Steve is upset about his lack of popularity. He notices girls seem attracted to guys with dogs, so he asks his parents for one. Stan gets Steve a 19-year-old dog, because it was alive during the
Reagan administration. One night,
Roger makes a noise and Stan goes downstairs, thinking it is an intruder. Stan shoots the intruder, only to find out that he just accidentally killed Steve's dog. They bury the dog, and Stan tries to make up for it by rigging the school election and discrediting his opponent by showing an altered photo of her in bed with the
Jack in the Box Man (who Stan tells Steve, and Roger later discovers, is still in their basement) so that Steve wins and becomes the school president. Once elected, Steve uses his position as student body president to impress the head cheerleader, Lisa Silver, turn the lockers into
edible chocolate ones, and changes the word "period" to Steve. He soon gets corrupted with power, but believes that he is succeeding, until Lisa dumps him when he first tries to kiss her. Steve goes crazy and holds the school hostage. Stan sneaks into the school and gets Steve to stop by revealing that he was unpopular in high school as well. On another front, the audience is introduced to Roger, an alien who saved Stan's life in
Area 51. As repayment, Roger lives with the Smiths, but his presence is not known by the
CIA, Stan's employer, and the world. Since Stan fears that the CIA would erase his and Roger's memories if the alien were ever discovered, Roger is forced to live in confinement at the Smith's. Roger is also addicted to sugar, and
Francine puts him on a forced diet when his weight causes him to break a chair and the dinner table. To get around Francine's strict control of junk food in the house, Roger strikes a deal with
Hayley to do her homework in exchange for her smuggling sweets to him. It works at first, but on the night before the deadline for one of Hayley's papers on
Henry Kissinger, Roger has too much sugar and passes out without doing the work. He and Hayley devise an excuse to make her teacher give her an extension on the paper's deadline (they dig up Steve's dead dog, and Hayley tells the teacher that she just lost her dog). After this scare, however, Hayley decides to discontinue her agreement with Roger. Roger, noticing Steve's frustration in getting a girl, becomes his adviser for dating, in exchange for a "buttload" of
Twinkies. Roger also reveals that an ooze shoots out of his body every 7 hours, "like clockwork". ==Production==