Road to Rhode Island
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Road To Rhode Island is an episode from the second season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. First aired on May 30, 2000. Written by Gary Janetti and directed by Dan Povenmire. Guest starring Victoria Principal as Dr. Amanda Rebecca. Production #2ACX12. This episode is included in the "Freakin' Sweet" DVD Collection.
Plot summary
The episode begins with Brian at his psychiatrist's, where he reveals 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 in Palm Springs, where Stewie frames a maid for dinner amusement. At the airport bar, Brian gets very drunk and when Stewie comes to retrieve him the plane tickets home are stolen. In order to get home Stewie and Brian hotwire and steal a car and later masquerade as crop dusters in order to steal a plane which they immediately wreck. As the pair continue hitchhiking back to Quahog, they pass by a puppy mill near Austin, Texas, Brian's birthplace. Upon arrival they discover that Brian's mother was stuffed and turned into a table by the puppy mill owners. With Stewie's reluctant help, Brian gives his mother a proper burial. The pair eventually completes the journey home by riding in an open boxcar where they perform a musical duet.
Meanwhile, Lois urges Peter to watch relationship videos with her, but the videos turn out to be pornography. 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 black lingerie to entice Peter.
Notes
- An eerie scene in this episode featured Osama bin Laden that only aired once: Stewie sings a musical number to distract airport baggage handlers from noticing the weapons in his luggage, then remarks that he hopes "Osama bin Laden doesn't know show tunes." The camera pans 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 Volume 2 of the Family Guy DVD set (although the scene remains intact up until Stewie's singing in the Region 2 Season 2 DVD set), but can be seen on the "Family Guy: Freakin' Sweet" DVD. In the DVD commentary, Seth MacFarlane mentions that the moral is that "the FBI should watch Family Guy more often." Ironically, Seth McFarlane himself missed his flight on September 11th, and later found out that the plane he missed had been hijacked and driven in the World Trade Center. He was saved by a moblile phone call.
- This is the first road adventure featuring Brian and Stewie as the main characters. The second is "Road to Europe".
- During the first "communication" tape, the woman takes off her shirt and starts her sedution. The crew actually animated her taking off her bra and playing with a vibrator before the line "Do you want to see more?" The unaired clip is circulating on the internet
Cultural references
- In a cutaway showing Peter’s difficulty making decisions, he is in a video store and must choose between Ernest Goes to the Beach and Ernest Doesn’t Goes to the Beach, two fictitious films from the Ernest franchise. And if you watch carefully, at the back of Ernest Goes to The Beach when Peter worries when to store is closing, the sea line moves.
- Peter asks Lois to do her Katharine Hepburn impression, but specifies “Philadelphia Story Hepburn, none of that head-on-a-slinky Golden Pond stuff.”
- When his teddy Rupert loses their luggage, Stewie accuses him of "watching the boys again", that its that "steward again isn't it, the one who looks like Tab Hunter"
- Stewie thinks his phone number is 867-5309 thanks to the Tommy Tutone hit "867-5309/Jenny."
- Stewie distracts the airport security staff by singing “On the Good Ship Lollipop” from the musical Bright Eyes. In the infamous scene featuring Osama Bin Laden, Bin Laden does the same by singing “I Hope I Get It” from A Chorus Line.
- The radio in the car Brian and Stewie steal plays "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" by Culture Club.
- While driving, Stewie and Brian play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, a game in which people link an actor or actress to Kevin Bacon by six films. It is unknown with whom he begins, but the audience hears Stewie link Montgomery Clift to Burt Lancaster via From Here to Eternity, Lancaster to Susan Sarandon via Atlantic City and Sarandon to Bacon via White Palace. Brian is correct that James Spader, not Kevin Bacon, starred in White Palace.
- While eulogizing Brian’s mother, Stewie gives an unusual retelling of the Biblical story of Abraham and Isaac.
- On a train back to Quahog, Brian and Stewie sing "We're on the Road to Rhode Island," a parody of a song from the 1942 movie Road to Morocco. The episode itself is a parody/homage to the Road to movies. The song mentions several places in Rhode Island, including the City of Newport and Brown University. The song also references the 1991 road movie Thelma and Louise.
- Stewie asks Brian to tape an episode of The Brady Bunch for him.
"Road to Rhode Island" song
Stewie & Brian [Singing] "We're off on the road to Rhode Island
Stewie & Brian "We're having the time of our lives"
Stewie Griffin Take it, Dog!
Brian Griffin "We're quite a pair of partners, just like Thelma and Louise
Brian Griffin "'Cept you're not six feet tall
Stewie Griffin "Yes, and your breasts don't reach your knees"
Brian Griffin Give it time.
Stewie & Brian "We're off on the road to Rhode Island
Stewie & Brian "We're certainly going in style
Stewie Griffin "I'm with an intellectual who craps inside his pants"
Stewie Griffin How dare you!
Stewie Griffin "At least I don't leave urine stains on all the household plants"
Brian Griffin Oh, pee jokes.
Stewie & Brian "We've traveled a bit, and we've found
Stewie & Brian "like a masochist in Newport, we're Rhode Island bound"
Brian Griffin Crazy travel conditions, huh?
Stewie Griffin First class and no class.
Brian Griffin Whoa, careful with that joke. It's an antique.
Stewie & Brian "We're off on the road to Rhode Island
Stewie & Brian "We're not gonna stop till we're there"
Brian Griffin Maybe for a beer.
Brian Griffin "Whatever dangers we may face, we'll never fear or cry"
Stewie Griffin That's right.
Stewie Griffin "Until we're syndicated, Fox will never let us die, please?
Stewie & Brian "We're off on the road to Rhode Island
Stewie & Brian "The home of that old campus swing
Brian Griffin "We may pick up some college girls and picnic on the grass
Stewie Griffin "We'd tell you more, but we would have the censors on our ass"
Brian Griffin Yikes!
Stewie & Brian "We certainly do get around
Stewie & Brian "Like renegade Pilgrims who were thrown out of Plymouth Colony
Stewie & Brian "we're Rhode Island bound
Stewie & Brian "Or like two college freshmen who were rejected by Harvard
Stewie & Brian "and forced to go to Brown
Stewie & Brian "we're Rhode Island bound"
Quotes
- Stewie: Oh here's a pleasant sight, Cirrhosis the wonder dog.
Brian: I'm not druck all right I just have a speech impediment.
Brian throws up. Brian: And a stomach virus.
Then he falls off the stool.
Brian: And an inner ear infection.
Stewie: Yes, yes come now. Chase the stick.
Stewie leads Brian to the chairs.
Brian: Where are the bags?
Stewie: What the deuce do you mean where are the bags? They're Right-
Stewie looks at Rupert.
Stewie: Rupert! I told you to watch the bags! You were watching the Boys agian weren't you? It's that steward isn't it? The one who looks like Tab Hunter?
- Stewie picks up the phone.
Stewie: Hello? Operator? Hello? Oh god that's right you have to punch in the numbers nowadays. I should know this. Oh yes...867-5309...That's it. No that's not it. Damn you Tommy Tutone! (sighs) There's only one thing to do. 1-1-1-1-1-1-1. Lois? Damn. 1-1-1-1-1-1-2. Lois? Damn!! 1-1-1-1-1-1-3.
- Man 1: Where's the money, huh? I want to see the money?
Man 2: No, no, no, no. You don't see the money until I see the stuff.
Stewie: Oh for god's sake there's only one way to put an end to this. (Shouting) HE'S WEARING A WIRE!
Man 2: What? You son of a...
Sound of gunfire and a body drops then Stewie yawns and goes fast asleep.
- Stewie: You've got lots to think about: Public drunkennes, gran theft auto...
Brian: You left out the part where I made you smash your head on the windshield.
Stewie: I don't recall-
Brian pushes on the brake pedal and Stewie slams into the windsheild.
Stewie: Well I suppose I walked right into that one.
- Peter: Lois our relationship cannot be measured in nipples and dimes. I mean nickels and boobs. Money. I'll be upstairs.
Peter run upstairs into their room.
Lois: Peter why are you so-
Lois opens the door and sees Peter naked sitting on the edge of the bed watching the viedo.
Peter: Get out, this part is only for the men!
- Brain (speaking to the farmer): Uh excuse me sir. I'm an experienced crop-dusting pilot. You can trust us completely. My friend is too young to plant a seed in your daughter's belly and I'm of a different species.
Farmer: You're hired.
Brian starts the plane and once the plane is rady to lift-off, the wings crash into two cows and sever the wings.
Stewie: Boy will your face be red when they find the black box on this one.
- Brian speaking to a Mexican in a truck that sneaked across the border.
Brian: Hola. Me Me llamo es Brian. Let's see. Nosotros queremos ir con ustedes.
Mexican: Hey that was pretty good. But actually when you said: Me llamo es Brian, you don't need the es. Just Me llamo Brian.
Brian: Oh you speak English.
Mexican: No just that first sentence and this one explaining it.
Brian: You-you're kidding, right?
Mexican: Que?
- Brian: Hello, Luke.
Luke: Uh have we mwt?
Brian: My names Brian. I was born here.
Luke: Sorry son. Lots of dogs have been born here. Refresh my memory. Who were you agian?
Brian: I was the one who could talk.
Luke: Brian! Come on in.
- Peter: Oh geez. If she says Mrs. Dash I'm gonna lose it.
- Stewie: Yea and God said to Abraham, "You will kill your son, Issac." And Abraham said, "I can't hear you. Youl have to speak into the microphone." And God said, "Oh I'm sorry. Is this better. Check, check, check. Jerry pull the high end out. I'm still getting some hiss back here."
- Brian: Look kid there's been something I've been meaning to tell you. It's not easy for me to say.
Stewie: Oh God, you're not coming out of the closet, are you? Oh God why does everyone come out to me?
- Chris: Okay Meg, I'm thinking of another word. This time it's diffenitly not "kitty". Can you guess what it is?
Meg: Is it "kitty"?
Chris: (gasp) Get out of my head! Get out of my head!!