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* The flashback in "Stan's Food Restaurant". Surely I'm not the only one touched that someone would go out of their way that much just to cheer up a random depressed kid?

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* The flashback in "Stan's Food Restaurant". Surely I'm not the only one touched that someone a restaurant staff would go out of their way that much just to cheer up a random depressed kid?



* The episodes that show Steve and Roger together, despite Rogers depravity and willingness to sell Steve out when needed, its oddly heartwarming the way the two bond sometimes.

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* The episodes that show Steve and Roger together, despite Rogers together. Despite Roger's depravity and willingness to sell Steve out when needed, its it's oddly heartwarming the way the two bond sometimes.sometimes (though this is debatable in such episodes as "Daesong Heavy Industries II: Return to Innocence", where Roger tries to kill Steve in a seawater-fueled insanity).


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* From "Garfield and Friends": The flashback of Hayley and Stan bonding during their Presidential road trips and singing along to Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA".
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* In "The Most Adequate Christmas Ever", Stan's ControlFreak tendencies lead to him dying during his quest to find the perfect Christmas tree, and his family freezing to death in the car because he had taken the keys. After going through a trial in an attempt to earn a second chance at life, Stan and his guardian angel lawyer escape, and Stan ends up confronting God, holding a gun to His head. Here's where it gets heartwarming - after Stan shows some humility and admits that he doesn't know everything, God sends him back to Earth, where he's more appreciative of his family's Christmas preparations. Not only that, before leaving Stan gets God to give the angel her wings.
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* Steve befriending the Krampus in "Minstrel Krampus".
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* In "License to Till", after Steve slaps a younger female student, in a poor attempt to look tough, Principal Brown smashes a coffee glass in Steve's face. Over the top? For sure. Get him in trouble in real life? Indeed so. One of the most genuine PetTheDog moments from someone as {{jerkass}}ery as Principal Brown? Definitely.
* Stan going to the wake of Cuba Gooding Jr. and putting the Oscar Roger had bought on ebay with him.

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* In "License to Till", after Steve slaps a younger female student, student in a poor attempt to look tough, Principal Brown Lewis smashes a coffee glass in Steve's face. Over the top? For sure. Get him in trouble in real life? Indeed so. One of the most genuine PetTheDog moments from someone as {{jerkass}}ery as Principal Brown? Lewis? Definitely.
* Stan going to the wake of Cuba Gooding Jr. and putting the Oscar Roger had bought on ebay eBay in the coffin with him.
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** "Fro yo buddies!"
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* In "License to Till", after Steve slaps a younger female student, in a poor attempt to look tough, Principal Brown smashes a coffee glass in Steve's face. Over the top? For sure. One of the most genuine PetTheDog moments from someone as {{jerkass}}ery as Brown? Definitely.

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* In "License to Till", after Steve slaps a younger female student, in a poor attempt to look tough, Principal Brown smashes a coffee glass in Steve's face. Over the top? For sure. Get him in trouble in real life? Indeed so. One of the most genuine PetTheDog moments from someone as {{jerkass}}ery as Principal Brown? Definitely.
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* Stan going to the wake of Cuba Gooding Jr. and putting the Oscar Roger had bought on ebay with him.
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* In "License to Till", after Steve slaps a younger female student, in a poor attempt to look tough, Principal Brown smashes a coffee glass in Steve's face. Over the top? For sure. One of the most genuine PetTheDog moments from someone as {{jerkass}}ery as Brown? Definitely.

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** The FramingDevice for "Of Ice and Men". It's nice to know that someday, Klaus will finally be human again.
*** And will live long enough to bond with his grandkid.



* The FramingDevice for "Of Ice and Men". It's nice to know that someday, Klaus will finally be human again.
** And will live long enough to bond with his grandkid.
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** Also [[spoiler: Alien Jeff sacrificing himself in order to save human Jeff]]
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* When Stan hears that Hayley will be dissected and killed because she went [[spoiler: to save human!Jeff, he demands alien!Jeff to take him where Hayley is so he could save her.]]
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* Any time Hayley refers to Stan as "Daddy" (usually followed by a loving embrace), it just pulls at the heartstrings.
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* The episode "Of Ice and Men". Despite it being a parody of ''ThePrincessBride'', it is actually a very touching moment where Stan puts aside his usual stubborn attitude and has a very meaningful bonding experience between him and Francine. The B-Story has a rather touching and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] moment, when Toshi, at Snot and Svetlana, the [[ItMakesSenseInContext mail-order Russian bride]]'s wedding, interrupts it by admitting his love for Svetlana ''in fluent Russian.''

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* The episode "Of Ice and Men". Despite it being a parody of ''ThePrincessBride'', ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', it is actually a very touching moment where Stan puts aside his usual stubborn attitude and has a very meaningful bonding experience between him and Francine. The B-Story has a rather touching and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] moment, when Toshi, at Snot and Svetlana, the [[ItMakesSenseInContext mail-order Russian bride]]'s wedding, interrupts it by admitting his love for Svetlana ''in fluent Russian.''
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* The 2014 Christmas special ends with [[spoiler:the entire Smith family in a GroupHug.]] ''[[spoiler:Even Klaus]]''.
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** When Stan is teaching Steve how to [[ItMakesSenseInContext get a hug from Gwen]] he offhandedly mentions that he loves Francine. It's a nice way of showing that though he's physically attracted to Gwen, Francine has his heart.
-->'''Stan''': F. Francine. I love Francine. I just do.
** This is also shown when Stan calls in a favor to get Francine out of jail but doesn't care about Gwen.
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* Gwen taking the fall for the burning of her and Francine's school because she loves her little adopted sister. Francine later on does the same to save Gwen when they [[spoiler:burn down the school due to smoking cigarettes while [[EpicFail in a gasoline-soaked area]], but Gwen still gets arrested.]]
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* Stan broke off his friendship with Creator/GeorgeClooney in "Tears of a Clooney" in order to make up for betraying Francine to him earlier in the episode and force him to cry so she can fulfill her dream of ruining his life. Doubles as a mild TearJerker because he ''really'' didn't want to and the last shot of the episode is Stan tearing up about it.
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* The episodes that show Steve and Roger together, despite Rogers depravity and willingness to sell Steve out when needed, its oddly heartwarming the way the two bond sometimes.
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** This is followed by a Hospital Scene where Francine's face is restored to it's former state....due to the fact that Stan had his butt-cheeks removed for her facial restoration surgery.
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* ''Jack's Back'', at first Jack was just trying to use Stan's status as a C.I.A agent to avoid jail time but when he saw how his actions were hurting Stan and Steve's relationship as father and son, Jack turns himself in at the court house and convinces Steve that Stan isn't so bad, because at least he's always there for Steve even if they don't always get along.
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** Steve's speech to Roger near the end of the episode about how although Roger isn't "his alien", he ''is'' his best friend.
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** Though it doesn't excuse brainwashing her in the first place, it's kind of sweet that Stan put Hailey in Project: Daycare because he liked the idea of the two of them as a father-daughter spy team.
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** And will live long enough to bond with his grandkid.
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* Near the end of "Pulling Doublet Booty", Stan, pretending to be his body double Bill, proves to Hayley that her father does love her even though he doesn't say it.

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* Near the end of "Pulling Doublet Booty", Stan, pretending to be his body double Bill, proves to Hayley that her father does love her even though he doesn't say it.
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* In "Poltergasm" when Steve and Roger show Stan the footage of the ghost, he initially thinks it's special effects that Steve did and immediately tells him how phenomenal they are. It was just really nice to see Stan give Steve praise for something he thinks he did, despite his treatment of him for a good chunk of the series.
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* The FramingDevice for "Of Ice and Men". It's nice to know that someday, Klaus will finally be human again.
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*** [[spoiler: To say nothing of the memories themselves.]]
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* Steve and Snot decide to make their own prom dates by using the CIA's cloning machine. They're shocked when they come out as babies. They discover they're rapidly aging and will be old enough to take on prom night. After raising them for a few days, by the prom night approaches each has come to love their date like a daughter.
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** While he goes about it in all the wrong ways, Stan's willingness to not stop until he ensures Tank accepts his son for who he is, proves that in this one instance, he actually ''did'' keep his character development from "Lincoln Lover" and "Surro-Gate".
--> '''Stan''': I know how he thinks, I [[HeteronormativeCrusader used]] to ''[[IHatePastMe be]]'' him. Scared of the intimate man-dance.

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