American Dad: The 10 Best Characters

2. Avery Bullock

Avery Bullock1 I could use one word to describe Langley Falls' Patrick Stewart-voiced CIA Deputy Director, and that word is 'bald'. But for the sake of creating an engaging article and not littering it with gratuitous adjectives about physical appearance, I will focus on the word 'inappropriate'. For DD Bullock finds himself doing and saying more inappropriate things then Mel Gibson in a community synagogue. Lets start with his questionable approach to deputy directing the USA's most central intelligence agency (huh, I guess that's why they call it that). He runs the place just like an American school, except everyone walks around with a loaded gun ... No wait €“ it's exactly the same. Examples of this aberrant behaviour include him sending Stan to the "Quiet Area" when he was being argumentative, and giving Dick a score of "Zero for the day" for failing to bring in anything for show-and-tell. But Avery placed the bar of improper conduct at an as-of-yet unbeatable height in 'Bullocks To Stan' when he slept with Stan's daughter, Hayley. If such an act of betrayal was a sign that the Bullock-Smith relationship suffered a kick in the teeth, then what happened next was a sign that it had suffered a firecracker between the bum cheeks. I am of course referencing the scene in which Bullock parades around the Smith kitchen in Hayley's pink robe, singing Oingo Boingo's 'Little Girls' whilst buttering what must have felt like the dirtiest piece of toast ever made. Unfortunately, this is where Bullock's luck with women ended. His wife was stabbed to death by Ricky Spanish after having been kidnapped and held hostage in Fallujah, his blind-date with Francine's friend Melinda ended with him accidentally breaking her neck, and his "Plump Asian skank" Coco is, well ... A plump Asian skank. What I'm getting at is the fact that Avery Bullock has no-one in his life, and so to fill that not inconsiderably sized hole (especially after Coco) I'm calling him the second greatest ever American Dad character.

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