AMERICAN DAD! – “First, Do No Farm” (Season 17, episode 14)
American Dad continued to expand its sonic palette in 2020. In a season that already included The Weeknd, the show pulled off its biggest musical “get” in 2020 with Weird Al Yankovic.
The setup: Stan Smith thinks his daughter Hayley is getting “soft”. Fed up with her overly sensitive and lazy ways, he takes inspiration from the humble farmer. Stan bulldozes the family home and sets up a “micro farm” on the property, with only a shed for everyone to live in. Everyone adopts the Waltons-like surname “Boy”. “Steve-Boy”, “Jeff-Boy”, and “Mom-Boy” for example. Creature comforts are banished. Violators are shunned. Needless to say, Roger the alien is the first to be shunned. He soon takes up with the “varmints” — rabbits.
This, reasons Stan, will make Hayley-Boy “farm tough”.
To make a short story shorter, Stan screws up big time by building a secret basement with all the food, TV and video games you could desire. He too is shunned, and moves in with Greg across the street. But he has already created a monster in Hayley. Yes, she got tough, but she also lost her heart, turning into a cold, farm working machine. This is not what Stan intended, and so he must undo what has he done. With sabotage. Varmint sabotage. Rabbitage!
“Let’s do it!” says Roger. “And do we contact Weird Al’s people? See if he’s interested in ‘Rabbitage’ as a song idea?”
Cue up Weird Al Yankovic with my favourite Beastie Boys parody yet!
Well, I didn’t write the song, and this makes ZERO sense out of context, but yeah, that was me screeching out a Beastie Boys parody last night on @AmericanDadTBSpic.twitter.com/duEI6hgH1t
As Al says, he didn’t write the lyrics, but he sure did nail that vocal part! “Listen all a-y’all it’s a rabbitage!” wails Al, as Roger and his rabbit allies destroy the farm. Sure makes you wish they recorded a full song, doesn’t it? Pretty cool collaboration. Roger, dressed as a rabbit, destroying that farm in sync with Weird Al, is worth a repeat watch.
In the B-story, Klaus the goldfish has joined Scientology, which involves unsubtle Battlefield Earth jokes. South Park did it first and better. Scientology jokes are like shooting ducks in a barrel. Fun, but way too easy.
Big thanks to 2020 for making this our most successful year at mikeladano.com yet. The final tally is:
284,513 hits from 135,708 unique viewers. This is a massive uptick from our previous best year, 2018, which received “only” 215,440 views. Thank you pandemic, because that’s what this totally is. I had no new ideas for 2020; I had given up on “growth”, only for 2020 to come to the rescue with a goddamn pandemic!
One way you can tell this uptick had nothing to do with me: All the top hits are old, old posts with deep roots on Google searches.
The death of Eddie Van Halen caused October to be our best month ever, and helped push Van Halen to #1 this year as well as contributing to the record hits overall. The Van Halen Zero review is now the most popular thing I’ve ever written, having been read 12,294 times.
By comparison, the best-read “new” post this year was:
What do these stats show us? The power of both Eddie Van Halen and a worldwide pandemic. I’m pleased that people chose to read my stuff at those times, but I’d give just about anything to get Eddie and our normal world back. Since I can’t, I can only tell you this: I don’t plan on stopping in 2021! And that’s about all I can say. 2020 taught us that life doesn’t give a shit about your plans. I had plans in 2021 and they didn’t involve sitting in this little space live streaming. This time there is no plan except give ‘er. The universe tends to unfold as it does.
I wish you nothing but peace, happiness and harmony in 2021. Let’s give ‘er together.
I’m not a Christopher Nolan junkie, nor a spy thriller fan, so it’s quite a surprise that I loved Tenet as much as I did. I think I understand 95% of it now, and I’ve only watched it three times, so that’s not bad. Seriously, I think John David Washington is great, as was the whole cast. One normal and one inverted thumb up for a movie I file in my science fiction collection. Great stuff.
Jeopardy’s never made my lists here before but watching Alex Trebek keep on going and going only weeks before his death is awe-inspiring.
American Dad had a better than average season this year. Some of the episodes this year will go down as the series’ best: “Brave N00B World“, “300“, and “First, Do No Farm”. The latter features a new Weird Al Yankovic called “Rabbitage” based on — you guessed it — “Sabotage” by the Beastie Boys. The season also featured pop star The Weeknd in an episode called “A Starboy is Born”.
I’m jumping the gun a little bit on Discovery as the season hasn’t ended yet. However, setting the season over 900 past the days of Kirk and Spock has opened the show up to new possibilities and…discoveries. It has been a great season with some standout episodes that felt more like The Next Generation than anything since. Contemplative episodes with minimal (sometimes zero) violence. Trek is back, and Discovery is currently the superior show, even over Picard, which was pretty good itself.
And finally we have Mandalorian, which despite an unimpressive initial teaser trailer went on to be the show we always hoped it could be. And it was Bill fucking Burr’s Mayfeld that really pushed it late in the season, adding some much needed character development. All this made it so much more delicious when Giancarlo Esposito’s Moff Gideon did all the moustache-twirling villain stuff at the end. Then we get Boba, more vicious and primal, and the stoic but intense Jedi. Bonus points for doing what Qui-Gon Jinn failed to do in Episode I: just crush the fucking droid with the Force already! Thanks, Luke.
2020 was the Year Without a Marvel. Boo.
Well, I didn’t write the song, and this makes ZERO sense out of context, but yeah, that was me screeching out a Beastie Boys parody last night on @AmericanDadTBSpic.twitter.com/duEI6hgH1t
It took 17 seasons (or 15 by some counts — it’s complicated), but finally, American Dad has wound up one of the longest running sagas in television history. It’s the story of Roger the Alien’s golden turd. Begun in season 1, Roger’s turd has been the subject of a recurring story over the course of the last decade and a half. It has incredible powers of evil, similar to the One Ring of Tolkien lore, over those who encounter it. Good people corrupted have lusted and murdered for it. The lump of jewel-encrusted poo has appeared briefly in several episodes, forming a long story arc unfolding over many seasons.
You can follow the saga of the turd in the following episodes:
Season 1 episode 6: “Homeland Insecurity” – Roger lays the golden turd. Two electrical workers discover the treasure, but only Jim survives, killing his best friend for it. He calls his fiancee only to discover her having an affair.
Season 2 episode 3: “Failure is not a Factory-Installed Option” – Guilt-laden Jim parks his truck on train tracks, killing himself. The investigating cop on the scene finds the golden turd, and brings it home to show his wife. He quickly regrets tampering with evidence, and decides to turn it in. Instead, his wife puts rat poison in his tea.
Season 10 episode 3: “Blargsnart: A Love Story” – The cop’s wife is executed for murder. Their son, an important man with presidential ambitions, discovers the turd hidden under a floorboard in their house.
Season 12 episode 1: “Father’s Daze” – The man and his presidential campaign adviser fight over the turd. They are both killed and the turd is later discovered by a cleaning woman who realizes its true significance. She takes it to the Vatican where the leaders of all the world’s religions decide what to do about this prophesized “turd” of events.
Season 5 episode 9: “Rapture’s Delight” – In a fanciful Christmas story taking place during the future of the book of Revelations, freedom fighter Jesus returns the turd to Roger. (“Ah, an alien. One of my father’s side-projects”, says a trash-talking Jesus.) Roger uses the turd to power his spaceship, in order to ultimately stop the Anti-Christ. (This episode is not quite in continuity since everyone dies in the end, but could still take place in American Dad’s future timeline as a sort of coda to the turd saga.)
The saga finally concludes in American Dad’s 300th produced episode: AMERICAN DAD! – “300” (Season 17, episode 21)
Though it went on like the Song that Never Ends, the turd saga was wrapped up in grand style. I’ve made the argument that American Dad is trying to keep up with Rick and Morty lately in terms of epic storylines with universal consequences. In its own way, American Dad has caught up this year.
We mundanely begin in the Smith family kitchen. The family have been trying for years to get on Family Feud and have finally received their application letter. Famously, Family Feud only send you one application; no second chances. Roger promptly destroys the application in another one of his endlessly destructive gags. The family realizes (via flashbacks) that Roger ruins everything, and banish him from the house.
The screen transitions to the letterbox format, indicating we are about to pick up the saga of the turd.
At the Vatican, the Pope, the Dalai Lama, Beyonce, and other important religious figures discuss how to dispose of the evil golden turd. It can only be destroyed by sending it back through the portal from which it originated — Roger’s ass. Its power to “corrupt and twist the human mind” is the only thing preventing the world from ascending to true peace, but the leaders squabble and fight. None of them can do it; they need a “chosen one”, a person who is immune to the turd’s power. Fortunately, the Knights Turdlar find the chosen one and send her with the turd to Langley Falls in America.
Roger’s not home — he was evicted, remember — but he’s not hard to find. The deed is easily done, and the turd is returned to its origin by the chosen one. The consequences are immediate: a bright wave of light circles the Earth. Utopia! World peace…and Roger’s demise! He shatters into (wink wink) 300 pieces.
There’s a big musical number featuring Patrick Stewart’s CIA director Avery Bullock, who announces there’s no more need for the agency. The song features blink-or-you’ll-miss-them cameos from all sorts of favourite characters from Santa Claus to Alistair Covax to The Weeknd. But the family is bored and can’t stand utopia! Will they selfishly try to restore Roger and end this world peace nonsense? It’s the Smiths; of course they will! Roger’s 300 fragments were scattered by the Knights Turdlar, hiding them in the most inaccessible places on Earth. But Roger’s offspring, Rogu can “probably” sense all of Roger’s bits hidden all over the world.
The story comes full circle when they track down the final and most important piece (the butthole) to Family Feud’s own Steve Harvey. The TV show host isn’t giving it up…not without a Feud! But an unlikely Fast Money victory isn’t the end of the turd’s tale. It always exacts a heavy toll (as the previous episodes in the saga demonstrated). Restoring Roger and undoing utopia has bloody consequences for the Smiths. It’s the kind of death-laden storyline that only a time travel trope can undo! Future Roger needs Past Roger to ensure the turd is never found in the first place, and hopefully also to not get kicked out of the house!
There is one more episode left to go this season, but American Dad demonstrated some epic scale storytelling with “300”. That required epic aspect ratios. Most of this episode is in the standard widescreen, but goes letterboxed for the turd saga. It even briefly goes back to full screen when we revisit the origins in season 1. Three aspect rations, one epic episode. What a way to end this long-running story, which was not a turd at all.
AMERICAN DAD – “Brave N00b World” (Episode 4, season 17)
Chinese ice cream can save the world. That’s the message of this episode of American Dad.
CIA agent Stan Smith has a new assignment. A North Korean general is expected to be in China for an Overwatch video game competition. Stan and his team must enter the contest and progress through the rounds to assassinate the general, but first he will need his son Steve’s help playing the game and looking like a millennial. Jackson better learn to vape if he wants to fool anyone into thinking he’s young and into Overwatch! If the team can get some Chinese ice cream while there, so much the better.
Unfortunately for Stan and his team (and the world), his attention is split between his son and his assignment. He wasn’t totally honest with Steve, who thinks this is more a father-son trip than a kill-a-North-Korean-general trip. As Stan is learning, focus is key. So how can he split his focus between assignment and son?
Since it’s Stan Smith we’re talking about, you can safely assume he screws it up and the mission goes wrong as usual. But this time, he didn’t just screw it up Stan style. He didn’t even stop at full Sledge Hammer. This time, Stan goes all the to way maximum Rick and Morty, and destroys the entire world.
Smith misses his shot, botching the assassination. China launches their nukes. America retaliates. Mutually assured destruction.
Fortunately, China saved mementos of their heritage in a culture pod, including a cone of delicious Chinese ice cream. So America launches an eagle-headed missile adorned with truck-nuts and blaring “Kickstart My Heart”, and the culture pod is destroyed. Before you can say “Kee-stah-ma-hah”, there is nothing left of the Earth. Nothing but rubble, dust, and ash…and a single scoop of Chinese ice cream, floating in space, past Mars, past the asteroid belt, and into the void.
For one million years, the ice cream floats through the cosmos undisturbed until finally an alien ship happens upon it. What an incredible taste! They must have more. Scans show that Earth suffered an “extinction event”. The only way to get more ice cream is to re-create the Earth and let time do the rest.
The world has a second chance. Will Stan do it differently this time? Will anyone discover the truth of this new reconstructed existence? Will Bill Nye show up at the end to throw cold water all over “Ice Cream-ulation Theory”? You’ll have to watch to find out.
In the B-story, the entire rest of the family gets their heads stuck in the banister, which basically puts Roger, Francine, Hayley and Jeff out of action. The best instalments are usually Roger-centric, but not this time. Perhaps American Dad needed to catch up with Rick and Morty, or perhaps it should try harder to live up to the promise of old episodes like “Lost in Space” or the saga of the Golden Turd. At first it appeared this episode was going to a gamer-based comedy. Then it evolved into something more existential. It can be stated firmly that “Brave N00b World” returns the show to a high point like the good old Mike Barker days.
GETTING MORE TALE #805(.5): LeBrain’s Top List of 2019 n’ More
Preamble: The Year in Review (and Reviewing)
2019 was the seventh year of life for this site, and we do thank you for that! Getting tired with the same old way of doing things, I became bored. The solution was throwing some new content into the mix and seeing what happened!
The first thing I planned was an informal new series called Just Listening. Though people confused these writings with reviews, it’s essentially just my thoughts as I listened to an album. Sometimes I would revisit an old record I already reviewed and see if I felt any different. There were 10 instalments of Just Listening in 2019. I intend to continue doing this, as sometimes I just have a few ideas to jot down after playing an album. Reviews will remain as in-depth and intense as you’ve come to expect. I love writing reviews, and there are a few lined up for early January that I hope you’ll enjoy too. At the same time, it’s increasingly important for me to just listen to music. My collection has dusty corners that miss my attention.
Second, in 2019 I bought a bunch of new tech. Why not, right? It’s kind of funny. I grew up in the 70s and 80s; back when you debated for months or years over in which home video system to invest . Tech is far more disposable today. The worst thing that can happen is a relatively painless, postage-paid Amazon return.
So a waterproof camera was added to my arsenal. This enabled me to make a bunch of cool videos this past summer, including what I think is the best Sausagefest video yet. One of the immense joys of that summer gathering is the fresh, cool water of the Beaver river. For the first time this was captured for you up close and personal.
It’s easy to sit here tootin’ my own horn but I feel the 2019 video gets you closer to the feeling of actually attending a Sausagefest yourself. You can imagine sitting in the river with us, drinking or smoking whatever you fancy.
A new dashcam enabled me to start another video “series” called Dashcam Idiots. I honestly thought, living in Kitchener Ontario, that I’d have a lot more content to post by now. (I did get a cool late-night video of a deer on a country road that I thankfully didn’t hit.) I suppose it’s a good thing that I don’t have a multitude of dashcam videos to upload.
The biggest and most important new series was a long time wish of mine: my VHS Archives.
The new tech this time was a cheap USB video capture device. This enabled me, after many years of promises, to share my personal Pepsi Power Hour videos with you from the late 80s and early 90s. It has been a culmination of a decades-long dream: taking this rather large VHS library and getting the rarest and most valuable content online. As of writing this, I’m 82 instalments deep.
And because this is supposed to be a list of lists, here are what I consider to be the Top Five Best/Most Significant of the 2019 VHS Archives. You’d be remiss not to play these.
1. Blackie Lawless (W.A.S.P.) interviewed by Erica Ehm – 1989
The best interview with Blackie that I’ve ever seen.
2.Bruce Dickinson and Dave Murray (Iron Maiden) interviewed by Erica Ehm – 1988
3.Bruce Kuclick and Gene Simmons (Kiss) interviewed by MuchMusic – 1992
Reposted by Bruce!
4.Rik Emmett of Triumph co-hosting the Pepsi Power Hour with Erica Ehm including two musical performances – 1988
5.MuchMusic Hear N’ Aid special featuring Ronnie James Dio (1986)
There’s lots left on these tapes so the VHS Archives will continue into 2020! I’ve left some “big guns” in reserve for future posts. As long as none of these tapes break! One or two of them are in very, very rough shape now. Others are still pristine.
Want a taste of what’s still to come? Here’s a preview.
Which of these interviews would you like to see first? Vote below!
2019 LISTS
The Movies I Saw: Don’t expect a comprehensive list!
1.The Avengers: Endgame
2.Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker
3.El Camino
4.Captain Marvel
5.Spider-Man: Far From Home
Nothing but sequels and spinoffs!
Top TV Shows of 2019: I don’t watch a lot of shows.
1.Stranger Things 3
2.Star Trek: Discovery season 2
3.American Dad! season 16
4.Rick and Morty season 4 (part one)
5.The Mandalorianseason 1
I’ve been talking The Mandalorian on social media quite a bit, and I’ve been quite critical of the show. It’s #5 by default.
The new Tom Keifer Band is really remarkable. With soul, roots n’ blues yet also a foot in classic Cinderella rock. The heart of the Keifer Band made it an easy #1. Whitesnake put out a strong effort; probably their best since Slip of the Tongue or even 1987. Marillion may have re-recorded old songs with an orchestra, but in doing so it’s possible that they have recorded the definitive versions. Tool is Tool is Tool is Tool. And Jim Crean deserves a shout-out for his guest-laden original album The London Fog, better than a lot of well known releases in 2019.
Best Japanese import of 2019:
Hollywood Vampires – Rise
A three CD set with a bonus double live album!
Unprecedented value in terms of extras.
The Darkness – Easter is Cancelled
I have not been able to wrap my head around this album. I’ve steadfastly stood by this band through five albums, often in quick succession, but this time they’ve thrown a curve. Perhaps it’ll grow on me in 2020.
…And I haven’t even seen The Dirt. I just feel that strongly about it.
I hate the look of the guys playing The Crue, I hate the idea of a biopic, and I hope to make it through another year without seeing it. I’m happy with my copy of the book — the only Dirt you really need.
…A Look Ahead at 2020
Motley Crue will be a towering part of the 2020 tour scene, as they look ahead to their big “Stadium Tour” with Def Leppard, Poison, and Joan Jett. Meanwhile the Robinson brothers Chris and Rich have formed a new version of The Black Crowes, who will be playing all of Shake Your Money Maker live. Far more interestingly, Mr. Bungle (now featuring Scott Ian and Dave Lombardo) will be reuniting and playing only three shows, featuring their cassette demo The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny played in full for the first time. Even the original BulletBoys have reunited.
The big news, so they say, is still to be announcd. Keep your ears to the ground for a full-on 2020 AC/DC tour with Brian Johnson, Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd back in the fold. Reliable sources have stated that the band are finishing up old Malcolm Young song ideas for album release.
Stay safe this New Year’s Eve and we’ll chat in 2020!
AMERICAN DAD – “The Hand that Rocks the Rogu” (Episode 20, season 14)
Ever since the debut of Rogu earlier this season, American Dad fans have eagerly anticipated his next starring appearance. This was saved for the season finale, “The Hand that Rocks the Rogu”. Rogu, if you recall, is Roger’s homunculus, birthed from a tumor. He has Roger’s ability to disguise himself as anyone he desires, but also has the temperament of a small child. He needs to be watched and cared for like a child, despite his alien nature.
It’s Rogu’s childlike nature that makes him a perfect candidate for the schemes of Steve Smith. Steve needs money, so he can afford the curly fries in the school cafeteria instead of the boring old straight kind. The solution: babysitting. Mom doesn’t think he’s ready. Roger, however, thinks he’s up to the task. Roger leaves Steve to take care of Rogu, while he does one of his many jobs (a female prostitute). If Steve does well, his mom will have to admit he’s ready to babysit.
Ominously, taking care of Rogu has three rules (shades of Gremlins):
No candy.
No screen time.
Don’t let Rogu look at the ant farm. (He won’t chip in for it, so he shouldn’t enjoy it.)
Predictably, within minutes, Rogu’s eaten some licorice. When he starts barfing up little balls of Rogu that turn into fully-grown Rogus, Steve knows he’s in way over his head. One turns into three, and three turns into dozens. It only gets worse when Klaus the goldfish tries to contain the situation by giving the Rogus a little screen time….
Season 14 produced at least three exceptionally good American Dad episodes, and two of them centered around Rogu. The bizarre alien offspring has quirks (a love of innocent jokes for example) and abilities far different from his father Roger. American Dad felt rejuvenated this season and Rogu was a key part of that.
If you only watch two episodes this season, make ’em Rogus.
AMERICAN DAD – “Stanny Slickers II: The Legend of Ollie’s Gold” (Episode 15, season 3)
As we review our way through significant American Dad episodes, several outstanding musical numbers emerge. When it comes to memorable TV tunes, there’s the Simpsons and then there’s American Dad. A highlight of the earlier seasons was the song “Ollie North”, sung for one of Stan Smith’s heroes, the scandal-ridden Colonel Oliver North. Done in an after-school-special style, the song is meant to educate!
As a kid I remember a summer of waiting through Oliver North hearings just to watch an episode of The Transformers.
Stan’s tune succinctly summed up the entire scandal.
In the 80s there was Cold War drama, We fought the Commies inside Nicaragua, Our friends were the Contras, Freedom was their mantra, So we sent them lots of money for guns, and landmines.
But Congress stopped the Contra money flow, Just ’cause they moved a teeny bit of blow. But then a hero came forth, His name was Oliver North, He and Reagan went around the sissy Congress.
OLLIE NORTH! OLLIE NORTH!
(Spoken) You see, North secretly sold missiles to a harmless country called Iran who would always be a grateful ally. Then he gave the profits to the Contras. Genius!
But the sales were uncovered by the press, Reagan and North began to stress, ‘Cause what they did was technically high treason! (But it was totally justified.)
North volunteered to take the blame, To save Reagan from prison rape shame, The truth he did bury with his hot secretary, Thanks to her shredder, he got off totally scot-free!
OLLIE NORTH! OLLIE NORTH!
He’s a soldier! And a hero! And a novelist! And now he’s on Fox News!
But that’s not the story here. Working for the CIA, Stan Smith has access to information. He knows that North had a secret cache of gold, and he buried it somewhere on his property. The very house that the Smiths live in today! Ollie North’s gold has long been an obsession for Stan. He named his first child “Hayley Dreamsmasher” because having kids meant giving up his quest for the gold. Now, Stan thinks he has decoded secret messages left by North. When Stan begins actively pursuing Ollie’s gold again, the family grows concerned. Then a giant pit mine is dug in their living room.
In a separate storyline, Roger the alien tries to prove that he is sexually harassable. So he invents two new characters (Laura Vanderbooben and Luke Fondleberg) to make that happen.
Will Stan find Ollie’s gold? Will Roger win a cash settlement? It doesn’t matter because that Ollie North song is so damn catchy!
AMERICAN DAD – “Jeff and the Dank Ass Weed Factory” (Episode 5, season 14)
With a title like “Jeff and the Dank Ass Weed Factory” , you should know what to expect automatically. That’s right — this time, American Dad spoofed the Roald Dahl children’s classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and made it totally not for children!
Tommie Tokes (Snoop Dogg) has opened his weed factory to the pubic for the first time! All you (and a guest) have to do is discover a golden blunt wrap, only four in the world! But the C.I.A. want in as well. Director Bullock needs to get his hands on the “Everlasting Edible” in the never-ending war on drugs. Stan Smith is dispatched, the perfect agent for the job. Stan is notoriously anti-drug.
“Why did the pothead cross the road? He doesn’t remember!”
Meanwhile his stoner son-in-law Jeff is down in the dumps because Stan considers him a lazy and stupid pothead. He’d sure like to find one of the golden wraps and take a tour of the fabulous weed factory. Stores are sold out everywhere, and one by one, the news announces the names of the winners. First is “Pube Face”, then Larry the Steely Dan fan, and Angie who smokes before every meal.
Jeff almost lights and smokes his own golden blunt wrap before the family stops him! He is the fourth winner! And the perfect pawn that Stan needs to get inside the factory and steal the Everlasting Edible.
At the gates of the weed factory, Tommie Tokes suddenly appears! It’s basically Snoop Dogg dressed as Gene Wilder, because let’s face it, if you needed someone to play a character named Tommie Tokes, Snoop is already that character in real life. First room on the tour: the edibles! As in the original source material, one by one the winners are eliminated. Pube Face thinks a normal office desk and stapler are edibles, and dies. And like in the source material, little colourful dwarves appear to sing whenever someone dies. It’s the Snoopa Loompas! “Don’t be dumb, and use your eyes, you can’t make weed into office supplies.”
Into the next room, Tommie Tokes unveils a machine that can scan your mind and produce your own personal ideal strain of weed. Angie wants to try it, but Tommie noticed that Stan didn’t eat anything in the edibles room. He orders Stan into the scanner. “If you don’t, I’m gonna think you a Narc.” Not wanting to blow his cover, Stan is scanned. His ideal strain? “C-High-A”. Angie, however, is not so lucky and gets zapped when she rushes in before the scanner is recharged. Finally Larry the Steely Dan fan has his face blown off by Tokes’ insane sound system. Larry, at least, died how he wanted. But Jeff and Stan have wandered off on their own…one of them with ulterior motives!
“Why did I even have this dumb factory tour?” asks Tokes. “I had very little to gain from a business perspective!”
Will Stan steal the Everlasting Edible, or will he get too stoned first?
There was no B-story this time, so not much Roger or anyone else. The best episodes usually involve Roger and his personas. “The Dank Ass Weed Factory” isn’t a top ten or top twenty episode, but Snoop fans or connoisseurs of weed humour need to check it out.
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