The above image is a visual that has been on my mind for weeks.  This image comes from the animated TV show “Family Guy”.  On a very recent episode of the animated series “Family Guy” Stewie Griffin (he’s the baby) becomes concerned that his best friend Brian the Dog are growing apart.  In despair comes to the false realization that a baby would save their friendship.  Knowing that Brian would never consent to it, Stewie steals Brian’s DNA and impregnates himself. It was in my opinion, hilarious.

The diabolical baby genius Stewie.

The alcoholic talking dog Brian.

I love Family Guy.

The show is smart, and funny though inappropriate at times.  It’s that off color blue comedy that at times delivers low blows which I consider to be riotous.  The irony that a baby would come to the conclusion that having a baby would save a relationship is side splitting funny.  Then there is the part of the story where he actually does it.  In case there is anyone out there who isn’t too familiar with this character, Stewie is the baby of the dysfunction that is the Griffin family.  Smart, and diabolical, Stewie is as sophisticated as he is naive.  He understands science to such a level that he is able to make fantastic inventions like time machines, but still hasn’t quite gotten that mechanics behind sex.  His naive exceptionality makes his adventures all that more entertaining.  In this case when he goes into labor he gives birth to a litter.

The resulting consequences of that disturbing genetic cross was a vicious side splitting situation that left me gasping for air.  Stewie and Brian’s off spring are ravaged with birth defects, and the responsibility of caring for them pushes both of them to near exhaustion.  Two of the puppies try to eat each other, and a puppy that is blind drowns when they go to the park.  As horrible as the subject is the resulting satiric calamities couldn’t help but make me laugh especially when Stewie and Brian came to realize that the only reason that they were having trouble was because both of their moods were offsetting each other, and that the babies actually did more damage than good. Their solution while comical, was nevertheless horrific; they abandon the kids at an animal shelter. Once finished with that Stewie and Brian go back to the way things were before, their ordeal teaching them and us the lesion that children are not the solution to relationship problems, but when a baby thinks that having a baby will fix his friendship it freakin’ hilarious.