History Recap / FamilyGuyS8E1RoadToTheMultiverse

* "ShaggyDog"Story: After human Brian makes it to the universe where people are in change he is [[spoiler:quickly run over by a truck before he can start his new life.]]

* {{Bowdlerization}}: The following changes were made between the TV version and the DVD version:
** Brian and Stewie in the universe where Meg is hot, but still considered ugly compared to Lois: Stewie's line about Lois is "If you saw Lois, you'd have to put your penis in a wheelchair". On the DVD version, the line is, "If you saw Lois, your penis would shoot right off your body."
** Brian and Stewie visiting the ''Flintstone'' world: Wilma!Lois' line about having sex with Fred!Peter included an extra line about having four "rock-gasms" on the DVD version, but both the TV version and the DVD version have the line about Wilma!Lois being glad Fred!Peter wore a "rock"[[note]]cock[[/note]] ring.
** Chris yelling "Fuck you!" after Stewie's burn on ''Robot Chicken'' being on a mainstream channel was bleeped on the TV version.
** Another bleeping of the word "fuck" was done on the TV version of the scene with Stewie and Brian in the world where everything is a pretentious political cartoon for ''The Washington Post''.

** Another bleeping of the word "fuck" was done on the TV version of the scene with Stewie and Brian in the world where everything is a pretentious political cartoon for ''The New Yorker''.

* PieInTheFace: Herbert (as the hag from ''Snow White'') gets this this treatment from the rest of the characters in the Disney universe.

When Stewie enters a genetically engineered pig at the carnival, Brian asks him where it came from. Stewie reveals to Brian that with an interdimensional teleporter, he can travel to different universes and takes Brian to a universe without religion, where everything is 1,000 years advanced, where he just ''bought'' the pig. After exploring that universe, Brian asks if Stewie can take him to other universes and he agrees. First, they stop at a ''Flintstones''-esque universe, followed by a universe where America never bombed Japan in World War II, making the world dominated by Japan. Later, they travel to a universe where everyone has two heads, one happy and one sad, followed by a universe where they are trapped in a second Ice Age, where Brian helps them escape.

After going to a universe where "everyone has to poop right just now", they go into a universe where everything is run by Creator/{{Disney}}. They're happy with staying there until the inhabitants attack Mort the Jew. They then go to a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' universe, followed by a universe where the U.S. botched the Cuban Missile Crisis and the world is in World War III, then a universe with everyone animated poorly. The universe traveling continues with stops at universes of fire hydrants, homosexuals, live-action, political cartoons, a guy who yells compliments from afar and misleading portraiture. They finally stop at a universe where the roles of dogs and humans are reversed. Brian wants to stay to Stewie's chagrin and a fight for the traveling remote causes them to drop it and break, leaving them with no way back home.

In the dog universe, they decide to go the Griffin house, with dog versions of the family and a human version of Brian. The two hide after Stewie bites Dog!Peter and "human control" is called upon. Dog!Stewie gives them his traveling remote, but wanting to live in a man-dominated world, Human!Brian stows away with them. This time, they make it back home and Human!Brian wishes Stewie and Brian goodbye before getting run over.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The Disney universe is a fun and cheerful place where everyone gets along, and even when Herbert (as the hag from ''Snow White'') tries to spoil the fun, he is defeated in a comical way. Stewie honestly can't think of a reason not to stay there... until Mort walks in. The Disneyverse is a magical place... but if you're a Jew, you ''die''.

!!"Road to the Multiverse" contains examples of ([[YMMV/FamilyGuyS8E1RoadToTheMultiverse YMMV goes here]]):

* LookBothWays: At the end of the episode, Human!Brian promptly gets hit by a car as he crosses the street.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The Disneyverse. It's a fun and cheerful place where everyone gets along, and even when Herbert (as the hag from ''Snow White'') tries to spoil the fun, he is defeated in a comical way. Stewie honestly can't think of a reason not to stay there... until [[spoiler:Mort]] walks in. The Disneyverse is a magical place... but if you're [[spoiler: a Jew]], you ''die''.
* {{Disneyesque}}: The Disneyverse. This episode provides the page image.
* ElementalPlane: The episode featured quite a few of these.

-->'''Dog!Peter:''' OH-MY-GOD-I-KNOW-THAT-SOUND-IT-MEANS-THERE'S-A-POTENTIAL-INTRUDER-AT-THE-FRONT-DOOR-OR-ONE-OF-MY-PALS-EITHER-WAY-I'M-EXCITED-AND-READY-FOR-ANYTHING!

* StealthPun: In the Disneyverse, Joe appears as [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast a teapot]]. So he's "a cup of Joe".

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman and DudeNotFunny: In the World War III universe, Lee Harvey Oswald shot Mayor [=McCheese=], with Jackie Kennedy eating the scattered head.

* AlternateUniverse

* {{SMURFING}}: Exaggerated in the Flintstone universe.

** One universe is based on ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' (which, coincidentally, was the next cartoon Creator/SethMacFarlane worked on before he put it on hold.

** One universe is based on ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' (which, coincidentally, was the next cartoon Creator/SethMacFarlane worked on before he put it on hold. Now that ''The Cleveland Show'' has been canceled and ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' will move to TBS, [=MacFarlane=] may work on the show, but nothing's [[{{Pun}} set in stone]]).

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: PlayedForLaughs; The Art/SistineChapel still exists in the ultra-advanced no-Christianity universe - the ceiling was just decorated by John Hinckley, Jr., who covered it with pictures of Jodie Foster.

* NoodleIncident: Appearently, Dog Stewie and Human Brian have had a universe-hopping experience of their own.

** One universe is based on ''TheFlintstones'' (which, coincidentally, was the next cartoon Creator/SethMacFarlane worked on before he put it on hold. Now that ''The Cleveland Show'' has been canceled and ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' will move to TBS, [=MacFarlane=] may work on the show, but nothing's [[{{Pun}} set in stone]]).

** Brian's alternate name in the dog universe is [[{{Dynasty}} Blake Carrington]].

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: PlayedForLaughs; The Sistine Chapel still exists in the ultra-advanced no-Christianity universe - the ceiling was just decorated by John Hinckley, Jr., who covered it with pictures of Jodie Foster.

When Stewie enters a genetically engineered pig at the carnival, Brian asks him where it came from. Stewie reveals to Brian that with an interdimensional teleporter, he can travel to different universes and takes Brian to a universe without religion, where everything is 1,000 years advanced. After exploring that universe, Brian asks if Stewie can take him to other universes and he agrees. First, they stop at a ''Flintstones''-esque universe, followed by a universe where America never bombed Japan in World War II, making the world dominated by Japan. Later, they travel to a universe where everyone has two heads, one happy and one sad, followed by a universe where they are trapped in a second Ice Age, where Brian helps them escape.

* AuthorTract: OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLnDy9Mjbnc the first alternate universe]] visited, "Christianity never existed, which means the [[DarkAgeEurope dark ages of scientific repression]] never occurred, and thus, humanity is a thousand years more advanced." It's not as bad as the entirety of "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" or even the end of "I Dream of Jesus" where Jesus Himself tells Peter that all religion is crap (with Brian yelling, "''Thank'' you!") in terms of religion-bashing, but it will leave a bad taste in some viewers' mouths.

* AuthorTract: OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions. In the first alternate universe visited, "Christianity never existed, which means the [[DarkAgeEurope dark ages of scientific repression]] never occurred, and thus, humanity is a thousand years more advanced." It's not as bad as the entirety of "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" or even the end of "I Dream of Jesus" where Jesus Himself tells Peter that all religion is crap (with Brian yelling, "''Thank'' you!") in terms of religion-bashing, but it will leave a bad taste in some viewers' mouths.

* MaleGaze: There is an upwards panning shot of Sexy Meg in the alternative universe that Brian abd Stewie visit.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The Sistine Chapel still exists in the universe with no religion.

* ButtMonkey: Meg. Even in the futuristic alternate universe, where she's smoking hot, she's still considered ugly compared to Lois (who is so hot, to quote Stewie, "...you'd have to put your penis in a wheelchair." On DVD, the line is, "...your penis would shoot right off your body.") Of note, and probably obvious to many, this universe's Lois doesn't appear.

* AuthorTract: In the first alternate universe visited, "Christianity never existed, which means the [[DarkAgeEurope dark ages of scientific repression]] never occurred, and thus, humanity is a thousand years more advanced." It's not as bad as the entirety of "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" or even the end of "I Dream of Jesus" where Jesus Himself tells Peter that all religion is crap (with Brian yelling, "''Thank'' you!") in terms of religion-bashing, but it will leave a bad taste in some viewers' mouths.

* AuthorTract: Without religion, the world is advanced by 1,000 years. It's not as bad as the entirety of "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" or even the end of "I Dream of Jesus" where Jesus Himself tells Peter that all religion is crap (with Brian yelling, "''Thank'' you!") in terms of religion-bashing, but it will leave a bad taste in some viewers' mouths.

After going to a universe where "everyone has to poop right just now", they go into a universe where everything is run by Creator/{{Disney}}. They're happy with staying there until the inhabitants attack Mort the Jew. They then go to a ''RobotChicken'' universe, followed by a universe where the U.S. botched the Cuban Missile Crisis and the world is in World War III, then a universe with everyone animated poorly. The universe traveling continues with stops at universes of fire hydrants, homosexuals, live-action, political cartoons, a guy who yells compliments from afar and misleading portraiture. They finally stop at a universe where the roles of dogs and humans are reversed. Brian wants to stay to Stewie's chagrin and a fight for the traveling remote causes them to drop it and break, leaving them with no way back home.

** At Creator/SethGreen and ''RobotChicken''.

** [[QuantumLeap "I hope this next leap will be the leap home."]]

After going to a universe where "everyone has to poop right just now", they go into a universe where everything is run by {{Disney}}. They're happy with staying there until the inhabitants attack Mort the Jew. They then go to a ''RobotChicken'' universe, followed by a universe where the U.S. botched the Cuban Missile Crisis and the world is in World War III, then a universe with everyone animated poorly. The universe traveling continues with stops at universes of fire hydrants, homosexuals, live-action, political cartoons, a guy who yells compliments from afar and misleading portraiture. They finally stop at a universe where the roles of dogs and humans are reversed. Brian wants to stay to Stewie's chagrin and a fight for the traveling remote causes them to drop it and break, leaving them with no way back home.