# Has anyone on "Family Guy" ever commented on Brian's bestiality? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532 "2009-12-08T23:37:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TheMerchandise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b487fb/32.png) [@TheMerchandise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMerchandise)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/41 "2009-12-09T19:59:48Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > It’s more of a stereotype about dogs not liking black people. (Some say it’s because suburban dogs aren’t used to seeing many black people, others say it’s because the dogs react to their owners nervousness upon seeing an unfamiliar black person. Either way, I say it’s a recipe for hilarious awkwardness. Especially when the black guy is your new vet.) Plus, a reference to the movie [White Dog](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Dog). ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/42 "2009-12-09T22:02:58Z")
> [@Serenata67](#): > > I think what they’re getting at isn’t that Brian is committing bestiality, but that the women he sleeps with are. Well, if we’re willing to go with bestiality meaning sex with a lower animal ([M-W](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bestiality)), and if Brian is a sentient being who happens to be dog shaped, then I think “miscegenation” might be a defensible claim, but bestiality seems a bit wrong. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/43 "2009-12-09T22:04:25Z")
The best part was when Brian heard Midnight at the Apollo was coming on and tried to explain why he was turning it off. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/44 "2009-12-10T00:13:38Z")
In the James Woods episode Woods chains Brian to a stake in the yard and Brian immediately runs in circles until the chain is all wrapped around the stake. That cracked me up. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/45 "2009-12-10T00:59:35Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > Well, if we’re willing to go with bestiality meaning sex with a lower animal ([M-W](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bestiality)), and if Brian is a sentient being who happens to be dog shaped, then I think “miscegenation” might be a defensible claim, but bestiality seems a bit wrong. The technical term is “rishathra”. ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/46 "2009-12-10T04:41:53Z")
There was a scene I always liked that went something like this Chris: I don’t have to listen to you, You’re a dog! You don’t have a soul! Brian: Wow! That was harsh. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/47 "2009-12-10T05:33:47Z")
I think one of my all time faves was Stewie and Brian (in one of the Road to episodes, I think Road to Rhode Island) stranded. Stewie tells Brian that if he doesn’t get them back, Lois will be pissed and Brian will end up in a dumpster with a few slow moving greyhounds, and Brian goes, “Hey, don’t joke about that, that’s like the Holocaust for us.” ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/48 "2009-12-10T06:05:05Z")
[The one I referenced earlier.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mKM3nVnfCg) I can’t find the one from the episode where they break Lois out of jail. The one where he’s running around in circles and stumbling all over the van and when Peter finally asks him what’s wrong, he says “I’m a dog. We have a hard time standing up in the car.” That one is so funny, and I can’t find it. On an unrelated note, [Every mom knows exactly what this feels like.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkp4QF3we8&feature=related) There has to be a mom on their writing team. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/49 "2009-12-10T12:37:29Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > It was the episode where Meg and the family became a band and I think Brian barked at Snoop Dog, but I’m not sure on that. I think he also mentioned his dad was a police dog in the south during the 70s. Oo, yeah, that was the episode. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/50 "2009-12-10T14:21:21Z")
How about the one where Lois’s dad got his prized racing dog pregnant with half human puppies? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/51 "2009-12-10T14:45:55Z")
> [@caligulathegod](#): > > How about the one where Lois’s dad got his prized racing dog pregnant with half human puppies? CARTER didn’t knock up Seabreeze, Ted Turner did. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/52 "2009-12-10T15:00:50Z")
That’s right. I stand corrected. Still pretty gross. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/53 "2009-12-10T16:33:54Z")
> [@caligulathegod](#): > > How about the one where Lois’s dad got his prized racing dog pregnant with half human puppies? By that logic, shouldn’t Brian’s son have been some sort of human/canine hybrid? Instead he looked to be a normal human. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/54 "2009-12-10T16:45:22Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > By that logic, shouldn’t Brian’s son have been some sort of human/canine hybrid? Instead he looked to be a normal human. And wasn’t he somehow older than Brian, which they commented on? (The kid was a teen, Brian’s eight?) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/55 "2009-12-10T16:50:26Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/56 "2009-12-10T21:53:39Z")
> [@Serenata67](#): > > In the episode where he was dating the older lady, someone made a comment along the lines of “isn’t she old for you?” and he said “I’m 56” or something like that. I guess the dog years thing goes both ways. Like the Simpsons, Family Guy has always been a little screwy with its timeline. There was one episode where Brian said he used to hang out with Andy Warhol, who died in 1987. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/57 "2009-12-11T01:59:23Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > The technical term is “rishathra”. I used miscegenation as that’s the only “real” term I know for mixing of races, but if by “technical term” you mean “SF word made up by Larry Niven”… then yep, decent description… although I wonder if Brian counts as “humanoid”. 🙂 Hmmm… I wonder if other SF and Fantasy worlds have similar terms… I’ve never heard anyone on, say, modern Star Trek even comment on attitudes towards inter-species relationships, and as far as I’m aware the only thing Capt. Kirk would have called them was “Friday Night”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/58 "2009-12-11T02:13:53Z")
> [@caligulathegod](#): > > That’s right. I stand corrected. Still pretty gross. Yeah, but a different guy comes out looking like the freak. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/59 "2009-12-11T02:42:21Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Like the Simpsons, Family Guy has always been a little screwy with its timeline. There was one episode where Brian said he used to hang out with Andy Warhol, who died in 1987. I think Stewie (or maybe Lois) actually came out and said “How is it possible you have a son who’s _older_ than you?” or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532/60 "2009-12-11T02:50:45Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > I think Stewie (or maybe Lois) actually came out and said “How is it possible you have a son who’s _older_ than you?” or something like that. Stewie. From memory the exchange when they two of them met the kid went more or less like this: ‘You have a 16 year old kid?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘But you’re seven.’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘How does that work?’ ‘Don’t like it? Go complain on the internet!’ (Actually, Brian may have included some halfassed explanation of how it worked before telling Stewie to go complain on the internet, but that was the funny bit.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-family-guy-ever-commented-on-brians-bestiality/520532.md?page=4)