11/16/2023 0 Comments American dad roger spanish songHe tries to rat out his team and be the “good guy” here, but Principal Lewis’ insistence that Steve gives in to these influences makes for a twisted obstacle to knock him down. He turns to this dark place for such an innocent reason and it makes his fall from grace all the more hilarious and tragic. This kind of storyline has popped up before in American Dad!, but there’s something so purely funny about Steve taking amphetamines or cocaine so he can scat faster during his solos. The episode finds a surprising direction to take Steve’s new passion as it turns out that “Jazzma Attack” is rife with “swing enhancing” drug use. If anything is worthy of detracting focus from Roger, it’s Steve’s golden vocal chords and “Persona Assistant” places him within the school’s jazz choir. It would have been totally fine if this ode to Roger via Stan was the episode’s sole storyline, but American Dad! continues to play to its strengths here and delivers a B-story that revolves around Steve singing. Stan as Ricky Spanish handles the mob problem with no difficulty, but then Stan succumbs to the dangers of this character and soon becomes the tyrant that holds Langley Falls hostage. “Persona Assistant” keeps things fresh and fluid when the tables turn yet again. These dire tactics include Stan pulling one of Roger’s retired personas out of commission, but not just any persona, the most objectionable character that’s ever graced the show, Ricky fucking Spanish. The final act sees Stan stoop to desperate measures to right these many wrongs before Roger realizes that he’s screwed up. Read More: 10 American Dad! Episodes that Family Guy Fans Would Love Not only does Stan finally appreciate what Roger does, but in a rather poetic moment he comprehends that the beautiful version of his country that he proudly salutes every morning is a byproduct of Roger’s personas. The Rube Goldberg-like chain of events that result in an all-out mob war is another concise sequence that rivals the episode’s introduction. Stan gives up pretty quickly (it’s Roger’s incontinent jai alai instructor character that breaks the camel’s back here, FYI) and in almost no time at all Langley Falls plummets into disarray. Naturally, Stan fails to take this job seriously at first, even though Roger stresses the butterfly effect-like consequences that will happen if his personas aren’t properly put to use. Roger’s commitments become so cumbersome that a stress tumor takes him out of commission from his duties and Stan haphazardly saddles himself with Roger’s many personas. In spite of this, Stan remains unsympathetic to Roger’s busy schedule until he’s forced to experience it for himself. All of this is eloquently capped off with a brilliant gag where Roger’s persona responsibilities are running him so ragged that he can’t even appear in Stan’s car during the show’s theme song to complete the verse. His skills now range from everything to newborn babies, to prostitutes, to ostrich-riding serial killers, to entirely different species, which is still just a fraction of what’s on Roger’s docket here. The audience knows that Roger’s character-playing tendencies run rampant, but “Persona Assistant” makes it clear just how out of control and ridiculous they’ve become at this point in the series. It’s a fun and clever way to effectively establish the stakes for this episode. However, the arduous nature of all of this serves a very important point in “Persona Assistant,” and that’s that Stan will soon have to take on these roles and get a taste of Roger’s life/lives. It’s actually a little surprising that the show has never done a sequence of this nature before, since American Dad! has explored the intricacies of Roger’s personas in various ways in the past. The introduction to “Persona Assistant” is as close to perfect as it gets and effortlessly illustrates just how difficult Roger’s life is due to the many personas that he juggles on a day-to-day basis in order to help the world go round.
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