The D in Apartment 23

**The D in Apartment 23** is the sixth episode of the sixteenth season of the American animated television sitcom *Family Guy*, and the 295th episode overall. It aired on Fox in the United States on November 12, 2017. It is also the first of the three episodes of the "Brian Moves Out" arc.

## Summary

When Brian posts an offensive tweet, about Kevin Hart, that goes viral, he is deemed racist and becomes the most hated person in town. But when the Griffins are turned into pariahs, they have no choice but to force Brian to move out of the Griffin household.

## Why this episode should be banned from the household

* This episode is totally the cruelest and unfair towards Brian. He posts a tweet that has him calling Kevin Hart something racist to the black people on Twitter, and then when he comes to Quahog to assault him, the rest of the citizens do so too, and the Griffins. They could've just talked it out, but no. They just decided to post death threats to him and his family.
* This episode is even worse than past episodes from different shows where characters are turned into pariahs for doing stuff that wasn't their fault.
	+ In The Boys of Bummer, from the eighteenth season of *The Simpsons*, Bart is turned into a pariah just because he screwed up the baseball game winning streak. However, Marge stopped the harassment from the citizens of Springfield.
	+ In Old Yeller Belly, from the fourteenth season of *The Simpsons*, Homer kicks Santa's Little Helper out of the Simpson household and turns him into a pariah all because he didn't save him from the treehouse fire.
	+ In The Yellow Badge of Cowardage, from the twenty-fifth season finale of *The Simpsons*, Bart is also turned into a pariah just for being a coward.
	+ In "No Such Luck", an episode of The Loud House from Season 2, Lincoln gets turned into a pariah all because he cost Lynn Jr.‘s winning streak in the baseball game.
	+ In Stuck in the Wringer, the *SpongeBob SquarePants* episode from Season 7, SpongeBob gets turned into a pariah all because he yelled at Patrick for getting him stuck in his bathroom wringer.
	+ And finally, in Little Yellow Book, from the Season 9A episode of *SpongeBob SquarePants*, Squidward is turned into a pariah for reading SpongeBob's diary, even though he deserves it.
* This episode is a ripoff of "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven".
	+ Both episodes revolve around the citizens of Quahog harassing Brian.
	+ Also, both episodes are mean-spirited.
	+ The only difference is that they also harass the Griffins, while in that said episode, they only harass Brian after Meg reveals his atheism.
* This episode spoils the ending where Brian gets temporarily suspended from the Griffin family household.
* The citizens of Quahog are completely unlikeable and mean-spirited in this episode. They harass Brian and his family all because he wrote an offensive tweet.
	+ The students of James Woods High School are also mean-spirited towards Chris and Meg. They wouldn't even let them eat their lunches in the cafeteria all because of the tweet.
	+ The grocery store clerks wouldn't even let Lois get groceries all because of the tweet which causes her to have a meltdown.
	+ Cleveland, Joe and Quagmire wouldn’t let Peter hang out with them all because of the tweet.
		- Quagmire is at his worst towards Brian in this episode. He even boos at Brian when he tries to apologize to everyone for writing an offensive tweet.
* The school lunch room fight Chris and Meg start was extremely violent and disturbing when they stab and kill everyone at James Woods High School.
* Peter's joke about "Dick's Sporting Goods" in the cutaway gag is disgusting, depending on your view.
* Jerome asking Peter if he's a slave was evil for that.
* This wasn't the first time Lois was shunned for being offensive. Let's not forget about "And I’m Joyce Kinney", when Joyce Kinney revealed that Lois made an offensive porn movie that turned her into a pariah.
* Lois' tantrum about not being able to buy groceries because of the tweet was so annoying depending on your view.
* The citizens of Quahog wouldn't even let Brian apologize and they keep tormenting him even after he deleted his tweet
	+ An offscreen background character telling him that tone-policing makes him uncomfortable and everything else that does in 2017 should be illegal, was evil for that.
	+ Even after Brian stands up to the citizens of Quahog for treating him like crap, they still do after an offended blond-haired man punches him in the face.
* **Horrible Ending:** The Griffin family force Brian to move out until the citizens of Quahog calm down and leave them alone. Unfortunately, no good apartment complexes have vacancies, so he is forced to settle in the worst apartment complex in Quahog with thin walls, multiple crimes committed and beat up apartments.
* **Irony:** If Brian didn't write a racist tweet about Kevin Hart that turned him and the Griffins into pariahs, Brian wouldn't have to move out, and the three episode arc wouldn't have happened.
* It's bad enough Meg is a social outcast and harassed by her family and peers. Now the Griffins turned into her?! This show has really gone downhill! And Quahog should be the meanest city in America, not Springfield!
* The citizens of Quahog don’t get any comeuppance at all for harassing The Griffin family.

## Redeeming Qualities

* Brian is still likable in this episode, when he stands up to the citizens of Quahog for harassing him and his family 24/7, when they kept thwarting his attempt to apologize.
* The Griffins are also likable in this episode, because they are defensive to each other at the citizens of Quahog.
* The first act was okay (like a regular Family Guy episode), up until Brian's offensive tweet on Twitter goes viral and they give him nasty comments and death threats to him and his family.
* This episode at least shows what happens when you actually do write something racially insensitive to black people.
* Some viewers say this episode is an improvement over "Life of Brian" because of the three-episode arc of Brian moving out of the Griffin family home and living in an apartment until the citizens of Quahog leave them alone and stop harassing them.
	+ "Petey IV", was worse, because of Brian's yet another lie to get a girlfriend, minus his job at the suicide hotline plot.
	+ "Crimes and Meg's Demeanor" was a huge improvement over "Christmas Guy", because of how action-packed the Brian discovering that Shepherd killing his wife plot was, except for Meg's alcoholic sub-plot.
* The Shepherd's Pie cutaway gag is one of the only funny scenes in this episode.
* Cleveland, Joe and Quagmire are still civil to Peter despite being part of the angry mob. Joe suggest Peter leaves The Clam before he decides to arrest him.
* Jerome's slavery joke is actually pretty funny, because when Peter asks him for a second beer, Jerome refuses to relive the 19th century where black people were slaves.
* Lois not being able to buy groceries was deserving, because she never lets anyone else in the family buy groceries depending on your view.
* Peter references the Star Wars trilogy episodes to the viewers when his is given a lightsaber.
* There are only two funny jokes in this episode. One, the cutaway gag of the joke about Dick's Sporting Goods (depending on your view), and Two, the "no kissing the mailman" rule.
* While the school lunch room fight was violent, it also gives everyone at school comeuppance for harassing Chris and Meg. Also, fans say that the school lunch room fight was one of the best fights in the series, tying with Lois's bar fight against the New Yorkers. The fight was one of the many reasons to watch this episode again.
* While the ending was downright awful, it was also a great idea to temporarily suspend Brian from the Griffin family household for their own safety.
* The grocery store clerk gets his comeuppance at the end when Brian knocks some cans on the floor of aisle 6, and he groans in annoyance.

## Trivia

* Peter mentions the Star Wars episodes Blue Harvest, Something, Something, Dark Side, and It's a Trap to the viewers, when he is given a lightsaber.
* The school scene (before the fight) starting with Chris and Meg walking to their cafeteria seats where the students confront them matches the scene from A Fistful of Meg, where Meg and her friends are walking to their cafeteria seats and everyone seems civil.
	+ Also, the kid shoving Chris' hat off his head and the hat flying to the ground in slow motion, (before the school fight begins) matches the scene from the same episode where Meg's lunch flies to Michael Pulaski's shirt in slow motion and he sends a death threat to Meg by the end of the week at school.
	+ Coincidentally, both school scenes from different episodes revolve around them trying to kill Chris and Meg.
* Brian mentions kissing Quagmire's transgender father, Dan/Ida, from Quagmire's Dad, when he stands up to the citizens of Quahog.
* This is the second time to have an episode start a three-episode story arc focusing on Brian and the only one in Season 16.
	+ These episodes include this episode, Petey IV, and Crimes and Meg's Demeanor.
	+ The first time was Brian's Death arc in Season 12, in which these episodes include, Life of Brian, Into Harmony's Way, and Christmas Guy.
* According to an offscreen background character, this episode takes place in 2017.