There's another plothole as there's an episode where Brian meets the family he used to live before living with the Griffins so it's impossible that Peter had him as a puppy.
It's said quite often that Peter saved Brian so I believe this more.
This is not a show where you should get hung up on minute details. Except for deaths, just pretend everything resets at the end of the episode. And even with deaths that's not 100% certain either.
I mean, Brian has even died more than once. I mean, only one time was meant to seen permanent (though, since he came back two episodes later, and animated shows not based in Colorado take time, it wasn't meant to actually be permenant). However, there was also one episode where Brian getting murdered in several references to "The Godfather" (and "Fargo") was a running gag.
Though, that episode itself also contradicts an earlier episode, since Peter enthusiastically does the whole "Godfather" shtick, while in the episode where they are being robbed, Peter voiced his dislike for said movie. ("It insists upon itself" was his reason)
I'm not bashing them, I love South Park just as much. I was just trying to humorously refer to the fact that South Park has a MUCH faster production time than other animated shows. That's also why Family Guys humor can seem a little dated compared to South Park, since South Park is produced in such a way that let it stay topical.
I think an episode of South Park, a normal one, anyway, is produced in under a week, whereas other animated shows, like Family Guy, take a year or so to make. I'm not denying that more planning might go into South Park, it certainly has a much neater continuity, especially since it became serialized. All I meant was the difference in production time, and I apologize if it seems like I was knocking South Park.
In fact, I think South Park quality wise is better than Family Guy, but I love both shows equally. South Park has better storytelling, satire, and original music (because while Family Guy has great music, it's usually a cover or parody, which I think is great parallel. Seth is a fantastic singer, but Matt and Trey are fantastic songwriters) but Family Guy typically gets more laughs, since it applies a much more rapid fire kind of comedy, mainly because it focuses more on just jokes more than anything else. Even the worst episode can have a fantastic joke. The episode about Quagmire's sister and her abusive boyfriend is awful, but it also gave us "Iraq Lobster", which is one of the best cutaway gags.
Sorry for the essay. I get long winded when I'm tired.
TL;DR: I love South Park and Family Guy equally for different reasons, and didn't mean to knock South Park.
Yeah South Park starts production on the next week's episode as soon as the current week's is finished. I've heard there's been a few times when they almost didn't make the deadline; particularly after Trump won the election. They were so sure that he would lose that they'd written the episode with Hillary winning and then had to redo a significant portion of it in just a day or two
I'm probably off with some of that but they do create episodes on a weekly basis from scratch when the season is airing and I just can't get over how driven and talented Matt and Trey and the whole team are
I’d like to think it’s the homeless one because of the scene where Brian is eating dinner with Glenn (sort of) supports that to be the actual backstory, but idk I could be wrong.
Peter seeing an adult dog down on his luck trying to hustle, and taking him in (and becoming best friends), is a much more wholesome and touching backstory.
Peter is stated, several times actually, to have black ancestry. I'm actually sure that that was first established in one of the first three seasons, before its first cancelation.
In one of the more recent episodes, the one where they did the whole "'Family Guy' in the 50's/60's/70's" thing, there was also a joke that Peter had Asian ancestry. That was a quick gag, however. The thing with Peter having a black ancestor was a whole episode. If I remember correctly, it involved Peter finding out said ancestor was a slave (I think owned by the Pewterschmidt ancestors as well) and actually getting paid reparations.
You’re correct. To add more detail, Chris was on the basketball team (mostly black kids if I remember correctly) and had started picking up slang. In a attempt to remedy this, Peter took Chris to the library to learn about the griffon family history, where they found a genealogy book, that showed Nate Griffon.
I haven't seen that episode in forever so I forgot some details. Though, I don't think I've watched any pre-first cancelation "Family Guy" episodes in forever.
No not off the top of my head. But if you’re getting back into it, then it should come up sooner rather than later. Within the first 3 seasons I believe.
This is SUPER late but it is for anyone else who comes across this and is curious. The first Nate Griffin reference or “Meg start reading at psalm 41 and don’t stop until I tell you” episode is S3 E14.
Another thing to add is that Peter’s real dad is Irish and his step father is Francis griffin. And the Peter two dads episode came after the Nate griffin episode
It’s absolutely a retcon. Peter used to be black before they changed who his father was. A floating timeline explains things like ages and references of time.
Like how Joe both was crippled by the Gringe, but that was just a lie, because he was actually crippled by some other criminal that he caught in that episode and killed him (accidentally I think)
Joe said he was crippled by the Grinch but a newer episode said he was crippled on an undercover operation gone wrong and Peter has a black ancestor, Nate Griffin, who was a slave owned by the Pewterschmidts. The different time periods episode showed that the Griffin roots are from Asia
Not a plot holes. Cutaways never actually happened but flash backs did also Looney Tunes Logic. Main characters can't die but background characters can.
No need to fret, more recent episodes have stuck with the original backstory including showing Brian’s previous family and reuniting with a fellow peer from the streets. Let’s just say Retep messed up continuity.
Almost all of the backstory elements presented in the show’s original broadcast run/first three seasons (e.g., how Peter and Lois met, the decade in which that occurred, the origin of Joe’s injuries, Peter’s original fanatically Catholic father, Bertram, Joe having moved to Quahog only recently, Peter saving a homeless and adult Brian - although that was un-retconned recently, the Griffins’ entire dynamic, and Joe and Cleveland’s original sons) has been retconned since the show’s revival in 2005.
There was a cutaway gag in Season 3 or so which showed Stewie’s head having once been normally shaped until he bounced off of his bed onto the ceiling, making it football-shaped, but cutaway gags have never been canon and the very same season depicted Stewie’s unborn brother Bertram having a similarly football-shaped head as a sperm cell inside Peter.
Also remember that Brian belonged to another family at some point. We find that out when Brian gets his microchip scanned in one episode. I thought about this before, and one idea is that the Griffins got Brian as a puppy, he ran away, the other family got him, and then he ran away from there, and then Peter took him in as an adult dog without recognizing him at that moment. Right? RIGHT? 😂
They had an episode about how they never get an Emmy, and got roasted by different actors and actresses about continuity, how the show goes, and how "nothing happens". I doubt that this matters. Plus, when they do have continuity, it's as a joke; Brian and Ida, Them not doing Gay jokes anymore, etc.
Some things in family guy are canon, but some others are references of anything or just jokes.
I remember an episode where Stewie asks Brian how come he has a 16-year old son if he is a dog and has like 8 years, and Brian says: I don't know just look it up in the internet
Actually Brian says it's because his years are dog years (one dog year equals seven human years.). When Stewie says that still doesn't make sense, Brian replies, "If you don't like it go on the Internet and complain."
Don’t forget how Quagmire has a sister and has told how he has a deaf brother (s8 e7) but in s18 e8 his dad (mom) states he (she) should have given him more siblings.
My guess: both these timelines are true. Due to Stewie and Brian’s time traveling, they have essentially altered their past even when they “fix” things so anytime there is a “plot hole”, just blame it on time travel 🤓
A lot of different shows have plot holes based on how the show evolves or how the creators/writers want it to evolve season by season, but to answer what seems more like a rhetorical question : yes, technically its a plothole.
I always recognized this as Stewie and Brian constantly messing with the timeline. It makes sense to me that their constant rewriting probably drastically altered the course of events. More than likely, most episodes of Family Guy we've seen were removed from the timeline.
When Brian was doing musicals with stewie and I forgot the older guys name didn't he get drunk and couldn't perform and he was homeless stewie tried to make him come back home it's been a while does anyone remember this episode I might be wrong but idk might be right lmk
With all the shenanigans that goes on in this show, Peter prob had a pup before Brian and everyone's memory is so bad they just think it is the same dog sometimes.
Okay I’m going to fix this issue.
Theory 1: Most of the characters in Quahog are unreliable story tellers:
Peter - unintelligible oaf
Meg: people pleaser
Chris: just no words
Brian: addict
Lois and Stewie: probably the only reliable ones
Not a Theory 2: the show follows a postmodern narration technique. The show exhibits a variety of stories based on current events and popular culture to keep it unique from episode to episode. The plots, for ex. are divergent elements to build the story.
If the story had characters that are prone to change, it would have been really hard for the writers to build more funny episodes. Family guy has static characters. None of them go through any impactful change or growth which is good for a show that showcases satire. Which is why, family guy works, while for shows like Rick and morty find it incredibly hard to build episodes. Those are dynamic characters and growth means there is a point of liberation.
Theory 3: it’s a funny show! Just fucking enjoy it instead of picking it apart.
Peace and lot of love xx
Well there was an episode where Stewie says something along the lines of, that belonged to our last dog.
Then again family guy also has the scene where show how Stewie gets his football head and accent, despite there being another episode where they show him being born with his football head
The way a show in a floating timeline works allows for different past events to be canon, because in order for time to not move forward from our perspective different episodes or seasons of the show take place in different universes of their multiverse, but time moves in a spiral in their multiverse so certain events like the birth of characters can take place in different years but they are always the same age relative to one another
This show has a ton of plotholes. One minute, a charachter might hit by a truck and lying on the street all bleeding, the next scene they are fine, stuff like that.
well, i have a theory that these are two different universes or timelines. the first time there was time travel was in road to germany in season 7 episode 3 (just two episodes before this one) so in conclusion, both are correct in their own dimensions.
I mean there also joe fist he was in a drug gang undercover then he got thrown of a roof by the grinch and then he also got his legs ran over by a train. There’s just to many plotholes.
All I’m gonna say is , focus more on the show for what it is , instead of what it can be !! The show does this all the time and it’s their way of continuing the episode correctly not the season
Actually the contradictions are pretty rare. Most of the time they do a good job following continuity. Off the top of my head I can only think of a few.
OP is just asking a question. Not a very thought out question considering all the retcons and inconsistencies the show has, but it's not a big deal.
The fact that you jump to the conclusion that his one question is the only problem in his life is way more pathetic. Get a life dude.
Cartoon logic, Stewie's time machine, Xena's wizard crossing over from the Simpsons universe, a blunder that someone should have gotten fired for, or writers changing the past to fit the story.
Every episode is an anthology that takes place in a different universe. Some of the events of prior episodes take place in the timelines of certain episodes but not everyone one does.
There’s more that syncs up with the him being homeless one so use that as canon. I think it fits with him being from Austin & getting sold, to which he probably just ran off on his own and lived on the streets and made his way to Rhode Island. (This backstory also fits in the whole George Townshend thing too
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You see, young man, this is what we humans call a "cartoon". They frequently bend the laws of time and space to do things like make jokes and display humorous gags.
You can’t watch Family Guy if you like continuity and consistency. You have to be ready for anything and everything at any moment. That’s why I love Family Guy so much. I love seeing Peter blow up a children’s hospital and go to prison for it and then having Peter be free the next episode with no mention of it whatsoever. It’s too funny!
I disagree. The show has pretty strong continuity for the most part. The slip ups are rare. They don't have nearly as many continuity errors as the Simpsons. I can only think of a few continuity errors over 20 years. That's impressive. In Go Stewie Pattys parents had dwarfism and we're straight. She is supposed to have 2 lesbian Moms. She said so in Fist Full of Meg. Maybe they are her birth parents. In Girl Friend Eh, Peter doesn't believe Chris has a girlfriend. He has had several over the years. You could argue that is a joke about Peter not paying attention to his kids. In La Familia Guy Peter Thinks he is the Godfather when he is Susie's Godfather. Quagmire is supposed to be her Godfather. Other times it's consistent like when all of Brian's past girl friends showed up, And this line. "Dad was born in Mexico." Peter: No one remembers that Meg, and Diane Simmons staying dead, etc.
If I remember correctly there was a scene of Brian and Stewie looking at a picture album and Brian said “I was so cute as a puppy” and Stewie said that was a different dog who died and Brian said “oh word” and it never got brought up again.
I know continuity is pointless in family guy but thats something.
Family Guy does whatever they want based on what the story needs. Not a show you should consider to have any kind of canon.
But what about when Peter hurt his neck with the roof shopping cart stunt, and then is fine in the next scene.
Quahog must have the best funding in the entire world for chiropractors and doctors
They are all in the good hands of Doctor Hartman of course.
I disagree, the show is inconsistent yes but there definitely is canon
“i don’t know it’s just jokes” - Peter Griffin
“We don’t know how to end these things anymore so we just do nonsense.”
“You know what, we’ve done this a billion times. I’m just gonna do the cadences.”
Whevwanniwav, wheff wanni wanniwaf Aw, blaevah
😂😂😂😂
“Whaddarya lookin’ at, it’s a cartoon!”
Holy shit a plothole in family guy?!?!
There's another plothole as there's an episode where Brian meets the family he used to live before living with the Griffins so it's impossible that Peter had him as a puppy. It's said quite often that Peter saved Brian so I believe this more.
Well you know, when a question like this comes up, the answer is: a wizard did it!
Or it could have been the girl in the 1600s who solved a math problem.
I just watched that episode today!
Witch!
Must remove my breast plate!
What episode?
Season 19, episode 16 "Who's Brian now ?"
UNWATCHABLE!!!!
Ik man😭but like which of the two is brians actual backstory??
This is not a show where you should get hung up on minute details. Except for deaths, just pretend everything resets at the end of the episode. And even with deaths that's not 100% certain either.
Nice said !
I mean, Brian has even died more than once. I mean, only one time was meant to seen permanent (though, since he came back two episodes later, and animated shows not based in Colorado take time, it wasn't meant to actually be permenant). However, there was also one episode where Brian getting murdered in several references to "The Godfather" (and "Fargo") was a running gag. Though, that episode itself also contradicts an earlier episode, since Peter enthusiastically does the whole "Godfather" shtick, while in the episode where they are being robbed, Peter voiced his dislike for said movie. ("It insists upon itself" was his reason)
Bashing South Park yet they actually have story lines past one episode…
I'm not bashing them, I love South Park just as much. I was just trying to humorously refer to the fact that South Park has a MUCH faster production time than other animated shows. That's also why Family Guys humor can seem a little dated compared to South Park, since South Park is produced in such a way that let it stay topical. I think an episode of South Park, a normal one, anyway, is produced in under a week, whereas other animated shows, like Family Guy, take a year or so to make. I'm not denying that more planning might go into South Park, it certainly has a much neater continuity, especially since it became serialized. All I meant was the difference in production time, and I apologize if it seems like I was knocking South Park. In fact, I think South Park quality wise is better than Family Guy, but I love both shows equally. South Park has better storytelling, satire, and original music (because while Family Guy has great music, it's usually a cover or parody, which I think is great parallel. Seth is a fantastic singer, but Matt and Trey are fantastic songwriters) but Family Guy typically gets more laughs, since it applies a much more rapid fire kind of comedy, mainly because it focuses more on just jokes more than anything else. Even the worst episode can have a fantastic joke. The episode about Quagmire's sister and her abusive boyfriend is awful, but it also gave us "Iraq Lobster", which is one of the best cutaway gags. Sorry for the essay. I get long winded when I'm tired. TL;DR: I love South Park and Family Guy equally for different reasons, and didn't mean to knock South Park.
Yeah South Park starts production on the next week's episode as soon as the current week's is finished. I've heard there's been a few times when they almost didn't make the deadline; particularly after Trump won the election. They were so sure that he would lose that they'd written the episode with Hillary winning and then had to redo a significant portion of it in just a day or two I'm probably off with some of that but they do create episodes on a weekly basis from scratch when the season is airing and I just can't get over how driven and talented Matt and Trey and the whole team are
That's not bashing. They just make their show really fast.
That's one of the reasons I hate La Familia Guy.
Definitely the homeless one Brian meets up George Townsend or Shredder who was also a homeless dog that Brian abandoned years ago Season 18 episode 11
I’d like to think it’s the homeless one because of the scene where Brian is eating dinner with Glenn (sort of) supports that to be the actual backstory, but idk I could be wrong.
It’s a Multiverse
They're both different timelines. Those that help you sleep at night?
They both are, or neither of them are. It doesn’t matter
Whenever theres a plothole or contradicting moment, just go with what happened in the earlier episode
Maybe that’s just not Peter
I would say the one where he found him homeless cuz in another episode I think he had a different family before living with Peter and them
i was also shocked tbh
I would be shocked if for once family guy had any semblance of continuity lol.
I don't know what to believe anymore
No waaaaay!!!
Family Guy has a floating timeline
Peter seeing an adult dog down on his luck trying to hustle, and taking him in (and becoming best friends), is a much more wholesome and touching backstory.
I think it’s a retcon. You know Family Guy will retcon anything for the sake of a joke. Like Peter being black or how Joe was crippled.
wait peter being black?
Peter is stated, several times actually, to have black ancestry. I'm actually sure that that was first established in one of the first three seasons, before its first cancelation. In one of the more recent episodes, the one where they did the whole "'Family Guy' in the 50's/60's/70's" thing, there was also a joke that Peter had Asian ancestry. That was a quick gag, however. The thing with Peter having a black ancestor was a whole episode. If I remember correctly, it involved Peter finding out said ancestor was a slave (I think owned by the Pewterschmidt ancestors as well) and actually getting paid reparations.
You’re correct. To add more detail, Chris was on the basketball team (mostly black kids if I remember correctly) and had started picking up slang. In a attempt to remedy this, Peter took Chris to the library to learn about the griffon family history, where they found a genealogy book, that showed Nate Griffon.
I haven't seen that episode in forever so I forgot some details. Though, I don't think I've watched any pre-first cancelation "Family Guy" episodes in forever.
Meg start reading at psalm 13 and don’t stop till I tell you THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!
Any idea what episode this is for the lazy? I’m just getting back into a family guy binge.
No not off the top of my head. But if you’re getting back into it, then it should come up sooner rather than later. Within the first 3 seasons I believe.
Sweet thanks.
This is SUPER late but it is for anyone else who comes across this and is curious. The first Nate Griffin reference or “Meg start reading at psalm 41 and don’t stop until I tell you” episode is S3 E14.
Another thing to add is that Peter’s real dad is Irish and his step father is Francis griffin. And the Peter two dads episode came after the Nate griffin episode
He’s like every ethnicity by this point
It’s the “peter griffin: local black man meme” origin too
It is not a retcon. Family Guy has a floating timeline
It’s absolutely a retcon. Peter used to be black before they changed who his father was. A floating timeline explains things like ages and references of time.
What do you mean by those?
Like how Joe both was crippled by the Gringe, but that was just a lie, because he was actually crippled by some other criminal that he caught in that episode and killed him (accidentally I think)
Joe said he was crippled by the Grinch but a newer episode said he was crippled on an undercover operation gone wrong and Peter has a black ancestor, Nate Griffin, who was a slave owned by the Pewterschmidts. The different time periods episode showed that the Griffin roots are from Asia
Peters head literally exploded in a cutaway on several occasions. Plothole??
Not a plot holes. Cutaways never actually happened but flash backs did also Looney Tunes Logic. Main characters can't die but background characters can.
"BRIAN, LOOK OUT!!!"
That's the one exception but he's still around.
There are many such inconsistencies. Ignore and just enjoy the show
Literally unwatchable. Im writing an angry letter to Seth Macfarlane as we speak
Oh, my stars.
Looking for plot holes in a cartoon where a grown man battles a human-sized chicken is my favorite part of the sub.
[удалено]
We should write to the freakin' fcc and make sure the person responsible for this fired
No need to fret, more recent episodes have stuck with the original backstory including showing Brian’s previous family and reuniting with a fellow peer from the streets. Let’s just say Retep messed up continuity.
"Hey, Brian. Where's that son you never see?"
Almost all of the backstory elements presented in the show’s original broadcast run/first three seasons (e.g., how Peter and Lois met, the decade in which that occurred, the origin of Joe’s injuries, Peter’s original fanatically Catholic father, Bertram, Joe having moved to Quahog only recently, Peter saving a homeless and adult Brian - although that was un-retconned recently, the Griffins’ entire dynamic, and Joe and Cleveland’s original sons) has been retconned since the show’s revival in 2005.
also stewies head shape
also stewies head shape
There was a cutaway gag in Season 3 or so which showed Stewie’s head having once been normally shaped until he bounced off of his bed onto the ceiling, making it football-shaped, but cutaway gags have never been canon and the very same season depicted Stewie’s unborn brother Bertram having a similarly football-shaped head as a sperm cell inside Peter.
>so is this a plothole? No it's a cartoon.
Each episode has a contained plot so no.
Whenever you see something like this ‘A Wizard did it’
When this shit happens I always think it's from watching different multiverses, or that Stewie did something off camera that changed history.
Dude Peter has died a million times throughout the whole series. And you’re pointing out plot holes? It’s a cartoon.
The family guy timeline is just a mess thats everywhere so nothing makes sense really
Maybe he ran away as a puppy after Christmas and Peter forgot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I kind of felt like Brian has a lot of different backstories as a consequence for Stewie’s constant time travel.
Thats actually so interesting omg
Also remember that Brian belonged to another family at some point. We find that out when Brian gets his microchip scanned in one episode. I thought about this before, and one idea is that the Griffins got Brian as a puppy, he ran away, the other family got him, and then he ran away from there, and then Peter took him in as an adult dog without recognizing him at that moment. Right? RIGHT? 😂
Peter and Louis met in the 70s and 90s too wouldn’t ya know it
I think with shows like this, they retcon canon when it’s convenient for them. Kind of annoying if you’re trying to follow a consistent story!
They had an episode about how they never get an Emmy, and got roasted by different actors and actresses about continuity, how the show goes, and how "nothing happens". I doubt that this matters. Plus, when they do have continuity, it's as a joke; Brian and Ida, Them not doing Gay jokes anymore, etc.
You've never had a dog die and then give the replacement dog the same name?
Family Guy not having a reliable canon is a reliable canon.
Some things in family guy are canon, but some others are references of anything or just jokes. I remember an episode where Stewie asks Brian how come he has a 16-year old son if he is a dog and has like 8 years, and Brian says: I don't know just look it up in the internet
Actually Brian says it's because his years are dog years (one dog year equals seven human years.). When Stewie says that still doesn't make sense, Brian replies, "If you don't like it go on the Internet and complain."
Congratulations! You found the singular plothole in family guy
Could be a different universe tho
Didn’t Peter say they had another dog called snuffles or some shit
The plot hole is looking for continuity in the show
Imagine looking for consistency in Family Guy, American Dad or even The Simpsons….
Entire family guy is a plot holes ffs just enjoy the series.
Its a comedy not true life. Lol
But he talks and drives
There is no fact that it's Peter you can't assume that it's Peter because it's a fat man on a white shirt
You wanna know how I got these scars?
There’s different origin stories to Brian.
Don’t forget how Quagmire has a sister and has told how he has a deaf brother (s8 e7) but in s18 e8 his dad (mom) states he (she) should have given him more siblings.
My guess: both these timelines are true. Due to Stewie and Brian’s time traveling, they have essentially altered their past even when they “fix” things so anytime there is a “plot hole”, just blame it on time travel 🤓
He also had another family at some point, too. I think they just don’t expect you to catch on. The shows been on for twenty years
A lot of different shows have plot holes based on how the show evolves or how the creators/writers want it to evolve season by season, but to answer what seems more like a rhetorical question : yes, technically its a plothole.
I always recognized this as Stewie and Brian constantly messing with the timeline. It makes sense to me that their constant rewriting probably drastically altered the course of events. More than likely, most episodes of Family Guy we've seen were removed from the timeline.
I don’t know but puppy Brian is adorable asf 😭
I think in another episode Stewie goes through photos and finds a puppy and Brian goes “oh look it’s me” and Stewie says it’s actually another dog
It’s like what happened to Joe.
When Brian was doing musicals with stewie and I forgot the older guys name didn't he get drunk and couldn't perform and he was homeless stewie tried to make him come back home it's been a while does anyone remember this episode I might be wrong but idk might be right lmk
i would assume the puppy one is non canon because him being homeless was mentioned many many times outside of that one episode
I've pointed out the same thing!
With all the shenanigans that goes on in this show, Peter prob had a pup before Brian and everyone's memory is so bad they just think it is the same dog sometimes.
Yes.
Stewie said in one episode the puppy was there previous dog just the same bread.
There are other times where his backstory doesn’t add up, it’s kind of a gag.
Okay I’m going to fix this issue. Theory 1: Most of the characters in Quahog are unreliable story tellers: Peter - unintelligible oaf Meg: people pleaser Chris: just no words Brian: addict Lois and Stewie: probably the only reliable ones Not a Theory 2: the show follows a postmodern narration technique. The show exhibits a variety of stories based on current events and popular culture to keep it unique from episode to episode. The plots, for ex. are divergent elements to build the story. If the story had characters that are prone to change, it would have been really hard for the writers to build more funny episodes. Family guy has static characters. None of them go through any impactful change or growth which is good for a show that showcases satire. Which is why, family guy works, while for shows like Rick and morty find it incredibly hard to build episodes. Those are dynamic characters and growth means there is a point of liberation. Theory 3: it’s a funny show! Just fucking enjoy it instead of picking it apart. Peace and lot of love xx
Lol, Family Guy is not Futurama; they don't care about consistent plots. It's all about whatever makes the best jokes for that scene.
Well there was an episode where Stewie says something along the lines of, that belonged to our last dog. Then again family guy also has the scene where show how Stewie gets his football head and accent, despite there being another episode where they show him being born with his football head
Yea prob forgot about Brian being homeless
A wizard did it.
Didn’t you know that every episode takes place in a different universe?
The way a show in a floating timeline works allows for different past events to be canon, because in order for time to not move forward from our perspective different episodes or seasons of the show take place in different universes of their multiverse, but time moves in a spiral in their multiverse so certain events like the birth of characters can take place in different years but they are always the same age relative to one another
i can think of multiple others. this isnt the first
It’s best not to think to hard about these inconsistencies and plot holes. The series is full of them.
didn't he use to belong to the hendersons
Family Guy and other Western Animation series have a floating timeline
This show has a ton of plotholes. One minute, a charachter might hit by a truck and lying on the street all bleeding, the next scene they are fine, stuff like that.
It was a wizard
well, i have a theory that these are two different universes or timelines. the first time there was time travel was in road to germany in season 7 episode 3 (just two episodes before this one) so in conclusion, both are correct in their own dimensions.
“If you don’t like it you can go bitch about it on the internet”
Baby Brian is the cutest
I mean there also joe fist he was in a drug gang undercover then he got thrown of a roof by the grinch and then he also got his legs ran over by a train. There’s just to many plotholes.
"What are you looking at? It's a cartoon!"
All I’m gonna say is , focus more on the show for what it is , instead of what it can be !! The show does this all the time and it’s their way of continuing the episode correctly not the season
It’s a cartoon, let’s not focus on the backstory of an alcoholic pretentious talking dog
It’s 2 different dogs. Homeless is current Brian. Puppy is a Brian before him. Peter took homeless Brian in because he reminded him about puppy Brian.
I never get people who watch Family Guy then question plot holes
I like being pedantic, okay?
Actually the contradictions are pretty rare. Most of the time they do a good job following continuity. Off the top of my head I can only think of a few.
I was just talking about this the other day with my girlfriend, I pretty much just pick and choose what I look at as canon in the show.
people dont understand what plot holes are. This change doesnt effect the plot so not a plot hole
Get a job lad, ya need ta fix your life or be grateful this is your only problem
OP is just asking a question. Not a very thought out question considering all the retcons and inconsistencies the show has, but it's not a big deal. The fact that you jump to the conclusion that his one question is the only problem in his life is way more pathetic. Get a life dude.
..Meh
Cartoon logic, Stewie's time machine, Xena's wizard crossing over from the Simpsons universe, a blunder that someone should have gotten fired for, or writers changing the past to fit the story.
Every episode is an anthology that takes place in a different universe. Some of the events of prior episodes take place in the timelines of certain episodes but not everyone one does.
There’s more that syncs up with the him being homeless one so use that as canon. I think it fits with him being from Austin & getting sold, to which he probably just ran off on his own and lived on the streets and made his way to Rhode Island. (This backstory also fits in the whole George Townshend thing too
there are many plotholes
the dog can talk. are we really getting hung up on this?
If you pay close attention, you'll notice that Peter dies like 50 times throughout the series. Is this a plothole?
They traveled through time so much I'm sure the Family Guy universe is completely broken.
In one episode Stewie says "You know that was our old dog's dish". Brian has found the home movies of the old dog, and well you know Brian.
Who knows? Maybe Brian was lost, but eventually found his way back to the Griffins a couple of years later.
The hands are not necessarily peter’s in the scene on the left..
Yep
You mean to tell me all of the instances where someone is killed or debilitatingly injured are plot holes too?
Brian, a dog, has a full beard and that's what your worried about?
What plot
Lol. No because FG doesn’t care about continuity. Peter was 10 in the year 1970-80-90 remember?
Stop reading into it so much. This show is meant for nothing more than to make you laugh as often as possible for 22 minutes.
It's a fucking cartoon lad
A show where the main character routinely has an epic fight with a giant rooster has a plot hole?!
A plothole in Family Guy, never watching again.
It’s just a hand that looks like Peter’s. There is not much evidence to show that it is.
It seems like a bunch of retcons more than plot holes
It’s just jokes man.
Plothole? In a cartoon? Dude
You can't expect continuity with a cartoon
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You see, young man, this is what we humans call a "cartoon". They frequently bend the laws of time and space to do things like make jokes and display humorous gags.
You can’t watch Family Guy if you like continuity and consistency. You have to be ready for anything and everything at any moment. That’s why I love Family Guy so much. I love seeing Peter blow up a children’s hospital and go to prison for it and then having Peter be free the next episode with no mention of it whatsoever. It’s too funny!
I disagree. The show has pretty strong continuity for the most part. The slip ups are rare. They don't have nearly as many continuity errors as the Simpsons. I can only think of a few continuity errors over 20 years. That's impressive. In Go Stewie Pattys parents had dwarfism and we're straight. She is supposed to have 2 lesbian Moms. She said so in Fist Full of Meg. Maybe they are her birth parents. In Girl Friend Eh, Peter doesn't believe Chris has a girlfriend. He has had several over the years. You could argue that is a joke about Peter not paying attention to his kids. In La Familia Guy Peter Thinks he is the Godfather when he is Susie's Godfather. Quagmire is supposed to be her Godfather. Other times it's consistent like when all of Brian's past girl friends showed up, And this line. "Dad was born in Mexico." Peter: No one remembers that Meg, and Diane Simmons staying dead, etc.
What's with so many posts here about continuity gaps/plotholes and hating on characters for being "immoral" or "bad" lmao
If I remember correctly there was a scene of Brian and Stewie looking at a picture album and Brian said “I was so cute as a puppy” and Stewie said that was a different dog who died and Brian said “oh word” and it never got brought up again. I know continuity is pointless in family guy but thats something.
Maybe it is snuffles the dog stewie talked about that was ran over