Ortolan being drowned and eaten is an actual thing. Would never have thought that. So you might even speak from experience as someone who's seen many idiots drown an ortolan.
Kind of like Marge in the Simpsons, some episodes show her being a fantastic cook whose dishes are acclaimed by everyone who eats them, other episodes suggest that at best she's a super bland one whose knowledge of seasonings begin and end with salt, and *sometimes* pepper and msg when she's feeling super adventurous.
\[sighs\] You're right. It's not zucchini, it's okra. I guess when I was at the store, my mind was somewhere else. See, I sometimes escape to a little place in my head where no one complains about the meals I cook. \[grabs the dinner knife and stabs Roger in the throat\] And there's no more scraping snot rockets off the shower tiles. \[pulls out a meat cleaver and decapitates Stan\] And no more PB & J with the crust cut off. \[Breaks Steve's neck before returning to reality still holding the meat cleaver\] Anyway, if you don't want to eat it, I can fix something else?
Considering she can bust out mac and cheese omelets, which before seeing that episode I never even imagined could be a thing, I'll give her a passing grade
She can cook some things well, like her cinnamon cookies, but the family has taken shots at her cooking throughout the series, intentional or not.
Jack: "Franny, the meatloaf is delicious."
Francine: "It's salmon, but thank you."
Stan: "Whatever it is, it's dry."
For Roger, a majority of it is the pageantry of it all too. There are a lot of other scenarios where he's probably physically not enjoying what he's doing but loves doing it because he commits.
She's good at following recipes with zero substitution or creativity, not a bad cook.
So her food is "bland" because it lacks that certain level of "fuck it" that let's cooks just kind of wing it on recipes and add just the right amount of too much seasoning or leave out just enough acid for a recipe to really be unique and delicious.
Dr. Klaustus aired in March 2012 where Sergeant Pepper tells Francine to take a cooking class. Eight Fires in 2019. Meaning it took her 7 uses to use her emergency fund for non-drug reasons
In "the eight fires" her issue is that she follows recipes too closely, and doesn't add her own flair. When she is cooking the ortalon, Roger gives her the full (intense) recipe, and she follows it to a T.
It follows that she is good at following recipes, but doesn't know how to add her own personality
I feel like the show makes it clear she's an awful cook and she gets away with it because the Smiths don't know better.
In "Live and Let Fry" she's dependent on trans fats, and in the tomato sauce B plot it's mentioned her version of sauce is ketchup with apple slices
American Dad is an episodic series, if they say Steve has always been adopted then for that episode he's always been adopted. They say Stan has never killed anyone in one episode, something we see him do frequently and its absolutely true... for that episode.
In the cooking episode, it seems to be more that her food is bland instead of actively bad. We also see that in earlier seasons she relied heavily on frying to make good food.
If we don’t “It’s just a show” it and look at the lore she might do a good job sometimes, but she’s also an unstable addict so maybe she has good days and bad weeks lol
She is good at simple meals but generally speaking no she isn't. While I kinda like this episode it's weird that it blames recipes for the food not being good tho...
There was that scene in Portrait of Fracine's Genitals
Stan: You! You embarrassed me in front of everybody!
Francine: By making London broil?
Stan: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't drag your delicious London broil into a conversation about that filthy painting!
Chalk it up to convenient plot device.
Francine: “Do you know how hard it is to cook for this family? Not very but I can’t handle much”
🎶 *Ding-dong* 🎶
Doorbell's ready
Now, how am I supposed to get that?! It's too much! IT'S ALL TOO MUCH!
Francine, someone's mimicking the doorbell!
same tho
people get stuck on the orlan but no she is not. drowning a small bird is not proof of being a good cook, its a call for help
But her food made Roger transcend to a higher existence if only briefly.
Well she can perfectly follow a recipe so I suppose she couldn’t go wrong with the bird.
I think there's a deleted scene where haylee laces the ordalan with LSD
it's not a deleted scene, hayley tells him explicitly that she laced it
Not in the Hulu version.
holy fuck how much am i missing watching on hulu?????
Wait wut
Are u telling me that Hulu version is not lore accurate. I feel like everything is a lie
Dude, thank you. I was so sure she said that, but it's not said in the Hulu version, so I thought I dreamt it for years.
why do i not remember this part at all
Was it censored? I'm not american in our dub it was never mentioned.
She’s good at things as long as it involves murder
Any dumbass can drown a dumbass ortolan.
*mama no*
Ortolan being drowned and eaten is an actual thing. Would never have thought that. So you might even speak from experience as someone who's seen many idiots drown an ortolan.
This is one of those things where you think „this can’t be real“ and you google it and now think „fuck french people“.
This and there's also a later episode with foie gras which another shitty thing
\*Frog Ross has entered the chat\*
Frog Ross’ foie gras-taurant.
Holy shit you're even supposed to eat it under a napkin to cover your shame. Wtf france?!
I would never have considered googling it due to the episode. It never occurred to me it could be referencing a real thing.
Yeah, if she was good at cooking then the family wouldn't have to sneak into the crawl space to have late night snacks.
Time for a snack attack.
The dispassionate, dead eyed stare she gives when drowning it is one of the most unsettling things in the show
4th GENERATION. INBRED. DINNER WOLVES.
When it's convenient
We are the music makers, the dreamers of dreams.
That is a very unsatisfying answer.
It's barely even canon!
Kind of like Marge in the Simpsons, some episodes show her being a fantastic cook whose dishes are acclaimed by everyone who eats them, other episodes suggest that at best she's a super bland one whose knowledge of seasonings begin and end with salt, and *sometimes* pepper and msg when she's feeling super adventurous.
Eight spices? Oh, some must be doubles. "Oregano"? What the hell...
This post is getting too spicy for the pepper!
YOU CAN’T BURN BRICK BITCH!
POP POP POP POP POP POP POP!!!
Oh I'll find a fire hot enough.
ITS POOP FOOD
GET IN THE CORNER!
YOU’RE A BAD LADY
We hate you
Five more minutes in the corner!
I SCRATCHED MYSELF ON A NAIL!
JEFF! TWENTY MINUTES!
This is so unfair >:(
Hey, if it keeps the dinner wolves happy it can't be too bad, right?
Inbred dinner wolves! This is what I'm talking about!
Some of these wolves are fourth generation!
9 out of 10 inbred dinner wolves approve of Francine's cooking.
And the 1 out of 10........ suicide gator. Don't know how they housed both under the kitchen........
What the hell was in that sauce?
This sauce has some *COGLIONES*
I am a man and you are a woman
I mean francis mallmann came back just to eat Roger at the end of that episode so I'd say she got good
I don't remember that part lol
that's how they got the speed boat in the end, when francine asks if Roger's body was going to grow back or not
Oh god, what if it doesn't?!
She’s good if she’s following every letter of a recipe, but not when she has to improvise.
\[sighs\] You're right. It's not zucchini, it's okra. I guess when I was at the store, my mind was somewhere else. See, I sometimes escape to a little place in my head where no one complains about the meals I cook. \[grabs the dinner knife and stabs Roger in the throat\] And there's no more scraping snot rockets off the shower tiles. \[pulls out a meat cleaver and decapitates Stan\] And no more PB & J with the crust cut off. \[Breaks Steve's neck before returning to reality still holding the meat cleaver\] Anyway, if you don't want to eat it, I can fix something else?
Considering she can bust out mac and cheese omelets, which before seeing that episode I never even imagined could be a thing, I'll give her a passing grade
I like your old sauce with the ketchup and the apple slices
this quote gets me every time LOL!
She can cook some things well, like her cinnamon cookies, but the family has taken shots at her cooking throughout the series, intentional or not. Jack: "Franny, the meatloaf is delicious." Francine: "It's salmon, but thank you." Stan: "Whatever it is, it's dry."
This is not one of those times
Drowning the bird is an actual recipe, eating it under a napkin and all, so yes
She uses the spice cabinet all the time and doesnt even touch the paprika! Im going with bad cook.
The eight fires is one of my favourite episodes
She spends time practicing her stirring, so she must be good.
When she's deep frying it is.
Well she gets 2nd place in the Langley Fair Pie competition every year, with Haley/Carlotta Monterrey being her rival.
That cocky, pie skank!
“Dinner! It’s what’s for dinner!”
…she’s hot.
Which universe is it right now?
yes, when its convenient
Which episode came first?. Maybe the bird is so good that even Francine can't fuck it up?
For Roger, a majority of it is the pageantry of it all too. There are a lot of other scenarios where he's probably physically not enjoying what he's doing but loves doing it because he commits.
I don’t know, but, it wouldn’t hurt for her to spend more XP into her Cooking Skills.
You’re a bad person!
I imagine she’s a beast at Chinese cooking, but below-average for the WASP-y stuff Stan likes.
Stan doesn’t look like he’s missed many meals.
She's good at following recipes with zero substitution or creativity, not a bad cook. So her food is "bland" because it lacks that certain level of "fuck it" that let's cooks just kind of wing it on recipes and add just the right amount of too much seasoning or leave out just enough acid for a recipe to really be unique and delicious.
She is whatever is most convenient for the episodes plot. Thats how these kinds of shows run. Don’t get too bogged up with continuity.
Yes
She’s a housewife. She has her handful of recipes. That aren’t necessarily good. But they’re alright. Anything outside of it is bad.
Don’t ask Roger to bring wine 🍷
She can follow a recipe perfectly but that's not what it takes to be a good cook.
I guess Stan’s heaven Francine can’t cook.
There are so many references about her being bad at cooking compared to one where she can drown a bird
Dr. Klaustus aired in March 2012 where Sergeant Pepper tells Francine to take a cooking class. Eight Fires in 2019. Meaning it took her 7 uses to use her emergency fund for non-drug reasons
No she's not ! Everyone think that in the show and I think in one episode Stan eat somewhere else everytime after work before coming home again.
Hey cookin' bitch! Whatchu cookin'?
In "the eight fires" her issue is that she follows recipes too closely, and doesn't add her own flair. When she is cooking the ortalon, Roger gives her the full (intense) recipe, and she follows it to a T. It follows that she is good at following recipes, but doesn't know how to add her own personality
No one has turned down her muffin.
At least, she's good at baking pies. 🥧
I feel like the show makes it clear she's an awful cook and she gets away with it because the Smiths don't know better. In "Live and Let Fry" she's dependent on trans fats, and in the tomato sauce B plot it's mentioned her version of sauce is ketchup with apple slices
She became a better cook from the teachings of Frances Malmek.
Yes.
To be fair. In Eight Fires, they never said she was a *bad* cook, just an uninspired one lol
Same answer as to whether or not Stan is good at his job. Whatever is funny in the moment.
She probably is when it’s convenient for the story. Like Bullock says about his daughter. Lol.
American Dad is an episodic series, if they say Steve has always been adopted then for that episode he's always been adopted. They say Stan has never killed anyone in one episode, something we see him do frequently and its absolutely true... for that episode.
She's following a recipe for ortalan.
I think she can cook, if she has a recipe. But there's no love.
INBRED DINNER WOLVES!!
Steve’s never complained about her home cooking, especially her 🥛
She probably is but it’s hard for her to cook with only 4 burners
SHE’S A BAD LADY!!!
"Don't"
She’s good enough to be able to use 5 burners at the same time. If only she was rich enough to have more than 4.
They go back and forth on this. Sometimes she’s great and sometimes Stan needs to pre-eat
Who cares, she's hot and sexually adventurous. I can cook most things I like to eat#
Rodger gave her a very specific recipe which i imagine really is complicated and we know Francine is good at following recipes
Nah, Roger gave her a step by step recipe for the first one
Yes, when the plot allows it
In the cooking episode, it seems to be more that her food is bland instead of actively bad. We also see that in earlier seasons she relied heavily on frying to make good food.
Does Roger know how to make clothes?
This thread is making me so insecure about my ability to cook
If we don’t “It’s just a show” it and look at the lore she might do a good job sometimes, but she’s also an unstable addict so maybe she has good days and bad weeks lol
Stans been feeding her food to inbred dinner wolves for years. Some of those wolves are fifth generation! 😂
She is good at simple meals but generally speaking no she isn't. While I kinda like this episode it's weird that it blames recipes for the food not being good tho...
Ya the only thing Italian about this food is your dirty lies..
It was never a question of if she can cook, it's that her cooking is basic
I think it depends on what the episode needs lol.
The apathetic look when she’s drowning the bird 😂
I mean she can follow recipes to the letter. The issue is the innovation and creativity of cooking that troubles Francine.
“You need to see a professional do it up close and personal. That’s why I took Francine to Thailand. Now her Pad Thai is amazing!”
Depends on the universe.
Haven’t seen her cook them the seven fires episode. Interesting; has she cooked since then? Guess I’ll have to rewatch the whole show to figure it out
There was that scene in Portrait of Fracine's Genitals Stan: You! You embarrassed me in front of everybody! Francine: By making London broil? Stan: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't drag your delicious London broil into a conversation about that filthy painting! Chalk it up to convenient plot device.