Watch American Dad Season 2 Episode 13 Black Mystery Month Online
While researching a paper about George Washington Carver, in celebration of Black History Month, Steve uncovers a conspiracy that’s been going on since the Civil War. When the curator of the Smithsonian Peanut Museum reaches out to tell Steve the truth, he’s mysteriously murdered, and Steve and Stan are tracked by a secret society (the Illuminuti, an obvious parody of the Illuminati) that will stop at nothing to keep this scandalous secret of American history a secret.
At one point Stan rescues Steve. Stan explains that the true inventor of peanut butter was Mary Todd Lincoln, President Lincoln’s wife, as a means of keeping away evil spirits. Shortly before the end of the Civil War, when “the North’s victory over the South was imminent”, Lincoln feared that the South could only be forced into abolishing slavery, and never of their own accord, and this would lead to further conflict. He then realized that the butter would be an ideal method of making the Southerners accept blacks as their equals – by introducing the delicious snack to the South and crediting the invention to a black person. However, before the plan could be put into action, John Wilkes Booth, who “despised legume based racial harmony”, shot Lincoln.
Original Air Date 18 February 20