Remember Pearl Burton

In last night's first episode of Family Guy (the one preceeding the Almost Live special), Brian dates a significantly older woman. Peter's reaction is completely understandable (he's a tactless idiot). But the way Lois reacts has me wondering. She laughs in much the same way she did when Brian introduced Gilliam. Indeed, the whole family objects to Brian dating an old woman. But it's not the first time Brian dates an old woman. What about Pearl Burton? Pearl Burton had completely white hair. Lois even said "She's beautiful." Granted that Lois said that of Pearl's picture from decades prior, but she certainly must've realized that Pearl would look much older. Though this doesn't quite rise to the level of a nit because it appears Lois never met Pearl in person.

In last night's second episode of Family Guy, Stewie gets to meet Miley Cyrus while Chris becomes friends with the Evil Monkey. The Evil Monkey tells the Griffins his life story, which immediately made me wonder: "How did Chris know the Evil Monkey's back story if this is his first time talking to him?" But then I remembered that in the episode in which Chris told the monkey's back story, he just said "He wasn't always evil" and then we see a cutaway to the day the monkey made partner at his firm and caught his wife in bed with another monkey; I had just assumed that Chris had actually spoken this back story. In this new episode, the Evil Monkey says what happened, rather than just introduce the clip.