DVD Review: American Dad Volume 12

 

American Dad, much like Family Guy (which was also created by Seth McFarlane) is a show that people tend to love or hate. By now, I think most people know what the show is, but for those who do not, it is an adult animated series that basically tells a story-of-the-week (sometimes stories-of-the-week) set around the character Stan Smith who works at the CIA and his family, which includes an alien named Roger and a talking fish named Klaus. Over the years the CIA part of the story has taken a large backseat to the quirky family life, which I think has taken away from the strength of the show. There are still episodes set around Stan's job, but not as many as there were in the early seasons.

For those who get the DVD set, it is a straight MOD release. Just the episodes. For some weird reason, it appears that Volume 12 was only released as a Region 2 set (the UK and Europe) and not in Region 1, so if you are in the US or Canada you need a Region free (or Region 2) player to watch this. The episodes are uncensored, so you do get some f-bombs being dropped that were bleeped out of the broadcast and streaming versions of the episodes.

Overall, I would say if you have liked the show up to this point you will still probably like this season (unless the shift from the CIA storylines really bugs you). On the other hand, if you have never liked the show, this is probably not going to do anything to change your mind.

Workout Update: P90X Day 68

 Day 68 was the Legs and Back workout with ab-ripper as the warm-up. Really, the only notable thing about this workout is that I was able to get more reps in with the 105 lbs of resistance on the pull-up moves than the last workout. Otherwise, it pretty much went the same as it did last week. 

Workout Update: P90X Day 67

 Day 67 was the Kenpo-x workout. I actually did the workout in the morning (which I am going to try to shift to for all of the workouts within the next few weeks) on an empty stomach. So, I did get a bit gassed at the end, but I made it through and was able to keep up pretty well. The only major change I made was backed off a bit during the active rest periods. I drank more water and jogged in place as opposed to doing the jumping jacks and x jumps. 

Workout Update: P90X Day 66

Day 66 was the Back and Biceps workout, with ab-ripper as the warmup. I was able to hit the 10 rep max on a couple of exercises, but the pull-up moves were still pretty tough with the 105 lbs of band resistance. I was able to do 13 towel pull-ups, but the rest were in the 8-9 range (and 4 corn-cobs). Overall though, I would say the workout went well. I was able to hit 23 reps on all the ab-ripper moves, so Friday I will be bumping that up to 24.

Workout Update: P90X Day 65

 Day 65 was plyo-x. I do not have any kind of huge update for this workout. I was able to push harder on some of the exercises, but others I still had to greatly modify. I am definitely not in the kind of shape where I can do all the moves unmodified for the entire time frame. And, I still just run in place during the rock star hops to protect my back.