Camp Refoogee

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“Camp Refoogee”
American Dad! episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 24
Written by	Josh Bycel, Jonathan Fener
Directed by	Albert Calleros
Production no.	2AJN06
Original airdate	September 10, 2006
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"Camp Refoogee" is the second season premiere of the animated series American Dad!, with 8.9 million viewers tuning in.

[edit] Plot summary

Stan pressures Steve to go to summer camp, but he has missed the cutoff date to get in. Desperate to send Steve to any camp at all, he accidentally places him in a refugee camp in Africa. On Francine's insistence, Stan goes with Hayley to retrieve him. Once there, Stan maintains the delusion that this is really just an ordinary summer camp, and that the violent rebels across the river are members of a rival summer camp. When the rebel band kidnaps the African girl Steve is falling for, a "Camp Olympics" is set up to win her back. Meanwhile, Francine and Roger have fun at home pretending to be a married couple, until their role-playing turns angry and bitter, scaring away their invited dinner guests. At the end, the refugees win the competition, but the rebels don't care and try to kill everybody, but Chuck Norris comes and defeats them. The leader of the rebels is shot by Stan. Chuck Norris explains that he's on a world tour promoting peace and justice around the globe. The episode ends with Stan, Steve and Hayley going home while Chuck Norris and the regfugees sing an African song about being a good samaritan.

[edit] Cultural references

• The first scene is a direct parody of the riverbed chase in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The car is also heavily based on the Chrysler 300C or Bentley Continental GT.
• Klaus asks if they can grow "Hitler melons". This reference, made several times during the episode, is to an online joke which shows Adolf Hitler eating a water melon during one of his speeches.
• Roger and Francine's role-playing as a married couple is strongly reminiscent of the Edward Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Sir Mix-a-Lot's famous song, Baby Got Back, was featured in this episode, too the talent contest, which pays homage to the dance krumping, or clowning.
• When Steve meets Akiva by the river when she leaps on and kills a python. The song, "Africa" by Toto plays in the background.
• The camp t-shirts Stan buys for the campers happen to be E! Entertainment t-shirts.

[edit] Notes

Hayley is seen eating meat in this episode, which is unusual since she claims to be a vegetarian. However, she has also been seen or mentioned eating meat before, so it's possible that she isn't as committed to it as she would like to be. Or it is possible that she is only a committed vegetarian and activist when the situation calls for it.

Preceded by "Tears of a Clooney"

American Dad! episodes

Followed by "The American Dad After School Special"