Due to playoff baseball Fox has held any new ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘Family Guy’ episodes until November and showed re-runs this week. ‘American Dad’ was new so it will be recapped.
American Dad
Newspaper headline: Scientist discovers wife cheating
Plot
Deputy Director Avery Bullock tells Stan and his co-worker they’ve found an Al-Qaeda group in Algeria. The CIA is planning to go after them.
Avery tells Stan he is not allowed to go on the mission because he is a family man.
Back at home Steve is hanging out with his granddad, who dropped by to visit.
Stan comes home and complains to Francine about how his career is floundering. He is annoyed because all the cool jobs go to the young guys. Francine tries to help him out by pointing out how he has a great family. Stan isn’t buying it.
The next day Stan places a bomb in Avery’s office with a plan for him to diffuse it to prove that he can still do dangerous jobs. He tries to diffuse the bomb but his reading glasses fall off and he can’t read the instructions on how to diffuse the bomb.
One of the younger CIA guys comes and clips the wire at the last second, thus getting the praise Stan wanted.
Back at home Stan’s dad dies. They have a small funeral. Stan doesn’t really want to say anything. A helicopter shows up in the background. The most awesome super spy who ever lived, Jack Smith, Stan’s real dad, shows up.
Francine is mad that Stan hid who his real dad was. It turns out that Jack was in deep cover as a spy and Stan had to keep his secret. Stan hired a pretend dad, the one now dead in the ground, to show up at his wedding with Francine. Francine is mad Stan lied to her for all these years.
It turns out that Jack is working for the Scarlet Alliance not the CIA. His dad recounts his great adventures around the world. Stan wishes he had his dad’s life.
Steve, still feeling a bond with his fake granddad, shows up to his visits his fake granddad’s apartment. He meets that man’s wife and they talk about their memories of Steve’s now dead fake grandfather. The emotion gets the better of him and Steve starts kissing and making out with the old woman.
Back at home Stan is acting like a little kid who is excited about his dad. Roger likes Jack a lot too. Hayley points out that Roger a boy crush on Jack.
Stan and Jack go to the shooting range. Jack tells him that it’s time to tell him the truth. He is retiring. Jack asks Stan to take his place in the Scarlet Alliance. He has one last mission and if Stan goes with him he will get the job.
Francine is mad at Stan because he quit the CIA.
Jack and Stan prepare for the mission. Jack tells him that terrorists have smuggled uranium into an art museum.
After the father and son duo leave two FBI guys show up and say they are looking for a jewel thief. They show a photo of Jack but he has a moustache. At first Francine doesn’t recognize Jack but after the FBI guys leave she realizes the jewel thief is Jack and he is tricking Stan.
She confronts Jack and demands he tells Stan the truth.
At school Steve tells his friends about how he made out with the 80-year-old. His friends are not sure if they should be impressed or disgusted.
Francine comes home and Stan stuns her with a stun gun. He did this because Jack told him that she was working for the other side as a spy.
Stan has put Francine into a glass/plastic jail in the basement. She tells him about Jack being a jewel thief. He refuses to believe the truth about Jack.
Steve shows up to see Gretchen, the 80-year-old. He notices a shirt that looks like Snot, one of his friends. He looks out the window and Snot running away sans his shit. He confronts Gretchen about her cheating. She tells him that monogamy is for girls in the sixties. Stan leaves in tears.
Roger finds Francine in the basement. She asks for help and tells him Jack is a thief. She said Stan locked her up because Jack told him she is a spy. Roger chooses to believe his boy crush Jack over Francine and leaves her locked up.
Jack and Stan break into the museum. Stan starts to beat up a 76-year-old security guard who is trying to stop them.
Jack breaks into the vault. They enter cage containing all of the valuables. While Stan looks for the uranium Jack grabs a boat load of jewels. Stan is upset as he realizes his dad is a thief. Jack locks him up in the cage.
Steve confronts his friend and he apologizes. Snot. They agree to never let a woman come between them again.
Stan tries to figure a way out of the cage. He folds up a piece of paper and flicks it (ala paper field goal kicks we all did in junior high, Stan had earlier been doing this at work.) Stan is successful and hits the door lock with his paper football letting him out of the cage.
Stan gets out of the museum and catches Jack outside smoking. He starts to chase him on food, skateboard all the way back to the museum. Stan tackles Jack.
Jack is shocked that he was finally caught, finally giving respect to his son. Jack wants Stan to let him go because he let him go just when he was a baby. Jack promises to never steal anything again. Stan, being stupid, agrees to let his dad go.
Jack steals Stan’s car, he yells back and says he will never steal anything again. Two seconds later he breaks into a parking meter and takes the money.
Stan goes home and lets Francine out of the glass prison. He apologizes to her and admits he was wrong about Jack. Francine tells Stan that he is a better dad than his dad was and that makes him a better man.
While they are hugging each other Stan and Francine get locked into the glass jail. Roger comes downstairs but he won’t open the door. Roger wants to talk to Jack before letter him out.
Jokes
Stan: “Smores making bastards.” Roger: “Cheese nips are not the same as cheese-its.” Wife love is worthless to you? Fudge has been made. Stan: “I’m the Chumbawumba of secret agents.” Taliban snow-globe, Jack: “That’s real heroin.” Stan: “So many people will be left un-killed.” Old Lady” “Monogamy is for girls in their 60s.” Steve: “DNR our love.” The voice over of the security guards family and his debate if he should retire or not. Stan’s view of sex: “So we should pound on it for two minutes?”
