I still like that show, pretty much only for the Stewie-Brian dynamic. Without Brain, it'd be like the Simpsons if Homer ever got his act together. Plus Vinnie was the most unlikeable character in all of television history (he made jokes about crippling gay people for Christ-sakes)

I wanted to be able to refer to all Family Guy episodes as before-Brian and after-Brian, but now I can't.

I respected MacFarlane so much for having the balls to kill off one of the shows main characters, but now it's just like Gilligan's Island and every show after - by the end of the episode, they are right back where they started.

Same here...one of the things I found interesting is the screen test of Brian Baumgartner as Kevin. He got the role but in the screen test he is playing the character very different then how he does on the show.

I find this video incredibly interesting, thanks for posting.

One aspect of it is that some of these actors are so clearly wrong for the part. And it's not like they could have taken the role in a very different direction, because it's all based on a existing BBC show with established characters. (Adam Scott as Jim would have been great though)

But also, that they have had these (relatively) famous people audition is odd to me. One of the things I find so interesting in The Office US is that in the British version there's only four real characters involved, all the others are just window dressing and only get a few lines here and there. And that's why I thought that they hired these unknown actors in the US version (look up the resume of people like Angela Kinsey and Brian Baumgartner, they had done nothing until the Office), and then as the show progressed they got more and more to do, and they turned out to be pretty great at it.

But now in this video I see people like Eric Stonestreet reading for Kevin (already with a number of credits when this was casted), so I guess I was wrong and they were casting an ensemble cast.

Brian will be back according to http://www.tv.com/shows/family-guy/community/post/family-guy-brian-back-from-the-dead-138637206686/ and others.

out-of-date with Brian.

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hard time finding it.. only this one
http://videosift.com/video/Family-Guy-Brian-s-Emmy-Vote-Entourage (and the Flight of the Concords version)... <shrug>

My intro to Brian (and to Family Guy) came through this scene (and its subsequent follow-up).

A Farewell To Family Guy's Brian Griffin has been added as a related post - related requested by deathcow.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/A-Farewell-To-Family-Guys-Brian-Griffin

The Death of Brian has been added as a related post - related requested by deathcow on that post.

Why they may have killed off Brian
http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/27/brian-griffin-dead-in-family-guy-is-killing-off-a-tv-character-lazy-writing-4203914/

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams Batkid Saves the Day has been added as a related post - related requested by eric3579 on that post.

Batman and BRIAN BLESSED, who I presume just SWORE LOUDLY at the French, and they ran terrified.