“Frannie 911” is the ninth episode of season three of American Dad!.
Plot summary
After Roger ruins Stan’s study by turning it into a Turkish bath, Francine comes up with an elaborate plan to reunite Stan and Roger after the big fight. She fakes Roger’s kidnapping in the hopes of showing Roger that Stan still cares about him, but Stan never shows up to pay the ransom; he simply delays and makes up excuses. After Stan tells Francine that he knew she was faking it the whole time (she was calling him with her own cell phone and it showed up on his caller ID), she confronts Roger in the hotel he is staying in, telling him that either he needs to be nice or he’s out of the house. For at least a year, Roger had been nice. However, it turns out that being nice is slowly killing him. On his deathbed, Roger reveals that his species has to be jerks, otherwise he’ll die. He insults Steve’s dancing, something Stan says they both needed, restoring himself to health. Though Francine returns to being an enabler, she lets Stan be who he is: “the guy who beats the crap out of Roger when he deserves it.” She locks Roger in the attic with Stan, leaving Roger to be beaten off-screen.
In a sub story, Hayley and Klaus constantly challenge each other to a “dare-or-dare” game. Klaus takes a picture of Francine’s undergarments and later fills his bowl with Jell-O. Hayley has to go naked, say raccoons took her penis and dress herself as Captain Merrill Stubing from The Love Boat for fourteen months.
In another story, Steve tries out background dancing. He eventually stops after Roger tells him how terrible his dancing is.