![]() Always Camp: LOGO declared him the "Gayest Cartoon of All Time.".An Alien Named "Bob": An alien named Roger. ![]() All Take and No Give: He expects others to bend other backwards to do things for him, yet he is often unwilling to perform even simple tasks or small favors for them without getting something in return. ![]() Aliens Are Bastards: His race needs to act like jerks, though it does depend on what person he is portraying with his costumes.If he's out in public, his blood is red, but whenever he's by himself or with the other Smiths, his blood is instead shown to be an exotic color like yellow, purple, blue, or green. Alien Among Us: Has been living on Earth since the mid-20th century, after being abandoned on Earth by his people as a disposable crash test dummy (they told him he was The Decider who would determine if humanity should be destroyed or not).This is actually one of his more positive personality traits. Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: He's extremely prone to it.The Alcoholic: He's often seen drinking.As Hayley pointed out, if he didn't think they cared about him by that point, it was his problem, not theirs. The others actually get indignant because not only has this issue been dealt with before, but in that episode and others they had repeatedly gone out of their way to please his ever-insane needs and desires. It's even lampshaded in the episode "Great Space Roaster," where he reveals that he didn't really feel like a part of the Smith family, which is why he got insulted when they threw a comedy roast for his birthday (at his request). Aesop Amnesia: He's just as bad about this as Stan, if not worse.Really strong episode out of the gate for the season premiere. And his early season goal to find Roger makes more sense. The Smiths do not appear and are only mentioned at the end in passing.Īvery Jr. The end credits evoke The Incredible Hulk and Quantum Leap among others Used during the height of the Red Scare it meant to invoke fear in people of “aliens” It was also an episode title of The Saint, which starred Roger Moore The term “Fellow Traveler” identifies a person who is intellectually sympathetic to the ideology of a political organization, and who cooperates in the organization’s politics, without being a formal member of that organization. Roger slinks off in order to save his new found friends (although he doesn’t have to worry about them exposing his secret, they’re pretty dumb) The hostile alien shows up and Roger manages to switch places with it and Bullock Sr. The Macadoo boarders attempt to break Roger free, except their plan sucks. Roger tries to escape the alien but is captured by Bullock. Meanwhile the hostile alien has also tracked Roger into town and is on his trail. Roger tracks down his ship parts to the town where a religious zealot is using the core of the ship to attract worshipers. tracks Roger down but Roger is quick to adopt a persona of Grandma Macadoo’s sister and successfully hides from Bullock Sr. that is, he recently had a baby, and they changed the name on him. ![]() But first he has to deal with Avery Bullock. He’s reluctant to stay and wants to get back to his ship. He’s brought to a boarding house where he meets Grandma Macadoo and her boarders. He’s picked up by a travelling Bible Salesman who used to be a preacher until “the incident”. He tries to escape but the alien causes them both to crash to Earth, specifically Roswell, New Mexico. Roger is out in space when he comes across a hostile alien. So when we get to see his “actual” landing on Earth how does it go… His backstory is nebulous and always changing because that’s who is he (and in a real world sense, it’s what the writers find funny or good for the story). What we really know about Roger is contained in flashbacks and time travel sequences. ![]() In which Roger goes on an unexpected detour to New Mexico. ![]()
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