American Dad!
Created by Matt Weitzman, Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the… From TMDB
233 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Oct 18, 2026 · last updated Oct 18, 2026 · How this works
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The show has received positive reviews. In the Common Sense Media article, author Tony Nigro gave it a positive review stating, "Issues like patriotism, generational divide, political activism, and traditional gender roles are addressed here, all with more fantasy than reality, but enough of the latter to touch a nerve with some grown-ups." In 2016, a study by The New York Times of the 50 TV shows with the most Facebook Likes found that American Dad! is popular in the Northeastern United States and the Mid-Atlantic states, as well as the Great Lakes Region; however, it "is not popular in Utah or much of the South". Until season 12, when American Dad! moved to TBS, all but one episode…
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60 of 233 · most liked firstI am going to choose to think someone on American Dad knew what they were doing here because I fucking love that show 😂👍
positive · AI labelView post →Time to give her CNN. It’s the only way to ensure the end of news and I don’t want any cable channels that don’t show episodes of American Dad
neutral · AI labelView post →Turning on a new episode of American Dad to see if it’s still the best show on television
positive · AI labelView post →Complaining about Helluva Boss not being a "Murder of the week" show anymore is like complaining that American Dad is not about A CIA agent anymore.
neutral · AI labelView post →‘American Dad’ is eyeing to return to airing new episodes on FOX for the first time in over a decade, DEADLINE reports. The series would be picked up for Season 20 & beyond multiple seasons.
neutral · AI labelView post →American Dad is a good show.
positive · AI labelView post →‘American Dad’ will no longer air new episodes on TBS, airing its season finale on March 24th. They are now trying to find a new network to air the series.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you're a big fan of the TV show American Dad, can you please go here and reply to this post for me? Thanks so much! www.reddit.com/r/americanda...
neutral · AI labelView post →Francine Smith - American Dad See her full uncensored series (200+ images) Exclusively on my Patreon! (link in bio)
neutral · AI labelView post →I swear at least once a week we'll be watching a show and @axellycan.bsky.social will point out that whatever we're watching has already been done in American Dad XD
neutral · AI labelView post →MacFarlane specifically made American Dad to do an All in the Family riff. The show absolutely drifted from that initial mission, but it would be interesting if, instead, Stan was now, like, lib-posting hyper-sincere defenses of DEI and Hayley had become a communist revolutionary or something.
neutral · AI labelView post →look i never watch this show. i am more of an American Dad guy myself, unfortunately...but uh. holy shit. if this was what i was missing out on i think i should get on it... for the awesome Theickiestbat! thank you for your support!!
positive · AI labelView post →George Lowe #GeorgeLowe Born: Nov. 10, 1957 Died: Mar. 2, 2025 Bio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_... IMDb: www.imdb.com/name/nm05229... Notable Roles: Space Ghost - Space Ghost: Coast to Coast Dad - The Brak Show Himself - Aqua Teen Hunger Force Cyrus Mooney - American Dad Unicorn - Robot Chicken
neutral · AI labelView post →Being a fan of either of these series is just a constant stream of you feeling like that one scene from American Dad where Klaus goes "Damn you, Hasbro!"
neutral · AI labelView post →so with Great North gone, 20th Television Animation is now down to Simpsons, Bob's Burgers, Family Guy, and American Dad in production, with KOTH and Futurama pending. The KOTH revival was the last new show they greenlit, nearly three years ago. Series are ending and getting replaced by nothing.
neutral · AI labelView post →name your 15 fav tv series, don’t overthink it The Golden Girls American Dad Will & Grace Happy Endings Pepper Ann Rocko’s Modern Life Desperate Housewives Hey Arnold! SpongeBob SquarePants The Simpsons Bob’s Burgers Why Women Kill The Little Mermaid Rescue Rangers Rupaul’s Drag Race
neutral · AI labelView post →WRONG SHOW INTRO GUYS! Rick and Klaus in the Family Guy theme! Maybe doing couple swap with Peter and Lois or something. #americandad #selfship #wulfart #heartscales
neutral · AI labelView post →21 years ago, the best Seth MacFarlane series debuted right after The Simpsons! Yes, we’re discussing the 1st ep of American Dad on @talksimpsonspod.bsky.social! We detail how “All in the Family for the W era” morphed into an absurdist sitcom—listen early & ad-free: www.patreon.com/posts/152978...
neutral · AI labelView post →On October 5, 2008, TV show 'American Dad!' aired episode "The One That Got Away"
neutral · AI labelView post →Swapping out American Dad with King of The Hill as my sleep show like im a baseball manager switching out pitchers in the 6th inning
positive · AI labelView post →American Dad has become my background TV show of choice . It’s pretty consistent in making me clutch my pearls while laughing
positive · AI labelView post →The show never really caught on in my country so my friends don't know half the shit I say are American Dad References
neutral · AI labelView post →as i rip through family guy, I do plan to make a detour to the Cleveland show once it occurs in the timline. I’ve already seen Very Much of American Dad so I’m set in that. Do they make Ted jokes in FG? No wait, don’t spoil the fun! 🤩 🫣
neutral · AI labelView post →My boldest take is that it’s better. Like American Dad is the superior to Seth McFarland family show, this is the superior dark comedy sci fi show. sometimes that just happens.
positive · AI labelView post →Been watching a lot of American Dad and tried to emulate the style a bit here. Plus there's a high amount of sleeping darts in the show, it felt like a natural fit. Plus Francine is just cute to draw lol
neutral · AI labelView post →The show has never been big in Mexico so my friends don't know that most of the shit I say are American Dad References
neutral · AI labelView post →it's funny how the new American Dad episodes were marketed on being edgier than the previous era, because the show absolutely got more PC in direct correlation to its increase in quality
positive · AI labelView post →Why? Every adult animated series has made rape jokes: - South park had Kenny's father getting gangbanged by pedophiles. - Family Guy and American Dad drop rape jokes like it's a carpet bombing - Rick and Morty had Mr.Jellybean and more. I could go on. Why is Viv the exception?
neutral · AI labelView post →21 years ago, the best Seth MacFarlane series debuted right after The Simpsons! Yes, we’re discussing the 1st ep of American Dad on @talksimpsonspod.bsky.social! We detail how “All in the Family for the W era” morphed into an absurdist sitcom—listen now! talkingsimpsons.libsyn.com/talking-simp...
neutral · AI labelView post →Bluey was the most watched show on streaming the first half of this year, according to Nielsen. The show was watched for 25.059 billion minutes. Other toons on the list: 4. Family Guy 5. Bob's Burgers 6. SpongeBob 12. American Dad 20. South Park
neutral · AI labelView post →I can't believe I've slept on the Orville for this long. I'm deep in season 3 and this show is soooo good. I love Seth's work when he's allowed outside the constraints of projects like Family Guy and American Dad.
neutral · AI labelView post →American Dad! has the best Christmas Specials in all of television not even just animation you can't change my mind, what other show could even go blow for blow with bangers like these?
positive · AI labelView post →American Dad is definitely the better show and not enough people recognize this.
positive · AI labelView post →American Dad, meanwhile, has the opposite problem. The humor of that show is so plot-driven that they've gone through at least 40 movie-ready premises in their entire run.
neutral · AI labelView post →It would surprise a lot of people to know this is an American Dad gif, a surprising and good show, a real Jeffrey Combs of Seth MacFarlane’s career
positive · AI labelView post →American Dad is not a good show, in many ways it's a very bad show, a bad show that vexes me but the bit where Stelio Kontos shows up to beat the ever loving shit out of Stan Smith is one of the most rewarding couple minutes of television
neutral · AI labelView post →It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Nighty night The muppet show The Pitt The Simpsons American Dad King of the hill Blackadder Father Ted League of gentlemen American horror story (some seasons) Breaking bad Fraiser Fleabag Beef
neutral · AI labelView post →There's an early-ish episode of *American Dad!* that I find pretty hilarious. In it, trans fats are banned. Stan, the protagonist(ish) of the show smuggles some in, then cooks and eats it in the men's bathroom at his work. His boss, using the restroom and smelling the food, says (paraphrasing because it's an old episode) "what's that? I smell something good! I've never smelled anything good in here before!"
positive · AI labelView post →Then we took a series of showrunner meetings on 30 Rock, Community, The Office, Parks & Rec, American Dad, and a few others. We got none of those jobs! After not getting 30 Rock, I was depressed for six months. We went back to our jobs, tutoring SAT and teaching. It was bleak! 7/
neutral · AI labelView post →This holiday season I watched a bunch of American Dad Xmas episodes, makes for a good seasonal binge. There’s over a dozen of them, some of most creative eps in the series. We even covered the first of them on @talksimpsonspod.bsky.social awhile ago whatacartoonfeed.libsyn.com/what-a-carto...
positive · AI labelView post →Three 'Futurama' specials, holiday episodes from 'Family Guy' and 'Bob’s Burgers,' 'American Dad!’s' 400th episode, and more animation news from the past weekend at SDCC 2026: www.cartoonbrew.com/series/san-d...
neutral · AI labelView post →Unintentionally(?) the greatest self-own Seth and company could have ever written. (For context, the series that aired on Fox right after Family Guy when this episode premiered there was American Dad!.)
neutral · AI labelView post →What if you met the love of your life but their favorite show was American Dad and they were always dropping references to the show and saying "That's from AmD" when you didn't get it
neutral · AI labelView post →“Good Morning, USA!” Up next we have @waltik.bsky.social’s Audrey Roo as Francine Smith from American Dad! I guess her series would be Australian Dad lmao. Next hint: 👑
neutral · AI labelView post →we used have REAL SHIT as the Super Bowl lead out show like Alias or the first episode of American Dad and now we have The Floor Is Lava
neutral · AI labelView post →How The Cleveland Show got cancelled but American Dad didn’t is wild to me.
negative · AI labelView post →BoJack Horseman Daria American Dad Steven Universe (that show is for adults too, idc idc) The Boondocks Bob's Burgers King of the Hill
neutral · AI labelView post →yes. American Dad has been a better show than Family Guy since the beginning, but it's only gotten better
positive · AI labelView post →American Dad is my go-to plane show 📺 You get a kiss if you can guess the episode 💋
positive · AI labelView post →idk if this casting was ever seriously entertained and not just a joke they make about it, HOWEVER in the original unaired 6 minute pilot for American Dad Steve WAS some kind of bizarre monster man? literally everyone else is just their series selves but Steve is like if Hey Arnold went wrong
neutral · AI labelView post →Btw who was gonna tell me that American Dad is actually a fucking wild show
positive · AI labelView post →Rewatching American Dad and I’m going out on a limb to say that I believe Tearjerker is genuinely one of the best episodes of the whole series
positive · AI labelView post →Since I’ve been quarantining because of Covid I’ve been binge watching American Dad omg I missed this show
positive · AI labelView post →New season of American Dad has been meh but the finale is a sci-fi anthology that's better than it has any right to be for a show like this.
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only. (No particular order) Buffy The Simpsons Digimon Battlestar Galactica (remake) American Dad Futurama Avatar TLA Korra X-men 97 Clone Wars Star Wars Rebels Ahsoka Yu-Gi-Oh! Batman the animated series My adventures with superman
neutral · AI labelView post →Taking melatonin is the only way I can get dreams anymore Also I just had a dream about American Dad even though I've only seen like, 2 episodes of that show iirc
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm doing a rewatch of the entire series again, and surprise surprise, it's still one of my favorite shows. Family Guy is just the American Dad we already have at home.
positive · AI labelView post →Remember when they used to show American Dad on TV?? Pepperidge Farm remembers…
neutral · AI labelView post →Scenes of Al Tuttle from the show "American Dad" From episodes "Don't Look a Smith Horse in the Mouth" "A Jones for a Smith" & "The Missing Kink"
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched the entirety of American Dad! this year and put that knowledge to use collecting five must-see episodes www.slashfilm.com/2039627/amer...
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