History Recap / FamilyGuyS9E7RoadToTheNorthPole

* PrecisionFStrike: Coupled with an OhCrap. Stewie says "Shit.", when he and Brian hear a young girl upstairs say she wants a glass of water.

* SubbingForSanta: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Brian and Stewie attempt to deliver the Christmas presents in Santa's place. [[EpicFail They screw it up]] ''[[EpicFail royally]]'', to the point that they spent an hour and a half in the wrong house on their very first delivery ''and'' managed to turn it into a home invasion.

* WhosOnFirst: Occurs when a passing [[CanadaEh Canadian man]] stops while Stewie and Brian are stranded on the side of the road.

-->''(cutaway to a Bridgeporter writing a letter)'' Dea' Family Guy basta'ds. How the Hell do you think you ah'?? I'll have you know that Bridgeport is among the world leada's in abandoned 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 word is "piss," which doesn't make sense, since healthy urine isn't solid; this is probably deliberate to show the Bridgeporter's stupidity[[/note]], Jew writers.

* AnAesop: "We can get out of any mess if we learn to live with less..."

* AscendToCarnivorism: Santa's reindeer had started eating flesh and tore apart any elf that wandered near them.

* RoyalInbreeding: Santa explains to Brian and Stewie that he started with one family of elves. To keep up with the growing demands of the human population asking for more gifts, he grew desperate and needed more elf workers, thus led to the family of elves inbreeding for generations. Due to their inbreeding, as least 60% of them are blind.

'''Stewie:''' Ugh, I hate when they do that. Which guys? You know, it could be the writers or the guys in the wardrobe department, they don't specify!\\

'''Stewie:''' Ugh, who cares? It's sure a broad association.\\

'''Stewie:''' Uh, I hate when they do that. Which guy? You know it could be the writers or the guys in the wardrobe department, they don't specify.\\

'''Stewie:''' Uh, who cares? It's sure a broad association.\\

'''Announcer:''' From the same molecular elements that brought you ''Film/ForgettingSarahMarshall''.\\

*** End result: Two people are in the hospital (hopefully, if the dad didn't die from his injuries), [[BreakTheCutie a little girl will require years of therapy]] [[TheScrooge and probably hate Christmas for the rest of her life]], nobody gets any presents, and Christmas is ruined. Stewie even points out just how impossible delivering presents to the entire world in one night actually is.

* SubbingForSanta: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Brian and Stewie attempt to deliver the Christmas presents in Santa's place. [[EpicFail They screw it up]] ''[[EpicFail royally.]]''

* TangledFamilyTree: Santa Claus explains to Brian and Stewie one of many problems with the elves, one of them is the inbreeding which began with a small family of elves and every year Santa needed more and more elf workers to help him with the gifts making. This unfortunately led to the single family of elves turning to inbreeding with their relative to mass produce more workers to help Santa. Which left them with severe mental, physical and health defects (at least 60% of them are born blind). It's so bad that their instincts take over and in the end, they just walk out into the snow and die.

* TangledFamilyTree: Santa Claus explains to Brian and Stewie one of many problems with the elves, one of them is the inbreeding which began with a small family of elves and every year Santa needed more and more elf workers to help him with the gifts making. This unfortunately led to the single family of elves turning to inbreeding with their relative to mass produce more workers to help Santa. Which left them with severe mental, physical and health defects (at least 60% of them are born blind).

* SubbingForSanta: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Brian and Stewie attempt to deliver the Christmas presents in Santa's place. [[EpicFail They screwed it up royally.]]

--> Canadian: Oh, hey there. You're having some car troubles, eh? \\

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

-->'''Stewie''': Oh, interesting. Interesting theory, Brian. Who else are you gonna tell me isn't real? Hmm? Are you gonna tell me that [[Series/SesameStreet Elmo]] isn't real? Hmm? [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob]]? Is he not... Is [=SpongeBob=] not really out there at the bottom of the ocean giving Squidward the business? Hmm? And how about Literature/CuriousGeorge? Is he... Is Curious George not really out there making boats out of little tiny newspapers he should be delivering? Hmm? Hmm? Educate yourself, you fool.

-->'''Brian''': Hey, who's this little guy? Is this your nephew? Hey, buddy! You excited to see Santa? Hope you've been a good boy this year.
-->'''Quagmire''': That "little guy" is my niece Abby, you douche. Her hair's short because of the chemotherapy.
-->'''Stewie''': [[OhCrap Uh-oh]].
-->'''Quagmire''': Do you know how much talking it took to get her outta the house because of her no-hair?
-->'''Brian''': Gosh, I didn't know. I'm 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 5-year-old cancer patient?
-->'''Brian''': Aw, c'mon. I didn't know she was dying.
-->'''Quagmire''': [[NotHelpingYourCase Who said anything about dying]]!?
-->'''Abby''': Uncle Glenn, am I dying?
-->'''Quagmire''': ''[holds her close]'' No, sweetheart, you're not dying, 'cause we're gonna see Santa, and he's gonna give you a new brain. ''[turns to Brian, unhappily gritting his teeth]'' Get outta here, Brian. Just get outta here.

--> '''Canadian''': Oh, hey there. You're having some car troubles, eh?
--> '''Stewie''': Yeah, we're trying to get to the North Pole. I don't suppose you're from Triple A, are you?
--> '''Canadian''': Who?
--> '''Stewie''': Triple A, you know? A-A-A.
--> '''Canadian''': Oh, AA, eh? Oh, I just came from AA.
--> '''Stewie''': No, not AA! AAA!
--> '''Canadian''': Yeah, that's what I said. AA, eh?
--> '''Stewie''': Oh, so you ''are'' with Triple A.
--> '''Canadian''': Oh, no, that's AAA. I just came from AA, eh?
--> '''Stewie''': Huh?
--> '''Brian''': Stewie, I think he's just a drunk.
--> '''Stewie''': Well, drunk or not, can you help us?
--> '''Canadian''': I can if you wanna join AA, eh?
--> '''Stewie''': Oh, I'm already a member of AAA! I need help with the car!
--> '''Canadian''': Oh, I see. Yeah, looks like you got some water leakage. You might need a hose, eh?
--> '''Stewie''': José, Roberto, whatever. If you got some Latinos up here that can fix cars, that'd be great.
--> '''Canadian''': No, I mean, it looks like you need a part, eh?
--> '''Stewie''': Well, yeah, when it's fixed, we can celebrate, but let's deal with first thing's first.
--> '''Canadian''': Well, I can probably take you to a gas station, eh? You have cash, eh?
--> '''Stewie''': Well, I dunno, my name carries a little weight, but I don't see how that matters here.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Santa Claus, who is only 28 despite looking like he's in 80's.

* WouldHurtAChild: Brian and Stewie are not above tying up a little girl [[CrossesTheLineTwice with her half-dead parents]], though she is the only one who Stewie doesn't bludgeon with a bat.

To Brian's surprise, Santa and the workshop does exist, but conditions there are far worse than they feared, due to the world's growing population and growing demands for the gifts. Santa is sick, 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, but crash the sleigh, break into a house, [[FromBadToWorse severely injure the family inside it to cover it up, let the reindeer eat each other, realize they only visited one house for an hour and a half out of the millions of other houses in the world they need to visit before dawn, and finally panic, give up, and barely escape with their lives.]]

* {{Bowdlerization}}: The "All I Really Want For Christmas" song has two lines that can only be heard uncensored on the episode's DVD release. On Creator/{{Fox}}, Creator/AdultSwim, and the song's 2019 digital release on iTunes and Amazon Music, Peter responds to Brian's question "Doesn't this seem like too much stuff?" with "'''Poo on you''', it's not enough", but on the DVD, his reply is "'''[[PrecisionFStrike Suck my dick]]''', it's not enough". Similarly, Stewie follows this line up with "'''Buddy boy, I got your Christmas right here!'''" and proceeds to grab his crotch on television and the digital release of the song, but on the DVD release of the episode, Stewie sings "'''Why don't you go out and chase cars, you queer?'''", which causes Brian to say "[[AmbiguouslyGay Look's who talking]]" (in the television version of the episode and on its digital release, the song cuts straight to the main chorus after Stewie's line, removing Brian's comment entirely).

* GoneHorriblyWrong: Every aspect of Stewie and Brian's first stop fails miserably. They damage property, the presents fall off the roof, they wake up the residents and need to restrain them, they waste an hour and a half there, and it turns out they weren't even at the right house.

** After Santa's health takes a turn for the worse, Brian and Stewie agree to deliver presents for him, and this episode takes the typical "Santa slides down the chimney to leave presents for families" trope and runs it into the ground, turning it into what it really is: a home invasion mixed with a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown an assault (and possibly even a murder or two) just to keep the witnesses from ratting them out to the police]].

* SubbingForSanta: Brian and Stewie attempt to deliver the Christmas presents in Santa's place. [[EpicFail They screwed it up royally.]]

** After Santa's health takes a turn for the worse, Brian and Stewie agree to deliver presents for him, and this episode takes the typical "Santa slides down the chimney to leave presents for families" trope and runs it into the ground, turning it into what it really is: a home invasion mixed with a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown an assault just to keep the witnesses from ratting them out to the police]].