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American Dad! :: The Best Christmas Story Never (02x09)
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| Title: | The Best Christmas Story Never |
| Episode #: | 02x09 |
| Production Number: | 2AJN14 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday December 17th, 2006 |
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Mar 13, 2008 |
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With Stan's Christmas spirit at an all-time low (thanks to special interest groups trying to make the holiday season more politically correct), the Ghost of Christmas Past visits him and tries to show him the true meaning of Christmas. However, Stan is convinced that Christmas can be saved by changing the outcome of the Vietnam War and killing Jane Fonda. Meanwhile, Roger (living in the 1970s under the name "Roger Epstein") invents disco music and becomes a success.
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Langley Falls Post front page headline: "Exclusive Photos! Santa Exits Sleigh, Flashes Crotch."
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Donald Sutherland: (to Jane Fonda) You know, you should get involved in politics. Let's talk about it over drinks. Maybe at my place?
Stan: (to Himself) Let's talk about it over your brains. Maybe all over the place? (Laughs) Delightful.
| Francine: Well, isn't that cute. Roger's making a snow angel...a face down snow angel...in a pile of angel vomit.
Hayley: He's passed out, Mom. He's been binge drinking since Thanksgiving.
| Stan: Have you seen Donald Sutherland?
Martin Scorsese: You might want to check between Faye Dunaway's legs.
| Stan: Francine, I'm going to completely lose my Christmas cheer if I don't get someplace where they understand this holiday pronto.
Francine: We can stop by church.
Stan: I don't need to be bored, Francine. I need to be reminded of what Christmas is all about. To the shopping mall!
| Stan: Ah, this is more like it. Two teenagers sitting on an old man's lap as a midget snaps a picture. If that doesn't commemorate our Savior's birth, I don't know what does.
Hayley: This year, Santa smelled like whiskey and the midget smelled like pot.
Steve: I know! When did they change it up?
| Stan: One of your items, please.
Clerk: How about this cassette?
Stan: Is it 99 cents?
Clerk: It's $1.07 with tax.
Stan: You ever think about changing the sign?
Clerk: It's not really up to me.
| Stan: Well, Merry Christmas.
Clerk: Happy holidays.
Stan: I, uh, said Merry Christmas.
Clerk: Happy holidays.
Stan: Just say Merry Christmas.
Clerk: Management doesn't want us saying that.
Stan: (Pulls out his gun and puts it to the clerk's mouth) Just say it!
| Francine: Stan, did you remember to get a gift for Roger?
Stan: Roger? He's not a Christian. You think he cares that 2,000 years ago our Lord and Savior was born in a mangler?
Francine: Uh, I think you mean "manger."
Stan: No, no, honey, you're thinking of "manager."
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Stan's purchase at the 99 Cent Store totals $1.07 for a sales tax rate of eight percent. Not only is the tax rate in Stan's home state of Virginia not eight percent-- at the time of the premiere airing, it was 5%-- but no state in the United States of America (as of 2009) has a sales tax of 8%.
| Roger (in the 1970s) is seen snorting cocaine, even though he stated that he doesn't have a nose (unless he has two unseen nostrils on his face that only appear when needed).
| The alternate past shown to Stan contains a major historical error. President Walter Mondale is shown surrendering the United States personally to the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (identified by his often caricatured bushy eyebrows and squarish head). Brezhnev had died in 1982 and was succeeded by Yuri Andropov. The Soviet leader at the surrender should have been Konstantin Chernenko who ruled the USSR from February 1984 to March 1985. Of course, this could have been the result of the Butterfly Effect, in which a small change in the past leads to major changes in the future, and thus, due to Stan tampering with one past event, Brezhnev was revealed to still be alive in 1982.
| In 1970, Roger is asked about his audition for Ryan's Hope by a fellow employee at "Elaine's," but Ryan's Hope didn't premiere until 1975.
| In this episode, Stan tries to kill Donald Sutherland because he hates Kiefer Sutherland, but on the season one episode "Threat Levels," Stan watched the first season of 24 on DVD (which stars Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer).
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Roger: This tape is from the future!
Roger becoming rich in the future from finding something in the past from the future is much like a side-story in the 1989 film Back to the Future II.
| Langley Falls Post front page headline: "Exclusive Photos! Santa Exits Sleigh, Flashes Crotch."
The headline is a funny reference to many pictures taken of Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton in 2006 of them exiting their cars with no underwear on.
| Ghost of Christmas Past: You have to help me. I'm the Ghost of Christmas Past and I took your husband back to 1970 and he bolted on me.
The whole "Ghost of Christmas Past" taking someone into the past to show them the error of their ways story is taken from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
| Fellow Employee: So how did the Ryan's Hope audition go?
Ryan's Hope was a popular American soap opera that ran from 1975-89.
| Stan: Have you seen Donald Sutherland?
Martin Scorsese: You might want to check between Faye Dunaway's legs.
Donald Sutherland and Fay Dunaway both stared the the 1984 film Ordeal by Inocence.
| A signifficant part of this episodes revolves around the movie Klute (Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland both star in this movie, we also visit the set) and we also see the shooting of Taxi Driver with Rober Deniro.
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