He wished his mom could figure out Skype so he could show her his shorts in ' The Worst Stan'. In ' Joint Custody', Roger reveals that his mother suffered from arthritis. This belief was crushed horribly when he discovered in his spaceship a note that stated that the ship was a test model and he was in it as a 'crash test dummy', meaning his own species had abandoned him on the planet.Īlmost nothing is known of Roger's natural family. It was revealed in ' Weiner of Our Discontent' that he believes he came to earth to be 'The Decider', seeing if the planet was worth saving or to destroy it. In the pilot, he was supposed to try to contact his home world, but got distracted by an 'I Love The 80s' marathon. For a long time, his reasons for coming to Earth were a mystery as well: he does claim that the reason he came was to collect a sample of hepatitis, although since arriving he seems to mostly be mooching, and seems in no hurry to go back home. It is revealed in his youth, he was in a relationship with Emperor Zing but cheated on him. In ' Of Ice and Men', he mentions that snow reminds him of his home planet, and figure skating apparently exists there he has also commented that the planet has stores like Wal-Mart and colleges, in fact, Roger's mothership is revealed to be a giant shopping mall in ' Lost in Space'. His planet is never seen or described in-depth, although Roger claims the climate of his home world is 400 degrees colder than most ecosystems of Earth, with the possible exception of Antarctica in ' The Most Adequate Christmas Ever'. By the start of the series, however, the whole family seems to have come to terms with him. While Hayley, Francine and Klaus were initially horrified of him, Steve was delighted to have his own alien. As a means of convincing the family to let him stay, Stan presented him as a birthday present to Steve for his tenth birthday. Grateful to Roger for saving his life, Stan offered to repay him in any way at all, leading to his addition to the Smith family. They slid down a laundry chute into a waiting truck. Stan tracked him down in a kitchen and was about to kill him before Roger pleaded for mercy, but the security team threw a grenade into the room, from which Stan was knocked out and Roger pulled Stan to safety. Tired of living in a laboratory, he escaped his holding cell, thus triggering a lockdown investigation. Four years prior to the series, he was incarcerated by the CIA in Area 51, when Stan Smith, then an intelligence officer, was on duty at the base. Little is known about Roger's past Stan recounts how he landed on Earth years ago at Roswell in ' Roger Codger'.

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