Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows

Season 3, Episode 17, Aired
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Brian falls in love with a bitter old woman who he is forced to do community service for. Meanwhile, Peter grows a beard and finds a family of swallows have built a nest in it.
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  • Gah, Brian starts to love a woman, but Peter's plot was funny

    5.0
    "Mediocre"
    By jmbsonic555, Oct 10, 2011 Report Abuse
    Brian falls in love with a bitter old woman who he is forced to do community service for. Meanwhile, Peter grows a beard and finds a family of swallows have built a nest in it.
    God

    Brian's plot- boring, like usual

    Peter's plot- really funny

    But a mediocre episode
    5/10

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  • Funny, but......

    4.0
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    By ssimonds1, Apr 03, 2011 Report Abuse
    This is a very funny episode, but most of it is "stolen" from other shows. The Peter story line is pieced together from two Simpsons episode(The Frying Game and Two Dozen and One Greyhounds) and the pilot of the Sopranos. The Brian story has been done to death. Person A meets an angry elderly person nad then finds that behind that hard exterior they find a wonderful human being. Now don't get me wrong, I am a huge fan of FG. I just feel that this episode was "borrowed" way to much from other shows. I just expect better from Seth and the crew.moreless

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  • The staff identifies this as the only episode of the series to contain "real human emotion" the only emotion i had was boredom.

    3.0
    "Bad"
    By oceanic6, Apr 03, 2011 Report Abuse
    In it; Brian must take care of a bitter old woman following a DUI and initially hates her but they fall in love 20 minutes later, Peter's new beard becomes home to some swallows who he also gets attached to. A show that thinks its funny is one thing but a show that thinks it has the poignancy of an animated Titanic is unbearable. All Family Guy has is it's witty humour and by shelving that in place of two schmaltzy plots that could be bettered by any DVD watched by a newly dumped person with a box of tissues and chocolates, is a poor way to repay the fans who stuck by the show no matter how many cancellations. Aside from a terrific musical number, the episode offers nothing special or memorable.

    Seth Macfarlane does do a good job as Brian and suprised as Peter when the mood changes but he's clearly the only male voice artist on the show, the bevy of idiotic extras he voices that sounds like Brian quickly kills the effect. While this episode is boldly declared as the only non - comedic, i beg to differ. The final one minute of soppiness they found the strength to make at the end does not discount the previous half hour of drek that is only non - comedic in the sense that it isn't funny at all. Getting hit by a bus on TV has become the transportational equivalent of throwing a pie in someone's face, if they really wanted to make Pearl's death heartbreaking they should've gone with an alternative method. And as for Peter's story, it may be just me but i find it hard to get emotionally attached to birds in someone's beard. Almost all of the comic and dramatic potential in this episode is wasted. It's neither moving nor funny and is the skeleton in the great closet of Family Guy.moreless

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  • great

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    By futuramarama, Feb 04, 2011 Report Abuse
    Brian gets a DUI and as a result, he must take care of an elderly woman for community service. But, the woman treats him like crap and he wishes for her to "do the world a favor and fall down and die." But that is until Brian learns who this woman actually is, and starts to like her.

    Peter grows a beard that has baby swallows in it, and he becomes attached to them. Will he be able to let them go?

    It was OK of an episode. Some good parts. The song part was my favorite. Pearl dying could have been handled a little better but it was kind of emotional. B+ or so as a grade seems fairmoreless

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  • Okay Episode.

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    By fenway98, Jun 12, 2010 Report Abuse
    Brain is upset because no girl understands him. He goes home and complains to lois, but she tells him that his expectations are too high. She tells Peter to bring him to a laser rock show to make him feel better. Brain just gets more depressed because he sees all the couples. So he starts to drink alchol. He drives home drunk(so is Peter and his pals)and gets pulled over by Joe. Brian has to help an elderly woman for community service. She is incredibly cranky, and Brian is fed up with her. He then sees on E! Hollywood Stories that she was once a beautiful singer. They become friends, and Pearl finally leaves the house, but gets hit by a car.

    Pretty good epsiode. I loved Stewie yelling at the toilet, Peter imagining Meg was Boba Fett, and of course, the musical number.

    Overall Gare:75%/c+++++++/B-moreless

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    • During the Dinner scene, the food starts out as Chicken and then a few seconds later it's Meatloaf. Edit

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    • During the musical number on the FOX version, one of the tarot cards was changed from George W. Bush to Jerry Springer. Also the World Trade Center towers were digitally removed after 9/11 (the same reason why the George W. Bush tarot card was changed to Jerry Springer). Both of these deleted parts have been shown on Cartoon Network. Edit
    • Episode won an Emmy for its musical number. Edit
    • While this was not the SOURCE of the episode's material, CBC Radio One ran a segment on its show As it Happens about a man named Grant Griffen who's apartment in Florida was overrun with bats that he could not have exterminated or removed because they were endangered. This story ran June 27, 2002, long after this episode was ever written or aired, but it sure is a cute bit of irony that a man with nearly the same name has a real life problem like this. Edit

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    • Bird Scientist: This bird is a very rare species; The endangered white-rumped swallow. Chris: (laughs) Rump. Peter: This isn't funny, Chris! (laugh) Swallow. Edit
    • Dr. Hartman: Right through here. Just tell the disorderly when you're ready to leave. Brian: Don't you mean the orderly? Dr. Hartman: No, the disorderly. (Laughs) Thats a little medical joke. We also like Kevin Pollack. Edit
    • Stewie: Ah-hah! So they do make bigger diapers. That deceitful woman told me I'd have to learn to use the toilet! Well, fie on the toilet! It's made slaves of you all. I've seen it sitting in there: lazy, slothful, porcelain lay-about, feeding on other people's doo doos while contributing nothing of its own to society. You get a job! Edit

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    • The Miracle Worker Professor: Binary code is the language of computers in which words are translated into sequences of zeros and ones. Anything at all can be expressed in binary as we demonstrate it in this famous scene from The Miracle Worker. The Miracle Worker is a play about the famous Helen Keller, a deafblind american author from Alabama who struggled with her disease - she was both blind and deaf. The scene we saw was when Anne Sullivan, her mentor, was teaching her to understand with the help of cold water. Edit
    • Final Destination Pearl being killed by the bus is similar in how the character Terry Chaney is killed in the movie Final Destination. Edit
    • Waco Peter tried using music to drive the birds away, but it doesn't work. This same tactic was used by the F.B.I. against David Koresh and the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas. Edit

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