When the clerk tells him most people use bourbon, Roger snaps at him with desperation in his voice that he can’t get drunk and needs something stronger. He expresses to the clerk at a liquor store (Clancy Brown) that he needs something strong for his eggnog. The family alien Roger (MacFarlane) is out shopping for booze. Roger must go to great lengths to get drunk this Christmas. Repeat.,” and that was because they simply delayed airing the season finale three months so it would air in December.
Last year, the show was able to return to Christmas with “Yule. The show doesn’t always do a Christmas special every year since it’s a TBS property that doesn’t always have anything airing around the holiday. I think the last Christmas episode the show featured Santa in, “Santa Schmanta,” had him back to his old self at the end. This episode will show why Santa has a hatred for the Smith family and it’s a subject that will be revisited in subsequent Christmas episodes covering the old man’s death and even his resurrection. And that continuity concerns the Smith’s relationship with the big man in charge of the holiday. This year, I am rectifying that even if it means skipping over a couple of others, but that’s not a big deal because like most sitcoms there is no continuity from one episode to the next.Įxcept for this one! Actually, this episode is the beginning of a continuity in American Dad! that really only matters at Christmas. Last year, the featured Christmas episode was the very first one the show did, “The Best Christmas Story Never Told.” This year, I’m skipping ahead to Season 7 (or 6, it’s confusing) and the fourth Christmas episode the show has done, “For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls.” This episode had the distinction of being the only numbered entry in my Top 25 Christmas Specials from last year that had not been covered in some capacity on this blog. It surprised me how long I was able to avoid American Dad! year in and year out since it has a wealth of Christmas episodes at its disposal. It was just last year that we finally broke the seal on American Dad!.
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