I was skeptical when they were bringing in guest star The Weeknd, but his presence (although felt too forced) worked well around the Smith family. Roger's A Plot worked fine, there were a few hiccups here and there, but it didn't derail itself completely.
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Fantastic episode
saikamal4 October 2021
A Starboy is Born
Antelope17085 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I'm not a fan of The Weeknd so maybe I would have liked the episode more if I was, but I thought the episode was pretty bad. Hayley trying to sleep with The Weeknd just felt weird and the Roger and Klaus plot could have been decent but it wasn't. This is basically a modern Simpsons episode tbh.
Not so good IMHO
vuileharry5 May 2020
Maybe an idea for the next episode: you could hire the magicians Siegfried & Roy to do some voices. Then you can do an episode where Stan and Francine become Siegfried & Roy and then they go to Vegas with a tiger and Roger becomes a dentist and then they somehow end up on a banana-island that explodes.... or something.
It's really hard for me to say much about the story this time. Because the whole thing felt to me like a weird, fragmented collection of occurances that seemed to make little to no sense. I was costantly fighting to re-direct my ever wandering attention back to the screen, so I must be honest: I didn't follow it. Maybe I missed a wonderful story because I couldn't keep my attention? Or maybe there simply wasn't one? All I remember is it was all about The Weeknd and he sang a whole song and Hayley wanted to sleep with him and then he was a virgin?
Well, I imagine this episode will be loved by fans of The Weeknd. And that is totally fine, The Weeknd is a good popstar. But with all due respect and in all fairness people: this isn't supposed to be The Weeknd! It is supposed to be American Dad. And in my very humble opinion, it wasn't. Well... not really.
(EDIT: Uhmmm.... "Maybe an idea for the next episode: you could hire the magician SIEGFRIED to do some voices." Just Siegfried...)
It's really hard for me to say much about the story this time. Because the whole thing felt to me like a weird, fragmented collection of occurances that seemed to make little to no sense. I was costantly fighting to re-direct my ever wandering attention back to the screen, so I must be honest: I didn't follow it. Maybe I missed a wonderful story because I couldn't keep my attention? Or maybe there simply wasn't one? All I remember is it was all about The Weeknd and he sang a whole song and Hayley wanted to sleep with him and then he was a virgin?
Well, I imagine this episode will be loved by fans of The Weeknd. And that is totally fine, The Weeknd is a good popstar. But with all due respect and in all fairness people: this isn't supposed to be The Weeknd! It is supposed to be American Dad. And in my very humble opinion, it wasn't. Well... not really.
(EDIT: Uhmmm.... "Maybe an idea for the next episode: you could hire the magician SIEGFRIED to do some voices." Just Siegfried...)
Lame
massimolamastra26 February 2021
Insufferable
mynewyaa6 May 2020
Not one episode this season has been watchable, including this one. Over the past SEVERAL seasons, the show has grown hackneyed and confused. The last good episode was Rabbit Ears (14.04). Time to pull the plug. What a shame.
The Weeknd is terrible
shauncore80828 July 2022
Out of the thousands of music stars they could have used in this episode, they chose someone with no talent whatsoever. R&B is a garbage genre, and The Weeknd is no exception. I would have just skipped the entire episode if I couldn't skip through the musical parts. They're legitimately unbearable. This is probably the second worse AD episode behind "American Fung", which is so obnoxious I've never made it more than 10 minutes into the episode. This is the same show that made "Rabbit Ears", which was so good it legitimately could have been a movie.
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