Road to Europe/Notes/Trivia

• This is the second road trip episode for Brian and Stewie. The first was “Road to Rhode Island.” The third is “Road to Rupert.” The fourth is “Road to Germany”
• This was the final episode produced prior to the show’s cancellation, though not the final one aired.
• While on a bus top tour of Munich, Germany, Brian notes that the tour company’s brochure includes no information on German history from 1939 to 1945, the time of the Third Reich; the tour guide claims that Germany went on vacation for those years. Brian and the tour guide also argue about German novelist Thomas Mann. According to the tour guide, he went to America to manage a Dairy Queen, which is in reality what some WW2 veterans did when they returned. The tour guide gets furious at the accusations Brian makes and says (in German) “You will sit down! You will shut up! You will not insult Germany!” while using the Nazi salute (which is, in fact, illegal in modern day Germany and he is doing it with the wrong arm). Although the vocabulary is right, the word order in his “You will not insult Germany!” is incorrect. An English accent is also clearly audible, indicating that the voice is not from a Native German speaker.
• The phrase "Sie werden nicht Beleidigung Deutschland" isn't just incorrect word order. While still clumsy, it should be "Sie werden Deutschland nicht beleidigen!".
• Near the end of the Munich scene, Brian mentions the beer halls, which the tour guide acknowledges. Many people miss this reference; Munich was home to Hitler’s infamous and ill-fated Beer Hall Putsch. Munich is known for its Beer Halls (most notably the Hofbräuhaus), so it could just be a reference to that.
• The BBC headquarters is depicted as a rectangular skyscraper. In fact, Television Centre is a low-rise, “6”-shaped building
• The German flag on Munich’s tourist guide is missing its black bar.

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