American Dad! (2005–…): Season 13, Episode 22 - The Future is Borax - full transcript

Worried about their bickering, Stan and Francine go to extremes to save their marriage; Roger excels at jingle writing.

...cherry picker, frontloader,

bulldozer, excavator,

and then, of course, cement mixer.

- That's my favorite.
- Mine, too!

Steve,
your new friend Barry is a delight.

- Where have you been hiding him?
- He's here all the time.

No, no, no,
you're thinking of that other one...

Whatsisname. Fatman Joe.

- Did I miss one of Barry's stories?
- Yes.

Could we rewind the tape a bit

for ol' Francine?



It's, uh, a little rude to ask someone

to repeat themselves just
because you left the room.

I left the room to get
cashew milk ice cream

because someone can't handle dairy.

It's me, Barry.
I can't handle natural milks.

I'm the asshole she's talking about.

- Oh.
- On an unrelated point, Francine,

I wanted to mention the bathroom
faucet was dripping earlier.

Is there a reason you never, ever turn

the handle all the way off?

I-I sincerely want to
help you figure this out.

You've had a strand of Carolina-style

pulled pork stuck in your
teeth since Wednesday.

Maybe figure that out?



- Uh-oh.
- What, Barry? What's wrong?

The way you guys are
sniping at each other.

- It's not good.
- This?

Oh, this is normal.

It's married-people stuff. Isn't it?

No. It's not.

You know, forget it. It's not my place.

Barry, it's absolutely your place.

You've got a real problem.

And it will destroy your marriage

if you don't do something about it.

What do you know about marri...

Tell us what to do, Barry!

♪ Good morning, U.S.A. ♪

♪ I got a feelin'
that it's gonna be a wonderful day ♪

♪ The sun in the sky has
a smile on his face ♪

♪ And he's shinin'
a salute to the American race ♪

♪ Oh, boy, it's swell to say ♪

- ♪ Good... ♪
- ♪ Good morning, U.S.A. ♪

Aah!

♪ Good morning, U.S.A. ♪

My parents used to be
passive-aggressive like you...

very toxic.

But they did something about
it before it was too late.

Re-kind-a-lings, a last resort.

This hotel looks a little sexy.

If I can be frank with you, Barry,

hot, hot sex
has never been a problem for us.

It worries me that you think
this is about physical intimacy.

If I can be frank with you,Stan,

it may already be too late.

Ahh.

Booking a trip to Rekindlings now.

Okay. Booked it.

And I'm gonna get the Travelocity

Five Buck Trip Insurance just in case.

You're wasting our money!

- It's only $5.
- Exactly!

It won't cover anything.

Stop! Both of you!

You can either be right
or you can be happy.

I fainted and you never checked on me.

I'm Mick Weibscott,
owner of Pizza Overlord.

You all know and love
our county-famous jingle.

♪ At Pizza Overlord ♪

♪ We've been making pizza
for years and years ♪

But after all those years and years,

we've decided to replace it,

and we want our new
jingle to come from you,

the beautiful pizza-eaters
out there in the dark.

- Whoa!
- We should submit a jingle!

Let's write the best jingle ever.

Let's send in the old jingle
and see if they notice.

At Rekindlings,
we're sorry you're not in love anymore,

but our resort is designed to
resuscitate failing marriages.

You'll notice that
everything that can be shaped

like a heart is...

the bed, the Jacuzzi, even toilet.

Hey, who could bicker here?

Let it be, Stan.

It's tightened as far as it'll go...

Just a little drip.

So if I come over there and turn it,

is it going to turn?

That's it!

Ahh!

Oh. Well, what do you know?

_

You just ate another butterfly.

Well, I'm trying not to.

I'm very self-conscious about it,

and you're always clocking me.

Maybe don't take such big bites.

I think these butterflies want to die.

This resort isn't working!
We're still bickering!

And now our last hope is a
balloon shaped like my nutsack.

You wish your nutsack
was as red as this.

Aah, the lovers I'm takin'
up in me sweet balloo.

Come aboard. I'll give you the rundown.

In a balloo,
you got three dangers to watch for.

One, you got to mind the wind.

Snag the jet stream,

and you'll shoot out over the
sea fast as a cheetah bird.

Two, the balloo poppin'.

It's bad news all around
and it happens a lot.

And the third thing?

Condors... the sharks of the skies.

There are condor attacks
all over these airs.

Love balloo, take flight!

Let's hear rough takes on our
Pizza Overlord jingles. Hayley?

♪ If your kid's soccer team
has won a regional match ♪

♪ Come here ♪

♪ To find an Arkanoid game ♪

♪ That's been broken for years ♪

♪ Come here ♪

It's good. It's really good.

But it doesn't say the
name of the restaurant

or the word "pizza."

For ours, I wrote the melody

and Klaus wrote the lyrics.

I can't stress that enough.

Klaus wrote the lyrics.

♪ Thirty three thousand e-mails ♪

♪ Where did they all go? ♪

♪ Hillary makes me sick ♪

♪ Time to lock her up, fo sho ♪

♪ We are all the puppets ♪

♪ And George Soros pulls the strings ♪

♪ Pizza Overlord ♪

♪ Pizza Overlord's the thing ♪

Klaus wrote the lyrics.

Now mine. Be brutally honest.

♪ Family 'round that table ♪

♪ For this meal we're grateful ♪

♪ Pizza Overlord ♪

♪ It's good ♪

Oh, my God. That's perfect.

It says that Pizza Overlord is good,

which puts it in the listener's mind,

like "That pizza is good."
That's smart marketing.

That's what I was
thinking when I did it.

This is great, babe.

Look, I think that's the women's prison.

Huh. I think that's actually

the Skechers Distribution Center.

Stop Fran-splaning everything!

Stop being wrong about everything!

Cap'n Frenchy!
Your balloon isn't fixing our marriage!

Ya-ha! You feel that wobble?

Ah-ha! The chassis' all screwed up!

It's a damn granny knot down here!

Cap'n Frenchy, is... is everything okay?

Yep, s'all good!

Look!

Cumulonimbus!

That means condors!

Oh, God.

A may-un!

- Frenchy's dead.
- We're doomed.

Neither of us can pilot this thing.

All we really need to do
is go down, right?

Right. Okay.

I'm gonna try something.

It's working! You're doing it!

At first, when Frenchy died, I was like,

"Why?! Why did this happen?"

But now I see there was a reason.

Stan Smith is gone,

for I am become Wind Rider.

The ocean?! Up, up, up!

There's no land in sight!

Is this the end of Wind Rider and wife?

Gee! I can't believe

we won the Pizza
Overlord jingle contest.

♪ Family 'round the table ♪

♪ For this meal we're grateful ♪

♪ Pizza Overlord ♪

♪ It's good ♪

We did it!

Well, we keep saying "we,"

but it was really all you, Roger.

Aww, shucks.

Ooh, Roger!

I bet it's Capitol
Records here to sign you.

Aww, shucks!

Hi, we're Gene and Sue.

We own Gene and Sue's Seafood Shack,

now with three locations.

We loved your jingle for Pizza Overlord,

and we thought it'd be neat

if we could hire you
kids to do one for us.

Wow. A job?

Well, you'd have to ask
the genius of the group.

Think you're up for it, Rog...

Oh.

I'll do it.

- Oh, that's swell.
- So swell.

There will be expenses.

We'll pay what's fair.

This is a big one.

Get away from me.

So, at some point,

this balloon will blow back over land,

and we have to be alive when it does.

What's essential that
we need to survive?

- Coffee.
- More essential than that.

- Face wash.
- We need water, we need food...

We need to be ready...

for the condors.

Because they're out there, baby.

Food... chocolate-dipped strawberries.

We'll have to ration these.

I should get a much larger ration

so when the condors attack,

I'll have the strength to fight them.

Smart. Water... none.

This disgusting sweet champagne
will only dehydrate us.

I like fresh water. But how?

We take your stain-resistant Dockers,

use them as a bladder
to collect seawater...

...which we desalinate
using the balloon's burner,

then we catch the
condensation in this emptied

Champagne bottle.

Ahh. Francine, you did it.

And I've saved so much
energy by not helping.

I feel so strong.

You look so strong.

Still, I need protein.

We're going fishing.

For the line,
thread from my Dockers brand

High-Tensile No-Break Shirt.

For the bait, these gross top
parts of the strawberries.

Yuck. And for a hook?

Why, your hook-shaped earrings,
of course.

Then you can catch birds
while I sleep like a lion...

always conserving my energy.

Mmm.

There it is.

Condor.

It's a [bleep] dinosaur!

Oh, yeah, the energy is there.

Yaaah!

Yaaah!

_

All right, let's hear
that mbira strut its stuff.

Stop. No. I hate it.

We should light the studio on fire, man.

Record that!

That's why you're my idea man,
Delmonaco.

You're not a coward
like a certain someone!

Stop calling me a coward!

Who are you anymore?!

♪ I'm only the best
goddamn jingle writer ♪

♪ In the world ♪

- Why are they here?
- They're paying for all this!

About that...
This has been pricer than we expected.

We've had to close one of our locations.

Well, I don't have anything yet.

We got to put our foot down, buddy.

We need that jingle in one week.

Fine. Deadlines are like assholes...

I do my best work when I'm
pressed up against 'em.

Hmm... don't like the eye juice

getting into the burner like that.

Better bring the flame down.

It's getting bigger!

We're going up fast.

Did you try jiggling it?

Is that the curvature of the Earth?

That book was right. It is round.

Oh, no, there's not enough oxyg...

Stan, we'll die in space

if we don't get this balloon down.

I... have an idea.

Yeah, let's party.

I love you, Francine.

We're alive.

You saved us.

We saved each other.

Where are we?

Stan, look!

Stan and Francine Smith,

we're the Travelocity Five Buck
Trip Insurance Rescue Force.

I told you the trip
insurance was worth it...

- There it is!
- You said it was a waste of money.

I still think $5 is too much.

This blanket is thread-bare.

Whoa, look who's
rehydrated enough to fight.

Oh, God, he's right, Stan.

But we didn't bicker in the balloon.

You were busy surviving.

For a lot of couples, it helps them

to have a challenge,
something to overcome.

We're on the sat-phone
with Travelocity HQ.

You'll be on the cheapest flight
out of Australia in no time.

- We floated to Australia?!
- Was that Craig Robinson?

Yeah, lucky you landed here.

One kilometer that way is the Outback,

the most unforgiving biome in the world.

Talk about a challenge...

really something to overcome.

- Should we?
- Yes.

Where are you going?!

We're rescuing you!

Well, we're rescuing our marriage!

Bye! Have a beautiful time!

- Got 'em.
- We've eaten

so many interesting birds on this trip.

And we've gotten really
good at killing them.

I can't disagree. We're barely alive,

and we haven't fought for days.

Mm! Mm!

We should get out of the sun.

Is that a building in
the middle of the desert?

A store full of supplies.

But where did everybody go?

_

So, you've decided to work for
a Borax mine in the desert.

Congratulations! We here at Tetradual

believe that the future is Borax.

Borax has millions of uses.

Why don't you say some of your
favorites aloud right now?

I'll give you 15 minutes.

We could put this on a sand rat.

I think these life-saving
supplies might be bad

for our relationship.

We're not bickering. You're crazy.

Right there! You just bickered me.

Where can we go? Where is it hard?

The mining life is a hard life.

Many of you will die in our mine,

either trapped by falling
rocks or crushed beneath them,

or even half-trapped, half-crushed.

But, like all of us at Tetradual,
you love Borax.

We have to go to the mines!

Sir! The seismic sensors
are going haywire!

There's something alive down there!

Shut up right now! Can't you see
I'm making a video?!

Our remaining restaurants

are mortgaged to the hilt
to pay for this jingle,

but we believe in you
and your vision, Roger...

Shut up, Gene.

I'm begging you,
I need that wet trap sealed.

Now get ready, suits.

This jingle's gonna
sell a lot of seafood

for your terrible buffets.

♪ I had a dream ♪

♪ I had a dream ♪

♪ Where am I? ♪

♪ I'm hungry ♪

♪ I had a dream ♪

♪ That all the seafood ♪

♪ Would be mine ♪

♪ I'm so hungry ♪

We're ruined.

W-W-We'll figure something out.

We always do.

Not this time, Susy.

There's no coming back for us.

"There's no coming back"...

I'm having a jingle idea
that could save everything.

♪ There's no coming back ♪

♪ For Gene and Sue's Seafood Shack ♪

A Roger Smith jingle.

It's so dark in here.
Maybe we should slow down?

Yeah, let's take it nice and easy

and destroy our marriage down a toilet!

I almost disagreed with you.

Keeping this wound from getting infected

is gonna be such a great challenge.

Thank you, baby.

I'm gonna make this
deadly spider bite me.

This is the healthiest our
relationship has ever been.

Humanoid cave creatures...

Incredible.

They ate the miners.

Look at these things fighting...

like we used to.

Poor bastards.

Huh. Now they seem very close.

Aww. They're in love.

Maybe we're like those creatures.

We bicker, sure, but after we,
like, rip on bad movies

and then have outstanding sex...

like the creatures are doing right now.

Maybe our problem wasn't needing
more romance or hardship.

Maybe our problem was
letting other people

tell us we had a problem.

Yes! Barry, the medic,
all the [bleep] busybodies.

Those lousy busybodies.

Look at these guys just
loving their lives.

And why? Because there's no
one getting in their heads,

judging their relationship and...

Crap. I've stopped whispering.

Run.

It's a dead end!

Stan, we're gonna die!

- No, we're not.
- What, why?

Because I've secretly still
been conserving my energy.

Yaah!

Now, everyone turn your books to...

and don't laugh... page 69.

Oh, yeah!

I'll do that with anyone.

Mind your own business, Barry!

Bye! Have a beautiful time!