", spoken by Brian's mother Mandy to the crowd assembled outside her house, has been voted by readers of BOL. com the funniest line in film history.

Brian's war against Máel Mórda and Sihtric was to be inextricably connected with his complicated marital relations, in particular his marriage to Gormlaith, Máel Mórda's sister and Sihtric's mother, who had been in turn the wife of Amlaíb Cuarán, king of Dublin and York, then of Máel Sechnaill, and finally of Brian.

Brian's mother was Bé Binn inion Urchadh, daughter of Urchadh mac Murchadh ( d. 945 ), king of Maigh Seóla in west Connacht.

Whilst all parties were Christians, when their king Ivar and his sons took refuge in the monastery, Brian desecrated it and killed them in the sanctuary ; the Vikings of Limerick had earlier killed Brian's mother.

Whilst the true identity of Brian's father was never made public, his mother was a teenage waitress named Frances Connolly who left him in a Glasgow hospital as an infant whilst possibly suffering effects of meningitis.

Upon arrival, they discover that Brian's mother was taxidermied and turned into a table by the puppy mill owners as a memorial.

While eulogizing Brian's mother, Stewie gives an unusual retelling of the Biblical story of Abraham and Isaac.

Other prominent characters included Hammond's hard-faced widow and the mother of the three brothers, Mary ( Jean Anderson ), who is determined to continue exercising her own influence over her family, Brian's shrewish wife Ann ( Hilary Tindall ) and David's girlfriend then wife Jill ( Gabrielle Drake ).

The scenes shown included the shepherds gathering for Jesus's birth, which would have been at the very start of the movie ; a segment showing the kidnap of Pilate's wife ( a large woman played by John Case ); a scene introducing hardline Zionist Otto, leader of the Judean People's Front ( played by Eric Idle ); and a scene in which Pilate's wife alerts Otto to Brian's capture.

Though Charlie also cares for her, he disapproves of Brian's relationship with her and very reluctantly decides to take her with them to Brazil.

* The Road to Samarcand is one of Patrick O ' Brian's early novels ( 1954 ) about an American teenage boy, the son of recently deceased missionary parents, who travels from China with a small party on the Silk Road en route to the West.

In 1959, Marks and Brian Wilson's youngest brother Carl had begun to develop their own style of playing electric guitars Brian realized that the combination of Carl and David's playing brought a rock guitar sound to his original compositions, and the two teenagers participated in Brian's first songwriting efforts that led to the band's 1963 hit single " Surfer Girl ".

Brian's 2004 album Gettin ' in Over My Head features Carl's vocal from the unreleased Beach Boys song " Soul Searchin '" over a new backing track ( the Don Was-recorded elements and the other Beach Boys ' voices are absent ), and in 2010 bandmate Al Jardine's first solo album, A Postcard From California, features a similarly reconstructed track, " Don't Fight The Sea ".

He also praised Brian's adventures with Stewie calling them, " center of many of the show's best bits ".

Haque later made a list titled " Family Guy: Stewie and Brian's Greatest Adventures ", where he stated that " Brian and Stewie paired together has always been a winning formula for Family Guy ".

This Mike Chapman-produced reunion foundered quickly due to problems with Brian's voice, and Brian went back to performing with his band, " The New Sweet ".

In his 2008 review, Ahsan Haque of IGN rated the episode an 8 / 10, saying that the episode shows Brian's love for Lois in " a perfectly believable and somewhat heartfelt earnest manner ".

The episode continues where " The Thin White Line " left off, introduced with a fake " Previously on Family Guy ..." sequence showing action-packed events which never actually occurred, with the only factual item being Brian's leaving in " The Thin White Line ".

Following protests from listeners, including the mother of Kirsty MacColl, the censorship was lifted.

A proposal at the end of the campaign to send him to a Jesuit college in Brussels was dropped due to the protests of his mother.

Whilst receiving a highly positive reception from the pro-British islanders ( who regard her mother as a heroine ), her reception in Argentina provoked protests and demonstrations ( including the cry " your mother is a war criminal !").

When the daughter protests, her mother announces that she would rather have the Devil himself courting her daughter than the young Christian.

With the rapid deterioration of relations with the mother country after 1770, the statue became a magnet for the Bowling Green protests ; in 1773, the city passed an anti-graffiti and anti-desecration law to counter vandalism against the monument, and a protective cast-iron fence, which still stands, was built along the perimeter of the park.

Despite Amanda's protests, the mother puts General out at night.

Ivanova protests rousingly, saying she does not want to be left out of the fight ; it reminds her of when her mother committed suicide.

She explains that protests from her mother caused them to elope.

Rathbone went to Kensington High School, London, and later studied in Somerville College, Oxford, over the protests of her mother.

An angry Emma protests that Solomon never touched her, but Claire refuses to listen, causing Emma to begin disliking her mother and grow distant from her.

Despite her protests, Nikolai initially remains with Diane as she tries to find her mother, but they eventually part ways.

Her mother orders her to go back to the school to retrieve the coat, despite Maggie's protests that the school is locked at night.

Stan takes an instant dislike to the fish due to its uncomfortable habit of constantly staring at him, but his mother dismisses his protests and makes him take it to his room, where it continues to stare at him most of the time and makes it hard for him to sleep.

This despite his own protests and those of his mother and sisters.

Tryphaena decided that Cleopatra IV should die and over the protests of her husband summoned some soldiers and had Cleopatra IV murdered in the sanctuary of Daphne in Antioch In his comprehensive website about Ptolemaic genealogy, Christopher Bennett also notes the possibility that Cleopatra IV from her brief marriage to Antiochus IX Cyzicenus may have been the mother of the later Seleucid monarch Antiochus X Eusebes (" the Pious "), who would go on to marry Cleopatra IV's younger sister, Cleopatra Selene

The protests could be harrowing: Wolfe's mother endured verbal and physical abuse, and death threats forced her to go to the clinic armed and wearing a bulletproof vest.

Goapele's New York-born Israeli Jewish mother Noa had been attending protests since the age of 12.

Baby Chloe ( later renamed Rebecca ) is subsequently given up for adoption, despite protests from Martin's mother Pauline ( Wendy Richard ).

After his domineering mother suffers a stroke and is left a quadraplegic, Carl marries Sophie, despite her father's protests and the final scene from their wedding is reminiscent of the last supper.

* Soldier's mother protests near Bush ranch, by Deb Riechmann, Associated Press, August 7, 2005

He's defiant of the other mother, but seems to tremble at the thought of being stuck in the Other Mother's world.

Empress Dowager He's mother Lady Xian and brother He Miao ( 何苗 ) also opposed the plan, reasoning that they owed much to the eunuchs.

Abdo's mother, Tamam, said " He's a small child who can't even look after himself.

Once, around the age of five when Lucky's mother came with him to receive Mehmood at the airport, Lucky didn't recognize his father and on seeing him said, " He's the film comedian Mehmood!

Peppermint Patty mentions her mother over the course of the television special He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown, but Schulz repeatedly stated that the situations presented in the cartoon adaptations are not canonical to the strip.

When Rosario was one year old, her mother married Greg Dawson, a construction worker, who " loved and raised Rosario as his own daughter " ( Dawson has stated that " He's always been my dad ").

He's a bit of a pervert, but sensitive about his mother Boraate ( Borate ).

He's a magician who travels with Alena to look after her because he promised her late mother to do so.

He's also a fan of Barbra Streisand ( as when his mother told him to not make her take away his collection of Streisand's songs when she thought he was lying about the aliens invading the town ).

He's separated from Emilio's mother and, since he has no place to live, he made himself one with his son.

He's the son of Karl and Mary von Shrakenberg, the younger brother of Johan, older brother to Johanna von Shrakenberg, and he has two other twin sisters named Eva and Ava ; both his mother and brother died prior to the start of the book.

He's promised to allow Jim to read the paper before he turns it in but unfortunately his mother shows up at the loft, snoops on his computer, and e-mails the document to Sid Graham, a bigshot publisher in New York.