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"Love Blactually"
Family Guy episode
Brian catches Carolyn with Cleveland.
Episode no.	Season 7 Episode 1
Written by	Mike Henry
Directed by	Cyndi Tang
Production no.	6ACX03
Original airdate	September 28, 2008
Guest stars
Kat Foster Meredith Baxter
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"Love Blactually" is the first episode of the seventh season of the Fox animated series Family Guy. It first aired in the United states on September 28 2008. 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". The title is a pun on the movie Love Actually.

Plot

Brian starts dating an atheist named Carolyn. When she invites him 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. Three weeks pass and Brian decides it's finally time to consummate the relationship, but when he goes to Carolyn's apartment, he catches her having sex in her car with Cleveland.

Carolyn explains to Brian that she had assumed he just wanted to be friends with her since he refused to have sex for so long. Brian tries to deal with this but keeps running in to Cleveland and Carolyn having sex everywhere. Stewie thinks 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 feels guilty for cheating on him with Quagmire. Brian feels uncertain that he should carry out this plan until Cleveland announces his own plans to elope with Carolyn in Hawaii.

Loretta tells Cleveland to meet her at her hotel, which he does. Loretta says she wants to start a new life with him, but he says that while he will always have a place in his heart for her, he has to move on, and advises her to do the same. He goes to Carolyn's apartment and sees her having sex in her car with Quagmire. 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

• The episode begins with a costume party, where Brian and Stewie are both dressed as Snoopy from Peanuts,^[1] Quagmire dresses up as Napoleon Dynamite, Peter dresses as Laura Bush, Lois as Michael Dutton Douglas (the teenage boy killed by Laura Bush in 1963), Joe as Mark Spitz and Cleveland as Charlie Chaplin. Woodstock also makes a cameo appearance.^[1]
• Stewie finds a book called Horton Hears Domestic Violence in the Next Apartment and Doesn't Call 911!, a parody of Horton Hears a Who!^[1]
• Cleveland's deadpan exclamation of "...and boom goes the dynamite" after completing intercourse with Carolyn is a reference to a phrase used during Ball State University student Brian Collins's appearance as television sports anchor, which became an Internet sensation.^[2]
• When Brian lies about Lorreta being beautiful his nose grows referencing Pinnochio.

Reception

The episode was watched by 9.2 million viewers, compared to 9.3 million that tuned in to The Simpsons and 7 million that watched King of the Hill for their season openers on Fox.^[3]

References

External links

• Love Blactually at the Internet Movie Database
• "Love Blactually" at TV.com