| American Dad! Season 6 | |||
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| Country of origin | United States | ||
| No. of episodes | 19[1] | ||
| Broadcast | |||
| Original channel | Fox | ||
| Original run | October 3, 2010 – May 22, 2011 |
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| DVD release date | May 28, 2012 (Reigion 2) | ||
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| List of American Dad! episodes | |||
American Dad!'s sixth season began airing on October 3, 2010. and ended after 19 episodes on May 22, 2011. Guest stars of this season include Jason Alexander, Sarah Chalke, Hector Elizondo, Anthony Michael Hall, Hayden Panettiere, Lou Diamond Phillips and Burt Reynolds.
Contents |
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
U.S. viewers (million) |
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| 97 | 1 | "100 A.D." | Tim Parsons | Keith Heisler | October 3, 2010 | 5AJN14 | 6.16[4] |
| Jeff continues to try to get Hayley back until Stan and Francine confront him and tells him to leave her alone. Taking Reginald's advice to give Hayley some space, Jeff decides to confront Hayley once and for all. It is later revealed that Jeff and Hayley eloped, and Stan and Francine offers the public a reward to stop the wedding, an amount of $50,000. Later on, they are eventually found, and Stan and Francine are tricked by Jeff into giving him the 50 Grand, thus letting Stan allow them to get married. Meanwhile, in response of Jeff and Hayley's marriage announcement, Roger and Steve dress up as Wheels and the Legman (from the episode Haylias) and try to stop the wedding and get the reward themselves, until Roger is under the influence of Turkish amphetamines, landing them in Thailand. | |||||||
| 98 | 2 | "Son of Stan" | Chris Bennett | Erik Sommers | October 10, 2010 | 5AJN17 | 5.36[5] |
| During a memorial service for the 97 people killed in the bus crash, Francine and Stan have a clash over how to raise Steve in retrospect to Hayley running away. Francine wishes to be more lenient, but Stan is convinced that they need to be firm with him. They decide to have a BMX race to determine how to raise Steve. Stan falls down and severely injures himself at the start of the race, making Francine the winner. However, Stan creates a clone of Steve (after being inspired by Duper's clone after the real Duper died in a bus crash last episode), setting up a new contest with Francine to determine who has better parenting skills. Francine raises the original Steve very passively, but Stan raises Steve's clone, Steve-A-Rino very strict and manly. However, Steve-A-Rino later becomes a sociopath due to Stan's strict training and attempts to kill the original Steve in hopes of replacing him, forcing Stan and Francine to find the real Steve and stop his murderous clone before it's too late. In the end, Steve is found and Steve-a-rino is shot. Meanwhile, Roger selfishly decides to go after Haley and Jeff to steal the money they tricked Stan into giving them for his own idiotic ideas. When they refuse to give him the money, Roger begins making an annoying noise; they flee via helicopter to a private boat, only to find he is the captain. They flee again. Finally confronting them at the Great Wall of China, Roger finds that Haley and Jeff have being using their money get the hell away from him, making his victory a rather hollow one as there was only a few hundred left. | |||||||
| 99 | 3 | "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls" | John Aoshima & Jansen Yee | Eric Weinberg | November 7, 2010 | 5AJN19 | 6.30[6] |
| After years of hosting the scariest haunted house in the neighborhood, Stan finds himself outdone by Buckle. Francine makes things worse when she finds herself returning and declares that it is impossible to beat him. Depressed, Stan goes to Roger for advice and Roger suggests he use his CIA influence to get real body parts and instruments. Stan decides to pull in five of the most dangerous serial murderers in the area. However, the killers sitting in their cell fails to scare anyone so Roger decides to turn them loose, forcing Stan, Francine, Roger and Klaus to take cover in the kitchen. Stan apologizes for getting them into the mess and Francine admits she should have been more supportive. | |||||||
| 100 | 4 | "Stan’s Food Restaurant" | Josue Cervantes | Brian Boyle | November 14, 2010 | 5AJN16 | 5.38[7] |
| Roger offers to help Stan live out his dream of opening a restaurant until their difference in vision for what the eatery should be causes havoc. It ends up with Stan getting cut of the project and opening his own restaurant next to Roger's. Stan puts Roger's restaurant out of business, causing Roger to blow up both of their restaurants. Meanwhile, A girl named Ashley (Hayden Pantierre), who got kicked out of a school for having too much sex, invites Steve and Snot over to her house. Trouble ensues when Ashley mistakingly accuses Snot of raping her doll, Julia, causing her to put off having sex. Steve and Snot write a suicide note, but Ashley found out Julia was murdered, causing her to put off having sex again. | |||||||
| 101 | 5 | "White Rice" | Bob Bowen | Rick Wiener & Kenny Schwartz | November 21, 2010 | 5AJN15 | 4.86[8] |
| After an argument between Stan and Francine breaks out, Stan suggests they go see a counselor named Sal (Jason Alexander), who turns out to be a hypnotist Stan has been using for years to settle arguments by repressing her memories. After feeling slighted by Stan, who walks out to get a sandwich by the time he asked Stan for one, Sal makes Francine remember everything, including her old desire to be a stand-up comedian and that Haley had a twin sister who died due to Stan refusing to pay for vaccinations. Stan ends up living alone when Francine is offered the chance to have a television show based on her life made; however, it is canceled due to racist jokes. Stan learns his lesson about not talking to Francine and agrees that the idea of moving her foster parents to their town is a bad idea, seeing that talking about their problems is not as bad as he thought. Meanwhile, Steve brings home a female fish to keep Klaus company. However, after having children with the fish, Klaus finds he detests her due to her eating their offspring, burying her alive in the yard. | |||||||
| 102 | 6 | "There Will Be Bad Blood" | Joe Daniello | Murray Miller & Judah Miller | November 28, 2010 | 5AJN20 | 6.13[9] |
| The Smiths prepare for the arrival of Stan's half-brother, Rusty's (Lou Diamond Phillips) family for Thanksgiving. However, it gets subdued because of Steve's brattiness following Haley and Jeff's eloping. They decide to go to Rusty's to see what their home is like. However, it is revealed that Rusty is rich after discovering copper from a land given from his grandfather (Ed Asner). The Smiths try to pull the old switcheroo on Rusty, resulting in getting trapped in the desert. However, they are saved by Haley and Jeff. In the end, Stan lets Haley and Jeff move into their home after what they'd done. | |||||||
| 103 | 7 | "The People vs. Martin Sugar" | Pam Cooke | Jonathan Fener | December 5, 2010 | 5AJN05 | 5.31[10] |
| Stan Smith anxiously awaits his annual jury summons. But when Roger is the defendant in the trial where Stan is the foreman, he is finally in a position to make Roger accountable for his misdeeds. Roger gets the last laugh when he escapes from prison. Meanwhile, Jeff and Hayley move in with the Smiths, and Francine tries (and fails) to get Jeff to clean up his act due to him needing to be stoned in order to keep his libido in check. | |||||||
| 104 | 8 | "For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls" | Bob Bowen | Erik Durbin | December 12, 2010 | 5AJN22 | 6.22[11] |
| Stan gives Steve a gun for Christmas, even though Francine warns him that Steve is too young. Steve accidentally shoots Santa, he sends the North Pole into a tizzy and jeopardizes Christmas, triggering a massive gunfight between the Smiths themselves and all the elfs and raindeer from the North Pole with Santa Claus himself leading the charge. | |||||||
| 105 | 9 | "Fart-Break Hotel" | Rodney Clouden | Chris McKenna & Matt McKenna | January 16, 2011 | 5AJN18 | 3.54[12] |
| After Roger releases lethal gas into the Smith residence, the family moves into a hotel while the fumes clear. Francine finds herself with a lot of free time on her hands, and she soon finds herself working in the construction business. | |||||||
| 106 | 10 | "Stanny Boy and Frantastic" | Pam Cooke | Laura McCreary | January 23, 2011 | 5AJN13 | 4.81[13] |
| Finding that they have no friends that like the both of them, Stan and Francine steal tickets to a show from Haley and unintentionally make friends with a younger couple. Soon, their (highly dangerous) life style proves too much for Stan and Francine; they sabotage their birth control products to force them into being less active. However, this causes the couple to break up and reconcile their differences once Stan and Francine reveal the truth to them, losing their friends. | |||||||
| 107 | 11 | "A Piñata Named Desire" | Bob Bowen | Chris McKenna & Matt McKenna | February 13, 2011 | 5AJN07 | 3.93[14] |
| Roger asks Stan to attend an acting class, but tempers flare when they audition for the same role. Meanwhile, Steve and his friends try to plan the ultimate slumber party. | |||||||
| 108 | 12 | "You Debt Your Life" | Chris Bennett | Erik Sommers | February 20, 2011 | 5AJN09 | 4.25[15] |
| Roger moves out of the house after an argument with Stan and is quickly replaced; Steve gets a new job at school. | |||||||
| 109 | 13 | "I Am the Walrus" | Tim Parsons | Keith Heisler | March 27, 2011 | 5AJN21 | 4.99[16] |
| Steve challenges Stan for family dominance. Meanwhile, Jeff and Hayley try marriage counseling. | |||||||
| 110 | 14 | "School Lies" | Rodney Clouden | Brian Boyle | April 3, 2011 | 6AJN03 | 3.59[17] |
| Stan arranges a plan to get a raise through a favor of U.S Senator Buckingham (Burt Reynolds). The first part of his plan is to send Steve to the private school where Buckingham's daughter, Cookie, goes to (though Steve refuses to go, so Stan uses Roger). The second part is to meet Buckingham there and talks him into playing golf with him. Stan gets his favor, but then he is enraged that Roger sold Cookie to drug dealers. He gets her back, and he takes her back to Buckingham's house for dinner. Meanwhile, Steve is out of school because of an Asbestos outbreak, and after refusing to go to the private school, he joins a gang of Spanish girls. He is arrested for robbing a pharmacy, prompting Stan to use his favor to release him from jail. However, this causes Stan to frame a student from the private school for the armed robbery. He is seen riding away with John Q. Mind (Randy Spears) to have further adventures. | |||||||
| 111 | 15 | "License to Till" | John Aoshima & Jansen Yee | Matt Fusfeld & Alex Cuthbertson | April 10, 2011 | 6AJN04 | 3.35[18] |
| Roger and Klaus try unsuccessfully to bring Steve to a higher social level, after when they make a bet and Steve dreaming of being with the cool kids. This results in Steve driving Snot's uncle Solomon's tractor to a Taco King. However, Steve's glasses are knocked off and loses the cool kids. Meanwhile, Stan and Francine prank each other, which results in a draw. However, Stan gets Francine involved in his prank consisting of Chinese Food and a Midget. | |||||||
| 112 | 16 | "Jenny Fromdabloc" | Bob Bowen | Laura McCreary | April 17, 2011 | 6AJN08 | 4.74[19] |
| Steve and Roger try to cheer up Snot after Hayley rejects him. Meanwhile, Stan tries to live like a man of the 1960s. | |||||||
| 113 | 17 | "Home Wrecker" | Joe Daniello | Alan R. Cohen & Alan Freedland | May 8, 2011 | 6AJN05 | 3.29[20] |
| Stan and Francine divide the house disagreeing about how to decorate it. | |||||||
| 114 | 18 | "Flirting with Disaster" | Pam Cooke | Keith Heisler | May 15, 2011 | 6AJN06 | 3.89[21] |
| Francine cramps Stan's style when she gets a job in his office. Lorraine takes Stan's advantage by throwing acid in Francine's face, resulting in Stan donating his "Thunderbutt". Meanwhile, Steve and Roger start a Birdhouse building business. | |||||||
| 115 | 19 | "Gorillas in the Mist" | Chris Bennett | Erik Durbin | May 22, 2011 | 6AJN10 | 3.57[22] |
| Bonding with Steve at the zoo causes Stan to lose Steve in the gorilla cage. Steve later gets out and makes up the tests he missed. Meanwhile, Roger opens a country themed bar. | |||||||
All nineteen episodes of the sixth season are to be released on DVD by 20th Century Fox in the United Kingdom on May 28, 2012[23]
| American Dad Volume 7 | ||||
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| Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 | ||
| TBA | May 28, 2012[24] | TBA | ||
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