First Aired: Nov. 13, 2011 on FOX

Rate Episode: 4.11/5 (9 votes)
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Season 10 » Episode #05 - Road to the Pilot

Family Guy - 10x05 Road to the Pilot
Summary: Brian (Seth MacFarlane) and Stewie travel back in time to the pilot episode of FAMILY GUY to change history, and then to change history again.

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Guest Stars:

Glenn Quagmire voiced by Seth MacFarlane
Kool-Aid Man voiced by Seth MacFarlane
1999 Meg Griffin voiced by Lacey Chabert
George W. Bush voiced by Chris Cox
Dog in the Window voiced by Ralph Garman
Joyce Kinney voiced by Christine Lakin
Judge voiced by Phil LaMarr
John Madden voiced by Fred Tatasciore

Episode Quotes

Peter Griffin: [in the computer animated future] Chris, I heard you got a D on your report card. Here's a cutaway.

Peter Griffin: Matthew McConaughey is terrible.
Brian Griffin: That's odd, that's our house but something looks a little different.
Pilot Meg: [from inside the house] Mom, my lips are too thin. Can I please get collagen injections?
Pilot Lois: Meg, you don't need to change the way you look. You know, most of the world's problems stem from poor self-image.
Stewie Griffin: Oh, my God, what's with Meg's voice? She sounds like someone who's about to give up a huge opportunity.
Brian Griffin: That's nothing, look at you. You look like a prize at some Mexican church carnival.
Peter Griffin: [in the computer animated future] Hey Lois, I found some double-sided tape. I think I can do about seven minutes worth of funny stuff with it. That should get us to the "Meg Kissing Booth" story.
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Mistakes/Goofs

  • Goof (anachronisms): After the second Stewie and Brian go to stop the first Stewie and Brian from telling the 1999 Brian about 9/11, Stewie finds out that Brian then told his 1999 self about Harry Potter and became the author of Harry Potter. This would be impossible for Brian to have wrote Harry Potter because the first Harry Potter novel was wrote in 1997, 2 years after the destination of where Stewie and Brian went to.
  • Goof (miscellaneous): After all of the Stewies and Brians have arrived at the house and start arguing, just after the shot pans past the barber poles, one of the Stewies' feet are missing.
  • Goof (plot holes): One Brian wonders how the 9/11 vote can have an odd number of votes since all of the Brians and Stewies are traveling in pairs. However, one pair brings Peter along and we see Peter voting, thus the vote tally would be an odd number.
  • Goof (continuity error): When Stewie is taking the dead Brian back to his return pad, it leaves a trail of blood, when the camera angle changes, the blood is gone.
  • Goof (continuity error): Peter is seen standing in the shot in front of Joe's door, but vanishes when the group ponders the Brian with its throat cut.

Trivia

  • While all of the present day and future scenes are animated in 1.78:1 (16:9) widescreen, all of the 1999 scenes are animated in 1.33:1 (4:3). This is because the events shown in the 1999 scenes are from the first episode of Family Guy, entitled "Death Has a Shadow", which was originally animated in 1.33:1.