History Recap / AmericanDadS14E1FathersDaze

* MythArc: The Golden Turd returns. The Presidential candidate is exposed for a backdoor deal. When his running mate sees the Golden Turd, he is killed for it before his running mate is also killed by the Secret Service. A cleaning woman later discovers the turd, and instead gives it to Pope Francis. Afterwards, the Pope presents it to a council of religious leaders, who vow to destroy it by returning it to Roger.

* GroundhogDayLoop: Unlike other examples, Stan simply erases the memories of the family every night to force them to redo Father's Day. He is even shown topping up the shampoo bottles and mentioning that he needs to reset the clocks. By the time he's finally confronted, it's already Christmas.

* TheDogBitesBack: Stan does not erase Klaus's memory because, in his words, "he's not on his radar." Klaus later alerts Steve to what Stan is doing, and breaks his memory eraser to prevent him from resetting the day. He even claims that it "[[IronicEcho wasn't on his radar]]."

* LaserGuidedKarma: Roger is the one who gives Stan the idea to keep forcing the family to redo Father's Day. He is later shot while Stan is being reckless with his gun.

* TheDogBitesBack: Stan does not erase Klaus's memory because, in his words, "he's not on his radar." Klaus later alerts Steve to what Stan is doing, and breaks his memory eraser to prevent him from resetting the day. He even claims that it "[[IronicEchos wasn't on his radar]]."

* TheDogBitesBack: Stan does not erase Klaus's memory because, in his words, "he's not on his radar." Klaus later alerts Steve to what Stan is doing, and destroys his memory eraser to prevent him from resetting the day.

* GroundhogDayLoop: Unlike other examples, Stan simply erases the memories of the family every night to force them to redo Father's Day. By the time he's finally confronted, it's already well after Christmas.

* ToxicFriendInfluence: Stan was originally content with a father's day that, whilst not perfect, was still enjoyable. Then Roger gets the idea that it ''has'' to be perfect into his head.

* ThePerfectionist: As the months go on, Stan begins erasing the family's memories after the most minor of errors, such as one drop of water getting in his birdhouse, and Hayley stumbling slightly during her performance.

* StealthInsult: On the family's first attempt to redo Father's Day, Stan gives Hayley a backhanded compliment by saying that her song was like early Music/BobDylan, "before he learned how to play guitar."

* DisproportionateRestitution: After Stan's angry tirade at the family, he tries to make it up to them with a Spongebob cake that just says "Bad Dad Sad" in frosting. Naturally, they don't accept it.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Music/ScatmanJohn's song "I'm the Scatman" is playing over it, but Stan absolutely ''explodes'' at the family for failing to deliver a decent Father's Day. Through pantomime, we see that he calls out Francine for her alcoholism and sluttiness, Hayley for her drug problem, and Steve for his cowardice and frequent masturbation.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Roger is the one who gives Stan the idea to keep forcing the family to redo Father's Day. As mentioned below, he is later shot while Stan is being reckless with his gun.

* ThePerfectionist: As the months go on, Stan begins erasing the family's memories after the most minor of errors.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Music/ScatmanJohn's song "I'm the Scatman" is playing over it, but Stan absolutely ''explodes'' at the family for failing to deliver a decent Father's Day. Through pantomime, we see that he calls out Francine for her alcoholism and sluttiness, Hayley for her drug problem, and Steve for his cowardice.

* MythArc: The Golden Turd returns. The Presidential candidate is exposed for a backdoor deal. When his running mate sees the Golden Turd, he is killed for it before his running mate is also being killed by the Secret Service. A cleaning woman later discovers the turd, and instead gives it to Pope Francis. Afterwards, the Pope presents it to a council of religious leaders, who vow to destroy it by returning it to Roger.

* ShoutOut: At one point, Hayley's musical performance is the Bard from ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''.

* BaitAndSwitch: After driving off the road, Stan asks a mechanic if he can fix it. He then replies that despite the tow truck and wearing overalls, he's not actually a mechanic but a strange man.

* DeadlyNosebleed: At some point in October[[labelnote:*]]Snot says that Steve has missed five weeks of school, which typically starts in the first week of September. In the United States, Father's Day is observed in June, around the time that most schools have their final exams.[[/labelnote]], Snot stumbles across Stan's plan and is subjected to multiple memory erasures, causing him to convulse with a severe nosebleed.

* DeadlyNosebleed: At some point in October[[labelnote:*]]Snot says that Steve has missed five weeks of school. In the United States, Father's Day is observed in June, around the time that most schools have their final exams, and school starts again in early September.[[/labelnote]], Snot stumbles across Stan's plan and is subjected to multiple memory erasures, causing him to convulse with a severe nosebleed.

* DeadlyNosebleed: At some point in October, Snot stumbles across Stan's plan and is subjected to multiple memory erasures, causing him to convulse with a severe nosebleed.

* TheDogBitesBack: Stan does not erase Klaus's memory because, in his words, "he's not on his radar." Klaus later alerts Steve to what Stan is doing, and destroys his neuralizer to prevent him from resetting the day.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Music/ScatmanJohn's song "I'm the Scatman" is playing over it, but Stan absolutely ''explodes'' at the family for failing to deliver a decent Father's Day. He calls out Francine for her alcoholism and sluttiness, Hayley for her drug problem, and Steve for his cowardice.