‘Family Guy’ Fans Still Think It’s Weird That Brian Dates Human Women
For all the carnage, crassness and family-unfriendly humor in Family Guy, the most messed-up part of the show continues to be the fact that so many mostly normal human women keep screwing the pooch.
As Family Guy fanatics know well, Brian Griffin is one of the two original characters whom creator Seth MacFarlane conceived for a prototypical project, the mid-1990s cartoon shorts called Life of Larry. In the predecessor cartoon, Brian was named Steve, but he was still a two-legs-walking, smart-talking pet who acted more like a best bro than man’s best friend to Larry, the shorter, more nebbish-y animated patriarch who preceded Peter Griffin. When Life of Larry caught the eye of some Fox executives, they gave MacFarlane $50,000 to expand Larry and Steve into a full TV family – thus, Family Guy began.
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But for as long as Brian/Steve Griffin has been a central figure in MacFarlane’s animated universe, never has he truly, deeply questioned why, within the degenerate sexual politics of the Family Guy universe, Quahog, Rhode Island seems to have an endless supply of attractive blonde women who like it ruff:
As many Family Guy superfans pointed out, the issue isn’t that the show ignored the species barrier between Brian and the vast majority of his sexual partners — it’s more concerning that, within the MacFarlane universe, every blonde woman’s type is a talking dog with a drinking problem and snobbish, center-left political leanings.
The only time Brian being a dog and not a human man with a normal human penis ever posed a threat to Brian’s ability to bed Homo-sapien women was in the Season 10 episode “The Blind Side,” when Brian fell in love with a blind woman named Kate who hated dogs but had no idea her boyfriend was one. Brian lost Kate when she discovered the truth, but only because he wasn’t honest with her, not because he was literally a different species.
The ending of “The Blind Side” should serve as a warning to real human men — women would rather fuck a dog than a liar.
