Sometimes it’s tough to keep up with all of the shows and Sunday animation usually doesn’t get all of my devotion until the end of the week depending on how my week goes. Still getting accustomed to American Dad, I found this to be a rather weak episode, though it had its moments.
Much of this episode was about the one word men tend to have a difficulty saying: no. In this case, Stan couldn’t refuse any favor asked by his CIA boss, even though it drove Francine crazy. Avery Bullock, voiced by Patrick Stewart, is an interesting fellow, namely because of his wife being kidnapped in Fallujah and because he refuses to negotiate with terrorists, his poor wife has been over there for quite some time and has been brainwashed.
The Smith house is in chaos thanks to Stan.
Stan’s willingness to be a “yes man” puts his family in an awkward position of keeping an eye on Avery’s adopted son. Francine is obviously put in charge of babysitting the little tike, but it causes her to lose a great deal of sleep. The fact that Stan refuses to decline requests of his boss absolutely infuriates her. I can certainly sympathize with her, but this isn’t exactly an original story. The writers have borrowed this scenario (to an extent) from other shows.
Roger grew to become very annoying in this episode. I’m having trouble enjoying this character. He’s a very immature alien, who resorted to lame attempts to get attention and even tried drowning Avery’s baby at the lake.
My favorite moment wasn’t an entire scene, it was simply a joke from Roger about his spider. He claimed to name one of his black widows Courtney Love because like Ms. Love, the spider also killed her husband and is always full of various toxins. The jokes on American Dad sometimes come up so quickly with very little setup it’s tough to appreciate them at times, but I enjoyed this moment in a rather predictable episode of American Dad.
Rating: 5.7
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