“Brian in Love”
Family Guy episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 4
Guest stars	Sam Waterston
Written by	Gary Janetti
Directed by	Jack Dyer
Production no.	2ACX01
Original airdate	March 7, 2000
Season 2 episodes
Family Guy - Season 2 September 23, 1999 – August 1, 2000
Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater Holy Crap Da Boom Brian in Love Love Thy Trophy Death Is a Bitch The King Is Dead I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin' Running Mates A Picture is Worth a 1,000 Bucks Fifteen Minutes of Shame Road to Rhode Island Let's Go to the Hop Dammit Janet! There's Something About Paulie He's Too Sexy for His Fat E. Peterbus Unum The Story on Page One Wasted Talent Fore Father
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Plot summary

Lois is upset that Stewie has wet the carpet in the living room. Stewie emphatically denies this, but Lois and Peter are convinced that it’s a sign that Stewie is ready to potty train. However, it’s actually Brian who’s wetting the house, and he tries to clean up another accident that night. Lois Griffin (née Pewterschmidt) is a cartoon character on the TV show Family Guy by Seth MacFarlane. ... Stewart Gilligan Stewie Griffin is a fictional character in the animated television series Family Guy. ... Manneken Pis of Brussels. ... Peter Löwenbräu Griffin is the protagonist in the American animated television series Family Guy. ... Toilet training (or potty training) is the process of weaning a young child off diapers (or nappies in the British Isles and many Commonwealth countries) and training the child to use the toilet for urination and defecation. ... Brian Griffin is a fictional cartoon character on the FOX animated television series Family Guy, and is voiced by show creator, Seth MacFarlane. ...

Brian and Lois by themselves

After a failed attempt by Peter at getting Stewie to use the toilet, the family goes to the supermarket to buy groceries. In the checkout line, Brian has another accident, revealing that Stewie (much to his own delight) is innocent. This leads to Brian going to see Dr. Kaplan, a psychiatrist. The doctor decides Brian is having a mid-life crisis, so Brian goes traveling and exploring. Image File history File links FGBrianinLove. ... Image File history File links FGBrianinLove. ... Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that studies and treats mental and emotional disorders (see mental illness). ... Midlife crisis is the notion, popular in certain cultures, that many middle-aged people go through a period of dramatic self doubt brought on by the realization that their life is half over and they havent accomplished what they once wanted to. ...

Brian feels better, but shortly after returning, Stewie gets sweet revenge and frames Brian by peeing all over the living room. Brian is blamed and returns to Dr. Kaplan to find out why this is still happening. After revealing that his last accident happened after watching Lois and Peter have a water fight while washing the car, Dr. Kaplan tells Brian that he is in love with Lois.

Brian and Lois discuss the situation and decide to just remain friends. Peter, who is unaware that Brian’s love is Lois, conjectures that Brian’s beloved would “probably end up with some idiot.”

Notes

• Stewie is understood in this episode:
  • Stewie tricks Lois into bending down, resulting in her receiving a smack on the face by Stewie.
  • Stewie tells Peter to put his fingers on the toilet seat, and Peter does.
  • Peter also replies “Yeah?” to Stewie when he sarcastically suggests that they light a doobie and watch porn (after Peter suggests that Stewie should drink beer in order to learn how to use the toilet).
  • Stewie asks Lois to kiss him after dinner resulting in Brian losing his temper.
• The first airing of this episode had Peter’s line to Brian when Brian has his accident at the supermarket, “Geez, Brian, where do you think you are, K-Mart?” All reruns, including those on Cartoon Network, and the DVD version, has “K-Mart” replaced with “Payless.”
• This is the first episode to imply that Brian is in love with Lois.
• This is also the first episode that shows the name of the local bar, “The Drunken Clam.”
• Quagmire thinks that Asian reporter Tricia Takanawa is Spanish. Quagmire quotes “he, O'le” instead of his usual “all right”.
• After Brian sniffs Lois' sweater, and Stewie appears leaning against the wall eating an apple and says "Well, well, well ... you love her!" The same situation is depicted in Dammit Janet except its Brian listening in on Stewie.
• When peter conjectured that Brian's future Girlfriend would be an idiot, that reference appeared to be true in the later episode, Whistle While Your Wife Works.

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Cultural references

Stewie disposing of Mr. Rogers

• One sequence parodies Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Stewie kills Mister Rogers, but first he lets him see the carnage in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Stewie is woken up, revealing that his domination of the neighborhood was just a dream, only to be in the middle of another dream where Mister Rogers is disguised as Lois.
• A sequence parodies the closing titles of 1960s cartoon series The Jetsons in which George Jetson gets caught on his treadmill/dog-walk machine with their dog Astro.
• Brian can be seen reading Into Thin Air, journalist Jon Krakauer’s account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. Brian can also been seen reading Memoirs of a Geisha and The Perfect Storm.
• A cutaway suggests the that the mysterious 1932 kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s son was actually an attempt by Lindbergh to cover up the loss of the toddler during toilet training. Lindbergh also disposed of a witness, fellow aviator Amelia Earhart, who disappeared in 1937.
• When Lois suggests that toilet training would be a good way for Peter and Stewie to bond, Peter responds with the catch phrase from the James Bond film series “Bond, James Bond.”
• When Peter is looking for books about toilet training the book seller shows him Everybody Poops, an actual book which would appear again in the episode PTV, followed by Nobody Poops But You. Peter then informs the books store owner he is Catholic, and he is handed a book titled You’re a Naughty Child and That’s Concentrated Evil Coming Out the Back of You.
• When Brian pees in the supermarket, Peter asks, “Where do you think you are, Brian? Payless?”, referring to a discount shoe store (the original line referred to K-Mart instead of Payless, but it has since been changed on all broadcasts, including the Cartoon Network airing and the DVD release).
• Brian tells Dr. Kaplan about a dream parodying the 1976 science fiction film Logan’s Run, in which the “Sandmen” kill all people at age 30 as means of population control. In the dream, Brian tries to distract the Sandmen by pointing out Peanuts character Snoopy, who’s “got to be in his fifties.” Also, the overhead speakers in the film play the Air Supply song “All Out of Love.”
• After Peter says, “Lots of crazy people have gone onto lead normal, successful lives,” a picture of then-CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather appears on screen.
• Brian runs over a man in the countryside and asks if he is horror author Stephen King. Nine months before this episode aired, King was hit by a car while walking down a road near his Maine home. However, Brian hit another horror author, Dean Koontz. Upon learning his identity, Brian runs him over a second time.
• When Brian sees Tom Tucker’s son he makes the same “puzzled surprise” noise as Scooby Doo.
• When Trisha Takanawa continues her in-depth report on sex, she is shown in a motel room with Quagmire. A picture above the bed is of a woman reclining on the beach and looking at the ocean, a reference to the Coen Brothers film Barton Fink
• When Peter is at the Super Market he pulls out 2 candy bars, Middlefinger a play of Butterfinger and Fat Cat a play on Kit Kat.
• Peter calls Dr. Kaplan "Sigmund Fraud", a reference to Sigmund Freud.

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References

• Callaghan, Steve. “Brian in Love.” Family Guy: The Official Episode Guide Seasons 1–3. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 53–55.
• Delarte, Alonso. “Nitpicking Family Guy: Season 2.” Bob’s Poetry Magazine May 2005: 10–11. http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs02My.pdf