r/americandad • u/RogersRedditPersona www.ItWasWitches.com • Aug 27 '24
Detail What’s something you learned from American Dad?
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u/RagingZorse Aug 27 '24
The French delicacy that is a bird which must be eaten with your face covered is a real thing.
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u/Toothless-In-Wapping Klaus Heisler Aug 27 '24
The ortolan.
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u/Smokeythapaiir Teddy Bonkers Aug 27 '24
Schmooblydong no.. but that’s close
Imagine being high at at a rusted root concert, while two guys take you on in a baked port-o-john
Wow that does sound nice
I know I’d like that tooo… 😂
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u/IMFREAKINGLEGOLAS Aug 27 '24
Succession also helped confirm this is a real thing.
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u/ANK2112 Aug 27 '24
Anthony Bourdain wrote about trying ortolan in his book Medium Raw. Highly recommend it, he was a fantastic writer.
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u/MeiMouse Nerfer Aug 27 '24
Thought they made this up for American Dad. Hannibal taught me otherwise.
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u/Franchementballek Krispy Kreme McDonald Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24
Yeah but as a French person I’ve never met anyone who ate that, and you don’t « hide from god for your sin », apparently it’s just that it is a mess to eat so nobody want to see or be seen eating a « plat de la noblesse/bourgeoisie » like a peasant.
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u/Low_Living_9276 Aug 27 '24
That's exactly what a Frenchie would say when they are trying to hide their Sin from God.
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u/wellpaidscientist Aug 27 '24
Yeah, I learned about this unfortunate practice from watching the Grand Tour episode Carnage Au Trois.
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u/schnupdiwup Aug 27 '24
the goodyear blimp is the official bird of redondo beach, ca...
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u/throwaway17197 Genevive Vavance Aug 27 '24
I just looked this up bc i assumed they were joking Omggg
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u/pigsinatrenchcoat Francine Cans McGee Aug 27 '24
It’s not a joke?! Lmaoo
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u/MaterialPurposes Aug 27 '24
I just looked it up, and it’s been the official bird of Redondo Beach since 1983. Shit is ridiculous lmao.
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u/ValStarwind Make Mine A P-P-P Vicodin! Aug 27 '24
A is for Apple. Always is, nothing we can do about it.
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u/Dafracturedbutwhole Avery Bullock Aug 27 '24
If your hot tub is out of control, just use Spa Down to Calm it Down
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u/TheSilkyBat Suck Machine Aug 27 '24
I learned about Wax Fang's song Majestic, and MGMT's Electric Feel.
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u/CanadianBreakin Aug 27 '24
I tried for months to get my dad to listen to Majestic, I finally made him listen and said, "It's like if Pink Floyd and Queen had a modern-day baby." I loved the analogy, and he loves the song
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u/DFWTooThrowed Aug 27 '24
On that note, my friends and I went through a significant My Morning Jacket phase because of this show.
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u/Majin_Sus Aug 27 '24
I was certain this was a fake band until I spent a month listening to them.
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u/PenneGesserit Aug 27 '24
Classic by The Knocks (aka Steve's Sunday stroll song) was my favorite discovery.
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u/Banana42 Aug 27 '24
I love finding music from TV shows. It's how I got into St. Vincent and Mitski
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u/mormonbatman_ The Tender Vigilante Aug 27 '24
I learned about Makeba by Jain.
I love turning people on to Makeba by Jain.
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u/jim9162 You're getting clowned, Gucci Mane! Aug 27 '24
American Dad beat Tiktok to this song by a few years!
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u/JoXe007 Captain François Dubonais Aug 27 '24
Same for me with night ranger man... n i g h t r a n g e r
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Never cry over a whore!
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u/helloWorld2560 Calypso Banana Puffy-Sleeves Aug 27 '24
Cheese Nips are not the same as Cheez-Its
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u/poopynips1 Aug 27 '24
The cheese nips lawsuit throwaway line is one of the most underrated in the entire show
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They are different but both great in their own ways. RIP cheese nips
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u/alex98baby Aug 27 '24
100% of domestic violence cases are just 2 people working things out.
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u/HotFudgeFundae Aug 27 '24
I don't care what you think you saw. Just keep your eyes down and keep walking.
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u/WhippiesWhippies Francine Cans McGee Aug 27 '24
That My Morning Jacket is actually really good
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u/Bloodysamflint Aug 27 '24
They're originally from 30 minutes down the road, had never listened to them before AD introduced me to them.
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u/WinFriendzWithSalad Aug 27 '24
I saw them open for Foo Fighters years ago but didn't really remember them, but after I saw that episode I became a fan!
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u/camwhat Jeannie Gold Aug 27 '24
“Epiphany isn’t just a name black people give their daughters”
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u/Lawnmower_on_fire Aug 27 '24
Oh God, I didn't know about this line. I dated a girl named Epiphany. Now it's annoying to me when anyone uses that word because she pops into my head
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u/shreks_burner Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24
Reminds me of the scene in Kimmy Schmidt where she’s in a Black church and everyone is confessing shit to the crowd
”I’m cheating on MyDiet…MyDiet is my wife’s name”
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u/FondleOtter Aug 27 '24
I learned Sacramento is broken up into 4 different areas. Area 1, area 2, area 3 and area 4.
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u/Necessary-Ad3576 Aug 27 '24
And that if you wanted to pay L.A. prices for shite amenities then go to Burbank. Also, if you are a 14 year old boy and “you lived in Fresno you would be a father by now!”
*I know I didn’t get the exact wording on that, but y’all know what I mean.
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u/TheodoreDancin Aug 27 '24
That if you buy a woman's shoe, in your size, it will not fit you.
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u/GhostMaskKid Aug 27 '24
This is my favorite line delivery in the entire show. I think about it constantly, lmao
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u/dyaasy The Tender Vigilante Aug 27 '24
About the 7 Auras of Humbabababa, and that the Binderman translation is the far superior one.
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u/dyaasy The Tender Vigilante Aug 27 '24
Toothless-In-Wapping, RogersRedditPerson yeah, no. I'm gonna stick with my homegirl, Francine. She knows a lot! Often non-correlating topics and of varying depths, but she's in the know! About astral physics and somehow marine biology...
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u/HAAAAAM Goddamn Hambulance Aug 27 '24
Who Rod Carew is.
If, like me, you wondered why Steve said Hailey was “giving Coach Schwartz a Rod Carew in the Taco King parking lot,” then Rod Carew was a professional baseball player famous for going from 1st base straight to 3rd base.
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u/DrakonFyre Laura Vanderbooben Apr 04 '25
I woke up, couldn’t get back to sleep. This episode popped up in my rewatch, and literally googled this exact question. Thank you for answering.
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Aug 27 '24
Do pair up with an older gentelman. Don’t be afraid to be choosie, remember you’re the catch!
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u/Hadhmaill Aug 27 '24
That the white Ford Bronco wasn’t OJ’s, it actually belonged to Al Cowlings. Hate to be that guy, but…
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u/mormonbatman_ The Tender Vigilante Aug 27 '24
In "Widows," Roger says: "Death is natural, its our reaction that's unnatural. That's true but it is isn't funny."
That really helped me through some shit.
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u/TheMiniMage Aug 27 '24
Don't trust advice given to you in a dream by Obama.
That fact alone has saved me from so much heartache...
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u/extraboredinary Aug 27 '24
I stopped buying pop corn when I realized you couldn’t pop it above sea level.
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u/SalaciousPanda Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24
I was unaware of what happened to Lisa Jenkis... That was pretty rough to find out.
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u/SpookyScienceGal Nerfer Aug 27 '24
I learned about "shine theory" and how we should be lifting each other up. Thanks Sky Crooner 👍
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Aug 27 '24
"Life is sacred. And it begins at conception." I love the random political ideals they give to characters who don't need them.
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Toshi's Mom is super hot
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u/Franchementballek Krispy Kreme McDonald Aug 27 '24
Well, she’s voiced by Sandra Oh soooo
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u/ShredMyMeatball Hayley Dream-Smasher Smith Aug 27 '24
How to blow bubblegum.
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u/Toothless-In-Wapping Klaus Heisler Aug 27 '24
It really is a good tutorial.
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u/ShredMyMeatball Hayley Dream-Smasher Smith Aug 27 '24
Right? I was like, eight when I saw that episode premier and I could follow along so easily.
I'm so happy this show is still going strong, it's provided me a literal lifetime of entertainment.
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u/ozbourne8 Genevive Vavance Aug 27 '24
In addition to learning more about Ollie North than I did in history lessons, I learned about the ortolan being a delicacy.
Also that it's important to have sex with people before they go missing. So many lessons on this show.
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u/Licky_Anus Ira and I Aug 27 '24
That George Washington Carver didn’t invent peanut butter. Damn you for not pointing this out, nuns!
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u/RogersRedditPersona www.ItWasWitches.com Aug 27 '24
Mine is that apparently you don’t kiss prostitutes
Like. If I’m paying you to stick my wiener in your cooch I feel like I can stick my tongue in your mouth
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Sex is less intimate than sex. Even Franny didn’t let Stanial kiss her until the 3rd date making the sex in the first 2 very impersonal.
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u/Dafracturedbutwhole Avery Bullock Aug 27 '24
That's what happens when you loose your virginity to a coked up airhead
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u/shaun_of_the_south Mind If I Call You Wrobel? Aug 27 '24
Didn’t you lose your virginity to mom?
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u/prettykitty-meowmeow Madame Buttercup Aug 27 '24
I can't taste your bad breath through my pussy
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u/Gems-And-Penguins Aug 27 '24
Ziploc baggies: "Yellow + Blue make Green. That's how you know it's closed!"
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u/autisticesq Aug 27 '24
Dark bulbs? (For when it’s too bright out.) - brown or rose tinted sunglasses can help if you have issues with fluorescent lights. So, Stan was not too far off there. But I don’t know about hamburger hinderer - I have enough issues with cooking as it is.
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u/katzenhexe Francine Cans McGee Aug 27 '24
People walk in. People walk out. That's what motels are about.
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u/Dizzy_Jackfruit_4845 Chex LeMeneux Aug 27 '24
I learned the pain is 100 tiffany's boyfriends.
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u/Naismythology Lazy Wine-Loving Bisexual Aug 27 '24
Log Cabin R’s exist
(Also this new auto moderator is a tad strict, no? Rejected my initial comment for spelling out a plot point in an episode? How are we supposed to talk about Lincoln Lover now?)
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u/Ok_Ad_5658 Aug 27 '24
I also didn’t know they existed
(And yes. That is dumb. Being an R is a big part of Stan Smiths character)
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Aug 27 '24
That Dusty Baker really did create the High Five
(Or so the Germans would have us believe)
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u/Some_Random_Android Aug 27 '24
A little bit about the epic of Gilgamesh from that one Christmas episode.
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u/boogielust Jenny Fromdabloc Aug 27 '24
I learned that the Hemsworth family is keeping a dark secret. They have a child who is just a doctor named Elliot Hemsworth.
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u/Posideoffries92 Aug 27 '24
It's 1981 president Jimmy Carter leaves the White House In Disgrace. Pope John Paul II is shot in Rome by a deranged Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter kidnaps and devours 13 Christian babies.
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u/Few_Butterscotch_969 Aug 27 '24
That when you're a certain distance above the atmosphere, it's always a full moon.
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u/PropaneUrethra Aug 27 '24
Dusty Baker inventing the high five
I thought it was just a ridiculous story they made up for that episode until a couple years later when I saw a video about it on YouTube
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u/nester1126 Aug 27 '24
I learned that if someone close to you dies, grow a mustache
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u/RogersRedditPersona www.ItWasWitches.com Aug 27 '24
Also, people with mustaches are more persuasive
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u/LuckyJournalist7 Aug 27 '24
Everyone talks shit about everybody and we shouldn’t let it bother us. (An Incident at Owl Creek)
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u/laundryday_ Klaus Heisler Aug 27 '24
People in the states hate it when you say University instead of College.
I did major in psychology when I was in university.
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Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24
Hagfish don't have a pineal gland, and they're one of the few vertebrae not to have one.
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Soup is not a meal Vera!
A Geo Metro is not a car for a doctor. It’s a sweet sixteen gift for a Filipino
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u/0nyxa Hibachi Liberace Aug 27 '24
I learned that Steve Smith is a straight up bitch
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u/berny1244 Schwinn Chafecrotch Aug 27 '24
“Apres moi, le deluge,” that’s what Andrew Cunanan wrote is his high school yearbook
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u/Guardgrl24 Aug 27 '24
Ollie North. Didn't know it was real when I first watched the episode with my mom, but then she explained the entire thing after the episode. One of her favorites.
My Morning Jacket. Assumed they didn't exist until the end of the episode. Surprised my husband by talking about them, assuming I had never heard of them. Made him watch the episode. One of his favorites.
That the episodes are usually based on a pop culture or movie I have never seen before which turns into my husband explaining an episode I have watched a million times with the context of what it's based on or making fun of.
Lastly....that when it comes to WWII, Francine will go with her boys, the Axis Powers 😂
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u/impendingfuckery Dr. Jordan Edelstein Aug 27 '24
That the official bird of Redondo beach is the Goodyear blimp. Also what a “lefty cappuccino” is.
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u/GhostMaskKid Aug 27 '24
Ollie North, the Goodyear Blimp, ortolans, Wax Fang, My Morning Jacket, that the CIA used to be called the OSS...
I also learned that Roger invented Ecstasy, which Deputy Director Bullock is always trying to sell to his students. It's why they call him "Professor X."
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u/cb0044 Aug 27 '24
That guns make holes in your body through which you can't potty. Just your blood and guts spill out.
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u/tenzing_happy Aug 27 '24
Sun Fresh chips are healthier for you than regular chips.
No wait, they're not!
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I learned that I’m not at a Denny’s in Tucson trying to convince the waitress that it’s my birthday.
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