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American Dad!
TV Series

American Dad!

2005Animation, Comedy • 22 Seasons

Woke Score
5
out of 10

Series Overview

Stan Smith, who works for the C.I.A. and is constantly on the alert for terrorist activity, 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 C.I.A. experiment gone seriously wrong, where the C.I.A. 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.

Season-by-Season Breakdown

Season 1

8/10

From the delightfully twisted creative minds behind 'Family Guy' comes 'American Dad', the animated tour de force featuring CIA operative Stan Smith, his outrageous family and Roger, the alcoholic extraterrestrial who lives with them! Follow the adventures of the Smiths from the California desert, where Stan's wife, Francine, relives her teenage years at the Burning Man festival, to Saudi Arabia, where the entire family is sentenced to death by the Vice and Virtue Police! Whether it's rigging elections, erasing memories, casing sleazy strip clubs, or staging "bum fights", it's all in a day's work for Stan, and it's all here in the side-splittingly hilarious first season of 'American Dad'!

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Season 2

6/10

Terrorists (and all you bed-wetting hippie-liberal types) beware! Ultra-right-wing C.I.A. agent Stan Smith is back, taking names, and, well, you know the rest. Join Stan, along with his hilariously off-beat family, as he spans the globe to make the world safe for democracy! If you are ready to support your country, and if you're ready for a widly outrageous animated farce from Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman and Seth MacFarlane, the creative mastermind behind Family Guy, you're ready for American Dad! Volume two. God bless America.

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Season 3

5/10

C.I.A. weapons expert Stan Smith is back, keeping the homeland secure while alienating his family and terrorising his neighbours in the process. Whether he's saddling up for a mad cow cattle drive or destroying evidence of President Bush's drunken debauchery, Stan does whatever it takes to ensure domestic tranquility and make the world safe for democracy of the ultra-right-wing variety! Join the Smith family and Roger, their alcoholic pet alien, for this hilarious Volume Three of 'American Dad!' God Bless America!

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Season 4

3/10

Attention, terrorists, pinkos, and hippies: your days are numbered! CIA Agent Stan Smith is back, stopping at nothing to make the world safe for right-wing democracy and provide for his outrageously dysfunctional extended family. Amid botched kidnappings and beefcake body doubles, Stan hosts a torturously funny CIA telethon; his wife, Francine, is reunited with her ex-fiance; and resident-alien Roger hosts a booze-soaked spring break that may just push favorite son Steve all the way through puberty. God bless American Dad!

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Season 5

Pending

The hilarious, over-the-top adventures of CIA Agent Stan Smith - a red-white-and-blue-blooded, one-man war on terror - and his delightfully dysfunctional family. Volume Five celebrates that great American pastime - revenge! Steve and his friends strike back at Bar Mitzvah boy - Etan Cohen for stealing Steve's girlfriend, Francine puts Stan through the ringer when she finds out he's picked a back-up wife, and Roger unleashes deadly hotdog havoc throughout Langley Falls - all in the name of good old-fashioned vengeance. Getting even is the American way, so don't get mad...get American Dad!

Season 6

5/10

Trigger-happy CIA operative Stan Smith will stop at nothing to defend everything that makes this country great – from strip bars to that most sacred of American institutions, crack cocaine! Whether he's trading brains with a racehorse or rescuing Roger from bloodthirsty revolutionaries, Stan will do whatever it takes to secure the blessings of liberty in this over-the-top salute to the greatest nation on Earth.

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Season 7

3.8/10

It's a time once again to let it all hang out with an all-new volume of animated outrageousness! From the disturbed comic minds of Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman, and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, comes the always insane adventures of CIA operative Stan Smith and his wonderfully twisted family. In the 100th episode, Hayley elopes with Jeff! Other episodes include Stan on jury duty, Steve walking in on his amorous parents, Roger dating Steve's best friend, and yet another American Dad Christmas classic. Plus, there are serial killers, Turkish amphetamines, and evil clones! So, you know, the usual!

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Season 8

6/10

Let your American freak flag fly when you watch this all-new collection of outrageous episodes from the comic minds of Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. Follow the adventures of CIA operative Stan Smith's quirky family as they deal with Stan and Francine's killer hot tub, Steve's lucky panties, Hayley and Jeff adopting an evil child, and Roger wrestling his way into the record books. Loaded with celebrity guest voices, including Sarah Michelle Gellar, CeeLo Green, Alyson Hannigan, Patrick Stewart, Amy Sedaris and more, American Dad! Volume 8 is a star-powered salute to patriotic parody and hardcore hilarity!

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Season 9

3.4/10

Take a “Stan" against boring, bipartisan comedy with this all-new collection of hilariousuncensored American Dadl episodes from the infinitely creative minds of Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. This outrageous assortment finds Stan and Klaus switching bodies, Steve joining a boy band, Jeff being held prisoner in space, and Roger falling hard for his latest crush...Hayley!

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Season 10

5/10

Belly-laugh up to the bar, folks… and satisfy your thirst for hilarity with the all-new collection of uncensored American Dad! episodes from the spirited minds of Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. Loaded with celebrity guest voices, including Mariah Carey, Terry Crews, Mark Cuban, Zooey Deschanel, Danny Glover and Olivia Wilde, this intoxicating assortment finds Stan fired from the CIA, Francine haunted by a sex-starved ghost, Steve kidnapped by a Christmas demon, and Roger and Klaus on a 100,000-mile road trip. Please watch responsibly.

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Season 11

4.5/10

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Season 12

6.8/10

Get ready for full-scale hilarity and huge laughs with this all-new collection of American Dad! episodes from the comically oversized minds of Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman and Family Guy Creator Seth MacFarlane. Bulging with celebrity guest voices, including Kristin Chenoweth, Ted Danson, Kim Kardashian, Dean Norris, Mickey Rooney and Uma Thurman, this outrageous assortment finds Stan miniaturized after seeing a shrink, Steve embraces his inner lesbian, Roger crushing on a crash-landed alien , and the return of Jeff from space?.

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Season 13

4.5/10

Run for your lives! Or better yet, "Stan" your ground and enjoy this all-new collection of American Dad! episodes from the explosive comic minds of Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. Stuffed with celebrity guest voices, including Billy Bob Thornton, Joan Cusack, Sam Elliott, Oliver Platt, and not heavy metal rock god James Hetfield, this hilarious assortmend finds the Smith family in a flood of trouble aboard Stan's modern-day ark, a time-travelling Steve trying to save his cool future self, Roger deciding to quit all his personas, and everyone fighting to survive the post-apocalyptic 200th episode.

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Season 14

5/10

Celebrate the wit, wisdom and wild absurdity of your favorite all-American family with this all-new collection of American Dad! episodes. Crammed with celebrity guest voices, including Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Coolidge, Alfred Molina, Allison Janney and Danny Trejo, this sidesplitting assortment finds Stan shooting his mouth off in the Old West, Francine transformed into a sexy super-spy, Steve spellbound by a book of witchcraft, Jeff reborn as a full human, and Roger having a very fishy affair...with Klaus!

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Season 15

4/10

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Season 16

3/10

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Season 17

6/10

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Season 18

4/10

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Season 19

6.8/10

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Season 20

5.6/10

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Season 21

4/10

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Season 22

5/10

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Overall Series Review

*American Dad!* began as a sharp, politically charged satire directly targeting the post-9/11 conservative establishment, using CIA agent Stan Smith as a vehicle to mock blind patriotism, bigotry, and hyper-masculinity. Early seasons established an explicit ideological conflict, framing Stan’s deeply flawed worldviews against his liberal daughter Hayley. The show’s primary comedic engine was positioning the traditional, ultra-conservative American archetype as the consistent source of incompetence and chaos. As the series progressed, its focus noticeably shifted away from direct political commentary toward surreal, character-driven absurdity. While Stan remains the foil for traditional values throughout, later seasons rely less on ideological debates and more on high-concept, often dark, comedic scenarios involving Roger’s endless personas, family neuroses, and bizarre adventures. The narrative consistently deconstructs the nuclear family unit, but the humor often targets all sides equally, satirizing Stan’s conservatism, Hayley’s liberalism, and the rigid structure of traditional religion and masculinity without delivering consistent ideological lectures. A consistent thread across all seasons is the subversive treatment of gender roles and sexual identity, largely driven by the chaotic presence of the alien Roger, whose fluid personas constantly undermine established norms. While early seasons heavily contrasted specific political viewpoints, the show evolved into a vehicle for irreverent black comedy where moral relativism reigns. The core relationship remains the dysfunctional Smith family unit, which, despite its constant dismantling through absurd plots, anchors the action. Overall, *American Dad!* is a long-running, anarchic cartoon built on the foundation of satirizing the American establishment, particularly through the humiliation of its conservative protagonist. It successfully transitions from being a pointed political cartoon to a more surreal, character-based sitcom that prioritizes outlandish plots over consistent social messaging, cementing its legacy as a showcase for sustained, character-driven absurdity.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics4.1/10

Oikophobia5/10

Feminism4.9/10

LGBTQ+5.6/10

Anti-Theism4.9/10