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Airdate: December 12, 2010

An 60 minutes-long Christmas Episode (the 2nd in the serial afterward "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas") in Family Guy, which also contains two songs, and is narrated by Seth MacFarlane's father, Ron MacFarlane, in live-activeness bookends.

It's days until Christmas and anybody in Quahog is writing downwardly what they desire for Christmas in a musical number, except for Brian, who wonders if they're being too greedy. Stewie gets a rude brush-off from a Mall Santa, and vows to head to the Northward Pole to kill him for his disrespect. Not believing in Santa, Brian tricks Stewie by taking him to a Santa village, just Stewie sees through the ruse and threatens to kill him too if he doesn't take him to the real North Pole. Subsequently Stewie causes a traffic machine pile-up that damages Brian's car, they continue on foot and eventually ride the rest of the way on a Canadian's snowmobile.

To Brian's surprise, Santa and the workshop does exist, simply atmospheric condition there are far worse than they feared, due to the world'southward growing population and growing demands for the gifts. Santa is ill, weak, and worn out, the workshop pollutes the air, the elves are overworked, mutated, and inbred, and the reindeer have evolved into man-eating, and cannibalistic, monsters. Brian and Stewie agree to deliver the presents in his place, simply crash the sleigh, intermission into a business firm, severely hurt the family inside it to comprehend it up, let the reindeer eat each other, realize they only visited 1 house for an hour and a half out of the millions of other houses in the earth they need to visit before dawn, and finally panic, give upwards, and barely escape with their lives.

The adjacent solar day, on Channel 5 News, Tom Tucker announces that no presents were delivered in Quahog, when Brian and Stewie wheel a barely-living Santa onto the set in front of the nation. They reveal that the world's greed is killing him, and ask that everyone just ask for 1 souvenir per person each twelvemonth. Moderated, everyone agrees, and the next year, Santa and his workshop are healthy and rejuvenated.

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"Route To The N Pole" contains examples of:

• Advertizement by Association: Parodied in an unaired cutaway gag.

  Stewie: (to Brian) You tried to trick me! Like those commercials for upcoming movies.
  (cutting to Stewie watching TV in the living room)
  Announcer: This summer, from the guys who brought yous Superbad comes a hilarious new comedy.
  Stewie: Uh, I detest when they do that. Which guy? You know information technology could be the writers or the guys in the wardrobe department, they don't specify.
  (Stewie changes the channel)
  Announcer: From the studio that brought you lot Wedding ceremony Crashers.
  Stewie: Uh, who cares? It's sure a broad association.
  (Stewie changes the channel)
  Announcer: From the species that brought y'all Talladega Nights.
  Stewie: Oh what, humans? Who else is making movies?
  Announcer: From the same molecular elements that brought y'all Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
  Stewie: What?
  Journalist: ...and air!
  Stewie: Fuck off!

• An Aesop: "We tin get out of any mess if we larn to live with less..."
• Anti-Christmas Song: "Christmastime is Killing Usa"
• Berserk Button: Christmas proves to be a pretty big 1 for Stewie. He angrily threatens Brian with a gun for trying to deceive him with a faux North Pole, and then tries to outright set near that threat on Santa for brushing him off at the mall.
• Large Absurdity: The house Brian and Stewie crash the sleigh on the roof of is either in or almost New York City, as they pass the Statue of Liberty earlier the sleigh starts going out of control.
• Bloodshot Catastrophe: With Santa out of activeness due to his deteriorating health, and Brian and Stewie unable to help in any way, Christmas is all but canceled. They determine to convince the nation to lighten Santa'south burden past asking for just one present a year. They managed to accomplish this, allowing Santa to recover in time for next Christmas.
• Bowdlerization: The "All I Really Desire For Christmas" song has two lines that tin merely be heard uncensored on the episode'south DVD release. On Fob, Adult Swim, and the song's 2019 digital release on iTunes and Amazon Music, Peter responds to Brian's question "Doesn't this seem similar besides much stuff?" with "Poo on you, it'south not enough", but on the DVD, his reply is "Suck my dick, it's not enough". Similarly, Stewie follows this line up with "Buddy boy, I got your Christmas right hither!" and proceeds to catch his crotch on tv and the digital release of the vocal, only on the DVD release of the episode, Stewie sings "Why don't y'all get out and hunt cars, you queer?", which causes Brian to say "Wait'southward who talking" (in the television version of the episode and on its digital release, the song cuts straight to the master chorus after Stewie's line, removing Brian's comment entirely).
• The Cameo: Cleveland appears watching Brian and Stewie on the news.
• Characterization Marches On: Stewie's Knight Templar handling of Christmas is a stark contrast to the previous Christmas special, where he didn't even know who Santa was.
• Chekhov'due south Gun: Santa says the reindeer swallow elf flesh, when the elves wander out into the snow to die of exhaustion. When Brian and Stewie demand to become the sleigh moving, Brian brings this upwards and Stewie cuts off the arm of a brain-dead elf in the snow to go them started.
• Christmas Phenomenon: Santa, the workshop, his elves, the sleigh, and reindeer, all somehow become normal again by the side by side twelvemonth. This tin be justified as Brian and Stewie convince anybody to ask for only i gift a year instead of a large listing, which drained Santa in the offset place.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: This version of Santa takes a sledgehammer to his usual Grand.O. past showing what he would really expect like with a work schedule this strict and stressful; he's heavily underweight, slumber deprived, and vomiting from stress and overworking. Santa has likewise become an atheist (or at least converted into a Muslim) afterwards witnessing the suffering his elves go through, and he wants to dice when Stewie says he'southward at that place to kill him. After singing an Anti-Christmas Vocal, he ends up on life back up after vomiting claret. After trying (and failing) at delivering presents, Brian and Stewie actually how horrible it really is to be Santa. Santa is simply saved by Stewie and Brian when they convinced the world to ask for only one souvenir per person otherwise Santa will work himself to death.
• Deconstructor Armada: The whole Santa mythos takes quite a chirapsia in this episode. With no magic aiding Brian, Stewie, or Santa; Santa is sick and dying, and conditions at the Northward Pole are completely atrocious due to the world'southward growing population and growing demand for gifts. Santa's workshop has become a toxin-spewing manufactory, the elves are overworked, mutated, and inbred, and the reindeer take devolved into bloodthirsty monsters that devour the elves subsequently they wander out to die.
  • After Santa'southward health takes a turn for the worse, Brian and Stewie concur to deliver presents for him, and this episode takes the typical "Santa slides downwardly the chimney to exit presents for families" trope and runs it into the ground, turning information technology into what it really is: a dwelling invasion mixed with a an attack just to keep the witnesses from ratting them out to the police.
    1. When they land the sleigh at their get-go house, they accidentally fly through a tree in the process and the reindeer get stuck in it.
    2. They then get down the chimney just forget to bring the presents with them. Fortunately, the sleigh slides off the roof and lands in the yard.
    3. When they go outside to retrieve the presents, they forget to unlock the front end door, locking themselves out and forcing Brian to break a window to get back inside.
    4. They're shortly institute by the homo living there, who heard them pause the window and nearly calls the police earlier Stewie knocks him out with a baseball bat, getting claret everywhere in the process. They then hide him in a closet and Brian ties him up while Stewie makes it await like a break-in.
    5. The man's daughter and then wakes upwards and comes downstairs for some water. They try to get her to get back to bed, but and so the man's wife comes down looking for him, and he falls out of the closet. This forces Stewie to knock her out too when she tries to run.
    6. They then tie the daughter upwards with her unconscious parents and starting time cleaning upward all the blood, which takes them an hour and a half.
    7. When Brian goes to check on the boy who'south getting the baseball bat and discovers the family only has ane bedchamber, Stewie asks the daughter if she has a brother. When she responds no, it suddenly dawns on Stewie that they're in the wrong house. Stewie so hears the cops coming since they tripped a silent alarm at some point, likely when Brian broke the window.
    8. Brian and Stewie are forced to leave, and to add together insult to injury, the reindeer are all eating each other at this signal. If information technology hadn't been for Stewie modifying Santa's sleigh to fly on its ain, they would have been arrested.
    • End upshot: Two people are in the hospital (hopefully, if the dad didn't die from his injuries), a little girl will require years of therapy and probably detest Christmas for the residue of her life, nobody gets whatsoever presents, and Christmas is ruined. Stewie fifty-fifty points out just how impossible delivering presents to the entire world in i night actually is.

      Brian: Nosotros're just leaving similar this? What about non wanting to ruin Christmas?
      Stewie: It's already ruined! This was 1! HOUSE! Nosotros've been here for an hr and a one-half! An hour and a— First of all, we're not even Santa anymore. This has been a habitation invasion. Simply an Hour AND A HALF, Brian! It's gonna be low-cal in six hours, and we accept to deliver to the whole rest of the world! At that place's Two flat buildings on this block alone!
      Brian: No wonder Santa lost his heed! This is ridiculous! Nosotros tin can't do this!
      Stewie: NOBODY Tin can! IT'S INHUMAN!

• Digging Yourself Deeper: Brian's well-pregnant comments to Quagmire's niece all backfire in his face up to ridiculous caste. After, apparently the encounter has left her in critical condition.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Stewie becomes set on killing Santa for ignoring his requests for presents.
• Despair Result Horizon: Beating up a little girl's parents upwardly in forepart of her, tying them all up together, and quite perhaps traumatizing her for life. All to proceed your cover nigh Subbing for Santa. Merry Christmas!
• Epic Fail: Stewie and Brian's first effort at delivering toys. They crusade holding harm, bludgeon a couple possibly to death, tie their daughter upward, etc. It basically turns into a habitation invasion. And the real kicker? They've spent an 60 minutes and a half at the wrong business firm. Stewie even says equally they fly away: "That was a disaster."
• Extra-Long Episode: This is the 2d of the three season 9 episodes to be circulate as an 60 minutes-long episode.
• Fisher King: Santa regaining his wellness somehow likewise turns the elves back to normal and gets rid of the pollution.
• From Bad to Worse: Every bit said in the above synopsis, this special shows what happens when reality hits the Santa mythos too much.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: Every aspect of Stewie and Brian's start cease fails miserably. They damage property, the presents fall off the roof, they wake upwards the residents and need to restrain them, they've wasted an hour and a half there, and information technology turns out they weren't even at the right business firm.

  Brian: No wonder Santa lost his mind! This is ridiculous! We tin't do this!

  Stewie: NOBODY Tin! IT'S INHUMAN!

• Harmful to Minors: The little girl witnessing her parents beingness beaten and mayhap killed by Brian and Stewie subbing for Santa and then beingness bound and gagged with tape and left for the law to find.
• Heroic RRoD: The central function of the second one-half of the episode deals with the real Santa Claus suffering from this. His frequent communicable up to everyone's requests of Christmas gifts has left him sickly and bitter. The residual of the North Pole's state, and all working at that place is just equally bad, if not worse.
• Hollywood New England: Upon seeing Santa'southward workshop in a morbid, foggy state with mill chimneys spouting pollution, Stewie compares it to Bridgeport, Connecticut.

  Brian: Ooooh boy. Get ready for the messages.

  (cutaway to a Bridgeporter writing a letter) Dea' Family Guy basta'ds. How the Hell practise you lot think you ah'?? I'll have yous know that Bridgeport is amongst the world leada'due south in abased buildins', shattered glass, boa'ded up windows, bah'king dogs, and gas stations with no pumps! So eat my *** ^note On the DVD, the bleeped out give-and-take is "piss," which doesn't make sense, since healthy urine isn't solid; this is probably deliberate to show the Bridgeporter'southward stupidity, Jew writers.

• Incest Is Relative: Santa explains to Brian and Stewie that he started with ane family of elves. To keep up with the growing demands of the human being population asking for more than gifts, he grew drastic and needed more elf workers, thus led to the family of elves inbreeding for generations. Due to their inbreeding, every bit least 60% of them are blind.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Santa's flesh-eating reindeer become and so famished during the trip to deliver the presents, they cease up devouring one another one time they get stuck upwardly in a tree.
• Hypocritical Humor: Afterward Brian tells Stewie that Santa isn't existent, Stewie attempts to express mirth this off past "sarcastically" questioning the reality of several other clearly fictional characters.

  Stewie: Oh, interesting. Interesting theory, Brian. Who else are you gonna tell me isn't existent? Hmm? Are you gonna tell me that Elmo isn't real? Hmm? SpongeBob? Is he non... Is SpongeBob non really out there at the bottom of the body of water giving Squidward the concern? Hmm? And how about Curious George? Is he... Is Curious George non actually out there making boats out of lilliputian tiny newspapers he should be delivering? Hmm? Hmm? Educate yourself, yous fool.

• Let's See YOU Practise Better!: Stewie spends most of the episode and then Holier Than 1000 almost the virtues of Christmas that he is willing to murder Santa Claus for not abiding to his standards. It is only when he is fabricated to make full in for Santa for ane night (and fails disastrously with merely one house) that he realises how difficult the season actually is.
• Mall Santa: An apathetic one kicks off Brian and Stewie's journey by brushing the latter off.
• Musical Episode: The special contains two elaborate songs.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Brian's reaction when Stewie bludgeons a begetter to death, puts him in the closet, knocks out the mother and leaves the child tied up and traumatized as a means of keeping Santa's identity a secret.
• Nightmarish Manufactory: Santa's workshop has turned into 1.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Stewie just before Quagmire gives Brian another chewing out for upsetting his chemo-patient niece.
  • Brian and Stewie when Dan, the owner of the firm they endeavour delivering presents to, discovers them in his kitchen.
  • Brian and Stewie stop expressionless when they hear a picayune girl upstairs say she wants a glass of water. Stewie lets loose a Precision F-Strike.
  • The mother in the firm when she sees Dan topple out of the closet, tied up and blooded. Brian actually says "Oh, Crap!" seconds after when she tries to make a run for information technology.
  • Stewie once again in mid-sentence when he realises he and Brian are in the wrong house. And then again immediately later on when he hears sirens in the distance.
• Open Rima oris, Insert Human foot: Brian does this a few times with regard to Quagmire's cancer-stricken niece.

  Brian: Hey, who's this trivial guy? Is this your nephew? Hey, buddy! Y'all excited to see Santa? Hope you lot've been a good male child this year.

  Quagmire: That "footling guy" is my niece Abby, y'all douche. Her hair's short because of the chemotherapy.

  Quagmire: Do you know how much talking information technology took to go her outta the business firm because of her no-hair?

  Brian: Gosh, I didn't know. I'm and so sorry.

  Quagmire: Oh, you're sorry? For what? That waiting in line is such a catastrophe, you'd rather destroy the confidence of a v-year-old cancer patient?

  Brian: Aw, c'mon. I didn't know she was dying.

  Abby: Uncle Glenn, am I dying?

  Quagmire: [holds her close] No, sweetheart, you're not dying, 'crusade we're gonna meet Santa, and he'south gonna give yous a new brain. [turns to Brian, unhappily gritting his teeth] Become outta here, Brian. Just get outta here.

• Precision F-Strike: Coupled with an Oh, Crap!. Stewie says "Shit.", when he and Brian hear a immature daughter upstairs say she wants a drinking glass of water.
  • Cleveland's response to the one nowadays idea: "Okay, only one. But if it'due south a gym membership, somebody's gettin' punched in the fuckin' confront."
• Running Gagged: The final episode to feature Brian's Bluster-Inducing Slight relationship with Quagmire. By the next episode Quagmire's hatred of Brian remerges, Brian angrily snaps back and starts antagonising Quagmire on purpose, chaining off their later Sitcom Arch-Nemesis dynamic.
• Santa'southward Sweatshop: Rampant need for presents has reduced the North Pole to a Polluted Wasteland, the elves have devolved into barely sentient mutants, and Santa himself is suffering from a Heroic RRoD.
• Saving Christmas: Double subverted. Stewie and Brian fail miserably at Santa'southward job and Christmas is ruined, but they get the thought to show the world what a toll the holiday has taken on Santa and convince everyone to switch to one present per person. The next Christmas is thus a success.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Brian and Stewie do this when they realise how utterly impossible delivering presents around the world in one night really is, afterward spending an hour and a half in just one house.
• Subbing for Santa: Brian and Stewie endeavour to evangelize the Christmas presents in Santa's identify. They screwed it up royally.
• Tangled Family Tree: Santa Claus explains to Brian and Stewie one of many problems with the elves, i of them is the inbreeding which began with a small-scale family unit of elves and every year Santa needed more and more elf workers to help him with the gifts making. This unfortunately led to the unmarried family of elves turning to inbreeding with their relative to mass produce more workers to assist Santa. Which left them with severe mental, physical and health defects (at least 60% of them are born blind).
• Wham Line: We become ii back-to-back after Stewie and Brian tie the family up and make clean upward all the blood.

  Stewie: Get check on the other child.
  Brian: What other kid?
  Stewie: Johnny, the one who's getting the bat.
  Brian: (runs upstairs) Stewie, there's only one bedroom up here!
  Stewie: What? (turns to the daughter) Do y'all have a brother?
  Daughter: (shakes her head for "no")
  Stewie: Well, then who the hell is Joh- Oh my god, we're in the wrong firm.

• Who'southward on First?: Occurs when a passing Canadian man stops while Stewie and Brian are stranded on the side of the route.

  Canadian: Oh, hey at that place. You're having some car troubles, eh?

  Stewie: Yeah, we're trying to get to the Due north Pole. I don't suppose you're from Triple A, are yous?

  Canadian: Who?

  Stewie: Triple A, you know? A-A-A.

  Canadian: Oh, AA, eh? Oh, I merely came from AA.

  Stewie: No, not AA! AAA!

  Canadian: Yeah, that'south what I said. AA, eh?

  Stewie: Oh, so yous are with Triple A.

  Canadian: Oh, no, that's AAA. I but came from AA, eh?

  Stewie: Huh?

  Brian: Stewie, I call back he's just a drunk.

  Stewie: Well, drunk or not, tin can you lot help us?

  Canadian: I can if you wanna join AA, eh?

  Stewie: Oh, I'grand already a fellow member of AAA! I need assist with the auto!

  Canadian: Oh, I see. Yeah, looks like you lot got some water leakage. You lot might need a hose, eh?

  Stewie: José, Roberto, whatever. If you got some Latinos up here that can prepare cars, that'd exist great.

  Canadian: No, I hateful, it looks like you demand a part, eh?

  Stewie: Well, yeah, when it'southward fixed, we can celebrate, but let's deal with first affair's start.

  Canadian: Well, I can probably take you to a gas station, eh? You have cash, eh?

  Stewie: Well, I dunno, my name carries a picayune weight, but I don't meet how that matters here.

• Would Hurt a Kid: Brian and Stewie are not in a higher place tying up a piffling daughter with her one-half-dead parents, though she is the just one who Stewie doesn't bludgeon with a bat.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Brian when he tries to become back into the business firm he and Stewie are delivering presents to, but to find the front door somehow locked behind them.
• Younger Than They Look: Santa Claus, who is only 28 despite looking like he'south in fourscore's.

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