Helping Handis (American Dad!)

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Helping Handis
American Dad! episode

Francine as a surgeon
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 21
Written by Nahnatchka Khan
Directed by Caleb Meurer
Production no. 2AJN02
Original airdate April 30, 2006
Newspaper Headline "King Kong Told Not To Use AIDS Quilt For Warmth"
Season 1 episodes
American Dad - Season 1
May 1, 2005May 14, 2006
  1. Pilot
  2. Threat Levels
  3. Stan Knows Best
  4. Francine's Flashback
  5. Roger Codger
  6. Homeland Insecurity
  7. Deacon Stan, Jesus Man
  8. Bullocks to Stan
  9. A Smith in the Hand
  10. All About Steve
  11. Con Heir
  12. Stan of Arabia: Part 1
  13. Stan of Arabia: Part 2
  14. Stannie Get Your Gun
  15. Star Trek
  16. Not Particularly Desperate Housewife
  17. Rough Trade
  18. Finances with Wolves
  19. It's Good to Be Queen
  20. Roger 'n' Me
  21. Helping Handis
  22. With Friends Like Steve's
  23. Tears of a Clooney

  Season 2
List of American Dad! episodes

"Helping Handis" is a first season episode of the animated series American Dad!

[edit] Plot

Stan tries to help Steve become more popular with the jocks by giving him steroids from the CIA, which give Steve breasts. Stan tells him to hide his breasts. When the kids at school find out, Steve becomes popular. Stan is disappointed at him. Steve and his new pals hang out every day. When he wants to have a party, Stan forbids him, but he has one anyway. When Stan arrives, he finds everyone lining up to touch Steve's breasts.

Stan tries to tell him that they only like him because of his boobs. He ignores him, so Stan ingests steroids and develops large breasts as well. He goes to the party to which Steve was invited and shows his breasts to everyone. Everyone ignores Steve and pays attention to Stan. Steve apologizes to Stan, and while they can, they play together with their breasts.

Meanwhile, Francine is angered when Hayley makes a video about how boring Francine's life is. To disprove this perception, she becomes a surgeon and unintentionally joins the Handicapped Mafia, but things turn bad when she is told there is no way out. When they try to rob a bank, the police kill the other members of the mafia, to Francine's relief.

[edit] Cultural references

  • The episode plays out with "Pour Some Sugar on Me" by Def Leppard.
  • The song playing at the party in Stan's flashback is "Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles.
  • Hayley's video about Francine receives a grade of "Check Plus Plus;" the highest grade ever given at Groff Community College which, she notes, "is like a C at Arizona State."
  • Francine says after she comes home from an exhausting day at work that now she knows why the cast of the NBC sitcom Scrubs doesn't have time to be funny. Klaus then mutters sadly, "I like Scrubs."
  • Francine's line, "Damn it, Jim, I'm a doctor!", is a clear reference to Leonard McCoy in the original Star Trek.
  • At Chung's party, Steve is "impressing" the guys with Dungeons and Dragons success stories.

[edit] Notes

  • Lisa Silver is seen at Steve's party, even though her family was deported in the pilot.
  • When Toshi, Barry, and Snot knock on Steve's door during the party, Barry is clearly wearing the necklace he said he would make out of the bottle caps from the beer bottles that the cool kids opened with his fat folds.
  • This episode marks the third time that a Seth MacFarlane show has branded Scrubs as unfunny. The first instance was in the Family Guy episode "Blind Ambition" where Peter asked Horace who was the "funny guy" in the show. The second was during a song performance by Brian and Stewie at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards which contained the verse "You've got Scrubs on NBC in season seven and a half, with the antics of the lovable and talented Zach Braff, who reminds us that a sitcom doesn't have to make you laugh". This could be a misunderstanding in that Seth MacFarlane might actually like Scrubs, and he may be just referring to the show's low ratings, while respecting its loyal fanbase at the same time.

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Preceded by
Roger 'n' Me
American Dad! episodes Followed by
With Friends Like Steve's