American Dad - "Hurricane!" - Talkback [10/2]

[Space Cadet]

Broadcast Order: Season 7, Episode 2
Production Order: Season 6, Episode 7

Writers: Erik Sommers
Director: Tim Parsons

A new episode airs tonight at 9:30 PM Eastern. Here is the synopsis:

When a hurricane hits Langley Falls, the Smiths fight like mad to survive in their home.

 

[trance2009]

Roger's girl with the sweatshirt cracked me up. I have seen that way too many times.

 

[CantThinkOfaName]

Poor Klaus. lol.

 

[Nel_Annette]

This is the best of the night. Oh my god, this is great. XD

 

[CantThinkOfaName]

Cleveland Show was funnier. Family Guy was more interesting. And, American Dad was overall better because it actually dealt with the hurricane.

 

[trance2009]

Steve's magazine fetish....haha.

Lordy, Roger getting electrocuted was the best sight gag.


Peter and Stan finally meet.

 

[Astrolupine]

Bear versus Shark? Space Ghost ought to see this.

Definitely the best of the three tonight, for actually having a plot that focused on the hurricane. Stan getting tranq'd in the crotch was hilarious, and the shark business. And frankly Kraus, Nicolas Cage will always be entertaining to watch, whether the film is good or bad.

And hey, we did get a crossover in the end!

 

[Timmay]

Decent transition to Deep Blue Sea parody there for a while

 

[anime_guru]

That ending

 

[CantThinkOfaName]

To quote Peter Griffin, "hahaha! Classic American Dad."

 

[trance2009]

I'm still hoping we get a crossover where all three families interact.

 

[CantThinkOfaName]

I'm still hoping we get a crossover where all three families interact.

We'll probably have to wait another 5 years.

 

[Dudley]

Best episode of the night. This episode had suspense and fun gags. Even my mom, who hates the show, laughed at how Roger drowned his girlfriend at the end. And to top it off, we finally get a crossover. It was short but fun all the same. Surprised that Stan never got a chance to save his family and made things worse at each turn.

 

[HEATXZ]

Great episode
My favorite parts are Greg being flowed away by the hurricane,Klaus getting in Salt Water,Steve with porn under his bed,Stan bringing a Bear in the house,Roger electrocuted,and the crossover ending with Cleveland Show and Family Guy XD

 

[PC!]

I was disappointed thinking that we weren't going to get an actual crossover between the three shows, but they came through at the very end.

 

[J. B. Warner]

HAYLEY! Seeing her all bloody after that shark attack made me a little uncomfortable. Silly as it sounds, killing off the family member who gives the writers the least amount of ideas has always struck me as something the writers on Seth MacFarlane's shows might plausibly consider. (To be honest, I was worried about Meg when Family Guy did "And Then There Were Fewer", too.)

Still, agreed that this was the best of the night. Klaus freaking out in saltwater, Roger getting electrocuted, "I asked you to go get help...and you harpooned me...", etc. This truly was classic American Dad, just as Peter said - everything sets up for Stan to learn a lesson and save the day, and he just proves himself more useless than ever.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

Well, I was gonna say "best of the night," but everybody beat me to it, so what else can I say?

Um.......don't order sushi from the Internet.

 

[Neo Ultra Mike]

You know since we had Stan admitt here again he didn't learn anything from the whole expierence are we ever going to get a joke in the show about WHY Stan is being taught all these lessons if he dosen't learn anything from them? Since really it'd be funny if Stan pointed out "I don't learn anything" and someone saying "then why is god trying to keep teaching you one" or something to that extent? Yeah I know they have to follow that stupid sitcom cliche of having to have some sort of lesson learned even though they don't really follow it into the next episode or anything, but I'm getting sick of it. Espiically since American Dad BEATS these lessons/not lessons into people's head: they hint at it in the beginning, keep bringing it up in small talk and eventually have some big moral at the end I guess there are some lessons that seem to carry over (Stan accepting Francinne's foster parents, Stan admitting he loves Roger, Stan realizing Jeff as a member of the family and approving of Hayley's marrige even though the later one had to beat into him three times to get it to seeimginly stick) but a majority of them don't. And a lot of them doint come from anywhere either. Since when is Stan bad in crises anyway? Like a lot of AD eps that's just established here and nowhere else, thus it comes off as a rather shallow. I know this seems nitpicky but people keep praising this show for being more clever or better plotted then say Family Guy, even though it's lot and set up are getting rather taxxing by now.

This wasn't horrible or anything. I did like Roger's disgust at the girl who didn't get the hint and Hayley talking about wanting to save the animals, as well as Klaus trying to tell the family off before realizing the hurricane water is salt water and him talking about Nic Cage's career but this did feel like a let down. There was some good action beats but it wasn't anything spectaular (and AD does have some good action scene like Hayley vs Stan in "Haylias" or even the early raccoon chase in "Francinne's Flashback") and the crossover felt too much like a tease. I knew there would only be something at the very end of the episode but I was hoping for more then just a 30 second back and forth. Eh maybe at one point we will see all three families interact and not just have little bits from the dads but I guess this wasn't that episode. Which does kind of irk me as honestly they've been talking about this episode online for... a year and seems rather weak this is all we get.

 

[Doguineta]

Best of the night, period.

Seriously this was laugh out loud hilarious al the way through. Everything from Roger's annoying one night stand who wouldn't leave, Roger saving the wig, SHUT UP KLAUS, Stan's. Old. College. Javelin., Klaus with the salt water, Roger being electrocuted, Klaus comparing Stan to Nick Cage, Stan's poor decisions, Steve talking in arquitect slang, Jeff freaking out, Stan calling Jeff "Hayley's wife" & the mini crossover in the end... This was tip notch stuff.

 

[Christopher Glennon]

I was expecting Klaus to do something (even after what Roger did to him), and I think it was even funny he couldn't swim in that water.

I did like Stan messing things up. The fact that his javelin was so foreshadowed pretty much meant it had to backfire somehow. Although I feel horrible, I laughed when he javelined and then shot Francine.

Honestly, the ending with Cleveland and Peter didn't do much for me. Peter's quip was funny, but...meh.