Als je een vaste kijker ben van de Amerikaanse tekenfilm serie Family Guy dan weet je ondertussen het slechte nieuws als. Want Seth Mac Farlane vond het nodig om een zeer geliefd karakter op een hele brute wijze dood te laten gaan, wat zelfs voor Family Guy begrippen behoorlijk hard was. Nu waren velen net als ik woest en zijn een petitie gestart om Brian weer terug te krijgen, veel haat en medeleven kan je volgen op het Twitter kanaal #bringbackbrian. *mompelt iets over Vinni en parvo*

As of the time of this article, the "Bring Back Brian Griffin to Family Guy" petition has reached over 35,000 signatures. The petition also seems to be adding a couple thousand signatures every hour, so the petition is on pace to reach 100,000 signatures in only a couple more days. With more news sites now also reporting on the petition, it could cross 100,000 signatures even faster than anticipated.

A Facebook fan page called "R.I.P. Brian Griffin from Family Guy" tied to the petition has also grown from around 100,000 likes yesterday to over 370,000 likes today. The Facebook fan page is currently on pace to cross a million likes in only a couple of days.

With the case of Vinny the Dog, he doesn't exactly have a lot of Hollywood friends or a recent Best Picture Oscar that he can point to, so it might be easier for fans to get the Fox Broadcasting Company and Seth MacFarlane to respond. In fact, recent news that the voice actor for Vinny the Dog signed a six episode deal with an option for more, sort of suggests that MacFarlane and Fox might have intentionally been waiting to judge fan reaction before deciding if the replacement of Brian Griffin would be permanent.