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| "Rapture's Delight" | |
|---|---|
| American Dad! episode | |
| Episode no. | Flavour 6 Episode nine |
| Directed past | Joe Daniello |
| Written by | Chris McKenna Matt McKenna |
| Production code | 4AJN17 |
| Original air date | December 13, 2009 (2009-12-13) |
| Running fourth dimension | 21 minutes |
| Guest appearances | |
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"Rapture's Delight" is the 9th episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series American Dad!. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on Dec 13, 2009. This episode centers around Stan and Francine's life after the vast bulk of the church, including Hayley and Steve, are raptured. When Stan begins to arraign Francine for not getting into sky, Francine ends their relationship and befriends a human being whom she later finds out to be Jesus. Francine becomes his bride, leaving Stan backside to participate in the armageddon.
This episode was written past Chris and Matt McKenna and directed past Joe Daniello. It is the 3rd American Dad! Christmas special, following "The Best Christmas Story Never Told" and "The Most Adequate Christmas E'er". It received acclaim upon its airing from television critics, with many going on to telephone call it i of the best episodes of the serial. This episode was watched by six.2 meg homes during its initial airing, and it acquired a three.one rating in the eighteen-49 demographic. Paget Brewster returns to reprise her function of Michelle in the episode. Andy Samberg guest stars as both "Ricky the Raptor" of the "Christian Kids" video, and as the Anti-Christ in the episode. Other invitee stars were Mike Barker, Will Forte, Skyler Gisondo, Tom Kenny, Matt McKenna, Murray Miller, Martin Mull, and Don Tai Theerathada.
Plot [edit]
Stan is upset when he cannot find his family a good seat for a continuing-room but Christmas Twenty-four hour period church service. To alleviate this, Francine takes him to accept sex activity with her in the cupboard. When they come out, everybody in the church building has gone, with their clothes left backside. Upon exiting the church building, Stan discovers that he, Roger, and Francine are among those left on Earth during the Rapture (Stan and Francine considering they had sex in a holy place, and Roger because he wasn't human to begin with), while Hayley and Steve have ascended. Francine becomes upset when Stan cares more well-nigh ascending into Heaven than being with her and leaves him; she soon meets Jesus Christ in his second coming and becomes his girlfriend.
7 years pass and the war betwixt Jesus and the Anti-Christ reduces the world to a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with the human being race on the brink of extinction. The survivors have degenerated into brutal bikers, militiamen, and prostitutes. Jesus travels by motorcycle to the war-torn city of Denver, Colorado and meets in a local bar with Stan, who has lost sight in ane eye and replaced one mitt with a blade. Jesus convinces him to help rescue Francine, who has recently been captured by the Anti-Christ. Stan agrees to do so on the condition that Jesus send him to Heaven later. On their mission, they meet upwards with Roger, who for the past 7 years has been trying to repair his spaceship in order to return to his home planet and escape the war. They get to the United Nations Building, where they find Francine bound in an upside-down manger.
Stan and Jesus meet with the Anti-Christ, depicted every bit an effeminate villain who claims to exist the opposite of Jesus. When he tries to trap them, the container breaks apart; being the opposite of Jesus, he is a bad carpenter. Afterward a drawn-out boxing, Jesus jumps onto Anti'south back and breaks his neck. Anti survives and attempts to shoot Jesus but Stan takes the bullet for him, giving Jesus enough time to throw a cross-shaped shuriken into the Anti-Christ'south head, killing him. When Francine tears Stan's shirt away to look at the wound, she sees that he has always kept their wedding ceremony rings, and he admits that he had in fact come to salvage Francine. He activates a flop to destroy the lair and cease the war once and for all. Francine tries to rescue him but Stan asks her to leave lest the explosion impale her also. Stan dies in the blast and is sent to heaven. When Michelle guides him to his ain "personalized sky", Stan enters his home simply the way it was at the outset of the episode, the only difference being Klaus' dead fish trunk being mounted on a plaque hanging on the wall.
Production [edit]
Andy Samberg made a guest appearance on the episode, providing the voices of Ricky the Raptor and the Anti-Christ.
"Rapture's Delight" was directed by series regular Joe Daniello, in his showtime episode of the season. This would be the first episode that he would direct since the flavour five episode "Delorean Story-an".[1] Information technology was written by series regulars Chris and Matt McKenna, their first script for the show since the previous flavor'south "Bar Mitzvah Hustle".[i] Seth MacFarlane, the creator and executive producer of American Dad!, likewise as its sister shows Family Guy and The Cleveland Show, served equally the executive producer for the episode, forth with series veterans Mike Barker, Rick Wiener, Matt Weitzman, and Kenny Schwartz.[ane] Diana Retchey was the animation producer for the episode, in her ninth episode of the flavour.[one] Amanda Bell served as the production manager, and this episode would be Bell'south 7th episode of the flavor where she served equally the production director.[i]
Reception [edit]
"Rapture'south Delight" was broadcast on December 13, 2009 as office of the blithe goggle box block on Fob. It was preceded by The Simpsons, and its sister shows The Cleveland Show and Family Guy. It was watched by 6.two million homes during its initial ambulation, co-ordinate to the Nielsen ratings, despite airing simultaneously with Lord's day Dark Football on NBC, Extreme Makeover: Domicile Edition on ABC, and Cold Case on CBS.[2] The episode garnered a three.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic, slightly edging out over The Cleveland Show, but having a slight lower rating that The Simpsons and lower than Family Guy by a considerable margin.[2] The episode'south total viewership and ratings decreased slightly from the previous episode, "Thousand-Cord Circus", which was watched past half dozen.4 one thousand thousand homes during its original ambulation and received a three.three rating in the 18-49 demographic.[3]
"Rapture's Delight" was met with acclaim from many idiot box critics upon its initial airing. Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club gave it a very positive review. She opined: "And and so afterwards I was pretty well convinced that nothing could top The Simpsons, this came along and was one of the best American Dad episodes I've ever seen. It's entirely possible this is just because the bear witness striking my sugariness spot [...] but the fashion the show started out as a fairly standard American Dad episode and so just gradually went more and more batshit insane was definitely worth it."[4] She went on to give the episode an "A" grade, the highest grade of the night, beating out The Simpsons episode "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?", The Cleveland Show episode "A Cleveland Dark-brown Christmas", and Family Guy episode "Business Guy".[4] Jason Hughes of TV Squad gave the episode a very positive review, and went on to write, "American Dad was always the one that stayed with the characters and avoided trips into fantasy. Wacky asides and over-the-top shenanigans are a staple of Family Guy and take proven a smaller, but still important, part of The Cleveland Prove. So I was left with my jaw hanging open up when the rapture kicked in and people started flying off to heaven. Admittedly, I've not seen every episode of American Dad, so maybe this isn't equally surprising an episode as I thought it was. It was, however, a simply fantastic episode."[5] He also went on to annotate on the controversy surrounding the episode, saying "I'd imagine this episode will exist met with plenty of controversy, for their portrayal of Francine and Jesus having a relationship among many other things, simply I still found myself laughing at Roger's hysteria over Christianity. Looking at it from his very outside perspective [...] the whole thing must seem as equally ridiculous every bit whatever of our science fiction and fantasy bounds."[5]
References [edit]
- ^ a b c d east Daniello, Joe; McKenna, Chris; McKenna, Matt; MacFarlane, Seth (2009-12-thirteen). "Rapture'due south Please". American Dad!. Season 06. Episode 9. Play tricks.
- ^ a b Gorman, Bill (2009-12-14). "TV Ratings Lord's day: Football Wins, Oprah'due south Christmas Rates Below Brothers & Sisters". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on 2011-03-09.
- ^ Pecker Gorman (2009-11-30). "Idiot box Ratings Sunday: Of Form Football game Wins; Fox Animation Bounces Dorsum; ABC Slumps". TV past the Numbers. Archived from the original on 2011-02-eighteen.
- ^ a b VanDerWerff, Emily (December xiv, 2009). "O, Blood brother, Where Bart Thou?"/"A Cleveland Brown Christmas"/"Business concern Guy"/"Rapture'south Delight". The A.5. Club . Retrieved July 21, 2019.
- ^ a b Hughes, Jason (December 14, 2009). "Sundays With Seth: Christmas and the Rapture". TV Squad . Retrieved 2010-03-21 .
External links [edit]
- "Rapture'south Delight" at IMDb
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture%27s_Delight
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