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Worst TV Show of the Week

American Dad on Fox

How do you disgust and alienate an audience? The February 13^th episode of American Dad gave viewers an example. The tawdry brinksmanship that occurred on the show garnered it the ignoble distinction of Worst TV Show of the Week.

The plot centered on Stan and Roger’s peculiar relationship where they continually try to one-up each other. At the dinner table Roger asserts, “Sorry, Stan, anything you can do I can do better.” Stan’s wife, Fran, wonders why everything turns into a competition between them. The tension prompts Stan’s daughter, Haley, to deliver this assessment: Yeah, you guys should just [bleeped 'f*ck'] and get it over with. Clearly, they have repressed sexual feelings for each other that they're channeling into hostility.”

The hostility escalates when Stan lands the coveted lead role in a play for which Roger had auditioned. Roger manages to finagle his way into the cast in the role opposite of Stan as the female love interest. During the climactic finale, the play calls for Stan to kiss Roger. Stan’s hesitancy proves to Roger that Stan is not a committed actor. Stan, however, goes for the gusto and plants a kiss on Roger’s lips. Not to be outdone, Roger mutters, “You call that acting?” and gives Stan a longer kiss. “This is acting,” Stan replies right before he sticks his tongue in Roger’s mouth. “That’s nothing,” Roger counters, straddling Stan in his chair and kissing him passionately. Stan sucks on Roger’s lower lip. Roger rips Stan’s shirt off and licks his chest. Stan hoists Roger onto the table and licks salsa off of his feet. Roger sticks his long, extra-terrestrial tongue into Stan’s mouth and it snakes out of Stan’s nostril and tickles his ear. Meanwhile, the audience grows more uncomfortable until finally they gasp when they witness Stan press Roger face-down on the table. Stan whispers into Roger’s hear, “I’m acting the crap out of you.”

As police haul the pair into an awaiting patrol car, Roger insists, “Public Indecency? We weren't really doing it, we were just acting.” Inside the back of the patrol car, Stan and Roger commend their respective acting abilities. As they pull away, Fran says, “I don’t get it, they’re friends again?” Haley states smugly, “Told you, they just needed to [bleeped 'f*ck'].”

It seems as if every week, MacFarlane’s three shows (Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, and American Dad) attempt to one-up each other on the offensiveness scale. If one show is relatively tame, it’s a safe bet that the other two will pick up the slack. Indeed, the choice every week for this column often comes down to one question: Which MacFarlane show was the most objectionable this week?  

For lewd sexual situations, American Dad has been named Worst TV Show of the Week.