The thin white line

The story begins with Brian sitting at a reception with his psychologist, where he tells him how tired of his life is. The psychologist invited him to do community service. Brian agrees, but soon he gets bored.

During a corporate party, Peter's boss Mr. Weed announces a contest in which he will hunt his subordinates with poisoned arrows . In this competition, Peter accidentally wins an extraordinary paid vacation .

Family Guy are going on a cruise , and in the meantime, Joe is convinced of Brian’s magnificent scent and offers him to go to the police , look for drugs . Brian agrees and shows excellent results: he participates in a raid on dwarf drug addicts , and when he meets Quagmire at the airport , he sniffs cocaine from a random passenger . However, sniffing drugs , Brian accidentally becomes an addict.

Meanwhile, Brian's drug addiction is growing. It comes to the point that he attacks a random passenger at the airport in the hope of "finding the weed" ( find "the stash" ) and after that he is kicked out of service. At night, the dog returns home with the prostitute Tina, curses with Peter and spends the rest of the night on the street. The next morning, the Family Guides lead Brian to a psychiatrist who diagnoses the dog’s emotional breakdown .

The family decides to send Brian for treatment using vacation money. Peter also goes to the rehabilitation center with the dog, where he wreaks havoc and devastation and even causes premature birth in adolescents . As a result, the head physician accuses Peter of the fact that he is the reason for Brian's drug addiction.

After that, Brian declares to everyone that he is leaving with his cousin Jasper to California , and no one is stopping him ...

Script writer: Steve Callahan .

Director: Glen Hill.

Guest celebrities: Carlos Alazraki (as Mr. Jonathan Weed), June Forey (as Rocky the Flying Squirrel ), Leif Garrett ( cameo ) and Haley Osment (as the baby in the bathroom).

Cultural References

• A series with the same name is in the series Millennium ( 1997 ).
• The title of the episode mimics the unofficial name for the US police - “ The Thin Blue Line ”. The 1988 documentary (about the murder of a police officer) and the British comedy series 1995-1997 bear the same name.
• In the hunting scene for his employees, Mr. Weed states that “he has enough poisoned arrows to even overwhelm Robert Downey Jr. himself ” ( “has enough tranquilizer darts to take down Robert Downey, Jr.” ). Listeners disapprove of this replica of the boss, understanding the drug problems of this actor with understanding.
• In a scene at the cinema, Brian watches and retells to the blind the film “ The Blair Witch: Coursework from the Other World ”.

Trivia

• This episode was preparing to be released as part of the second season of the animated series, but was released in the third .
• This is the first episode in the history of the animated series, consisting of two parts. Part Two is the next episode of Brian Does Hollywood .
• The title of the episode mimics the inhalation of cocaine powder when it is poured onto a flat surface with a thin white line .
• This episode is the first in which Brian uses drugs. Also in the early episodes ( Brian: Portrait of a Dog , Road to Rhode Island ) you can see that Brian already smoked cigarettes. In the episode Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington, he tried to quit smoking in protest against the tobacco campaign, but after its bankruptcy (thanks to the speech of Peter), he returned to tobacco.
• The episode begins with Brian telling his psychologist that he is bored of living. Later in the episode Brian & Stewie, Brian tells Stewie that sometimes he is so bored with life that he wants to kill himself.
• In this episode, the Oiled Deaf Guy first appears.

• The Thin White Line on the Internet Movie Database  
• http://www.kinofilms.org/serial/1693_Family_Guy/seasons/3/1/ (link not available)