Saving Private Brian is the fourth episode of season five of Family
Guy, an episode produced for Season 4. The episode originally
broadcast on November 5, 2006. The episode follows Stewie and Brian
after they unintentionally join the United States Army, and end up
leaving to serve in Iraq, only to return home when the war ends.
Meanwhile, Chris joins a heavy metal band, and develops an anti-social
attitude, which requires Marilyn Manson to intervene.The episode was
written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and directed by Cyndi Tang. It
received mostly positive reviews from critics for its storyline and
many cultural references. According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed
in 8.45 million homes in its original airing. The episode featured
guest performances by Gary Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Juanita Jennings,
Phil LaMarr, Samm Levine, Rachael MacFarlane, Denis Martel, Enn
Reitel, Stacey Scowley, Fred Tatasciore and Wally Wingert, along with
several recurring guest voice actors for the series.A U.S. Army
recruitment officer comes to the high school to hold an assembly and
entices the students with a glamorized, deceptive video presentation,
which impresses every one including Chris. Chris returns home and
tells the family during dinner that he wants to enlist, but Lois
attempts to dissuade him, for the military is not a place for him. The
next day, while driving Stewie to Gymboree Play & Music for parachute
day, Brian decides to take a detour to the recruitment office to scold
the recruiting officer for trying to trick Chris through devious
means. The two arrive at the office but the wait is long; when Brian
goes to top-up the parking meter Stewie walks into the office. Stewie
ends up enlisting in the Army and signs Brian up as well when told
there "is a $100 bonus for signing up a buddy." Brian returns and is
shocked. Brian and Stewie begin basic training, but Brian becomes
stressed from the discipline and decides one night to leave. Stewie
wakes up and finds Brian packing his suitcase, but he manages to talk
him out of leaving, insisting that he had never finished anything
significant in his life and that the Army will provide him the
discipline. With this, Brian decides to stay. After they complete
their training, Stewie and Brian are deployed to Iraq. Meantime, the
two are patrolling the streets of a village, commenting on the "good
situation so far"; however, after the pair get caught up in a
terrorist attack, they become dissuaded and decide to find a way to
get out of the Army. They first attempt to be discharged by pretending
to be homosexual (only to discover that one of their superiors is
gay). As a last resort, they attempt to get "Wounded in Action" by
shooting each other in the foot; they do this only to find out that
the Army now takes anyone no matter what, going so far as to allow two
corpses to guard the ammunition. They are then told that democracy has
kicked in and the war is over, thus meaning all the soldiers can
return to the United States.Meanwhile, to distract Chris from the
Army, Peter takes him to look at extracurricular activities at his
school, where he is accepted into a heavy metal band. Chris develops a
rebellious and rude attitude after joining the band, and he
significantly changes his appearance. Peter and Lois, worried about
his behavior, search his room to find the cause of his behavioral
change; Lois becomes convinced it is a result of listening to the
violent lyrics from his music. In addition, they find a poster shrine
to Marilyn Manson in his closet, and become convinced that his music
corrupted their son. They decide to track down Manson and find him at
the Grammys Music Awards. When they find Manson, Peter punches him in
the face and Lois accuses him for destroying their son with his songs.
Manson, played by writer Tom Devanney, laughing at "this old thing
again", offers to help them with Chris. Manson returns to the Griffin
house with Peter and Lois, where he tells Chris and his bandmates that
it is important to respect and obey their parents, and in addition to
mending the tension between them, Manson ends the episode by giving
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