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"Brian & Stewie" is the 17th episode of the eighth season of the American animated television series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on May 2, 2010.
Family Guy creator and executive producer Seth MacFarlane came up with the idea to create the episodes, being a fan of the original film series. [14] The first "Road to" episode, titled "Road to Rhode Island", aired in 2000 as a part of the second season of Family Guy, and featured Brian and Stewie attempting to find Brian's mother. [11]
Stewie and Brian use Stewie's time machine to go to Las Vegas for a Bette Midler concert, but chaos ensues when the machine malfunctions and creates alt-versions of the pair: a "lucky" version and an "unlucky" one. Production of the episode began months in advance according to the episode's writer Steve Callaghan.
Stewie vows to kill Santa and forces Brian to take him to the North Pole. Stewie hitches a ride with a trucker and so Brian follows him to Canada. On the way, Stewie accidentally causes a traffic pileup by discharging a flare pistol in the cab of the truck, which catches fire and explodes. Crashing his car in a chain reaction, Brian becomes ...
Brian questions whether Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy, and Stewie responds that he shot Mayor McCheese instead. [30] A sequence similar to the Zapruder film, which shows the assassination of Kennedy, is shown, with Jacqueline Kennedy also appearing. [30] Brian and Stewie next discover a universe completely depicted as a political cartoon. [21]
When Brian, Stewie, and Mort are chased by Nazis, a recreation of the chase scene, including Alan Silvestri's music, from Back to the Future occurs where Stewie rides a makeshift skateboard, escapes, and has the Nazis crash into a truck of manure. [9] [10] When Stewie picks up a Nazi uniform, there is a McCain–Palin button attached.
Afterward, Brian volunteers to pick up Stewie from his vacation at his grandparents' summer home in Palm Springs, California, where Stewie frames a maid for stealing to amuse himself at dinner. At the airport bar, Brian gets drunk and, when Stewie comes to find him, their unattended bags are stolen, with the plane tickets inside.
"Saving Private Brian" is the fourth episode of season five of Family Guy, an episode produced for Season 5. The episode originally broadcast on Fox on November 5, 2006. The episode follows Stewie and Brian after they unintentionally join the United States Army, and end up leaving to serve in Iraq, only to return home when the war ends.