Blagsnarst, a Love Story

"Blagsnarst, a Love Story"
American Dad! episode
Episode no.	Season 11 Episode 3
Directed by	Chris Bennett
Written by	Wes Lukey
Production code	8AJN22
Original air date	September 21, 2014
Guest actors
Kim Kardashian as Qurchhhh

"Blagsnarst, a Love Story" is the third episode and season finale of the eleventh season of American Dad! The episode aired on September 21, 2014, on Fox's Animation Domination lineup, it is the final episode of the series to be aired on Fox as the show moved to TBS from the twelfth season onwards, which started a month later in October 2014. The episode was written by Wes Lukey and directed by series regular Chris Bennett.

Plot

On the way to work, Stan (Seth MacFarlane) gets annoyed by Roger's surprise entrance and clinginess which affects the entire family. Accompanying Francine on a trip to the mall, Roger picks up a pheromone trail and follows it until he finds a crashed spaceship with a female alien (Kim Kardashian) who was also attracted by his scent.

They take her home to meet Stan, who becomes afraid that the CIA will discover her. Even as he worries, the CIA is conducting an investigation of her crash site. Roger and the alien become sexually attracted to each other which distresses the entire family. But after their fling, Roger is ready to dump her only to find she is ready to settle down with him. Roger tries to claim he already has a girlfriend but the ruse fails. Despite her insistence that Roger make things work, he decides to take her into the countryside.

Pulling over at a gas station, Roger calls the CIA to turn her over at a bed and breakfast for them. Stan gets word of the CIA on their trail and he admits that he called them as they can be heard approaching. Stan points out that she can lead them back to the family and Roger takes her away and proposes they go their separate ways. Handing her cash, he leaves her behind as Bullock spots her dog disguise from a helicopter and attempts to intercept her after it falls off as Roger cheers her on. But when the CIA corners her, he decides to intervene by building a high-powered rifle out of stones, sticks and his bubble gum. He manages to shoot down a tree which crashes onto the copter. As they leave together, she continues with her future plans together until Roger bails out of the car and it crashes in flames, burning off her extra fur to reveal her new identity of Kim Kardashian.

Meanwhile, in prison, Marylin Thacker is executed for the murder of her husband. Her son returns to the family home in sadness as he prepares for an election as attorney general. As his son is hit by a car outside, he discovers a secret hiding place under the floorboards containing The Golden Turd. Ignoring everything else in his life, he calls Wyatt Borden, a wealthy chemical dumper that pledges to help him and even make him president one day.

The episode ends with Stan reading the episode as a book to the family titled "American Dad on Fox". When he finishes, he symbolically "closes the book" on American Dad's run on Fox and places it on the shelf.

Production

Kim Kardashian (pictured) guest started in this episode as Qurchhhh; a love interest for Roger the alien

In September 2013, it was revealed that Kim Kardashian would appear in an upcoming episode as a "love interest" for Roger.^[1]

Cultural references

Steve says, "He followed me to school one day, it was against the rules, it made the children laugh and play", which is a verse from the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
Roger prepares to shoot down the CIA helicopter by referencing Dick Cheney's 2006 hunting accident in which he shot a friend.
Roger and Klaus watch The Golden Girls. The theme song, "Thank You for Being a Friend" which can be heard, was written by Andrew Gold.

Reception

"Blagsnarst, a Love Story" first aired on Fox in the United States on September 21, 2014. This is the final episode of American Dad aired on Fox as part of the Animation Domination block, the show was quietly cancelled by Fox but was picked up by TBS for season 12.

Critical reception for "Blagsnarst, a Love Story" was mostly positive. Alasdair Wilkins of the The A.V Club gave this episode an A- stating: "The episode features Kim Kardashian, a move that should feel like shameless stunt-casting, except she’s on hand to play a furry pink alien; this is in keeping with American Dad’s admirable habit of reeling in impressive guest voices and casting them in unrecognizable roles. The episode features Roger and Stan at their most casually sociopathic, yet both find just enough hidden emotional depth for the episode to not feel completely mean-spirited."^[2]

References

External links

"Blagsnarst, a Love Story" at the Internet Movie Database

American Dad! episodes

Season 1	"Pilot" "Threat Levels" "Stan Knows Best" "Francine's Flashback" "Roger Codger" "Homeland Insecurity" "Deacon Stan, Jesus Man"

Season 2	"Bullocks to Stan" "A Smith in the Hand" "All About Steve" "Con Heir" "Stan of Arabia: Part 1" "Stan of Arabia: Part 2" "Stannie Get Your Gun" "Star Trek" "Not Particularly Desperate Housewife" "Rough Trade" "Finances with Wolves" "It's Good to Be Queen" "Roger 'n' Me" "Helping Handis" "With Friends Like Steve's" "Tears of a Clooney"

Season 3	"Camp Refoogee" "The American Dad After School Special" "Failure is Not a Factory-Installed Option" "Lincoln Lover" "Dungeons and Wagons" "Iced, Iced Babies" "Of Ice and Men" "Irregarding Steve" "The Best Christmas Story Never Told" "Bush Comes to Dinner" "American Dream Factory" "A.T. the Abusive Terrestrial" "Black Mystery Month" "An Apocalypse to Remember" "Four Little Words" "When a Stan Loves a Woman" "I Can't Stan You" "The Magnificent Steven" "Joint Custody"

Season 4	"The Vacation Goo" "Meter Made" "Dope & Faith" "Big Trouble in Little Langley" "Haylias" "42-Year-Old Virgin" "Surro-Gate" "The Most Adequate Christmas Ever" "Frannie 911" "Tearjerker" "Oedipal Panties" "Widowmaker" "Red October Sky" "Office Spaceman" "Stanny Slickers II: The Legend of Ollie's Gold" "Spring Breakup"

Season 5	"1600 Candles" "The One That Got Away" "One Little Word" "Choosy Wives Choose Smith" "Escape from Pearl Bailey" "Pulling Double Booty" "Phantom of the Telethon" "Chimdale" "Stan Time" "Family Affair" "Live and Let Fry" "Roy Rogers McFreely" "Jack's Back" "Bar Mitzvah Hustle" "Wife Insurance" "Delorean Story-an" "Every Which Way But Lose" "Weiner of Our Discontent" "Daddy Queerest" "Stan's Night Out"

Season 6	"In Country...Club" "Moon Over Isla Island" "Home Adrone" "Brains, Brains and Automobiles" "Man in the Moonbounce" "Shallow Vows" "My Morning Straitjacket" "G-String Circus" "Rapture's Delight" "Don't Look a Smith Horse in the Mouth" "A Jones for a Smith" "May the Best Stan Win" "The Return of the Bling" "Cops and Roger" "Merlot Down Dirty Shame" "Bully for Steve" "An Incident at Owl Creek" "Great Space Roaster"

Season 7	"100 A.D." "Son of Stan" "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls" "Stan's Food Restaurant" "White Rice" "There Will Be Bad Blood" "The People vs. Martin Sugar" "For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls" "Fart-Break Hotel" "Stanny Boy and Frantastic" "A Piñata Named Desire" "You Debt Your Life" "I Am the Walrus" "School Lies" "License to Till" "Jenny Fromdabloc" "Home Wrecker" "Flirting with Disaster" "Gorillas in the Mist"

Season 8	"Hot Water" "Hurricane!" "A Ward Show" "The Worst Stan" "Virtual In-Stanity" "The Scarlett Getter" "Season's Beatings" "The Unbrave One" "Stanny Tendergrass" "Wheels & the Legman and the Case of Grandpa's Key" "Old Stan in the Mountain" "The Wrestler" "Dr. Klaustus" "Stan's Best Friend" "Less Money, Mo' Problems" "The Kidney Stays in the Picture" "Ricky Spanish" "Toy Whorey"

Season 9	"Love, AD Style" "Killer Vacation" "Can I Be Frank with You" "American Stepdad" "Why Can't We Be Friends?" "Adventures in Hayleysitting" "National Treasure 4: Baby Franny: She's Doing Well: The Hole Story" "Finger Lenting Good" "The Adventures of Twill Ongenbone and His Boy Jabari" "Blood Crieth Unto Heaven" "Max Jets" "Naked to the Limit, One More Time" "For Black Eyes Only" "Spelling Bee My Baby" "The Missing Kink" "The Boring Identity" "The Full Cognitive Redaction of Avery Bullock by the Coward Stan Smith" "Lost in Space" "Da Flippity Flop"

Season 10	"Steve & Snot's Test-Tubular Adventure" "Poltergasm" "Buck, Wild" "Crotchwalkers" "Kung Pao Turkey" "Independent Movie" "Faking Bad" "Minstrel Krampus" "Vision: Impossible" "Familyland" "Cock of the Sleepwalk" "Introducing the Naughty Stewardesses" "I Ain't No Holodeck Boy" "Stan Goes on the Pill" "Honey, I'm Homeland" "She Swill Survive" "Rubberneckers" "Permanent Record Wrecker" "News Glance with Genevieve Vavance" "The Longest Distance Relationship"

Season 11	"Roger Passes the Bar" "A Boy Named Michael" "Blagsnarst, a Love Story"

Season 12	"Blonde Ambition" "CIAPOW" "Scents and Sensei-bility" "Big Stan on Campus" "Now and Gwen" "Dreaming of a White Porsche Christmas" "LGBSteve" "Morning Mimosa" "My Affair Lady" "A Star is Reborn" "Manhattan Magical Murder Mystery Tour" "The Shrink"