History AmericanDad / TropesUToZ

* WomenAreWiser: Downplayed. Francine and Hayley are still ''incredibly'' flawed human beings, but the male Smiths are usually depicted as far more dysfunctional and problematic, with the girls usually displaying more clarity and intelligence. Most evident in "Rapture's Delight", where Stan's selfishness costs him his rapture, while Francine is considered pure enough to become ''Jesus Christ's girlfriend''.

* WomenAreWiser: Downplayed. Francine and Hayley are still ''incredibly'' flawed human beings, but the male Smiths are usually depicted as far more dysfunctional and problematic, with the girls usually displaying more clarity and intelligence (or at the very least getting thrown AnAesop far less often). Most evident in "Rapture's Delight", where Stan's selfishness costs him his rapture, while Francine is considered pure enough to become ''Jesus Christ's girlfriend''.

** Inverted when it comes to psychological issues unlike Francine who either tries to get Stan to ignore them or takes advantage of them Stan wants Francine to deal with these issues.

* UpToEleven: Played with when Hayley convinces Stan to "Stick it to The Man".
-->'''Stan:''' We're gonna stick it to the man.\\
'''Hayley:''' Louder!\\
'''Stan:''' We're gonna stick it to the man!\\
'''Hayley:''' What're we gonna do?!\\
'''Stan:''' We're gonna stick it to the man!!!\\
'''Hayley:''' 10 percent more!!\\
'''Stan: WE'RE GONNA FUCK UP SOME SHIT!!!'''\\
'''Hayley:''' 90 percent less.\\
'''Stan:''' We'll stick it to the man.

* UpToEleven: Played with when Hayley convinces Stan to "Stick it to TheMan".

* Klaus's German accent was a lot thicker in early episodes.

** In the fifth Christmas special, "Season's Beatings", Steve is possessed by the Anti-Christ early on, causing his eyes to turn {{red|EyesTakeWarning}}, his head to face the wrong way, and giving him the ability to climb on walls. The only reaction this gets from anyone is Francine telling him to "stop babbling at [Hayley] in Aramaic. It's a dead language."

'''Stan''': ''[[GroinAttack [hits Steve in the crotch]]]'' We were. You ruined it by mentioning it.

* WhatMeasureIsAMook: In "Con Heir", Stan [[ItMakesSenseInContext beats up an elderly guard he believes to be a terrorist]], and the narrative explores this trope to make it worse:

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls", Stan finds his haunted house being outdone by his neighbor Buckle's, so he uses his CIA influence to pull in five dangerous criminals to his house. The criminals fail to scare anyone so Roger tries to make them scarier by ripping off Francine's nun costume in front of them, leaving her in her underwear (which gets them riled up and horny) and then [[WhatAnIdiot lets all of them loose]], [[OhCrap causing them to go on a killing spree]], [[FromBadToWorse leading everyone in the house to run for their lives!]]

* UncertainDoom: Played with when Steve and his friends parody the classic BolivianArmyEnding, only to find that they can't take any of their opponents out with them.
* UncoolUndies: Season 6 episode ''Brains, Brains and Automobiles'' has Steve, Barry, Snot, and Toshi ''immediately'' picked on by the other guys at summer camp, because they were wearing "whiteys a-tight", which designated them as geeks. They go off to purchase boxer shorts, but then get tricked by a shady saleman selling bikini-type underwear called "culos"[[note]] Spanish for "buttholes"[[/note]]. They then wear the culos and think they'll be the coolest kids at camp, but are further humiliated by the other campers.

** Subverted. Some episodes give the appearance of this before descending into chaos, as seen in Season 2's "The American Dad After School Special", where Stan [[spoiler: forbids Steve to date Debbie because she's overweight, then Stan realizes that he's fat too and becomes anorexic]] and "A Jones for a Smith" where [[spoiler:Stan becomes a crack addict and eventually goes to rehab, but his son, Steve, is still pissed at him for ruining his chances with sleeping with a hot high school girl whose father was willing to let Steve be her first, and Hayley's pleas to be let into rehab for her marijuana smoking go unheeded]].

* VillainProtagonist: Zig-zags. More than a few episodes are centered around [[WhatTheHellHero stopping Stan from doing something terrible,]] and it's revealed fairly often that, while [[MyCountryRightOrWrong he does a lot of the things he does]] [[BlueAndOrangeMorality because he genuinely believes that everything he does is justified by the situation]], he's done more than a few things that are just downright horrible, [[spoiler: like the time he tried to get a guy to believe in god and ultimately ended up ruining that man's life and killing his family, to the point that the man had a near death experience, got to meet god long enough to be sent to hell, and came back as a worshipper of Satan.]] Stan's involvement in this trope can be best summed up with one scene:
--> '''Stan:''' I'm not a monster... ''[a human skull falls out of the furnace, which Stan quickly kicks back in]''
** One of the most extreme examples of this came from a Christmas Episode, where Stan [[spoiler: accidentally killed himself, went to heaven, and found out that his family would die because of his actions.]] In the scenes that follow, Stan ends up fighting his way to confront [[spoiler: God]] and holds him at gunpoint, demanding that he changes what is going to happen. [[spoiler: God]] calls Stan out as a serious control freak, states that the very behavior that has brought him to this point is what has caused all of his problems and Stan isn't even slightly sorry for his obviously evil actions, and when Stan tries to argue, [[spoiler: God]] says that Stan is holding a gun to [[spoiler: God's]] head, demanding that he do as Stan wants. Even [[spoiler: God]] can't come up with a better metaphor than that. Que Stan's MyGodWhatHaveIDone?
** While Stan may have repetant or redeeming moments, [[TheSociopath Roger]] is as close to this trope as a sitcom character can get, and only gets ''worse'' with each season. A massive amount of humor is based around Roger's LackOfEmpathy and life destroying (and occasionally life taking) schemes.

* VocalEvolution: Three characters come to mind when re-watching the pilot episode: Steve, Stan, and Klaus. All three had prominently deeper voices. Steve and Klaus's voices slowly increased in pitch, while Stan's became more refined in quality.
** Roger's Creator/PaulLynde [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed basis]] was also more noticeable in early episodes.
** There's also the background characters. For the first several episodes, most female background characters just sounded exactly like Hayley. Very confusing, especially if you're hearing it and not seeing it.
* VolleyingInsults: We get this little exchange between Stan and Hayley in "Stannie Get Your Gun":

'''Stan:''' {{Hermaphrodite}}!\\
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A few scenes later, when they continue exchanging:

* [[VomitIndiscretionShot Vomit]] [[VomitDiscretionShot Shots]]:
** One of the most recurring events in the series is for one of the characters (usually Stan or Roger) to vomit violently due to various reasons. It can be [[VomitDiscretionShot discreet]], [[VomitIndiscretionShot indiscreet]], or outright [[WaterfallPuke over the top]].
** A couple people throwing up is all it takes to start a chain reaction of people throwing up in Mexico, where apparently they collect it and resell it as horchata.

* UncoolUndies: Season 6 episode ''Brains, Brains and Automobiles'' had Steve, Barry, Snot, and Toshi ''immediately'' picked on by the other guys at summer camp, because they were wearing "whiteys a-tight" which designated them as geeks. They go off to purchase boxer shorts, but then get tricked by a shady saleman selling bikini-type underwear called "culos." They then wear the culos and think they'll be the coolest kids at camp. It goes badly.

* UndressingTheUnconscious: [[PlayedForLaughs Played For]] BlackComedy in "Vacation Goo". The rest of the family wake up in the goo, stripped to their underwear, because Steve wanted to get rid of them, leading to this exchange:

* TheUnfairSex:
** The episode Stan Time is a perfect example of this trope. Throughout the episode Stan literally spends every waking hour waiting on his family hand and foot. All he asks for is time to read a book. When they refuse to give it to him he takes it in the form of pills that keeps its users awake, but well-rested. When Francine finds out about them she decided to take them as well. As mentioned Stan spends every waking moment waiting on his family. So when he doesn’t want to give up the time he set aside for himself Francine decides to keep taking the pills and eventually abandons Stan and her family. In the end it is Stan and no one else who has to learn not to take his loved ones for granted.
** Punctuated by Francine having almost the ''exact same Aesop'' in a later episode, however while Francine learns to be appreciative of what she has, she is granted a fair compromise and some time to herself, something Stan is guilt-tripped into thinking is hurtful and selfish in his case.
** Stan and Francine are often given similar Aesops for example both have had episodes where they check out the opposite sex and in both cases Stan is the one in the wrong. Even when it turns out that Francine is just an [[AllTakeAndNoGive incredibly selfish lover]] Stan is still wrong for trying to hard. What makes it worse Francine is treated very sympathetically even though she was openly lusting after her daughter’s boyfriend to the point of putting her family's lives in danger. While Stan who was merely utilizing the MaleGaze was villainized with everyone calling him out over looking at other woman when he has such a hot wife.
** Much like Seth's other shows, this actually happens a whole lot, with Francine winning 99% of the arguments her and Stan have, regardless of the situation. Perhaps the most ludicrous case of this is in "The Kidney Stays In The Picture", where Francine is revealed to have had an affair just a day before their marriage. Stan is ''still'' the bad guy, to the point the affair is depicted as being for the best.
** In "Bullocks To Stan", Hayley spends the whole episode switching between Bullock and Jeff, and dumping them in the most callous manner (as well as endangering Stan's career and the family's upbringing in the process). The Aesop is about Stan not treating her with enough respect.
* UngratefulBastard: In Pulling Double Booty Hayley confesses that the reason that she goes on a rampage every time a guy breaks up with her is that Stan has never said he loves her so this must mean he doesn’t care about her. keep in mind that by this point in the series Stan has beat up his boss for disrespecting her, taken a bullet for her, pays for all aspects of her life, and goes to [[WellIntentionedExtremist ridiculous lengths]] to prevent her from making what he considers to be mistakes. Instead of invoking sympathy this statement makes Hayley come across as an incredibly hypocritical spoiled brat
* TheUnintelligible: Inverted with Toshi. He only speaks Japanese, but it's subtitled, so the audience can understand him but none of the characters can. This is lampshaded a few times, such as when Toshi mentions that he is haunted by the disembodied spirit of a 12th-century samurai. When the spirit talks to him in Japanese, Toshi can't understand it properly. He can also speak Russian and in one episode Francine ends a phone conversation with him with "Bueno gracias." Though the last may just be another joke about everyone perpetually misunderstanding him. He actually speaks English at one point, after Snot yells at him to learn the language: "EAT... MY... BOWLS!"

* UnreliableNarrator: Done in "The American Dad After-School Special". Throughout the episode, Stan is becoming ludicrously overweight despite all his exercise, apparently because his family is sabotaging him (injecting lard into his celery) to teach him a lesson about his hatred of fat people. Just before the commercial break, we see that Stan is in fact ludicrously '''under'''weight, having developed anorexia, his family was trying to keep him from starving himself to death, and his trainer, Zack, doesn't exist.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Hayley credits this as the reason behind Stan and Roger's hostility in one episode, [[YouNeedToGetLaid telling them to just fuck already and get over it]]. At the end of the episode, the two get arrested for public indecency[[note]]They were trying to out-act one another in a love scene and ended up simulating sex on-stage[[/note]] and, as they're being carted off, praise one anothers' acting talent; Hayley smugly tells Francine [[IToldYouSo that she was right that their hostility was just sexual tension]].

** At least two separate episodes show Hayley as being capable of this. One happens when she gets dumped. The other takes place when she becomes hormonal as a result of going through puberty. [[AllPeriodsArePMS "What do you mean 'the rest of my life'?"]]
** Francine is also capable of this, two prominent examples being when she screams at Stan for [[spoiler: ruining her plan to break George Clooney's heart]], and when after discovering [[spoiler: that Stan tricked her into believing she committed murder, her response to him is angry to the point of psychotic]].
** Even the both of them were terrified around Stan after he went violently paranoid about [[FelonyMisdemeanor the neighborhood criticizing him]].

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist:
** Stan Smith, though he is shaping up to be a fairly sympathetic character. True, he retains ''some'' {{Jerkass}} qualities, but enough episodes end with *him* delivering the {{Aesop}} or at least on the moral high ground for him to go beyond just being an {{Expy}} of [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] or, worse -- {{Jerkass}} [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer]].
** Roger seems to be filling this role in more recent seasons.
** Francine fills this role in later seasons.

* WalkOnWater: Toshi uses the running variation of this trope in "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls".

* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: Twice in "Bar Mitzvah Hustle" - first, Steve falls out of Roger's attic while pitching his plan for revenge. It immediately cuts to a [[AC:Technical Difficulties]] screen, then replays the scene with a badly injured Steve. Later, Stan and Francine come in to retell their misadventures on the way to a pitch meeting. Stan then points out PlotHole after PlotHole in his story, then gives it the ScrewThisImOuttaHere into another [[AC:Technical Difficulties]] screen. Both times, it's made to look like the [[AnimatedActors cartoon is being shot on a sound stage.]]

** In "The Boring Identity", Francine tries to change Stan's personality after he gets EasyAmnesia. It [[GoneHorriblyRight goes horribly right]], of course.

** Steve. He tries to get his dad to respect him multiple times... the results are mixed.

** Stan's relationship with his own father has elements of this as well.
** In the episode "The Devil Wears a Lapel Pin", Hayley plots to sabotage the CIA's promotional calendar, as revenge for the fact that Stan never told her he was ever proud of anything she did. When Stan actually does tell her that she did a good job on the calendar, she's so happy that she breaks into a song and dance about it.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In "Of Ice And Men", Svetlana, the Russian mail-order bride, marries Toshi after he steals her away from Snot. Nothing else happened to her. She's never seen again. This is lampshaded in a later episode when the topic of girls comes up and Toshi says "Didn't I used to have a wife?"
** The Golden Turd Saga. Each time, someone would come across it and they become entranced by it, even doing drastic things to keep it. The last one featured [[spoiler: the policeman's wife about to poison her husband when he suggested getting rid of it]]. The writers intended to show what happened next in a later episode but they weren't able to due to time constraints on episodes(and the writers admitted that they couldn't think of a satisfying way to continue the story). It's been several seasons since the last one, so the viewers are just left wondering what happened.
** It turns out that it ''did'' get a continuation in "Blagsnrast, A Love Story." The wife is seen being executed, and her son, someone running for attorney general, finds the turd underneath some floorboards. A little girl gets hit by a car outside, and the next shot is him sitting in what is presumably his office/basement. He makes a phone call and when a suspicious man answers, it turns out that the guy is going to be [[FromBadToWorse president.]]
** If one accepts that everything after the Apocalypse episode exists in Stan's Heaven then it was seen being used as the fuel for Roger's ship to get Stan and Jesus to the final battle with the Anti-Christ and to rescue Francine before Stan's death and gaining his heavenly reward.
** Things seem to be taking a turn for the better as of "Father's Daze." The presidential candidate is exposed by a newspaper for corruption and ends up getting killed by his running mate over the golden turd, just before also getting killed by the Secret Service. A cleaning lady then finds the turd and gives it to Pope Francis, who presents it to a group of religious leaders and vows to destroy it by returning it to its source (i.e. Roger).
** Then comes "[[MilestoneEpisode 300]]", the episode that concludes the arc [[spoiler:by having the turd fall into the hands of a Food Dash delivery girl after the Pope and other religious leaders shoot themselves. She takes it to the Smith house, but with Roger gone due to earlier events, she and the guides who acompanied her find him on the side of an overpass, stick the turd back inside, shattering him into 300 pieces and bringing the world into a utopia as a result. Roger's mouth is eventually delivered to the Smiths, where they go on a journey to gather the remaining 299 pieces,
ending with them on the set of ''Series/FamilyFeud'' to get back the alien's butthole. Only for the turd to corrupt the family, killing them after a TimeSkip of several years, and Roger ultimately changing history by telling his past self through the turd to hide it before the events of the arc start. It ends with the turd shoved inside a claw machine in Florida, unable to be secured.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Everyone calls everyone else out on a pretty regular basis. ''Especially'' when it's one character's turn to be more heroic than usual.
* WhamLine: "Now picture that boy [that was cut from the team by his dad] is ''you''." -Steve
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Played with for Stan and Francine. More evident in early episodes where Stan is more malevolent and chauvinistic, often leading Francine to suffer or be belittled in his antics (the smitten Klaus asked this multiple times and at one point was close to wooing her in a new human body). In later episodes however Stan becomes slightly more sympathetic while more emphasis is put on Francine's [[NotSoAboveItAll own unpleasant tendencies]] the former has to endure.
** One early episode has this driving the main plot, with Francine's memories reverting to the state she was in during college, and Stan tries to win her back over, but she's put off by his being a "narc" as well as his violent attitude and rudeness.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: In Con Heir, Stan [[ItMakesSenseInContext beats up an elderly guard he believes to be a terrorist]], and the narrative explores this trope to make it worse:

* WholePlotReference: Done very sparingly, and (usually) effectively; the show still manages to put its own unique twist on things even when it's largely basing its plot on an existing story. An excellent example is ''Irregarding Steve'', which not only features Steve and Roger in a take-off on ''Film/MidnightCowboy'', but has a running B-story which recreates ''Film/WhatsEatingGilbertGrape'' with ''squirrels''.[[note]]Doubles as a StealthPun: It's ''Gilbert Grape'' "in a nutshell".[[/note]]
** The episode "Hot Water" is ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'' with a soul/R&B theme, Cee Lo Green, and a murderous hot tub.
** Lampshaded in "Return of the Bling" when Roger bites Stan's finger off when the plot has already been resolved and they're literally ten seconds away from the credits, the only reason being "It was in the movie."
** Besides the addition of a school election and revenge plot, the episode ''Escape From Pearl Bailey High'' is a near perfect homage to the cult 1979 movie ''Film/TheWarriors'', complete with Principle Lewis taking place of the DJ informant.
** "Scents and Sensei-bility" is this to ''Film/KarateKid''
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Early in ''The Magnificent Steven'', Steve expresses an irrational fear of moths. Sure enough, later in the episode, he has to face a swarm of moths as part of the story. ([[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by him saying, "Why did it have to be moths?")
** Even better is Stan's bizarre, occasionally referenced aversion to seagulls. He even has nightmares about them ("Seagulls!? Francine - this time they could drive!")
* WhyDontYouMarryIt: Stan snaps this about Best Buy when a guy talks about the the pay benefits they gave.

* WigDressAccent: Roger makes extensive use of these and could arguably fit into PaperThinDisguise territory from time to time. The show has even [[LampshadeHanging pointed it out]] by having him choose a disguise from an automatic rotating wardrobe full of outfits, and again in ''The One That Got Away'' when Roger changes into about a dozen of his characters in half a minute.
* WifeHusbandry:Subverted, Steve and Snot rase two clone babies for prom to lose their virginity, but by the time Glitter (Steve's clone daughter) and Honey (Snot's clone daughter) are fully grown, both Steve and Snot developed parental feelings for their clones and decide not to follow through on the sex, though that did not stop Snot from trying to have sex with Glitter.
* AWizardDidIt: Roger has fooled Steve with these several times - once when Steve believed he was ''an actual Potter-esque wizard''. Steve sometimes gets his revenge.
* WomenAreWiser: For the most part. While Francine and Hayley are still ''incredibly'' flawed human beings, the male Smiths are usually depicted as far more dysfunctional and problematic, with the girls usually displaying more clarity and intelligence (or at the very least getting thrown AnAesop far less often). Most evident in "Rapture's Delight", while Stan's selfishness costs him his rapture, Francine is considered pure enough to become ''Jesus Christ's girlfriend''.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Roger. He is so evil because his species releases a bile that kills them if they don't "let their evilness out". Made worse when it is revealed the reason he is trapped on Earth is that the others of his species wanted to get rid of him. In addition, there are moments where he really seems to care about his adoptive family. It is implied that Roger only acts that way because he was made to be evil, and not by choice.
* WouldHurtAChild: Roger would ''kill'' a child (an ''infant'', actually). [[DisproportionateRetribution For accidentally breaking a leg off of one of his collection of crystal spiders]].

** Averted in "Four Little Words." After thinking she's killed her friend, Francine leaves and says there's six months worth of casserole in the freezer. Cut to an indeterminate amount of time later.
-->'''Steve:''' I miss mom.
-->'''Hayley:''' Me too. But I sure don't miss her six month supply of casserole. Man, I'm glad we finally finished those.
-->'''Steve:''' I just wish dad hadn't added all those noodles to make them last twice as long.
-->'''Klaus:''' Well what choice did he have? Freezer burn ruined 90% of them.
-->'''Roger:''' Wait, wait, wait a minute, I can do this. Six divided by...carry the noodle...it's two months later!
-->['''ONE MONTH LATER''']
** Played straight in "100 A.D.". The episode frequently teases the gimmick of the fact that the episode will have 100 characters dying to celebrate it being the 100th episode. Later in the episode, there's a scene involving a bus crash full of minor characters from past seasons which is said to account for 96 of the 100 deaths. Problem is, if one stops and counts all the characters on the bus they'll see that it's filled with less than 50 of them making it impossible for the crash to account for more than 3/4's of the 100 promised deaths.
** "Less Money, Mo' Problems" has Stan placing a bet with Hayley and Jeff that he and Francine can live on minimum wage for a month. At the end of the episode when he returns home and accepts defeat, Hayley mentions that he'd only been gone less than two days. Except that it was shown to be night ''three times'' before he returned.
** "The Kidney Stays in the Picture" has Stan and Francine go back to the year 1996 to ensure that their daughter Hayley is conceived. The problem occurs up when you realize that because the episode aired in 2012, which would make Hayley at least '''15 years old'''. Seeing as how she's a married college student, that doesn't seem likely. Additionally, she stated all the way back in "Stan Knows Best" that she was 18.

* {{Yandere}}: ''Hayley.'' If she's the one who breaks up with her boyfriend, no big thing. If ''she'' gets dumped, she will go ''berserk''. It's gotten to a point where the police have issued Stan an ultimatum: If Hayley gets dumped and goes nuts one more time, she's going to prison.
** In the episode ''Love, American Dad Style'', Roger becomes one to Hayley, shooting her in the chest because he's "nervous", tying her to a bed to "get closer", and then [[{{Squick}} removing Jeff's skin so he can wear it and be with Hayley]].
* YankTheDogsChain: If there's even the slightest hint that Steve may [[LoserGetsTheGirl get the girl]], [[AssPull something]] always happens to [[DidNotGetTheGirl ruin it]]. The most brutal example is a Halloween episode, "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls", where he takes out his friend's sister for a trick or treating and both are forced to go on the run when he goes over the time limit to bring her home and Toshi tries to hunt them down and kill Steve (Yes he's ''that'' overprotective). Through the chase it seems the two are developing feelings for one another. But at the end, when they finally convince Toshi to back off. His sister's proclaims she has a boyfriend, a ''nine year old'' boyfriend. Just...wow, your can really feel the cruelty of the writers there.
** Though he does finally get together with Akiko in "Spelling Bee My baby"...[[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome too bad that Akiko disappear in the next episodes]].

-->'''Hayley:''' Oh Daddy, [[spoiler:I just knew you couldn't be a cold-blooded killer]]! I'm so proud of you!\\
'''Stan:''' ''[horrified]'' '''NO!'''

** "Spelling Bee My Baby" sees [[spoiler:Francine attempting to sabotage Steve's relationship with Akiko so that Steve can focus on winning the regional spelling bee. When Akiko tries to explain]]:

* UncoolUndies: Season 6 episode ''Brains, Brains and Automobiles'' had Steve, Barry, Snot, and Toshi ''immediately'' picked on by the other guys at summer camp, because they were wearing "tighty-whities" which designated them as geeks. They go off to purchase boxer shorts, but then get tricked by a shady saleman selling bikini-type underwear called "culos." They then wear the culos and think they'll be the coolest kids at camp. It goes as well as you would expect.

* UglyGuyHotWife:
** Averted for once in a family sitcom, as Stan is just as attractive as Francine.
** Steve has an inexplicable ability to get extremely hot girls interested in him, most notably [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Carmen Selectra]] in the episode "Spring Break-Up". Not only is Carmen willing to have sex with him after he declares that he wants her to have his virginity, but she acquiesces to his demands for medical paperwork and to have her breasts un-enlarged before they do it ("Sorry, Carmen. I can't. The first boobs I'm with have got to be real").

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls", Stan finds his haunted house being outdone by his neighbor Buckle's, so he uses his CIA influence to pull in five dangerous criminals to his house. The criminals fail to scare anyone so Roger tries to make them scarier by ripping off Francine's nun costume in front of them, leaving her in her underwear (which gets them riled up and horny) and then [[WhatAnIdiot lets all of them loose]], [[FromBadToWorse causing them to go]] [[OhCrap on a killing spree]], [[ThisIsGonnaSuck leading everyone in the house to run for their lives!]]