They need one another, ultimately, more than they need anyone else. We see them ping pong between deep animosity and hatred for each other to utter love and devotion for one another. It’s almost like a therapy session for the characters. Therefore it makes a lot of sense for this episode to be all about dissecting their relationship, finally getting to the truth behind it all and dealing with it. Increasingly they’d be paired up, with their antics being what audiences seemed to want more than anything else. What began as a humble bond between Brian and Peter (who is the only Griffin who isn’t mentioned in the episode), shifted to these two weird members of the family. Here there is no luxury of escape, and the proximity that Brian and Stewie are being forced into is simultaneously felt by the audience.īrian and Stewie’s relationship has always been the growing core of the series. It all works very well here and it would almost defeat the purpose of doing a bottle episode if you’re allowed to pop out of that bottle every so often to cater to a cutaway. Not only are they the only characters, but the episode is also without a score of any kind and even goes as far as featuring no cutaway gags, which are the show’s bread and butter. The episode is very conscious about making Stewie and Brian the focus here. It’s a very basic premise, but it’s one that allows these two characters just to riff off each other for the episode, shifting conversation topics as they see fit. What the show does here is get Brian and Stewie locked in a bank vault together for the entire episode. Family Guy took their 150th episode as such an occasion to make something different, using the bottle episode construct as the frame to contain it all. To the show’s credit, there is still an energy behind it that makes it capable of producing powerful, meaningful episodes of television. Still, the show’s lasting power is certainly a testament to something, and the program was the first brick in Seth MacFarlane’s monopoly to take over Sunday nights on Fox. Now, a show that has almost become a parody of itself (but then again, it’s hard for a show not to once its put thirteen seasons under its belt), it’s hardly heralded with the same enthusiasm that it originally was. You’d almost forget that it was the unusual, groundbreaking little-show-that-could that got canceled all those years ago before the masses demanded that it was brought back to life. “What would I do if you weren’t here? Life would be unbearable.”įamily Guy has certainly become a polarizing sitcom. ‘Genie in a Bottle’ is a recurring feature where each week a different bottle episode (an episode set entirely in one location, often designed to save money) from a comedy series is examined
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