Stan Fixes a Shingle
Stan finally fixes that shingle.
Season: 18 Episode: 08
Total Episode Count: 352
Prod. no.: HAJN06
First Aired: May 22, 2023
Featuring: Steve, Francine
Also Appearing: Stan, Hayley, Roger, Jeff, Klaus, Principal Lewis, Esther Lonstein, Billy, Mertz, Al Tuttle, Memphis Stormfront, Franz, Blanch, Tony, Meg, 'The Professor', Gallagher
Musical Numbers: Hungunder/Gallagher's Hammer
Director: Josue Cervantes
Writers: Tim Saccardo
Storyboarders: Ian Dibble, Joie Foster, Anthony Jensen
Roger's Disguise: Glam Snow Outfit from "Epic Powder Dump"
Plot:
When Francine goes down to the basement after another night of drinking and having an hangover, she sees Steve working on his homemade ethanol project for the "Young Entrepreneur" contest, which will ensure his shot of getting into a good college. Steve then hands Francine a parental supervision form that so he can do his project, which Francine thought that Stan would be the one to sign it but after being reminded that she's his parent too, Francine signs it and learns that Steve doesn't want any more from her with this project. When she tells Stan about helping Steve with his project, he points out that it's because she's no challenge to him and he views her as an easy A grade.
Steve arrives in the basement to see that the homemade ethanol hasn't fermenting as it doesn't show bubbles. Francine suggests that they should help create bubbles by blowing inside of the jug, but Steve wants to figure out his project himself. She threatens to rip up the form if he doesn't let her help and Steve tells her just to hammer nails on one block of wood. After finishing up with the job, Francine overhears Steve and Klaus talking about how the homemade ethanol isn't fermenting and how Steve finds it annoying that Francine wants to help rather than just supervise. Wanting to prove herself, Francine decides to help by making the homemade ethanol ferment like it was supposed to do but when she opens the stopper on the plastic jug, most of the ethanol pours out, which results in Francine using the dirty laundry to block the passage, which causes some of the dirty laundry to fall into the jug and the remaining ethanol to create bubbles. In a black and white I Love Lucy scenario, Francine tries to stop it, only for the homemade ethanol to burst out, causing Francine to whine, ending the scenario.
Later when Steve arrives, he sees his project ruined and he called Francine, who tries to make up an alibi about being out of town when it happened but is forced to admit the truth. Steve is upset that Francine has ruined his project until Klaus arrives and reveals that the incident caused the ethanol to turn into beer, even bringing members of "The Beer Boys" to confirm that this is beer. Francine tried to cheer up Steve by saying that she helped create beer, but Steve is upset because beer was already created and leaves angry that his project is ruined. Now more depressed, Francine and the other Beer Boys decided to drink the beer.
The next morning, Francine wakes up after she and the Boys drank all the beer in the jug, only to learn that she doesn't have a hangover and goes to Steve's room to reveal that the beer she accidentally created doesn't give the effect as normal alcohol and feels great. Steve still isn't convinced about the idea as he still blames her for ruining his project until she brings up that this would be perfect as she stated that they did something that mankind have been trying to create for hundreds of years. Hearing about that, Steve decides to go with the idea and help create a new batch of beer for the project.
As Francine and the other Beer Boys recreate the newly named Hungunder beer, Steve arrives to tell them that Hungunder beer is now his new project and was told by Principal Lewis to bring some to him and the other judges to test it out and thanks her for his help. As Steve headed back upstairs to practice his sure win of the contest, Francine and the others began to feel terrible as their skin turned yellowish color and sweating on their foreheads, discovering that Hungunder not only delays the effects of hangovers, but makes them significantly worse. Not wanting to disappoint Steve and ruin another chance of helping him, Francine decides not to tell and give it to the judges and hope the effects doesn't happen until after he wins.
That night at the "Young Entrepreneur" contest, where Steve overhears Principal Lewis and the other judges about naming Steve the winner, and while he is excited and admits that he and his mother make a good team, Francine, while under the effect of the delay Hungunder Beer, runs off stage to vomit. While still hoping Steve to get the award before the effects of Hangunder kick in, Francine and Klaus learn that Billy is singing the national anthem but taking his time, delaying the delay of the effects.
While Steve is looking for his mom and Klaus, he sees Klaus entering the closet and followed as he sees Francine and Klaus looking terrible and Francine finally decided to tell Steve about the delay hangover effects of Hangunder. She tells him that she was afraid that if she screwed up, he'd never let her help again. While Steve is disappointed about what she did, he instead decides to go along with the plan by having her go with him on stage so that he can get the award. Afterwards, Steve is announced the winner, but as he tries to rush things along, Principal Lewis and the other judges start to feel the effects of Hungunder beer. Instead of Steve and his Hangunder beer, they instead believe it to be another student named Blanche and her clarinet who got them sick, allowing Steve to win the award.
After giving a small speech about how he won with his mom's help, he walks up to her to give her a hug, followed by Francine grabbing the award and throwing up in it, with her head becoming stuck inside the award.
Roger, Jeff and Hayley learn that famous comedian Gallagher is driving through Langley Falls, they when to cheer him but when his famous mallet has falls off his tour bus, they decide to travel to his show to return his mallet, but not before having some fun smashing things with it. After having fun with the mallet, Roger and the others realize that they never smashed a watermelon, and on seeing a fruit stand, Hayley Leans out of the van and smashes a watermelon on the fly, only to break the mallet on a post. However, after numerous failed attempts to put it back together, Roger, Jeff and Hayley arrive at Gallagher's show, only to accidentally kill him by running him down, which the crowd goes crazy for, and Roger to proclaim Jeff's van as the new Gallagher.
Meanwhile, Stan decides to finally fix the shingle on the roof, and spends a days outside, only for it to break lose moments after he finished fixing it.
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