With his dreams of a short-lived commitment spiraling down the drain, Brian and Jess move back into his old apartment with her Christian mother and her cats. Peter convinces him that married life isn't all bad, but he instead adopts self-destructive behavior by way of massive weight gain. Brian becomes disgusted with her becoming an obese hedonistic glutton with no manners or decorum, and farting nonstop. After they have great sex together, he agrees to help her work on her bucket list and they become closer. No sooner are Brian and Jess married than they learn that Jess is no longer dying and Brian is faced with the prospect of spending a lifetime with a woman whom he barely knows. As fans, there are always expectations when a series comes back from the summer. Peter's business that sold pants with butt flaps failed because the company's 555 number was fake.
Meanwhile, Chris gets stuck with being Stewie's babysitter when Meg is able to blackmail Peter. Chris tries to get it from Lois by explaining that it is 'friend's,' but finds her smoking a cigarette. Why not continue exploring the course of this relationship on a more logical path? She lost her hair to chemotherapy but after her cancer went into remission, it slowly began to grow back. Brian making fun of Fox and its use of invasive pop-up ads is something we've seen done before, but it's still funny. After they get married, her cancer miraculously goes into remission and they move in together, he has to contend with her annoyingly happy attitude, her many cats, her obnoxious mother and her new hedonistic lifestyle. But no sooner did Brian and Jess get married than the series reverted to its usual, cynical self. Chris takes Stewie to a party where he gets hooked on vaping.
It seems that as long as Fox is still on the air, they will invest in their consistent Sunday night adult animation line-up. Again, nothing about the second half of the episode makes it clear why there even needs to be a second part. Family Guy kicks off the seventeenth season with a story about marriage and death, so are we committed to the series or is it on its way out? There are still plenty of episodes this year, and I hope that many of them will be pleasantly surprising, but this was not the best way to start the year off. One thing that separates Family Guy from many of the other long-running animated sitcoms is their ability to shake up the status quo. After going to , her prognoses takes a turn for the worse and Brian asks Jess to marry him and she agrees. Seventeen years is a testament to the humour and intelligence that has carried the series through competition and the slow decline of cable television. And, just as Brian believes he may have found his way out, another surprise ends the show.
Voice Cast: Seth MacFarlane as Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin, Quagmire, and Tom Tucker; Alex Borstein as Lois Griffin; Seth Green as Chris Griffin; Mila Kunis as Meg; Mike Henry as Cleveland Brown; and Patrick Warburton as Joe. South Park has changed things up by pursuing a more continuity-driven approach in recent years. Why not slowly build up the resentment and hostility between the two characters rather than going from 0 to 60 right after the wedding? However, immediately after their wedding, Jess's cancer goes into remission and he is forced to continue his relationship with her even though he finds her annoying and disgusting and she lets her figure go. The Green Onion headquarters is located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She also develops severe flatulence from her digestive system working again.
Following a recap of previous episodes including the very last one recounting Brian's marriage to Jess, we find Brian about to burn down his apartment building to fake his own death. Endearingly ignorant Peter and his stay-at-home wife Lois reside in Quahog, R. In all honesty, this was not the way that I hoped the season would kick-off. But when Lois raids Stewie's piggy bank, she discovers the vaping and reads them the riot act and takes the pen, leaving Stewie stuck going cold turkey. That would be a perfectly good plot catalyst if the writers didn't pull a complete 180 with the characterization of both Brian and Jess.
Meaning, Brian may be going into season 17 married to his new partner, Jess. He also won the 2016 Emmy Award in the same category, and was nominated from 2013 to 2015. Sadly, if not unexpectedly, all of that pretty much goes out the window midway through the premiere. She reveals she is upset because he allowed her to almost die previously from choking and they both believe that they may be truly meant for each other since they both wished each other dead. But just as Brian thinks he's finally free of her during her funeral, she recovers which her mother proclaims as a miracle and leaves Brian in tears. She helps establish Jess as a likable new addition to the mix and someone who's more than just a throwaway love interest. But just as Brian thinks he's finally free of her during her funeral, she recovers which her mother proclaims as a miracle and leaves Brian in tears.
Sharing his new passion with Chris, they start vaping together. Plot Brian gets caught by the family slipping out to the bar while hoping to score a date and they torment him over his corny old lines. Aside from his work as a freelance writer, Jesse also operates his own website, podcasts, and is a father of two budding sprouts. Brian is probably the most frustrating character on the series. The first half of the premiere is all about building that relationship and establishing a mutual attraction between Brian and Jess Happy Endings' Casey Wilson.
Meg, the eldest child, is a social outcast, and teenage Chris is awkward and clueless when it comes to the opposite sex. After she receives devastating news regarding her diagnosis, Brian proposes marriage to her. Our Take: Family Guy enters its impressive seventeenth season. His bitterness is precisely what he needs to attract a young woman who has been diagnosed with cancer. When he tries to call her on her hypocrisy and claims that vaping is cool compared to cigarettes, she takes a photo of his vaping to point out just how stupid he looks. Brian meets and quickly falls in love with a woman named Jess, who reveals she has cancer.