50 Fun Facts About American Dad

Besides the creator of Family Guy, which two writers co-created American Dad!?

MacFarlane largely handed the show to Barker and Weitzman to keep it distinct from Family Guy.

The pilot episode aired directly after which event on February 6, 2005?

The rest of the first season did not arrive until May, when it launched Fox's Animation Domination block.

What inspired MacFarlane and Weitzman to conceive the show?

Fox ordered a pilot presentation in September 2003, and Stan was written as an Archie Bunker for the Bush era.

In which fictional Virginia suburb do the Smiths live?

It blends the real Langley, home of CIA headquarters, with nearby Great Falls; the house is on Cherry Street.

What is Stan Smith's job?

He applies the same extreme measures at home that he uses at work, and his boss is Deputy Director Avery Bullock.

Which cable network took over the show for season 12 in 2014 and aired it until 2025?

In April 2025 Fox announced the show would return to its original network with a four-season pickup.

Klaus, the family goldfish, was originally what?

The CIA swapped his mind into the fish at the 1986 Winter Olympics to stop him winning gold, and Dee Bradley Baker gives him the German accent.

How did Roger come to live with the Smiths?

That was four years before the series began; Roger had been on Earth since crashing at Roswell in 1947.

Where in the house does Roger keep his hideout and bar?

Klaus is often up there with him while he tends bar in one of his many disguises.

Roger's voice is modelled on which camp 1960s and 70s comedian?

MacFarlane, who also voices Stan, uses what the character page calls a "swish" accent for the alien.

Roger came to Earth in 1947 believing he was "The Decider" of humanity's fate. What was he really?

The episode "Frannie 911" revealed he had been on Earth more than 60 years.

Which of Roger's personas is described as a particularly vicious criminal?

His disguises started as a workaround for being forbidden to leave the house and became the engine of whole episodes.

Who voices Stan Smith?

He also voices Roger and news anchor Greg Corbin; his sister Rachael voices Hayley.

Which Star Trek captain voices Stan's boss, CIA Deputy Director Avery Bullock?

Bullock is described as depraved, eccentric and erratic, with a taste for singing about "plump Asian" women.

What is Hayley Smith's middle name?

She is the family's new-age hippie daughter, voiced by Rachael MacFarlane, and married to the perpetually stoned Jeff Fischer.

Who voices Steve Smith in the series proper, after Ricky Blitt did the original pilot?

Steve's design was made taller and less geeky when Grimes took over.

Which of Steve's friends does the running gag say everyone misunderstands, because he speaks only Japanese?

His one English line came in "Independent Movie," asking to be left alone in a cornfield.

What is Snot's real first name?

Curtis Armstrong, Booger from Revenge of the Nerds, voices him.

Who provides Barry's sinister 'evil' voice when he goes off his medication?

Eddie Kaye Thomas does Barry's normal voice.

What are Greg and Terry, the couple across the street, by profession?

They co-anchor W-ANG-TV, and MacFarlane voices Greg.

During one breakup with Jeff, Hayley dated Reginald, a man whose brain had been put into what animal?

He agreed to the CIA experiment in exchange for a hot meal while homeless.

What is unusual about Roger's excrement, as revealed in 'Homeland Insecurity'?

The Golden Turd storyline follows strangers who find it, usually ending in someone's death.

Francine's maiden name is Ling. What is her background?

Bàba and Māma Ling are voiced by Tzi Ma and Amy Hill.

The show's theme song, 'Good Morning USA', opens with a variation on which march?

Sousa's tune sets up Stan belting the number while walking to his car.

Which character joined the main cast in season seven?

Rogu, Roger's neoplastic offspring, was added in season fifteen.

Stan Smith was originally modelled on which classic sitcom patriarch?

Hayley was the Gloria and Jeff the Meathead in the All in the Family parallel MacFarlane drew.

Why is Hayley's paternity uncertain?

The episode "The Kidney Stays in the Picture" raised the question; Stan regards her as his daughter regardless.

What was Steve's principal, Brian Lewis, about to do while driving Steve in one episode?

Lewis is described as incredibly unprofessional and hedonistic and appears in the bounty hunt for Hayley and Jeff in "100 A.D."

Which real number episode aired as the show's promoted '300th' installment?

TBS had done the same trick with the 150th, which was really the 151st.

How many Primetime Emmy nominations has the show received?

It has also been nominated for two Annie Awards.

When a spaceship arrives to take Roger home to his birth planet, what does he do?

Jeff spent several seasons in space before returning, in one of the show's longer serialized arcs.

In his Family Guy cameo, Stewie confuses Stan with which character because of their large chins?

The crossover came in "Lois Kills Stewie," with Bullock alongside him.

What title does Stan hold at the CIA after a promotion that changed nothing about his duties?

He trained in the agency's Special Activities Division after leaving the army.

Why did the showrunners temporarily step away from the series in May 2023?

The show was already renewed through its twenty-fifth season at the time.

American Dad! was the first series made specifically for which Fox programming block?

The block launched on May 1, 2005, with the rest of season one.

Matt Weitzman floated a crossover with which live-action MacFarlane series at Comic-Con 2022?

Both shows share MacFarlane, and Scott Grimes, Steve's voice, is in The Orville's cast.

What does Stan's family call the goo-filled devices in which Steve and Hayley programmed fake vacations?

The family thought they had gone skiing and to Italy but never left the house.

Rachael MacFarlane released an album tied to which season nine episode?

Hayley Sings came out on Concord Records.

Through what television season has Fox's 2025 four-season pickup renewed the show?

The renewal brings the show back to the network that first aired it in 2005.

What is Reginald the Koala's counterpart Klaus described as, in terms of what he is?

Roger, Rogu, Klaus and Jeff make up the four housemates living under Stan's roof.

Why did Francine's wealthy birth parents give her up as a baby?

Nicholas and Cassandra Dawson handed her over for the seat upgrade, leaving Francine to be raised by her adoptive Chinese-American parents, the Lings.

Who voices Francine Smith?

Schaal has voiced the Smith matriarch since the 2005 pilot, across every season on Fox and TBS.

Before Dee Bradley Baker auditioned, Klaus was originally conceived as what nationality?

Baker turned up and did a German accent instead, and the producers cast him on the spot, making the goldfish an East German for good.

What is Stan Smith's full first name?

His full name is Stanford Leonard Smith, a fittingly stiff name for the CIA man MacFarlane modelled on Archie Bunker.

On which Langley Falls road do the Smiths live?

The two-storey house has a basement, an attic for Roger, and a string of secret rooms and habitats that tend to appear for exactly one episode each.

Which actress was originally chosen to voice Hayley before being replaced by Rachael MacFarlane?

The That '70s Show star was dropped before the series proper, and Seth MacFarlane's younger sister took over the role for good.

What is the name of Roger's 'son', a sentient organism that grew from one of his stress tumours?

When stressed, Roger's body grows large tumours that become fully sentient once removed. Dee Bradley Baker, who voices Klaus, also voices Rogu.

Steve Smith attends a high school named after which real entertainer?

Pearl Bailey High is named after the real singer and actress. Steve is a freshman there and plays cello, guitar and sings.

What was the 2011 crossover linking American Dad!, Family Guy and The Cleveland Show called?

The same storm hit all three towns across one night of episodes. The Simpsons had already referenced Stan as 'Plagiarismo di Plagiarismo' in an Italian police book.

In "Lost in Space", Roger is shown cheating on which member of his own species?

A brief clip shows Roger in a relationship with Zing, then blatantly making out with a human male in front of him. Zebleer is the Collector who impersonated Jeff.