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"Back to the Pilot" is the fifth episode of the tenth season of the animated comedy series ''Family Guy''. The episode originally aired on Fox in the United States on November 13, 2011. In "Back to the Pilot", two of the show's main characters, baby genius Stewie and anthropomorphic dog Brian, both voiced by series creator Seth MacFarlane, use a time machine to travel back in time to the first episode of the series, "Death Has a Shadow". Trouble ensues however, when Brian tells his former self about the September 11 attacks, causing the present to be dramatically changed, and ultimately resulting in a second civil war. The two must then prevent themselves from going back to the past in the first place, but soon realize that it will be much more difficult than they had originally thought. The episode was written by Mark Hentemann and directed by Dominic Bianchi. It received high praise from critics for its storyline and many cultural references, in addition to receiving some criticism for its portrayal of the September 11 attacks, an example of 9/11 humor despite being self-aware. According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed in 6.01 million homes in its original airing. The episode featured guest performances by Lacey Chabert, Chris Cox, Ralph Garman, Christine Lakin, Phil LaMarr and Fred Tatasciore, along with several recurring guest voice actors for the series. ==Plot== When Brian approaches Stewie about helping him find a tennis ball he has buried, Stewie asks if Brian remembers the date that he lost it. Brian tells him that he buried it on January 31, 1999 (the day that the first episode of ''Family Guy'' originally aired). Using Stewie's time machine to travel back to that date, the two soon come upon the Griffin family, but notice that their past looks more strange than they remembered it: the family continually pauses for cutaways, the animation style is different, Peter's right eye inexplicably pops out over his nose when he turns his head slightly, television sets are unplugged from the wall, and Meg's voice sounds different. Stewie comments that "She sounds like someone who's about to give up a huge opportunity." Telling Brian that he must not alter the past by getting the tennis ball and that he should instead memorize its location, Stewie goes into his room to set up their return to the present before Past Stewie suddenly enters. The two Stewies then meet, and Stewie tells Brian to come out from his hiding place after explaining himself to Past Stewie. However, hanging outside the window, Brian falls onto past Peter's car as he drives to the stag party at Past Quagmire's house. Stewie finds Brian and the two then attempt to return to the present, but find that the transportation device's batteries are running low and moved only a bit forward in time towards their destination (Stewie converted the return pad to run on batteries instead of uranium because of their situation in Germany). Later, the two manage to take advantage of Past Peter dumping his extra welfare money out of a blimp above Super Bowl XXXIII to collect the money needed to purchase new batteries. Before their return, they have an encounter with the Kool-Aid Man and ruin his entry during the "Oh yeah!" part at Past Peter's court session. Brian and Stewie return to the present. Upon their return, it is revealed that Brian disobeyed Stewie's instructions and warned his past self about the upcoming September 11 attacks ahead of time allowing Past Brian to stop the event and alter the timeline as a result, much to Stewie's frustration. While watching the local news with footage on Brian stopping the terrorists, Brian is honored as a hero. The news also revealed that former President George W. Bush returned to Texas after losing the 2004 election and reformed the confederacy, along with eight other states from the southern United States resulting in a Second Civil War. On a side note, it turns out that Pat Tillman (who in this timeline is still alive as he never went off to fight in the War on Terror) was "tackled by his own team". Brian insists that things will still be better in the end, but when they travel five years into the future they find a computer generated post-apocalyptic future caused by nuclear attacks all across the United States, which also hands everything to the viewers on a silver platter which Stewie finds to be lazy. Cleveland is back in Quahog, Joe is a robotic policeman, and Quagmire is a mutant frog called Frogmire before being obliterated by Joe for breaking a law. Stewie discovers online that the civil war escalated to a nuclear attack across the entire Eastern Seaboard, killing over 17 million people, including Cesar Millan. Brian admits that he made a mistake, and the two return to the past to prevent Brian from telling his past self about the attacks. They then return to the present, whereupon Stewie learns that Brian has instead taken credit for the ''Harry Potter'' series instead of J.K. Rowling. Seeing that Brian has learned nothing from Stewie's warnings, they again go back to prevent themselves from telling any future events. Before they do, however, a Stewie and Brian from the further future arrive to tell them not to stop their past selves from talking about the future. This in turn causes dozens of Stewies and Brians to appear, each pair telling the previous ones not to do what they are about to do. Having had enough of this, Stewie tells his numerous future selves to take their respective Brians and return to their time after they all decide to allow 9/11 to historically take place for obvious reasons. From there, Stewie takes Brian back a minute before their past selves arrive and demands for them to return to their time by shooting Past Brian in the knee. With that, the altered timeline ceases to exist along with its corresponding Stewie and Brian, and everything goes back to normal. At home, the original Brian and Stewie mull over what has just happened, unaware of how they would have affected the timeline but grateful that they have returned to their own time without changing anything, but they get confused when Peter arrives with Quagmire, Cleveland, and the rest of his friends from the stag party in 1999 with Peter mentioning them unplugging the TV. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Back to the Pilot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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