42-Year-Old Virgin

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“The 42-Year-Old Virgin”
American Dad! episode

Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 6
Written by
Production no.	3AJN05
Original airdate	November 18, 2007
Newspaper Headline	Son Regrets Teaching Dad How to Text Message
Season 3 episodes
American Dad - Season 3 September 30, 2007 – May 18, 2008
The Vacation Goo Meter Made Dope & Faith Big Trouble in Little Langley Haylias 42-Year-Old Virgin Surro-Gate The Most Adequate Christmas Ever Frannie 911 Tearjerker Oedipal Panties Widowmaker Red October Sky Office Spaceman Stanny Slickers II: The Legend of Ollie's Gold Spring Breakup

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42-Year-Old Virgin is a third season episode of the animated series American Dad!.

[edit] Plot summary

It becomes known to his coworkers, Ray and "Bad" Larry that Stan has never actually assassinated anyone, his previous victims having been killed off at the last second from causes other than Stan's bullets which fly way off the mark. He is labelled by his fellow covert buddies as a "killing virgin". There are mixed feelings among the family all which make Stan uneasy - Steve accuses him of lying, Hayley is proud of him, Klaus loses faith, and Francine seems turned off sexually. Steve then disobeys Stan by drinking alcohol and joining the gymnastics club with his friends.

Deciding to help, Roger and some of Stan's friends become determined to help Stan land his first target. They try killing people at bars who have no purpose in life and then tried purposefully poisoning a group of alien fanatics but Stan is unable to do it. A child molester named Randy moves into the neighborhood and takes Steve and his friends to his former workplace -- at the water park. Stan tracks them down and attempts to arrest Randy, but he isn't worried; his mother is rich and he has a good lawyer so he'd be out of jail in no time, so Stan decides to put his out of his misery. But due to his horrific aim, he accidentally shoots Larry straight through the waterfall; the dying cohort commends Stan. Now that Stan has finally found his "one", Klaus' faith is restored and Francine is still proud of him. ^[1]

[edit] Censorship

After the scene where Francine covers herself and goes to bed because she lost interest in having sex with Stan, the DVD adds a part where we hear the sound of a vibrator. Francine says, stumbling through the words, that it's her pencil-sharpener, and she's "sharpening my... pencils for my... meeting tomorrow".

[edit] Cultural References

When Stan and Avery look down at the victim that Stan says he killed, they break out singing "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen.
The title and plot is a parody of the 2005 movie The 40 Year-Old Virgin.
- In the poker scene, Stan is being questioned how he recently killed the man in the beginning and it turns out he didn't kill anyone at all. This is a close reenactment from the movie when Andy Stitzer is being questioned what he does during intercourse and everyone finds out that Stitzer is still a virgin.
When Stan says that polar bears shouldn't give their cubs sodas, it is a reference to a Coca-Cola commercial in which a polar bear gives a Coca-Cola to its cub.
The child molester is a reference to the character Ronald James McGorvey from the film Little Children.
The scene depicting Stan's first attempted kill is a reference to The French Connection where Popeye Doyle repeatedly enters and exits the train in an attempt to follow a suspect.
One of the potential people that Stan's friends try to convince Stan to kill is Mark Reisman, creator of the 2004-2005 sitcom Quintuplets.
Stan reluctantly admits to never having killed anyone, however he clearly killed his co-worker Jackson's double in "Its Good to be Queen." and while shooting up the ceiling of a shooting range, he killed an artist in "Con Heir" and Jay Leno in the episode "Stan of Arabia Part 1". He also accidentally shot a coworker with a disintergration ray in "I Can't Stan You". He also accidently hung two men in a bungee jump in the episode "Four Little Words". However, it is arguable that what Stan really means is that he has never killed anyone he was assigned to kill.
Bad Larry's last words "I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" were actually Obi-Wan Kenobi's last words in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
At the end of the episode, Klaus panics to figure out the last line of the episode, but when it becomes too late, He shouts out "No! No Fox Local News!". This is a reference to American Dad's normal airing of 9:30 on Fox, which is then followed by the 10:00 Fox News Channel; However the same line is said on adult swim.

[edit] Notes

This was the first episode of American Dad to receive a 15 certificate from the BBFC(probably due to the subplot about Steve and his friends going into a pedophile's truck), unlike the show's usual 12 certificate.

When Stan is telling Roger how he never really killed anybody, it seems pointless because of the events that transpired in Roger 'n' Me ,so Roger would already know all of this because he knows Stan's secrets.