Brian Sings and Swings/Notes/Trivia

Notes

• The closing credits has a swing version of the theme song performed by Sinatra.
• Brian had to wear a cone after the operation. A cutaway in another season four episode, “Blind Ambition,” shows Brian wearing a cone which Stewie throws a crumpled piece of paper in and says, “Score! Score!”
• Brian goes to a doctor, instead of a veterinarian, whereas, later, in Long John Peter he is taken to the vet when ill.
• This is the first episode in which there are signs that Lois was once a lesbian (or at least a bisexual) when she kissed Sarah (although Lois makes a comment about “going back to men” in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, which was released on DVD before the episode aired).
• A cut scene that appears in the deleted scenes section of the Family Guy Volume 4 DVD has Brian, Stewie, and Frank Sinatra, Jr. performing for terminally ill kids at a hospital, and Brian getting drunk and asking a kid if his “blood type was pee,” and pees on his life support machine (which then fails), followed by a later scene where Brian is in the gutter and one of the terminally ill kids gets his revenge on Brian by urinating on him after gloating that he’s in remission.
• The cutaway gag in which Stewie is laughing at an episode of Hope & Faith marks the first, and so far only, time that Seth MacFarlane has not voiced Stewie. MacFarlane revealed, during the DVD commentary for the episode, that Stewie’s “laugh” was actually a laugh track that was created by Ricky Blitt; MacFarlane loved the hilarious laugh track so much that he decided that it must be used for a particular joke in an episode.
• Brian's retching sounds are the same ones heard in the Ipecac gag in 8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter.

Censorship

• When Mr. Berler accidentally shows his home sex tape instead of a documentary, he says, “I’m sorry, can I show this video of me doing my wife?” The word “doing” was bleeped out on FOX (despite that the word was said on the episode “To Love and Die in Dixie” during the cutaway of how Peter always makes a fool of himself during job interviews), but not on Adult Swim.

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