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  Episode Information  
Title: Tears of a Clooney
Episode Number: 23
Season: 1
Season Episode #.: 23
Production Number: 2AJN04
Original Airdate: Sunday May 14th, 2006
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Episode Crew
Director: Brent Woods
Writer: Matt McKenna
Chris McKenna (2)
  Episode Summary  
Francine is turning 39, and it's bringing back bad memories of her chance at stardom which was stolen by George Clooney. Her new dream is to destroy the star, and Stan vows to help her achieve that goal. They devise up a plan to make George fall in love with Francine, so that she can break his heart. Stan acts as his body guard, but ends up truly becoming his friend and sabotages the plan. Meanwhile, back at home, Roger uses foster children to build up a vineyard.
 
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  Guest Stars  
Guest Stars
André SogliuzzovoicedGeorge ClooneyRecurring (third appearance)
John DiMaggiovoicedPetkovRecurring (second appearance)
Paget BrewstervoicedRainaRecurring (4th appearance)
Kate Jackson (1)voicedherself 
  Episode Notes  
Season Finale of 1st Season
 
Hayley gets cancer in this episode (although it's never stated what that cancer is, by all her smoking you can assume it's lung cancer) but she overcomes it at the end.
 
The duration of this episode, in the American Dad! world, is 1 year.
 
We find out that Francine used to be on the show Scarecrow and Mrs. King with Kate Jackson, Bruce Boxleitner, and George Clooney.
 
Langley Falls Post front page headline: "Rob Schneider, Dead at 62."
 
Stan's has a "Cheney/Quayle '08" on his SUV's bumper sticker.
 
  Episode Quotes  
Stan: Time for cake.
Klaus: I get the piece with the rose on it. I called it. You heard me.
Steve: Mom, cut me and end piece.
Hayley: How can you even think about eating that cake? Do you realize how many innocent cows were raped, or as you say, "milked," to make that cake?!
Stan: Shut up, Hayley.
 
(In Stan's car)
Francine: I have a new dream now. You want to know what it is? You really want to know?
Stan: Eh.
Francine: My dream is to destroy George Clooney. That arrogant, overrated, limo-riding bastard! He's not even an actor! He just does the same cheesy move every time. Looks down, then looks back up, squinting underneath his eyebrows. And everybody's buying it! God, if I just had the chance I know exactly how I'd bring him down. You see, Clooney's never fallen in love. It's always a fling here, a fling there. Well, I'd make him fall in love with me, and then I'd break his heart... and watch him cry until his eyeballs bleed!
Stan: Francine, I'm sorry, but that's the craziest, most unsettling thing I've never heard in my entire life...
(Scene changes; Stan and Francine are now on an airplane)
Stan: ...and we're totally gonna make it happen!
 
Stan: (About George Clooney) According to my intel, he starts production tomorrow on a new movie called Dr. Love. He plays a brilliant heart surgeon.
Francine: Let me guess. The only heart he can't heal is his own.
Stan: Look at that, word for word.
Francine: That knuckle-dragging son of a bitch!
 
Airplane Pilot: We are now beginning our descent into Prague.
Stan: And now George Clooney begins his descent into hell.
Airplane Pilot: Please put your seat-backs and tables in the upright position.
Stan: Please put George Clooney's heart in the... in the... in the sad-right... position. Should've ended with that whole descent into hell thing.
 
Francine: Stan, what's going on?
Stan: Francine, we're here to break George Clooney's heart. This is war. And no war is won without a crack squad of murderers and thieves.
Franz: Ahem.
Stan: And rapists. Sorry, Franz.
Franz: Thank you.
 
Petkov: (To Francine) The final key to Clooney is resisting his charm. Men and women alike find it irresistible and kiss his ass until they are sucked inside. But if you stay out of his ass, he will pursue you until he is all the way up yours.
 
George Clooney: Here, I got you a pipe.
Stan: Thanks, but I don't smoke pipes.
George Clooney: No one does. I'm bringing them back.
 
Roger: That's right, foster children: hard work builds character!
Kid: Water break, boss?
Roger: Oh, honey, don't call me "boss." That makes me feel like some kind of monster. Call me "Dad".
Kid: Water break, Dad?
Roger: No.
 
  Episode Goofs  
Francine punches a window; when she removes it it is bloody and glass is sticking out. Then a man comes over and bandages it, without taking the glass out!
 
  Cultural References  
Star Wars

At the end, when the girls are free from Steve, they wrap the chains constricting them around his neck and pull. This, and the clothes they are wearing, are direct references to the Star Wars scene, when Princess Lea escapes from Jabba the Hut.
 
Tears of a Clooney

The episode title "Tears of a Clooney" is a spoof of the phrase "Tears of a Clown."
 
Roger's Clothes

In the scenes where Roger is having the kids work in the vineyard; his clothes are much like the head guard from the movie Cool Hand Luke.
 
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