Meanwhile, Peter becomes addicted to watching a series of marriage counseling videos hosted by an adult film star.

In a flashback set seven years earlier, Brian is born in a puppy mill near Austin, Texas and taken from his mother.

At the airport bar, Brian gets drunk and, when Stewie comes to find him, their unattended bags are stolen, with the plane tickets inside.

To get home, Stewie and Brian masquerade as crop dusters to steal a plane, which they immediately destroy in the attempt to take off.

Eventually, they visit the puppy mill after being in a caravan of migrants and discover Brian’s mother had died, her carcass being stuffed and used as a table.

[2] It featured guest appearances from Victoria Principal as Dr. Amanda Rebecca, Danny Smith and Wally Wingert as various characters.

[3] Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane granted Povenmire substantial creative freedom for directing episodes.

The episodes are a parody of the seven "Road to" comedy films starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour.

[6] During the airport section of the episode, there is a scene that has subsequently cut from some editions/airings of the show, involving Osama bin Laden.

Even though the episode was made a year and a half before 9/11, it was still controversial, and was cut on the Family Guy: Volume 1 DVD in the US.

"[8] It is one of the only three Family Guy episodes that has ever been given a "Masterpiece" (10/10) rating by IGN, the other being "I Never Met the Dead Man" and "Da Boom".