Family Guy

This episode had great sound mixing.

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 7/10

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.

6.0/10

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. 4/10

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.

I really love consistent Family Guy episodes like this one. I hate most of those flashbacks - and this one had just a few (even though those few were lame, like the notary thing, duh?). Instead, it had a great story with a good atmosphere buildup, great dialogues and high quality music.

Now, the whole "xmas gone wrong" thing has been done many times, yes. But this episode wasn't just lame "we have a Christmas episode too" attempt, it was a great show that maybe wanted to remind us how we twist Christmas, how we deform it into presents mayhem and the original meaning is so faint nowadays.

I simply loved it. It would have been even better without those few flashbacks that remained, but, well... I can live with that.

Oh, and yes - it was pretty morbid, but I think that Family Guy fans should be well aware that it IS a morbid series! Thumbs up - I cannot wait for another Road to... episode with the two best characters of the show. (they should make it Brian&Stewie Show anyway, or a spinoff like this)

I great road to episode that made me smile from ear to ear. I loved the musical number All I want for Christmas. I loved seeing Quahog covered with fresh snow. Brian was nice enough to take Stewie to see Santa. Once again Quagmire was a jerk to Brian who was only trying to be nice. I hate Quagmire he's suck a douche. Brian was such a Sweet dog helping Saint Nick. He looked so cute dressed in his santa suit. Brian and Stewie ended up saving Christmas with Brian's speech and asking every one to ask for just one presant. I good episode with a moral to follow.

I found this episode to be Visually interesting. Some very nice animation. had a very different look than your average episode. The episode itself is somewhat amusing but mainly offensive to anyone who has children who believe in Santa Claus. I do NOT recommend this episode for "Family Viewing". It seemed rather the work

of alienated youth trying to make an anti-consumerism statement. An In your face moment on Family Guy. There is a really offensive and UNfunny scene in wehich Stewie seems to actually murder a man in his house and beat the mother of a young girl who is duct taped. This could traumitze any child watching.

I do not believe in censorship but they should have had a WARNING at the beginning of the episode "This show contains graphic footage that may offend young children". No warning. The even stranger "joke" eas having Seth;s real dad, a sort of Wilford Brimley character introudce the cartoon and is seen between commercial breaks doing and saying offensive things "Does Anyone want to buy some pot". All in all I enjoyed it, but not as much as other episodes. I think this one will be aired EDITED next time it is run. I am glad I saw the poriginal version even if Stewie happened to murder someone. LOL

This is has been the latest episode of Family Guy. I have been a huge fan of family guy ever since watching the viewer mail in episode from season 3. I have to say the show has declined quite a bit since then. I'm not one to complain about violence, especially cartoon violence, but the episode was unnecessarily violent. I believe the writers thought they could stretch a 20 minute episode into an hour long episode by adding an insane amount of gore, and that we would find it funny. Described as an "In Your Face" episode, I felt like they took it so far that it wasnt funny. Im all for less censorship, but this episode was barely entertaining... Or funny... And this is coming from a stoner who watched this with is stoner friends who were all just like "really? they went overboard." Dont get me wrong, there were a few funny parts, but I think the episode as a whole would have been funnier condensed into one episode of funny content with maybe a scene or two of bloody violence.

I feel like this episode was based on the irony of making saint nick into a pathetic, dieing, husk of a man and as anti-christmas special as possible. Also, it was followed by one of Macfarlene's other show, American Dad, which was less gory, but the irony of an anti-christmas special is just as evident in this as it is in family guy. Seth, you are hack! Stop making more garbage and focus your talent on one, solid, funny tv show! Please. All I really have to say now is I think I'm done watching family guy until I start hearing good things about it again. Family Guy really has become sick, twisted, politically incorrect, and freakin' weak.

The Griffins and everybodyelse in Quahog were getting ready for Christmas. Brian was the only one who was being a Scrooge and was not in the spirit. Stewie wants to see Santa so Brian takes him to the mall. When the mall Santa leaves his shift, Stewie was sad and wants to see Santa. After Brian takes him to a fake North Pole, Stewie takes off for the North Pole in a truck. He convinces Brian to take him there. They got there and Santa was in bad shape. Brian and Stewie have to deliver the gifts to save Christmas. On telivision, Brian told the people of Quahog to receive one gift and it will make a differance. I'm sorry but this was a let down. The premise sounded good but the way it was handled ruined it. Brian was just a bigger jerk in this one. This is the third episode with Brian as a douchebag. He was a Scrooge. Hogging down a cookie and on purpose pour milk on the floor was mean spirited. He wasn't likeable and the break in with Stewie hitting the father and scaring the mother and daughter wasn't funny. It was offensive and they stupid to find out they were in the wrong house. Seth, enough of Brian and Stewie!!! This isn't the Brian and Stewie show. It's called Family Guy. Give those two a rest and split them up for a while. Mutant reigndeer, a deformed Santa and bad songs. Horrible!! Futurama did something like this and it was much better. Stewie cutting an elfs' arm slowly like a piece of turkey was another bad long joke which would have been better if he cut it off quickly. The ending was another way Seth could shove a lesson down our throats. A Family Guy Freakin Christmas was the best because it involved everybody and there was more heart to it and Stewie at the end gave a message of hope. I'm for dark humor if it is clever but this one had none. Just blood and gore. Seth, no more road to episodes and give Brian and Stewie a rest. No more of them for a while.

can't believe the high 9.5 score.. that episode lack everything that made family guy great... the jokes are just brutal... not funny... l so wished l never had seen that one... because now am off family guy... l'll keep watching the old episodes but as far as the new ones,... am not holding my breath...

Brian and stewie going to the north pole and finding the truth about Santa then slaughtering a family while drunk Brian attempts to deliver some gifts... haha.. not!!! what a shame... it's been a fun few years watching family guy... l guess they need new writers with better imagination...

I just have to say that this one hour Christmas special of Family Guy is quite different from any other Christmas special that I have ever seen. It is the first time that the heroes don't save the Yuletide; however, Brain and Stewie were able to save all future Christmases. I consider this episode not only funny but a great change of pace. My next Christmas wish is that I had a dollar for every Christmas story in which the Yuletide was in jepoardy, and somebody saved it. As a good fan of Family Guy, I give this episode a 10.

As of this month, I've been watching Family Guy for the past 9 years. The very first episode I saw was "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" in December 2001 when I was 12 years old and I remember being immediately hooked on the show for its dark, twisted and ridiculous humor. It was also nice to have a replacement for The Simpsons, a show I had watched religiously growing up, but began tuning out of around that time due to the declining quality that had become glaringly obvious even at age 12. Unfortunately, Family Guy also eventually hit that same decline in quality about 5 or 6 years later and since Season 6 I've been watching it more out of habit than anything else. I've still held out hope despite each season over the past 4 years being worse than the one before it and despite some truly awful, cringe-worthy episodes (Excellence in Broadcasting, The Juice is Loose etc) and holding out that hope finally paid off with this episode.



While not totally up to par with many of the first 4 seasons' episodes, for Family Guy's current standards this was excellent. Most of the other reviews here criticize this episode for how dark and violent it was and how offended they were by it, which I find surprising given this show's history as well as the near-unanimous sentiment amongst Family Guy fans that the show took a drastic turn for the worse once the focus on Stewie's character shifted to him being gay rather than being a homicidal maniac. Well, this episode returned to form in a big way. This episode showcased the classic Stewie from the old days and, IMO, the over the top violence was both refreshing and necessary after so much mediocrity from his character and the show in general over the past several years.



I had read before watching that this episode was particularly dark and I was a bit worried going in that they were just going to pile on needless and ill-suited grotesque gags just for the sake of shock value or trying to please the old fans and that it would be obvious, forced and unfunny. It was very refreshing to see that this wasn't the case at all and that they actually made it work quite well; they balanced it off with a hopeful ending as well, which has been a rarity for this show since the very beginning and was a welcome surprise. This episode also had a message that, while a bit depressing, was still relevant and important to get across.



With all that being said, I highly doubt that the rest, or any, of the remaining season will live up to this episode's standards and will instead likely slide into further mediocrity at best or more "Excellence in Broadcasting" at worst, but that doesn't change the fact that this was still a great and classic Family Guy episode.

When Stewie gets ingnored by a mall Santa Claus, he makes Brian take him to The north pole. Brian takes him to a fake north pole, and now Stewie is serious. He wants to kill Santa Claus. When they finally get there, they see Santa's workshop is a rundown place, with mutant elves. Feeling bad for him, Stewie and Brain decide to deliver the presents. They cant do it, so they ask everyone to just ask for one present, so Christmas will be here forever.



This was a great episode. There was so much awesomeness in it, like the home invasion, the song at the beginning, the canadian guy, the north pole, and the eeyore joke.



Overall Grade: 95%/A+

Not so bad? How can you say that Yonatan Schnee and give it a ten? What do you then give if it´s a great episode? I agree with the_eh5, the worsed "road to" so far. This was not so good. I can not se why they do this in the end. Is it just because the want christmas earlier? Okay it had some good moments, but it was few. The latest episodes has been lame as well. They started up really great but now in the end the jokes seem pointless and not so good. So pleas do some thing about this.



Cheers

Christmas, regardless of "edgy" humour or political/social viewpoint, is a time of coming together and celebrating love, peace and happiness. In typing that sentence, I can sense the frat-boy glee coming from the mind of Seth Macfarlane as he seems determined to be the grinch who stole christmas.



This started off as actually a pretty funny episode. Unlike a couple of the reviewers below, I do find Macfarlane's style entertaining regularly, and was actually pretty entertained by the whole Quagmire/Brian relationship being brought up again for continuity's sake. I thought it was funny and well done, and in fact a great example of the dark humour that would be pushed far too hard later in the episode.



The drive up to the north pole was entertaining as well. The gentle jokes at the expense of Canada were funny stuff and in general, this was shaping up to be a great christmas special. But, then, things took a turn for the worse. What follows, I would class as spoilers. Simply because they have to be seen to be truly believed.



Cannibalistic reindeer, mutated elves, a tortured, beaten-down father christmas. Horrible, stomach-churning, gut-wrenching visuals are played out over the next ten minutes, and are then followed up by an unfunny, and depressing scene of home invasion played out by the lovable Stewie and Brian. I almost felt like this scene should've been set to Adagio For Strings or something. As far from christmas as possible, this genuinely upsetted me.



But, of course, this could all be saved by a positive coda! A return to happiness and grace at the end of the episode! We've seen Family Guy do this before and I wouldn't have been surprised if they had done this again. But they didn't, rather the ending left a sickly taste in the mouth of falsity, left behind from the very dark feeling of the scenes that preceded it. The episode had failed to redeem itself.



I can predict that Macfarlane-loyalists (and possibly the Family Guy writers themselves) would love to call this "gritty social-realism" and "a brave and daring strike at consumerism" and that the depressing tone was meant as a piece of socio-political commentary.



It didn't feel like one.



Koyaanisqatsi is socio-political commentary.

A cartoon dog and baby beating up and murdering a man, then tying up his wife and children on christmas eve is not.

"Road to the North Pole" is another Brian and Stewie centric episode, and another episode of TV that really is nothing to write home about. Sure, the "Aurora Boreanaz" was kind of funny with the Bones star returning a favor from Stewie appearing on that show, but as a whole a lot of the jokes were failures. Peter acting like a child just is not funny anymore, and probably was not funny in 1992 when Homer Simpson was doing it. And the random murder scene of a father and mother? What on Earth happened to the once beloved show known as Family Guy? Solid episode, but way too over the top.

I loved the wish upon a wienstien and the other Christmas Family Guy's but this one was brutal. The scene of Brian and Stewie in the house in Santas place was not funny, it was just dark and not even worth a chuckle. I would like to here the commentary on how Seth MacFarlane thought this would be funny, because this scene was the very first time that Family Guy has ever offended me. This episode was definetly the worst Family Guy yet. It just seems that Family Guy is loosing its appeal, the stories are lacking jokes, and set ups for the plot and this episode is proof. Seth MacFarlane thinks he's hilarious but realistically he's just fooling himself.

Another Road To Rehash. They really need to give it a rest, the first two road episodes were classics and they should have left it at that. I had a WTF moment with this episode when stewie killed someones father and tied up the family. Jesus is this show really the same classic show i used to love back in 2000. The music number was sooo annoying. I guess they aren't even trying anymore, Seth's to busy counting his money. Hope he knows he's letting his fans down with these crappy episodes. They need to bring the original writers back cause this is just ridiculous. I admit the first 15 minutes of the show had some good laughs for me and i had faith that it would be a good episode but i felt myself being either offended, annoyed, or just bored by where they episode was going

While it appears that everyone else is going to praise the heck out of The Road to the North Pole, I on the other hand, sadly see this one as a lackluster episode when compared to the other hour-long Family Guy episodes (and most of the other "Road to" episodes). Don't get me wrong. This episode did have a good premise going into it (with Brian and Stewie traveling to the North Pole to confront Santa Claus after a mall Santa fails to allow Stewie to sit on his lap after he waited in line for hours to do so). However, it's the execution of the plot that ends up ruining it.



Starting things off is setting up the trip to the North Pole and the trip itself. While the plot itself is decent by Family Guy standards (and it did have a few good jokes), there's still the occasional lull that brings it down, with this portion having two big examples of this. The first involves the usual animation problem of "reusing a joke that wasn't even funny in the first place", in this case Brian accidentally offending someone in Quagmire's family (which results in a bit that pretty much writes the rest of the Griffins out of the episode). The other involves the bit with Stewie and the friendly Canadian that provides Brian and Stewie with a snowmobile, as the bit is pretty much one joke (in this case, Stewie not understanding the Canadian dialect) going on for too long.



We then get to the twist where it's revealed that Santa's workshop is pretty much a mess thanks to all the demands people want for Xmas. Much of the problems at this point stem from the darkness of this bit (especially a bit where Brian and Stewie, trying to take over Santa's job this year, end up killing a father trying to call the cops and duct taping his wife and daughter). There's also another joke that goes on for too long in the form of Stewie trying to get an elf to use as something to motivate Santa's reindeer to fly.



However, the real kicker when it comes to the episode's problems is the ending. I get that it's supposed to be an anti-greed message. However, seeing that ending, the gist I got from it is that everyone on Earth in the Family Guy universe is too lazy to actually go out Christmas shopping and instead need to rely on Santa to provide all the gifts for the holiday season. There's so many things wrong with this, with the problems ranging from this idea contradicting the original Family Guy Christmas episode (where Christmas shopping plays a role in the story) to it ripping off the South Park episode "Over Logging" (with Christmas gifts from Santa being used in place of viewing porn on the Internet). Don't get started on how unrealistic it would be for the North Pole to return to normal in just year.



Again, the episode does have a good plot, and there's a number of good jokes in the first half of the episode. However, the execution of this episode ends up bringing it down and making it feel too "dark" for some people.

I felt satisfied after watching this episode of Family Guy. Seth Macfarlane stayed away from one-sided political humor to bring this funny episode to us. This episode revolves around Stewie Griffin wanting to kill good old Santa Claus. Stewie gets his ridiculously diabolical attitude back and goes through extreme measures to get to the North Pole, and in the end (SPOILER) tries to save Christmas for everybody in the world. As is the custom for the "Road to" episodes, Brian the white dog follows him along to add to the antics of this episode. The episode is also quite educational on account that it adds a realistic approach to Christmas and the whole workshop and elves story. However, there are random unnecessary scene where Stewie and Brian kill a family. Despite this, I enjoyed and approved of this funny and somewhat educational episode of Family Guy.