Road to Rhode Island Considered to be the episode that started it all, Brian and Stewie go on an adventure together for the first time as wily would-be enemies, starting their ongoing friendship with a road trip down to Texas in order to scope out the farm where Brian was originally born and adopted out of. The episode begins with Brian seeking therapy for dealing with his abandonment issues. Whilst picking Stewie up from his grandparents’ summer home, Brian elects to take him to the airport and fly home with him. Unresolved mother issues are dealt with in the form of getting drunk, which causes Brian and Stewie to miss their flight home. Brian decides to visit his mother and confront her about the abandonment issues, resulting in getaways from angry, unpaid hotel supervisors and boxcar musicals. With the realization that his mother had been put to sleep and become a coffee table in the home of her owners, Brian decides to tuck tail and head home. Road to Europe The second “Road to” episode came in the form of a European adventure for the ages, with Stewie’s infatuation with a British children’s program, the Jolly Farm Revue. While Brian is supposedly babysitting him, Stewie decides to take a trip over to London so that he may live on Jolly Farm. Brian quickly arrives just as Stewie is boarding a transatlantic flight, only to realize that their destination was actually Saudi Arabia instead of England. One of their signature musical numbers allows them to make way for a getaway after they steal a camel. After hijacking a hot air balloon and traveling Vatican City to tick off the Pope, and hitching a ride on a train to travel to London, where Stewie’s dreams are crushed once he sees the gritty reality behind the television program he so admires. Brian cheers him up with offers of “taking a dump” in host Mother Maggie’s shoes. Road to Rupert Brian makes a costly mistake while overseeing the Griffin family’s yard sale, in which he accidentally sells Rupert, the beloved teddy bear of Stewie. Yet another way to tell of their devout friendship, Brian cannot tolerate the thought of Stewie being so sad, so he devises a plan to get Rupert back by tracking down where the man who purchased the stuffed toy is moving to. Heading to Aspen, Colorado, Brian and Stewie rent a helicopter thanks to their usual song and dance routine. Arriving at the man’s doorstep, he refuses to give Rupert back to Stewie until the duo challenge him to a ski-off. They lose handedly, in which Stewie simply steals Rupert back and they car-jack a ride back to Quahog, Rhode Island via gunpoint. Road to Germany In another of their many exploits, Stewie and Brian set off on course for another adventure but with a small twist involved for the first time. Stewie has always thrived on his creations, and is no stranger to time travel. With Mort Goldman accidentally using Stewie’s time machine by confusing it for a toilet, Stewie and Brian must travel back in time to find him. Arriving in pre-wartime Warsaw, Poland, the duo must locate Mort amongst his relatives before the Nazis invade. All goes to hell when their plan falls through at the realization that they are out of uranium to power the time machine. Plotting to find some of the substance in a secret Nazi nuclear testing facility, the trio has a brief run-in with Hitler before they are able to return home, safe and sound. Road to the Multiverse In their boldest adventure in the history of the show, Stewie and Brian decides that journeys through time are of no interest compared to going through multiple dimensions where anything can happen. After winning the Quahog Clam Day Fair by producing a pig with huge muscles, Stewie is requested by Brian to let him know his secret. The secret lies in the Multiverse, where the coupling stroll through universes where Christianity never existed and thus science reigns supreme, a universe where all of the characters are produced at the hands of Walt Disney and are anti-Semitic as a result, universes that include shows such as the Flintstones and Robot Chicken, a universe where everyone has two heads (one happy, one depressed), and more. When they arrive in a universe where every human is a dog and every dog is a human, they make their getaway to their actual universe while taking Human Brian with them... who is promptly hit by a car. Road to the North Pole Stewie has a strong desire to seek out Santa Claus and make some Christmas demands, begging Brian to take him to the mall. When Brian finally obliges, Stewie is brushed off by the less-than-eager mall Santa. Vowing to kill Santa, Stewie then makes Brian take him to the North Pole. Brian attempts to appease Stewie by delivering him to a shady knock-off carnival. Stewie sees through this kind-hearted try by Brian, which causes Brian to admit to Stewie that the North Pole is a façade and that Santa is not real. Undeterred, Stewie makes the trek to the North Pole with Brian in hot pursuit. It turns out Santa does exist, but he is a sickly old man with a sweatshop full of deformed, inbred elves in order to keep up with supply and demand, thanks to the greed of people everywhere. When Santa collapses, it is up to Brian and Stewie to make everything right and deliver gifts worldwide, which they fail miserable at. Brian & Stewie Perhaps the most unorthodox episode of Family Guy’s history revolves around Brian and Stewie getting locked into a bank vault while Brian is there sifting through his goods inside his personal security box at the bank. Unfortunately for the duo, they visit on a Saturday and get locked inside of the vault where no one can hear them, causing Stewie to soil his diaper in the process. Following a gross-out segment where Brian must “clean” Stewie’s diaper so that he does not develop a rash, the two bond over a bottle of champagne that is later revealed to be reserved for the day before Brian takes his life with a loaded gun, which is also hidden in his storage box. The two contemplate mortality and the purpose of life while locked in the vault together, coming to the conclusion that their friendship is enough to get them by. It is regarded as a heavy-handed sentimental episode by the fan-base, as there is no secondary story to complement their segment. Back to the Pilot When Brian decides that he has this urge to find a bone that he buried years ago, Stewie lets him know that it is possible to go back in time and find out exactly where he put it. Brian obliges and the pair travel back to the pilot episode of Family Guy, allowing the two to crack wise on the poor animation and voice-acting that was done while McFarlane and Co. were experimenting with character development. Things seem to go just fine until they arrive back home, as Brian told his past self about the tragedy of 9/11. A civil war breaks out at the hands of George W. Bush, who subsequently lost the Presidential election in 2004. Stewie and Brian continually go back in time to correct everything, only making things worse and worse as it goes along.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 21:46:15 +0000
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