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Worst TV Show of the Week

 American Dad on Fox

For some people, summer is a time to relax and catch up on some reading. For the PTC, summer is the time to catch up on some reruns that deserve the title of Worst TV Show of the Week, but slipped through the cracks the first time around. Case in point: the July 3^rd, 7:00 p.m. ET/PT (6:00 p.m. CT/MT) rerun of an American Dad episode that originally aired on April 3^rd of this year.

In this episode, Steve refuses to attend a posh private school, where his father Stan wants him to befriend a powerful senator’s daughter in order to advance Stan’s career. So Stan sends the alien Roger in his place. This, of course, proves to be a horrible idea. Roger quickly learns that the senator’s daughter, Cookie, has an appetite for trouble that rivals his own. Roger returns home bloodied and bruised. He informs Stan that he sold Cookie to a drug dealer.

Apparently, Cookie is into “cocaine and stuff” and Roger gleefully indulges their mutual addiction. A montage of drug abuse depicts them snorting cocaine and smoking crack. Roger blacks out, but is roused by drug-dealing thugs pummeling him as they demand payment. He sells Cookie to pay off the debt.

Stan and Roger rescue Cookie from the drug lair and bring her directly to the senator’s mansion. The senator asks Stan if he’s thought about the favor he wants the senator to do for him, and Cookie – still strung out from her bender – chimes in, “Favor? I did some favors today.” Cookie makes a sexual gesture with her hands, pantomiming as if she were masturbating two men at once.

“Haha, oh, you sure did,” Stan interjects. “Shaking up medicine at the old folks home. We all did it.”

Stan and Roger mimic the same gesture.

Cookie passes out facedown into her plate of food. The senator nonchalantly commands the maid to bring the “Pulp Fiction” kit to revive her.

Stan is surprised that the senator knows about Cookie’s drug problem. He offers Stan some sage advice: “Men like us, Stan, are men of power and authority. Well, there’s career and family and sometimes you have to focus on what’s important. And that’s career.”

Meanwhile, Steve joins a Latina street gang and gets arrested for robbing a pharmacy. Stan decides that the favor he wants from the senator is for Steve to be released from jail.

Ultimately, Stan chooses family over career. If Seth MacFarlane and the rest of his writers chose American families over the trash they peddle, American Dad wouldn’t be the Worst TV Show of the Week.