It was revealed a while back that Family Guy was to kill off one of the members of the Griffin family, and the death occured in the episode that aired in the US on November 24th.
Spoilerphobes may want to look away now...
Brian Griffin, the family dog, was killed after being hit by a car.
In all fairness, this probably surprised very few people. For starters, Seth MacFarlane had made it public that the family would be getting a new dog (described as "edgier" without any sense of irony - Poochie anyone?), voiced by The Sopranos' Tony Sirico.
And also, it was known for a long time that this would be the death episode, and it was called The Life Of Brian.
Stewie Griffin could have used his time machine to change Brian's fate, but dismantled it earlier in the episode and was unable to find replacement parts.
Sirico's character, Vinnie, was introduced later in the episode.
Family guy has not previously been scared to kill off characters or make big changes - famously every character that was killed off in the Agatha Christie parody episode remained dead.
However, given the sense of humour the show has, coupled with the media fanfare this has caused, it wouldn't be a surprise if the next episode opened with Brian back, Vinnie gone, and no mention ever made of this again...
The episode will air on BBC Three at a later date.
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