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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.

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‘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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