edit] Culture references
- When Stewie swats the spoon away from his face and says "Well, I guess the pilot was JFK, Junior", he is referring to the death of John F. Kennedy, Jr, who died while piloting a plane. Stewie then says sadly, "Wow, even I found that to be in bad taste".
- After Brian rejects a donkey for group date with Brooke, Prince Adam takes the animal and transforms him into Battle-Cat, and himself into He-Man (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe).
- The show is centered around a parody of the ABC show The Bachelorette.
- The first thing that Chris's pimple says is "Feed Me", like Audrey II from the Little Shop of Horrors.
- A sexually suggestive Snorks gag is seen after Chris spray-paints the mini-mart wall.
- In one of the confessions Brian gives for The Bachelorette, he sings a few lines from At this Moment by Billy Vera and the Beaters.
- One of Chris' pimples demands, "Where are all the whiteheads at?" This is a reference to Cleavon Little's ploy to goad the Klansmen to leave the line of villains in Blazing Saddles: "where are all the white women at?"
- The story of the talking pimple is reminiscent of the films Little Shop of Horrors and How to Get Ahead in Advertising.
- When Herbert hops outside Chris' window on a ladder, the whole scene up to when he falls down is a parody from the film Animal House.
- When Mort Goldman throws the pot of hot coffee on Peter, it is a direct parody of the ending of the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
- Brian and Brooke share an interest in jazz musician John Coltrane -- "early Coltrane, before he got clean." (Coltrane was a heroin addict until 1955, after which he underwent stylistic changes.) She is also interested in Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster. (Initially, when Brian asks her what jazz artists she listens to, she answers "DJ Jazzy Jeff".)
[edit] Trivia
Jessica Biel's character, Brooke, is named after Brooke Roberts, a writer's assistant of Family Guy; the character was even referred to as Brooke Roberts at one point of the episode.
In Stewie's "flash forward" to his plans for Chris' room once he's gone, the computer in the room appears to have the mouse on the left side of the monitor instead of the right. This indicates that either A) Stewie is left-handed or B) the artists flipped the image at the last minute.
| Preceded by: "Petarded" |
Family Guy Episodes | Followed by: "8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter" |
