The Man with Two Brians

The episode centers on anthropomorphic dog Brian after he is injured during a stunt being enacted by his owner, Peter, after he watches Jackass with his friends.

An enraged Stewie kills and dismembers New Brian offscreen, disposes of his bloody remains in the garbage and forges a suicide note for his family.

[2] "The Man with Two Brians", along with the first eight episodes of the seventh season were released on DVD by 20th Century Fox in the United States and Canada on June 16, 2009.

[2] Recurring voice actors and writers Kirker Butler, Mark Hentemann, Danny Smith and Alec Sulkin made minor appearances in the episode.

[6] In the episode, while being launched off a ramp and flying through the air, Peter wears the costume from The Greatest American Hero and sings the series' theme song.

in reference to a scene from the 1980 movie Airplane!, in which the flight attendant Randy plays guitar for a sick girl on her way to receive a heart transplant.

Peter dresses up like a stereotypical adolescent bully featured in 1980s films, and makes references to Pretty in Pink, No Retreat, No Surrender and The Karate Kid.

[7] Family Guy finished fourth in its timeslot, after NBC's Sunday Night Football, ABC's Desperate Housewives and CBS's The Amazing Race.

[...] While this episode definitely won't make anyone's top ten list of great Family Guy, there was a much better balance between random humor and storytelling in this outing".

[...] Most of the Jackass stuff was way too stale–Peter jackknifing Quagmire into the crate of bees notwithstanding–but thankfully it was just setup for a far superior storyline, the introduction of a younger 'New Brian'".