Cops and Roger

"Cops and Roger"
American Dad! episode
Episode no.	Season 6 Episode 14
Directed by	Tim Parsons
Written by	Erik Durbin
Production code	5AJN06
Original air date	April 11, 2010
Guest actors
Bobby Cannavale as Chaz Migliaccio

"Cops and Roger" is the fourteenth episode of the sixth season and the ninety second overall episode of the animated comedy series American Dad!. It aired on Fox in the United States on April 11, 2010, and is written by Erik Durbin and directed by Tim Parsons.^[1]

In the episode, after Roger and Francine are mugged, Roger enters the police academy and falls in with a corrupt cop. Meanwhile, Hayley makes a new friend, which might disrupt a long-standing relationship.

Plot

Roger and Francine plan a day of shopping while Stan is doing a stakeout. When they are mugged, Roger feels insecure about his manhood and joins the Langley Falls Police Academy. Things go poorly at first, but when Roger receives advice from Stan to not give up, Roger admits he wishes he could be a real man like Stan and he helps him succeed in becoming a police officer. Roger does so well, he comes under the eye of crooked cop Chaz Migliaccio who soon teaches Roger how to take advantage of his position. Stan quickly observes Roger's actions and confronts him, telling him that Roger is acting dishonorably.

Roger responds that he now feels like he has all the power he lacked before and likes it. Stan decides to turn Roger in as a dirty cop but Chaz gets word and orders Roger to take out Stan. He turns to find Stan he responds that he didn't give away the tape of Roger's activities because of Roger's original intention to be a good cop. Later with Chaz, Roger tries to break away but finds Chaz has captured Stan and orders Roger to kill him. Roger tries to turn the tables but Chaz was ready for him and shoots Roger. Roger leads him on a chase, climbing up a rope, and then in an act of desperation, jumps down and pile drives Chaz on the head with his elbow, causing Chaz's head to explode from the impact, killing him (which Roger notes was unexpected).

Meanwhile, Hayley apologizes to Reginald for coming on to him in The Return of the Bling and suggests a double date with Ian and Rhonda. On their date, Hayley and Reginald flirt much to their date's annoyance. Later at a movie theater, Hayley and Reginald share secret thoughts of being together despite their separate love lives. When Reginald reveals he broke up with Rhonda, Hayley responds that she also broke up with Ian and Reginald suggests a date that Hayley accepts. After Reginald leaves, Hayley calls Ian and breaks up with him.

Reception

Todd VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club gave the episode a C, saying "I had some mild laughs at the story of Reginald and Haley trying to fight their attraction for each other, but this storyline still feels like the show's attempts to do a continuing storyline in the background of everything else. And while that might be admirable, I'm not sure this is the continuing storyline the show should be focusing on. It wasn't a terrible episode, just a disappointing one, from a show I hold to a higher standard than any of the other three, and I hope the show shakes it off quickly."^[2] The episode was watched by a total of 5.09 million people, this made it the third most watched show on Animation Domination that night, beating The Cleveland Show but losing to The Simpsons and Family Guy with 6.93 million.^[3]

Media watchdog group the Parents Television Council, a frequent critic of American Dad! and other Seth MacFarlane-produced television programs, named "Cops and Roger" its "Worst TV Show of the Week" for the week ending April 16, 2010. In its review, the PTC recognized the comedic value of slapstick in comedy, but said the scene where Roger kills Chaz, and the graphic depiction therein — the explosion of Chaz's head is replayed five times — "crossed that line" between hilarious and gratuitous.^[4]

References

↑ "American Dad! Episode Guide 2010 Season 6 - Cops & Roger, Episode 14". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
↑ Todd VanDerWerff (2010-04-12). ""American History X-cellent"/"Gone with the Wind"/"April in Quahog"/"Cops and Roger"". Avclub.com. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
↑ Gorman, Bill (April 12, 2010). "TV Ratings: Undercover Boss Still Calling The Shots As CBS Wins". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
↑ ""American Dad!" on Fox". Worst TV Show of the Week. 2010-04-16. Retrieved 2010-04-18.

American Dad!

Characters	Stan Smith Francine Smith Steve Smith Hayley Smith Roger Klaus

Seasons	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

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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" "Holy Shit, Jeff's Back!" "American Fung" "Seizures Suit Stanny"

Season 13	"Roots" "The Life Aquatic with Steve Smith" "Hayley Smith, Seal Team Six" "N.S.A. (No Snoops Allowed)" "Stan Smith as Keanu Reeves as Stanny Utah in Point Breakers" "Kiss Kiss Cam Cam" "The Devil Wears a Lapel Pin" "Stan-Dan Deliver" "Anchorfran" "The Two Hundred" "The Unincludeds" "The Dentist's Wife" "Widow's Pique" "The Nova Centauris-burgh Board of Tourism Presents: American Dad" "Daesong Heavy Industries" "Daesong Heavy Industries II: Return to Innocence" "Criss-Cross Applesauce: The Ballard of Billy Jesusworth"

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