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* FridgeHorror: Brenda was never seen again after this episode, leaving it unknown if she learned anything from her experience, turned her life around, or ended up even worse with a child she was too mentally-feeble to take care of alone. In many real-life situations, the life of an abuse victim is ''not'' solved by the murder of their abuser, and they're more likely to [[HisStoryRepeatsItself end up with someone just as bad, if not worse]]. She finally appears again in season 18 -- in the afterlife, alongside every other character that has died over the length of the series. Hence, it is left ambiguous of what happened to get her there...
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* FridgeHorror: Brenda was never seen again after this episode, leaving it unknown if she learned anything from her experience, turned her life around, or ended up even worse with a child she was too mentally-feeble to take care of alone. In many real-life situations, the life of an abuse victim is ''not'' solved by the murder of their abuser, and they're more likely to [[HisStoryRepeatsItself end up with someone just as bad, if not worse]]. She finally appears again in season Season 18 -- in the afterlife, alongside every other character that has died over the length of the series. Hence, it is left ambiguous of what happened to get her there...
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* InferredHolocaust: Since Brenda never developed the courage to defend herself from Jeff, nor even accept the reality of their relationship, her cycle of abuse will never end. Even though she and the baby are safe because of Jeff's death, there's nothing stopping her from looking for someone [[ReplacementGoldfish identical to him]] or searching for a dead man for closure or a reunion. The future of the baby also comes to mind; will Brenda teach it domestic violence because of her [[TurnOutLikeHisFather romanticized delusion of Jeff]], or will she lose her delusion of him over time and provide it with a good future? The season 18 episode "Coma Guy" seems to have provided answer: ''[[BusCrash she died]]'' as she was seen on the boat full of dead characters, which also leads to how she died.
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* InferredHolocaust: Since Brenda never developed the courage to defend herself from Jeff, nor even accept the reality of their relationship, her cycle of abuse will never end. Even though she and the baby are safe because of Jeff's death, there's nothing stopping her from looking for someone [[ReplacementGoldfish identical to him]] or searching for a dead man for closure or a reunion. The future of the baby also comes to mind; will Brenda teach it domestic violence because of her [[TurnOutLikeHisFather romanticized delusion of Jeff]], or will she lose her delusion of him over time and provide it with a good future? The season Season 18 episode "Coma Guy" seems to have provided answer: ''[[BusCrash she died]]'' as she was seen on the boat full of dead characters, which also leads to how she died.
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* UncertainAudience: Big time. This episode cannot decide whether it's supposed to be a VerySpecialEpisode or a satire of one, bouncing back and forth between the two throughout its runtime, thus making it feel very inconsistent, hollow, and hypocritical at best. Considering this show stars a DysfunctionalFamily who constantly abuse each other (especially [[ButtMonkey Meg]]), making a VerySpecialEpisode about domestic abuse and violence against women of all things and having ''Quagmire'' (a rapist sex maniac who always objectifies women) of all characters be the hero of the story feels very counterintuitive, to say the least. Not helped by the fact that, although Brenda and her situation are taken somewhat seriously, the one-note nature of Jeff, herself, and their relationship, along with the episode feeling the need to [[PlayedForLaughs play it for laughs]] half of the time, like the RunningGag of Jeff yelling at and/or assaulting Brenda for dumbest of reasons (like not getting a joke on tv), in the style of ''Family Guy'''s usual BlackComedy, makes the serious moments involving them...well.... hard to take seriously.
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* UncertainAudience: Big time. This episode cannot decide whether it's supposed to be a VerySpecialEpisode or a satire of one, bouncing back and forth between the two throughout its runtime, thus making it feel very inconsistent, hollow, and hypocritical at best. Considering this show stars a DysfunctionalFamily who constantly abuse each other (especially [[ButtMonkey Meg]]), making a VerySpecialEpisode about domestic abuse and violence against women of all things and having ''Quagmire'' (a rapist sex maniac who always objectifies women) of all characters be the hero of the story feels very counterintuitive, to say the least. Not helped by the fact that, although Brenda and her situation are taken somewhat seriously, the one-note nature of Jeff, herself, and their relationship, along with the episode feeling the need to [[PlayedForLaughs play it for laughs]] half of the time, like the RunningGag of Jeff yelling at and/or assaulting Brenda for dumbest of reasons (like not getting a joke on tv), in the style of ''Family Guys'' usual BlackComedy, makes the serious moments involving them...well.... hard to take seriously.
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