American Dad - General Discussion

[Galileo908]

16 minutes ago, Spartan Girl said:

Was that really Rod Stewart voicing himself? I think it was, but you never know with this show.

I didn't see his name in the credits, sadly.

[DoctorAtomic]

I liked that Stan getting a pudding pop and everyone knew he was going to rip on them. 

I thought at first that Stan didn't know Roger was Josay. 

Rod Stewart wasn't that much out of nowhere because his hair is literally the 80s, but running with the restaurant gag was killer. 

22 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:

Too bad we didn’t get to see more of Francine, Hayley and Steve as night crawlers.

This show rules with the tempting b plots. 

I do like the point that 'telling it like it is' is just bs. 

[Matt K]

On 7/26/2021 at 10:30 PM, Galileo908 said:

 What I didn't really buy is that Stan JUST NOW learned how to lie, and once again dug himself deeper and deeper in a hole just to keep Roger from crying.

I felt it wasn't Stan learning to lie but more having difficulty with how to spare someone their feelings (i.e. not just telling it how it is).  

 

I loved the whole surgery scene.  Was not expecting it to go that badly the first time.

[SmithW6079]

Well, at least this one wasn't quite as disgusting as last week's. I like the callback to Stan's baldness, but otherwise, most of the storyline was just dumb.

I still keep a bunch of episodes from past seasons on the DVR and I'll watch on Hulu. The first several seasons still hold up, and the Santa ones are great no matter what season.

I don't know why, but it bugs me when TBS says, "An original series from TBS..." No, "American Dad" aired on Fox for ages; it's not your original series. 

[DoctorAtomic]

They may have bought the right to say that. Hasn't it been on TBS longer now?

 

[SmithW6079]

6 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:

They may have bought the right to say that. Hasn't it been on TBS longer now?

 

American Dad! aired on Fox from 2005-2014 and  on TBS since then, so it's close.

[Galileo908]

"Who wants jet skis? We want our graves!" This episode was stupidly morbid. Yeah, when the episode opens with the family being pissed that their graves were given to a family killed in a mass tragedy, and the family tries to find bodies for their own graveyard, I can see why this got pulled when it did.

The pile of dead bodies in the kitchen, and then going Weekend At Bernie's at the backyard club was one of the stupidly ridiculous thing this show's ever done.

Paul F Tompkins was perfect as the rich cemetery owner.

 

[Spartan Girl]

I cannot unsee the corpses being used to dupe the health inspector, but it made me laugh my ass off all the same.

[DoctorAtomic]

Wow this show. I mean, taking it to Weekend at Bernie's you can see coming, and it's a great way to mesh the plots, but then the health inspector is asking for the lady's number from the cabana.

Scottie Pippin is a weirdly good fit for the show. His going on about the novel was great. 

 

[Spartan Girl]

Well, I didn’t see the crazy old people twist coming. This freaking show, man…

The bit of Francine trying to turn Jeff into her clone was funny though.

[Galileo908]

Loved the professor going crazy over the school bells. Yeah, colleges don't have those.

"I didn't want to be Mini-Me! I wanted to be Minnie Mouse! Or at least Mini-Minnie Mouse, but that's what Steve and dad got to be!" That whole bit was silly as hell. This whole episode was delightfully silly. This show gets really good and weird when it gets Oedipal, and for once it was Hayley and not Steve this time (although he got some nice bits in). And then it turned into a B-horror movie with old mad scientists and immortality and Tor Johnson.

 

Edited August 10, 2021 by Galileo908

[ApathyMonger]

I've been watching the show on Disney+ (outside the US, obv), and annoyingly, for the last few seasons, Toshi's English translations don't show up unless you turn subtitles on. It completely takes away from the jokes to have to rewind and turn subtitles on when he has a line, and then turn it off after.

 

 

 

[DoctorAtomic]

On 8/9/2021 at 8:33 PM, Galileo908 said:

Loved the professor going crazy over the school bells. Yeah, colleges don't have those.

That cracked me up. I loved that Franny wore a headband in high school too. 

The sound and the smoke for the bong offscreen was good too. Can they not show that? I took me till the Bad Bitch scene that Jeff hadn't been wearing a hat. 

Lots going on in this show. Eunice, the man cave, Halyey/Franny, and the improv - including bang-gliding.

I need to see the tattoo of Jill Stein on a surfboard. 

 

[SmithW6079]

On 8/9/2021 at 10:30 PM, Spartan Girl said:

Well, I didn’t see the crazy old people twist coming. This freaking show, man…

The bit of Francine trying to turn Jeff into her clone was funny though.

I don't know if I had guessed, but it wasn't a surprise exactly. I liked that when the old man said he was going to talk to Morbo and called his wife Constance, he wasn't senile, as we were led to believe, but telling the truth.

Jeff-as-Francine was hilarious.

2 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:

The sound and the smoke for the bong offscreen was good too. Can they not show that?

I don't know why not. They had a whole episode of Jeff and Stan visiting the weed factory and lighting up and getting high on screen.

[Spartan Girl]

Loved that Lewis repeated his apocalypse routine of firing machine guns in his thong.

Everything else? Meh.

[Galileo908]

Too bad Roger's doing his own thing this week, Stan's missing TV listings booklet (fun way to dance around "TV Guide") was a definite Wheels & The Legman case. And it turned out he was the thief the whole time. Lame.

"Dr. Sunderson's Sun Suckers" definitely sounded like a blowjob business. And a hell of a tongue twister. Destroying all the other power plants and refineries in town so everyone's forced to go solar is such a Roger move (especially getting Hayley to push the button to do it), yet it reminded me of Lil Lisa Slurry from the Simpsons (an environmentally friendly product made from harvesting the ocean floor)

1 minute ago, Spartan Girl said:

Loved that Lewis repeated his apocalypse routine of firing machine guns in his thong.

Everything else? Meh.

END OF DAYS AGAIN, BITCHES!

But yeah, kinda meh episode.

[DoctorAtomic]

23 hours ago, Galileo908 said:

Too bad Roger's doing his own thing this week, Stan's missing TV listings booklet (fun way to dance around "TV Guide") was a definite Wheels & The Legman case. And it turned out he was the thief the whole time. Lame.

No, it's not tv guide. The Sunday paper used to have an insert with the TV listings that came with the paper. TV Guide was a separate subscription, essentially a magazine. 

'One of' the blowjob businesses. 

And a Bazooka Sharks callback. 

I liked the Hayley and Roger plot. They don't pair a lot. 

[Galileo908]

I'm with Stan and Francine. If we get a coupon for a free buffet, everybody better get in the f-ing car. Even developing Stockholm syndrome toward it. I'd also totally go to Tuttle's lonely buffet, though.

Dr. Weitzman is definitely on the lower tier of people the Smiths have been kidnapped by. Hell, this SEASON. He even got friendzoned by a sentient robot he built. But a buffet is definitely one of the better places to be kidnapped in.

Roger's plot was weird. "No one ever shoots the flower"

[Spartan Girl]

The family going full stupid for a buffet only to wind up imprisoned in it by Dr. Weitzman. Sounds about right.

LOL at Steve on Mrs. Maizel: “Great show, gets worse every year.”

Poor Klaus being trapped in that gross soup. Buffets do have some nasty food.

Roger definitely commits to character, even as a flower

[DoctorAtomic]

23 hours ago, Galileo908 said:

I'm with Stan and Francine. If we get a coupon for a free buffet, everybody better get in the f-ing car.

I'm not looking too sideways at a buffet coupon either, but I'm not trashing on people at work. Who don't deserve it. I don't get why Steve was so down on it though. There's a place in town here that had a great soup and salad lunch bar that shut for the pandemic. The restaurant is open, just not that. It was a good lunch deal. 

Musical horse camp sounds fantastic. 

I need to know why there's 96 rules for the strip club buffet. 

Wow I wasn't expecting what was in the room. 

I thought Monte Cristos were just a ham and cheese sandwich, but the bread was french toast. 

 

Edited August 25, 2021 by DoctorAtomic

[SmithW6079]

On 8/23/2021 at 10:31 PM, Galileo908 said:

I'm with Stan and Francine. If we get a coupon for a free buffet, everybody better get in the f-ing car. Even developing Stockholm syndrome toward it. I'd also totally go to Tuttle's lonely buffet, though.

Dr. Weitzman is definitely on the lower tier of people the Smiths have been kidnapped by. Hell, this SEASON. He even got friendzoned by a sentient robot he built. But a buffet is definitely one of the better places to be kidnapped in.

Roger's plot was weird. "No one ever shoots the flower"

Isn't Dr. Weitzman the one who drugged the Smiths so Roger could put them in the computer (where they subsequently played Oregon Trail)?

Roger's story line was stupid, but I kind of loved his comment: "Sounds like everyone has a gun. This will deescalate quickly."

[Galileo908]

Gotta love that there was literally a Konami Code for teaching empathy. And the first thing that gets Stan sad was the ending to Cars 2. Of course when Stan gets back to normal, he removes Steve's empathy. Or at least tried to, thank god he was faking it. Steve without empathy is no Best Boy at all. He was kinda scary. 

"That song's a banger, by the way. I could fuck to this." That's a first for a Sarah MacLaughlin.

Love that we saw every doctor in the show thus far. Dr. Ray is dead again.

"There's nothing I love more than men with wet, wet faces!" It was great seeing Bullock and the rest of the CIA gang again.

Also got a big kick out of Francine hiding behind the painting (and how it managed to get to the Best Boy ceremony)

[ApathyMonger]

I love that Jackson's cubicle has a picture of him and Cleveland.

I'm happy Robert Wuhl is just a supporting character on the show now.

[Galileo908]

Okay, Hideki laughing at why Stan wondered why he didn't put the triangles in the TRIANGULAR room shouldn't have been as funny as it was. I also love that they keep the running gag that no one else in Toshi's family knows Japanese.

So, stealing Steve's identity to open a credit card in his name to buy fancy stuff to impress Hideki (which, of course, he hates) is one of the dumbest, lowest things he's done, right? But Roger dealing with a loan shark while methed out at a Six Flags to buy the rest of the stuff is totally him, though. And then they wasted all their money on Atlantic City, to pay for a giant crystal, and Steve STILL got his legs broken. That was honestly painful to watch.

Jeff knows adventures get weird when's with "Mr. Klaus." Like, trying to ruin a guy's life because he wasn't invited to a wedding. It's honestly nice to see him be actively evil again. Of course his plan doesn't work.

All in all...meh. I did like Steve's sunday stroll, and Francine and Hayley's random giant sundaes.

[DoctorAtomic]

I was kind of surprised that they actually broke Steve's legs. I knew they would blow the money though. 

Even though no Hayley for much, her reading of 'I'm sick of this Sunday stroll shit' earned her paycheck. 

I was actually surprised they got 'victorian women sixty-nining' by. 

[Galileo908]

Halloween episode!

We get a Steve and Billy episode! Billy is still weird as hell, but his "dad" is even creepier.

"Touch the red flower..."

Man, Bartleby the turtle died much sooner than anticipated. It was gross as hell, especially after it was reanimated. Did Steve learn NOTHING from Kisses?! ESPECIALLY after creating a Frankenstein Monster out of parts of Principal Lewis's dead relatives. But since it WAS a Lewis, I love that it wasn't that hard for it to imitate Brian. Just quote Gilmore Girls and ask about coffee. Okay, I was NOT expecting this episode to end with FrankenLewis building Stars Hollow in a swamp.

OF COURSE Roger is the CEO of the company that's been poisoning the water supply. AND he was also in the audience with the family at the town hall. I laughed REALLY hard at Francine snapping in half.

[Spartan Girl]

We got a Halloween episode! 

Steve putting together a FrankenLewis was messed up, but pretty funny. Did not peg Lewis as a Gilmore Girls fan. Guy is just full of surprises.

1 minute ago, Galileo908 said:

OF COURSE Roger is the CEO of the company that's been poisoning the water supply. AND he was also in the audience with the family at the town hall.

LOL even he’s done with winding up as everyone.

[DoctorAtomic]

That was something else even for this show. 

[SmithW6079]

I watched "Father Daze" recently, which had an episode of the Golden Turd (which is one of my favorite subplots of the entire series; kudos to them for being that committed to that gag for years). During the clean up after the last murders, the maid finds the turd under the couch, wraps it up, and takes it to the Vatican. She is apparently unaffected by it.

However, in the episode "300," the little delivery girl is chosen to bring it back to Roger because she's pure of heart, but the maid already showed she was. I know I'm looking for continuity in a cartoon about an alien who poops gold and that probably had no long-range plan behind the whole miniseries, but it still bugs. 🤣 (Also, the cop's son has different last names in his segments.)

Here's the complete saga.

 

Edited January 10, 2022 by SmithW6079

[ApathyMonger]

I completely missed until I looked it up on Futon Critic that the show was back tonight.

 

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Langley Dollar Listings: Francine becomes a realtor in Langley’s world of high-end real estate, while the rest of the family sells coffee from the front yard.

 

[Galileo908]

Francine as a trashy reality show realtor was something I didn't know I needed. I also loved the names of the other charters: Trad, Clephanie, Geric, and Trashelle were honestly perfect. And totally Roger to sabotage Francine at every turn. I loved that Francine made a Roger persona buy a house from a different Roger persona. "Shebecca Escrow" and "Jameson McSmirnoff" were perfect persona names.

The coffee shop plot was dumb, but I loved that it started with a trip to an aquarium for the first three people to show up.

"How much."
"One money."

"But the chimpanzee's orgasms..."

[DoctorAtomic]

I liked Franny all tarted up for the realtor interview. But who are the 3 richest men in Langley!

I totally want the mid century bachelor pad!

On 1/24/2022 at 8:30 PM, Galileo908 said:

The coffee shop plot was dumb, but I loved that it started with a trip to an aquarium for the first three people to show up.

I don't mind they went heavy on the Franny plot because it was hilarious. There could have been more to the coffee plot if they gave it the time. I feel like they could have just saved that for another episode. 

[Galileo908]

1 hour ago, DoctorAtomic said:

But who are the 3 richest men in Langley!

At least one of them is Roger.

[DoctorAtomic]

Oh no doubt. 

Probably all 3.

[Galileo908]

How dare Stan just blow off an SOS from Mind Quad?! It did lead to a Tuttle cameo, and Patrick Stewart channeling Wayne's World. Hearing Patrick Stewart (and Steve!) giggling like the Pilsbury Doughboy was something I didn't know I needed.

Stan's suit was made out of corduroy?! No wonder he fainted at the barbeque.

Okay, Steve's mail song was amazing. Between this, "Chickenpuncher Farms," "Gentleman's FUPA," "Dicks with Chicks," the Hooker Listings in the paper, Jeff repeatedly getting attacked by chickens, just a winner all around. I loved the visual of all the seamstresses going up the stairs with Steve and Francine not giving a fuck. Love that Steve just casually watches TV with one of them. The payoff for the chicken plot was great. All of the eggs were full of fetuses (and a snake), and the omelet Francine made with them was horrifying.

"Sir Jennings Cockburn" was yet another great Roger name. Stan should've known better than to spurn his celebratory sherry. It's Roger, he was going to take things too far. He gets (literally) clingy. Loved the montage of all his moaning.

This was another winner, two for two great episodes so far. I'm hyped for the rest of the season.

[Spartan Girl]

Hayley making a chicken fetus omelette is another disturbing visual this show has inflicted on me. Gross.

Loved Bullock’s Wayne’s World invite and Steve’s mail song.

[DoctorAtomic]

I liked that Roger's Cockburn persona also required remodeling the attic. The goose flipping off is my next tattoo. 

Dicks with Chicks is the best name for a store ever. I'm surprised they got that one by. 

Was the chickens with the van from Ferris Bueller? 

On 1/31/2022 at 8:30 PM, Galileo908 said:

Love that Steve just casually watches TV with one of them.

That was Martha. She's the one Cockburn was sleeping with. 

[Galileo908]

I'm not surprised that Tuttle and Principal Lewis are at Bushwhackers with Stan. Had to get them into the plot somehow. I figured Stan was gonna be the downer of the group. No chill whatsoever. Steve was right about Stan, he's the weird drop-in character of the group. Stan being like Gargamel was a totally Steve observation, and fitting.

I wasn't expecting Tuttle to be a major player in the plot. I liked his backstory of why he was in Witness Protection in the first place. Loved that he's a god 2000 years in the future. Roger and Hayley bobsledding in Tuttle's casket was one of the most hilariously random things I've ever seen from this show.

Jeff sharing EVERYTHING about his day is something my mom does (to multiple people! Every day!), and wanting to share the highlights after writing them in a notebook is totally something she would do.

[Spartan Girl]

LOL at the ending where Tuttle just shot the guys. He’s more hardcore than he lets on.

[DoctorAtomic]

Franny just eating pizza and watching porn. 

On 2/7/2022 at 8:30 PM, Galileo908 said:

Stan being like Gargamel was a totally Steve observation, and fitting.

It was even better Steve said it would be like if Gargamel walked into Cheers. And even that was generous. 

Principal Lewis has to be Norm though.

I couldn't figure out why the future thought Tuttle died and was alive again, but I realized that Jeff said it out loud before the sledding. I was disappointed that the rose made it to the future and not the pigeons and the dildo. Maybe they could only say dildo once. 

[Galileo908]

I love that Francine and Snot's mom's non-friendship has never mattered up to this point, yet them breaking up this week caused Barry to stop talking to Steve and Snot, and Toshi to finally speak English over it (and could this whole time!). I love how the breakup began with Francine liking Muppet Treasure Island more than the book. But Gonzo isn't a dog. He's a whatever.

"Thank you, Snot's Mom's Kid." God, I love Roger just flat out drugging the moms with meth.

The moms and Roger/ApotheCarrie Bradshaw taking an elevator to hell (in a SubHub) to retrieve Steve and Snot, and causing a timeline where the moms don't exist was a turn I wasn't expecting.

[Spartan Girl]

Who doesn’t love Muppet Treasure Island?

Toshi spoke English! I couldn’t believe it!

LOL at Lewis being hired to keep Snot and Steve apart. Swooping down in a hawk costume or jumping out of a toilet, the guy knows how to make an entrance.

Did not shock me that Roger 1) gave them a real poison and 2) knew the elevator to the underworld. I guess the ending doesn’t matter since it’s in another timeline and everything will be reset next week anyway.

Edited February 15, 2022 by Spartan Girl

[Galileo908]

25 minutes ago, Spartan Girl said:

LOL at Lewis being hired to keep Snot and Steve apart. Swooping down in a hawk costume or jumping out of a toilet, the guy knows how to make an entrance.

If I remember right, he was also pantsless. That whole sequence was great.

[DoctorAtomic]

On 2/14/2022 at 8:36 PM, Spartan Girl said:

Who doesn’t love Muppet Treasure Island?

Is this really a thing? Because I am not pleased about being in the dark. 

I always like the callback to 'Sub Hub'.  

On 2/14/2022 at 8:36 PM, Spartan Girl said:

 I guess the ending doesn’t matter since it’s in another timeline and everything will be reset next week anyway.

I hope it's a two parter to reset. Stan yelled out 'Francine!' at the end so he did remember. 

Did anyone read Stan's tattoos at the end? Slot cars, It's ok that Roger is in ham club, Tip your tattoo artist, Hayley knows everything about clamato, Steve was the _____ (I can't make it out). Steve is afraid of sharks again. Sometimes you work for the CIA. 

I laughed at Snot knowing Roger was the 'bartender at my mother's house'. 

[Galileo908]

I figured that Stan's depressing ski spot would get gentrified over the years. And that he'd be so desperate for that old experience that he'd force everyone to ski at the dump. The "it all" Stan wanted to get away from had to be Tuttle, right? This is two episodes in a row without him an I'm getting worried.

Of course Roger would make a persona that's all about apres-skiing. Which they also do before skiing and instead of skiing. Laughed at Roger ultimately recruiting them for a Search Party.

Steve: "Sorry, I was busy getting this used condom out of my hair."
Stan: "A valid excuse."

I liked how the show manage to team up Klaus and Snot, all to track down a call center girl. Snot's really good at tracking. I was honestly shocked to see that Sara was looking for Klaus, too. Maybe they'll run into each other halfway?

[Spartan Girl]

This was fun. Stan being in total denial about his crappy childhood vacations is so typical. As was the family ditching him to join Roger and his apres-ski party. God, I really miss going on vacations. Fuck this pandemic.

Klaus teaming up with Snot to find the IT helper he fell for was an unexpected treat. And she really does wind up being his actual soul mate! Unfortunately, because Klaus always gets screwed over, they just miss each other. 

[DoctorAtomic]

On 2/21/2022 at 8:27 PM, Galileo908 said:

Laughed at Roger ultimately recruiting them for a Search Party.

He does step up for Stan, just in his own way.

Stan was talking about 'you're my blood!' 'Well, not Francine, but we do it all the time!' Good to see they still have an active sex life. 

'Maybe is a fish? ...and I'm turned on by that?' How would know he's a fish?!

 

[Galileo908]

I love whenever the show gets meta, like everyone is aware of Stan's "leap of faith" every morning in the opening.

I love that Stan wasn't nostalgic for the 50s, but rather 50's Nostalgia like Happy Days and American Graffiti. Roger as a Wolfman Jack-type who couldn't remember his name was fun. I got a big laugh out of Stan calling Elvis "Singing Fonzie," and how he kept choking on toothpicks. I love how absurdly committed Stan was to the bit. Tossing asbestos into people's faces? Stabbing kids in a James Dean knife fight? Never breaking character with his stilted greaser talk? All of it was great.

Much like last week Stan was stuck reliving his bad childhood, this time he was spent reliving Hayley's childhood and once again is sad she's growing up. I hope Hayley gets that mansion.

[Spartan Girl]

Aw come on, show, Johnny Rockets has good food!

Wow, the second time in the past couple years the broke the fourth wall with the theme song. Lol that was funny.

Of course Stan’s the kind of guy that thinks everything was better in the 50s, in addition to the nostalgia. But it was a nice touch that all he really cared about in the end was the great times he had with Hayley at the restaurant.

All the Fonz references got me hoping for a Henry Winkler voice cameo. Alas, it wasn’t to be.

Dammit, now I want a shake.

Edited March 1, 2022 by Spartan Girl

[DoctorAtomic]

Sub Hub is probably my favorite continuity. I liked the irony of Stan teaching Hayley drive.

We have a 50s diner here. It's popular. Good breakfasts too. They have the juke box thing in the booth with the dial and the panels. 

Jeff being the beatnik was great.They threw in a Bowzer too. I watched Sha na na all the time before Solid Gold and Dance Fever. Those weren't really the 50s either. I like the 70s better. 

I did like that it wasn't actually the 50s in the end.