Family Guy Road to the North Pole Full Episode
| "Road to the North Pole" | |
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 The prototype displays the championship of the episode "Road to the North Pole" as the episode starts. | |
| Episode no. | Season 9 Episode 7 |
| Directed past | Greg Colton |
| Written past | Chris Sheridan Danny Smith |
| Production code | 8ACX08-09 |
| Original air date | December 12, 2010[1] |
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"Route to the North Pole" is the seventh episode of the ninth season of the animated one-act series Family unit Guy. Directed by Greg Colton and co-written by Chris Sheridan and Danny Smith, the episode originally aired on Flim-flam in the United States on Dec 12, 2010. In "Road to the Northward Pole", Stewie and Brian proceed an adventure to the North Pole so that Stewie tin can kill Santa Claus. They discover a dreary, polluting manufacturing plant total of inbred elves and carnivorous, feral reindeer, along with a sickly, exhausted and suicidal Santa. Stewie and Brian take pity on him and determine to fulfill Christmas by delivering gifts to the entire world, albeit unsuccessfully.
The "Road to" episodes which have aired throughout various seasons of Family Guy were inspired by the Road to... comedy films starring Bing Crosby, Bob Promise and Dorothy Lamour, though this episode was not originally conceived as a "Route to" evidence. The episode is the second Family Guy Christmas special after the season three episode, "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas", too written past Danny Smith. It was kickoff announced at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International.
Critical responses to the episode were by and large positive; critics praised its storyline and its numerous cultural references, although information technology also received criticism from the Parents Television Council. Co-ordinate to Nielsen ratings, information technology was viewed in eight.03 million homes during its original airing in the Us. The episode featured invitee performances by Drew Barrymore, H. Jon Benjamin, David Boreanaz, Carrie Fisher, and Karley Scott Collins, along with several recurring guest vocalisation actors for the series. Information technology is narrated by Ron MacFarlane, Seth MacFarlane's begetter. Information technology was nominated for 3 Emmy Awards: Outstanding Music Composition for a Serial, Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics and Outstanding Audio Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Serial (One-half-Hour) and Blitheness. Information technology later won for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One-half-Hour) and Animation. The song "Christmastime Is Killing United states of america" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
Plot [edit]
Brian takes Stewie to the mall, but to get a rude brush-off from the Santa who works there when he leaves for the nighttime. Every bit a consequence, Stewie vows to impale Santa for blowing him off and forces Brian to take him to the North Pole. Attempting to trick Stewie, he brings him to a Santa's Village amusement park. Soon discovering the charade, Stewie threatens to shoot Brian if he does not take him to the real North Pole.
Stewie hitches a ride with a trucker and then Brian follows him all the style to Canada. On the way, Stewie accidentally causes a traffic pileup past discharging a flare pistol in the cab of the truck, which catches burn down and explodes. Crashing his motorcar in a chain reaction, Brian becomes angry and tells Stewie that Santa does not be. Stewie becomes frustrated and continues to attempt to hitchhike, coercing Brian to bring together him. The pair and so encounter a Canadian who gives them his snowmobile.
Continuing north, they soon run out of gas, but receive assist from the Aurora Boreanaz, who instructs them to stay at a nearby cabin. The two survive the dark in the cabin and set out on foot the next morning. They finally brand it to Santa's workshop, just to notice a dark, gloomy mill in a dreary, polluted, lifeless wasteland; Santa is a sickly and depressed old man, the elves are all horribly mutated and inbred due to Santa's attempts to keep up with the increasing souvenir demands yr subsequently year, and the reindeer are carnivorous, feral monsters that eat the elves who wander out into the snowfall to die of burnout. Santa suddenly collapses and is too sick to deliver the presents. Brian and Stewie hold to do it, but end up wasting an 60 minutes and a half at their first house subsequently their presence is discovered past a family whom they assail, bind and gag with duct tape, upon discovering they were in the incorrect house. Realizing that they volition not exist able to consummate the delivery in time, and understanding immediate the impossibility of Santa's job, Stewie and Brian carelessness the delivery in lieu of another plan.
On Christmas morn, everybody wakes up without any presents under their trees. They turn on the news, which is broadcasting the same story. Brian and Stewie appear on the broadcast and bring the dying Santa out in a wheelchair, explaining that humanity'southward greed is killing him and if they don't shorten their demands to 1 Christmas present a year, they may have to surrender Christmas altogether. Chastened, everyone agrees and past ane year afterwards, Santa has recovered, the workshop is once once more a lively, colorful cottage and the elves and reindeer are all rejuvenated.
Product and development [edit]
"Road to the N Pole" is the sixth episode of the "Road to" episodes of the series which air through various seasons of the show. It was directed by Family unit Guy veteran Greg Colton, this being the get-go episode he has directed since the eighth season episode "Get Stewie, Go."[4] This is as well Colton's 3rd "Road to" episode, the first being "Road to Germany" and the second beingness "Route to the Multiverse."[five] [half dozen] The episode was written by Chris Sheridan and Danny Smith, this being the first Smith wrote since "Partial Terms of Endearment,"[7] and his outset "Road to" episode. It included staff writers Alex Carter, Andrew Goldberg and Elaine Ko.[8] It is an hour-long special with three musical numbers. Ron MacFarlane, Seth MacFarlane's father, served every bit the episode's narrator. This is also the first "Road to" episode to be composed by Ron Jones.[9]
Two of the musical numbers, "All I Really Want for Christmas" and "Christmastime is Killing U.s." were released as digital downloads on iTunes. "Christmastime is Killing Us" was bachelor on December 3, 2010, while "All I Actually Want for Christmas" was made available on December ten, 2010.[10] [xi]
In addition to the regular cast, the episode also invitee starred actress Drew Barrymore, voice histrion H. Jon Benjamin, actor David Boreanaz, actress Karley Scott Collins, extra Carrie Fisher, actor Ron MacFarlane, father of serial creator and executive producer Seth MacFarlane, actor Bruce McGill, voice player Will Ryan, voice extra Tara Potent and actress Nana Visitor. Recurring guest voice actors John G. Brennan, actor Chris Cox, actor Ralph Garman, writer Chris Sheridan, writer Danny Smith, writer Alec Sulkin, actress Jennifer Tilly, writer J. Lee, and writer John Viener also fabricated modest appearances.[2] [three] [12]
Cultural references [edit]
This episode as well as the entire "Road to" serial in Family Guy is a parody of the seven Road to... comedy films which were released from 1940 to 1962, starring actors Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and extra Dorothy Lamour.[xiii] The opening credits testify images with Brian and Stewie referencing other Christmas specials such every bit The Nutcracker, A Christmas Ballad, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Frosty the Snowman and Home Alone. The credits also show Brian and Stewie performing wintertime activities, such as snowball fights, making snow angels and putting coal in the (Meg's) Christmas socks instead of gifts. Ron MacFarlane, who narrated function of the episode, mentioned that Kenny Rogers was supposed to be in that location.[xiv]
The episode opens with a musical number in which the members of Quahog sing almost what they want for Christmas. Peter wishes to have actress and models Jessica Biel and Megan Fox. He besides wishes to have lunch with Michael Landon'southward ghost and wants twelve kegs of beer. Lois wishes to visit the Spanish coasts, and "United mexican states, with two black guys and some blow".[10] Chris wishes for Jennifer Garner and Meg wishes for a Lexus. The neighbors of Quahog also wish for gifts: Herbert wishes for a drummer boy (at that place is a motion-picture show of vocaliser Nick Jonas on the wall while he wishes for this), Mayor Adam West wishes for a tinkertoy, Carl wishes for a Blu-ray version of The Wiz [x] and Consuela wishes for more Lemon Pledge. Continuing with the song, Jillian Russell wishes for Easter eggs, Joe wishes for one 24-hour interval when kids don't stare at him, Bonnie wants platinum-plated silverware, Quagmire wants "Japanese girls of no restraint" to choke him then whip him and Mort (who is Jewish) says he will sue if they put a Christmas tree in the airport. The song ends with various characters actualization in an advent calendar.[ten] [14]
Brian and Stewie go to the mall so they can encounter Santa, only Peter is asking Santa for gifts (he asks for a game of Uno, a Magna Doodle, a pet chink (a mix of a chinchilla and a mink) and a Charles in Charge lunchbox.) When the mall Santa leaves for the night and Brian demands that he let Stewie sit in his lap, Santa mentions he will be at Applebee'due south. Stewie says that Santa leaving before he got a chance to sit in his lap felt like a bigger betrayal than the betrayal of Gary Busey by reality; this takes us to Busey looking himself in the mirror asking his reflection, in the class of a crazed clown, how he is doing.[14]
Brian and Stewie determine to go to the N Pole to kill Santa, but Brian does not want Stewie to get disappointed if Santa is non what everybody thinks he is; to this Stewie responds that Brian is as negative equally Eeyore from Winnie-the-Pooh. To preclude Stewie from going to the N Pole he tells him that Santa is not real; Stewie questions this, likewise request if Elmo, SpongeBob SquarePants and Curious George aren't real. On their way to the North Pole, Brian and Stewie find themselves in Canada, where they encounter a man with a thick Canadian accent; they besides run across the Aurora borealis and the Aurora Boreanaz (an aurora with David Boreanaz's face).[xiv]
When they finally go to the Due north Pole and detect information technology polluted and lifeless, Stewie compares it to Bridgeport, Connecticut; thus resulting in a cutaway to a Bridgeport resident writing an angry letter to the Family Guy writer staff about Stewie'due south comment.[14] When Santa Claus is near decease, he shocks Stewie by proverb "I'll exist with Allah soon". When Brian and Stewie decide to deliver the presents for Santa, in their travel the Statue of Liberty tin can be seen. Unfortunately, they are non able to evangelize the presents, and the next morning the residents of Quahog are upset because they have no presents, but Mort says he got viii mediocre gifts.[14]
Reception [edit]
"The Road to the Due north Pole, which is my favorite Family Guy episode in several seasons. This may be due to my Christmas bias, simply I don't think then. Outside of a strange segment where Stewie and Brian, filling in for Santa in truthful sitcom Christmas plot fashion, kill an entire family, the episode is a skilful blend of solid gags, a fun story, and the kinds of envelope-pushing stuff Family Guy rarely does this well. The musical numbers, which have often been annoying in the past, are all nicely staged and performed (particularly the opening one, which closes with all of the characters being revealed in a big Appearance agenda), and the episode'south moral, while a little simplistic, is genuinely sweet".
Emily VanDerWerff, The A.V. Club [xiv]
"Route to the N Pole" was broadcast on December 12, 2010, as a part of an animated television night on Fox, and was preceded by The Simpsons, and followed by Family Guy creator and executive producer Seth MacFarlane's 2nd show, American Dad!. It was watched by 8.03 one thousand thousand viewers, according to Nielsen ratings, despite airing simultaneously with the Desperate Housewives on ABC, The Amazing Race and Undercover Boss on CBS and Sun Night Football on NBC. The episode also acquired a 3.9 rating in the 18–49 demographic, beating American Dad! and The Simpsons in addition to significantly edging out both shows in total viewership.[15] The episode's ratings increased significantly from the previous week's episode.[16]
This episode received generally positive response from critics. Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club gave "Road to the North Pole" a positive review, stating that it is "a satisfying episode of Family Guy all around, filled with funny gags and nice moments." She especially praised the musical segments, and the portrayal of the Northward Pole, writing that "the style the episode kept piling more and more ridiculous horrors on top of each other kept the whole matter funny." She rated the episode an "A-".[14] Jason Hughes of TV Squad also praised the songs and the depiction of Santa's mill, though he constitute the commitment of the episode'south message "heavy-handed."[17] Kate Moon of TV Fanatic gave the episode 3.6 out of 5 stars. She said, "I had mixed feelings well-nigh this one, despite its clever moments and hopeful catastrophe. While I ordinarily take no problems about Family Guy 's shocking or offensive themes, I felt fleck disconcerted about the management of this Christmas episode." She went on to say, "Perhaps it was the way that the series stomped on something as innocent as Santa and his elves and twisted them all around. Or perhaps it was the cannibalistic reindeer. Whatever the specific reason, the irreverent nature of Family Guy seemed just a little too graphic for me this time around."[18] Tom Eames of amusement website Digital Spy placed the episode at number twelve on his listing of the all-time Family Guy episodes in social club of "yukyukyuks" and described the episode as "Christmas comedy golden", praising the 'Christmastime is Killing Us' song and Boreanaz's cameo.[xix]
The Parents Television Council, a conservative campaigning critic of Seth MacFarlane works, named Family Guy its "Worst Tv set Show of the Week" for "Road to the North Pole" for the week ending on December 17, 2010. It got this rating due to sexual content and excessive fierce scenes including the scene in which Stewie beats a man to expiry with a baseball game bat, and the scenes featuring Seth MacFarlane'due south father, Ron, while besides stating, "Forget naughty or nice. This show was simply nauseating."[20] Robin Pierson of The Tv set Critic gave "Road to the Northward Pole" a 47 out of a possible 100, said "A little more interesting plot wise than the usual fare but otherwise just as gruesome". He especially disliked the portrayal of Santa and his elves and the violence.[21]
The episode was as well nominated for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics (for vocal "Christmastime Is Killing Us", written by Ron Jones, Seth MacFarlane, and Danny Smith) and Outstanding Audio Mixing for a One-act or Drama Series (One-half-Hour) and Animation.[22] It won for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One-half-Hr) and Animation.[23]
The series was successfully nominated in 2009, only failed to merit an accolade. Mark Hentemann, executive producer and showrunner of Family Guy said of the nominating process, "We had internal discussions in the writers' room, and it seemed like nosotros were much more akin to the other primetime comedies than we were to children's shows in animation. Nosotros assumed we would non become anywhere, and so information technology was a nifty surprise when nosotros got the nomination."[24]
"Christmastime Is Killing U.s." was nominated for Best Song Written for a Visual Media at the 54th Grammy Awards.[25]
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External links [edit]
- "Route to the North Pole" at IMDb
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_the_North_Pole
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