American Dad! (TV Series) Son of Stan (2010) User Reviews

The One Where Francine And Stan Can't Decide How To Raise Steve...

[taylorkingston · 10/10 · 25 August 2014]

I absolutely love this episode. It's so good. In it, Stan finds out that his college, Duper, cloned himself. Stan and Francine have been fighting about how to raise Steve, so Stan decides to clone Steve, that way, Francine can raise her Steve the way she wants, and Stan can raise his Steve the way he wants. This turns out to be hilarious. Stan raises his Steve, the clone, with lots of discipline. Francine raises her Steve, the original, very passively and with lots of love. Francine's parenting ends up turning her Steve into a spoiled brat with a desire to do nothing ever. Whilst Stan's parenting makes his Steve incredibly athletic and successful in school. However, it turns out that Stan's Steve, the clone, is a psychopath that committed various acts of animal cruelty and had kidnapped Steve, the original, with the intention to kill him. This is episode is just so funny and shows that you don't have to raise a child strictly, because they could want to kill you later. *giggle, giggle* Overall, I give this episode a 10 out of 10.

The Moral of the Story is be Stupid

[CJayCox_Polumathes · 2/10 · 21 July 2023]

I suppose every show must have a few duds after airing over 100 episodes. With that point being made, this episode capital S-U-C-K, suck, suck, sucks. The side story, wherein Roger tries to irritate Hailey and Jeff into giving him their $50,000 from the previous episode, is relatively funny, I suppose, but the side story, wherein Stan and Francine compete to see who's the better parent is positively ridiculous, unfunny, and just plain stupid. The two's quarrel revolves around whether Stan's strictness or Francine's leniency is the better way to raise Steve after Hailey's eloping. Even though the answer is obviously "don't let kids do whatever", the story acts like the two are both bad, with Stan's method turning clone Steve, named Steverino to distinguish, into a cat murdering, head-juggling, Steve-kidnapping sociopath. The moral seems to be "don't set any high expectations for your kids, and only be strict when they are literally farting on their own mother." It's just ridiculous. Seth obviously doesn't have any kids and it shows. This really stuoid lesson would be less "ugh"-inspiring if the episode at least had some humor thrown in there, but it doesn't. It's as unfunny as a German Prime Minister in South Park. Its all lame attempts at shock laughs like Steve winning a "spanky" for "pulling it 11 times in one day" or Roger arriving in Thailand and ordering "3 12-years old boys with no MSG". Obviously off-color humor is no stranger to this show, but there is a difference between off-color humor and "jokes" where the shock value is the only actual punchline. There's a difference between South Park and Terrance & Phillip. You dig? Apparently S Mac does not dig. The long and short is the episode is not very good. 2/10. Very no good.