American Dad - Smith Family in the Bitchin' Race
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"It's chosen a television 'testify', not a television 'don't bear witness.'"
American Dad Season 14 Episode 16
It's often surprising that a show that has been on for just as long every bit American Dad! has is still capable of delivering such a consistent batting average. The series has produced over 200 episodes and I'd contend that less than ten of those are outright bad entries, with most of those even coming from the show's primeval years. The bear witness'due south current season has been primarily turning out stellar installments, but unfortunately "The Bitchin' Race" is one of the more forgettable episodes.
Episodes of television shows that are structured effectually the cast acting as contestants on game shows, let alone reality shows, are typically never the formula for all-time archetype entries. With that disclaimer, American Dad! finds a agglomeration to do with their Amazing Race rip-off, "The Bitchin' Race," simply the episode still crumbles under its ain design. Just hey, at least you get an American Dad! episode that'south set in Sidid Bou Said, Tunisia. That's certainly not the norm.
The episode immediately throws the audience into this reality parody, with information technology wasting no time showing elements of the process like the Smiths auditioning for the plan. By the time the series checks in with the Smiths, the prove is already on its big season finale. As this all kicks off, the installment unsurprisingly follows much of the construction of an Amazing Race episode. The v teams reply to their latest clue with talking heads and docu-drama filming style capturing the pair-based adventures. With more than seasoned explorers like Rick Steves and Bear Grylls getting caught up in what luxury hotel to stay in, the Smiths are allowed to rising to the lead.
"The Bitchin' Race" is an entry that inherently has to rely on character, much like how these reality shows live and die by their casts. The showtime of the race originally sees Stan and Francine competing against Steve and Hayley (#siblingrevelry is pretty damn beautiful), but thanks to a Tostitos Partner Swap, in conjunction with a Dollar Shave Club Temporary Alliance, the pairs mix themselves up as Stan's cutthroat nature becomes much more than in line with Hayley's competitive drive. This later pairing works much more in the episode's favor, with the similarly potent-willed attitudes of Stan and Hayley leading to some satisfying laughs.
Over half of this episode plays around with globe hopping reality testify hijinks until the newly formed squad of Stan and Hayley misinterpret a clue and find themselves in a Tunisian prison military camp. The humor for the dorsum-end of the entry is in the male parent-daughter squad spending time in a grueling labor camp and non even realizing it. Meanwhile, the other Smith team of Steve and Francine navigate their way through massages and other exercises in relaxation, having no thought that the residual of their family's lives hang in the balance.
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Stan and Hayley eventually do figure out the gravity of their situation, simply what'south genuinely surprising here is to see this episode connect dorsum to "CIAPOW" from a from seasons dorsum. The irate Thai king from that installment has seen his life have a plough for the worse and he's eager to meet Stan Smith gets what's coming to him. While this dot connecting to the show's history is certainly a dainty touch, it doesn't really save this installment from its overall middling status. Although, if "CIAPOW" is your all-time favorite episode, so "The Bitchin' Race" is likely a dream come true.
Roger—or rather Yeagar Chillax—is likewise in this race likewise, forth with his trusty partner Johnny Bananas. Roger is consistently fighting for the attending of the photographic camera, with him literally pulling it in his direction at times. It'south an enjoyable quirk, just it never goes quite equally far as it could (the aforementioned of which tin can exist said with Roger's dynamic with Johnny Bananas). It's nevertheless fun to encounter the structural mechanics of the episode getting played around with though.
Right from the beginning it's pretty clear that the episode'south focus is the man members of the Smith family unit, with Roger getting shelved surprisingly early. It doesn't exactly feel like Roger's presence is needed in this installment, particularly when there'south such bonkers cloth similar Stan getting skewered past a bull and using it to will the beast into submission. But come up on, this is Roger. He could but be jumping from team to team, constantly betraying everyone—or fifty-fifty a part of a team where the members are somehow both inexplicably Roger. Any of this would be a more fun, useful direction for the character this week.
"The Bitchin' Race" uses Klaus aqueduct surfing alone at the Smith business firm equally a nice lark and a means of jumping out of the activeness whenever it'southward needed. His playful banter is lots of fun, but I was more impressed to see the guy only reminiscing over his (plain lecherous) days every bit a skier. It'south minor attending to detail, but information technology makes his small talk connect a little more than it would otherwise. That beingness said, other detours with the character during his alone time, such as the fact that Klaus apparently plays a daily game of Russian Roulette, don't connect in the same way and amount to puzzling gags.
The downfalls of "The Bitchin' Race" come together in a rather messy final act. Stan and Hayley feel a change of centre regarding their dire labor military camp whereabouts where they're suddenly into the new modify of step. Furthermore, Francine and Steve more or less relax into oblivion to the point where the show's host has to come up and tell them that they've wasted their fourth dimension. These storylines sort of merely end as fourth dimension runs out and Roger becomes the new star of Thai Idol. This rushed nature is solidified in the episode's final scene where Klaus complains that this can't perchance be the ending, until unexplainable nonsense carries him away into take chances. Equally Klaus disappears he's shouting that "if you believe, you lot'll be a winner," but unfortunately it's going to take a whole lot more than conventionalities for this one.
"Yeager Chillax" is nonetheless totally a name that deserves to be trending though. We'll get it at that place, Roger. We will.
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