A Little Extra Scratch
Suspicious about Hayley's mysterious, newfound wealth, Francine decides to get to the bottom of it.
Season: 18 Episode: 21
Total Episode Count: 365
Prod. no.: HAJN22
First Aired: December 11, 2023
Featuring: Hayley, Francine
Also Appearing: Roger, Stan, Klaus, Jeff, Steve, Buckle, Sheila, Dr. Moe Munney, Brian, Mr. Skinko, Scotty, BoBo
Director: Josue Cervantes
Writers: Jeff Kauffmann
Storyboarders: Ian Dibble, Ashlee O'Day, Ryan Rosendal, Eliana Sellitto
Roger's Disguise: Non-standard Opening/Evil Knievel from "Big Trouble in Little Langley"
Plot:
Francine is puzzled when Hayley comes home with money and suspects that she's selling drugs. Despite Klaus being skeptical, she follows her and finds out that she's dealing legal arthritis pharmaceuticals derived from armadillos and wants in on the action. Things are boring until Francine spices things up with a hotter sales pitch of sex appeal and swag. But at an award ceremony in their honor for top sales, Francine discovers from the inventor that the pharmaceuticals attract predators due to their armadillo content. She neglects to share the information with Hayley until their former customers all come under attack. The latter is angry with her until she discovers that Francine donated all of her money to charity, and was only doing this to be a mother-daughter team like they used to be. Sneaking into the corporate headquarters to steal the data on the attacks being kept secret, they are discovered and pursued by the CEO. Hayley uses a t-shirt cannon that she brought along to cover him in his own pharmaceuticals, causing him to be attacked by animals.
Meanwhile, Stan finds out that he faces losing the house from a bad investment and falls into a slump. Roger offers him a way to make money in ads looking sad. But when the work helps him bounce back, he can no longer have his look until Roger slaps him. The beatings continue for each new ad until Stan finds out that his face may collapse if he is hit again. Determined to continue, Stan finds out that he no longer has trouble maintaining his sad face, but his new ad requires him to be happy. Instructing Roger to go ahead and hit him again to try to get him to have a happy face, he manages to complete the ad with his face collapsed.
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