American Dad's "Flavortown" Is A Bizarre Guy Fieri Homage
Here’s how “Flavortown” seesAmerican Dad pay a bizarre homage to culinary legend Guy Fieri. Since the Food Network series Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives made him a household name back in the late 2000s, Guy Fieri has cemented his status as a pop culture icon. With his frosted tips, two-toned goatee and loud bowling shirts, Fieri is instantly recognizable and his down-to-earth approach to cuisine and championing of comfort food and no-frills eateries has earned him many fans.
Guy Fieri might be loved by many, but his larger-than-life personality and style make him a prime target for parody. When the Food Network star’s New York restaurant Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar opened to brutal reviews in 2012 a parody website for the eatery sprang up advertising fake dishes like the Superbowl Bash Bro’det (a bidet filled with “hamburger-fisted pig skins” and Velveeta cheese), while Bobby Moynihan’s Fieri impressions are a running gag on Saturday Night Live.
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In 2019 American Dad produced a Guy Fieri-focused episode that paid hilarious homage to the TV personality. Titled “Flavortown” in reference to Fieri’s catchphrase, the episode opens with Stan, Francine, Hayley and Jeff playing The Newlywed Game on family game night which reveals two things: Stan is a massive fan of Guy Fieri and Jeff has no identity apart from smoking weed. At Stan’s suggestion, Jeff takes a job at a pizza place to broaden his horizons and is graced by a Guy Fieri visit who happens to be in Langley Falls scouting locations for an episode of Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives.
Fieri takes a shine to Jeff and asks him to join his gang of pizza-loving bros (dubbed “the Pesto Crew”), which super-fan Stan
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