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{{title|image=RoadToTheNorthPole.jpg|director=Greg Colton|writer=Danny Smith<br />Chris Sheridan|release=December 12, 2010|runtime=44 minutes|rating=TV-14|available=DVD}}{{W|Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX}}'s animated sitcom ''Family Guy'' presents '''"{{PAGENAME}}"''' is a special hour-length [[Christmas]] special, and, overall, the second Christmas-themed episode of the series. It was originally aired on FOX on December 12, 2010.
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{{title|image=RoadToTheNorthPole.jpg|director=Greg Colton|writer=Danny Smith<br />& Chris Sheridan|release=December 12, 2010|runtime=44 minutes|rating=TV-14|available=DVD}}{{W|Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX}}'s animated series ''Family Guy'' presents '''"{{PAGENAME}}"''' is a hour-length [[Christmas]] special, and, overall, the second Christmas-themed episode of the series. It was originally aired on FOX on December 12, 2010.
   
 
==Synopsis==
 
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==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
 
* The opening credits contain scenes based on ''[[The Nutcracker]]'', ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas!]]'', ''[[Frosty the Snowman]]'', ''[[Home Alone]]'', and ''[[National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]]''.
 
* The opening credits contain scenes based on ''[[The Nutcracker]]'', ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas!]]'', ''[[Frosty the Snowman]]'', ''[[Home Alone]]'', and ''[[National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]]''.
* Fellow Fox alumnus David Boreanaz (of ''{{w|Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'', ''[[wikipedia:Angel (TV series)|Angel]]'', and ''[[wikipedia:Bones (TV series)|Bones]]'') makes a live-action appearance in the Polar sky above the traveling Brian and Stewie as the "Aurora Boreanaz" who says hello to them and later helps point them on their way.
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* Fellow Fox alumnus David Boreanaz (of ''{{w|Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'', ''{{w|Angel (TV series)|Angel}}'', and ''{{w|Bones (TV series)|Bones}}'') makes a live-action appearance in the Polar sky above the traveling Brian and Stewie as the "Aurora Boreanaz" who says hello to them and later helps point them on their way.
   
 
==Availability==
 
==Availability==

Revision as of 21:43, 12 December 2018

FOX's animated series Family Guy presents "Road to the North Pole" is a hour-length Christmas special, and, overall, the second Christmas-themed episode of the series. It was originally aired on FOX on December 12, 2010.

Synopsis

SPOILER: Plot details or story follow.
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Brian takes Stewie to the mall, only to get a rude brush-off from Santa. As a result, Stewie vows to kill Santa for blowing him off and forces Brian to drive him to the North Pole. Brian tricks him by taking him to Santa's Village, but Stewie fails to fall for it. Stewie hitches a ride with a truck driver to Canada with Brian in pursuit. When Stewie accidentally fires a flare pistol in the truck causing a major wreck, Brian and Stewie find themselves stranded until a passer-by offers them the use of his snowmobile.

Driving until they run out of gas, they take shelter in an old cabin and push on the next morning on foot until they reach the North Pole only to find a vast toxin-spewing industrial complex, Santa a sickly old man, the elves all mutated and inbred from Santa's attempt to keep up with the increasing toy demands year after year, and the reindeer carnivorous monsters who eat the elves that wandered out into the snow to die.

Brian and Stewie dressed as Santa

Brian and Stewie attempt to fill in for Santa.

When Santa collapses, Brian and Stewie attempt to deliver the presents themselves, but things go horribly wrong. They break into their first house, beat the owners senseless and tie up their daughter only to find they had the wrong house.

On Christmas morning, everyone else awakes to find out they received no presents. In a final attempt to save the holiday, Brian and Stewie go on television, revealing the near dead Santa and explaining their demands are killing him. He pleads for the world to show some restraint in their gift requests, limiting everyone to one gift each or else they might just lose Christmas altogether. Everyone agrees to the request, and by next year, Santa recovers and the elves are rejuvenated.

Spoilers end here.

Songs

Trivia

Availability

After its original broadcast, "Road to the North Pole" was given its own DVD release, sold exclusively at f.y.e. stores. The DVD also contained The Cleveland Show episode "Murray Christmas". "Road to the North Pole" was later included on the Family Guy: Volume 10 DVD set.

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See also

External links

20th Century
Movies
Miracle on 34th Street (1955 remake) (1973 remake) (1994 remake) • Die HardDie Hard 2Home AloneHome Alone 2: Lost in New YorkGeorge Balanchine's The NutcrackerTrapped in ParadiseJingle All the WayHome Alone 4The Family StoneDeck the Halls12 Men of ChristmasHome Alone: The Holiday HeistJingle All the Way 2Home Sweet Home Alone
Television episodes and specials
20th Television
M*A*S*H "Dear Dad" • "Dear Sis" • "Death Takes a Holiday" • "All About Christmas Eve"
Tracey Ullman "Santa Baby" • "Kay's Gift" • "Merry Catnip"
The X Files "Christmas Carol" • "Emily" • "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas"
Malcolm in the Middle "Christmas" • "Christmas Trees" • "Pearl Harbor" • "Hal's Christmas Gift
Bones "The Man in the Fallout Shelter" • "The Santa in the Slush" • "The Goop on the Girl"
How I Met Your Mother "How Lily Stole Christmas" • "Little Minnesota" • "False Positive" • "Symphony of Illumination" • "The Over-Correction" • "The Final Page, Part 1" • "The Final Page, Part 2"
Glee "A Very Glee Christmas" • "Extraordinary Merry Christmas" • "Glee, Actually" • "Previously Unaired Christmas"
New Girl "The 23rd" • "Santa" • "LAXmas" • "Christmas Eve Eve"
The Mindy Project "Josh and Mindy's Christmas Party" • "Christmas Party Sex Trap" • "Christmas" • "When Mindy Met Danny"
Last Man Standing "Last Christmas Standing" • "Putting a Hit on Christmas" • "Elfie" • "Wedding Planning" • "Gift of the Wise Man"
Other shows "Christmas Story" • "The Worst Noel" • "Haus Arrest" • "Amends" • "Blue Christmas" • "A Christmas Story" • "Cookies for Santa" • "In God We Trust" • "Road to Tradition" • "Afternoon Delight" • "Christmas" • "The Glitch That Stole Christmas" • "Secret Santa"
20th Television Animation
The Simpsons "Simpson Christmas" • "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" • "Marge Be Not Proud" • "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" • "Grift of the Magi" • "Skinner's Sense of Snow" • "She of Little Faith" • "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" • "Simpson Christmas Stories" • "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II" • "The Fight Before Christmas" • "Holidays of Future Passed" • "White Christmas Blues" • "I Won't Be Home for Christmas • "The Nightmare After Krustmas" • "'Tis the 30th Season" • "Bobby, It's Cold Outside" • "The Way of The Dog" • "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas" • "Manger Things" • Feliz Navidad
King of the Hill "The Unbearable Blindness of Laying" • "Pretty, Pretty Dresses" • "Hillennium" • "'Twas the Nut Before Christmas" • "The Father, the Son, and J.C." • "Livin' on Reds, Vitamin C and Propane" • "Ms. Wakefield"
Family Guy, American Dad!, and The Cleveland Show "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" • "The Best Christmas Story Never" • "The Most Adequate Christmas Ever" • "Rapture's Delight" • "A Cleveland Brown Christmas" • "Road to the North Pole" • "For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls" • "Murray Christmas" • "Season's Beatings" • "Die Semi-Hard" • "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" • "'Tis the Cleveland To Be Sorry" • "Minstrel Krampus" • "Christmas Guy" • "Dreaming of a White Porsche Christmas" • "The 2000-Year-Old Virgin" • "How the Griffin Stole Christmas" • "Ninety North, Zero West" • "Gifted Me Liberty" • "Don't Be a Dickens At Christmas" • "Santa, Schmanta" • "Christmas is Coming" • "Yule. Tide. Repeat." • "The First No L" • "Christmas Crime" • "The Return of the King (of Queens)"
Futurama "Xmas Story" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas"
Bob's Burgers "God Rest Ye Merry Gentle-Mannequins" • "Christmas in the Car" • "Father of the Bob" • "Nice-Capades" • "The Last Gingerbread House on the Left" • "The Bleakening" • "Better Off Sled" • "Have Yourself a Maily Linda Christmas" • "Yachty or Nice" • "Gene's Christmas Break" • "The Plight Before Christmas" • "The Nightmare 2 Days Before Christmas"
Other cartoons "Hook's Christmas" • "A Christmas Surprise for Mrs. Stillman" • Olive, the Other ReindeerIce Age: A Mammoth Christmas • "The War on Grafelnik" • "Miracle on Culpepper Slims Boulevard" • "A Very Solar Holiday Opposites Special" • "Dip the Halls Adventure" • "Xmas with The Skanks Adventure"