I......................don't know what to say. I've barely even prepared any emotions about this episode, let alone words. Let's just review it, I guess.
Well, that was one of the strangest half-hours of my life. "Tapped Out" is an episode of American Dad so f***ed up that all I need to do is just describe the plot summary to you to make you feel like vomiting. It turns out that Francine has been secretly feeding Steve breast-milk his entire life, for reasons that are never explained. I guess she just thought it was fun. Steve is disgusted when he first finds out, but when Francine sabotages his orange juice, he becomes convinced that he still needs the stuff. He then gets obsessed with it and I guess just completely regresses back to being a literal baby, and the two are ostracized when Steve is caught suckling Francine in public. What is my life? What awful decisions have led me down this path, where I have to type these words? Anyway, Francine eventually realizes that this is too weird even for her, and decides to eat a bunch of bees, since Steve is deathly allergic to them. He then ends up in a year long coma, gets slapped by a doctor, Francine admits the initial sabotage and it's finally over.
What, and I mean this in the absolute harshest way imaginable, the f***? I have never felt so uncomfortable in my life, and that was completely by design. This episode is sold entirely on shock value, look no further than one of it's B-plots, where Stan intentionally elongates his neck to wear a turtleneck sweater properly. It's so cursed. Then Jeff has his face torn off and replaced by a chimp's, and they form an incredible friendship that stands the test of time. That's the actual plot. Watching this episode is like watching a car wreck; you know it's going to be awful, you know lives are going to be ruined, but there's a dark and depraved corner of your mind that secretly enjoys it. Whoever wrote this episode must one cold son of a b****.
At least Klaus and Roger are here to lighten the mood. The goldfish is incredibly fun in his turn as the house's incompetent security guard, and his failure to make a second tape of Francine's gambit was the only genuine laugh I got in this episode. And of course, the resident alien is here with a fun quip or two, and almost makes the Stan plot worth watching. Almost.
WTF/10
Many years from now, scholars will meet to examine that qualities of this episode. They'll argue about the importance of shock value and the breaking down of traditional social barriers, as well as whether a fish can actually operate a flashlight, but one thing will be unanimously true: they're all f***ing perverts. I need a shower.
Well, that was one of the strangest half-hours of my life. "Tapped Out" is an episode of American Dad so f***ed up that all I need to do is just describe the plot summary to you to make you feel like vomiting. It turns out that Francine has been secretly feeding Steve breast-milk his entire life, for reasons that are never explained. I guess she just thought it was fun. Steve is disgusted when he first finds out, but when Francine sabotages his orange juice, he becomes convinced that he still needs the stuff. He then gets obsessed with it and I guess just completely regresses back to being a literal baby, and the two are ostracized when Steve is caught suckling Francine in public. What is my life? What awful decisions have led me down this path, where I have to type these words? Anyway, Francine eventually realizes that this is too weird even for her, and decides to eat a bunch of bees, since Steve is deathly allergic to them. He then ends up in a year long coma, gets slapped by a doctor, Francine admits the initial sabotage and it's finally over.
What, and I mean this in the absolute harshest way imaginable, the f***? I have never felt so uncomfortable in my life, and that was completely by design. This episode is sold entirely on shock value, look no further than one of it's B-plots, where Stan intentionally elongates his neck to wear a turtleneck sweater properly. It's so cursed. Then Jeff has his face torn off and replaced by a chimp's, and they form an incredible friendship that stands the test of time. That's the actual plot. Watching this episode is like watching a car wreck; you know it's going to be awful, you know lives are going to be ruined, but there's a dark and depraved corner of your mind that secretly enjoys it. Whoever wrote this episode must one cold son of a b****.
At least Klaus and Roger are here to lighten the mood. The goldfish is incredibly fun in his turn as the house's incompetent security guard, and his failure to make a second tape of Francine's gambit was the only genuine laugh I got in this episode. And of course, the resident alien is here with a fun quip or two, and almost makes the Stan plot worth watching. Almost.
WTF/10
Many years from now, scholars will meet to examine that qualities of this episode. They'll argue about the importance of shock value and the breaking down of traditional social barriers, as well as whether a fish can actually operate a flashlight, but one thing will be unanimously true: they're all f***ing perverts. I need a shower.
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