Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance

"Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance"
The Cleveland Show episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 2
Directed by	Chuck Klein
Written by	Julius Sharpe
Production code	1APS02^[1]
Original air date	October 4, 2009
Guest actors
Kristen Bell as Mandy Seth Green as Kurt Cobain

"Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance" is the second episode of The Cleveland Show. The episode aired on October 4, 2009 on Fox.^[2] In the episode, Cleveland tries to make inroads with his new stepdaughter Roberta by asking her to accompany him to the school’s father/daughter dance.^[3]

The episode was written by Julius Sharpe and directed by Chuck Klein. It was viewed by approximately 8.7 million viewers in its original airing.^[4]

Plot

Cleveland tries to make inroads with his new stepdaughter Roberta by asking her to accompany him to the school’s Father-Daughter Dance. Last year Roberta did not show up. The evening seems to be going smoothly until Cleveland runs over the family pet Meadowlark Lemon on his way to get an ice-cream cake for celebration. Then his redneck neighbor Lester takes it and eats it. This kills his chances of being accepted by his new kids. Rallo and Cleveland look for Meadowlark Lemon and Cleveland dives in nasty places looking to keep the secret but Lester and the others tell him to be honest, causing his stepchildren to resent him. He tries to makes amends by getting a new dog named Kareem Abdul Jabbark, but he gets killed when Lester shoots him while he is obeying Cleveland's command to "fetch." While Roberta has been stood up by Robert again, Cleveland decides to take action. He first makes it clear to Rallo that he is man of the house, before going to the dance to support Roberta.

Meanwhile, Cleveland Jr. tries to make friends at his new school. Instead, he gets beaten up by a girl and tripped by others. When he runs to the bathroom, he finds out that the school has no stall doors. A guy named Lane is there; impressed by what a good door Cleveland Jr. makes, he befriends him. Cleveland Jr. goes on to make friends and money, but when his dad comes to the Father-Daughter Dance and sees his son working there, he becomes furious. He orders Junior to get out of the bathroom and boil his clothes at home before promising that he will teach him how to play baseball.

Reception

In its original broadcast on October 4, 2009 on Fox, this episode was watched by 8.70 million U.S. viewers and acquired a 5.9/10 rating/share.^[5]

The A.V. Club graded the episode a B, stating "Fortunately, there were far fewer cutaway gags here than you might have expected for a Family Guy spinoff, and the story itself was mostly pretty strong. It’s still not terrific, but this felt like a solid step in the right direction".^[6]

References

↑ http://foxflash.com/div.php/main/page?aID=1z4&mo=10&d=4
↑ ""The Cleveland Show" Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance". The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
↑ TV.MSN
↑ Sharpe, Julius; Klein, Chuck; Appel, Richard; Henry, Mike; MacFarlane, Seth (2009-10-04). "Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance". The Cleveland Show. Season 01. Episode 04. Fox.
↑ http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2009/10/tv-ratings-nfl-games-score-for-cbs-and-nbc-sunday.html
↑ VanDerWerff, Todd (2009-10-05). ""Bart Gets a Z"/"Da Daggone Daddy Daughter Dinner Dance"/"Family Goy"/"Moon Over Isla Island"". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2011-10-06.

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Preceded by Pilot	The Cleveland Show (season 1)	Succeeded by The One About Friends

The Cleveland Show episodes

Season 1	"Pilot" "Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance" "The One About Friends" "Birth of a Salesman" "Cleveland Jr.'s Cherry Bomb" "Ladies' Night" "A Brown Thanksgiving" "From Bed to Worse" "A Cleveland Brown Christmas" "Field of Streams" "Love Rollercoaster" "Our Gang" "Buried Pleasure" "The Curious Case of Jr. Working at The Stool" "Once Upon a Tyne in New York" "The Brown Knight" "Gone with the Wind" "Brotherly Love" "Brown History Month" "Cleveland's Angels" "You're the Best Man, Cleveland Brown"

Season 2	"Harder, Better, Faster, Browner" "Cleveland Live!" "How Cleveland Got His Groove Back" "It's the Great Pancake, Cleveland Brown" "Little Man on Campus" "Fat and Wet" "Another Bad Thanksgiving" "Murray Christmas" "Beer Walk!" "Ain't Nothin' But Mutton Bustin'" "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Roberta?" "Like a Boss" "A Short Story and a Tall Tale" "Terry Unmarried" "The Blue, The Gray and The Brown" "The Way the Cookie Crumbles" "To Live and Die in VA" "The Essence of Cleveland" "Ship'rect" "Back to Cool" "Your Show of Shows" "Hot Cocoa Bang Bang"

Season 3	"BFFs" "The Hurricane!" "Nightmare on Grace Street" "Skip Day" "Yemen Party" "Sex and the Biddy" "Die Semi-Hard" "Y Tu Junior Tambien" "There Goes El Neighborhood" "Dirty Dancing 3" "Brown Magic" "'Til Deaf" "Das Shrimp Boot" "March Dadness" "The Men in Me" "Frapp Attack!" "American Prankster" "B.M.O.C." "Jesus Walks" "Flush of Genius" "Mama Drama" "All You Can Eat"

Season 4	"Escape from Goochland" "Menace II Secret Society" "A General Thanksgiving Episode" "Turkey Pot Die" "A Vas Deferens Between Men & Women" "'Tis the Cleveland to Be Sorry" "Hustle 'N' Bros" "Wide World of Cleveland Show" "Here Comes the Bribe" "When a Man (or a Freight Train) Loves His Cookie" "Brownsized" "Pins, Spins and Fins! (Shark Story Cut for Time)" "A Rodent Like This" "The Hangover: Part Tubbs" "California Dreamin' (All the Cleves are Brown)" "Who Done Did It?" "Fist and the Furious" "Squirt's Honor" "Grave Danger" "Of Lice and Men" "Mr. & Mrs. Brown" "Crazy Train" "Wheel! Of! Family!"

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