- Homeland Insecurity
Unreferenced|date=October 2007|section called "Cultural references":"For the Endwell debut album, see
Homeland Insecurity (album) ."Infobox American Dad! episode
Title =Homeland Insecurity
Series =American Dad!
Caption =Acting out the detention camp
Season =1
Episode =6
Airdate =June 12 ,2005
Production =1AJN06
Writer =Sam O'Neal &Neal Boushell
Director =Rodney Clouden
Guests =Seth Green ,Ron Livingston ,Matthew Lillard ,Elias Koteas ,William Fichtner ,Gina Gershon Richard Kind ,Megyn Price ,Abraham Benrubi
newspaper_headline = "Missing Twins Found in Gingerbread House"
Episode list =List of American Dad! episodes
Season list = Infobox_American_Dad!_Season_1
Prev =Roger Codger
Next =Deacon Stan, Jesus Man "Homeland Insecurity" is an
episode of the TV animated series "American Dad! ". This episode parodies the mistreatment ofMiddle Easterners in the post-9/11 era. The episode title is a parody of theUnited States Department of Homeland Security namesake itself.Plot
Francine decides to throw a
block party to get in touch with theneighborhood . Stan learns his newneighbor s areIran ian, and immediately suspects that they are terrorists. He turns his house into adetention camp and keeps them inside. When the neighbors complain, Stan puts all of them in the detention camp, too. Luckily, Francine manages to convince the neighborhood that the whole thing is just a block party with a "terrorist detention camp" theme.Also in this episode, Roger tries to discover any hidden powers he may have. It is revealed that his hidden power is the ability to excrete
gold and other preciousmetals after eating certain foods. A rather long tangent from the plot line, presentedletterbox ed, follows this: two men discover the gold left by Roger, and one of the men kills the other. He hides the dead body in the back of his truck and drives away. He is stopped by apolice officer , and fears he may have been discovered, but the police officer simply talks to him for a while and drives away. Then the man stops at agas station to call his wife to let her know that they're now rich. The phone is answered by another man, and he learns that his wife is having anaffair . As the man screams in anger, "To Be Continued..." flashes at the bottom of the screen, and the episode then reverts back to its normal plot. This storyline is continued in the episodeFailure is not a Factory-installed Option .Quotes
* When Bob tells Stan he can't put him in a prison camp, Stan replies that "the United States Patriot Act says I can."
* Stan's quote "We do our little John Woo standoff" is a reference to movie directorJohn Woo . More precisely, it is a reference to the fight scene monologues in his movies that result in neither party being harmed because one uses the time the other is talking to escape.
* After telling Hayley that terrorists "recruit like vampires or homosexuals", he tells her to "plug your butt with this clove of garlic."Garlic , believed to offer protection fromvampire s, in this usage "protecting" her from a stereotypically homosexual act.
* Francine strikes acheesecake pose,cigarette in mouth, tips thecamera awink , and cocks an imaginarygun at Stan in hisunderwear . This is an obviousparody of the (in)famousLynndie England photo ofIraq i prisoners being abused at Abu Ghraib.
* The scene where Roger & Steve fly off thecliff on the bike with the picture of a full moon on the billboard behind them is a reference to the famous scene from the movieE.T. The Extra-Terrestrial . It is even more obvious as Roger is wearing asweatshirt with a hood on while riding on the frontbasket of the bike, exactly like E.T.Notes
* Langley Falls Post front page headline: "Missing Twins Found in Gingerbread House" , a reference to
Hansel and Gretel .
* The billboard of themoon that Steve & Roger fly in front of on the bike says, "The Moon: Our NighttimeSun ! The Lunar Awareness Council."
* Stan'sapron when he's at the block party at the beginning of the episode reads, "100% AmericanBeef ."
* This episode had a viewer discretion advisory before the beginning of the episode on FOX.
* The original broadcast of this episode on FOX scored a 4.3/7 rating, bringing the total viewers for the episode to 6.88 million.
* According to the DVD commentary, character actorsWilliam Fichtner andElias Koteas were cast for the episode's dramatic interlude to give it a more "filmic" quality.* In the U.L it aired on July 20 , 2005 and had 2.1 million viewers. It was #3 in its timeslot and was #26 for the week.
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