American Dad - "A Jones for a Smith" - Talkback [1/31]

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Broadcast Order: Season 5, Episode 11
Production Order: Season 5, Episode 2

Writer: Laura McCreary
Director: John Aoshima & Jansen Yee


A new episode airs tonight at 9:30 PM Eastern. Here is the synopsis:
 
Everyone says this is such a great show, but no one has anything to say about it.:p

Not a bad episode so far. Between this and the Cleveland Show we've gotten a lot of drug related humor tonight.
 
LOL at the Crack commerical.

Ah, poor Steve. He finally lands the perfect scenario in life (Hot girl into nerds, dad not having a problem with...well you know) and of course something screws him over (Of course, that was a given once the episode started).
 
That crack commercial was good. I'm glad they didn't overuse Roger this time around (but the baby-lasso line was hilarious).

I'd be just as pissed as Steve. lol
 
It was a good night -- American Dad didn't disappoint either. It's been an unusually long time since Jerkwad Smith has appeared -- I thought the man was dead. They didn't pretend the left side of the argument was absolute either, as Roger clearly abused it.

I was also tickled to see the fat guy reused. He actually does work as a neighborhood character.
 
I really liked this one.
I like how they decided to keep Mr. Tuttle (or however you spell it), and I loved when Stan said "After I smoke crack one more time!"
 
I'm starting to see the problem people have with the "Stan learns a lesson" formula. A lot of the time it works for me, but I feel like here the other characters were sidelined to serve his plot. Stan's not inherently as "funny" a character as Peter Griffin, so I think the other characters need to pick up the slack to really make the show work. I don't really like how we never got a proper resolution to Steve's side of the plot; it intersected with Stan's plot and then it got absorbed. When the writers are truly firing on all cylinders, they manage to make BOTH of the intersecting plots equally interesting and important while also relating to each other.
 
"I feel strong enough to drag a mattress into an abandonded building!" was probably the best quote out out of the episode. Along with the soup kitchen slogan "I said, you'll eat what we give you." and the crack ad.
 
Steve's plot did if you think about it. It served, pretty much, to give a reason why the entire family (sans obviously Roger) would be angry at Stan. It also was another fine example of the "Steve gets a chance at a hot girl and gets screwed over" plot. The resolution was right there: he got screwed over. That's how it's supposed to end.

I liked it, although it was predictable. (who couldn't see Stan getting addicted to crack and refusing rehab?) I like the American Dad episodes that have twists a little more, but not bad. The crack commercial was hilarious as well as Francine ignoring Haley's cries for her "pot addiction"...
 
But that's exactly the problem I'm talking about. His subplot ended up not really being about him, but about Stan. Aside from one quick moment in one of the final scenes, we don't really see any of his frustration or the aftermath of what happened in terms of how it affects his life. It's okay to do this sometimes, but I think they're doing it a little too often now. The focus needs to shift back to the other characters a little bit more. One of the things that originally set American Dad apart from Family Guy was that the son and daughter were actually strong enough characters to carry an episode without Stan being involved.
 
I feel bad for Steve. Why can't anything work out for him? The drug commercial was hilarious. Klaus should be given more air time. He hardly appears that much. I haven't seen the first 2 seasons did Klaus appear more then than now?
 
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