reading the script aloud, Jewish executive producer David A. Goodman said, "I'm going to get kicked out of my temple." The next "Road to" episode was announced at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California, on July 25, 2008. It was titled "Road to the Multiverse" and it was produced in the eighth season. Though it was not originally intended to be a "Road to" episode, Greg Colton convinced series creator and executive producer Seth MacFarlane and "Spies Reminiscent of Us" director Cyndi Tang to change the episode's title from "Sliders", parodying the science fiction television series Sliders. Colton's suggestion of the new title "Road to the Multiverse" was accepted, as was altering the premise of "Spies Reminiscent of Us", the season's original "Road to" episode. The episode was not written by Meighan, instead it was written by Wellesley Wild who wrote "PTV". The sixth episode was announced at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International, and follows Brian and Stewie on an adventure to the North Pole. It aired during the show's ninth season, and is titled "Road to the North Pole". The episode was the first Road show to be produced and broadcast in high-definition, the first to be a full hour in length, and was directed by Colton. The tenth-season episode "Back to the Pilot", originally titled "Road to the Pilot", was at first intended to be the seventh installment in the Road series, however it was changed before airing. The seventh episode was announced at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International. The episode involves Brian and Stewie teleporting to Las Vegas. Except something goes wrong with the machine and Brian and Stewie get cloned. One pair has the best possible time in Las Vegas, the other two have the worst possible time. The episode, titled "Roads to Vegas", aired as the show's eleventh-season finale in May 2013. Reception The "Road to" episodes are often among the most critically acclaimed episodes of the series. In a 2009 review of "Road to Rhode Island", Ahsan Haque of IGN gave the episode a perfect score of ten out of ten, praising the episode for its "great writing, hilarious jokes, a catchy musical, and a story that's both hilarious and touching at the same time". In a subsequent review by IGN of "Road to Germany", Haque again gave the episode high marks for its "exciting storyline, and some