"Love, American Dad Style" was an episode I watched for the first time I think back in 2019, I heard that people didn't enjoy the episode at all, thinking it was a low point of the show, but yet I found it to be OK.
Now, looking back on it, and after a lot of the really awful TBS-Era episodes that I've watched of the show since, I feel like fans are way too harsh to this episode, it's really funny. This episode is mainly dark comedy, like, really dark comedy, the plot of Roger getting a crush on Hayley seems like a typical sitcom plot (which the show has joked about before), but the way the episode progresses with Roger's clingy attitude becoming like a stalker toward Hayley is what elevates it. It's suppose to be messed up, that's the point of the episode, you are just waiting for Roger to learn something at the end, but no, the episode punches you with a really messed up, yet funny joke about Roger skinning Jeff, and Hayley's reaction to it being what makes him loose the crush he had. The Stan SUV plot was fine, kinda what puts the episode down to an 8/10 for me, as two of the jokes are just 'Stan accidentally kills people while trying to sell his car' really, but there were still funny moments.
Also, people say that this was the episode that Roger became flanderized as a horrible person? You do realise he's done stuff that's just as bad, if not worse than what he does in this episode, it's part of his character.
Finally, Rachael MacFarlane has an amazing singing voice, if you want to hear a full version of the "Making Whoopie" song Hayley sings in that one scene, check out the album Rachael released around the same time, entitled "Hayley Sings". So, if you love really dark comedic episodes, this one is a good one to watch.
Now, looking back on it, and after a lot of the really awful TBS-Era episodes that I've watched of the show since, I feel like fans are way too harsh to this episode, it's really funny. This episode is mainly dark comedy, like, really dark comedy, the plot of Roger getting a crush on Hayley seems like a typical sitcom plot (which the show has joked about before), but the way the episode progresses with Roger's clingy attitude becoming like a stalker toward Hayley is what elevates it. It's suppose to be messed up, that's the point of the episode, you are just waiting for Roger to learn something at the end, but no, the episode punches you with a really messed up, yet funny joke about Roger skinning Jeff, and Hayley's reaction to it being what makes him loose the crush he had. The Stan SUV plot was fine, kinda what puts the episode down to an 8/10 for me, as two of the jokes are just 'Stan accidentally kills people while trying to sell his car' really, but there were still funny moments.
Also, people say that this was the episode that Roger became flanderized as a horrible person? You do realise he's done stuff that's just as bad, if not worse than what he does in this episode, it's part of his character.
Finally, Rachael MacFarlane has an amazing singing voice, if you want to hear a full version of the "Making Whoopie" song Hayley sings in that one scene, check out the album Rachael released around the same time, entitled "Hayley Sings". So, if you love really dark comedic episodes, this one is a good one to watch.
