People seem to forget that each episode of this show takes a really long time to make, at least 9 months, so the petitions and all of the complaining meant absolutely nothing. They already had these episodes finished way before the fact.

Oh calm down. It's a cartoon.

Personally, I thought this episode was very poorly executed. Most of the jokes weren't funny, and the episode was simultaneously really depressing and phoned in. Family Guy has never been good with dramatic scenes, and everything surrounding Brian's death was too rushed and too heavy-handed. This episode was not only…