"Family Guy" fans, your prayers have been answered...Brian is returning

[Douglas Carpenter]

Great news for “Family Guy” fans: After being dead for almost two weeks, Brian Griffin is coming back to life on Dec. 15, still voiced by creator Seth MacFarlane.

The intellectual anthropomorphic dog and martini lover, one of the main characters in the long-running Fox comedy, was run over by a car and buried in a funeral service on Nov. 24′s episode, “Life of Brian.” At the time, executive producer Steve Callaghan was nonchalant about the death, telling E Online that “we thought it could be a fun way to shake things up.”

“As soon as this idea came up, we started talking about what the next couple episodes could be and we got very excited about the way this change will affect the family dynamics and the characters,” he explained.

But fans didn’t find Brian’s sudden death quite as fascinating, and instead thousands took to the Internet to sign a Change.org petition pleading with the show’s creators to bring Brian back to the show. The episode’s details don’t reveal how Brian comes back to life, but it’s implied by the description that it has something to with Stewie’s “master plan to get the one and only thing he wants for Christmas.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/12/06/brian_is_returning_to_family_guy/

[MrScorpio]

1. I hope that bringing back dead characters doesn't spread to other shows

Can't imagine this being a regular occuence on Game Of Thrones or The Walking Dead.

[Douglas Carpenter]

2. or the HBO series on John Adams

[MrScorpio]

3. Good call! nt

[phylny]

4. Or "Dallas."

Oh, wait.

[Douglas Carpenter]

5. kick because it is so important

[Boudica the Lyoness]

6. I like Brian.

Glad he's coming back.

[REP]

7. He's been listed in the titles of two upcoming episodes since the "Dog's Life" episode

"Brian's a Terrible Father" and "Brian the Closer," so no news there.

[Vashta Nerada]

8. This show really needs George R. R. Martin as a writer.

[Tom Ripley]

9. Please please please kill Peter next

for good

[Dash87]

10. I hope the next death is Family Guy.

Followed of course by The Cleveland Show. Neither are funny anymore.

[socialist_n_TN]

11. I believe The Cleveland Show has already been cancelled........

I'm sure it's still going strong in syndication though. I still enjoy "Family Guy".

[Dash87]

12. Oh yeah, you're right.

That and American Dad were total crap. I watched neither and was happy when both were canceled.