Tearjerker (American Dad!)

"**Tearjerker**"
"Tearjerker"
American Dad! episode
	Promotional poster for this episode
Episode no.	Season 4; Episode 10
Directed by	Albert Calleros
Written by	Jonathan Fener
Production code	3AJN08
Original air date	January 13, 2008
Guest appearances
	Don LaFontaine; Seth Green;
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"Tearjerker" is the tenth episode of the

Captain Monty as Gums. This episode follows Agent Stan Smith during his infiltration of a movie set, where he finds Matthew McConaughey to be a robot, as well as Johnny Depp during his visit on Tearjerker's island. Tearjerker, the main antagonist of the episode, is a business tycoon who has been abducting celebrities from his spa and replacing them with robots that will star in his horrible movies. While in the meantime he is pressured to accept a marriage by Sexpun T'Come, Stan goes to stop Tearjerker from premiering his tragedy film in cinemas

worldwide, making those who watch it cry to death literally.

The sequel to "Tearjerker", "For Black Eyes Only", aired on March 10, 2013, as the 13th episode of season 9.

"Tearjerker" was written by Jonathon Fener and directed by Albert Calleros. It was met with mostly positive reception from television critics, with much of the praise going into the character development of the antagonist. It features guest appearances from Seth Green and Don LaFontaine, along with several recurring voice actors and actresses for the series.

Plot

A

henchmen

to follow him. After the agent kills one of them and prepares to shoot another, Agent Stan arrives to assist him. Stan blows up the henchmen, which creates an avalanche, causing the two agents to fall over a cliff. They open their parachutes, though the British agent and his parachute is crushed by Stan's falling snowmobile.

Stan's boss, B (Bullock), assigns Stan to infiltrate a movie set produced by Tchochkie Schmear (Klaus). Stan travels to

Baccarat or Craps, which are Tearjerker's expertise, Stan declares playing "highest number", in which the players name the highest number they can think of. Stan wins the game and leaves with an invitation to the spa. In the meantime, Sexpun gives Tearjerker Stan's wallet, containing his personal CIA

information.

On his way to Tearjerker's island, Stan meets

Jewish boy and his cancer-ridden puppy set during the Holocaust

, to make the moviegoers literally cry themselves to death. Stan and Sexpun embark on a boat tour explaining Tearjerker's diabolical plans, which ends in Tearjerker's office room, where Tearjerker ties the two to a chair with ropes and forces them to watch his film, which simultaneously premieres in theaters throughout the world.

With everyone on the verge of crying to death, Sexpun accepts Stan's proposal of marriage. Stan suddenly recalls the engagement ring given to him by S (Steve). He asks her to put it on, and Sexpun does so, which causes her breasts to swell, breaking the ropes. Discovering Adrien Brody and Halle Berry in Tearjerker's dungeon below the floor, Stan records a video of their celebrity baby, posts it on the Internet, and makes a mass phone call, redirecting the moviegoers' attention from the film to the video. Enraged, Tearjerker unleashes his soldiers to kill Stan, though instead they end up plummeting through the poorly constructed floor to the bottom. Tearjerker attempts to flee in an escape pod in order to create an even sadder film (6 hours of a baby chimp trying to revive its dead mother). Shortly into the air though, his pod malfunctions and falls into a volcano. After Stan and Sexpun are married, Tearjerker's hand rises from the lava pit briefly, but then falls back in.

Reception

"Tearjerker" was met with mostly positive reception from most television critics. In a simultaneous review with Family Guy, Genevieve Koski of

U-Wire gave the episode a four out of five stars, going on to write, "Seth MacFarlane has brought laughter to quite a few Americans - most of them under the age of 30 - with his two series, Family Guy and American Dad".^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Koski, Genevieve (2008-01-13). ""McStroke" / "Tearjerker"". A.V. Club. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
^ Campbell, Donald (2007-11-26). "TV REVIEW: 'American Dad's' 'Tearjerker' a James Bond spoof". University Wire. Retrieved 2011-04-15.^{[dead link]}

External links

"Tearjerker" at
IMDb

[AVClub-1] Koski, Genevieve (2008-01-13). ""McStroke" / "Tearjerker"". A.V. Club. Retrieved 2011-04-16.

[UWire-2] Campbell, Donald (2007-11-26). "TV REVIEW: 'American Dad's' 'Tearjerker' a James Bond spoof". University Wire. Retrieved 2011-04-15.^{[dead link]}

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