Deacon Stan, Jesus Man

Season 1, Episode 7, Aired

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Stan goes to great lengths to compete against his rival, Chuck White, and become the new deacon of their church. Meanwhile, Steve is falling in love with Chuck's daughter, Betsy. Roger is going through his reproductive cycle, causing him to lactate, ultimately complicating matters for Stan and Steve.moreless
  • decent again

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    Stan goes to great lengths to compete against his rival, Chuck White, and become the new deacon of their church. Meanwhile, Steve is falling in love with Chuck's daughter, Betsy. Roger is going through his reproductive cycle, causing him to lactate, ultimately complicating matters for Stan and Steve. In my opinion, I thought this episode was good, for like the fourth time. My score is lower because it was very boring in some of the parts. Also, this episode was weird as well. I did not laugh very much, but I did laughed at Roger's parts (when he was watching movies, etc.), Stan rushing, Chuck beating Stan, and a few others. overall, a decent episode. On the bright side, season 1 got a little better after this episode because there were 3 times more better episodes than the first seven eps (expect Roger Codger). 7/10moreless
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    Stan goes to great lengths to compete against his rival, Chuck White, and become the new deacon of their church. Meanwhile, Steve is falling in love with Chuck's daughter, Betsy. Roger is going through his reproductive cycle, causing him to lactate, ultimately complicating matters for Stan and Steve.

    Overall, a 9.5 out of 10
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    What I liked: Carl Rove (and wolves howling whenever Stan mentioned his name), Steve being pregnant and passing the alien egg onto the girl he liked, Stan pretending to be possessed, the ending of the episode, amongst other things.

    This was a delight. A lot of good, funny gags. The plot was not the strongest thing in the episode, but there were a lot of good jokes that saved it. One of the funniest episodes for me, Roger was pretty hilarious throughout (like him yelling at Steve when he runs out of the house), and as a result my final grade is a B+/A-. Great episode.moreless
  • Movie Voice over can be such an eye sore

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    In gooness What the F**k is Good Boy! Stuart Little 2 & The Pasifire Voice over are doing in a show like this

    Molly Shannon-Good Boy!
    Brad Garrett-The Paifire/Stuart Little 2
    Paul Rugg-The Contry Bears

    What's Next Ziggy Marley OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I wish you Basterd would ve Reject Me so I could fix the Gritty Voice Casting
  • This proves how good American Dad is.

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    This is hillarious but very gross and some hillarious parts are when Roger was in a huge machine for making alien breast milk and Klaus' evil German where extremely funny. I know this episode is very funny but I am glad they didn't do a ton of episodes this gross but they did do some like Helping Handis and Lincoln Lover. The Karl Rove thing was really weird and I did not understand the joke. Even this episode is gross and weird it was still very funny and I will rewatch it many times and it was funny enough to give it a 9.5 out of 10.moreless
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    • Klaus: (To Roger) Your body disgusts me; I'm going to mein krapper. (sigh) I'm always in mein krapper.

    • Stan: What if we told you the potato salad contained an extra ingredient? An unholy ingredient? Karl Rove: Unholy, you say? (With his back to the camera he pulls open his robes) Smiths: Aaaahhh! Karl Rove: (Closes robes) Any questions? Steve: Where does your food go?

    • Haley: Wait, I know you. You're the amoral puppet master behind George W. Bush! Karl Rove: Why thank you.

    • Francine: Did it get colder? (Karl Rove shows up) Stan: Francine, meet Karl Rove! (Wolf howling sounds) Karl Rove: Let's get started. (Walks by Klaus' fishbowl and the water freezes)

    • Father Donovan: (To parishioners, at church) Wow. Sunday again, huh? Boy, that pissed by, didn't it? Least tomorrow's TGIM. (Laughs, everyone stares) What? You got something better?! Stan: Father, may I say a few words? Father Donovan: (Sighs) Whatever. (Mumbles, as he leaves) Man, I remember when I used to be able to smoke in here.

    • Mexican Doctor: Did you say "alien baby"? Stan: No. I said, "Doctor's corpse found in desert." Mexican Doctor: Oh, right. Right.

    • Hayley: Steve, are you sure you want to have this child? Steve: Yeah, I... I guess so. Roger, what do you say? You ready, partner? Roger: Oh, yeah. Fatherhood. Jazzed. It's not like I wanted to do anything with my life, like learn to surf or go to Jerusalem. Steve: Are you... are you drunk? Roger: Get used to it! (Slams door)

    • Stan: I'm sorry, but I have to resign as deacon. (Everyone gasps) Whiny Parishioner: But whhhhhhhy?

    • Francine: Okay, if it means that much to you, I guess we can bring chips and dip to the wake. Stan: Chips and dip? Oh, I tell you what, Francine. Why don't you just take this broom here and I'll bend over and grab my ankles, you lube up the handle real good and just sweep me out the door! 'Cause that's what'll happen to my chances at Deacon if the best we can do is chips and dip.

    • Steve: What am I gonna do?! Hayley: Whatever you want. You know, a pregnant boy still has the right to choose. Stan: Not in this house he doesn't... we're Conservatives and the one way we don't like to kill things is that way.

    • Steve: (After holding hands with Betsy) I touched her hand... her hand touched her boob. By the transitive property, I got some boob! Algebra's awesome!

    • Stan: Damn my tiny, girlish bladder!

    • Francine: Stan, quit spying on the neighbors. (Stan looking at the neighbors through binoculars) Stan: Today's the day, Francine. Today I will finally beat that smug bastard Chuck White to church. Look at him zipping up his fly like he owns the place. Well, today I get the shady parking spot. All right, Chuck still needs a tie. He's a double Windsor man, so we have a good two minutes to... (Gasps) Good God, a clip-on! Go, go, go! Francine: Wait! My bra! Stan: No time. Just keep your arms crossed and Jesus won't see 'em!

    • (Stan driving his SUV, pigeon crashes into windshield) Francine: Stan, you just killed a pigeon. Stan: No, I didn't. (Turns on windshield wipers, pigeon slides off the window) Francine: Stan, slow down. Is beating Chuck White so important to you that you'd put your family's lives at risk? Stan: Absolutely. Francine: You just ran through a crosswalk! Stan: No, I didn't. (Mr. Perkins is on the windshield) Francine: Hello, Mr. Perkins. (Stan turns on wipers to try to get him off, but fails) Francine: Spray him. Spray him a little. That'll loosen him up. (Stan sprays water on him, turns on wipers again, he slides off) Mr. Perkins: (On the ground) Thank you.

    • Stan: (About the Deacon position) Huh, Deacon. Long hours, no pay, whiny churchgoers... you'd have to be an idiot to volunteer for that position. Chuck: I volunteer to be Deacon! Stan: Me, too!

    • Francine: (About the pot-luck wake) I could make potato salad. Stan: Potato salad? Not exactly adventurous, but it gets the job done. That reminds me, we should have sex tonight.

    • (After being tricked into eating the potato salad) Roger: You set me up, Klaus! Why would you do something so awful? Klaus: I'm German. It's what we do.

    • Stan: Chuck... Kristy. Nice house. Chuck: Smith, you live in a house. This is a manor... so you better mind yours. (Chuck & Kristy laugh, Stan tries pulling out his gun from his jacket) Francine: No.

    • Francine: Uh... Stan, honey, we've run out of potato salad. Stan: Oh my God! No! (Everyone leaves) Stan: Wait! Wait! I've... I've got a stick of gum. Who likes Big Red? Huh? Who likes Big Red? Huh? (Karl Rove slaps Stan) Karl Rove: What is wrong with you? Look, we cannot run out of potato salad again or we will lose on Sunday. (Bat brings him an ancient scroll) Damn! My car's been towed.

    • (After being forced to eat a bunch of stuff by Stan) Roger: Why, Klaus? Why? Klaus: Ja. Still German.

    • (Roger hooked up to a contraption forcing him to eat) Francine: Stan, look what we're doing to Roger. We've got to stop this. Stan: We can't stop now. The election is tomorrow. Roger's fine. Roger: Kill... me...

    • (In a camper) Francine: Stan, what... what's going on? Stan: You were right, Francine. I've let this ridiculous rivalry cloud my judgment. This family comes first. That's why I rented this camper to drive us all down to Mexico so Steve can have his baby. Francine: Mexico? Stan: That's right, Mexico. Or, as I like to call it, God's blind spot.

    • Stan: (About having to resign as Deacon) It's a bizarre situation. Not 8 Simple Rules, let's-keep-it-going-after-the-father-died bizarre, but close.

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    • (watching an old classmate doing gymnastic moves at church) Steve: Jesus and Joseph and Mary Lou Retton. Mary Lou Retton was an Olympic gold medalist in the sport of gymnastics. It's also an allusion to the Holy Family since they are in church at the time: Joseph (the father), Mary (the mother/virgin), and Jesus.

    • Antoine Lavoisier: Experiment The experiment Klaus is talking about when Roger fears that his head will be ripped off, instructing him to keep blinking his eyes for as long as possible, is a reference to Antoine Lavoisier's rumored final experiment to find out how long a head can remain conscious after being separated from the body.

    • Chuck White: Character Chuck White's name and personality seem to have been inspired by the character Chuck White in the cartoon series The Brady Kids. The Chuck White in that series was also arrogant and self-absorbed.

    • George Clooney Francine uses her one free kill and considers about killing George Clooney because "he's really smug."

    • Bela Karolyi: Character True to his reputation as a notoriously strict gymnastics coach, he confronts Betsy, who is his pupil, in the funeral scene and shoves half a lemon in her face as punishment for garnishing her water with a lemon wedge.

    • Karl Rove George W. Bush's senior adviser Karl Rove is portrayed as Emperor Palpatine from the Star Wars saga (he is shadowed and wears a red robe and cowl). Also, whenever his name is spoken, a wolf can be heard howling and he lowers the temperature of the room he is in. This could possibly be a reference to the Dementors from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban or to Frau Blücher from Young Frankenstein.

    • Stan: Wait! Wait! I've... I've got a stick of gum. Who likes Big Red? Huh? Who likes Big Red? Huh? In reality, Big Red is actually the name of a popular chewing/bubble gum.

    • Stan: (About having to resign as Deacon) It's a bizarre situation. Not 8 Simple Rules, let's-keep-it-going-after-the-father-died bizarre, but close. Stan is poking fun at the ABC series, 8 Simple Rules, for having kept it going, despite the death of John Ritter.

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