REVIEW: AMERICAN DAD “Wheels & The Legman and The Case of Grandpa’s Key”
Stan joins Steve and Roger’s make-believe detective agency, but Stan proves to be an incompetent fake sleuth, and Roger demands that Steve fire him. He won’t do it. Then Stan is kidnapped. Original Air Date: Feb 12, 2012
Guest Cast Niecy Nash: Lorraine
Spoilers Below
Who woulda thought that Steve and Roger had a detective agency?? And since Stan is bored with his three day weekend, he decides to join despite Roger’s disapproval. Roger(The Legman) is kinda insane though, he talks to a stuffed bear named Bonkers, pretends to drive a car(Ted?), and loves his bouts with cocaine. After a while Poppa-Wheelie(Stan) is becoming a pain and Wheels(Steve) is ordered to fire him, but he doesn’t have the heart to do it so he sends Poppa on a mission in which he eventually gets kidnapped….by Bonkers?
Klaus decides to model for a site that has a bunch of “cute pet pics”. The group who runs the site decide to bypass Klaus’ pics and use a pic of Roger’s ass instead.
I liked the Sherlock Holmes-esque story with Roger, Steve, and Stan as I thought it was a nice change of pace and yes we’ve had Wheels and Legman episodes before but this was the first time it was really used as a focal point. It was cute, funny, and had some great twists that kind of set it apart from prior episodes, but again we get another week where the secondary story line and was probably not needed. This week the culprit was Klaus, and I just didn’t give a shit about the setup mainly because I don’t think Klaus is very funny. Don’t get me wrong, I love Dee Bradley Baker, but Klaus is a douche.
(7.0 out of 10)
"There are also other characters that come and go (also owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate media company)."
Huh. Is that just referring to other characters from the show itself, or is this implying that the new season is going to have cameos from other WBD IPs