With Friends Like Steve's

Unreferenced|date=October 2007|section called "Cultural references"Infobox American Dad! episode
Title =With Friends Like Steve's
Series =American Dad!


Caption =Barry off his "vitamins"
Season =1
Episode =22
Airdate =May 7, 2006
Production =2AJN03
Writer =Erik Durbin
Director =John Aoshima
Guests =Craig Ferguson
newspaper_headline = "American Dad" Releases DVD, Small Girl From Basement"
Episode list =List of American Dad! episodes
Season list = Infobox_American_Dad!_Season_1
Prev =Helping Handis
Next =Tears of a Clooney

__NOTOC__"With Friends Like Steve's" is a first season episode of "American Dad!" It features Craig Ferguson as the voice of Evil Barry.

Plot

Steve loses interest in his activities with Stan, who quickly dumps him for Steve's friend Barry, a kid who appreciates him. But Barry becomes very different, when he's not taking his "vitamins" (which turn out to be "retard aggression pills"). Barry goes insane and starts talking like Gary Oldman. Being preferred, he manages to have Steve sent to a youth penal oil rig in the Atlantic ocean where Steve must use his father's skills to escape.

Meanwhile, Roger's beer-drinking skills come in handy when he decides to join a fraternity at Hayley's college. However, he leaves when they tell him that "pledges" have to clean after the party while brothers sleep.

Cultural References

*The title refers to the phrase "With friends like these, who needs enemies?".
*During the scene where Stan dances behind the X-ray screen he sings a part of the song "Dead Man's Party" by Oingo Boingo.
*Francine compares Steve's interest in Stan to America's interest (or lack thereof) in the FOX sitcom "Arrested Development".
*The scene with the pill in the drink is a parody of a scene in "The Princess Bride". Barry even mentions that Steve had once seen that film. In fact by knowing that Steve had based his trick on the Princess bride Barry should have guessed that both drinks were spiked.
*Stan plays "Red Dawn" with Barry.
*In the detention center Steve is sent to, one of the guards sings "Food Glorious Food"."
*The detention center Oil Rig is that based on the prison camp in the film "Face/Off".
*The scene where the fly crawls into Barry's mouth is a direct reference to the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark", in which the same thing happens to the villain Belloq during a speech.
*The boys who Steve is with in the detention center resemble Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman in "Papillon".
*Hayley's college's claim to fame is the fact that "Soul Man" was almost shot there.

Notes

*Barry is shown mimicing all of Stan's "likes" and "dislikes" he is even seen wearing a exact replica of the navy blue suit with flag pin that Stan wears almost constantly, including his habit of sleeping in only his "underwear".
* An overhead shot of the Smith's neighborhood reveals that the area around them is like a set of music staves.

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