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‘American Dad’ to welcome My Morning Jacket: Two-Tone Tommy gives us the scoop!
My Morning Jacket will appear as themselves on a November 22nd episode of American Dad, and bring with them songs like “I’m Amazed,” “Steam Engine,” and “Remnants.” The episode will be titled “My Morning Straightjacket,” and guest-star Zach Galifianakis as an MMJ superfan. And if the picture on the left is any indication, the episode will also totally be on drugs.

Somehow not surprisingly, this peculiar creative marriage is the result of the life-changing 4-hour show the Jackets played in the pouring rain at Bonnaroo ‘08: American Dad co-creator Mike Barker was at that show (along with yours truly), and if he manages to somehow capture the manic energy of Galifianakis prancing around the stage in a Lil’ Orphan Annie dress while My Morning Jacket’s covers Motley Crue’s “Home Sweet Home,” he may have just penned the best episode of any television show, live or animated, in the history of the medium.
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