Season 9: Episode 5

Season 9: Episode 7

Family Guy (1999)

Season 9: Episode 6

Brian Writes a Bestseller

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Air Date:

2025-12-06

Genre

Animation Comedy

Release Date

1999

End Date

2025

Episode Description

Feeling discouraged with the progress of his writing career, Brian decides to throw in the towel until Stewie become his manager and one of his books hits the bestseller list. But when the fame goes to his head, Brian gets a wake-up call from Bill Maher.

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Cast

Seth MacFarlane

Patrick Warburton

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Death Has a Shadow

I Never Met the Dead Man

Chitty Chitty Death Bang

Mind Over Murder

A Hero Sits Next Door

The Son Also Draws

Brian: Portrait of a Dog

Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater

Love Thy Trophy

Death Is a Bitch

The King Is Dead

I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar

If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'

A Picture Is Worth a 1,000 Bucks

Fifteen Minutes of Shame

Road to Rhode Island

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He's Too Sexy for His Fat

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The Story on Page One

The Thin White Line (1)

Brian Does Hollywood (2)

Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington

One if by Clam, Two if by Sea

And the Wiener Is...

The Kiss Seen Around the World

Mr. Saturday Knight

Fish out of Water

Emission Impossible

To Love and Die in Dixie

Screwed the Pooch

Peter Griffin: Husband, Father... Brother?

Ready, Willing, and Disabled

A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas

Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows

From Method to Madness

Stuck Together, Torn Apart

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North by North Quahog

Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High

Don't Make Me Over

The Cleveland–Loretta Quagmire

Brian the Bachelor

8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter

Breaking Out Is Hard to Do

Model Misbehavior

Peter's Got Woods

Perfect Castaway

Brian Goes Back to College

The Courtship of Stewie's Father

The Fat Guy Strangler

The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz

Brian Sings and Swings

I Take Thee Quagmire

Sibling Rivalry

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Saving Private Brian

Whistle While Your Wife Works

Prick Up Your Ears

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Peter's Daughter

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The Former Life of Brian

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I Dream of Jesus

Road to Germany

Baby Not On Board

The Man with Two Brians

Tales of a Third Grade Nothing

Ocean's Three and a Half

The Juice Is Loose

Not All Dogs Go to Heaven

We Love You, Conrad

Peter's Progress

Road to the Multiverse

Spies Reminiscent of Us

Brian's Got a Brand New Bag

Quagmire's Baby

Jerome Is the New Black

Big Man on Hippocampus

Dial Meg for Murder

Extra Large Medium

Go, Stewie, Go!

Brian Griffin's House of Payne

April in Quahog

The Splendid Source

Something, Something, Something, Dark Side

And Then There Were Fewer

Excellence in Broadcasting

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Halloween on Spooner Street

Baby, You Knock Me Out

Brian Writes a Bestseller

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The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair

Brothers & Sisters

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Seahorse Seashell Party (II)

Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q

Stewie Goes for a Drive

Back to the Pilot

Cool Hand Peter

Meg and Quagmire

Livin' on a Prayer

Tom Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Be Careful What You Fish For

Burning Down the Bayit

You Can't Do That on Television, Peter

Mr. & Mrs. Stewie

Internal Affairs

The Old Man and the Big 'C'

Lois Comes Out of Her Shell

Friends Without Benefits

Jesus, Mary and Joseph!

The Giggity Wife

Valentine's Day in Quahog

12 and a Half Angry Men

No Country Club for Old Men

Finders Keepers

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Quagmire's Quagmire

A Fistful of Meg

Boopa-Dee Bappa-Dee

Into Harmony's Way

Brian's a Bad Father

Secondhand Spoke

Herpe, the Love Sore

The Most Interesting Man in the World

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The Book of Joe

Brian the Closer

The 2,000-Year-Old Virgin

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This Little Piggy

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Stewie Is Enceinte

Dr. C and the Women

Pilling Them Softly

Papa Has a Rollin' Son

Peternormal Activity

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Hot Pocket-Dial

Brokeback Swanson

A Shot in the Dark

Candy, Quahog Marshmallow

The Peanut Butter Kid

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The Heartbreak Dog

The New Adventures of Old Tom

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Bookie of the Year

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How the Griffin Stole Christmas

Passenger Fatty-Seven

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The Finer Strings

The Dating Game

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Saturated Fat Guy

Peter's Lost Youth

The Peter Principal

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A House Full of Peters

Emmy-Winning Episode

Foxx in the Men House

Follow the Money

Three Directors

The D in Apartment 23

Crimes and Meg's Demeanor

Don't Be a Dickens at Christmas

Boy (Dog) Meets Girl (Dog)

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The Woof of Wall Street

'Family Guy' Through The Years

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The Unkindest Cut

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Married... with Cancer (1)

Dead Dog Walking (2)

Big Trouble in Little Quahog

Regarding Carter

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No Giggity, No Doubt

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Island Adventure

Girl, Internetted

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Rich Old Stewie

Movin' In (Principal Shepherd's Song)

Stewie's First Word

The Talented Mr. Stewie

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La Famiglia Guy

Boy's Best Friend

And Then There's Fraud

The Marrying Kind

Customer of the Week

Who's Brian Now?

Young Parent Trap

Meg Goes to College

Tales of Former Sports Glory

Brief Encounter

Cootie & The Blowhard

Peterschmidt Manor

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The Fatman Always Rings Twice

Christmas Crime

The Lois Quagmire

Hard Boiled Meg

Prescription Heroine

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Girlfriend, Eh?

The Jersey Bore

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Teacher's Heavy Pet

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A Few More Ways to Die in the West

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