i m telling you, i couldn t get out of there fast enough. family guy minus the family dog. new efforts this morning to resurrect brian griffith. newsroom continues now. good morning, i ll carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. opening bell on wall street just about to ring. i m listening. i think it just rang. there it goes. trading is expected to be light this morning. actually, all day, thanksgiving holiday. stocks initially pushed higher yesterday after a landmark deal with iran over the weekend but buying slow throughout the day and markets closed overall with very little change. that s because a lot of people on wall street are getting out of dodge because millions of us are going to hit the road and fly for thanksgiving. but a nasty and deadly storm system could, you know, muck things up, that storm system dumping snow and ice could make
going somewhere. check it out. cnn.com/atl for more on a city hiding in plain sight. family guy fans now talking to social media, trying to force fox to resurrect the beloved character. you know, an alcoholic dog, from the dead. i didn t even know i had a son until today. and, besides, it s not like tracy ever asked for my help. seems like they re all set without you. she has done a fine job creating a child friendly environment. great parenting. alcoholic and womanizing dog brian griffith.
we ll just go with that. to add insult to injury to these viewers, they already replaced, brian, carol. didn t even last a whole episode. later on in the episode, they got a dog named vinnie voiced by the sopranos show tony sriac. i was just thinking of ways they could bring brian back, like that dallas episode. stewie could go to sleep and then he wakes up and brian could walk out of the shower and say it s all a dream. stewie does have a time machine. the reason brian can be saved is because stewie s time machine was broken and brian ultimately died from his injuries. but you never know what s going to happen with that time machine. there s ghosts on the show and all kinds of different stuff. i say they bring brian back later on and have this brains
family guy fans are they re outraged over a fictional character s death. they ve taken it to the next level. in a shocking twist, brian, the family s talking dog, was killed off on sunday night s episode. brian, no! brian, look out! no, brian! oh, my god! brian! brian, can you hear me? holy crap, what the hell happened? that guy sucked. in the last 24 hours alone, thousands have signed on to petitions and facebook pages urging the alcoholic, womanizing dog be brought back to life. cnn entertainment correspondent nischelle turner in new york on that s pretty grizzly. you don t know whether to laugh or cry, carol. come on.
there s a change.org petition. i know that. but what other efforts are out there? first of all, no one saw this one coming. this was definitely a total shock to a lot of people. brian has been a major character on the show since it launched back in 1999. naturally, fans are saying what is going on? like you were saying before. many are hoping to bring brian back. you talked about that online petition that went up on change.org after sunday s episode. it s already gotten more than 33,000 signatures. it says brian griffin was an important part of our experience. he added a witty humor to the show. they will lose viewers if brian griffin is not brought back to the show. it also says they didn t just kill off one of their creations, but the dog that has lived in our home for the last 15 years. they have killed the dog we have all come to love. they killed america s dog. i don t know about that, but we ll go with it, carol.