Rapture's Delight (American Dad!)

Rapture's Delight is the 9th episode of Season 6 of American Dad! It aired on December 13, 2009 to 6.2 million viewers.

Plot
As the Smith family go to church on Christmas morning, Stan is frustrated dealing with those that are only religious on holidays. To relieve Stan's stress, Francine has sex with Stan in the janitor's closet as the world ends, leaving them and Roger on earth as Hayley and Steve float up to heaven. Stan and Francine find out about what coming days will be like and ponder their fate. Steve and Hayley are escorted to their own personal Heavens by Michelle, Steve finding out his is a virgin riding a unicorn that poops pepper-jack cheeseburgers. Stan finds out that Jesus will be appearing and tries to blame Francine for getting left behind. Francine becomes angry and leaves Stan, meeting the real Jesus in a diner. Stan finds out that his Jesus is fake but when he tries to make up with Francine she has decided to leave Stan for Jesus.

During the seven years or the Tribulations, Stan has found himself a bitter, scarred and no longer willing warrior for Christ. Jesus seeks him out to let him know that Francine has been captured by the Anti-Christ. Stan reluctantly agrees to help rescue Francine in exchanged for being Raptured to Heaven. They need to get Roger to use his spaceship to fly them to New York and the United Nations Building to confront the Anti-Christ which they are able to re-power using The Golden Turd. They rescue Francine but fall into a trap from which they manage to escape but not before Stan is mortally injured. Francine finds that Stan still keeps their wedding rings and realizes he still loved her.

Stan dies in the explosion and is sent to heaven; when guided to his "personalized heaven" we see that it is his home just as it was at the beginning of the episode, the only difference being Klaus' dead fish body being mounted on a plaque hanging on the wall.

Why It's Delightful

 * 1) Out of all the Christmas-related episodes in American Dadǃ, this is arguably the best one yet as it has some of the best action, interesting animation and awesome soundtrack.
 * 2) The art style they use to explain the Rapture is awesome as they make it look like it's happy and cheerful, but it becomes hellish and a nightmare.
 * 3) The hellish imagery looks amazing and Stan's new design is just badass and awesome.
 * 4) It is literally creative and shows the effort this show does.
 * 5) The action is amazing to watch as the soundtrack only makes things even better.
 * 6) The ending is nice as Stan sacrifices himself to save Francine and Jesus and can finally go to heaven and restart all that happened.
 * 7) Although Stan was a jerk to Francine in the beginning and causing her to break up with him, he regrets his actions later on and wants to fix his mistakes.

The Only Bad Quality

 * 1) In the beginning Stan acts like a total jerk to Francine just so he can get sent to heaven, and because of his actions this what makes Francine to break up with him.

Reception

 * Rapture's Delight is considered by many to be one of (if not) the best episodes American Dad has offered. It received a 9/10 on IMDb.
 * PhantomStrider ranked it the 3rd best episode of the show in his "Top 10 Best American Dad! Episodes".

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