Family guy the d in apartment 23

The D in Apartment 23

Brian is forced out of the house.

Season: 16 Episode: 06
Total Episode Count: 295
Prod. no.: FACX03
First Aired: November 12, 2017

Featuring: Brian
Also Appearing: Peter, Lois, Meg, Chris, Stewie, Joe, Cleveland, Quagmire, Jerome, Seamus, Sid, Kurt, Gill, Chip, Karen, JJ, Angela, Tito, Larry, Lou Spinazola, Oscar the Grouch, Kevin Hart, Ice Cube
Musical Numbers: I Love Trash

Director: Julius Wu

Assistant Director: John Banh
Writers: Artie Johann
Storyboarders: Rob Bou-Saab, Jonathan Gebhart, Brinson Thieme

Plot:

After Brian renews his interest in his Twitter account to join a protest, he starts tweeting on a regular basis. His tweets gather little attention until he makes a racially insensitive remark about a film before seeing Baywatch. While in the theater, his tweet goes viral and he exits to find an angry mob awaiting him who chase him home. Despite his attempt to delete the tweet, Brian as well as the family are treated as pariahs. Brian's attempt to apologize also falls flat and Lois tells him that he needs to move out for the safety of the family. Shocked, Brian packs up, finds a run-down apartment and settles in.

Brian Griffin: You know what? Fuck you!

[the angry mob suddenly gasp in shock]

Brian Griffin: I'm not a racist, all right? I just told a bad joke. There's a huge difference. But nobody on the internet ever takes the time to ask themselves "Is this worth freaking out over?", or "Are there bigger problems in this world than this tweet?" Well, I assure you there are! And just for the record, I love black people! I've watched tons of black porn! So what do you all want from me? Huh? You want to ruin my life? Well, congratulations, you did it! Everybody hates me! I can't leave the house without getting harrassed, no one will hire me...

Brian Griffin: [from off-screen] That was a problem before.

Brian Griffin: ...I can't turn on my phone without strangers telling me to kill myself, or that they're gonna kill my family! LEAVE ME ALONE! I'm the self-righteous liberal douchebag, not you! I've kissed a transsexual before, how many of you can say that? Where's my fucking medal? I am so far left I'm spinning in circles, you shitheads! INSTEAD OF KILLING MYSELF, I SHOULD KILL ALL OF YOU!

Angry Mob Man: I'd like to see you try.

Brian Griffin: [the man slowly approaches Brian and punches him] Ow. Geez.

Brian posts a bad joke about Kevin Hart on Twitter, which comes back to haunt him as it's deemed racist and turns the Griffins into pariahs.

This episode contains examples of...

• An Aesop: Be careful what you say online, because what you might think is a joke may be considered offensive.
• Both Sides Have a Point: Brian pointed out that Peter did stuff that was so much worse than what Brian did and he didn't get kicked out or sent to jail. He also pointed to the angry mob that there are many worse tweets and posts that people look at online, but nobody cares, and they worry about the minor things.
  • Lois not only called out Brian's stupidity on posting a tweet like that, but she did have a good point about kicking Brian out. Not only is Brian a pariah, but it affected them as well even getting death threats and things thrown at their house.
  • Although they absolutely should have handled it more maturely, the angry mob did have the right to be angry at Brian for posting a bad joke.
  • While Brian says he isn't the monster the mob thinks he is, Lois is right in that he hasn't done anything to prove he's not.
• Break the Haughty: As usual, Brian is quite smug when he starts up his Twitter account again. It quickly spirals out of control. Played for drama this time around, though, as his entire life is turned upside down.
• Cliffhanger: Brian is kicked out of the Griffin's house and is forced to live on his own. He remains kicked out by the end of the episode.
• Comical Overreacting: The various angry mobs are portrayed this way, as noted below. They go from simply condemning Brian for his tweet to harassing him at every turn (including demanding he kill himself), ostracizing the family purely because of guilt by association, and resorting to physical violence.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Much like the scene it parodies, Chris and Meg slaughter the sensitivity mob with barely a scratch on them.
• Disproportionate Retribution: The entire town ostracizes Brian, and then the Griffins, only because of Brian's ill-advised tweet, despite the Griffins having done much worse in the past and the tweet itself being intended as nothing more than a joke. In this same episode, Meg and Chris brutally massacre most of the students harassing them at lunch, but this incident is never brought up again.
• Downer Ending: The backlash from the tweet becomes so bad that Brian gets kicked out of the house and is forced to move into a crappy apartment, doomed to a lonely and miserable life for couple of episodes.
• Et Tu, Brute?: The rest of the family turns against Brian for his tweet.
• Felony Misdemeanor: Everyone in town hates Brian for his tweet.
• First-Name Basis: Lois, bemoaning the fact that the grocery store staff she thought was so friendly and had gotten to know was ignoring her. The manager curtly tells her the only reason she knows their names is because of their name tags.
• Foreshadowing: The slow-motion scene of Brian about to post his joke and the sound of a gunshot when he presses "Tweet" show that it's going to end in disaster.
• Generation Xerox: Like Peter's fights with the Giant Chicken, Chris and Meg can pull off a sustained fight and give more damage than they get.
• Get Out!: Twice:
  • At the Drunken Clam, when Joe demands that Peter leave their booth, immediately.
  • The family, when they kick Brian out.
• Grammar Nazi: During Brian's attempted apology, he tries to address it towards "humans, basketballs, talking parrots, and whatever else is out there". A woman takes issue with the word "whatever" and suggests "whoever", and someone else tells her it's "whomever".

  Woman: No one likes you, Mary.

• Group Hug: Averted big time here ... no moral and then a big hug and everything is alright afterward, just a big Get Out!.
• Guilt by Association Gag: Because of being associated with Brian, Chris and Meg are ostracized by the other kids, Lois is shunned at the grocery store, and Peter gets rejected by his friends, complete with Joe threatening to arrest Peter because of Brian's actions. All this happens despite them being just as annoyed at Brian as everybody else was. That said, the moment Brian's kicked out, the town stops going after them.
• Hope Spot: For Brian, as he's leaving, Stewie smiles back at him and asks to wait ... only for Stewie to ask for the dog collar. Stewie, after claiming it, tells Brian, "Later!" (as though to suggest he feels at least somewhat bad for Brian's predicament).
• I Warned You: Quagmire tells Peter he warned him about Brian.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Brian's failed attempt to tell the mob that, in essence, they are hypocritical and have made mistakes as well. When an attempt to be nice about it and offer an apology doesn't even gain any headway, his angry rant does.
  • Brian accurately points out that Peter has gotten away with doing far worse than what Brian did, though Peter doesn't care.
  • While Lois kicking Brian out seems cowardly, she's completely right. She has three kids, one of which is a baby. She needs to keep them safe, especially since Meg and Chris got into a fight at school, where they were nearly killed by a mob of teens. Lois is just putting her children first.
• "Just Joking" Justification: The Griffins as they unsuccessfully try to defend Brian.
• Karma Houdini: Played for Laughs. Meg and Chris brutally fight their way through the mob of students harassing them at lunch, clearly killing most if not all of them, but in typical Family Guy fashion, this incident is never brought up again and it's not indicated if they face any punishment for it. Even though Brian is ostracized to the point where he has to move out simply for writing a bad tweet.
• Loophole Abuse: One Cutaway Gag has Peter trying to order Shepards' pie at a restaurant, despite it not being on the menu. Peter asks if they have the individual ingredients to make Shepards' pie (one by one), and he ends up getting the Shepards' pie in the end.
• Negated Moment of Awesome: After Brian gives his "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the mob and says he should kill all of them, a man immediately rushes him in slow motion as the first few notes of Free Bird play, much like Chris and Meg's fight with the other kids earlier on... But as soon as he punches Brian and gives him a bloody nose, Brian just goes back inside.
• Never My Fault: Brian insists that it was just a bad joke blown out of proportion and goes as far as to shame the angry mob for not accepting that excuse, especially since there are much bigger things in the world to be concerned about. However, Lois points out that it was Brian's own fault in the first place because he should have known better than to post something so racist.
• No Ending: The episode ends rather abruptly as Brian is just shown eating on his couch watching Wheel of Fortune on television.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Chris and Meg deliver devastating ones to every member of the mob that attacks them. And it is epic.
• Not Helping Your Case:
  • When Brian tells the mob no one will hire him because of the tweet backlash, Stewie points out Brian couldn't get hired before the whole mess started anyway.
  • When Brian comes back into the house after excoriating the crowd, Lois is aghast that he would mention "black porn", something that many people find patently offensive. She also points out that for all of his protests, Brain hasn't done or said anything that had proven that he wasn't racist.
• Pet the Dog: The Griffins at least tried to defend Brian for his tweet, but the people and their friends didn't want to hear it.
• Political Overcorrectness: Everyone who hates Brian are definitely all over the place with this trope, notably, during Brian's apology to the mob. Him saying "ladies and gentlemen" is seen as sexist by the men because he said "ladies" first. Then he corrects it to "gentlemen and ladies," but then the ladies find it sexist. Then he says "humans in the audience," which offends one guy (and therefore angering the crowd again) because he identifies as a basketball. It just keeps getting more ridiculous from there until Brian finally snaps.
• Protagonist-Centered Morality: What Brian goes through in this episode is very similar to what happened to Peter in an earlier episode. They post something online that they think is a joke, but people find it offensive, and when they try to defend themselves, they only make it worse. It gets to the point where an angry mob is involved and people are attacking their house over the incident, causing the Griffins to fear for their safety. The only difference is that in Peter's case, the entire family left town until the whole thing blew over, while in Brian's case, only Brian was forced to leave the house.
• Refuge in Audacity: Brian tries hitting on a college girl in a library by pretentiously quoting a book she's reading, by awkwardly opening a random page to read aloud as she's reading it.
• Rejected Apology: Brian tries to apologize to everyone for his tweet, but they keep rudely interrupting him until he snaps.
• Ripped from the Headlines: High-profile celebrities, members of the media, company executives and others losing their jobs, professions, families and more for headline-making racially toned, homophobic, or in the very least completely inappropriate social media posts. The episode's plot itself most closely resembles an incident involving former InterActiveCorp public relations executive Justine Sacco, whose controversial tweet about traveling to South Africa resulted in her losing her job and forced her into seclusion for several months as the online fallout continued.
• Shamed by a Mob: Big time. Brian is antagonized by everyone in town for his tweet, even by his own family.
• Shaming the Mob: Brian lays a massive rant at the mob after they wouldn't give him a chance to apologize. It doesn't work.

  Brian: You know what? Fuck you! I'm not a racist, all right? I just told a bad joke. There's a huge difference. But nobody on the internet ever takes the time to ask themselves, "Is this worth freaking out over?" or, "Are there bigger problems in the world than this tweet?" Well, I assure you, there are. And just for the record, I love black people. I've watched tons of black porn. So, what do you all want from me, huh? You-you want to ruin my life? Then congratulations. You did it. Everybody hates me. I can't leave the house without getting harassed. No one will hire me. I can't turn on my phone without strangers telling me to kill myself or that they're gonna kill my family. Leave me alone! I'm the self-righteous, liberal douchebag, not you! I've kissed a transsexual before! How many of you can say that?! Where's my fucking medal?! I am so far left, I'm spinning in circles, you shitheads! Instead of killing myself, I should kill all of you!
  Random Mob Guy: I'd like to see you TRY.

• Shout-Out: At school, Meg and Chris have to fight a bunch of people in a single room set to the guitar solo of Free Bird.
• Skewed Priorities: Brian's argument includes how everyone's focusing on a dumb joke from an account that has since been deleted instead of more important matters.
• Story Arc: This episode began a three-part story arc involving Brian experiencing and living through the consequences of his social media post.
• Suicide Dare: Along with insults and death threats, everyone tells Brian to kill himself.
• Took a Level in Badass: Chris and Meg as they fight against the sensitivity mob.
• Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: During the cafeteria fight, one girl tries to stab Meg with a knife. Meg simply redirects the knife into the girl.
• Wham Episode: Brian ends up getting kicked out of the house, with everyone (even his own family) turned against him. By the end of the episode, he's living in a lousy apartment all by himself, his life essentially ruined.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Lois calls out Brian this for his offensive tweet, saying how he can't post jokes that sound racist because they now live in a society where people can't just say whatever they like anymore and use "I'm joking" as an excuse.
  • When Brian's own family turns on him and, fearing their own safety, kicks him out, Brian rightfully calls them out on it.

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