Family Guy - "Road to Germany" - Talkback [10/19]

wow, being a relatively new poster (70 posts at this time) i didnt realize how many people comment on this show as it's airing...thats whacky. i think the political jokes were funny, and to the poster who said "oh yeah mccain/palin in ww2" this episode was filled with anachronisms:

-LMAO on the telegraph
-Art Garfunkel joke
-The button
 
I'm thinking they should release a DVD of the best of Stewie and Brian. I hope someone who works on Family Guy is viewing this.

I'd call it something along the lines of "The Road to Quahog: The Best of Stewie and Brian." It could feature the "Road to" episodes, other episodes with Stewie and Brian, as well as a bonus feature with clips of Stewie and Brian from episodes where they aren't the main focus. I'd put some DVD exclusive stuff too like a mock interview with Stewie and Brian.
 
The McCain/Palin joke was just shown on Bill O'Reilly.

Anyway, I just realized that the ending doesn't really make sense. If Brian and Stewie destroyed the time machine, that means that past Brian and Stewie can't go into the time machine. That means that there are now two sets of Brian and Stewie in the present. Actually, they missed a really good opportunity for a joke here.
 
I...I liked the Back to the Future joke. *lips quiver* But I was disappointed it ended with the Nazis spouting "Das Poop." They should have said, "Das Poop! I HATE Das Poop!" That's just blasphemy, MacFarlane.
 
Family Guy - "Road to Germany" - Talkback [10/19]

In general I don't like parodies which just copy a famous scene and add little to it. It's the kind of joke where you say, "Hey, I remember that!", but that's it. Now "Black to the Future", that was funny.

And it would've been even funnier if they had said Schei?e, which is the German word for... well, you know.
 
I think I'm just biased because I have soft spots for any Back to the Future references; it is my favorite movie (and trilogy) of all time after all.
 
'Black to Future" was sheer genius. Did anyone else get the other Quagmire joke in the episode? That was pretty dirty if you knew what they were on about.



Hmm, right you are, although Mort would not have been upstairs for an hour so Brian wouldn't have had to go look for him. So technically the whole thing never happened at all. As for the duplicates, if Futurama is anything to go by, then the second Brian and Stewie would die somehow, thus restoring order to the universe.
 
I generally despise recent Family Guy stuff but I thought this was a great episode. I kept wishing Stewie and Brian would just beat the crud out of Mort so blowing him up in the time machine was a nice touch. When I first saw the promo picture for this ep I knew it was one I was gonna have to see. The Steve Buscemi teeth joke lowered my expectations but I'm glad I kept watching. There were lots of moments that had me laughing throughout.
 
Yeah, I brought that up already. No one seemed to notice, though.

The ending doesn't really make sense to me because of it. It kind of rubs me the wrong way because they didn't even seem to realize this when they wrote the episode. Seems pretty obvious to me.
 
Now that'd be pretty cool if they did that. I'd buy it in a heart beat.
Ask for how they could do the spin off, neither of them have to move. As its prooven in this episode you can have plenty of adventures in your own backyard. With a lot of Stewies inventions you can have tons of adventures just with that. There can be of course other things that happenes to them and some times evolve other FG characters like they did here. I'd love a show like that. I've seen shows that had spin off's of a character and still keep them in the main show, its happened. But that's another topic :p
 
It's not really a spinoff if they'd still be operating withing the Family Guy universe, though. If the characters are still in the same setting as before and are still regularly interacting with the main cast of the original show, then it's not a spinoff. That sounds more like a side-project.
 
That's because I said I thought that was a Flash Gordon reference, cause I knew Queen did the soundtrack

watching the episode through, I definatly liked Road to Rupert better, but this was a very good episode.

Can you believe that Season is actually pretty good so far?
 
Because I'm not sure if anyone noticed I posted this elsewhere...

Anyone bummed that this episode didn't include one and are hurtin' for a new Family Guy musical number should check out the volume 6 DVD that was just released yesterday. It includes a lengthened version of the "Lois Kills Stewie" episode with a musical number that ended up being edited for time. IMHO it's one of the best numbers I've ever seen on the show.

I mean it's hard to recommend this set - it's only 12 episodes that have already been played to death on FOX and Adult Swim - but that song makes an already strong episode even better.
 
I must be honest, the whole invasion of Poland really distracted from any comedy. It was a terrible point in history, and filling it with light-hearted movie parodies and a weak set up of the premise leads me to not particularly like this episode. I know! I am too PC, but this episode seemed really inappropriate. The idea of a Jewish man being stuck in 1939 Poland doesn't strike me as very comical.
 
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