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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:The ending to the Klaus plot was perfect. Everything tastes better with a bit of tree.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:The ending to the Klaus plot was perfect.
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The moment Francine's body gave up on stage had me laughing for a good minute. Did we find out about Roger's park ranger?
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FlamingLiberal posted:That was such a random plotline but as a baseball fan I loved it That was my exact feeling about it, lol.
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Andrew_1985 posted:Did we find out about Roger's park ranger?
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FlamingLiberal posted:Nope but you know it was something cool Probably having sex with bigfoot.
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I still love this show to death, but man the writers just can't move away from Francine always being right and Stan always being wrong.
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TheFattestPat posted:I still love this show to death, but man the writers just can't move away from Francine always being right and Stan always being wrong. Man, what are you talking about bro? Francine is constantly shown to be wrong and/or an idiot. Casino Normale, Iced Iced Babies, Can I Be Frank with You, Crotchwalkers, and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. There's also a lot of episodes like Shallow Vows and Home Wrecker were they both act equally insane.
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Whatever happened to the golden turd and Mind Quad? Actually, I want another James Bond episode where Stan has to go up against Mind Quad.
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Wasn't Rapture's Delight the end of the golden turd story? They use it to power Roger's spaceship.
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muscles like this! posted:Wasn't Rapture's Delight the end of the golden turd story? They use it to power Roger's spaceship. No it came back. I think the most recent one was the presidential candidate?
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Brawnfire posted:Wasn't there a giant statue of Roger at the Vatican? No, it was a mural depicting an ancient prophecy wherein the golden turd is shoved back up Roger's rear end.
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Eddain posted:Whatever happened to the golden turd and Mind Quad? And his sidekick Jimmy Boombox!
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Man, what are you talking about bro? Francine is constantly shown to be wrong and/or an idiot. Yeah there are some like that, but they sure like to put Stan in the wrong a good 90% of the time when he and Francine have a conflict. This new episode was a rather bizarre case. So Stan criticizes her for quitting things all the time, but he turns out to be wrong because...Francine quit being in a coma? Seems like it might have been better if instead she had not quit on life and worked to get out of the coma. Felt like they were resorting to strange logic just so they could put Stan in the wrong. I do like it more when those two are equally insane.
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TheFattestPat posted:Yeah there are some like that, but they sure like to put Stan in the wrong a good 90% of the time when he and Francine have a conflict. First of all, I don't have the gumption to go through all two hundred and whatever episodes and add up all of the "Stan wrong" vs. the "Francine wrong" plot-lines to prove this definitively, but I'm still pretty positive that your math is off here with that whole "90%" thing. One of the things I like about this show is that there's no designated straight man so everyone has about an equal chance of being the crazy one from episode to episode. Second, the problem of the wasn't that Stan was wrong about Francine being a Quitter. He was 100% right, she IS a quitter. The problem was that mocking her for quitting so much was a mean thing to do. This is a story-line format that American Dad uses a lot: Character A has a flaw, Character B tries to get Character A to change this flaw, Character A changes but the change ends up being worse than the original flaw or harmful in some way, Character B realizes they were wrong for trying to force Character A to change and accepts them for who they are. This time Stan was in the role of Character B and Francine was in the role of Character A, but a good example of an episode where Francine is Character B and Stan is Character A is "The Missing Kink": Stan is sexually repressed, Francine tries to get him to do something that makes him feel uncomfortable, Stan becomes an unhinged sexual deviant, Francine realizes she was wrong to push Stan out of his comfort zone. It's actually kind of sweet that American Dad has this long running moral motif of "Be accepting of people for who they are, and that acceptance includes their imperfections". Of course, in the show a lot of these imperfections are amplified for comedic effect to the point that they border on sociopathic or criminal behavior and in the real world probably should be changed, but, well, look this is a cartoon with a talking fish and probably shouldn't be taken that seriously.
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I don't feel like combing over every episode either, but they do like to crap on Stan a lot more. I'm thinking of episodes like the kidney one where Francine reveals that Stan might not be Haley's biological father because she slept with another guy before their wedding. The whole episode was focused on Stan being wrong for wanting to know if he is the biological father. Not once is Francine given any criticism for cheating on him and possibly getting knocked up by a stranger right before they got married. Those are the kinds of plots that really are not thought out well enough. This last episode wasn't anywhere near that bad, but it had similar vibes. You're right though, it is just a cartoon and shouldn't be taken too seriously. My problem is I really love this cartoon so it hurts when I see spotty writing like that.
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This is kind of a random thought, but I'm watching season 8 at the moment and I'm really glad that they abandoned the Steve/Akiko poo poo.
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YeahTubaMike posted:This is kind of a random thought, but I'm watching season 8 at the moment and I'm really glad that they abandoned the Steve/Akiko poo poo. Well, if you were rejected in favor of an 10 year old, would you keep pursuing a girl?
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Wow, I completely forgot about that. It just popped into my head because I was watching Spelling Bee My Baby, possibly my least favorite episode of the series.
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twistedmentat posted:Well, if you were rejected in favor of an 10 year old, would you keep pursuing a girl? But Dougie knows how to dance!
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dovetaile posted:But Dougie knows how to dance! I still say that is one of the greatest line in American Dad history. The follow up with the little kid doing the robot in a Gizmo outfit was just icing on the cake.
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YeahTubaMike posted:This is kind of a random thought, but I'm watching season 8 at the moment and I'm really glad that they abandoned the Steve/Akiko poo poo. I disagree, we could have avoided a lot of really bad Steve plots if they would just have given him a steady girlfriend again
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drrockso20 posted:I disagree, we could have avoided a lot of really bad Steve plots if they would just have given him a steady girlfriend again I'd love to see Steve have a really dominating girlfriend. Then there's an episode where Stan thinks that's unnatural and sets Steve up with an insanely submissive girl, but Steve is so frustrated with her--well, you'll have to watch to find out. Suffice to say, nothing changes.
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drrockso20 posted:I disagree, we could have avoided a lot of really bad Steve plots if they would just have given him a steady girlfriend again I also like the idea of Steve having a girlfriend (that would open up the doors to a bunch of interesting and funny plot-lines), but the problem with Akiko is they never really seemed to know what her personality was supposed to be. She kind of just acted however the plot needed her to act at the time to move the story forward. In a show that's as focused on character based humor as American Dad that made her, and by extension her relationship with Steve, come off as kind of boring. Honestly, Akiko's mom and Francine had a way more interesting dynamic as passive aggressive rivals, more of that please.
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The Chad Jihad posted:Debbie was the superior girlfriend Whatever happened to Debbie?
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Kwyndig posted:Whatever happened to Debbie? Last time they used her was an episode specifically built around writing her off as a love interest for Steve(and reinforcing the Steve/Snot friendship which made it worse*) *I'll freely admit I loathe Steve's friends, Toshi and Barry are one dimensional and boring, and Snot is just a horrible friend most of the time, not to mention just unfunny for the most part Space Cadet Omoly posted:I also like the idea of Steve having a girlfriend (that would open up the doors to a bunch of interesting and funny plot-lines), but the problem with Akiko is they never really seemed to know what her personality was supposed to be. She kind of just acted however the plot needed her to act at the time to move the story forward. In a show that's as focused on character based humor as American Dad that made her, and by extension her relationship with Steve, come off as kind of boring. Honestly, Akiko's mom and Francine had a way more interesting dynamic as passive aggressive rivals, more of that please. If Steve and Akiko became a couple they probably would flesh her out better as a character
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The Chad Jihad posted:Debbie was the superior girlfriend Debbie was a great girlfriend and it made sense that Steve would like a girl like her. Also, the episode where her fatness triggers Stan's anorexia is one of the funniest episodes. drrockso20 posted:*I'll freely admit I loathe Steve's friends, Toshi and Barry are one dimensional and boring, and Snot is just a horrible friend most of the time, not to mention just unfunny for the most part Toshi's best moment was when he vehemently testified against mad cow diseased Stan in court and everybody treated his testimony like a moving sympathetic speech. Barry's best moment was going off his meds and becoming a murderous weirdo. Snot's best moment was...I don't know. I still like all of Steve's friends for some reason. You're not wrong, I just disagree with you.
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drrockso20 posted:Last time they used her was an episode specifically built around writing her off as a love interest for Steve(and reinforcing the Steve/Snot friendship which made it worse*) Oh wow, strongly disagree with you on a lot of this. To each their own, but personally I think Snot is the best love interest Steve has ever had on this show.
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YeahTubaMike posted:Debbie was a great girlfriend and it made sense that Steve would like a girl like her. Also, the episode where her fatness triggers Stan's anorexia is one of the funniest episodes. He just moved the food! HE JUST MOVED THE FOOD!
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