Saving Private Brian

A recruiting officer arrives at Chris’s school, urging students to join the U.S. Army . That evening, Chris, deceived by the video shown, tells the family that he wants to become a soldier , and this terrifies Lois . The next day, Brian and Stewie go to the recruitment office to protest. There, Stewie, left unattended , agrees to join the Army in exchange for a promise that he will be given a real gun , and at the same time the kid signs a contract for Brian.

Trying to distract his son from thoughts about the service, Peter introduces Chris to a musical metal band that accidentally catches his eye, and they take him to him (for his loud cry - Peter dropped Chris on the piano foot).

Meanwhile, Brian and Stewie begin to study the Young Training Course ( basic training ), but Brian does not seem to be able to do this, and he is ready to leave, but the kid stops him, recalling an unfinished college, an unfinished book and other things (- You're all you halfway in life! - You have backed out of everything in your life! )

Joining the group, Chris begins to deteriorate in character, becomes an asocial and rude type, changes his appearance, and in his room a poster with Marilyn Manson and frank verses are now stored. Peter and Lois track down Manson; Peter starts a fight at a meeting with him, and Lois accuses him of spoiling his son. Marilyn offers her parents help. Manson arrives at the Family Guy’s house, where he personally gives Chris useful tips: respect his parents, eat right and spend more time with his father.

Meanwhile, Brian and Stewie finish their studies and go to Iraq , where they face the horrors of terrorism . The dog and the baby decide to make a fuss , but it turns out to be not so simple: “ homosexuality ” does not give results, as one of their commanders turns out to be gay (although there was a poster in the recruiting office of Kuahog that there was no place for gays in the US Army); “self-shoot” does not come out (it turns out that not only the wounded, but even the dead soldiers serve in the unit). Fortunately, the news arrives in time that democracy in Iraq has been established ( has kicked in ), the war is over, and everyone can return home.

Script writer: Cherry Chevaravatdumrong

Director:

Composer: .

Guest celebrities: Tom Devanni, and Louis Gossett Jr.

Cultural References

• The title of the episode is a parody of the title of the film “ Saving Private Ryan ” (“ Saving Private Ryan ”) ( 1998 ); the essence of the episode is devoted to the American invasion of Iraq ^[2] .
• In the sidebar, Peter visits Dr. Katz from the animated series of the same name .
• The episode features Muddy Waters tormented with kidney stones ^[3] .
• In the sidebar you can see the school play "The Amazing Wizard of Oz ."
• In another sidebar, you can see Zinedine Zidane killing his grandmother with his head .
• Peter reads a book from the Choose Your Own Adventure series.
• In the episode, Stewie hints that Peter was related to the story of Thomas Hunta's “hockey killer” ^{[4] [5]} .
• The scene with the march of singing and dancing recruits is a parody of the musical West Side Story ( 1957 ) ^[4] .
• When a sergeant lines a soldier in a line and gives an introductory speech about their preparation, the phrase about “bulls and gays” is taken from the film “ All-metal shell ”, as well as the situation itself.
• There is another reference to the film “Full Metal Shell”: when a sergeant, when searching for personal items, finds a gnawed bird in Brian, while a donut was discovered in the original by a sergeant.
• The sergeant punishes Brian by listening to Chris Gaines' songs - this is a parody of the sketch ( 1996 ) from the show “ Saturday Night Live ” ^[4] .
• The scene of Brian's military training is a parody of the film “ An Officer and a Gentleman ” ( 1982 ) ^[3] ; at the same time, music from the film “Stripes” ( 1981 ) ^[4] sounds.
• After Brian overcame the obstacle course, Stuy remarks that "it was an even bigger achievement than putting Minnie Driver's entire head on the screen."
• Chris has a Mechanical Animals cover art poster.
• The poems Lois reads are lines from the song “Bring Da Ruckus” ( 1993 ) from the album “ Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) ” by Wu-Tang Clan .
• Peter and Lois track down Marilyn Manson at the Grammy Awards . Among other celebrities in the hall you can see the Madonna . According to the poster above the concert hall where the award ceremony is being held, entry is forbidden to Fred Durst .
• The scene in which Marilyn Manson tells Chris about proper nutrition is a parody of one of the episodes of the animated series " Clone High " ( 2002 - 2003 ), in which he talked about the so-called " food pyramid " ^[6] .
• One of Brian’s military trials is to find Wally in the picture.

Trivia

• This episode is the last in which vaudeville actors Johnny and Verne appear (regularly appearing with their songs in almost every episode), since Stewie kills them. On this occasion, Seth MacFarlane said: “The audience was already sick of them” ( “people were getting sick of them” ) ^[4] , and David Goodman added: “The show was giving them too much attention” ( “the show was relying on them too much " ) ^[5] . It is noteworthy that, however, Johnny and Vern will still appear in the episode " Back to the Woods " in the form of ghosts.
• Instead of going to the military commissariat, Stewie was planning to spend a “parachute day” in Gymboree .
• Stewie and Brian were already in the Middle East on Road to Europe , but then they were civilians.

• "Saving Private Brian" on the Internet Movie Database