American Dad- - Season: 21eps4

INT. ROGER’S ATTIC - NIGHT Roger is preening in front of a mirror. He has the six clone grouses as his new “backup squad.” They’re dressed in tiny berets. Roger: “We’re starting a mime troupe. No sounds. Just judgment.” The grouses slowly turn their heads. Freeze frame. Klaus (in a bowl nearby): “I wanted to be the mime.” Roger: “Shut up, fish. You’re the tiny bicycle.”

Stan hides the body in Roger’s closet. But the town mourns. A 24/7 news vigil is hosted by GREG and TERRY , weeping. Stan feels zero guilt until BULLOCK declares that without the grouse’s “spirit,” the CIA’s new pheasant-based drone guidance system will fail. Stan must produce the grouse by Friday or be sent to “Guantanamo’s quirky annex” (it has a clown-themed interrogation room). Roger, wearing a different grouse costume (fabulous, sequined), offers to fake it. Stan refuses. So Roger becomes a grief counselor just to make Stan’s life worse.

“You defeated six clones and a zombie grouse by lying terribly.” Stan: “That’s the American way.” American Dad- - Season 21Eps4

End Card: A crude drawing of Stan in a pillow costume, pecking at a donut. Caption: “Grouses before spouses.”

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. Roger: “We’re starting a mime troupe

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.”

The town gasps. But then the real Grumblebeak shows up—it had just been napping behind the dumpster. It sees the clones, screeches, and a massive bird brawl erupts. Stan uses the chaos to escape. Francine hands him a beer. Freeze frame

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!”

Here’s an original piece written in the style of an American Dad! episode summary and script excerpt for . Title: The Grouse of Langley Falls

Steve, Snot, Barry, and Toshi decide to clone Grumblebeak using a DNA sample from a feather. They convert the kitchen into a “Jurassic Park but boring” lab. Steve: “We just need a surrogate egg.” Barry (holds up a giant mayonnaise jar): “I’ll lay it.” Snot: “That’s not—never mind.”