Family Guy Season Seven - Page 4

He turned up as a hallucination on a TV at the sperm bank, basically giving voice (in character) to one side of an internal conflict that Booth was having. This was a) funny in and of itself b) amusing in that it established Booth as a Family Guy fan and c) important to the plot. "Stewie" continued to appear even after Booth unplugged the TV. When Booth told the story to his partner, anthropologist and all-around genius Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brenan, she immediately connected it with two earlier instances of visual and auditory hallucinations he had experienced. In both of those cases he'd been physically injured and otherwise under duress (knocked unconcious during a hockey game the first time, wounded and held hostage the second) so nobody thought much of the imaginary conversations he was having. (The first with a famous hockey player, the second with a dead Army comrade.) Injury, blood loss and his emotional state were plausible explanations for these things. (Although Booth leans towards a belief that the latter apparition was a genuine ghost.)

But when Booth hallucinates a cartoon character while waiting to give a sperm sample, Brenan realizes that there is something more serious going on. She persuades him to get a CAT scan and a (benign and operable) brain tumor is detected. There is just something irresistably funny about having something like this discovered (and the earlier hallucinations undercut) by Stewie Griffin of all people. I thought it was a brilliant bit. Now I can't wait for the inevitable Bones parody on Family Guy. (I'm sure the Bones actors would be happy to do it. They are very funny and self-mocking on the DVD commentaries.)