- Road to Rhode Island
Infobox Television episode
Title =Road to Rhode Island
Series =Family Guy
Caption =Brian and Stewie with Brian's dead, stuffed mother.
Season =2
Episode =13
Airdate =May 30 ,2000
Production =2ACX12
Writer =Gary Janetti
Director =Dan Povenmire
Guests =Sam Waterson ,Brian Doyle-Murray ,Victoria Principal
Episode list =List of Family Guy episodes
Season list = Infobox Family Guy Season 2
Prev =Fifteen Minutes of Shame
Next =Let’s Go to the Hop"Road to Rhode Island" is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated series "
Family Guy ". It is the 20th episode of "Family Guy " to be aired. It guest-starsVictoria Principal as Dr. Amanda Rebecca andBrian Doyle-Murray as Luke (the farmer). This episode is included in the ""DVD , where it includes a previously removed scene withOsama bin Laden . The episode was nominated for anEmmy , for Outstanding Program.Plot summary
The episode begins with Brian visiting his psychiatrist, where he reveals that he was born in a
puppy mill and the circumstances under which he was taken from his mother as a puppy. Afterwards, Brian volunteers to pick up Stewie from his vacation at his grandparents' summer home inPalm Springs, California , where Stewie frames a maid to amuse himself at dinner. At the airport bar, Brian gets very drunk and when Stewie comes to retrieve him their plane tickets are stolen. They stop at a rundown motel. Stewie tries calling home, but fails because he believes his phone number is 867-5309. During the middle of the night, Stewie can't get any sleep because of a gang meeting going on in the other room. Stewie, getting annoyed, yells "He's wearing a wire" then one of the gang members shoots the other man. The next day, they have to escape and hotwire a car because theircredit card was rejected. In order to get home Stewie and Brian masquerade as crop dusters in order to steal a plane, which they immediately wreck. As the pair continuehitchhiking back to Quahog, they pass by a puppy mill nearAustin, Texas , Brian's birthplace. Upon arrival they discover that Brian's mother was stuffed and turned into a table by the puppy mill owners as a memorial. With Stewie's reluctant help, Brian gives his mother a proper burial. While eulogizing Brian's mother, Stewie gives an unusual retelling of the Biblical story ofAbraham andIsaac . The pair eventually complete their journey home by riding in an openboxcar where they perform a musical duet.Meanwhile, Lois urges Peter to watch relationship videos with her, but the videos turn out to be
pornography hosted by Dr. Amanda Rebecca (who says that this part of the tape is only for the men) thus leading to the porno. She strips in her videos and says sexual phrases. Peter is initially reluctant but later becomes addicted to the videos, much to Lois' chagrin. She manages to get herself on the end of one of the tapes in blacklingerie and manages to entice Peter. While kissing, Peter rewinds the tape, playing the part of Lois taking her robe off over and over.When Stewie and Brian return home, Brian is thankful to Stewie for all he's done, and asks Stewie if there's anything he can do to repay him. At first it appears that Stewie wishes to make him his servant by providing an example with an episode of "
The Brady Bunch ", though it turns out that Stewie wants Brian to tape that episode for him.Notes
This is the first road adventure featuring Brian and Stewie as the main characters. The second is “
Road to Europe ”; the third is “Road to Rupert "; a fourth is expected in 2008, titled "Road to Germany”.This has been referred to by Seth MacFarlane as “everybody’s favorite episode” mainly by its revelation of Brian’s history and using the song and dance number to show the bickering yet close relationship of Brian and Stewie.
This episode includes a special commentary done by Seth MacFarlane in the characters of Brian and Stewie. [http://tvshowsondvd.com/releaseinfo.cfm?ReleaseID=4129|link]
Censorship
* A scene in this episode featuring
Osama bin Laden aired only once: Stewie sings “The Good Ship Lollipop" to distract airport baggage handlers from noticing the weapons in his luggage, then remarks, “Let’s hope Osama bin Laden doesn’t know show tunes.” The camera pans to show bin Laden singing “I Hope I Get It” from the musical "A Chorus Line " as his luggage goes through the detector. This episode aired more than a year "before" the September 11th terrorist attacks. The entire scene was taken out of the episode in subsequent airings and the Region 1 “Volume 1” "Family Guy"DVD set (although the scene remains intact up until Stewie’s singing in the Season 2 DVD set for Regions 2 and 4), but can be seen on the "Family Guy: Freakin’ Sweet" DVD as well as the iTunes release of the episode. In the DVD commentary,Seth MacFarlane mentions that the moral is that “theFBI should watch "Family Guy" more often.”
* An uncensored version aired on BBC 3 in the UK on 3rd of February and the 3rd of August 2008.
*Edits made in syndication:
**During the first porn video scene, Dr. Rebecca's line “I hope you like bigbreasts , because mine are so big this itty bra can barely contain them” was cut, and her cleavage was almost completely erased.
**The scene where Stewie tries to remember the phone number to the Griffin house throughbrute-force search was cut.References
* S. Callaghan, “Road to Rhode Island.” Family Guy: The Official Episode Guide Seasons 1–3. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 90–95.
* A. Delarte, “Nitpicking Family Guy: Season 2” in "Bob’s Poetry Magazine", 2.May 2005: 20 [http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs02My.pdf http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs02My.pdf]External links
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*tv.com episode|25460
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