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Actor: Rachael MacFarlane, Scott Grimes, Seth MacFarlane, Wendy SchaalBrand: AMERICAN DAD
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 305 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-04-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- AC-3; Animated; Box set; Color; Dolby; DVD; Full Screen; Subtitled; NTSC
Movie Reviews of American Dad!, Vol. 4
Movie Review: "Nobody needs America's help, until they need it"--Stan
Summary: 5 Stars
American Dad was getting better with every season (or DVD volume) and now it has reached 5 star level. The reason is that it is consistently clever and well-written. There are many 5-star episodes here: "Tearjerker," "Office Spaceman," "Stanny Slickers II: The Legend of Ollie's Gold," "Spring Break-Up," "The One That Got Away," and others that are solid 4-star. I watch AD as often as I watch Family Guy and South Park. Watching the episodes from this past season, it has now surpassed FG in writing and storylines. Stan and Roger rule! Now, here are the episodes:
Disc 1:
"Tearjerker"--James Bond takeoff where the main characters play different roles except Stan who plays himself, of course. Roger is "Tearjerker" who has a plan to make everyone in the world cry themselves to death. Can Stan and his new fiance stop him? A lot of clever one-liners in this one. My favorite: Francine's character asks Stan for a light and he pulls out a flashlight, "Looks like you've got yourself a cigarette there." The opening credits are cool.
"Oedipal Panties"--(Get it? Oedipus?) Stan's mom keeps getting dumped on the third date and she runs to Stan for comfort. Stan and his mom's disturbingly close relationship and the fates of Stan's mom's boyfriends cause Francine and Roger to investigate. Roger's fat woman costume is hilarious.
"Widowmaker"--Francine wants Stan to share things with her like her friend's CIA husband who's gone missing. When Stan complies, Francine finds out that some things are best kept to one's self.
"Red October Sky"--Stan's Soviet nemesis before Communism fell (how old is Stan, anyway?) returns a converted Capitalist--until he gets hold of Steve. Weak ending. This is my least favorite of this volume.
"Office Spaceman"--AD redeems itself with this episode. Roger poses as a photographer who has the uncanny ability of taking photos of a certain alien (himself). He is hired by the C.I.A. to head the Alien Task Force. Meanwhile, Francine throws out Steve's African American science partner but for different prejudicial reasons than the obvious. Hilarious episode. I like when Stan says, "You have to take this seriously, both of our asses [Bullock walks in]...are equally nice, we both have nice butts."
Disc 2:
"Stanny Slickers II: The Legend of Ollie's Gold"--After a near death experience, Stan is afraid he has left no legacy on the world, so he tears up his property looking for Oliver North's buried gold. In the meantime, his daughter collects piercings and his son goes steady with a vacuum cleaner.
"Spring Break-Up"--While Francine is away, Roger hosts an MTV Spring Break party at the Smith's and Stan hangs out with a frat girl who appreciates his jokes and quirks better than his wife.
"1600 Candles"--Steve's going through puberty and, after the hell they went through with Hayley, Stan and Francine use their C.I.A. connections to postpone or prevent it. Meanwhile, it's Roger's 1600th birthday and no one cares--well, one scaly friend does.
"The One That Got Away"--One of Roger's personas has taken on a life of his own and, when he uses Roger's credit card, he experiences Roger's wrath. Very creative story. I like the Jimmy Stewart character, Sidney, and his girl Judi with her old school gangster girlfriend accent: "figgas, I finally find the perfect fella and he's a fig newton of someone's imagination." I was told she is a takeoff of a character on "The Little Shop of Horrors."
"One Little Word"--Stan becomes Bullock's #1 guy and he can't say no to his orders no matter how much they interfere with his family. That Cocoa character is funny.
Disc 3:
"Choosey Wives Choose Stan"--(Remember that Jiff commercial?) When Stan finds out Francine was engaged to another man before they met, he fakes his own death to see if Francine will run off with her ex. Also, Steve keeps being attacked by a stray cat.
"Escape From Pearl Bailey"--Stan's girlfriend Debbie (is she going to be a regular character? She just comes and goes) runs for student body president against Lisa Silver. When she is slandered on the Internet, Steve takes revenge on Lisa and her cronies. I like when Amy is driving down the hill and it appears Steve cut her brake line, "Oops, that's the clutch."
"Pulling Double Booty"--Jeff breaks up with Hayley and she goes on a rampage. To prevent future outbursts, Stan tries to find a man for her who is like himself. It appears she finds the perfect man in Stan's eyes when she falls for his C.I.A. body double, Bill, until Bill tries to score with Francine. Now Stan has to pose as Bill to keep Hayley sane. Meanwhile, Steve has more bad luck with animals.
"The Most Adequate Christmas Ever"--Know-it-all Stan dies chopping down what he views as the perfect Christmas tree and has to go to court while in Limbo for a second chance. A silly episode but not terrible.
Bonus Features: Deleted scenes that are best kept deleted. "Tearjerker: And Then They Will Cry"--The making of the James Bond episode, how the characters were created, etc. 15 minutes.
"Roger: Master of Disguise"--Character designers, storyboard revisionists, the supervising director, etc. talk about Roger (my favorite AD character) which includes a discussion on his sxuality. I like to think that Roger is to AD what Cartman is to South Park. Cartman is without any moral conscience and therefore opens the door to a myriad of storyline possibilities. Just as Cartman is capable of the most heinous of acts that anything he does works well with his character, Roger is so crazy that he is capable of getting into all sorts of predicaments and schemes and it works--not to mention all those disguises. 11 minutes.
"Comic Con [2008]"--Live table reading of "Pulling Double Booty."
Summary of American Dad!, Vol. 4
Genre: Television: Series
Rating: TV14
Release Date: 28-APR-2009
Media Type: DVD
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.
There are a couple of milestones among these 14 episodes from seasons 3 and 4. "1600 Candles" marks Roger's 1,600th birthday, while "Oedipal Panties" is interrupted to celebrate the series' 1,000th vagina joke. By this point, we should be past Family Guy comparisons. Both series are a riot of obscure pop-culture references, gratuitous celebrity potshots, and meta asides (in "Widowmaker," Francine ponders making a "gag me with a spoon" joke, "but then I thought, 'Who's that for?'"). But at least when Stan goes to absurd extremes, it is more in keeping with his overzealous, xenophobic character. The writing takes some rewarding chances as it careens wildly from the smart to the sophomoric. The holiday episode, "The Most Adequate Christmas Ever," contains an Auschwitz joke that is actually kinda funny, even as one cringes at the "oh, no they didn't"-ness of it. As with previous volumes, this set contains bountiful extras, including deleted scenes, audio commentaries for every episode, a featurette on the making of "Tearjerker," and, best of all, a live ComiCon table read of the first act of "Pulling Double Booty." American Dad, we salute you. --Donald Liebenson
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