REVIEW: AMERICAN DAD “Adventures in Hayleysitting”

Episode Synopsis: The babysitter must cancel on the Smiths, so Stan and Francine reluctantly leave Steve with the legendarily irresponsible Hayley. Later, after Hayley gives Steve a hard time about being such a straight arrow, he sets out to prove her wrong by sneaking off to attend a party with the cool kids. Original Air Date: Dec 9, 2012.
Guest Cast Charlie Day: Jon Alison Brie: Lindsay Sarah Michelle Gellar: Jenny

Spoilers Below

After their baby-sitter smashes her ankle in a soccer match, Francine and Stan may have to cancel their date, but jokingly Hayley takes up the reigns as babysitter for her younger brother. Her parents are reluctant at first, but Stan and Francine go on their date with Stan threatening his daughter to be so responsible it hurts. Steve promises to be a more of a nuisance for his sister, but despite inviting his friends over to help cook dinner, it all seems like child’s play to his older sister of whom seems to have seen it all! With Jeff stoned, Steve threatens to leave with his friends to go to a party but Hayley sends them to his room of which they escape causing a big chase to ensue. Hayley speeds off her car after a bus that the guys take but she runs out of gas and they escape!

Hayley is furious, but Jeff doesn’t seem to take it seriously. all the meanwhile her brother is on a bus flirting with the possibility of getting some booze so that they can get into the party. Hayley catches wind of said party and heads on over there, but the boys don’t have their booze yet, so they show up late after a guy named Jon scores some booze for them in exchange for some Sudafed. When Jon gets home, he realizes the kids didn’t save him the receipt and all of whom are at the party. Steve finds Hayley drunk as shit, when all of a sudden they get a phone call that Stan is coming home early which means they have to rush to get there before their dad does.

Eventually, Steve gets pulled over by the cops for driving a van that smells like pot, booze, and being too young to drive, but thankfully Jon comes by and runs that cop over. Jon threatens to kill Steve unless if he gets the receipt, so they go over to this girl Jenny’s house of whom also happens to work at the mart where they bought the Sudafed. They head to her house, grab the receipt, and all the kids head home.

Francine and Stan’s date is in trouble when Roger’s horse carriage breaks down leaving them stranded. As such, Roger lubes himself the way home, while the ‘rents take off on their respective horses on their way to a good time.  Eventually, they reach some sort of a barn where the horses put on a performance that leads to Stan and Fran hooking up thereby saving their date night. Afterwards, they head home narrowly getting their before the kids, but due to the ghost of Lindsay of whom died earlier, Steve and Hayley were able to get home with Hayley getting a good grade on her baby sitting.

The plot with Steve and Hayley was OK, but there were all these other strands that I felt the writers were working with that were so far off…they were sad. As a matter of fact, I remember this same plot in an episode of My Wife and Kids where the parents get lost going to a party and end up coming home early, blah blah. That said, Charlie Day plays some of the best drug addicts as we’ve seen in his crack/coke addicted portrayals in Sunny and Horrible Bosses, so he was perfect for his role as ‘Jon’. But, I felt that Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alison Brie didn’t need to be used at all as ‘Lindsay’ served no real purpose besides the beginning and the end, and SMG just cried all of her lines. Roger was scant this episode, and the plot with Stan and Fran was so douchie I could barely get through it. Ugh….

Score

7/10

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