Review: American Dad “A Ward Show”

Stan and Francine attempt to make waves after discovering that their vacation at the biggest water park in the world fails to get their hearts pumping.

Spoilers Below

When Steve gets a gig as the principals accountant he accrues a sort of bravado about himself and as such becomes a pain to the other teachers at school.

Back at home, Stan gets invited to the school to have coffee with the principal but he doesn’t want to go, so Roger offers to go in his place as Steves new legal guardian. Roger apparently is doing a great job as one too, as he does everything, he got Steve extra homework and studies late with him, but this causes a rift between Steve and the principal and as a result the Superintendent finds about the relationship and fires the principal,thereby ending Steve’s reign of terror. Because Principal Brian got fired, he obviously cant get his finances in order and as such is evicted from his house. With no power, Steve gets pushed around by the other jealous teachers so Roger blows them all up “Kill the Irishman” style as revenge. After a while, Roger becomes overprotective, so Steve runs away. Soon he runs into principal who buys a shit ton or oranges and takes off with Steve.There destination? To drive off the Grand Canyon cliff to put themselves out their misery!

Since Stan and Francine don’t have to watch Steve anymore, they go to a water park for a vacation an albeit short and unsatisfactory vacation.  Stan and Francine attempt to do the sensible thing and get their money back as they bought about 8 days worth of passes. But when they are turned away by the asshole of the fucking year at the ticket stand , they opt to take revenge. Their plan?  To fuck in the public pool which actually ends in a bloody mess.

Overall, the episode was kind of lame this week. There wasn’t a lot of Stan and he’s usually the key ingredient for a good week and instead he was stuck in a cliched water park story. Steve’s early jokes were OK, but as we got into the meat of the 23 minutes, the story starts to fall apart. Even Roger was pretty lame this week with the exception of the one highlight being when he found Steve’s new friend who comes packing with a high pitched scream that I’m sure Simon Cowell would call “appalling”.