Steve Smith (American Dad!)

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American Dad! character
Steven Smith
Gender:	Male
Age:	14[1]
Relatives:	Stan Smith (Father), Francine Smith (Mother), Hayley Smith (Sister)
Spouse(s):	Debbie (ex-girlfriend)
Sexuality:	Heterosexual
Religion:	Episcopalian
Political leaning:	Republican
Voice actor:	Scott Grimes

Steven "Steve" Smith is a fictional character on American animated series American Dad!. He is Stan and Francine Smith's only son and Hayley's brother. Steve is voiced by Scott Grimes, who is also regular on the television series ER.

Contents 1 Personality 2 Friends 3 Romance 4 References

[edit] Personality

Steve is portrayed as a social outcast, although he is very clever, intelligent, and confident to the point where he can sometimes be seen as arrogant. Steve is far-sighted (which he seems to get from his father, shown at the end of "Bullocks To Stan"). To Stan's horror and dismay, Steve spends his time with his friends playing Dungeons and Dragons, pretending to be the characters from Star Trek and other such "geeky" behavior. Despite being selectively dyslexic, he can read Elvish, use Morse code, and is able to communicate with dolphins. He also seems to do karate according to "American Dad VS Family Guy Kung Fu II Turbo! Hyper-Mega Edition", (likely learned from Toshi) and although this is not featured in any episodes it is likely to have improved his fighting ability such as shown in "Irregarding Steve" when he beats up various people.

Steve frequently masterminds crazy schemes in order to improve his social standing. For example, in "Threat Levels", he plans to make a video in which girls "go wild" and market it in late-night television so he and his circle of friends could afford a Gamestation console video game.

Steve is a freshman at Pearl Bailey High School. Steve's brown hair comes from his mother Francine, who actually dyes her hair blonde. He believes himself to be ginger haired which leads to speculation he might also be colourblind, as does his father. However we can clearly see it is medium to light brown.

[edit] Friends

Steve seems to have four best friends:

• Roger, a space alien, and is one of Steve's oldest friends, because Stan brought him home as a present for Steve when he was 10 years old.^[2] They usually come up with schemes together and get advice from each other. They also enjoy playing video games together.

• Snot, a teenager with curly hair and bad acne. His character seems to be based on Booger from Revenge of the Nerds. He once had an affair with Steve's then-girlfriend, Gretchen. ^[3]
• Barry, a British overweight maniacal genius (although this is only seen in one episode) who is inexplicably hated by Stan. He takes "vitamins" to inhibit his evil genius and desire to hurt other people which cause temporary mental retardation. Without the pills, he also seems to have a British accent, with Steve comparing him to Gary Oldman.^[4]
• Toshi, a multilingual Japanese teenager. Although he seems to understand English, he has yet to speak it (with the exceptions of "Finances with Wolves", where he yells "Werewolf!" in unison with Snot and Barry, in "Francine's Flashback" where he yells "Godzilla!" as Jewel approaches) and in "The Magnificent Steven" singing with Steve and Barry, though you can't hear his voice. When he speaks Japanese, Steve believes he can understand him, though he really does not. Toshi has spoken Russian^[5] and speaks Spanish when talking to Francine.^[6] Toshi's style of character is very similar to that of Ling-Ling from Drawn Together; both characters speak with subtitles and are misinterpreted by others.

[edit] Romance

Steve is obsessed with women and sex, yet, he knows very little about sex.^[7] He seems to be particularly fond of female breasts. In the episode "Tearjerker", Steve plays a scientist named S, whose gadgets only make women's breasts grow.^[8] In episode "Big Trouble in Little Langley", Steve tries to use firecrackers to impress a girl so that she will let him touch her breasts.^[9] He chases attractive girls from school, usually cheerleaders, such as Lisa Silver from the very first episode, or other girls that Hayley has described as out of his league. He has been able to get with some girls like Chuck White's daughter. However, in "Con Heir" Steve meets an elderly lady named Gretchen with whom he bonds over the memory of Steve's "fake, dead grampa", Lou, and then shares a passionate kiss. Although it appears Steve is very much smitten, Gretchen cheats on him with his friend Snot, claiming that monogamy should be left to the 60-year-olds. Steve and Snot agree to never let a girl come between them again. Seconds later, however, we witness them both chasing after an old lady with an oxygen tank.^[10] In the episode, "Stannie Get Your Gun", it is implied that if Hayley was not his sister, Steve would probably be romantically interested in her; he French-kisses her when he thought he was adopted.^[11] (In another episode he apparently masturbates with a naked picture of Hayley that Roger made, not realizing until later that it was a picture of her.)

Steve met a slightly overweight, goth girl named Debbie, with whom Steve immediately was smitten. Though he broke up with her during the episode, they got back together at the end.^[12] She was seen again in the episode "Iced, Iced Babies", though she reportedly and inexplicably breaks up with him by the end of the episode.

In "Lincoln Lover" Steve displays a strong homophobia, learned from his father. Roger remarks upon seeing Steve and his friends having a "grope fest" with girls from school, "You won't truly appreciate the awkwardness of this moment until you're fondly reminiscing as a 35-year-old homosexual",^[13] although Steve has not displayed any signs of being one.

In "The Vacation Goo" while on a cruise with the family, Steve becomes involved with a staff-member named Becky, which ultimately leads to her demise and been eaten by the Smith family, as they are trapped and have no food.

In "Spring Breakup" Roger starts a Spring Break party at the Smith house while Francine is away visiting her foster parent’s house and Stan is toopreoccupied reliving the fun and romance he had with Francine with a new college girl to notice. Meanwhile, Steve realizes how easily girls will consent to have sex when drunk and attempts to lose his virgenity to the drunken college girls, which he surprisingly almost accomplishes only to switch targets from a typical college girl to a celebrity known as "Carmen Selecta" who he quickly falls in love with. The rest of the episode Steve uses his typical methods to seduce Carmen and actually succeeds, the day before the end of Spring Break Carmen agrees to have sex with Steve. Surprisingly though, since Steve often resorts to desperate measures in order to seduce girl’s to sex, he has one preference; Carmen must fax him all of her medical reports to ensure she has no STDs. Carmen admits she wants Steve’s virginity “mostly because [he] made [her] work for it,” however Steve still won’t have sex with Carmen because she has breast implants. Carmen attempts to crown Roger the king of Spring Break yet he is reluctant to accept his crown. She then claims she had her boob implants removed so she could sleep with Steve when suddenly the upper level of the porch Roger apparently built just for Spring Break falls down and kills her. To make the moment even more ironic for Steve various members of the party comment “If only she had some sort of cushioning or flotation devices on her breast she could have withstood the impact.”

[edit] References

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