Road to Rhode Island/Notes/Trivia

Notes

• This is the first of the "Road to" mini-series featuring Brian and Stewie as the main characters. The second is “Road to Europe,” while the third is “Road to Rupert", the fourth is "Road to Germany”, the fifth is "Road to the Multiverse", and the sixth will be "Road to the North Pole."
• This episode includes a special commentary done by Seth MacFarlane in the characters of Brian and Stewie.
• Just for the sake of fun, a scene was made, never intended for TV, where Amanda Rebecca’s breasts are actually shown after she takes off her strapless bra and she starts rubbing them with a vibrator. This clip has surfaced on the internet.

• This has been referred to by Seth MacFarlane as “everybody’s favorite episode” mainly by its revelation of Brian’s history and using the song and dance number to show the bickering yet close relationship of Brian and Stewie.
• During the singing of "Road to Rhode Island", Brian appears as a baseball pitcher in one scene. As he turns around to pitch, his shirt says "Red Sox 86" on the back. In a bit of irony, when the Red Sox won their World Series in 2004, it came exactly 86 years after they won their last one. This episode was released in 2000.

Censorship

• A scene in this episode featured Osama bin Laden that only aired once: Stewie sings “The Good Ship Lollipop" to distract airport baggage handlers from noticing the weapons in his luggage, then remarks, “Let’s hope Osama bin Laden doesn’t know show tunes.” The camera pans to show bin Laden singing “I Hope I Get It” from the musical A Chorus Line as his luggage goes through the detector. This episode aired more than a year before the September 11th terrorist attacks. The entire scene was taken out of the episode in subsequent airings and the Region 1 “Volume 1” Family Guy DVD set (although the scene remains intact up until Stewie’s singing in the Season 2 DVD set for Regions 2 and 4), but can be seen on the Family Guy: Freakin’ Sweet DVD. In the DVD commentary, Seth MacFarlane mentions that the moral is that “the FBI should watch Family Guy more often.”

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