“ | What’s all this mess? | „ |
~ June's line form the show |
“ | What!? Is there someone else? Someone... younger? | „ |
~ June |
June Rosewood is a one-shot vileness form American Dad! serving as the main antagonist of the episode "A Star is Reborn." She's a former actress who was famous for the "Lane Lane and The June Bug" show and became excessively wealthy for it. She turned out to be an overly jealous psychopath that was desperate to be loved by Lenard.
Appearance[]
She appears to be a very eccentric woman who wears lots of expensive clothing, such as a white tiger fur coat and lots of jewelry. She has a pair of purple gloves, purple heals, and a purple undershirt. She wears feathers on the top of her head.
Personality[]
June is an extravagant elderly actress who is desperate to find her deceased husband in his new reincarnated form. Her jealousy can overcome even her extremely devoted love for Lenard, going so far as to kill him so that she could start over with him in another life.
Although she killed him, June is overly obsessed with Lenard. She's so desperate that she was willing to go so far as to try and find him reincarnated in a new body so that she could start over with him. She knows everything about him, even years after his passing she is still able to have his personality stored in her memory. When she beings to believe that Stan was Lenard, she would melt at every instance that he displayed a trait from his personality. When Stan guessed her to be over a hundred years old, she was still offended, but brushed it off because his callousness again reminded her of Lenard. She even adopted Lenards beliefs in reincarnation, and stuck to them years after his death.
June is very cruel to the people around her. She hints at one of her past marble events resulting in a broken pelvis, and refers to the victim as an idiot. At home she barks orders at her staff in a very angry tone, showing no thanks for their hard work.
Being as old as she is, June seems to believe in traditional ways of living. She said that she would leave the room so that the "men" could converse about business related stuff.
Biography[]
Past[]
June used to star with her husband Lenard on a show called "Len-Len and The June Bug". The show was old fashioned, but very popular at the time, earning June and Lenard an insane amount of wealth. The show was a big success, having comedy that was revolutionary for the time. Eventually, a side character was introduced named Gloria Del Mar, who played a bit on the show. Lenard ended up falling for her. Enveloped with feelings of jealousy and betrayal, June lured them to the marina and killed them both.
She covered up the murder by fabricating a lie that Lenard went boating to Catalina and had an accident. After his passing, she would place marbles on his Hollywood Star on the day of their anniversary, in hopes of his "reincarnation" returning to that spot so that she could reunite with him.
A Star is Reborn[]
Stan and Francine decided to take a vacation and visit Hollywood, coincidentally on Lenard's anniversary. Stan slipped on the marbles that June had laid out, and he stumbled on them just as she was hoping for. She revealed herself from behind some bushes and introduced herself. After some talking, she started to believe that Stan really could be Lenard, she she invited him to lunch. Francine had to decline, because she already had a full day planned.
She eventually convinces Stan to come over, and during his stay he begins to display more and more of Lenard's personality traits, much to June's delight. After lunch, and yelling at staff. June showed Stan around the house. They eventually found a picture of Lenard, having been labeled with "I Shall Return". She then explained that Lenard believed in reincarnation. She later took him into a screening room to watch her old show, which was very entertaining to Stan. When a second actress entered the scene, Stan asks who she is. June mentioned that she was an extra but that she was no big deal, saying "if she's so great then how come she's dead?". After the movie ended, she revealed that she wanted Stan to help her finish the marble movie, as it was unfinished due to Lenard's passing. While Stan resisted at first, he eventually spotted the flag pin on Lenard's coat, and realized that he must be his reincarnation.
The next day, June and Stan had lunch and discussed the movie's production. They later met with the producers, and after they were convinced that Stan was Lenard, June left the room so that they could talk. Francine later showed up, and so June demanded she leave because they were in "pre-production". One of the producers came in and discovered Francine, insisting that she be in the show. June then took her by the arm to show her everything that she knew about acting. She led her through a room and then immediately exited, telling her that's all she had to know.
The next day, they shot the film was shot and everyone was able to finish their lines. June's final line was looking at the camera and saying "outrageous" and then smoking her cigarette. After the show, Stan told her that he had to leave, which shocked her. She grabbed him and told him that she loved him. She concludes that if it weren't for Francine, then they could be together. That's when she attached the trailer that Francine was in to her old car and drove off.
Stan went to June's mansion to find them, but to no success. He found the house maid trapped in the meat gelatin, June having put her there. That was when one of the producers came along, who was in love with the house maid, and told Stan that he could find them at the marina. He arrived to find Francine tied up in a boat. As he was freeing her, continued with her plan. When Francine and Stan awoke, they saw the boat and tried to swim towards it. June then made it speed forward and revealed that she had to crouch down half an hour for that, and then telling them that they were going to drown out there. Francine then began to have a vision of the past lives, releasing that she was the reincarnation of Gloria. She gave Stan a heartfelt speech about spending time together, and they drowned. June jumped into the water, wanting to die with Stan. Francine and Stan were then able to swim past her and climb into the boat. They wanted to give her a taste of her own medicine by toying with her, but they accidentally put the boat in reverse, crushing her underneath.
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Trivia[]
- June is not a trained actress, but despite that she is still a successful one.
- At the end of the episode, when preparing to knock out Francine, June implied that she had killed more than one of Lenard's other love interests.
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