Brian Griffin

“	Hey barkeep, whose leg do you have to hump to get a dry martini around here?	„
 	~ Brian Griffin's famous quote. 	
“	Brian Griffin: [Brian has died and gone to heaven where he sits in a booth having drinks with some new friends] Wow, look at me! Hanging out drinking with Ernest Hemingway, Van Gogh and Kurt Cobain. Still, it feels like we all got here a little earlier than we should have.Ernest Hemingway: Yeah, well, I finally collapsed under the weight of my own genius and shot myself.Vincent Van Gogh: I could not reconcile my passion with the way people around me were living so I shot myself.Kurt Cobain: I hated the thought of my music become part of some bland corporate mechanism so I shot myself.Brian Griffin: [sheepish] Yeah I, uh... I got into the garbage and ate some chocolate.	„
 	~ Brian Griffin while in heaven with Ernest, Vincent and Kurt in the direct-to-DVD movie "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story". 	
“	You... you've given me a wonderful life, I love you all. 	„
 	~ Brian's last words to the Griffins (including Stewie) before dying.	
Brian Edward Griffin (born 1991), or best known as Brian Griffin, is one of the deuteragonists of the animated sitcom Family Guy.
In "Life of Brian", he dies after being struck by a car. However, two episodes later, in "Christmas Guy", Stewie soon sees his past time-traveling self and is able to steal his return pad and transport back to the point where Brian was killed. Before the car can hit Brian, Stewie pushes him out of the way and saves his life. Brian is also in two episodes of American Dad!.
He is voiced by the Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, who also voices a remarkable number of other characters on the show, including Peter, Stewie, Glenn Quagmire, Carter Pewterschmidt, and the Hummer Driver.
== Contents ==
* 1Appearance
* 2Personality
* 3History
* 4Relationships
** 4.1Family
** 4.2Allies
** 4.3Enemies
* 5Villainous Acts
* 6Trivia
* 7External Links
* 8Navigation
== Appearance ==
Brian is an anthropomorphic white Labrador retriever who stands on his hind legs, using his front legs for arms. Like any dog, he is very short, being about twice the size of Stewie. He wears a red collar with a golden, circular tag on it.
== Personality ==
Initially, Brian is a comparatively more grounded and reasonable character, acting as the voice of reason, but a decent friend towards Peter. However, as with many characters, Brian starts to show more of an atrocious side as the series begins to include more dark humor.
He became very pretentious, egotistical and severely egomaniacal (this may be because of his bad behavior, which he continuously blames on somebody else rather than himself, showing him to be a narcissist), and is shown to be very obsessed with his failed book Faster Than the Speed of Love and then his bestselling book Wish It, Want It, Do It, inadvertently turning even more into Lois' father Carter in the later seasons. This leads to him often treating his fellow family members poorly and committing various crimes.
He and Stewie are the most intelligent of all of the members of the Griffin family, having even spend time together in episodes centering around the both of them. However, because of his ego and sometimes being as bad or as reckless as Peter, Brian is less intelligent than he makes himself seem.
== History ==
Brian is a talking white dog. He was born in a puppy mill in Austin, Texas, and was taken from his mother to be adopted by the Hendersons. After he went missing, the Hendersons eventually stopped looking for him in favor of leaving it up to God's will and he became a stray. And ever since Peter picked him up on the highway, he has been living with the Griffins. While he exhibits some typical dog behaviors such as eating garbage and licking himself, he also possesses various anthropomorphic qualities, such as the ability to speak quite intelligently and walk on two legs. He also has a particularly sharp wit. Peter is his best friend, despite Brian's vastly superior intelligence. Brian is often the voice of reason in the family, often reminding Peter how stupid his plans are.
Brian has a cultured background; he loves opera and jazz, has a talented vocal ability, being able to sing all four parts to a barbershop quartet simultaneously. He is depicted speaking fluent French, Tagalog, and decent Spanish. He attended Brown University, is also a member of Mensa, and is an avid writer (in Brian Goes Back to College, he is invited to write for The New Yorker). Brian is apparently working on a novel, later titled Faster Than the Speed of Love, but the fact that he just can't seem to finish it has become a running gag. When it eventually does get published by Carter in exchange for Brian supporting the re-illegalization of marijuana however, his book gets universally panned by literacy critics, resulting in not a single copy being sold, with the only people liking his book being a few mentally disabled adults. When all the copies are returned to him in boxes made of his books, Brian quits writing, but upon thinking that his book failed because of "crappy books" overselling it, he writes Wish It, Want It, Do It out of spite, which end up being a hit until he embarrasses himself on a talk show.
While he is not seen holding a regular job in Quahog, Brian is depicted owning a 2004 Toyota Prius, paying bills, and maintaining a credit card. In an episode, he has been a substitute teacher at Chris' school, a contributor for The New Yorker, a taxi driver, and a drug-sniffing dog for the Quahog police department. He also worked selling cars while the Griffin family thought that Peter had died in the episode "Perfect Castaways." He also got a job as a real estate agent upon getting new teeth. However, when he conned Quagmire into buying a rundown apartment loft and let his 72 hour warranty expire, Quagmire broke Brian’s teeth, causing Brian to lose his job. When he got evicted from the Griffin household, he got a job at a suicide hotline, but he was more focused on a hot co-worker than actually doing his job. He also gets a job at Mega Hardware in order to have insurance, but he develops an annoying attitude that convinces Stewie to set him up to get fired. Brian held several jobs while living in Los Angeles including waiter, car wash attendant, screenwriter, and pornographic film director.
In "Love Blactually", Brian is shown to be an atheist. He attempts to purchase a copy of The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins, meeting love interest Carolyn, who reaches for the same copy. However, this is questionable after the episode "I Dream of Jesus," when he saw Jesus in person and even witnessed him turning the family's dinner into ice cream and enlarging Lois' breasts right in front of his eyes, which may suggest that he is an atheist out of pure stubbornness.
He shares a very close friendship with Stewie, and in the episode "Brian and Stewie," they admitted that they love each other - not as lovers, but as irreplaceable friends. In the twelfth season episode "Life of Brian," aired November 24, 2013, he is fatally wounded after being run over a mysterious car driver. He later dies on the operating table. His last words were "You've given me a wonderful life, I love you all." However, in the episode "Christmas Guy" (two episodes later), aired on December 15, 2013, Stewie goes back in time to before Brian was killed and saves him, making it so that he never died.
== Relationships ==
=== Family ===
* Coco (father)
* Biscuit (mother)
* Jerry (brother)
* Callie (sister)
* Many unnamed siblings
* Jasper (cousin)
* Ricardo (cousin-in-law)
* Jess Griffin (wife)
* Scrappy Brian (nephew)
* Dylan Flannigan (son)
=== Allies ===
* Peter Griffin (housemate/best friend)
* Stewie Griffin (housemate/best friend/blood brother)
* Lois Griffin (housemate/second best friend/love interest(formerly))
* Meg Griffin (housemate/ex-girlfriend)
* Chris Griffin (housemate)
* Joe Swanson
* Bonnie Swanson
* Cleveland Brown
* Loretta Brown (formerly)
* Glenn Quagmire (on and off)
* Mayor Adam West
=== Enemies ===
* Carter Pewterschmidt
* Glenn Quagmire (on and off)
* Ernie the Giant Chicken
* Bertram
* Penelope
* Evil Stewie
* Retep
* New Brian
* Miss Emily
* James Woods (arch-enemy; formerly)
* George Townsend (former friend)
* Holden Caulfield
* Pouncey
* Squirrels
== Villainous Acts ==
“	You are the worst person I know. You constantly hit on your best friend's wife. The man pays for your food and rescued you from certain death, and this is how you repay him? And to add insult to injury, you defecate all over his yard. And you're such a sponge. You pay for nothing. You always say, "Oh, I'll get you later," but "later" never comes. And what really bothers me is you pretend you're this deep guy who loves women for their souls when all you do is date bimbos. Yeah, I date women for their bodies, but at least I'm honest about it. I don't buy them a copy of Catcher in the Rye and then lecture them with some seventh grade interpretation of how Holden Caulfield is some profound intellectual. He wasn't! He was a spoiled brat! And that's why you like him so much...he's you! God, you're pretentious! And you delude yourself by thinking you're some great writer, even though you're terrible! You know, I should have known Cheryl Tiegs didn't write me that note. She would have known there's no "a" in the word "definite." And I think what I hate most about you is your textbook liberal agenda, how we should "legalize pot, man," how big business is crushing the underclass, how homelessness is the biggest tragedy in America. Well, what have you done to help? I work down at the soup kitchen, Brian. Never seen you down there! You wanna help? Grab a ladle! And by the way, driving a Prius doesn't make you Jesus Christ! Oh, wait! You don't believe in Jesus Christ or any religion for that matter, because "religion is for idiots!" Well, who the hell are you to talk down to anyone? You've failed college twice, which isn't nearly as bad as your failure as a father! How's that son of yours you never see? But you know what? I could forgive all of that, all of it, if you weren't such a bore! That's the worst of it, Brian. You're just a big, sad, alcoholic bore.	„
 	~ Quagmire explaining his hatred for Brian while accurately describing him. 	
* Brian once dated a neglectful preschool teacher known as Miss Emily and looked past the neglect of the children (including his friend Stewie) to continue being with her. He even painfully relocates Stewie's arm after Miss Emily dislocated it to keep him from telling on her. He only reports her after he learns that she already had a boyfriend. This is considered his Moral Event Horizon by some, as he turns her into the authorities only because she was already taken by another man. This episode also shows that he is willing to allow people to abuse his family and friends for selfish reasons.
* In Back to the Woods, a flashback reveals that Brian taped the reaction of Stewie, who was forced to see an obscene video called Two Girls, One Cup, just for Brian's own sadistic amusement. When James Woods later ties Brian to Meg's pole, Stewie decides to not help untie Brian as payback.
* In Killer Queen, Brian tormented Stewie with a Queen album's disturbing imagery, almost driving Stewie to commit suicide over the trauma. Unlike most of his actions, Brian realizes he took things too far. At the last minute, he stops Stewie from shooting himself before showing him that it's just an album cover.
* One of his worst actions came in the episode Back to the Pilot. Brian and Stewie travel back to the first episode of the series. Brian says he needs to use the bathroom, but instead, he intentionally tells his past self about the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001. Even though he had good intentions and saves three thousand lives, it causes Former President George W. Bush to lose the 2004 election and reform the confederacy with the southern states seceding from the country, resulting in another civil war that, over the course of five years, causes nuclear strikes across the Eastern Seaboard, turns Quahog into a toxic warzone, and kills seventeen million people. When Stewie and Brian correct the mistake and return to the present, Stewie discovers that Brian has taken false and undeserved credit for writing the Harry Potter series.
* In “Yug Ylimaf”, he uses Stewie’s time machine in order to impress women while claiming it to be his. However, one of his dates, a 15 year old girl, points out the "years traveled" counter, making him confess that it's not his. Knowing Stewie would kill him if he found out, he tries to dispose of the evidence by taking off the years in the same fashion as taking miles off of a car, which causes the time machine to explode and for time to reverse itself around himself and Stewie. He also Blames Meg when Stewie finds out.
* In "Brian's Got a Brand New Bag", he dates an older Woman named Rita, who he ends up engaged to. But when she breaks her hip while the two are having sex and he has to pick up medication for her, he ends up having sex with another younger woman in a bar bathroom, after which he returns with her medicine. Realizing that he still loves Rita, he admits his infidelity. However, Rita decides he is far too young for her and breaks off their engagement for Brian cheating on her, which a regretful Brian understands that it's for the best. However, when she confuses him, he rudely tells her to take his key as she keeps confusing him on where to put it.
* In "Leggo My Meg-O", when he and Stewie where in Paris to save Meg, he shot an innocent man on another tourist boat and said to him "Later, Dink." This ended up being a mistake as Brian wasted his last bullet.
* In "The Thin White Line", Brian became addicted to cocaine. This led to some uncomfortable turbulence as he lost his job as a police dog and became more aggressive with his family. However, he later decides to go to a detox clinic with Peter following him, and after that, he decides to leave for Hollywood in the middle of his welcome back party.
* Brian is in love with Lois Griffin, and he constantly flirts with her, and, in "Play It Again, Brian", tries to show it by nearly raping her. In the same episode, he also goes into a fight with Peter after the latter confronts him.
* In another instance, Brian dates a blind woman and tries to hide the fact that he is a dog since she hates dogs. He also takes advantage of her blindness by faking a trip to Paris. When exposed for being a dog, she confesses that she wouldn't care if he were a dog, but she breaks up with him anyway for the lie alone. However, he is shown at the end of the episode taking advantage of her blindness again by pretending he's another guy with a different voice with the implication that he will trick her into having sex with him.
* Brian once dated Cheryl Tiegs just to get payback on Quagmire when the latter's advice resulted in Brian losing one of his dates.
* In a cutaway gag, Brian accidentally runs over Dean Koontz and backs over him again once he found out he wasn't Stephen King.
* In "Love Thy Trophy", Brian steals the Golden Clam Trophy due to a fondness for shiny things, which causes great tension between the residents of Spooner Street (which led to accusations of theft). When the conflict unintentionally leads to Stewie being taken to a foster home, instead of admitting fault, Brian puts the blame on everyone but himself. And when they manage to get Stewie back, Brian sways everyone from learning the truth about who took the trophy and convinces them to let it remain a mystery. He also presumably killed Rod Serling in a cutaway gag at the end of the episode.
* When Brian got a gag self-help book called Wish it, Want it, Do it published, he became extremely ungrateful and arrogant when the book became a success. Even though Stewie got him back into writing again, helped him get the book published in the first place, and had offered to be his publicist, Brian takes his anger out on him many times and scolds him for the smallest of things. Such an example of this abuse included forcing him to return to their hotel alone just because they had eaten dinner in the back room of a fancy restaurant, which Brian blamed Stewie for. When he is about to be on a talk show, he blames Stewie for telling him about his pill, himself standing under an air vent, and for Arianna Huffington and Dana Gould being on the panel instead of Christopher Hitchens like Stewie told him. This causes Brian to harshly fire Stewie on the spot. In the end, after getting embarrassed on the talk show and everyone realizing his book is trash, Brian makes halfhearted attempts to apologize to Stewie and they all come out as him blaming Stewie again, which Stewie keeps pointing out. When Stewie realizes that Brian isn't going to give him a genuine apology without blaming him again, Stewie reminds Brian that he can't write. This showed that even after being served his karma, Brian was too stubborn to admit that he alone was in the wrong for the way he treated Stewie.
* Brian is also shown to have a nasty habit of being unreliable with paying up (which Quagmire points out as one of the reasons he hates Brian), such as with his bet with Stewie and setting up his date Ida to pay for drinks after promising he would cover it, although the former led to one of Stewie's more villainous moments when he tortured Brian multiple times until Brian paid up. It's also likely that Brian never intended to pay Stewie and just made excuses to get out of it.
* When Stewie offered Brian one free punch, Brian used this to give Stewie anxiety to the point where he beats himself up so that Brian doesn't have to. In the end, Brian pushes Stewie to get him hit by a double-decker bus. However, considering Stewie viciously beat him up twice, shot him in both of his knees, and torched him with a flamethrower in the same episode, they would be considered even.
* In "Love, Blactually", he tries to get Loretta to be with Cleveland again, but only because he wants to get his ex Carolyn back from Cleveland. However, he gives up on getting Carolyn back when she betrays Cleveland by having sex with Quagmire.
* During their attempt at doing Santa's job in "Road to the North Pole", Brian and Stewie violently murder a little girl's father, knock her mother unconscious with a baseball bat when she tries to flee for help and then tie them both up to prevent them from calling the cops.
* Despite having good intentions in that he was trying to convince Mayor Adam West to revoke the gay marriage ban, Brian still held the mayor hostage at gunpoint.
* While hanging out with Frank Sinatra Jr., he decided to live life to the fullest. But as a result, he became an alcoholic, abandoned Stewie (which led to Stewie's ear being bitten off by a deer), and even bit Peter.
* In "Stewie B. Goode", Brian gave Stewie alcohol and made him drunk, although it was originally to teach him a lesson.
** In the same episode, Brian brought Stewie to the Drunken Clam, which is illegal to bring minors to bars. Both Brian and Stewie drank so many martinis that they ended up crashing into the Drunken Clam, causing property damage, and, unintentionally, made Peter lose his job in "You Know What Grinds My Gears?".
** The events were most likely erased when Stewie went back in time to save himself from his own near-death experience.
* In the video game Back to the Multiverse, Brian is shown freely engaging in attacking, killing, and other atrocious acts, including a disgusting sense of "humor" when he ignores Joe's calls for help after the boss fight against Crippletron. He even assassinates Mayor McCheese on behalf of "Evil Mayor West" in order to retain a favor in one dimension, and is really only concerned about Evil Mayor West backing out on his deal; although in fairness, Brian is trying to keep Evil Mayor West from providing weapons for Bertram's plot. He also has an odd Even Evil Has Standards moment when he considers Stewie "sick" for killing the Santa Claus of one dimension by dropping a TV set on him.
* Brian has shown to be a massive hypocrite on numerous occasions:
** The first example is in Brian & Stewie, in which despite being liberal, he keeps a pistol because of protective reasons and pretends to be against using a gun itself over the Columbine Massacre, although it's later revealed that he has it in case he wants to commit suicide. Stewie even mentions his liberal views when he asks Brian why he has the gun.
** A second example of Brian being a hypocrite is when he deliberately runs over a squirrel, which, unbeknownst to him, traumatizes Stewie. He also hires a hitman to kill Quagmire's cat Principessa. Also, during a date in Love, Blactually, he mauls a rabbit at a pet store. And in Brian's Play, he lets out his anger on a squirrel, and when he confesses why he's upset, he snaps the squirrel's neck, claiming no one must know. His worst action above the rest is in Boys & Squirrels. When Chris and Stewie nurse a baby squirrel back to health, Brian sadistically mauls it to death like a wild animal right in front of the two, greatly traumatizing them both and leading the two to blame each other instead of him. It isn't known whether or not he faced punishment for his actions since that was the only scene he was in the episode for. All these actions make him a hypocrite because in several episodes, he supported animal rights and was against violence towards animals. He was even willing to let people eat dogs in The Woof on Wall Street despite being against it in Dog Gone.
** A third example is his views on LGBT rights, which he violated in Family Gay when Lois is depressed that Peter is leaving her for another man. Brian then takes Stewie's idea for ending Lois' depression by kidnapping Peter and taking him to a straight camp to "turn him back to his old self". This was more justifiable than most of Brian's villainous deeds though and his violation was more hesitant.
** The fourth example is in Switch the Flip, in which he criticizes society for being so dependent on modern technology when Peter buys an Amazon Alexa, only to fall in love with said device and keep it for himself. However, karma bites him when he buys enough things recommended by the Alexa to exhaust his credit card and everything he bought gets repossessed without being given time to pay back. Even the Alexa is taken away when a Hispanic repossessor took the opportunity to steal it for himself despite knowing Peter bought it.
** The fifth and final one is the episode Family Guy Lite. In the episode, he read Lois' manuscript for her creative writing group and interprets this to mean this is something she's looking for in a lover. An attempt to be that lover and have an affair with her fails, but a trip to the grocery store to find wine for a second attempt reveals that not only is it the location of her manuscript, but a clerk named Horatio is the man described in it. When Lois announces that she's going to the grocery store and won't be home until late, Brian and Stewie follow Lois and find her taking Horatio for a ride to a stable. Confronting her and begging her not to have an affair, Brian reveals that not only did he read her manuscript but tried to use it to take advantage of her. Brian was basically telling Lois that her having an affair with anyone other than him is morally objectionable, which she calls him out on before explaining to him the misunderstanding.
* In Brian's a Bad Father, Brian has neglected to visit his human son Dylan. But upon hearing he is a famous TV star, Brian sets to become a writer on his show and make adult-oriented changes to it. Dylan realizes Brian only took the job for his own advantage and pointed out what a bad father he really is. Brian also steals a table of food from the studio. Fortunately, they make up later on thanks to Stewie.
* In Herpe the Love Sore, he gives Stewie and Chris herpes by becoming blood brothers with them, knowing very well that he himself has the incurable disease and kept it a secret from them. Although he shared blood with Stewie upon the latter's request, he didn't warn Stewie about his herpes and even lied about having the disease when Stewie accused him of infecting him. He also intentionally infected Chris as payback for giving him fleas. Stewie and Chris exact revenge on Brian as a result by ruining his dates and hacking his Facebook account.
* In Brian the Closer, Brian gets a job as a real estate agent after undergoing surgery to replace his teeth after one of Peter's stunts made him toothless. He cons Quagmire into buying a rundown apartment loft, despite the fact that Quagmire consoled and helped Brian with his teeth earlier in the episode after Peter and Lois coldly refused to do so (Quagmire calls him out on this later on). He then goes into hiding for 72 hours so that Quagmire's warranty would expire. When Quagmire finds him during the last few minutes of the warranty, he tells Brian that he was right to hate him. Brian then comes to the realization of his actions and admits what he did was pretentious - until revealing it was part of his devious plan to outlast the 72 hours, which causes Quagmire to violently break his teeth with a lamp. It's unknown how Quagmire got his money back or how Brian gets his teeth back.
* In Our Idiot Brian, Stewie tricks Brian into getting a surgery to remove Brian's brain tumor and make him smart again. Even though Stewie did this so that Brian wouldn't end up killing himself in one of his and Peter's stunts, instead of thanking Stewie genuinely, Brian gets passive aggressive on Stewie, claiming that he was having the time of his life as an idiot and that Stewie unilaterally decided he was better off having a miserable life again. He even insults their friendship by saying that he’s now only able to hang out with a baby.
* In This Little Piggy, while Brian and Stewie are at the Folk Festival, they both meet a hippie girl who ends up dying from a cocaine overdose just before she could make a threesome with them. Afterward, Brian and Stewie both decide to dump her body in a pile of other dead hippies, Brian feels nothing over dumping her body or seeing the other corpses. Stewie regarded him as a monster for his sexual objectification of the hippie girl and knowing nothing about her.
* In the episode Stewie is Enceinte, Stewie decides to impregnate himself with Brian's seed in the hopes of having his babies so that they can grow closer. However, Brian constantly tries to kill the unborn babies by punching Stewie in the womb, pushing him down the stairs, or through other various evil acts. When the babies do finally come, he ends up getting closer to them, but once they clear up a misunderstanding, Brian suggests they get rid of them by giving them to an animal shelter.
* In the episode "Brokeback Swanson", Brian had sex with Tori, the wife of a Navy Seal. He didn't know that she was married at first, so he pretended to be an ordinary dog to avoid trouble. Afterwards, Tori convinced him to keep fooling around behind his back, and he just went along with it, even when she's revealed to be a callous slut. This is one of several moments that cements Brian as an amoral scumbag.
* In the episode "The Heartbreak Dog", Brian has an affair with his next-door neighbor, Bonnie Swanson, causing her to temporarily leave Joe. Later on, Joe eventually finds Brian and Bonnie at a diner and apologizes to Bonnie for being too dependent on her due to him being a paraplegic and they reconcile. Brian smugly calls himself Cupid for bringing Joe and Bonnie back together, but Joe shoots him in the leg as punishment for his affair with her.
* In the episode American Gigg-olo, Brian did probably the worst thing ever. He tried to save an attractive young woman whose car had crashed into the ocean with the intention of making her a love interest, but after finding out that she had a baby (and as a result, a husband), he sarcastically said he was slipping and let them both drown. Doing this solely because she already had a husband goes to show how horrible he has become. He then gets a job at a hardware store to reclaim his health insurance, but he acts pretentious and shows no interest in helping customers. He even annoys his co-workers and Stewie with his attitude. After Stewie gets him fired however, he realizes that he actually learned things from his job when he gave Stewie instructions to treat his popped hernia.
* In "Joe's Revenge," when Quagmire leaves Principessa with the Griffins while he, Peter, and Joe go on their own adventure to avenge Joe's legs, Brain becomes jealous of her. His attempt to prove he can land on his feet like a cat leaves him injured. Then, when Chris and Meg point out Principessa and Lois sleeping together with Principessa kneading Lois' breasts, he switches places with her to fondle Lois' breasts himself. When he ends up waking her up, he tries to convince Lois that she's dreaming, but she clearly states that she isn't. In a panic, Brian knocks Lois unconscious with a lamp and drives away in his car, all while blaming the "stupid cat" instead of himself.
* In The D in apartment 23, after renewing his interest in Twitter, he posts a racist tweet "About to see the new Kevin Hart movie. Just kidding. I’m white & went to college. #BaywatchMovie", which goes viral. Even after deleting it and all of his social media accounts, the Griffins are turned into pariahs by association. Brian tries to apologize to the mob outside the house at Lois' suggestion, but it goes awry as he keeps getting interrupted by both the humans and unseen "non-humans" in the mob. When they won't stop, he reprimands the town at the top of his lungs, calling them hypocrites who are no better than him, and says that people act immature and angry over small issues on social media instead of big ones and screams about how he's watched tons of "black porn" in front of women and kids. He even yells that instead of killing himself, he should be killing everyone in the mob in front of him. Rather than welcome Brian back with open arms, the family kicks him out, forcing him into living in a rundown apartment. That said, while what Brian did and said was wrong, his actions weren't nearly as bad as the town's reaction.
* In Petey IV, he gets a job at a suicide hotline and meets a hot new co-worker, but when he fails to attract her attention, he tries to use Facebook to get to know her better and ends up masturbating to images of her and her mother at her Grandfather's funeral. When she decides to give him a chance, she catches him in the act when she returns. Afraid of her telling and causing him to lose his job as well as his landlord's threat to throw him out for lack of rent money, Brian decides to take his advice to frame her with drugs later at work, and she is arrested when she decides yet again to give him a chance. Furious, she attacks Brian and pushes his chair down a stairwell, breaking his leg in the process. He also shows no interest in helping people, leading to several suicides.
* In Don't Be a Dickens At Christmas, instead of buying gifts for his family, he signs them all up to volunteer at a homeless shelter, claiming that to be his Christmas present to them. Even though Lois claims what Brian did was a good thing, it can be assumed that he did that as revenge for the Griffins evicting him earlier. It was also revealed that all he did was write them a poem last year, suggesting that his lack of actually buying gifts for his family members during Christmas is a common occurrence.
* In Dog Bites Bear, after getting annoyed by Stewie talking with Rupert, he gets drunk at a bar and returns home to maul Rupert to pieces. This ultimately causes Stewie to end their friendship. He then follows Stewie to Smuggler's Notch State Park, which annoys him to the point of a physical fight. It is during said fight that Brian reveals that he he was jealous of Rupert and killed him on purpose, which makes Stewie even more angry. After Stewie sprains his ankle from a fall, Brian learns that Stewie still had Rupert because he wanted to have a friend that would never die, knowing well that Brian's time would come eventually. When they release Rupert's ashes on the summit of Mount Mansfield, Brian makes it up to Stewie on the way back home by getting him a new bear that looks exactly like Rupert, leading Stewie to believe that Rupert came back to life.
* In The Woof of Wall Street, after Brian does a hit and run on Consuela’s car and Stewie manages to get the money he needed, Brian joins Stewie in investing money. Initially, it goes well, but when he decides to take interest in investing in a shady-looking company that makes protein shakes, they find out that the key ingredient is dog meat. Upon seeing all the caged dogs, Stewie wants out, but Brian insists on proceeding with the investment and even embraces people eating dogs, making him a sell-out and a traitor to his own kind for money alone. He even parts ways with Stewie despite the latter teaching him how to invest in the first place. When Brian enters for his appointment with the CEO however, he is instead tricked into being caged with the other dogs. When it is his turn to be butchered, he tries and fails to save himself with the excuse that he's rich, but he is saved at the last moment by Stewie and Rupert. Stewie thinks that Brian learned his lesson, but in the end, Brian tries to pin the experience on the evils of Wall Street and then money itself. Stewie, having had more experience in investing than Brian, points out that it was Brain's fault alone and that he can’t stress that enough. This shows that Brian still doesn't want to take responsibility for his own actions.
* In Married…With Cancer, he married a girl with terminal cancer, Jess Schlotz, and pretended to truly care for her, when in reality, he just wanted to make himself look good in the public eye. He assumed that she would die shortly after their wedding, so he made tons of promises from her bucket list that he wouldn't keep. Right after they were married, Dr. Gravitas came in and told Jess that she had beaten the cancer, forcing Brian to go through with everything he had promised. A few days into their marriage, Brian allowed Jess to choke on her food and made a half-assed attempt to save her life when in actuality, he was hoping she'd die, definitely making this Moral Event Horizon-crossing act. She managed to survive and Brian's plan had failed, forcing him to stay married to her, for another episode.
* In Dead Dog Walking, Brian made another attempt at dishonestly escaping his marriage by faking his own death in a stunt that would have resulted in burning down the apartment. This was before Peter came in and stopped him. Afterwards, he decided to eat his worries away, but his newfound weight caused him to dislocate his hip. Still feeling upset about Brian letting her choke and not wanting to take care of him, Jess takes him to the vet to be put down under the lie of getting his hip replaced. After Peter saved Brian, Jess pointed out that Brian did very little, if anything to save her from choking before, and Brian admitted to this technically being a conscious attempt at letting her die.
* In Forget Me Not, it's implied that Brian defecates on Quagmire's lawn to be spiteful towards him.
* In Scammed Yankees, Brian tries to have sex with Meg's friend Patty after discovering her attractive body, despite the fact and not caring that she's underage.
* In Pal Stewie, Brian revealed he threw away a birthday invitation from Stewie's new friend Hudson, as he was afraid of losing his own friendship with Stewie as Brian felt he was being pushed aside by Stewie in favor of Hudson. As a result, Brian indirectly caused for Stewie to revert back to his evil ways. This can prove that he wants no one else to be involved with his friendship with Stewie.
* In Switch the Flip he switches bodies with Peter and doesn't tell Lois it isn't him, right before the pair have unsatisfying (on Lois' part) sex, meaning Brian raped Lois.
* In The Marrying Kind, Brian had sex with Stewie's mail-order bride, therefore stealing his wife and ticking Stewie off. However, Stewie later gives Brian his blessing to have sex with her so that he himself doesn't have to, but she ends up leaving Stewie anyway.
* In Absolutely Babulous, Brian loses his temper when Stewie constantly brings up the medal he won and breaks the news that it's a participant medal. When Stewie realizes that all of his awards were for participation, Brian tries to apologize, but Stewie ends up burning his own trophy case in a fit of anger, which sets the whole house on fire.
* In Cat Fight, Brian gets Quagmire's new cat café shut down, saying it's due to health hazards, but it's actually because it's filled with cats (which he hates) and next to his favorite bar. This later backfires on him when he is banned from almost every public area due to him being an animal, including his favorite bar. He also caused all the cats from Quagmire’s cat café to die due to Quagmire being unable to take care of all of them.
* In Once Bitten, Brian bit Peter because the latter gave him a suppository and he hates it when anyone touches his butt. Afterwards, Brian became an abusive brute towards Peter. Having enough of Brian's new attitude, Lois sends him to obedience school and he becomes completely submissive. Missing the old Brian however, Peter gets Brian to bite him again to turn him back to normal.
* In Must Love Dogs, Brian agrees to be Quagmire's Dog, but only so he can see Quagmire's relationship with a dog lover crash and burn; he's smug throughout the ordeal and ups the ante by making the woman think Quagmire proposed, and she accepts. When Quagmire gets to his breaking point due to his fiancé's dogs, he confesses the truth and his fiancé leaves him. When Brian rubs it in Quagmire's face, he swears revenge and has Seamus show Brian his 430 pages long screenplay for Ocean's 1, making Brian very angrily shout Quagmire's name.
* In Christmas Crime, Brian harasses people for celebrating Christmas on government property and even destroys a nativity scene when driving while intoxicated. To add insult to injury, he even wished he had instead run over the Menorah put there by Mort, showing anti-Semitism. He also attempted to put the blame on Mort during the investigation, further showing his bigotry. When Christmas is canceled by the Mayor until the culprit is found, rather than accept responsibility for his actions and apologize to save Christmas, he continues to hide his crime, showing he would sacrifice everyone else's happiness just to help himself, which leads to Stewie (who is upset that he won't get his Happy Asking Panda thanks to Brian) ratting him out with an anonymous tip since he's the only one who knows it was Brian. He also showed no remorse once he was arrested and even relished being in prison by himself on Christmas. This ultimately shows Brian has no tolerance or respect for religion or religious holidays. He did have a small change of heart and grew to love Christmas after seeing his family have fun without him. And when Mayor West let him go, he even attempted to fix the nativity with horrible results, though this doesn't really absolve him of his wrongdoing morally.
* In "The Munchurian Candidate", after witnessing Stewie's man-cave, Brian and Chris seemingly like it, but right after leaving, they brutally insulted it, revealing that they lied about liking Stewie’s man-cave. Even after Stewie re-did the man-cave so it would be more for their liking, they once more lied about liking it and still found ways to brutally insult it once they left. This led to Stewie luring them into a trap so that he could kill them. While held captive, they still tried to keep the lie up, but Stewie refused to buy it. When Stewie held Brian and Chris at crossbow point, they complement Stewie's handcrafted crossbow to avoid being killed, only to insult it and Stewie's man-cave once more after he'd spared them, even mocking Stewie himself for buying into their escape plan. And when Stewie angrily runs to them with the intent to shoot them, they drop the insults to lie about liking the crossbow again, but an unfazed Stewie shoots them both. Brian also tried to blame Chris for all of the insults.
* In "Carny Knowledge", Brian dates a carny named Amber, but eventually decides that he should break up with her. However, just as he was about to do it, she ends up breaking up with him first, infuriating him and hurting his ego. Despite Stewie suggesting to him that he should let it go, Brian vows to get her back just so he could break up with her. His plan nearly works, but he is threatened into staying with her by her cruel uncle as well-deserved karma.
* In a more debatable moment, in "Seahorse Seashell Party", when Meg confides in Brian that maybe her being the family punching bag is her purpose after her standing up to her parents and Chris results in them turning on each other and falling apart, Brian doesn't refute or disagree with her theory and instead calls her decision to stay their punching bag noble and mature. To be fair, he had just come off of a very disturbing drug trip from using magic mushrooms and cutting off his left ear while high, so he may not have been in his right mind.
* In "Faith No More" Brian pretends to be a Christian to get close to a girl he like. After she refuses to have sex with him due to her Evangelical Christian values, Brian uses Stewie's time machine to prevent Jesus from forming Christianity. This changes the world's primary religion to Judaism, to which Brian and Stewie go back in time to prevent Moses from reading the Ten Commandments because the family had to attend Shabbat in the changed timeline. Though this removes religion from the present completely in the second changed timeline, God, who had become a mailman in this timeline, forces Brian and Stewie to undo their work by physically assaulting them. These actions are a clear example of Brian's hatred of religion as a result of his atheism and not caring how changing the history of religion would affect history.
== Trivia ==
* Brian is the only character for which Seth MacFarlane uses his natural speaking voice, as opposed to the voice changes for other characters such as Peter Griffin, Glenn Quagmire, and Stewie Griffin.
* Seth MacFarlane has revealed that Brian is his favorite character. He says he feels comfortable while playing the part of Brian, he also has a picture of Brian to the side of his name on his office door, simply because he uses his normal voice.
* Brian is infatuated with Lois and on more than one occasion has tried to have sex with her. He finally succeeds in "Switch the Flip" when he switches bodies with Peter and doesn't tell Lois it isn't him, meaning Brian raped Lois.
* In "Brian: Portrait of a Dog", it is revealed that Brian became a Griffin during his adulthood when Peter offered him a home with his family in Quahog, but in The Man with Two Brians, Brian shows the family videos of him as a puppy, already living in the Griffins' house.
* He drives a silver 2004 Toyota Prius, as it is seen in The Juice Is Loose pulling up on the Griffins' driveway while Stewie was stuck on the roof. The license plate reads "BRI-D0G" and it has a 'Kucinich 04' bumper sticker.
* Brian is the first Family Guy character to appear in an episode American Dad!. He appears in The People vs. Martin Sugar, where Stan names his top ten fictional dogs, and Brian is named number one. He is seen drinking a martini on the courthouse steps and claims Stan does not exist. Stan berates him for the claim.
* The DVD commentary for Brian Griffin's House of Payne explains that the "H" in "H. Brian Griffin" does not stand for anything and was a way to express Brian as a pretentious douche.
* Following his death in Life of Brian, Brian is not even mentioned in In Harmony's Way, making it the only episode where he does not appear (until Dr. C and The Women, in which he is only referenced as a brief joke).
* He was selected to be a member of the PAW Patrol.