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"This is just a what if page, what if the 'Married...with Cancer' & 'Dead Dog Walking' Pages where merged as they are a 2 Part Episode." Married...with Cancer and Dead Dog Walking are the first 2 episodes of the 17th season of Family Guy. They aired on September 30, 2018 & October 7, 2018.

Plot
In Part One of a special two-part story, Brian meets and quickly falls in love with a woman named Jess, who reveals she has cancer. After she receives devastating news regarding her diagnosis, Brian proposes marriage to her.

In Part Two, Brian's marriage to Jess is not what he envisioned, especially after her miraculous recovery from cancer. At the suggestion of Peter, Brian lets himself go, causing Jess to make a surprising decision.

In General

 * 1) It's a horrible way to start of a brand new season of Family Guy.
 * 2) Jess is a terrible character. Part of this though is due to how many characters in the show (usually the ones that end up with Brian) are one-dimensional.
 * 3) * Her voice isn't any better.
 * 4) "Even more recently, and not quite as good, on Family Guy..." isn't funny when the show is self-aware.
 * 5) * Really, the self-awareness of the show's decline in quality is one type of joke that seems to be looked down on badly by audiences.

Married...with Cancer

 * 1) *Brian dates again. Considering the sheer amount of episodes that involve this shtick it's gotten to point where it feels like these episodes are nothing but plagiarism of one's own show.
 * 2) Midway into the episode, the episode forces us to feel sorry for Brian for marrying Jess. Even though she never told him she had cancer in the first place. The ending even wants us to have sympathy for Brian when he tries to save Jess from choking on her food.
 * 3) *Then there's the scenes of Brian yelling at the fourth wall on Fox's advertisements.
 * 4) The title about being "married" with "cancer" is a weird moral.
 * 5) It feels like an on and off torture episode for Brian.
 * 6) The ending makes no sense, during Jess' funeral while Brian gives a speech during the funeral, Jess for an unexplained reason somewhat comes back to life after having a heart attack, her mother calls it a miracle, and Brian starts crying because now he is forced to be married to Jess forever.
 * 7) The flatulence sounds get unbelievably annoying, including a part where we hear almost nothing but long 30 seconds of flatulence covering up the dialogue.
 * 8) *It is not cute listening to women farting. It is disgusting.

Dead Dog Walking

 * 1) Jess, ends up having Brian euthanized, showing that she absolutely has no care about anyone.
 * 2) * Jess' Female friend's annoying laugh.
 * 3) ** Brian has been known for horrible things but this is one instance where he didn't do anything wrong.
 * 4) The reason for Jess' death is pathetic. Saying that she "died during the commercial break" is an example of an ass-pull, and a horrible one at that.
 * 5) The disturbing scene of Peter being strangled by someone.
 * 6) * Happens twice. One by the guy who was going to euthanize Brian, and then later Lois.
 * 7) Chris' subplot is awful. He gets vape pens and starts vaping.
 * 8) * Then when Lois comes in and finds out, she grounds him, but later she is seen smoking a cigarette, making her an obvious hypocrite.
 * 9) ** Even worse, there is a scene where Stewie and Chris kiss each other, and in a rather disturbing way.

Married...with Cancer

 * 1) A few scenes are funny, like the boomerang scene for example.
 * 2) Before it's revealed Jess will live, Brian is a likable character towards Jess.
 * 3) The episode marks the end of the Brian-Quagmire feud. Quagmire finally admits to Brian that, despite their differences, he's a good guy and he even calls him a pal.
 * 4) Brian's Snoopy-like "Waaaah".

Dead Dog Walking

 * 1) Jess is never seen again, even though the reason for her death was unfunny blatant self-awareness.
 * 2) Clifford at the pound.
 * 3) Peter is (surprisingly) the only likable character as he does try to help Brian.
 * 4) The Ring joke with Quagmire and the family's argument at the end are pretty funny.