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Steve becomes a famous author, and the entire family gets caught up in his celebrity, including Stan, who becomes an unbearable "stage parent." After Steve hooks up with an agent, he abandons his family to lead a "Cribs" lifestyle. This episode was between great and superb. Well, my offical score will be a nine though since most of the episodes from the second half of season 1 quickly became an improvement of the show. It was hilarious that we found out the part when Steve was in the jello pool was actually the guy who looks like Steve. Francine having this short dot on her hair was funny. Steve coming up with a book about Roger was interesting. The clown trying to think that Stan is a pretty girl after Steve decided to leave the family was super funny. It was funny when Hayley, Roger, and Francine said "You b***" to Steve after his book was published. However, the only part that I hate was Steve left his family because Stan had become a stage parent. Other than that situation, this episode was get a superb score. 9/10

Steve becomes a famous author, and the entire family gets caught up in his celebrity, including Stan, who becomes an unbearable "stage parent." After Steve hooks up with an agent, he abandons his family to lead a "Cribs" lifestyle.

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Steve has Stan sign his report card, and Francine notices that the boy is failing English. Steve claims that his teacher hates him. But a visit with the teacher reveals that Steve is failing because he had his Japanese friend Yoshi write a paper for him. Steve claims that creative writing is hard, so Stan takes him upstairs to introduce him to Patriot Pigeon, the 3,012 volume series that Stan has written.

It doesn't get the creative juices flowing, so Stan glues Steve's hand to the desk, forcing him to write. Seeing Roger on a drunken bender after Klaus told him he's a nobody, not a somebody like the celebrities he loves so much, Steve finally has an idea. At home later, Stan gets a letter from P&Q Publishing. He thinks they want to publish Patriot Pigeon, but in fact, they want to publish Roger the Alien, the story Steve wrote for his class.

Steve has a book signing, which makes Stan's incredibly jealous. But when Francine points out that people will recognize that Steve came from Stan, Stan wants to up the promotion. The publisher says if Steve has the #1 children's book, he can get on the television show Cap'n Monty's Book Cavalcade. But Steve needs a hook for that.

Stan's brainstorm is to make Steve the bad boy of the children's book world. Steve stops eating is vegetables, starts talking to strangers and runs with scissors, which makes him wildly popular in the children's literary world. The book hits #1 and Steve is booked on the show. Meanwhile, at home, Roger finally reads the book and is furious with Steve's portrayal of him.

Steve starts to chafe at the fame. Backstage before Steve's television appearance, an agent tells him how to deal with the pressure of being pulled in different directions by his family. On the show, Steve announces that he's going to divorce his parents. After a quick trial, Steve is free and begins enjoying a wealthy lifestyle, including a pool filled with cherry Jell-o. Roger decides to strike back.

He sneaks into Steve's mansion to kill him. Except he finds the guy who's going to play Steve in the upcoming movie first. Roger scares the actor into the Jell-o pool, then begins freaking out, thinking he's killed him. Realizing things are out of control, Steve goes back to his parents. Who help him hide the dead body

10 out of 10

Steve does not like writing for English class and Stan tries to motivate him by showing books he had written. Steve writes a book about Roger and it gets published. Soon Steve is famous in Langley Falls. But he can't take his family and leaves and moves into his own home.



Good episode. I liked the revelation that the 'Steve' in the pool we see at the beginning is not Steve, Roger being mad at him for his portrayal in the book, amongst other things. Really good episode with some big laughs, and as such my final grade is of course going to be an A+

Because this episode was instantly based on Steve and Roger, you knew it was gonna be funny. I couldn't stop laughing when Roger said to Stan, "Seriously, how sad are you? Come on on a scale of 1 to pi**ed!" It was hilarious!



Like I said, the plot was a little boring, but I liked the fact that it was a giant flashback as to why 'Steve' was in the cherry jello pool. That was a good twist.



The subplot about Francine's hair was soooooo funny. I liked the way that Stan kept making jokes about it, and not even descritly, but to her face.



Not the best episode... but still good.

I want to like "American Dad" as much as I do "Family Guy," I really do. But there's so many things that turn me away from making this show a favorite of mine. However, this mostly isn't the case for this episode. Steve becomes a famous author by writing about something he knows very well: Roger the Alien! It turns him into an unexpected success and soon Steve is on a one-way ticket to the top and most of his family is there to try to cash in on his success. But unknown to Steve, Roger is not happy with how he is portrayed in Steve's book. Also, Steve grows under-standably irritated that his family is just using Steve's success to get their own gratifications satisfied and Steve feels that he's being held back from his full potential. So in a bold move, Steve decides to divorce his parents and is successful in his endeavor. But all the fame, money, and power is going to Steve's head. Soon, he doesn't even trust his friends anymore and is left in his mansion alone. But it is then that Roger decides to strike! Only Roger strikes the wrong person: a teenage actor dressed and pressed to look like Steve Smith! And while Steve isn't dead, Roger still wants to get revenge on Steve for what he did to Roger's reputation. So Steve does the only thing he can do: he apologizes to his family so that they'll help Steve get rid of the body and accept Steve back into the fold. But the one thing that kept me from making this episode a perfect one was the fact that Roger did a mean thing by tying a cinderblock around Steve's ankle so that Steve would fall into the water. And although Steve probably managed to untie himself and get back up, it still wasn't a funny joke. But this is definitely one of the better episodes of "American Dad" I have seen. :idea: Enough said, true believers! ;)

This episode has a lot of hilarious scenes, with Stan’s “american’t” confusion, Stan’s book idea, Roger trying to kill Steve, the slow news day montage and Stan being mugged by a clown but it also has some unfunny scenes like Francine’s hair, the captain interview and the old centrefold scene that seemed to try too hard to be funny.



The plot was pretty cool, with Steve emancipating his parents after his fame goes to his head and the ending was neither fantastic nor disappointing, and is quite a funny twist.



Overall, the episode has some hilarious scenes, a few boring moments and a solid storyline, and a great instalment in this American Dad season.

Well in this episode

it focused on Steve's of writing a book about Roger which was for an english assignment and it was so great the teacher published it. Plot was understandable been could'nt get a laugh from this episode. Atleast for some parts , but still no hilarious big deals. I still give it a high score but needed to work on the humor.

The nights Episode of "American dad" was and is one of the funnier and better episodes i have seen.



From the beginning intro to the episode it got you wondering. "What happened to Steve? And why did he drown in a pool of...jello???"



The episode shows again how Stan uses Steve to live a dream of his; book publishing and by doing this blackmailed him with a center-fold from a dirty magazine. This I found quite funny as she is revealed as a model from the 50's and is now very wrinkly.

With a divorce of Steve from his family I immediately though that Simpson’s episode (forget which one) but it was the opposite of the Simpson’s episode. Steve has everything except friends, he has money a large mansion and lots of enemy all from his family (especially by roger).

With his freedom and success as a writer Roger decides to kill Steve and with this there are many humorous events with it ending with the death of Steve’s look alike... in jello.



This was my first review

Wow, it's been a while since I've reviewed an American Dad episode. Well, onto the review.

Like I've said before, I'm not the best reviewer, but I try. This was one of the funniest American Dad episodes ever. The funniest quote, IMO, was:



(Roger is pretending to talk to Johnny Depp on a cell phone)

Klaus: That's not a cell phone. That's a bar of soap you painted black.

Roger: Yeah, hang on, J.D. Watch it, Klaus, or I'm gonna cram this thing 20,000 leages up your butt.



The best gag was Stan making fun of Francine's hair. This and Family Guy had me laughing so much tonight. Steve's pool of cherry Jell-O, Roger wanting to be famous, Stan writing over 3,000 children's books on Patriot Pigeon, Francine's hair being made fun of, Roger trying to kill Steve, the Dr. Seuss typewriter, and Roger, Francine, and Hayley going into Steve's room saying "You b@$t@rd!"(although Francine's wasn't about Steve.) were all funny.



I felt kinda sorry for Stan that he had written over 3,000 books and received 10,000 rejections.

Although not perfect, I believe that this was the best episode beside "Bullocks to Stan." 9.1/10.





~Pharaoh2.