Review: American Dad “Kloger”

It must’ve been love…well, it might’ve been. Actually, probably not. Point is it’s over.

Spoilers Below

Being suddenly without company while trying out a new steakhouse, Roger finds himself longing for companionship. He starts using E-Harmony and soon finds a match, who turns out to be Klaus. The two begin a secret fling, with more and more intimate whoopy making that I honestly can’t truly be disgusted by because Roger and Klaus as character designs are basically a giant gray amorphous blob and a tiny orange blob kinda just sliding around each other. Either that or my many years of Internet use has just made me numb to most things. Eventually, they’re outed, with Roger wanting in for the long haul, but Klaus backing out as soon as things begin to settle down into “regular couple territory”. Wanting to maintain the crazy, Roger gets himself legally adopted to Klaus, somehow leading to them both in jail but Roger in solitary confinement. The two soon emerge from prison worse for wear and ready to go back to normal.

Also, Steve refuses to take a fitness test and poops himself to cheering and chicken rain. And Hayley has pinkeye.

If that seems like a much shorter recap than last week’s episode, it’s because it is. And that’s mainly because this episode plot just seems so empty. The premise stinks of something picked by throwing darts at a board or scraping the absolute bottom of the barrel after over a dozen seasons of stories. “Have the alien and the fish screw.” It MIGHT have been something that actually explored things about the characters if it were back in the early years of the show, but Roger is just “clingy girlfriend who goes too far” and Klaus is just “non-committal boyfriend.” We’ve had episodes before about how Roger’s deflection to disguises affects his potential interpersonal relationships, and episodes about Klaus’s issues with losing his life to his fish body, and neither topic was touched upon that long ago! But none of that history here. It’s just kind of…sad at this point. Though at least I got to hear “Love at First Sight” again. It’s been awhile. Catchy song.

Okay, what’s next week…Stan and Steve open a garage business? Well, at least that sounds like SOMETHING.