Love Blactually

Infobox Television episode
Title = Love Blactually
Series = Family Guy


Caption = Brian catches his girlfriend with Cleveland.
Season = 7
Episode = 1
Airdate = September 28, 2008
Production = 6ACX03
Writer = Mike Henry
Director = Cyndi Tang
Guests = Kat Foster
Meredith Baxter
Episode list = List of Family Guy episodes
Season list = Infobox_Family_Guy_Season_7
Prev = Long John Peter
Next = I Dream of Jesus

"Love Blactually" is the first episode of the seventh season of the FOX animated series "Family Guy". [http://foxflash.com/div.php/main/page?aID=1z2z2z56 "Love Blactually"] at FoxFlash.com] It guest stars Kat Foster as Brian's new girlfriend Carolyn and Meredith Baxter as herself. Loretta Brown makes her first appearance since "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire".

Plot

Brian has been growing concerned that he may never meet a woman who doesn't drive him crazy until he meets a woman named Carolyn to whom he feels a great connection. The two begin dating and things seem to be looking up for the two, but when Carolyn invites Brian in for the night after a date, Stewie stops them. Stewie explains that Brian always rushes into his relationships too quickly, and that is why he can never maintain them. Brian agrees and begins following Stewie's advice of taking things slow, with Stewie eavesdropping all the way. Three weeks pass and the two decide it's finally time to take things to the next level, but when he goes to Carolyn's apartment, he catches her having sex in her car with Cleveland.

Carolyn explains to the incredulous Brian that she had assumed he just wanted to be friends with her since he refused to have sex for so long. Brian does everything he can to deal with this, but he just keeps running in to Cleveland and Carolyn making love everywhere, even at Fenway Park on live television, thus unintentionally rubbing it in. Stewie comes up with a solution: Brian should go to Cleveland's ex-wife, Loretta, and convince her to get back together with him so Brian can win back Carolyn for himself. Brian finds during his visit with Loretta that she, as it turns out, feels guilty for cheating on him with Quagmire. Brian begins to feel uncertain that he should carry out this plan until Cleveland announces his own plans to elope with Carolyn in Hawaii. Cleveland is then approached by Loretta, who wishes to patch things up with him, and tells him to meet her at her hotel.

Cleveland turns to the Griffins for advice on whether or not he should take Loretta back. Peter and Lois are uncertain as Loretta's affair was unforgivable, but Brian seems to encourage it, so Cleveland decides to meet her at least to tell her how he feels. Becoming rather suspicious of Brian, Peter convinces Quagmire to advance on Loretta in her hotel room for Cleveland to walk in on, but Loretta kicks Quagmire out of the room in time, and Cleveland is none the wiser, even when he catches him naked in the hallway. Loretta wants to start a new life with Cleveland, but he says that while he will always have a place in his heart for her, he has to move on with his own, and advises Loretta to do the same. He goes to Carolyn's apartment when he sees Carolyn making love with someone outside in her car... but the culprit turns out to be Quagmire instead of Brian; it seems that Brian had bailed out of the plan entirely. Since Brian and Cleveland have been cheated on by the same woman, they remain friends. In addition, Brian learns that Cleveland may have gotten a genital wart from having sex with Carolyn.

Cultural references

Brian and Stewie are both dressed as Snoopy from Peanuts.cite news | title = Family Guy - "Love Blactually" (Episode 701)| publisher = The Recapist|url = http://www.recapist.com/2008/09/29/family-guy-love-blactually-episode-701| accessdate=2008-10-07] Quagmire dresses up as Napoleon Dynamite, Peter dresses as Laura Bush, Joe as Mark Spitz, and Cleveland as Charlie Chaplin. Stewie finds a book called "Horton Hears Domestic Violence in the Next Apartment and Doesn't Call 911", a parody of the book "Horton Hears a Who!"

Cleveland's deadpan exclamation of "...and boom goes the dynamite" after completing intercourse with Carolyn is a reference to a phrase used during a Ball State University student's abysmal appearance as television sports anchor, which became an Internet sensation.cite news | title = ...And boom goes the dynamite: Alumnus' catch phrase continues to receive national attention | publisher = The Ball State Daily News Online | url = http://media.www.bsudailynews.com/media/storage/paper849/news/2008/09/27/Features/.and-Boom.Goes.The.Dynamite-3455920.shtml | date = 2008-26-09 | accessdate=2008-10-10]

Reception

The episode was watched by 9.2 million viewers, making it the second most-watched FOX cartoon that night behind "The Simpsons".cite news|author=Mandy Bierly|title=Ratings: 'Desperate Housewives' returns to win Sunday night|publisher="Entertainment Weekly"|url=http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/09/desperate-house.html|accessdate=2008-10-07|date=2008-09-29]

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