Road to the North Pole

Season 9, Episode 7, Aired

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Brian and Stewie take their adventures to the North Pole to seek out Santa Claus.
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  • Family Guy Road to the North Pole

    10
    "Perfect"
    By JordanWelch, May 10, 2012
    This episode had great sound mixing.

  • Christmas review 10: Alright Christmas special

    7.0
    "Good"
    By fsaenz0125, Dec 28, 2011
    Brian and Stewie take their adventures to the North Pole to seek out Santa Claus.I thought this episode was decent. I could have enjoyed it but the second part kinda ruins it because we get more unneed violence scenes. Stewie attacking that family wasn't even funny at all. I do like the song in the second part though. I like the last few minutes as well. I laughed so hard at the part when Stewie makes a reference to Curious George and SpongeBob SqudarePants. Cleveland's cameo was funny. Overall a decent Christmas special 7/10moreless

  • It was okay

    6.0
    "Fair"
    By jmbsonic555, Oct 10, 2011
    Brian begrudgingly takes Stewie to the mall, only to get the brush-off from Santa. As a result, Stewie vows to kill Santa and forces Brian to drive him to the North Pole. Brian tries to trick him by taking him to a carnival themed to Santa's Village but Stewie fails to fall for the ruse. Stewie hitches a ride with a truck driver to Canada with Brian in pursuit. When Stewie accidentally fires a flare pistol in the truck causing a major wreck, Brian and Stewie find themselves stranded until a passer-by offers them the use of his snowmobile. Driving until they run out of gas, they take shelter in an old cabin and push on the next morning on foot until they reach Santa's Workshop only to find a vast toxin-spewing industrial complex. Santa turns out to be a sickly old man, the elves deformed from the toxins and inbreeding in an attempt to keep up with the toy demand and the reindeer carnivorous monsters. When Santa collapses, Brian and Stewie attempt to make the deliveries themselves but things go horribly wrong when they are forced to break into their first house, beat the owners senseless and tie up their daughter only to find they had the wrong house. Everyone else awakes to find out they received no presents. In a final attempt to save the holiday, they go on television to plead for the world to show some restraint in their gift requests, limiting everyone to one gift each. Everyone agrees to the request and by the following year Santa has recovered and the elves rejuvenated.

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  • The first 25-30 minutes of this 1-hour Christmas episode was good and then after that, it was HORRIBLE!!! The worst Family Guy Christmas episode I've ever seen

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    By tigerdude22, Jun 03, 2011
    I must admit that the first 25-30 minutes of "Road to the North Pole" wasn't bad at all, probably the only scene I didn't like from there was Quagmire's nephew that has cancer, other than that, it was very funny and really good Christmas episode (the first half at least). I liked the cutaway with Winnie the Pooh. I also loved the song "All I Want For Christmas" everybody sang at the very beginning of this 1-hour episode. I also laughed very hard when Peter was sitting on Santa's lap at the mall. After the scene with Brian and Stewie finding Santa's work factory, things just got horrible and it wasn't even funny anymore. Come on!!! the other half of this special was dark and it wasn't funny at all. How does Seth MacFarlane think that Santa Claus being sick and coughing out blood after singing that dark song was funny? Seriously. What's so funny about Stewie cutting off that elf's arm and using that arm to attract the reindeers to fly. If the little kids watch this episode, they will be traumatized, don't let them watch this special. What is so funny about Stewie beating the father and mother with a bat and tying up the little girl with a duct tape. What the heck was Seth MacFarlane thinking?. All in all, the first 25-30 minutes was absolutely hilarious and the plot was good and then after the other half, I wanted to go to the creators and yell at them so much for making an awful Christmas episode. If it weren't for the first half, this episode would have gotten a 1. 4/10moreless

  • ♫♪ I just want some colored Easterc eggs! I want a blu-ray of "The Wiz", we odn't know what Xmas is, we have sth else called Kishkev Floofeer! All this happy wishes, and lots of Xmas cheer, it's all I really want this Year!♫♪moreless

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    By doguineta, May 30, 2011
    Okay, so first of all, props for the first song. It was amazing. I am stioll singing is once in a while and it0's almost February, so props.

    the episode starts with the awesome song That's all I really want this year, and then Stewie asks Brian to take him to the North Pole to give Santa his list. Brian takes him to an amusement park thinking it will fool him, but fails. Stewie hitches a ride with a truckdriver, and when the truck crashes and burns Brian's car the have to continue walking.

    Sio when they reach the North Pole, it's a nuclear plant where Santa is nearly dead cause everyone in the world is greedy, the elfs had to inbreed to keep up with the demand and the rainndeer are carnivores (or elfvores). Brian & Stewie try to save Xmas, but on their first house, they kill the parents of a child.

    So Brian takes Santa to channel 5 news and tells everyone to ask for 1 thing per year so that Santa can survivie. Everyone said they can surive with one present and the next Xmas everyone gets what they wanted.

    Overall: Awesome 1st song, some crepy stuff on the workshop and a nice lesson in the end. It deserves a 9/10.moreless
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    • Near the end of the episode, Cleveland is watching the Quahog Channel 5 News, which he shouldn't have been able to do since he is in Stoolbend, Virginia.

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    • Peter: Joe, did you get any Christmas presents?!
      Joe: NO!
      Quagmire: Me neither!
      Mort: I got eight mediocre things.

    • Ron MacFarlane: Hi, I'm Ron MacFarlane, Seth MacFarlane's father, and I'm here to tell you about a very special Christmas in Quahog. Kenny Rogers was supposed to be here, but I think he's dead. Anyway, Seth came out of my penis, and now he made this.

    • Stewie:: You can't joke me when it come to Santa Claus, Brian! There is a ferris wheel here and a guy hosing vomit! Nobody vomits at the North Pole, except for Santa's wife, because she has an eating disorder!
      Brian:: What?
      Stewie:: Yeah, because he can have anyone he wants and she knows that!

    • Stewie:: This can't be it. This can't be Santa's workshop. This looks like Bridgeport, Connecticut.
      Brian:: Oh boy, get ready for the letters.
      (cuts to a man from Bridgeport writing a hate letter)
      Bridgeport Guy:: "Dear Family Guy Bastards, Who the hell do you think you are?! I'll have you know that Bridgeport is among the world leaders in abandoned buildings, shattered glass, boarded-up windows, wild dogs and gas stations without pumps. So eat my s**t, Jew writers!"

    • Stewie:: What the hell? Why isn't the line moving?!
      Brian:: I dunno. It's always the same thing; some fat kid sitting on Santa's lap taking all day.
      (cuts to Peter sitting on the mall Santa's lap)
      Peter:: (giggles) And I want a Charles in Charge lunchbox and I want a Magna-Doodle, and a new Uno game on a-'cause I lost the "Draw Two" card, and I want a pet animal that's half chinchilla and half mink, 'cause it'd be really soft and I could call it "Chink" and that's okay.

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    • Awards and Nominations: - Jim Fitzpatrick and Patrick S. Clark won the 2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation.

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