Family Guy Brings Back Brian Through Time-Travelling Stewie

He’s Back! Brian Griffin Returns to Family Guy (Mediaite)

As many expected, central character Brian Griffin appeared on Family Guy this Sunday evening.

The hard-drinking, literary-aspiring Brian was “killed off” in the November 24 episode, “Life of Brian,” resulting in an online fan-based campaign to bring him back.

Many speculated that the campaign was successful as the listing for the Sunday, December 15th episode read: “Stewie devises a master plan to get the one and only thing he wants for Christmas.”

But since each episode takes roughly 10 months to create, it’s more likely that the show had planned this all along as a clever ratings ploy for holiday season episodes of the show.

Either way, Brian returned Sunday evening.