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  Episode Information  
Title: A.T. The Abusive Terrestrial
Episode Number: 35
Season: 2
Season Episode #.: 12
Production Number: 2AJN16
Original Airdate: Sunday February 11th, 2007
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Episode Crew
Director: Joe Daniello
Writer: Dan Vebber
  Episode Summary  
When Roger begins to feel like Steve has outgrown him he sets off to find a new best friend. He eventually does, but when the new kid starts being abusive to Roger, Steve and Hayley think up a scheme to get him out of the relationship. Meanwhile, when Stan and Francine find out that their favorite soda, Mr. Pibb, is being discontinued they set out on a journey to save it.
 
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  Guest Stars  
Guest Stars
Jeff Fischer (1)voicedJeffRecurring (8th appearance)
Mike Barker (1)voicedGordonRecurring (17th appearance)
Masam HoldenvoicedHenry 
Patton OswaltvoicedBob 
Peter Graves (1)voicedMr. Pibb 
  Episode Notes  
Langley Falls Post front page headline: "Homemade Valentine Proves Thought Doesn't Count."
 
  Featured Songs  
ArtistSong TitlePlayed When
G. Love & Special SauceCold Beverage 
  Episode Quotes  
Stan: I can't believe you're still upset. It's been a week.
Francine: You called me a pig!
Stan: I didn't say you were a pig, I said that dress made you look like a pig. And those shoes didn't help. All your fat, sweaty toes shoved in there like 20 Hondurans stuffed in a giant...shoe.
 
(The Mr. Pibb truck rides into the forest poorly disguised as a spaceship)
Roger: Oh, man, he's never gonna fall for this.
Henry: Cool! A real spaceship.
Roger: Then again, he is nine.
 
Bob: (Dully) Welcome to the Mr. Pibb Experience. Stan. Francine.
Stan: Evening, Bob. You get the e-mail I sent you with different ideas for Pibb T-shirts?
Bob: Yes, I deleted it immediately.
Stan: (Laughs) Classic Bob.
 
Steve: Why does he stay, Hayley?! Why does he stay?
Hayley: Clearly he's getting something from this kid he wasn't getting from you. When you have that kind of co-dependency, it can be hard to break free from an abusive relationship.
Jeff: (Jeff peaks out of the door behind them) Can I come out of the pantry now, babe?
Hayley: I said I'll get you when I'm ready!
 
Steve: You sound just like Daphne Zuniga from that Lifetime movie, and you remember what happened to her.
Roger: Oh, my God! She ended up on ABC Family! Well, I'm not going to let that happen to me.
 
Hayley: What's wrong with you? You look horrible.
Klaus: I've had this flu for, like, two weeks. I started to feel better on Tuesday, but then I pushed it and now I have this darker mucus and-
Hayley: I was talking to Steve.
Klaus: Are you sure you don't want to be a nurse, Hayley? You have such a caring nature!
 
  Cultural References  
A.T. The Abusive Terrestrial

The entire episode is based off of the classic movie E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. Even the boys name, Henry, is the same in the movie. Some notable movie-like scenes being when Henry finds Roger in his backyard, Roger getting in the basket on Henry's bike, and the ending when Roger "goes home" in the forest.
 
Mr. Pibb/Pibb Xtra

Mr. Pibb was a real soda produced by Coca-Cola in 1971. Just like in this episode, the drink was eventually changed (2001) to Pibb Xtra.
 
Laverne & Shirley

Putting a glove on top of the soda bottle is a reference to the opening sequence of the show Laverne & Shirley.
 
Steve: You sound just like Daphne Zuniga from that Lifetime movie, and you remember what happened to her.
Roger: Oh, my God! She ended up on ABC Family! Well, I'm not going to let that happen to me.

Steve is referring to Daphne Zuniga's role in the Lifetime movie Pandora's Clock. Daphne later went on to star in ABC Family's Beautiful People.
 
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