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American Dad on Fox

American Dad (Sunday, 7:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. C/MT) continues to pollute the hour BEFORE the Family Hour on Sunday nights.  Parents, don’t be fooled by the colorful animation; this is not something your children should be watching.  Nevertheless, Fox continually airs American Dad reruns at the time when the most children are likely to watch.  For re-broadcasting a ghastly murder scene, the American Dad rerun that aired on August 30^th has been named Worst TV Show of the Week.

In this episode, Stan and his fellow spies hate the long hours of overtime their boss Bullock forces them to work.  They are certain that Bullock would lighten up if he started dating again while his wife is being held captive in Fallujah, Iraq.  So Stan coaxes his wife, Francine, to arrange a blind date with Bullock, and her friend, Melinda.  The date goes surprisingly well.  They make out passionately at the dinner table in front of Stan and Francine, who states, "Oh Stan! Nothing turns me on like watching a dear friend get worked over by an old man!"

Stan replies, "Well, you're drunk enough. Francine and I are going to go have 'the maritals.' I just hope I don't 'pre-marital' on the way home."

Eventually, Bullock takes Melinda home with him.  That’s when thing go terribly wrong.

Stan receives a frantic phone call from Bullock, who tells him to come over immediately.  When Stan arrives at bullock’s home, he sees Melinda dead in the living room, dressed in lingerie.  Bullock’s flashback reveals that Melinda snuck up behind Bullock while he was mixing her a drink.  She tappeds him on the shoulder and he instinctively threw her over his shoulder and broke her neck.  Stan helps Bullock bury the body, but when Francine starts to worry that Melinda is missing Stan – at Bullock’s behest – deflects the blame away from his boss.  Stan drugs Francine.  When she finally comes to, she finds a knife in her hand and Melinda’s dead, decomposing body next to her with four more knives sticking out of her chest.  Convinced that she killed her friend, Francine attempts to cover up the murder.  Stan helps her by pulverizing Melinda’s carcass with a wood chipper. 

Apparently, Fox considers gruesome violence against women to be family-friendly fare.  Why else would they broadcast reruns during the earliest programming block of a series that normally airs at the latest timeslot?  

For once again corrupting Family Hour with extreme violence, American Dad rightly deserves the title of Worst TV Show of the Week.