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The icing on the cake of that joke is Stan’s baffled delivery of that line, somewhat sympathetic of Jeff’s statement while just absolutely lost on the mechanics of it. Just gold.
My favorite joke in American Dad is really subtle. It’s one of the early episodes where Stan is getting to know Jeff Fischer.
Jeff: My mom left us before I was born.
Stan: How…how could she do that?
(Ah, a fellow Dadder.)
The icing on the cake of that joke is Stan’s baffled delivery of that line, somewhat sympathetic of Jeff’s statement while just absolutely lost on the mechanics of it. Just gold.
It’s also a joke on Phineas and Ferb with Dr Doofenshmirtz’s terrible childhood:
“It all began on the day of my actual birth. Both of my parents failed to show up.”