American Dad! (2005– )

The random escapades of Stan Smith, an extreme right wing CIA agent dealing with family life and keeping America safe, all in the most absurd way possible.

Creators:

Mike Barker, Seth MacFarlane, Matt Weitzman

Stars:

Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal, Dee Bradley Baker

Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 14 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Seth MacFarlane	...	Stan Smith (149 episodes, 2005-2013)
Wendy Schaal	...	Francine Smith (149 episodes, 2005-2013)
Dee Bradley Baker	...	Klaus (149 episodes, 2005-2013)
Scott Grimes	...	Steve Smith (148 episodes, 2005-2013)
Rachael MacFarlane	...	Hayley Smith (148 episodes, 2005-2013)
Mike Barker	...	Terry Bates (79 episodes, 2005-2013)

Storyline

Stan Smith, who works for the CIA and is constantly on the alert for terrorist activity. Stan will go to extremes to protect his beloved America from harm; as evidenced by the terror-alert color code on his fridge, and his frequent knee-jerk reaction of shooting holes in the toaster whenever the toast pops up. In addition to Stan's wife and teenage children, the Smith household has two rather unconventional members. There's Roger, the sarcastic space alien who rescued Stan from Area 51 who deeply resents the fact that he's not allowed to leave the house, and therefore, has been reduced to drinking wine and smoking cigarettes, and Klaus, a lascivious, German-speaking goldfish; the result of a CIA experiment gone seriously wrong where the CIA tried to give a fish a German man's brain. Stan's son is a dorky teenager who tries to be cool. His wife has had a past life of sex and drugs.

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Plot Keywords:

cia | goldfish | german | alien | cia agent | 

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Taglines:

From the creator of "Family Guy" comes a man who will stop at nothing to protect his country.

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Official Sites:

Fox

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 February 2005 (USA)

Also Known As:

American Dad

Company Credits

Production Co:

20th Century Fox Television, Atlantic Creative, Fuzzy Door Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

22 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Steve's original design was much geekier and gawky and he was voiced by Ricky Blitt. Halfway through production, his voice actor changed to Scott Grimes and his design was made to be more attractive, so he would be less comparable to Neil Goldman from Family Guy. This design is a caricature of one of the series creators, Mike Barker.

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Goofs

In the first episode, the man whose brain was switched with Klaus's is shown at the 1986 Winter Olympics. There was no Winter Olympics in 1986; Winter Olympics were held in the same years as Summer Olympics (for example, 1984 in Sarajevo, and 1988 in Calgary) until 1994.

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Quotes

Newspaper Headline: President finally gets joke about his last name.

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Crazy Credits

As of the 2008-2009 season, the intro sequence has been completely redone with more modern animation. There are a few minor changes to what happens during the sequence. For instance, Haley puts a peace sign post-it on Stan which Francine subsequently removes, and Klaus kicks Stan his car keys. The old "different newspaper" gag is removed, and instead each intro features Roger in the car with Stan, wearing a different outfit in each episode.

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Connections

Referenced in Family Guy: The Man with Two Brians (2008)

User Reviews

This is much better than family Guy

American dad is amazing. All the whimsical and creative lines they write all following the story line makes it great. Hate to compare it to family guy but it's jokes stay on track to what is happening and doesn't go off on random rants like family guy. Not sure how people are rating this lower but it just goes to show IMDb's scores tend to base on popularity. If you didn't notice big actor movies on here tend to score higher even if they are not very good. And a movie with unknown actors that may be a great movie but won't be scored as high based on popularity. Anywho off the subject American Dad is great. The Alien is outstanding and so is Stan. The only downfall, like all shows as the season progress it usually loses its greatness, the later seasons Stan isn't so CIA crazed pulling his gun out all the time and stuff. He's more office CIA then Crazy CIA Agent. Overall its great though. My favorite