Yeah, it was definitely a mismatched feeling episode. You almost have the feeling that in most instances the Roger/Steve plot would have gotten main billing (and maybe an extra scene or two) but the ridiculous scenario of the "Naughty Stewardesses" was just too out-there and different for the show not to act like that…

So this was Matt McKennas second of the season after "Poltergasm" and it did not disappoint one bit. While not as funny as that episode (which is probably the funniest of the season), this one was a little more original and clever in concept and execution. I like how it touched on the very real problem of kids these…

"We need to climb into someones abdomen for warmth. Everyone whose name isn't Barry, meeting!".

Stan was great tonight…I loved this line;

I had a feeling that the continuity there would bug Kevin, especially considering he graded that episode pretty highly. It honestly doesn't bug me at all, because they work on all of these episodes at the same time and the episodes were written by different people. For all we know both scripts were written on their…

"What was in that tea!?"
"A very light opiate, but that's not what was causing those visions".

They generally do avoid references, although there is a whole episode ("One Little Word") devoted to Stan becoming Bullocks "Number One", which, while a great episode, was probably largely an excuse just to have Stewart say "number one" repeatedly.

Yeah, I think it's crucial that when I hear Roger and Stan I always hear Roger and Stan, never Seth MacFarlane. He does a helluva job, as he really makes those characters breathe. Plus he does have great comedic timing, no doubt about that.

I actually timed the Roger/Steve plot last week, because it was constantly referred to as the B-plot but it actually felt a bit more substantial than the titular plot of the episode. Low and behold, the so-called B-plot ran about 13 minutes, 4 minutes longer than the regular plot. Considering that was, imo, one of the…

Well, it's not like American Dad hasn't succeeded. Sure it's finally (and sadly) been given the boot by FOX, but a run of 10 seasons for ANY show on ANY network is extremely impressive, let alone one on a major network like FOX. And it's popular enough to have found second-life on another network, something very few…

Season 6 is probably the last somewhat decent season by revival Family Guy standards, and sadly part of the reason for that is because it aired during the writers strike and is only 12 episodes long. But it's way better than season 5 and it's actually got some passably entertaining episodes like the "Stewie Kills…

I feel like the writers SAY that, but at the same time they know the power the grades have over the commentariat, so - while I agree the real importance lies in the review - it stands to reason that the grades have to mean at least something to the writers as well (or at least some of them).

I've only seen the first handful of episodes this season, and while I enjoyed them, one of my biggest annoyances was how Shoshanna was written. Like that road trip episode? She didn't feel like a real person, but rather like she existed to say the dumbest, most vapid things. I really hope what you say is true and she…

I mostly agree, except I find the first three seasons to be fantastic, and season 4 to be mixed (with everything after in the "poor" range). It's got a handful of strong episodes, but then there's shit like "Patriot Games" and "Jungle Love", which show that the show had truly lost it's former self.

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I brought this one up above before I saw this, but yeah despite any creepiness in the premise (which I don't find that bad to be honest) that's a really great episode, and Peter and Chris both still act like real characters, with believable actions and reactions. Plus it's really not that far-fetched. It's actually…

Peter and Chris use to have great stories together. The one where they go on the vision-quest, the one where they go to NYC so Chris can become a famous painter, and the one where Peter gets ultra-competetive when he realizes that Chris has a bigger penis than him.

I'd honestly be totally fine with an F-grade for this one. It was that bad.

You're right, it is, and that's why this episode just totally failed. Even by Family Guy standards it wasn't believable for a single second. American Dad couldn't even pull it off such an inane premise, even with the wild-card known as Roger. Well, then again, never say never with him…

Now? American Dad has pretty much always been better, give or take the earliest seasons of both.