American Dad "Finances with Wolves" Talkback (Spoilers)

[NickWhiz1]

"Finances With Wolves" Episode #118.
After receiving a hefty bonus at work, Stan buys extravagant gadgets, while Francine pleads for her dream kiosk.
Cast: Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal, Rachel MacFarlane, Scott Grimes, Dee Bradley Baker, Peter Mackenzie, Curtis Armstrong, Mike Barker, Eddie Kaye Thomas, David Herman, Nicole Sullivan, Daisuke Suzuki.
Original Airdate: January 29, 2006.

One lesson already...never give sea monkeys alcohol to drink.

 

[toonfan2003]

am i the only who realized just how dirty the "Come on Eileen" joke was?

 

[tb4000]

^Nope.


And I like how they keep cutting off Francine everytime she starts to make an inneundo about muffins.

And Klaus finally gets a human body. Hilarity ensues.

 

[Daffy Dork]

That was an EXCELLENT episode.

Stan getting hurt by Cactuses,Razor Blades, and Lemon Juice was 50x funnier than Stewie beating up Brian.

I also loved the jokes about "Take Out! DUN DUN DUN!",Ms. Piggy, and all of Stan's novelty garbage.

The BEST scene however, had to be that parking scene. It was the sort of scene that got funnier the longer it went on.

5/5

 

[SirLemming]

Another very satisfying episode of American Dad. Another surprisingly good use of Klaus. Another PERFECT recurring gag with the cacti/razors/lemon juice (reminiscent of the avalanche from "A Smith In Hand"). And a Family Guy-style lengthy gag executed better than the ones they're currently doing in Family Guy: the parking scene, which had perfect music.

 

[Railith]

Best show of the night. Everything worked and wrapped up well in the end. Stan was tring to find a parking place was my favorite part.

 

[NickWhiz1]

I think it's a safe thing to say that this episode MUCH better than Family Guy tonight.

5/5

 

[mojokingbee1]

Another great episode, except for that parking crap. 4/5

 

[Delthayre]

Turning against and around

Thank mercy! That was pretty good.

It wasn't an exceptional episode, per se, but it was an enjoyable one and a whole damned lot better than the half hour of excretion that preceded it.

Klaus' getting a new body was great. A seventies stereotype with a German accent just made me laugh for some inane reason.

The parking joke was long, but I loved it. It might just be because of my experiences with my own father's long, wandering, and frustrated seeking of parking spaces, but it cracked me up.

I'm suprised at the attention this show has paid to its characters. It hasn't done so in a particularly original or complex way, but it's still pretty good and it's made them fine devices for comic storytelling.

I wouldn't have predicted it, but American Dad has succeeded where the resurrected Family Guy has repeated and hideously failed.

 

[SirLemming]

The ONE thing I had a problem with -- and I'm being really nitpicky here -- was that Roger lit candles in the forest and yet there was no forest fire. Seems like it could've been an interesting and unexpected way to tie the plots together. But they found their own way to tie it all together and it's a'ight.

 

[Carolina Red]

I think it's a safe thing to say that this episode MUCH better than Family Guy tonight.

5/5

I agree 100% with that. It seems that Fuzzy Door has been paying more attention to this show that Family Guy, and the way the series has progressively improved since it started I can't argue with that.

How did hip hop save Stan's life the first time around?
The parking scene was great because I have had to put up with so many of those things when looking for a parking spot at a mall, not all at once though.

Just curious, but does Toshi (spelled based on pronounciation) even know English?

 

[tb4000]

I agree 100% with that. It seems that Fuzzy Door has been paying more attention to this show that Family Guy, and the way the series has progressively improved since it started I can't argue with that.

How did hip hop save Stan's life the first time around?
The parking scene was great because I have had to put up with so many of those things when looking for a parking spot at a mall, not all at once though.

Just curious, but does Toshi (spelled based on pronounciation) even know English?

He understands it, but more than likely chooses not to use it, for the sake of bizzare cartoon logic. I'm waiting for an ep. to focus on him, seeing as how he seems to hate the other three guys in their little clique.

 

[Frank]

This episode of American Dad was obviously better than tonight's episode of Family Guy! I'll give it 4.5/5 Very good episode of AD!

I have a question: I wonder how liberal is Hayley? She seems to be very liberal no pun intended.

 

[Delthayre]

Somewhere to the diagonal of Tom Cruise

This episode of American Dad was obviously better than tonight's episode of Family Guy! I'll give it 4.5/5 Very good episode of AD!

I have a question: I wonder how liberal is Hayley? She seems to be very liberal no pun intended.

Well, I think she's meant to be pretty strongly liberal, as a deliberate contrast to Stan's arch conservativism, but the show has, wisely, not gone too deeply and thickly into politics so as to make their respective ideological devotedness perfectly clear.

 

[TnAdct1]

One question: when did the scene where Stan got blown away by a bomb and crashed into his gay neighbors' house happened? I'm asking because that was when the tape stopped recording when I tried to record tonight's AD and Family Guy (since the Royal Rumble was my priority of the night).

 

[ToOn~g@l]

Good episode, I liked the idea of Klaus getting a new body, and the tree hugger who claimed to be a tree inside a mans body. Good episode. I give it a B+.

 

[Christopher Glennon]

am i the only who realized just how dirty the "Come on Eileen" joke was?

A funny joke, but I was more wondering how Dexy's Midnight Runners had a plane and a world tour BEFORE "Come On Eileen". Wasn't that the song that made them famous?

I liked this episode. Roger, Steve, and Hayley all had their fun plots (liked the wackiness of the tree guy, but Miss Piggy was weird). The main plot was good too, and I'm glad Klaus got to do something (was I the only one who thought at the end he might wind up in the body of a different kind of fish?). Stan parking was a funny extended joke that Family Guy seems to fail at, but I wished they ended it before they repeated finding the small car in the space.

My favorite joke was in the beginning where Hayley complains about the mall and Steve's line before Stan's arrival.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

am i the only who realized just how dirty the "Come on Eileen" joke was?

Yes.

10/10 is my rating. Wow, there was so much funny stuff and so many events packed into this episode.......
......what a waste!
They blew about five great stories at the same time--now they can't devote an entire episode to Klaus getting a body, because they just used it for 1/5 of one! The tree guy, the werewolf....c'mon, this is all good central plot stuff! What are they gonna do NEXT time, assuming this isn't the beginning of the hiatus?

 

[Freedom Fighter]

A lot to like about this episode! Every single one of the main cast members had a plot line, and it was amazing how all SIX held up pretty well. Stan buying useless nicnacs with an award bonus, Francine opening a muffin kiosk, Steve thinking he's been turned into a werewolf, Hayley raging against capitalism and ruining nature, Roger being pet-owner crazy, and Klaus getting a human body! So many plots all tied together to one central point, and though I enjoyed some storylines better than others, there was never any doubt that one didn't belong in the episode at all.

Though the staff of AD did a great job at this big mesh, many of those same plotlines could've been extended and filled up at least another episode. For that reason alone, I think an episode of this magnitude should be avoided in the future, because it just makes the 'idea' well dry up quickly.

Favorite parts:
- Francing floozying around with famous rock bands.
- Free diaper with every viewing of 'The Soyling!'
- Hayley's friend (aka 'the guy in a flower pot').
- Klaus at the store, having us think he was going to use a garbage bag for a condom.
- Stan trying to find a parking space!

8 out of 10 for "Finances with Wolves." A grabbag of goodies in this one.

 

[Planeteer]

I had problems with it: the environmentalists/hippies/whatever-they-were being depicted as the bad guys, the repeated parking lot and cactus/razor/lemon juice jokes, black Klaus making us think he was gonna use a garbage bag for a condom. Rest of it was pretty clever, though.