We’ve hit the big time, folks: Apparently, the folks behind Seth MacFarlane’s “American Dad” (the “Family Guy”-style show that’s actually funnier than “Family Guy,” though that’s not much of an achievement these days) took a shot at Tucson in their most recent episode, airing Nov. 18. Check it out below:

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So that happened.

Now that we’ve been made fun of on national TV (or, uh, “Dadded”?), it’s just time for us to call it quits and all head home, everybody. Let’s have one last lunchtime wake at a Sonoran Hot Dog stand and pack it in. See you at BK, folks.

(h/t to the good folks at Reddit Tucson)

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This article appears in Nov 15-21, 2012.

9 replies on “Tucson, We Were Made Fun Of On Television; Time To Pack It In”

  2. That diss comes with a wink: I was friends with Mike Barker, one of “American Dad”‘s creators, in college — yes, at the UA.

  5. Better to be unnecessary than culturally-irrelevant. We’re the place dreams go to die (Hamlet 2,) and what could be better than that? When’s the last time Phoenix was in a movie or television show? When Alice worked at Mel’s Diner?

  6. Yeah, but Alice worked for Mel in TUCSON, when they left Phoenix after the guy she was with beat his wife. If you want to see downtown Tucson just after its heyday, watch “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”.

  7. I wonder if they’re still upset about, “Sons of Tucson” bumping them out of their time slot two years ago.

  8. I’m embarrassed to know this but the TV show “Alice” took place in Phoenix while the movie “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” was based in Tucson. Yes, Mel’s diner existed in either Phoenix or Tucson depending on which of the two you watched. The movie was decent but I remember the TV show being awful; I was pretty much forced to watch it living in a one television home (in the mid to late ’70’s as a child) because my parents watched it. It hurts to dig up these painful childhood memories.

  9. Interesting since the percentage of Tucson’s population who went to college was greater than the national average’s percentage.

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