Widowmaker (American Dad!)

Infobox American Dad! episode
Title =Widowmaker
Series =American Dad!


Caption =Stan "opens up" to Francine.
Season =3
Episode =12
Airdate =February 17, 2008
Production =3AJN10
Writer =Keith Heisler
Director =Bob Bowen
Guests =
newspaper_headline = "Optimistic Nerd's Glasses Half On"
Episode list =List of American Dad! episodes
Season list = Infobox_American_Dad!_Season_3
Prev =Oedipal Panties
Next =Red October Sky

Widowmaker is an episode of the television program "American Dad!".

Plot

The story opens with Francine comforting Julie, whose husband has been missing for 3 weeks. While Julie is talking to Francine, Francine hears that Craig and Julie share things. Francine pushes Stan to open up to her emotionally, but she gets more than she bargained for when he tells her that he killed Craig. While he was away, Francine accidentally told Julie, who was about to call the police, so Francine bound and gagged her in her house. She tries to tell Stan but he got distracted by a monkey, taking his plum so he hung up. She then asked for Roger's assistance, who only convinced Julie to hang herself. When Stan comes home, Francine tells him everything just as Julie was about to commit suicide. Stan reveals that everything was a well concocted plan that he and Roger made so Francine would stop badgering him. Also, he did not did not kill Craig, but he was relocated to get away from Julie's badgering. Roger at the end will give Julie therepy about what happened, but pretends to be a fireman thus not really helping Julie at all.

Meanwhile, Steve vows vengeance when Hayley kills the queen bee from his science project. He then raises an army of bees to sting her, but the bees attack Steve instead while Hayley and Klaus watch.

Trivia

* This episode has a mock celebration of American Dad's 1000th "Vagina Joke". Roger gives a short speech to commemorate the moment during the celebration of most of the series characters behind the scenes.
*This episode's B-story is literally about bees.
*In the background of the basement, you can see one of the Fourth of July teddy bears Stan made in American Dream Factory.
* Also in background of the basement was the Statue of Liberty wood burning from A Smith in the Hand.
* an edited version of the episode was released online in which rather than decapitate a monkey who had stolen a plum, Piyong simply hit him with a cucumber

Cultural references

*Steve sings part of It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday in a black suit before cremating the queen bee on a burning paper boat on the swimming pool and pours honey on the floor after doing so.
*Steve says "...the pride of the hive, Queen Jamie Bee Curtis. Rumor has it she was born a drone." This is a reference to the long-standing rumor that Jamie Lee Curtis was born a hermaphrodite. To this day, Curtis will not address the rumor, so its validity has not been confirmed.
*Roger says "In nature, a horse will not offer you his hoof until you gain his trust." This is a reference to the Sandra Bullock movie 28 Days, about an alcoholic who enters rehab.
*Haley and Klaus share a can of Pringles while Steve is attacked by bees.
*Roger quotes Jennifer Melfi from "The Sopranos".