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The future stuff had potential, Stan's character was great, but the stuff with the robot and the lack of Roger doing any characters other than himself led to just a so-so American Dad in my point of view.

The plot is, as Phil Payton describes it, inherently unlikable. Seahorse Seashell Party has got plenty of negative reviews for what it is, but I'm surprised that this actually got 3 positive reviews to date. All I am willing to say about it is - I hate it when Seth MacFarlane thinks dysfunctional families are all about abusing each other to stay together, or whatever. In Seahorse Seashell Party, it's Meg. In No Weddings and a Funeral, it's Klaus. And the worst part is that these nasty episodes that teach this lesson, about how taking abuse can make you noble because you're saving your uncaring family who doesn't want to be saved (see Flanders' Ladder), flanderizing the butt monkey this way also dumps on any time in earlier episodes when the family actually cared about Meg/Klaus because it's a huge admission of laziness to do so.

The only thing that sets No Weddings and a Funeral apart from Seahorse Seashell Party is that it is only a little more tolerable because of its creative future setup, and there was less filler and a more coherent story. It is also slightly better because this future episode means there is no continuity with later seasons where the main characters are back to the age they were at the beginning because Klaus is still with them. Also, I thought Jeff couldn't have any children in Roger's Baby because he was in the body of an alien impersonating him since the events of Jeff's Back, so why does he have children with Hayley in the future this episode? It just further proves my point that this pointless Seahorse Seashell Party ripoff thankfully doesn't care about continuity.