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"Brian Writes a Bestseller" is the sixth episode of the ninth season of the animated comedy series ''Family Guy''. It premiered on Fox in the United States on November 21, 2010. "Brian Writes a Bestseller" follows anthropomorphic dog Brian after he publishes a self-help book that becomes an immediate success, following the failure of his novel, ''Faster Than the Speed of Love''. Once he hires Stewie as his publicist, however, Brian becomes increasingly self-centered, and fires him when he continues to botch his schedule. However, when Brian goes on ''Real Time with Bill Maher'', he ends up getting a wake-up call from Maher himself. The episode was written by Gary Janetti and directed by Joseph Lee. It received high praise from critics for its storyline and many cultural references. According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed in 6.59 million homes in its original airing. The episode featured guest performances by Dana Gould, Arianna Huffington, Christine Lakin, Bill Maher, Katie Sah and Ashley Tisdale, along with several recurring guest voice actors for the series. It was first announced at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International. The plot may be unintentionally based on the real-life 1969 romance novel hoax ''Naked Came the Stranger'', which was deliberately poorly written by 24 coauthors in an attempt to make a commentary on the literary content of the top-selling books of their time. The average reader completely missed this point and the book became a top-seller itself. ==Plot== Receiving hundreds of packages in the mail containing unsold copies of his failed novel ''Faster Than the Speed of Love'', Brian is convinced that he isn't meant to be a writer and gives up. While reading ''The New York Times'', Brian discovers that a self-help book is the highest-selling book on its bestseller list, and after some persuasion by Stewie, decides to write his own in order to prove that self-help books are useless. Finishing it in three hours and titling it ''Wish It, Want It, Do It'', Brian publishes the book, and it immediately becomes a commercial success. Brian decides to hire Stewie (because of his astounding connections that helped publish the book) as his publicist when the book becomes popular. Going to dinner later that night with Stewie, Brian reflects on his newfound fame and over time he becomes an arrogant egomaniac to Stewie. He becomes angered when Stewie botches his dinner reservations and punishes Stewie by making him walk by himself to the hotel. Seeking to reconcile his relationship with Brian, Stewie books him an appearance on the talk show ''Real Time with Bill Maher''. During the program, Stewie and Brian are informed that the show's topic and its guests have been changed two hours before the show begins. Blaming it all on Stewie, Brian again becomes angered at him. Brian dismisses Stewie and continues on to the show's panel. While on the show, Bill Maher, along with other panelists Arianna Huffington and Dana Gould, begin to criticize Brian's book, stating that it doesn't meet the expectations of the public and is shallow, repetitive, unhelpful and banal. Brian attempts to defend it, but ultimately confesses that he wrote the book in a day, believing that it would only sell because it is "crap". By that point Maher loses all respect for Brian, stating that a real writer would stand by their work despite what others think. When trying to think of a way to regain popularity, Brian urinates himself on the set, prompting Maher to angrily chase him off the program with a newspaper. Humiliated, Brian attempts to apologize to Stewie, but ends up with the idea that Stewie caused all the problems and that he was rude to expect too much from Stewie. Realizing that this is going to be as good an "apology" as it would get and that Brian has learned nothing from all of this, Stewie in revenge, bluntly tells him that he can't write, promptly ending the episode. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brian Writes a Bestseller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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