After Lisa Kudrow balked at reprising her role as Michelle, Paget Brewster was given the role with a new character design.
Lisa Kudrow"American Dad!" The Best Christmas Story Never Told (TV Episode 2006) - Lisa Kudrow as The Ghost of Christmas Past - IMDb.
"Rapture's Delight" is the ninth episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series American Dad!. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on December 13, 2009.
American Dad! - Season 4 Episode 13: Stan's Night Out - Metacritic.
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John provides the voice of Gilbert in "Irregarding Steve".
Terry's presence on American Dad! is missed by fans but there don't appear to be any plans for the character to reappear. The series' popularity shows no sign of wavering, as seasons 18 and 19 have already been greenlit.
Francine finds out from Bunny that Sanders was killed while on a mission in "Widow's Pique". While chatting, Bunny reveals that Sanders first name is "John." Stan later reveals that Sanders was actually killed while recovering the bodies of other agents that had been killed on a mission.
Because of Mike Barker's departure from the show, his characters Terry Bates and John Sanders were written out of the series in "Anchorfran" (Terry left Greg so he can follow the band 311) and "Widow's Pique" (Sanders died on a body recovery mission), respectively.
After she loses the trial to give Stan a second chance Stan steals a Heaven Gun which is the only thing that a can harm an angel and takes Michelle hostage to get to Heaven and ask God for a to give him a second chance and save his family who were freezing to death at the time. After arriving at the pearly gates of Heaven Michelle ...
Stan asked why she did it and she told him that she wanted to help him save his family and after arriving at Jesus' birthday the two split with Stan telling her to distract the party guests while he looks for God. After God gives Stan his second chance he asks for one more favor, and gives Michelle her wings.
She is introduced as Stan 's lawyer in his trial to get a second chance at living, but it turns out she's lost every case she's ever had, she admitted that she lost her first ten cases because she stated that she agreed with what the prosecutor's opening statement about her client.
Reluctantly, the ice cream man takes him to a courthouse where he can prove he deserves one. Unfortunately, Stan is assigned to Michelle, a lawyer who has a bad relationship with her father, the judge, and didn't earn her wings.
Using the lessons he's learned in Limbo, Stan agrees with his family that all their decoration are perfects. As the Smith family hugs, Roger notices Michelle fly down to watch.
General. Stan finds that his family has decked the halls with boughs of holly , but just not to his satisfaction. After Stan comes home from another dangerous mission, he finds that his family has decked the halls with boughs of holly and donned themselves with gay apparel, but just not to his satisfaction.
Michelle tries exonerating Stan by showing him accepting Steve's advice to give his kidney to a homeless man. However, Scott shows the rest of the clip, revealing that it was all a dream. Stan's appeal for resurrection is denied.
With the court refusing to at least help his family, Stan pulls out his gun , only to learn that Earthly weapons have no power in Limbo. Therefore, he grabs a Heaven gun, which can kill anyone and kidnaps Michelle to takes him directly to God. Stealing a chariot and evading the Archangels, they make it to Heaven.
God then reveals that this was all a test for Stan to show some humility and agrees to send him back to Earth, all because it's Jesus' birthday. Stan thanks God, before requesting that He give Michelle her wings in gratitude. Then suddenly, God then takes the Heaven gun and shoots Stan in the head.
Despite all the life-threatening situations Stan is thrown into on account of Roger in "Office Spaceman", Stan still saves Roger when the alien is captured by the CIA and about to be dissected.
In one episode, after Stan gets out of prison, punches Roger for sentencing him to extra time in prison, and sees that Steve has aged to that of a middle-aged man due to him "growing up too fast", he picks up Steve and carries him outside to a Slip-N-Slide. He tells Steve, "Play on it for as long as you like." Steve's cheers of joy as he regresses back to his fourteen-year-old self is quite heartwarming to say the least.
Stan broke off his friendship with George Clooney in "Tears of a Clooney" in order to make up for betraying Francine to him earlier in the episode and force him to cry so she can fulfill her dream of ruining his life. Doubles as a mild Tear Jerker because he really didn't want to and the last shot of the episode is Stan tearing up about it.
In the episode "Virtual In-Stanity", we learn that it's a Smith family tradition to watch old home movies of the kids on their birthdays. The first video of Steve's birthday movie session reveals that (presumably because Stan wasn't present) a preschool-age Hayley held her mother's hand as she gave birth to Steve.
The end of the episode "Rapture's Delight". At the end, after Stan sacrificed himself to save Jesus and Francine from demons ( It Makes Sense in Context ), we find out what Stan's personal paradise is: When he enters his personal heaven, events rewind back to before the apocalypse/it turns out to just be a dream, and Stan is living with his family, a wiser man than before.
Steve and Snot decide to make their own prom dates by using the CIA's cloning machine. They're shocked when the clones come out as babies. They discover the clones are rapidly aging and will be the appropriate age on prom night. Once prom night approaches, the last few days spent raising them have resulted in Steve and Snot coming to love their dates like a daughter.
Francine later on does the same to save Gwen when they burn down the school due to smoking cigarettes while in a gasoline-soaked area, but Gwen still gets arrested.
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The show follows the lives of the waitresses at the posh restaurant Above the Top, located at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. At the helm is supervisor Nancy, the restaurant's maître d', who sometimes fraternized with the girls but usually gave orders.
In 12th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power.
Stan prays for a friend and thinks God sent him one, but he turns out to be an atheist. Stan tries to convince his friend that God exists by making his life extremely hard until his plan backfires. Meanwhile, Roger convinces Steve that he has been accepted to Hogwarts.#N#Read More
After a big fight between Stan and Roger, Francine comes up with a plan to try and reunite the pair. Hoping to show Roger that Stan still cares about him, Francine fakes Roger's kidnapping, but when Stan never shows up to pay the ransom, it forces Roger to rethink the way he treats people.#N#Read More
When Hayley decides to move to France because of imperialistic oppression, Stan will do anything to stop her including revealing the fact that she was brainwashed as a child by the CIA. Feeling desperate, Stan activates her trigger word and gains control over Hayley against the advice of his boss, Bullock. Everything is going fine until Stan remembers that if he doesn’t change Hayley back to normal, there will be deadly consequences for him. Meanwhile, Steve and Roger become private Dick Tracys.#N#Read More
While playing poker with the guys, Stan is found to be a virgin. Not in the traditional way, but in that he's never killed anyone. Roger and the guys help Stan bust his killing cherry.#N#Read More
Dan Castellaneta. The Simpsons. 1989; 2013. Barney gets a job as a mall Santa as well in " Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire ", and also appears as Santa in " White Christmas Blues " and its opening sequence.
After being reformed by the Ghosts, Scrooge portrays Santa for the Cratchit family.
Homer gets a job as a mall Santa in " Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire ". He dresses up as Santa again to help Bart and Lisa save Christmas in " Grift of the Magi ". He also dresses as Santa when stealing Ned Flanders ' presents for everyone in " 'Tis the Fifteenth Season ".
Chuckie Finster 's dad dresses up as Santa to show his son that Santa isn't scary.
Darkwing Duck: " It's a Wonderful Leaf ". Darkwing Duck , in his civilian identity, initially accidentally puts on a Santa Claus costume when he begins investigating Bushroot's crime spree, and later plays the role of Santa when giving presents to his neighbors, the Muddlefoots.
Grampy plays the role of Santa in order to cheer up the orphans.
After SpongeBob is unhappy that Santa did not come to Bikini Bottom for Christmas, Squidward (who previously refused to believe in Santa) dresses up as Santa to cheer him up and ends up giving away everything in his house.