Monday 31 January 2011

American Dad season 4


If Family Guy could spoof Star Wars with the epic Blue Harvest episode, then it’s only fitting that American Dad take on the espionage world of Agent 007. In “Tearjerker,” a season 3 benchmark that kicks off this three-disc set, Stan Smith (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) portrays secret agent Stan Smith, with the other characters taking on Bondian persona. Dutiful wife Francine (Wendy Schaal) is transformed into the femme fatale Sexpun T’Come, and alien Roger (MacFarlane) portrays arch villain Tearjerker, a failed actor with a diabolical scheme to make the saddest movie in the world that will make all who see it cry themselves to death. At one point, Stan meets his superior, B (a game Patrick Stewart), in Japan. When Stan asks why they must be dressed as geishas, B replies, “Because I thought we could be secret Asians.” Which just goes to show that American Dad will go any distance for a gag. And we mean that literally. In the episode, “Pulling Double Booty,” Stan and Francine’s rebellious peacenik daughter (Rachael MacFarlane) gets hot and heavy with Stan’s CIA body double, which elicits a projectile reaction from Francine. “Oedipal Panties” is another cringe-worthy episode in which we discover the lengths to which Stan will go to keep his mother to himself.

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