Review: American Dad “The Scarlett Getter”

Episode Synopsis: Stan runs into an old flame (voice of Sharon Lawrence) from his CIA-training days and their romance heats up again. Francine’s plan for revenge leads to trouble—for Roger. Meanwhile, Steve inadvertently wears Hayley’s underpants to school. NFL Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe has a voice cameo as himself.

Spoilers below

The CIA wants to beef up their search for an alien loose in Langley Falls so they enlist Shannon Sharpe. Stan runs into his dream girl from when he was in CIA-training, Scarlett and of course he invites her over for dinner. Francine doesn’t like any of this, so she enlists the help of Roger who as “Dan Hansome” wins the heart of Scarlett. Of course, on their first date Stan has to try and fuck it up. Roger gets pissed and aims to get back at Stan, who enlists the help of Shannon who happens to be in the neighborhood. However, it turns out everything was one big ruse as Scarlett had a motive to capture Roger.

Steve has the worst day ever, starting with wearing Hayleys thong underwear. But, as it turns out they are Steve’s lucky panties. He owns at Dodgeball, and is an eyeful for the dudes. But, Snot steals them and thus there goes his luck, but not if Hayley has anything to say about it!

A great way to cap off one of the better Animation Domination weekends. Some notable highlights had Roger covering Third Eye Blind and all the guys in the locker room smacking Steve in the ass while I’m reading about the Syracuse coach who is being investigated for rape. Who knew?

Shannon Sharpe was hysterical, he seemed to have the best one-liners tonight(loved the Spaghetti Incident) and worked off of Stan very well. If it weren’t for his untimely demise, I’d like to see him every week(beats the shit outta the God-awful CBS Sports pre-game). The motif of Stan not clearly giving a shit about Francine while hes courting this other woman is a sight to behold, and serves up the laughs to boot.