" In Country...Club " is the first episode of the sixth season and the seventy ninth overall episode of the animated comedy series American Dad!. It aired on Fox in the United States on September 27, 2009, and is written by Judah Miller and Murray Miller and directed by Albert Calleros and Josue Cervantes.
Stan, Steve and Roger reenact Vietnam on a golf course. Without the manic asides and cutaways of Family Guy, the comedic success of any given episode of American Dad typically relies on the strength of its set-up. In the case of the show's season five premiere, " In Country...
When Stan is finally able to save what he believe is enough to join, he finds out that the membership has increased in the thirty years since he started from $7000 to $200,000. Desperate to at least teach Steve a lesson, Stan challenges Mr. Vanderhill to a golf game with the stakes being Steve returning to work against the employee's swim time.
Stan is denied membership to a golf club. When the CIA takes their annual summer vacation as terrorism slacks off, Stan returns to his summer job at the Havercamp Country Club where he has worked for thirty years to save for a membership.
the Central Intelligence AgencyStan is the patriarch of the Smith family. As the family's breadwinner, he works for the Central Intelligence Agency. Although he once held the position of a case officer at the CIA, he is now a weapons expert for the agency.
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Arriving at home early, Steve discovers that Stan is actually bald. Stan explains that when he was a teen, he had a ton of acne and was ridiculed for it. He tried everything to get rid of it, including Satanic rituals.
A Jones for a SmithStan becomes addicted to crack, mistakenly thinking that it is cold medicine.
1. Rapture's Delight (Season 5, Episode 9) The best episode of "American Dad!" to date, "Rapture's Delight" contains everything fans love about the series and more.
Roger came into contact with the Smith family when he saved Stan's life back when Roger was a fugitive of Area 51 (four years prior to the show's beginnings). Feeling he owed Roger a life debt because of this, Stan rescued him from government capture and allowed him to live in his home.
Area 51 is where Stan first encountered Roger. In "Roger Codger", Stan recounts Roger had escaped containment in Area 51 and was running around the base looking for cover. Stan joined the pursuit squad and eventually cornered Roger in a lab.
Seth MacFarlane is taking on immigration and the undergoing cultural shift in America. Seriously. With American Dad! moving to TBS and The Cleveland Show quietly getting cancelled, MacFarlane's animated presence on Fox had gone down to one show, flagship Family Guy.
It revealed to be Glenn Quagmire, who says his catch phrase, "Giggity." Quagmire is voiced by Seth MacFarlane.
Trahn "Jimmy" Ng was reportedly a cast member who was supposed to play a fry cook in the diner scene in "Bullocks To Stan". According to Klaus who narrates the episode as if it was a DVD commentary, Jimmy was killed while driving to the set.
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Stan takes Steve to a Vietnam War reenactment before Steve sings the National Anthem to a veteran's group, but the experience changes Steve in ways that Stan never anticipated.
WILHELM SCREAM: When Stan and Steve first go out on the golf course and get knocked to the ground, and the guy that falls next to them.
When the CIA takes their annual summer vacation as terrorism slacks off, Stan returns to his summer job at the Havercamp Country Club where he has worked for thirty years to save for a membership.
Steve later discovers Roger paying off Stan as part of a plot to hustle the club members in exchange for a split of the wagers and enough money to join the club .
Steve has been chosen to sing the national anthem at the veteran's fair. However, he sings it with little passion, leading Stan to believe that the only way he can truly appreciate the national anthem is by experiencing war. Stan signs them both up for a Vietnam War re-enactment held at a local country club's golf course.
Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B-, saying "That said, I liked more of the episode than I disliked (particularly the lengthy coda where Steve couldn’t shake his Vietnam War re-enactment experience), so we’ll give it a moderate passing grade.
Without the manic asides and cutaways of Family Guy, the comedic success of any given episode of American Dad typically relies on the strength of its set-up. In the case of the show's season five premiere, " In Country... Club ," the set-up is plenty strong and ridiculous enough to provide the right amount of outrageous laughs.
From the delightfully twisted creative minds behind Family Guy comes American Dad, the animated tour de force featuring CIA operative Stan Smith, his outrageous family, and Roger, the alcoholic extra-terrestrial who lives with them!
In an effort to teach Hayley the value of guns, Stan tries to scare her with a fake, home invasion, only to have Hayley accidentally shoot him in the spine. With Stan now ridden by a wheelchair, Hayley's guilt has her work with her father on a pro-gun, musical tour.
Ashamed, he tries to phase Steve out of his life, specifically replacing him in a company baseball game, but soon learns that Steve's nerdy nature could actually help him with a recent cyberterrorist investigation. Meanwhile, Hayley tries to help Roger find a way to leave the attic, experimenting with everything from new disguises to getting a job.
It's hard to believe that there was ever a time in the series that Roger Smith didn't dabble in his disguises and personas, but that was Roger's life prior to "Roger Codger." In this episode, Roger accidentally ruins a family dinner with Deputy Director Bullock, costing Stan an important promotion. Infuriated, Stan yells at Roger and forces the alien into a stress-induced hibernation. Believing him to be dead, Stan just throws him in a dumpster, leaving Roger to wake up in the middle of the dump.
American Dad! rarely does two-part episodes anymore , but the creators really tried to make their first season special. After a mishap with Bullock at an award show, the proud, American Smiths are transferred to Saudi Arabia. In the move, most of the family struggles to adjust to the culture shock, while Stan is surprised to find that the culture not only aligns with some of his beliefs but even enables them.
As the series' fill-in hippie character, Hayley is heavily anti-gun and that attitude clashes with Stan, whose entire career and sense of safety revolve around guns.
Stan has historically been neglectful to Francine and Klaus' needs and aspirations. In Francine's case, he never took her dreams seriously and ignored her when she wanted to start her own, mall kiosk, even though a recent bonus from work could've easily covered the costs. For Klaus, Stan constantly neglects getting him a new body.
Roger agrees on the condition that everyone helps him. At work, Stan treats the job as time to party. He joins the kids in playing and works hard to be “cool” even though his boss advises him to keep himself set as an authority figure. Sent to break up a loud party, he tries to be nice and finds he is rejected.
Stan tries to win them back but falls flat when tossing a frisbee is treated as brutality. Security is ordered to clear out the protesters as Stan feels like he is working with fools in their plan to clear out the kids. Stan decides to try to act as an intermediary but finds the kids refuse to treat him with respect.
When the CIA takes their annual summer vacation as terrorism slacks off, Stan returns to his summer job at the Havercamp Country Club where he has worked for thirty years to save for a membership.
Steve later discovers Roger paying off Stan as part of a plot to hustle the club members in exchange for a split of the wagers and enough money to join the club .