Sunday, January 1, 2023

Hayley and Friends Ambushed in the Attic


 

It seems that Steve Smith, Roger in disguise, has captured Hayley Smith and her friends Danuta, Kristen, and Zooey.  Roger has the four lovelies at his tender mercy.  I believe that when Hayley gets free, she will launch Roger back to his home world.




Roger is one of the main characters in the animated comedy series American Dad. He is a space alien whose appearance resembles that of the greys living with the Smith family. Roger is sarcastic, surly, amoral, self-centered, hedonistic, alcoholic, and dresses up in a variety of personas.

Little is known about Roger's past; Stan recounts how he landed on Earth years ago at Roswell in "Roger Codger."  Four years prior to the series, he was incarcerated by the CIA in Area 51, when Stan Smith, then an intelligence officer, was on duty at the base. Tired of living in a laboratory, he escaped his holding cell, thus triggering a lockdown investigation. Stan tracked him down in a kitchen and was about to kill him before Roger pleaded for mercy, but the security team threw a grenade into the room, from which Stan was knocked out and Roger pulled Stan to safety. They slid down a laundry chute into a waiting truck. Grateful to Roger for saving his life, Stan offered to repay him in any way at all, leading to his addition to the Smith family. As a means of convincing the family to let him stay, Stan presented him as a birthday present to Steve for his tenth birthday. While Hayley, Francine, and Klaus were initially horrified of him, Steve was delighted to have his own alien. By the start of the series, however, the whole family seems to have come to terms with him.

His planet is never seen or described in-depth, although Roger claims the climate of his home world is 400 degrees colder than most ecosystems of Earth, with the possible exception of Antarctica in "the Most Adequate Christmas Ever."  In "Of Ice and Men," he mentions that snow reminds him of his home planet, and figure skating apparently exists there; he has also commented that the planet has stores like Wal-Mart and colleges, in fact, Roger's mothership is revealed to be a giant shopping mall in "Lost in Space."  It is revealed in his youth, he was in a relationship with Emperor Zing but cheated on him. For a long time, his reasons for coming to Earth were a mystery as well: he does claim that the reason he came was to collect a sample of hepatitis, although since arriving he seems to mostly be mooching, and seems in no hurry to go back home. In the pilot, he was supposed to try to contact his home world, but got distracted by an "I Love The 80s" marathon. It was revealed in "Weiner of Our Discontent" that he believes he came to earth to be "The Decider", seeing if the planet was worth saving or to destroy it. This belief was crushed horribly when he discovered in his spaceship a note that stated that the ship was a test model and he was in it as a "crash test dummy", meaning his own species had abandoned him on the planet.

Roger describes himself in You Debt Your Life" as a "fey pansexual alcoholic non-human". Roger's flamboyant and dramatic nature is enhanced by his alcohol dependency. Roger is frequently childish, showing an affinity for character role-playing, tantrums, and pranks, as well as being quite petty, spiteful, greedy, and cruel. In "Stannie Get Your Gun," he convinced Steve he was adopted in retaliation for Steve having eaten the last cookie, and in "Dope & Faith," he threatened Steve's life by having him employed in a meth lab and convincing him he is at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from the Harry Potter novels. In "Tears of a Clooney," he adopted a group of foster children with the intent to use them as slave labor on his vineyard, and when he becomes dictator of a Caribbean island named General Juanito Pequeno in "Moon Over Isla Island," he demanded extravagant and vain services from the populace, such as painting the island yellow.

It is explained in "Frannie 911" that acting in a spirit of human courteousness and general niceness is poisonous to Roger, and he needs to clear his system of unpleasantness or risk death. Roger also has a history of holding grudges as shown in "Great Space Roaste,"  as he tried to kill the Smith family for insulting him at his Comedy roast, by starting a gas leak causing an explosion, hiring a hitman to shoot them, removing the brakes from Stan's vehicle, and writing death threats to Merlin Olsen for seven years after Father Murphy was canceled.

Despite his faults, Roger genuinely cares about the Smith family and in "Roger Codger," he was willing to allow Stan to kill him when they were cornered by the CIA, in  order to prevent them from torturing him into telling them which family had been hiding him. In the same episode, it was revealed that Roger had risked being blown up in order to save Stan even though he'd only just met him. Roger also once admitted that he wasn't a fighter, indicating that he was aware of his own weakness.

Roger is also shown to be a dangerous sociopath committing theft, various drug offenses and many counts of murder throughout the series. In "Virtual In-Stanity," he kills five people plus a planeload of innocent victims for twenty dollars and mentions killing six others for nineteen dollars. In "TOY wHOREY," he allowed Francine to be struck by a wrecking ball in order to have her steak as well as his own, and when asked by Klaus if Francine was dead, he showed no concern of any kind.

Hayley Dreamsmasher Smith-Fischer
is the eldest child of Francine and Stan Smith. Hayley, age 19, has a younger brother, Steve. They reside in Langley Falls, Virginia. The family also has a fish named Klaus and a boarder, a space alien named Roger. Hayley's maternal grandparents are Bah Bah Ling and Ma Ma Ling.  Jack Smith is Hayley's paternal grandfather. Her paternal grandmother is Betty Smith.  Jeff Fischer is Hayley's husband, having married her long-time boyfriend in "100 A.D."  Despite her marriage, or because of events that lead to Jeff's abduction by Roger's people in "Naked to the Limit, One More Time," she continues to use the name "Smith" in "My Affair Lady."

In "She Swill Survive," Stan and Hayley are revealed to be actors named Nicholas Vanderbilt and Kate Fagan.

In "The Most Adequate Christmas Ever," it was revealed that she was born on a trip to Africa after Stan ignored the doctor's advice who said Francine would give birth any day.

In "Stan Knows Best," she stated that she was 18 years old. While expecting to serve 10 years for counterfeiting IDs in "Faking Bad," the real counterfeiter, her brother Steve, presents her with a fake ID giving her the age of 29, making her 19 at the time.

Hayley is an ultra liberal. She is a casual user of marijuana, helps the homeless in "Threat Levels,"  is in favor of gun control in "Stannie Get Your Gun," is intelligent, beating Roger in a battle of wits in "Jack's Back," and promotes saving the environment in "Finances With Wolves."  Hayley majors in women's history at Groff Community College.  She also occasionally drinks alcohol despite being underage.

Despite her views, her actual personality is very similar to her father's. She often attacks people for their practices or beliefs such as Arboreus in his attempt to bomb the Langley Falls Shopping Mall in "Finances With Wolves," but Hayley was also known to be hypocritical of her beliefs. A prime example of this was when she, Stan and Steve went to an African refugee camp in "Camp Refooggee,"  Hayley swore that she would be doing her best to help the people during the short time she expected to be there, but, once she found out that she was going to be there for a few weeks, she went to the UN compound which turned out to be a resort-like setting with buffet food. Also, despite being a vegetarian, she has been known to eat meat, again in "Camp Refoogee," for example.

Zooey, Kristen and Danuta are three friends of Hayley's that she meets while eating out with the family at Boobers where Zooey works in "Faking Bad."  Zooey invites her to go out clubbing with the girls, but at the club, she finds she doesn't have a fake ID to get in and is dumped. Going to see Steve who is a master at making realistic fake IDs, she talks to him about getting one and after her friend's IDs fail to pass muster, they go to him as well and show him their boobs when Hayley convinces them he is a real "Federal Boobie Inspector" based on his fake ID creation.

After Hayley and Steve have a falling out due to her friends laughing at him outside of the Gaza Strip where Kristen works and Hayley tries to pass herself off as the brains of the outfit, they pass by Jeff Fischer's van that they were using as a base of operations. Hayley jumps out to check on things, finding out that Steve and Roger are getting into passport forgery.

Zooey is a redhead, voiced by Mae Whitman.

Kristen wears a light blue top, voiced by Azura Skye.

Danuta is the blond in purple, voiced by Anne Gregory.

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