Road to Germany

"Road to Germany" is the 3rd episode of Family Guys 7th season. It was first broadcast on the Fox network on October 19, 2008. The episode is about Mort Goldman in a time machine going to Warsaw, Poland in September 1939 (when Germany invaded Poland). Brian and Stewie must save Mort from danger.

It was written by Patrick Meighan. Greg Colton is the director of the episode.

Story 

Mort (the Griffin family's Jewish friend) goes to the Griffin family's house and needs to use bathroom. He thinks that Stewie's time machine is a bathroom and goes inside. The time machine takes Mort somewhere in the past. Mort can not go back to the present because he does not have a return pad (a machine that will take him back to the present). Brian and Stewie get a return pad and go to the past. They learn that Mort is at Warsaw on September 1, 1939, right before Poland is invaded and World War II starts. Mort is in a synagogue with his ancestors.

Brian and Stewie's return pad does not work. They try to take Mort to England so he is safe from Nazis. German officers find them cross a border and go after them. Brian, Stewie, and Mort get in a motorbike to get away from the officers. They steal a U-boat and make it to England. The return pad does not have uranium to work. Brian says that the only place that has uranium is in a nuclear power plant in Berlin, Nazi Germany. They join the Royal Air Force and get in a dogfight with Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters. They make it to the nuclear power plant in Berlin. Stewie makes himself look like Adolf Hitler so he can get uranium. They find the real Hitler, who wants them executed. They get the uranium needed for the return pad and makes it go to the present.

They make it in Stewie's room 30 seconds before Mort first went in the time machine. Stewie kills the Mort that was in Germany by putting him in the time machine and destroying it with a raygun. The first Mort does not make it to the bathroom quick enough.

Production 

"Road to Germany" was written by Patrick Meighan. Greg Colton is the director of the episode. It is the 4th episode of the Road to ... series, episodes where Brian and Stewie go to places outside of Quahog. The episodes are a parody of the Road to ... movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. "Road to Germany" and other episodes from the 7th season were put on a DVD on June 16, 2009.

Reception 

About 9.07 million people watched the episode when it was first broadcast. Ahsan Haque from IGN said that the episode is "one of the best episodes of the show in years." He talks about how the animation is "gorgeous", the story being exciting, and the episode's "hilarous offensive humor". Alex Rocha from TV Guide thought that the episode was "average" when in comparison to episodes that were broadcast before it. Francis Rizzo III from DVD Talk said that the episode is "hugely memorable" and said the episode's animation is one of the best in Family Guy.

Family Guy got a nomination for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2009. It was the first animated television show to be nominated for the award since The Flintstones in 1961. This episode was one of the three episode that was given for the nomination. The other two were "Family Gay" and "I Dream of Jesus". Seth MacFarlane (creator of Family Guy) said that those episodes were submitted because they were "" shows.

References

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Family Guy (season 7) episodes
2008 television episodes