| Don't Trust the D___ in Apartment 23 | |
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| Season 16, Episode 1 | |
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| Air date | September 10, 2017 |
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Don't Trust the D___ in Apartment 23 is the first episode of the sixteenth season of Family Guy and the introduction of the Brian Moves Out saga. It is the three hundred and sixty ninth episode, overall.
Synopsis[]
After making an "offensive" Twitter post, Brian Griffin becomes a social pariah and gets run out of town.
Plot[]
In the cold open, Principal Shepherd confronts Brian and Stewie for an unknown reason, with Brian with a leg cast trying to escape. However, Shepherd smacks Brian with a baseball bat, which results in Brian being knocked out of a window. However, Brian stops it, with him as the narrator, saying that they probably wondering what stupid thing he did this time. And Brian says that to explain to the viewers how he ended up in this situation, he had to go back a bit.
The episode flashbacks to a few months beforehand, with Brian taking Stewie to a University library and witnesses a protest against a professor who told someone to have a nice day and they considered it microagression and also because someone put weird on the transgender bathroom. Brian Tweets and gets back into the Twitter game. And after he renews interest on the account he starts tweeting on a regular basis.
His tweets gather little attention until he goes to see the Baywatch movie and writes a tweet about Kevin Hart's new movie that's supposed to be funny but is offensive instead. 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, and moves into a run-down apartment in Spinazola Apartments. The room Brian got was a crappy old room, with no carpets or even wallpapers. His feet froze on the cold cement floor, and it was painful for him to stand in one place for too long, without a towel under his feet. Running water was a no, and electricity was slim. He also lived next door to an arguing couple, who could be heard beautifully through the thin separating wall.
Characters[]
Major Roles[]
Minor Roles[]
- Glenn Quagmire
- Cleveland Brown
- Joe Swanson
- Jerome Cool J
- Kurt
- Alexander Hunt
- Nora Raymond
- Charles McBurten
- Seamus Levine (Cameo)
- Principal Shepherd (Flash-Forward)
- Sid (Cameo)
- Gil (Cameo)
- Chip (Cameo)
- Karen (Cameo)
- JJ (Cameo)
- Angela (Cameo)
- Tito (Cameo)
- Larry (Cameo)
- Kevin Hart (Pictured)
Quotes[]
- Brian: [to the viewers] You're probably wondering, "(scoffs) Ugh, Brian, what did your pretentious ass do now?" Well, to explain, I have to go back a few months.
- [Peter and Lois watch Meg do a one woman performance of "I Love Trash"]
- Peter: Who's fault is this?
- Lois: You're wearing a garbage bag as a cape, who do you think?
- [Brian hits on a girl in the library]
- Brian: So, who are you reading?
- Girl: George Elliot.
- Brian: Ah, Georgie. I'm a big fan. I think he ...
- Girl: She.
- Brian: She said it best, when she said. [looks at a page of the girl's book] Bantam Press, 1851.
- Brian: About to see the new Kevin Hart movie. Just kidding. I'm white & went to college. #BaywatchMovie
- Peter: Hey, Jerome. Gimme a beer.
- Jerome: Oh, why? Cuz I'm like your slave? Man, you're no better than your racist dog.
- Peter: Come on, man. Brian was just making a joke.
- Quagmire: I told you about Brian, man. I told you. And what did I say would happen what I told you? Exactly what just happened. Mmm-hmm.
- [A sensitivity mob gangs up on Chris and Meg in the lunchroom]
- Alexander: Your dog wrote an insensitive tweet. You can't eat here.
- Chris: Uh-oh, Meg. It's a sensitivity mob.
- Meg: It was just a joke!
- Nora: There's no such thing as jokes anymore.
- Charles: Yeah, we live in a post-joke world.
- Lois: This is getting out of control. We can't leave the house without getting harassed.
- Peter: Yeah, yesterday I went outside to try to get the mail and I had a seizure.
- [Brian apologizes to an offended angry mob]
- Brian: Ladies and gentlemen, I'm here today to apologize ...
- Male SJW: Why did you say "ladies" first? That's sexist!
- Brian: It's just-It's just a standard greeting. Let-let me start over. Gentlemen and ladies ...
- Female SJW: Ooh, says the man!
- Brian: Okay, sorry I ... I, um. Humans in the audience.
- Basketball SJW: I identify as a basketball!
- Brian: You know what? Fuck you!
- [The crowd gasps]
- Brian: 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 watch tons of black porn. 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, ...
- Stewie: [offscreen] That was a problem, before.
- Brian: I can't turn on my phone and go online for two fucking seconds 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!
- [Brian gets ready to leave the family]
- Stewie: Brian wait!
- [Stewie comes back to say one last thing to Brian]
- Stewie: This collar is ours. It has our address on it.
- [Stewie takes Brian's collar]
- Stewie: Peace, dude.
- Store Clerk: Hey, did you knock over a few bottles in Aisle 7?
- Brian: Um, yeah.
- Store Clerk: [sigh]
- Brian: ... Okay.
- Brian: [to the viewers] And this is my friends is how I fell to such I low. I lost everything... over a fucking tweet
Songs[]
- I Love Trash
- Pac-Man Fever
- Runaway Train
Trivia[]
- Brian's Twitter account name is "@d0gbackwards", which is an actual account assigned to Brian since October of 2016. Peter uses the same name as his Instagram account, PumpkinEater69. A note on the account by "Peter" claims he had to take @PumpkinEater80 after messing up his @PumpkinEater69 account.
- Many of the Twitter accounts that send hate mail to Brian are those of Fuzzy Door Productions staff members, including Matt Fusfeld of American Dad!.
- Brian being booed copies the same gag used on the The Cleveland Show episode "Another Bad Thanksgiving" when Cleveland has the same response for Donna's sister Janet.
Cultural References[]
- The title references the television show Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23.
- Brian's tweet refers to an incident of another tweet by Justine Sacco, who noted that she was headed to Africa and hoped she wouldn't get AIDS, then tried to laugh it off by noting she was white. Sacco, who had only 170 followers at the time, arrived in Cape Town following her flight to find her tweet had gone viral worldwide and caused an outpouring of hate towards her, costing her her job in the process. An attempt to delete the tweet failed to alleviate the damage done.
- The school lunch room fight is a homage to the church fight scene in Kingsman: The Secret Service, which includes Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird".
- Stewie declaring he's going to yell "Viva La Stool" to the college camera crew like a "young white drunkard" is a reference to the comedy website Barstool Sports and their core audience of young adult males known as "Stoolies".
- Brian imitates Steve Urkel from Family Matters while talking to the woman at the library by saying "Did I do that?" which is one of Urkel's catchphrases.
- Brian leaves the Griffins to the tune of "Pac Man Fever" by Buckner & Garcia.
- At the Quahog Pharmacy, Brian sings a line of Soul Asylum's "Runaway Train".
- Stewie mentions the frozen pizza company DiGiorno's use of a domestic violence tweet intended to pitch their pizza.
Continuity[]
- Brian mentions kissing a transexual when yelling at the angry mob. Being a nod to him having sex with Quagmire's trans dad Ida in "Quagmire's Dad"
Deleted Scenes[]
- An 80's guy reads books in the middle of a montage.
- Stewie says that he's going to yell "Viva la stool!" at a camera.
- Stewie yells "Viva la stool!" at a camera.
- Stewie tells Brian that only celebrities and athletes have important Twitters.
- A girl throws a drink at Brian for making his racist tweet.
- Brian says "Uh-Oh", when he checks his phone instead of "What the?".
- Peter asks Brian how the movie was.
- Stewie says that Dijorno made a tweet about domestic violence.
- Peter and Chris troll with a guy who works at Dick's Sporting Goods.
- Joe starts saying "Sir" like a cop.
- Slow pan across the family's faces and Peter sits on a lifeguard chair.
- Peter says that he had a banana and a coffee for breakfast.
- Brian singing Pac-Man Fever in the car.
- Lou telling Brian that he's not allowed to kiss the mailman.