Oh yeah, I'm real groovy and cool now. I wrote the word "dank" in a title for one of my posts, and I'm going to do it again a few more times, because I feel like it. You impressed yet?
"Jeff and the Dank Ass Weed Factory"(ha, wrote it again) is an episode with a very simple premise, once again exploring the Jeff and Stan relationship as well as providing another parody, this time of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. American Dad has gone to the Jeff and Stan pretty frequently over the years, and it's proved to be a solid combination. The conflict here is over Jeff's love of weed which Stan mocks time and time again. That is until the mysterious Tommie Tokes(ostensibly just Snoop Dogg, voiced by Snoop Dogg) announces a competition to tour his factory by finding four golden blunts. Bullock decides to put the CIA to work infiltrating the facility to find the "everlasting edible". Jeff, meanwhile, just sort of stumbles into winning, and Stan ends up getting to tag along in an insane sequence that I guess means Jeff's getting to sleep with Francine. Once inside the factory, this story mostly progresses as a standard parody, albeit one with some gorgeous animation. Seemingly ever week I praise AD's animation, but this episode really knocks it out of the park. After Stan is pushed into getting high to prove he's not a nark, he and Jeff go on a trippy sequence to find the mythical edible, before rejoining the group as all the other contestants are getting brutally murdered, as is tradition.
At this point, the episode takes a sharp left turn, as Tommie Tokes discovers Stan stole the edible, avoiding getting high with help from CIA gadgets and betraying Jeff. As punishment, Tokes prepares to turn Stan into a Snoompa Loompa, the parody of Oompa Loompas, but the procedure is stopped halfway through. For the rest of the episode, Stan is half Snoompa, which looks really freaky. Stan is now legitimately high, and Jeff has to save the day. There's a Stelio Kontos cameo, and a really stupid inhale pun, plus more brutal murder as the two escape through Tokes' glass bong. Stan seems to genuinely appreciate Jeff, but that's a part of their dynamic that's only here for a week. Overall, this was a solid parody and good fun, but nothing truly memorable. Making this episode a parody did help ease the burden of having to come up with yet another original story, but it ended up feeling somewhat lazy, especially after last week's Twilight Zone parody.
There was no B-story this week, with Jeff and Stan's adventure taking up the entire episode. It's an interesting choice, and one I'm not sure really worked. On one hand, the extra focus did help to up the stakes in the main storyline, but there were definitely times I could've used a break from all the weed jokes and murder.
7/10
"Jeff and the Dank Ass Weed Factory"(alright, I think it's starting to get old now) is a fun parody of a classic story and looked absolutely incredible. And hey, no Tuttle! You're welcome Reddit. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to watch Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Gene Wilder was the man.
"Jeff and the Dank Ass Weed Factory"(ha, wrote it again) is an episode with a very simple premise, once again exploring the Jeff and Stan relationship as well as providing another parody, this time of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. American Dad has gone to the Jeff and Stan pretty frequently over the years, and it's proved to be a solid combination. The conflict here is over Jeff's love of weed which Stan mocks time and time again. That is until the mysterious Tommie Tokes(ostensibly just Snoop Dogg, voiced by Snoop Dogg) announces a competition to tour his factory by finding four golden blunts. Bullock decides to put the CIA to work infiltrating the facility to find the "everlasting edible". Jeff, meanwhile, just sort of stumbles into winning, and Stan ends up getting to tag along in an insane sequence that I guess means Jeff's getting to sleep with Francine. Once inside the factory, this story mostly progresses as a standard parody, albeit one with some gorgeous animation. Seemingly ever week I praise AD's animation, but this episode really knocks it out of the park. After Stan is pushed into getting high to prove he's not a nark, he and Jeff go on a trippy sequence to find the mythical edible, before rejoining the group as all the other contestants are getting brutally murdered, as is tradition.
At this point, the episode takes a sharp left turn, as Tommie Tokes discovers Stan stole the edible, avoiding getting high with help from CIA gadgets and betraying Jeff. As punishment, Tokes prepares to turn Stan into a Snoompa Loompa, the parody of Oompa Loompas, but the procedure is stopped halfway through. For the rest of the episode, Stan is half Snoompa, which looks really freaky. Stan is now legitimately high, and Jeff has to save the day. There's a Stelio Kontos cameo, and a really stupid inhale pun, plus more brutal murder as the two escape through Tokes' glass bong. Stan seems to genuinely appreciate Jeff, but that's a part of their dynamic that's only here for a week. Overall, this was a solid parody and good fun, but nothing truly memorable. Making this episode a parody did help ease the burden of having to come up with yet another original story, but it ended up feeling somewhat lazy, especially after last week's Twilight Zone parody.
There was no B-story this week, with Jeff and Stan's adventure taking up the entire episode. It's an interesting choice, and one I'm not sure really worked. On one hand, the extra focus did help to up the stakes in the main storyline, but there were definitely times I could've used a break from all the weed jokes and murder.
7/10
"Jeff and the Dank Ass Weed Factory"(alright, I think it's starting to get old now) is a fun parody of a classic story and looked absolutely incredible. And hey, no Tuttle! You're welcome Reddit. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to watch Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Gene Wilder was the man.
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