Meanwhile, Stan dons a crude grouse costume (literally a brown pillow with googly eyes) and perches in the town square. He must learn to “grouse”: peck dirt, make angry cooing sounds, and avoid Francine, who immediately recognizes him but plays along because “watching you eat birdseed off the ground is the most fun I’ve had in years.”
End Card: A crude drawing of Stan in a pillow costume, pecking at a donut. Caption: “Grouses before spouses.” American Dad- - Season 21Eps4
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EXT. LANGLEY FALLS TOWN SQUARE - DAY The town is celebrating “Grouse Day.” An ancient, one-eyed, perpetually angry grouse named Grumblebeak sits on a velvet pillow. MAYOR JIM BECKER hands it a tiny key to the city. Stan (to Francine): “It’s a scruffy chicken. Why does it get a parade?” Francine: “Stan, that bird survived three wars, a meth lab explosion in ’87, and Klaus’s attempt to marry it. Show some respect.” Stan rolls his eyes. Later, trying to parallel park his SUV, he accidentally backs over Grumblebeak’s commemorative birdhouse. The grouse attacks. Stan swats it. It flies into a transformer. Poof. Feathers rain down.
Stan, still in his pillow costume, gives an impassioned speech from a fake tree stump: Stan: “I am Grumblebeak! And you know what? I faked my death because I was tired of your parades! You ever try to sleep when a marching band plays ‘Sweet Caroline’ at 2 AM? It’s HELL!”