His mother was named Biscuit, his father was a dog named Coco.
It is shown in " Brian & Stewie" that he keeps a gun just in case he wants to commit suicide.īrian was born on a farm in Austin, Texas, in a litter of five puppies. In " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One", it is revealed he has a Ziggy tattoo. In " 420", he actually does a whole dance to the song A Bag of Weed. He has also made references to either buying, being in possession of, or smoking marijuana in numerous episodes. Brian discovered that his cocaine habit stemmed from his mother abandoning him for which he saw a therapist. He is a smoker, an alcoholic and recovered cocaine addict. He has also written a novel, although has made little progress other than the title Faster Than the Speed of Love, and a synopsis similar to the film "Iron Eagle III", for which Stewie and Lois mock him, and this subject has since been brought up several times throughout the series. He is also an avid writer, having once been invited to write for The New Yorker, although he was fired once the magazine learned he did not graduate from college. He loves to sing and can imitate a barbershop quartet without accompaniment. Brian speaks fluent French and Tagalog, and is competent in Spanish. In " Brian Goes Back to College", it is revealed that Brian went to Brown University in Rhode Island, but did not graduate.īrian has a cultured background he loves opera and jazz, and is a fan of John Coltrane. On several occasions, Brian has had to explain Peter's inability to do various things, such as haggling over prices in " Chitty Chitty Death Bang". Peter is his best friend, despite Brian's vastly superior intelligence. In " I Never Met the Dead Man", " Jerome Is the New Black", and in the afterparty of Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, he used the phrase "Whose leg do you have to hump to get a dry martini around here?", which has become a recurring mantra for him, despite only using it three times. He also possesses various anthropomorphic qualities, such as the ability to speak intelligently, drive a car, and walk bipedally. Kotaro Watanabe (in the Japanese universe of " Road to the Multiverse")īrian Griffin is an 8-year old talking white Labrador who has lived with the Griffin family since Peter picked him up as a stray as shown in " Brian: Portrait of a Dog".