Stan explores Francine's dreams.
Season: 14 Episode: 17
Total Episode Count: 273
Prod. no.: DAJN17
First Aired: August 5, 2019
Featuring: Stan Smith, Francine Smith, Roger
Also Appearing: Steve, Hayley, Klaus, Jeff, Avery Bullock, Delmer, Garfield, Odie, Chris Pine
Musical Numbers: Who is She Dreaming Of?, Good Stan
Director: Jansen Yee
Assistant Director: Megan Kelly
Writers: Jeff Kauffmann
Storyboarders: John Aoshima, Michael Baylis, Johnny Turco
Roger's Disguise: Ken Bone from "Railroaded"
Plot:
When Francine has a sexual dream about Jeff, the family enjoys a good laugh over it except for Stan, who is highly upset. He attempts to keep her from sleeping but she finds out and puts a stop to it. As he worries about what she is dreaming, Roger demonstrates that he has the power to enter dreams and offers to take Stan along on a tour of Francine's. There, he discovers that she sees him as a baby, so he tries to put on a macho act, but when he cuts himself while carving his own steak, he passes out as he tries to slap his penis on the table. Entering another dream, he finds that he appears as a buffoon to her, as well as a host of other personalities. He decides he is going to confront her, but is pulled out by Roger and told he can never interrupt someone dreaming. Francine overhears this conversation and becomes upset with him. But after a bad dream of his own, he goes in yet a third time with the intention of making the bad personalities look good. But when he gets caught by Francine in her dream, he tries to keep the musical number going, but accidently kills one of her personas. Finding out that they can be killed, he decides to kill off all of his uncomplimentary personas, but this results in his vampire-like insecurity becoming even stronger and breaks out though Roger into the real world as Francine vanishes in anger.
Awaking the next day, Stan finds out from his insecurity that Francine is trapped in her dream world and they make a deal to recover her. They find she has been bouncing around from one person's dream to another, but Stan's insecurity gets on Stan's nerves, so he ditches him and returns home. He finds that Steve has been dreaming of Francine, so he is able to catch up with her through his dream, but Stan's insecurity arrives to kill Stan and take his place. To remove the power of his insecurity, Stan summons a dream Jeff and proceeds to have sex with it, allowing Francine to kill his insecurity. Steve awakens from his weird dream to find he has been given an octopus body from Francine's dream world.
In between of dealing with Stan, Roger and Klaus struggle to come up with a name for his hot sauce, as his 'Dr. Buttblast' persona's name is already taken by another brand. When they find success with a name and artwork, Roger nearly closes a deal with Frank's Red Hot, but is interrupted when Stan finds out that Steve has dreams of Francine.
References[]
- The title parodies the Metallica song "Enter Sandman".
- Roger transforms into the cats Si and Am and sings a short parody of the "Siamese Cat Song" from Lady and the Tramp at the end of Stan's musical number, "Who is She Dreaming Of?".[1]
- Stanferatu is named after the vampire Nosferatu.
- "Good Stan" is a parody of "Whatta Man" by Salt-N-Pepa which plays when Stan tries to make his uncomplimentary personas in Francine's subconscious look cool.
- The moon in the background of Steve's dream after being ethered by Stan is a homage to Local58, a YouTube horror anthology.[2]
Notes/Trivia[]
- The Chordettes "Mr. Sandman" plays when Stan tries to keep Francine awake.
- Stan mistakes the faceless version of himself for Slenderman.
- Dr. Penguin is still dead, as confirmed in "Shark?!". He is replaced by Dr. Buttblast, his twin brother by marriage.
- Proposed names for Dr. Buttblast's hot sauce include:
- Professor Fartmore's Habañero Asshair Incinerator
- Baron Von Buttswamp's Turd Degree Burn
- Captain Sphincter's Swollen Colon Fire Rhea
- Sergeant Hemorrhoid's Wild-Eyed Rectum 'Recker
- The final artwork bears the name "Dr. Donkeydick's Anal Holocaust."
- In an effort to track down the dreams that Francine is inhabiting, 'Stanferato' calls Rush Limbaugh. Their lead wears a red hat emblazoned with "MAGA", shorthand for 45th President Donald Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again."
- Leads that didn't pan out when searching for Francine:
- Chuck Murphy
- Kal L. Kent
- Zach Cordner
- Cathy Brubaker
- Roger is revealed to have the ability to enter dreams.
