American Dad- - Season 21eps4 May 2026

EXT. LANGLEY FALLS TOWN SQUARE - DAY The town is celebrating “Grouse Day.” An ancient, one-eyed, perpetually angry grouse named Grumblebeak sits on a velvet pillow. MAYOR JIM BECKER hands it a tiny key to the city. Stan (to Francine): “It’s a scruffy chicken. Why does it get a parade?” Francine: “Stan, that bird survived three wars, a meth lab explosion in ’87, and Klaus’s attempt to marry it. Show some respect.” Stan rolls his eyes. Later, trying to parallel park his SUV, he accidentally backs over Grumblebeak’s commemorative birdhouse. The grouse attacks. Stan swats it. It flies into a transformer. Poof. Feathers rain down.

Meanwhile, Stan dons a crude grouse costume (literally a brown pillow with googly eyes) and perches in the town square. He must learn to “grouse”: peck dirt, make angry cooing sounds, and avoid Francine, who immediately recognizes him but plays along because “watching you eat birdseed off the ground is the most fun I’ve had in years.” American Dad- - Season 21Eps4

The cloning works too well . Steve creates not one, but six hyper-intelligent, vengeful grouse clones. They speak in unison (British accents) and demand Stan stand trial for “Grouse-icide.” Stan (to Francine): “It’s a scruffy chicken

“You crushed our progenitor. Prepare to be pecked to death… in a deposition.” Later, trying to parallel park his SUV, he

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“You defeated six clones and a zombie grouse by lying terribly.” Stan: “That’s the American way.”

Stan, still in his pillow costume, gives an impassioned speech from a fake tree stump: Stan: “I am Grumblebeak! And you know what? I faked my death because I was tired of your parades! You ever try to sleep when a marching band plays ‘Sweet Caroline’ at 2 AM? It’s HELL!”