Since very early on in Family Guy, Meg Griffin (Mila Kunis) has been a punching bag. But this tendency, which was latent from close to the beginning, became excessively pronounced when the show returned after being canceled.
Now it seems that every single character on the show will become a punching bag. The next one to receive this treatment, of a character beating as relentless as it is predictable, is Brian. The pre-cancelation episode "Brian Does Hollywood" planted the seed for this new attitude to Brian: instead of a straight man foil to Peter's lunacy, now Brian is continuously hounded for his mediocre writing and general pretentiousness.
In "Jerome is the New Black," aired a couple of Sundays ago, we find Brian inexplicably concerned that Quagmire doesn't like him. The episode culminates in an unfunnily long speech from Quagmire listing all of Brian's faults, which of course includes a dig at Brian's pretense of being a great writer. Brian comes home devastated, and Stewie soon comes to regret asking Brian to sleep in his room. Then, in "Dog Gone," as if it wasn't bad enough that Brian's novel Faster Than the Speed of Love supposedly didn't sell a single copy even with the endorsement of Oprah's Book Club, we now find that a book club for retards actually loves the book.
I can only speculate which character will be the next target of the punching treatment. But I predict that it will not be funny or at least entertaining.
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