American Dad!

Season 4 Episode 10

Tearjerker

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Stan and the family are characters in a James Bond style spoof. Stan must stop Tearjerker, played by Roger, a diabolical film producer who makes movies that can kill. Tearjerker's fiendish plot involves abducting celebrities from his spa and replacing them with celebrity robots that make horrible movies, all in an effort to make his masterpiece "Oscar's Gold" the best and saddest movie ever, causing millions of moviegoers to cry themselves to death.moreless
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  • Perfect

    10
    Stan and the family are characters in a James Bond style spoof. Stan must stop Tearjerker, played by Roger, a diabolical film producer who makes movies that can kill. Tearjerker's fiendish plot involves abducting celebrities from his spa and replacing them with celebrity robots that make horrible movies, all in an effort to make his masterpiece "Oscar's Gold" the best and saddest movie ever, causing millions of moviegoers to cry themselves to death.

    overall, a perfect parody

    10 out of 10moreless
  • perfect

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    Stan needs to stop Roger, playing an evil director who is planning on making a movie that is so sad, anyone who sees it will cry… until they are dead! Will Stan be able to stop Roger before it is too late?



    Good episode. I know it is a spoof of James Bond movies, but truthfully I have never seen a 007 movie. So references were lost on me. But there still were some funny parts, and parts I liked, like Stan's way of beating Roger, Steve's gadgets, amongst a few other things, so overall this is still a great episode and my grade is going to be an A+.moreless
  • The best episode of American Dad ever!

    10
    I have changed my mind this is the best American Dad episode ever! It was hillarious right away when Stan Bond's snowmobile landed on James Bond while they were parachuteing. I was laughing so hard when you saw Stan walking in that eye thing and it shot him mutiple times. It also had a great action scene in the begining with Stan,James Bond,and those guys shooting at them. Roger was hillarious when he kept complaining about the contractor but his funniest part is when he screamed mike your the worst contractor ever! This episode was much beter then Mcstroke the Family Guy episode that aired the same day as this.moreless
  • The episode "Tearjerker" is a James Bond spoof episode, where Roger is the evil villain Tearjerker who attempts to kill everyone in the world by making them cry to death by watching his extremely sad film, "Oscar Gold".Secret Agent Stan must stop him.moreless

    10
    This episode of American Dad is the best one I've seen so far! Very cleverly plotted with extremely funny gags. Before I seen this episode I considered American Dad to be an average show but now it's fantastic. This episode changed my entire view on this show! Characters that were normally not very funny were surprisingly hilarious. I am a James Bond fan myself which made this episode alot funnier but some of the jokes were truly awesome, for example, I felt one of the funniest bits was with Steve playing as S, (just like Q the gadget maker in James Bond), and just giving Stan gadgets that would make woman's breasts larger. I would say this is going to be har to beat from the american dad writing staffmoreless
  • Season 3, Episode 10.

    10
    "I've had sex with a lot of women, and let me tell you, you... Should probably get tested." LMAO! Best line ever! American Dad! can be funnier than Family Guy sometimes. I like the little James Bond spoof. Steve's breast-enlarging pen was hilarious. Then the cell phone makes girls' boobs bigger, too! Matthew McConaughey was shirtless in this too... Shocking. LMAO! A robot McConaughey... Wow. I loved Matt Damon's impersonation of Matthew McConaughey. "The contractor who built this place screwed me good!" LMAO! So funny. Smith and his boss dress up as Asians... Secret Asians. LMAO! Very clever! I love Seth MacFarlane. Best animator ever!moreless
Seth MacFarlane

Seth MacFarlane

Stan Smith/Roger (Tearjerker)

Wendy Schaal

Wendy Schaal

Francine Smith (Sexpun T'Come)

Scott Grimes

Scott Grimes

Steve Smith (S)

Rachael MacFarlane

Rachael MacFarlane

Hayley Smith (Ms. Peacenickel)

Dee Bradley Baker

Dee Bradley Baker

Klaus (Tchochkie Schmear)

Don LaFontaine

Don LaFontaine

Film Narrator

Guest Star

Seth Green

Seth Green

Matthew McConaughey

Guest Star

Warren Derosa

Warren Derosa

Voice

Guest Star

Patrick Stewart

Patrick Stewart

Avery Bullock (B)

Recurring Role

Mike Barker

Mike Barker

Various

Recurring Role

Erik Durbin

Erik Durbin

Various

Recurring Role

Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions

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  • TRIVIA (5)

    • Goof: Tearjerker claimed to audition for Monsters Ball in 2002, despite the fact that Monsters Ball was released in 2001.

    • Goof: Stan's ID card incorrectly states that the CIA is part of the Department of Justice.

    • Bad Larry, who Stan had accidentally killed in "42-Year-Old Virgin", can be seen walking through the casino.

    • Tearjerker's contractor, Mike, is an unseen character whose shoddy construction and poor design of the villain's lair is a running gag. In fact, the non-retractable ropes, easily-broken floors, inoperable escape craft, poles in the middle of a hallway, and a tram-tour that ends in the villain's office all assist Stan in defeating Tearjerker.

    • The answer to the Coca-Cola Movie Quiz is Drew Barrymore in Never Been Kissed.

  • QUOTES (10)

    • British Secret Agent: I've had sex with a lot of women and let me tell you - you... should probably get tested.

    • Stan: (to Francine/Sexpun) Well, look what the whore cat dragged in. A whore.

    • Francine/Sexpun: (while fondling Stan) Hi, I'm Sexpun T'come. I get a good feeling from you. Do you get a good feeling from me-
      Stan: Are you a whore? I mean, it's cool if you are, but I don't get with no whore.

    • Stan: So what new gadgets have you got for me today, S?
      Steve/S: Seems like an ordinary gold pen, right? Turn the top. When that gas comes in contact with a woman, her breasts grow bigger!
      Stan: Don't you have anything a bit more useful?
      Steve/S: Ahh, right, perhaps you'll like this. Looks like an ordinary cell-phone. Yes? Well, open it and press 3. Yeah, see, if you were a woman, you'd have some pretty big cans by now.

    • Roger/Tearjerker: Tears drop!
      (three guys drop from a blimp and all crash through the floor)
      Roger/Tearjerker: (sighs) Really?

    • Johnny Depp Robot: (upon exploding) ...I once found a robin's nest in Tim Burton's hair...

    • (in Mt. Fuji dressed as Geishas)
      Bullock: Thank you for flying out here, Smith.
      Stan: Of course, sir. But why are we dressed up like this?
      Bullock: Because I thought we could be Secret... Asians.
      Stan: A 16-hour flight for a bad pun?! (approvingly) Yes. Yes.

    • Stan: Oh look, Sharon Stone's baby is afraid of her. Just like the rest of us.

    • (Tearjerker's blimp takes off)
      Tearjerker/Roger: Ha ha! I'm away! Is there anything more terrifying than a hovering blimp?

    • Tearjerker/Roger: Never hire a contractor just because he's gorgeous.

  • NOTES (3)

  • ALLUSIONS (9)

    • The Black Island
      When Mani and Pedi run after Stan and shock against a post because they were holding hands, it possibly refers to the The Adventures of Tintin's comic book The Black Island, when Thomson and Thompson shock against a post because they were handcuffed to each other.

    • Raiders of the Lost Ark
      Spoofed, with a German Shepherd Dog playing the role of Indiana Jones and Matthew McConaughey playing the role of Karen Allen, ironic seeing that the main villains of the Raiders movie were "German" Nazis.

    • The Diary of Anne Frank
      Tearjerker's appalling and weepy opus about a retarded Jewish boy living in an attic during WWII recalls The Diary of Anne Frank.

    • James Bond Films
      The entire episode is a spoof of a James Bond film, with each character taking up a role that can be found in a typical Bond story: Stan Smith (Stan) is a parody of James Bond. Although instead of being a classy, intelligent, and skilled gambling ladiesman that is Bond, Stan is an incompetent, stupid, and poor gambler that is still a virgin and is waiting to get married.

      Sexpun T'Come (Francine) is a parody of the Bond girl of the story. Her name, clearly derived from the phrase "sex pun to come", mocks the way that the names of many of Bond's love interests are sex puns (for example **** Galore, Holly Goodhead and Plenty O'Toole).

      Tearjerker (Roger) parodies an amalgam of Bond villains, with a name similar to Auric Goldfinger, and an elaborate base of operations in a volcano similar to Ernst Stavro Blofeld's in You Only Live Twice, while the focus on tears may reference Le Chiffre in the 2006 version of Casino Royale.

      Tchochkie Schmear (Klaus) is a parody of a typical henchman used by Bond villains.

      B (Bullock) is a parody of M, Bond's boss.

      S (Steve) is a parody of Q, Bond's Quartermaster.

      Miss Peacenickel (Hayley) is a parody of Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary.

      Mani and Pedi (Greg and Terry) are a parody of Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd, the homosexual hit men in Diamonds Are Forever. Their names are plays on "manicure" and "pedicure". The villain attempting to flee in an escape pod, only to seemingly be killed, is also a reference to Diamonds Are Forever.

      The Professor (Chuck White) is a parody of the scientist who usually is killed by the main villain for a slip-up or for incompetence.

      The end conflict with a blimp is similar to A View to a Kill while the end wedding is similar to On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

      Stan Smith and Bullock appear in a scene in which they are both dressed as Geisha and are meeting in Japan. The scene uses music reminiscent to the score from the fifth Bond film, You Only Live Twice, which was set in Japan. The henchmen were following Smith in the snow chase from The Spy Who Loved Me.

    • The Spy Who Loved Me
      The opening snowboarding sequence is similar to the skiing opening in this film.

    • Mannie: Right this way, Mr. Depp.
      Peddie: (whispering) I'm going to try and touch Gilbert's Grapes.
      This is a reference to the 1993 Johnny Depp movie What's Eating Gilbert Grape?.

    • Stan: What the hell?! Wait, you're a gun? I always thought you were like an eyeball or something.
      The opening segment, as well as the rest of the episode, is a takeoff of the James Bond movies.

    • The Beatles
      The uniforms Tearjerker's guards are wearing are copies of the Sgt. Pepper's uniforms.

    • Flash Gordon
      The scene at the end with Tearjerker's ringed hand coming out of the the lava pit is like the movie 1980 Flash Gordon. At the end of this movie we see the ringed hand of Ming the Merciless and the same text "The End?".

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