Did Steve Deserve to be With Debbie? (American Dad Video Essay)

[@abledkey]

Kind of just glossed over the joke that Steve is willing to run from the coach to avoid running 😂

[@daynekudija366]

Joh Tindall , and Dawn's Sarah believes that too much and that's why I have a few problems

[@jeffreyquinde6707]

Tbh Debbie didn’t deserve Steve. She couldn’t even accept him as he was. He may be immature, but he’s only 14.

[@MrBrandonStar]

We was all immature during our early teens

[@BrandonScott-mi5pz]

GREAT 👌 KITTY MONK AMERICAN DAD DEBBIE VIDEO.

[@garuelx8627]

Debbie not only shown herself as being shallow that episode but that she's willing to get with toxic rich kids if it fits her jaded perception of maturity.

[@JayAug]

Ong talm bout she need a "man" 😂

[@numerals8939]

Yet, he’s immaturity leads to him going overboard and doing crazy things against her wishes, let alone that fact that he doesn’t even respects her as an equal.

[@PhillipRubio578]

I always tripped out on the fact that in spite of how often Lewis does something incredibly stupid and or dangerous he's somehow ashamed of his daughter

[@swakage13x]

Yeah he wants her to be a much better person than himself but at the same time he doesn't really give a damn about her

[@alphawolf798]

I wish they'd bring back Debbie. But alas, all good characters are either killed off, written poorly or removed.

[@davisthegamelord]

I forget was she killed off with the other 100 characters in that one episode?

[@DangitBobby9960]

Reginald yeah he used to be nothin Now he's a koala and he's cute as a button

[@alli457]

​@@davisthegamelordshe was in the 200, I assume she was killed by a Roger persona

[@saveyabreath680]

Plenty of good characters, the ones killed off or not used are usually for a reason

[@Youcancallmeishmaell]

Everybody deserves happiness. Steve got a girl that liked him for who he was. And the writers broke them up.

[@mechajay3358]

And they broke them up by having her not like him for who he is.

[@Youcancallmeishmaell]

@@mechajay3358 which is why I hate the writers.

[@princessmarlena1359]

Right?

[@WeebGuru6]

No one deserves anything gotta earn it

[@Youcancallmeishmaell]

@@WeebGuru6 Wrong.

[@bored588]

the irony of being named steve, and having a thing for bigger girls, while being a similar age to steve when the show aired, lets just say i connected with steve and debbie.

[@maximillion322]

That’s not irony

[@jolielavey1769]

being a chubby goth girl I did too I wish they'd bring her back!

[@nicholassims9837]

Debbie could have been to Steven what Jeff was to Hailey

[@kathleenkuhn573]

Here to confirm that the goths love garfeild

[@melaniescribbles]

As a goth; Shh, don't tell people our secrets here! Like, are you're going to tell them that we all secretly wear cute socks on our scary platform boots next?

[@Attacian]

@@melaniescribblesor the socks our gramma knitted for us 🖤

[@Longshanks1690]

I don’t know about “deserve” when it comes to relationships because it puts an unfair onus on one party as if they owe it to the other because they’re just such a great person. Leaving that aside, Steve and Debbie were best for each other, she was an actually interesting character who Steve really liked and was willing to improve himself for. She could have been as much of a mainstay in the show as Jeff. But apparently they preferred to keep Steve in his status quo of socially inept, perverted loser who never learns or grows from his many failed attempts to get girls, so a character like Debbie in his life would just be impossible. (Lasagna!)

[@SupHapCak]

Yeah, like people do deserve to be happy, but they aren't entitled to that happiness if the person they would be "happy" with doesn't want to be with them.

[@bsanchez3563]

"I think, I am going, to name the baby Lasanga- [Aunt Peggy]... "Well the hcoice is yours.. but no sweetie we are not naming her Lasagna."

[@Neku628]

Instead Peggy names her great-niece after herself since Peggy is short for Margaret. Talk about narcissistic!

[@emonispencer5591]

​@@Neku628 i thought luanne was high asf when she said that

[@Neku628]

@@emonispencer5591 Hey, at least she's not having an ego trip like Peggy.

[@jessicahay9305]

How is peggy short for Margaret? ​@@Neku628

[@saugusandsausages]

Snot is Steve’s true partner in life to be honest.

[@ToastedBung]

Good ol' Schmuely

[@Black_Revue]

At the End of the day, Steve and his Pals are going to be Gay in the Future

[@SpaceOcelot4548]

@@Black_Revue wat

[@wak69]

​@Black_Revue in hindsight we should've set the bar higher

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

200th like

[@charles24852]

I gotta side with Steve here sure he is immature but he's also a teenager. Between his parents Haley and the sex offender in the attic Steve could be worse. Debbie isn't really more mature than Steve either sure she isn't into the same low brow humor as Steve but her emotional maturity is suspect. She is very fickle and once she saw a flaw in Steve she didn't like she bailed without trying to talk about or even try and help Steve with what bothers her. She jumps into a relationship with atton (I probably spelled that wrong) based on his outward appearance of maturity but once she saw his flaws she bailed there too. In the end all it would have taken is a serious talk about what she wanted out of the relationship and for him to do the same but she never even entertained the idea. Once again I will say their both teenagers and they haven't fully matured yet but this is also the time where their core personalities are developing and if she doesn't change her approach to men and their flaws she will be alone.

[@poppycartergraphics120]

It’s spelled Etan, but your way makes more sense in my mind too 😭

[@aristotleasparaguspodcast1129]

Correction: Raven-Symone did not voice one of Lisa's friends. That was actually Stacey Dash, unfortunately

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

The one that Francine was a bigot to for being a lefty

[@nicholassims9837]

Both Arthur and Peanuts also show that being a school president isnt all about power and you have no bigger athority than the principal

[@BlairBubblegum]

Nutritionist here, in regards to the potato comment, yes potatoes can be good and nutritional just easy to overconsume them. What really matters is what you're cooking with the potatoes. Minimize butter and oils.

[@bigk6860]

13:07 isn't that the joke the show is making. In fact in my opinion this entire episode is an indictment on people who think skinny people are the picture of health.

[@Yobby2442]

Channels like this are very interesting to me, there are parts of shows I enjoy that I’ve never seen before and now I get to watch an essay about a character I didn’t know existed.

[@ΕυάγγελοςΦώσκολος]

I hope we see Debbie again. Even though she and Steve were not the best couple in the end, it's incredible that he managed to be with her for so long, unlike other girls who were just one off characters. Debbie was a vibe. I miss her. 💀💀💀

[@tecumsehcristero]

“Ma-carb” instead of macabre. 🤣🤣 I never thought you’d be making fat jokes

[@CarysCreatesThings]

Yesterday I read an article about Lily Allen admitting that when she was younger she travelled to Japan to seduce a guy her best friend Miquita Oliver really liked and apparently dated on-and-off (allegedly it was Mike Skinner AKA The Streets). Everyone in the comments was comparing Lily to Roger from American Dad, and I didn’t understand why. Then this video just popped up on my autoplay, and now I understand the reference.

[@pratkier]

I like that mean girls doesn't have to say the point to make it's point. I think the message that Janice Cady and Regina were all forms of mean girls was very clear.

[@rileysjonger4192]

Except Cady was never a mean girl. She was an impressionable immigrant student who was psychologically abused and manipulated by those around her. Any "bad thing" she did wasn't that bad, or was heavily influenced by others.

[@MMarsmalade]

It’s not common for people to know eskimo is derogatory or even a slur, so i appreciate that mention as a yupik person very much 💜💜💜

[@HeatherQuinn-Psykhae]

Wait holy shit it's actually a slur? Is it like how gypsy is a slur for romani people or is it different in some way genuinely curious as this is legitimately the first I've ever heard of this

[@MMarsmalade]

@@HeatherQuinn-Psykhae Sorry for such a late reply! But yea, eskimo is considered a slur among the younger generation of native alaskans but a lot of the older generation still uses it to refer to themselves, it’s a broad generalization of different tribes that have their own differences in beliefs, culture, ect. It’s also used against native alaskans commonly on the street, i’m native and live in Alaska and i see it used at mostly homeless people or drug addict since there’s such a ramped alcohol and drug problem within native communities up here. Even if it’s more commonly directed to the homeless and those with addiction there are still plenty of people who use it against any native, half-blood is used up here too as well. Tysm for taking interest in learning!

[@sporkfaceman]

Eskimo is not a slur you're just soft.

[@mitch_sorenstein]

Eskimo

[@princessmarlena1359]

Steve needs to work on improving himself, and finding better friends. Debbie isn’t for him, as she isn’t much better than his friend base.

[@TheFlashzap]

It is unfortunately true that Debbie and Steve would never last (shame I had a little crush on her) Steve is a product of a lot of negative stereotypes and being written as such Steve is constantly projected as a “good person” doing no harm to anyone but the fact is he’s honestly a piece of work This is a fault of the writers obviously writing him as whatever the story needs him to be but in universe he’s still a Smith (Let that sink in), and it has been proven that Stan Smith is canonically a terrible person on a genetic level and Francine’s definitely not better either so he inherited a lot of bad traits including emotional instability, overdramatized personality, high libido, obsessiveness, and most importantly the Smith family inflated Ego which is a huge impact on everything they do

[@armyofpoo9297]

In my head steves perfect partner is snot. Im hoping they actually date at some point instead of just a joke here and there

[@armyofpoo9297]

That's all I want from American dad is Jeff fisher to sing the intro once and steve and snot get a date

[@FoxValley123]

In my opinion, they were two kids discovering a relationship and the conflicts that come with it, communication, understanding and values, their both still young in their universe so things change and debbie may have met a fork in the road as we all do and she didnt see a long lasting future with the current version of steve. None is owed a relationship with anyone, we all have our rights and reasons, so maybe they will come back together and have a happy and healthy relationship, or maybe they will never meet eachother in a setting again

[@BlitzDemonGamer3032]

to think Debbie could have still have Steven like what Jeff has Hailey

[@SparkleBurgerLuv]

Debbie mess up, Steve the best thing for her, and all she care about was materiality, hello you 14

[@Stormkrow280]

Escape from Pearl Bailey is a reference to both “Escape from New York” and “The Warriors”

[@BlitzDemonGamer3032]

and yet this may be a sad and true story I'd use to had a wonderful girlfriend she was chubby girl and yet things get complicated and toxic and went down hill real fast and she wanted a baby even though I'd can't provided a kid and neither did she so it's a sad story with no happy ending pretty much like Steve mishandled Debbie

[@aurahoneydew9607]

Lewis uses his school level connections to let this happen unaware he's making enemies with some with CIA connections.

[@Taffywater]

Debbie is where goth women’s odd connection with Garfield began

[@XOTakkunXo]

Smells like a Depeche Mode concert 🖤

[@anoisano275]

Lmao I never listened to them but my mom loved punk/goth and told me how she used to wear long black trench coats through the summer when she loved them 😭😭

[@XOTakkunXo]

@@anoisano275 10/10 recommend listening to them. 🦇

[@kvngjaygamez2570]

Everytime I hear Depeche Mode all I can hear in my head is the conversation between The Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend 😭🙏🏽

[@Fallout2Forever]

Thanks for sharing this Kitty, love your channel.

[@RedWolfWindgear]

I hope they can get back together. Also, Haley and Debbie so need an episode to bond and understand one another. May be another College themed episode.

[@CrimsonNineTail]

Coming from someone who used to work at Disney World, the e scooter bit is accurate.

[@andrewclark3330]

28:55 i love this sound effect that you use in your videos in place of a bleep sound so much

[@KingNexusMOCs]

Debbie is lowkey as shallow as the preppy girls tbh

[@bigk6860]

17:20 wtf you know this girl's obsessed with death and corpses, and this is the part that made you think that she could be developing into a sociopath.

[@estebangutierrez160]

And even then, even if it was an early sign, it's still early meaning she isn't a sociopath just a girl who enjoys death and corpses.

[@emyjaybird9920]

So excited! I always have to be at work when these release 😆

[@kingmagikarp97]

Honestly Debbie didn't deserve Steve, I mean they do both like each other but that doesn't mean that she's good for Steve even if he barely has any options when it comes to actually having a girlfriend that doesn't mean he should settle for someone this toxic

[@crimsonflame6881]

Remember Haley was scared that she was going to be like Francine because Klaus said that every woman becomes their mother only to find that through Jeff she actually married her mother After I saw that episode, I re-watched the Debbie and saw some similarities she had with Stan Which if they stayed together Steve would have married his dad

[@NickNui]

I'm a Christian who has a lot of respect for the Jewish people, so I get what you're saying about Bar Mitzvah's. Christianity sprouted in Jewish communities in the Roman empire, and we were told we didn't have to abide by ancient Hebrew traditions, holidays, and birthday rituals, but the majority of the Christian communities essentially forgot these transitions existed after a few thousand years, and I guess I wish we made them more well known to children in Christian homes, cause of how important they were in our history. Glad we don't do circumcision anymore, though.

[@nicholassims9837]

25:17 Lisa called Marge out on cheating in a cooking contest yet ignores how everyone else was ruining her cooking

[@rileyanthony]

@KittyMonk Honestly Steve didn’t deserve her if anything he could have done better not just settled as it’s very common for a of us guys to just settle.

[@gaybot8375]

*L A S A G N A !*

[@officialvernonbrose]

As a 41 year old smoker and serial ghoster in dating women, this is an awkward video viewing.

[@AquaJulieMarine]

I laughed at the mass censorship when the students made fun of Lisa.

[@BlackKoi321]

Y’all think Steve has the Peter Parker luck? Where he’s destined to be alone?

[@RazuX5]

“Because screw toxic masculinity” I’m sorry what? What did any of that had to do with masculinity? Also as far as crying goes society as a whole (both men AND women) tend to mock guys that cry and isn’t just exclusively guys telling other guys not to cry.

[@rayneTheWolfe]

Imagine if steve didn’t say that he liked Debbie when he got to her house, and his head just exploded in front of her

[@mileslugo6430]

Hey according to Super eypatch wolf, right here on KZbin, Garfield is an Eldritch Abomination who follows a lonely John Arbuckle for unclear reasons.

[@TheJorgieVerse]

OK, I can’t stop laughing at our separate ways😂😂😢😊 13:01

[@brynellsidney3983]

The movie you're thinking about is the cult classic, "The Warriors" you should check it out.

[@willcarroll3712]

Steve honestly doesn’t deserve anyone He’s too petty, bratty and pervy to settle with anyone.

[@rustyshackelford312]

He can also sing like an angel.

[@Longshanks1690]

They write him that way so they don’t have to change him to be acceptable boyfriend material. Those aspects would be toned down or changed if Debbie was around long term.

[@supercapital7658]

​@@Longshanks1690 yup flanderization is very common in these adult cartoon shows

[@BrandonScott-mi5pz]

EXCELLENT WORK. KITTY MONK 🐱 AMERICAN DAD DO STEVE DESERVE WITH DEBBIE VIDEO ESSAY,

[@Sanjiluv]

so 99% of women don't deserve anyone is what youre saying lmao

[@Cardlimits]

I think for a first relationship, it crumbled properly, most first times are just experiences to learn from.

[@Ravenbloom57868]

28:58 this entire part of the video got me dying! 😂

[@michaelfragoso6572]

Also Snot, Barry, Toshi never apologized to Steve and Debbie for the slam page they posted

[@CutWat]

just saying that with shannon wells its heavily implied by outside material that steve did lose his v-card to her, a promo on facebook about a month after the episode aired has images of multiple characters, some with writing next to them, with shannon's being "pop goes the cherry"

[@peterversionone]

The fact that you don’t know the movie is The Warriors, you should watch it. You’ll be entertained

[@JoseLopez-gi9sf]

If she doesn't like the godfather she wont like the warriors. Those movies are great for many reasons but you have to actually get into it and like it.

[@PipeGuy64Bit]

People in the community post: Nah Steve screwed up big time People in this comment section: Nah Debbie was pretty shitty for casting Steve off without talking to him about his "maturity"

[@poppycartergraphics120]

I believe Lewis’s daughter is with her mom. In recent seasons, there’s a multiverse episode where Lewis talks about losing his family to another man that his wife cheated with and he goes on a whole arc of trying to get revenge before deciding to just hang out with his alternate universe self.

[@TheJorgieVerse]

I love you so much, Steve, but I can’t stop laughing 12:29

[@dragongamerx12]

does anyone else think debbie looks like hayley

[@jonahhex18]

I respect Debbie's decisions, in fact I agree that Steve is immature ( and kind of an asshole). That being said... She's also an immature child. She's 14, but she wants a "man"? She mistakes Etan's sophistication and vocabulary for actual maturity. And to top it off, she's fickle af. She immediately tries to start talking to Steve again after she breaks up with Etan. They're both children who are growing up and learning. I think their breakup was good for them, and i don't think that either one "deserved" or "didn't deserve" the other. Admittedly, i would really like to see a future episode where they can, maybe, have a future together. I did think they were cute together, after all.

[@jennanguyen7832]

Me too

[@anonluxor470]

Much like with meg in family guy they just couldn't let guy win

[@NemFX]

Debbie was the only well written girl character. Naturally, she gets written off.

[@zero7769]

also, the multiple censors at once made me laugh 😂

[@ashkai8119]

Oh my God the way you pronounced macabre was more like macarb and that had me cracking up for a while

[@Firearmsenjoyer]

The Warriors. That's the movie you were thinking of

[@dragames]

"obsessed with the macarb".... was this an unintentional pun? :3c

[@magnetoonproductions9541]

I think Peanuts also addressed that student council has no power.

[@Hi_Just_Fred]

32:14 the warriors

[@there4you19]

At this point when it comes to Steve throughout the Series he Should've left his home, Family and Friends to go on his own Journey to Find Peace within himself. And in Case Someone like Maybe Debbie, Snot or his Own Family tried to Convince him to come back Steve would Probably say Something like this. "I'm Surprised That None of you want me gone After all the things I've Done. I had Friends, A Family and had Debbie as a Girlfriend. But I Lost it all because I let my Own Selfishness get the Best of me. It's Bad Enough that Everyone views me as a Crybaby and I think It's for the Best to leave to find Peace and Maybe one day I might Come home."

[@yesikanarvaez5027]

Sad we never saw her again in the other seasons

[@MrPikaGammer]

Honestly it's the other way around, Debbie didn't deserve Steve. Especially considering the fact that she constantly wanted him to change, not just grow up but fundamentally change who he was.

[@jboy667]

Debbie flash back epsiode. Steeve tries to get her back and can't figure out what he did wrong, so he uses some CIA tech to watch the memory of them going on a date were he as a ghost watches and takes notes on how he screwed up. Epsiode ends with steeve going to her, "I was such a horrible boyfriend please punch me in the face." She deck him roll credits

I don't know how that sounds from an outside point of view but I find it great there's this Debbie character as a love interest who is chubby and a goth because I felt represented as metalhead that prefers chubby/big woman. I know the intolerance that she receives wasn't good but Debbie is awesome and it should more normal that other beauty standards are represented.

[@ShadyRK9]

@31:13 OMG!! TOTALLY FORGOT THAT PRINCIPAL LEWIS HAS A DAUGHTER! And I've seen EVERY episode of American Dad to confirm that after the Steve/Debbie revenue episode (that could've been a "I Know What You Did Last Summer" movie parody but instead of death it's with revenge ), we never never, never NEVER seen her AGAIN! NOT even towards Cameos!! 🤯

[@stingyfloopy]

It’s really sad how things went with Debbie I really think they could have made something beautiful out of the relationship

[@littleoak5]

Kitty, you do NOT have chicken legs girl, you are thicken in the best way!

[@princessmarlena1359]

23:01 “Better a buffalo than jackasses!”

[@bsanchez3563]

Tried it in form of a jerky stick but if I recall correct-the ingredients did not even *mention* buffalo,. Not that itwas spicy but iirc it was lamb or well some kind of soy and lamb mix but pfft wtf if it was NEITHER buffalo nor even spicy then why would it say buffalo jerky...idk but it did not have a specific flavour imho iirc so now I wonder what it would taste like. Eh whatever, besides the point.

[@ZeeJeff]

Lasagna. What a coincidence, I had lasagna for dinner yesterday 👀

[@vpenguin333]

How about a date to Nathaniel Hawthorne's grave? That's the real boss move.

[@rileyanthony]

But to be fair Steve is pretty similar to me except for the fact I’m more mature than Steve and is more well spoken then he is but still I’m a nerd at heart

[@LucyGribble]

Debbie always reminded me of my best friend in jr high. Same appearance, same personality. They don't shoot out the eyes of squirrels tho

[@amikoizumi341]

Love the live I definitely wanna see some more Rick and Morty content tho

[@nicholassims9837]

About stooping to there level is why FOP Switch Glich and Danny Phantom Image Swap fail in fact Gravity Falls pulled no punches where Dipper puts Pacifia in her place after calling Mabel silly as an insult , Dipper shows her that her great great great grand father was a pooper scooper and Dipper says this afterwards " Revenge is so underrated that felt great "

[@seandaniels7938]

Other way around she never truly accepted steve for who he was

[@ianlalonde5373]

I remember in gym class we had to run around the track once. My (at the time) fat ass immeadiately ran outside to get a head start since I knew what would happen...everyone else passed me lol. I didn't care since I didn't care what the guys thought and they knew I wasn't athletic, but still

[@Gingersnaps_the_pumpkin_kitty]

The problem is that Steve is a character written with episodic flanderization in mind. He's not meant to have good relationships and the writers don't want to give that up. I point out this out because some people here are acting like there's no good reasons to think bro isn't mature enough for a serious long-term commitment. 💀 *_That's the point of these FamilyGuy-like characters._*

[@BrianDrake-gs4zk]

Hey! My sister was in color guard!

[@Keyblind]

The only reason people were on the student council at my school is because they got to wear a different uniform shirt that was more comfortable or if you were smart youd just buy a comfy shirt of the right colour and embroider the school logo on it

[@tippetytap9437]

I wasn’t watching the video, rather listening to it while doing other things, but the whole time I was just imagining a lil snowball-like fluffy kitten in a brown hood talking the whole time. Very cute mental image :DD Side note: LOVE baked potatoes!

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Principal Lewis is their principal that’s why no one ever reports anything 😂

[@CatKun-2000]

Speaking of that stupid thing that kind of remind me of this one episode of Hannah Montana that has Miley wanting to get with bench on her bullies but her dad tells her to not do it and to not stoop to their level 22:40

[@nicholassims9837]

Did he say any other options?

[@FatMarioHeads]

While I liked Debbie, perhaps they really weren’t meant to be together. Personally I liked seeing Steve form a relationship with Toshi’s sister Akiko, why didn’t that go anywhere? Same reason Debbie only appears as a background character, voice actor leaving the show? Or is it just status quo?

[@anoisano275]

I hope when this show ends, that Debbie and Steve end up together fairly lol

[@TheSgtslow]

I like to think the reason why Steve never tried to do it with Debbie cause Steve respects Debbie, and likes she more as a Person instead of an object of affection. Steve can be very respectful towards woman whenever he's not lusting over them, or if he truly likes them, or has a real connection with them. Also Lasagna!

[@bsanchez3563]

13:10 that LITERALLY looks like how Stan too..looks in that they look like imho a couple Elmira, Andersonville or any other similar tiem frame‐ Ft Delaware? Iirc... eg just like a military prison prisoners in photos from the civil war ngl. NOT in good health by far.. also Debbie just seems thicc not even big much less ugly like how Stan tries to act like. Edit: sidenote having just now put two and two together The prior refferences about Garfield makes Lasagna coem to mind thus the realization of why you probably no doubt used the word. Also fun fact there [going back to the not quite so far back as civil war otself but within 17 years or 20 of the surrender and fall of the confederacy.. there once was a [US] president so a potus for short...named that is right., *Garfield*.. 2nd potus to ACTUALLY have been fully assasinated vs the 17 potuses that somebody along the line has come an tried to assasinate starting with number 7 Andrew Jackson being by two individuals attacked.. the 2nd person tried but both firearms did not do whatever so they just.. well tbh idk but I think it is called jamming or was a dud bullet or whatever.. and so he just got after turning around from hearing the attempt 1 of 2 by the 2nd time in his life though by a different individual than preior so not the crazy lady but some dude tried attacking him.. merely got closer and beat him with his cane lol.. and iirc it is said others ALSO started beating the person as well. Also because of the fact that Debbie brought said Lasagna up. Additional fun fact 21:11 yesterday I found out last night cats are not mouth breathers so only briefly boop the nosies because of thsi fact, and even found out out of sudden concern of the idea.. they can and freuqently get stuffy noses.. yet unlike me manage to either cope or flat out right.. refuse to let it be a thing that drives them nuts from it being a nuisance to have a stuffy nose... and to try to breath using said stuffy nose... kind of an interestign skill not going to lie.