This guy is retarded ...

Once it was established that Brian is a talking dog that dates (and has sex with) women (and kissed Meg!), all bets on the show adhering to any logic or reality were pretty much off for me. :)

I agree with the posters who decry this season of FG. It's still funny, be often the writer's just seem to be going through the motions. I wonder if Seth McFarlane is as involved with the show as he used to be; sometimes the loss of involvement of the show's original creator can spell doom.

Despite wanting to support the writers' strike, I actually really enjoyed this episode. The 72 Virgins joke was absolutely brilliant.

As for FG Dogma - Meg has been preparing for/engaging in sex for a long tme now. Remember the Ear Sex episode? She's a young girl blossoming into womanhood and we just have to let her grow her wings and fly (;-))

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I enjoyed this episode.

I agree with everyone that family guy has been diminishing in quality, but I think this episode was better than FG's put out in a LONG time.

I rated it an 8 on tv.com, because as many have metnioned, it still had the random manatee gags and all those recycled, overplayed jokes. Namely:
-Alien reference
-Andy Garcia reference
-A suicide bomber and 72 virgins (wtf?)
-Fred and his wife fighting (They did this joke with cavemen... and many other times, some characters arguing in a surreal way.. this is probably my least favorite, lame new FG joke)
-The ending with Conway Twitty.

So yes, it's still full of those Family Guy cliches we've come to know and hate.

However, for the first time in a long time, I laughed at a Family Guy episode! There were a ton of great jokes that actually worked:
-Peter killing Connie
-Peter shooting Meg
-Stewie's knock-knock joke. "Two friends building a house together."
-The Over conversation on walkie-talkies.
-Peter's conversation with Michael, and the quote the reviewer mentioned. ("My daughter's womb is not a wildfire for you to douse with your adolescent seed."... Now come on, FG's sucked lately but this line alone proves the script has some pure gold!)
-Lois suggesting Meg smoke and drink to kill her baby, but then saying "But don't chicken out halfway through or you'll end up with Chris" (or something to that effect)

Wow this is getting long. Y'all get my point by now. FG's still flawed and nowhere near the quality of seasons 1-3, but it's making progress.

I was wondering about the obscure voice heard when Stewy and dog enter the old house. It sure sounded like High Pitch Eric from the Howard Stern Show. A high squeaky voice that happens to be the guy's real voice.

There didn't seem to be any reason for the voice except it is distinct enoughg that Stern fans would know it. Did anybody else hear it, or do I just have High Pitch Eric stuck in my head?

Whoever did the voice of the Alien this episode and Mayor Bee and Gay Jaws (it sounds like the same voice) is hilarious.

Hey, seems how youtube isn't alloud to post copyrighted material anymore, does anyone know where i can find the Family guy videos for:
The time peter re-wired the elcectricity, and bought back Jim Varney. He kept saying "Vern." HAHAHA. Loved it.

And this weeks episode. The video clip of "Alien." Oh man, that killed. :p

I thought the Andy Garcia conjoined twin head was pretty funny. That one giant tooth was a great visual gag. The rest of the episode wasn't that great though. Meg's funnier as a horrible character than as someone the family is interested in.

Individual lines though were great - like Lois not asking Meg to get an abortion, but to smoke and binge drink - but don't get cold feet or Chris comes out.

Good Call, Doug! Nice...

I thought the scene with Brian & Stewie on the walkie-talkies with SO FUNNY!

"When this thing is Over?"
"when this this is what? over."
"I didn't realize you had to say over when the sentence ends in over."
"When the sentence ends in what? over"

I was nearly in tears for the "doggy hell" scene.