by Theresa O'Riordan

Created on: April 25, 2008

Those of us who love "Family Guy" have just one problem: There aren't enough new episodes! Now I know the drill....every show has to be replayed while the new ones are being put together, but I get so many stupid-style guffaws out of this show....I think I could really use more of it in my life.

Who can forget, for example, when Peter, the main character, knocks out the pregnant woman? Relax, ladies. This woman really looks like a man, and that's the great part. She even talks like a man. At one point in the episode, Peter runs into her again and she has her baby with her. It looks like she's going to whip stuff out and start breast-feeding when Peter says "Aw, geez fellah, can't you take that outside?"

The funniest part about the whole series is how incurably stupid Peter is. At one point he visits the doctor who tells him, for the first time in his life, that he is actually, legitimately retarded. He has to go home and tell his family....who, of course, already knows.

Another ridiculous adventure takes place when Chris starts "talking street". Peter splashes him with his drink and yells "He's speaking in tongues! The power of Christ compels you..!" Cleveland, Peter's black friend, tells Peter that he should teach Chris about his Irish heritage. But while they're investigating, Peter finds out his great-great grandfather was a slave. Hilarity ensues as Peter joins a large group of black people who are trying to get reparations, and he starts dressing like a Nigerian and changes his name to Keechwa. Finding out his snobby father-in-law, who hangs out with Ted Turner and Bills Gates, is a descendant of the family that enslaved his ancestor, Peter throws a fit. His father-in-law goes to write him a check for 10,000 dollars just to shut him up and asks "How do you spell Keechwa?" To which Peter replies, "You know what, screw the Keechwa, make it out to Peter Griffin....P-e-t-e-r....".

Brian, the family dog (who has the same problems as people and dances and sings better than most) is quite the intellectual, and counters alot of what Peter says by shooting back witty comments, which of course go completely over Peter's head. He attends therapy sessions and smokes cigarettes, watches t.v. with a martini and says things like "Me? Go to New York City? I've been there....it's like Prague sans the whimsy." A dog who uses French terms to pepper his conversation. And yet sounds like a totally normal guy. If you blindfolded yourself, Brian would probably seem like a pretty

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