Line #30 Recap/FamilyGuyS10E5BackToThePilot


1	Stewie and Brian travel back in time to the pilot episode, but when Brian warns his past self about [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]], he inadvertently creates a worse future.
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3	!!Tropes:
4	* AnachronismStew:
5	** Invoked during Brian stopping the terrorist attacks when he says, "Mohammed [[{{Pun}} 'Atta']] stay at home" despite no one knowing his name and using the phrase "Seacrest out" despite ''Series/AmericanIdol'' not premiering until 2002.
6	** In one bad future, Brian becomes the writer of the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' novels, despite ''Sorcerer's Stone'' having already been released in the UK in 1997 with the first film being released in 2001.
7	* AndIMustScream: One Brian-Stewie pair somehow wound up trapped in barber poles, with no idea how it happened, no means of escaping, and no way to get away from the vomit that comes after constantly being spun around.
8	-->'''Future!Stewie''': Oh my god, what's that?!
9	-->'''Barber pole!Stewie''': I don't know what happened! This is life for some reason! Don't do whatever it is you're about to do!
10	-->'''Barber pole!Brian''': God help us, this is no way to live!
11	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When Stewie finds out Brian stopped 9/11, Stewie warns him of the unforeseen consequences, such as Saddam Hussein being President, Mexico being the world's dominant super power, and Cookie Monster inventing Facebook.
12	* ArtShift: The future scenes are done in CGI, while Stewie and Brian remain traditionally animated.
13	* AspectRatioSwitch: The ratio goes from widescreen to standard when Brian and Stewie go back to 1999.
14	* BackToTheEarlyInstallment: Currently the trope image. Brian and Stewie go back to the first episode and observe the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, while Brian uses the time [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong to warn his past self about 9/11.]] [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct Unfortunately it backfires]].
15	* BadFuture: The prevention of 9/11 causes the Iraq War to never happen, making George W. Bush lose the 2004 election and starting a second Confederacy, leading to a nuclear Civil War with a death toll of ''seventeen million''. It's not too bad for Joe though, as he gets to be a cyborg.
16	* BoringButPractical: [[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E3RoadToGermany After the trip to WWII Germany]], Stewie reconfigured the Return Pad to use D batteries instead of uranium so it can be easily refuelled.
17	* TheBusCameBack: In the future, Cleveland moves back to Quahog from [[WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow Stoolbend]] due to it being in re-confederated Virginia. A couple years later, his show would be cancelled and he would return for real.
18	* ClusterFBomb: The Kool-Aid Man blames Stewie and Brian with this after he shatters:
19	-->'''Kool-Aid Man:''' YOU GUYS DID THIS! YOU GUYS FUCKING DID THIS! TALKING ABOUT MY GUTS?! FUCKING ME UP?! FUCK YOU!
20	* ContrivedCoincidence: Due to the low power of the Return Pad's D Battery supply, it instead takes Brian and Stewie to the Super Bowl XXXIII. Despite the now simpler means of power, none of them has any money to buy batteries...until Brian remembers that he and Peter were in a blimp above the stadium and dumped a huge amount of cash from the sky.
21	* InnerThoughtsOutsiderPuzzlement: Brian and Stewie observe what their past selves did during cutaway gags in the past, which was essentially standing around and waiting for the gag to end, much to their confusion. Afterward, Stewie reveals that nowadays, they "send text messages and screw around and whatnot."
22	-->'''Present!Stewie''': Oh, th- they're do- they're setting up fucking cutaways.
23	-->'''Present!Brian''': Oh my God, is that what we did back then?
24	-->'''Present!Stewie''': Yeah, I mean, now we just, like, return text messages and screw around and whatnot. (cutaway to present)
25	-->'''Peter''': Lois, I am not going back to work tomorrow. That new boss has it in for me! He's meaner than a shifty salesman.
26	-->''(After this, the family gets out their cell phones and other hobbies and Peter smokes a cigarette.)''
27	-->'''Lois''': You sure you got time to smoke?
28	-->'''Peter''': Oh, yeah, it's an Al Harrington, [[OverlyLongGag it goes on for a while]].
29	* MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Brian and Stewie do this, complete with lots of LampshadeHanging.
30	-->'''Brian''': That's odd. It looks like our house, but different somehow..
31	** Stewie also notes that it was also the time Peter's eye went over his nose ([[OffModel an animation error that actually occurred in the pilot]]).
32	-->'''Stewie''': Ew, I remember this. [[OffModel Peter's eye did that weird creepy thing where it went over his nose]].
33	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Brian's attempt to avert 9/11 results in the Southern states seceding from the union as Bush wasn't able to hold on to power without the terrorist attacks to exploit peoples' fears (or at least that's what Brian claims), and a few years in the future the United States are now engaged in civil war after a nuclear war.
34	* NoodleIncident: Quite a few seem to apply to the various 'future' Brian and Stewies that appear at the end, including two that have somehow become stuck in barber shop twirls and a Stewie with a Brian whose throat has been slit even though all the other Brians are still alive.
35	* TheOtherDarrin: InUniverse. Brian and Stewie notice that Meg's voice is different (from ever since Season 2), due to still being voiced by Creator/LaceyChabert back then. Stewie can only say that she sounds like an actress who's "about to lose on a huge opportunity."
36	* SecondAmericanCivilWar: Brian warns his past self about 9/11 during a time travel adventure to the first episode of the series, leading to him preventing the destruction of the World Trade Center. [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct As a consequence]], George W Bush loses his re-election campaign and instead ends up leading several southern states into forming a second Confederacy and seceding from the U.S. This spirals into a second Civil War and eventually reduces the East Coast to an irradiated wasteland.
37	* StatusQuoIsGod: In the end, Stewie and Brian's various other selves all vote ''not'' to stop 9/11.
38	* StylisticSuck: In the future, the writing of episodes apparently becomes way too lazy.
39	-->'''Future!Peter''': Hey, Lois, I found some double-sided tape. I think I can do about seven minutes worth of funny stuff with it. That should get us to the Meg kissing booth story.
40	-->[...]
41	-->'''Future!Peter''': Chris, I heard you got a "D" on your report card. ''[to the camera]'' Here's a cutaway.
42	-->''(cut to Future!Peter standing in a blank white void)''
43	-->'''Future!Peter''': Creator/MatthewMcConaughey is terrible.
44	* TakeThat: To George W. Bush. Not only does the episode state that Bush only won his re-election because he exploited people's fears after 9/11, but after he lost, he, most likely out of spite over his loss, formed a second Confederacy, which leads into a second Civil War.

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