American Dad! (season 1)

American Dad! Season 1
DVD box set for Volume 1
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	7
Release
Original network	Fox
Original release	000000002016-02-06-0000February 6 – June 19, 2005 (2005-06-19)

American Dad!'s first season aired from February 6 to June 19, 2005, and consisted of seven episodes. The season is included within the Volume One DVD box set, which was released on April 25, 2006. Nineteen episodes were produced during the first production cycle with production numbers 1AJNxx. However, to continue running episodes for the full season (23 episodes) that began earlier than normal (May versus September) four episodes from the second production cycle (2AJNxx episodes) were aired.

Reception

The season and series premiere, Pilot, aired following Super Bowl XXXIX. This premiere episode was broadcast as part of an animated television night on Fox, following an episode of The Simpsons. The episode was watched by 15.1 million viewers.^[1] In addition, the season was nominated for a Golden Reel Award for the episode "Homeland Insecurity".^[2]

Season one was met with mixed reviews. Certain critics commented positively on the season, such as DVD Fanatic, who graded the season a "B" rating.^[3] The website stated "the series may not be fully there yet, but it shows more promise than Futurama did in its first season", and listed "Homeland Insecurity", "Deacon Stan, Jesus Man", and "Stan of Arabia" as the "best episodes" of the season.^[3] IGN wrote a mixed review stating, "At its worst, American Dad! proves critics right – it is a lot like Family Guy. Stan is an idiot, Roger and Klaus are very similar to Stewie and Brian, and Francine acts as the voice of reason. Sure, there are differences, but there are plenty of moments when the characterizations are exactly the same. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but if you're not a fan of Family Guy you might not be a huge fan of this show, either."^[4] However, the website believed the series showed improvement towards the end of the season, saying "once you get into the season, the show becomes downright hilarious, and the humor really detaches from Family Guy. It feels like it took some time for the writers to get used to not having the cutaways of Family Guy, and finally came to grips with the new format.", citing "Deacon Stan, Jesus Man" and "Bullocks to Stan" as the "best episodes" of the season.^[4] The opening sequence is shortened down to merely a short blip of the theme music playing over a picture of the flag in the Smiths' yard in "Bullocks to Stan" and "Stan of Arabia".

Pilot

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code
Pilot	"Inside the CIA"	Seth MacFarlane	Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker & Matt Weitzman	April 8, 2005	1AJN00
Stan's video is ruined by constant interruption by his family, including appearances of Roger, whom Stan passes off as a kid who smoked a "marijuana cigarette" and Hayley's attempts at taking down the government by ranting about its dubious practices and decisions. In desperation, Stan shoots at the camera, which dies with the second bullet and goes to static.

Episodes

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Pilot"	Ron Hughart	Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker & Matt Weitzman	February 6, 2005	1AJN01	15.10^[5]
CIA agent Stan Smith helps his geeky son, Steve Smith, get the attention of a cheerleader by rigging the student council elections in his favor. Meanwhile, Roger (an extraterrestrial living with the Smiths) gets angry when Stan's wife, Francine, cuts off his junk food supply in fearing he might be getting fat and turns to helping Hayley (the community college-attending, socially liberal daughter of the family) finish her term papers in exchange for sweets.
2	2	"Threat Levels"	Brent Woods	David Zuckerman	May 1, 2005	1AJN02	9.47^[6]
After a deadly virus scare, Francine wishes to do more with her life and becomes a realtor, making Stan feel insecure and unmanly. Meanwhile, Hayley uses one of the houses in her mother's portfolio to set up a homeless shelter, but fights over it with Steve who, initially, wanted to use the house to videotape teenage girls flashing their breasts and "going wild", but teams up with Stan to start a bum fight club.
3	3	"Stan Knows Best"	Pam Cooke	Mike Barker & Matt Weitzman	May 8, 2005	1AJN03	8.23^[7]
Hayley moves out of the house – and into her boyfriend's van – after having enough of Stan's harsh rules. Meanwhile, Steve claims that Roger is his horribly disfigured burn-victim sister in order to gain sympathy from and ask out a girl to the school dance (and to get her bra on a dare).
4	4	"Francine's Flashback"	Caleb Meurer & Brent Woods	Rick Wiener & Kenny Schwartz	May 15, 2005	1AJN05	7.84^[8]
After forgetting their anniversary, Stan arranges to have the last 20 hours of Francine's memory erased, but a bungling technician accidentally erases 20 years, making Francine think she's a wild and carefree teenager from 1985. Meanwhile, a popular girl will only date Steve if someone goes out with her ugly best friend, Jewel – who finds a mate in a reluctant Roger.
5	5	"Roger Codger"	Albert Calleros	Dan Vebber	June 5, 2005	1AJN04	6.09^[9]
When Roger slips into a coma after being excoriated by Stan, the Smiths think he is dead and dispose of his body. While the family copes with their "loss", with Francine becoming an atheist, and Steve disowning Stan, Roger awakens in a landfill and journeys home with an old, racist woman who thinks Roger is one of her elderly friends.
6	6	"Homeland Insecurity"	Rodney Clouden	Neal Boushell & Sam O'Neal	June 12, 2005	1AJN06	6.85^[10]
Stan learns his new neighbors are Iranian and immediately suspects that they are terrorists. Meanwhile, Roger tries to discover any hidden alien powers he may have while Steve is left at the mercy of the Scout Rangers, and Francine tries to reconnect with her neighbors.
7	7	"Deacon Stan, Jesus Man"	John Aoshima	Nahnatchka Khan	June 19, 2005	1AJN07	6.55^[11]
Stan, wanting to beat his rival at something, volunteers to become a replacement deacon against him after the previous deacon dies. Meanwhile, Roger is going through his reproductive cycle and, in the process, accidentally impregnates Steve.

References

General

American Dad: Volume 1 episode commentaries. 2006.

Specific

↑ Archived February 26, 2010 at the Wayback Machine
↑ Awards for American Dad at the Internet Movie Database
1 2 Archived December 3, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
1 2 "American Dad! Volume 1 – IGN". Dvd.ign.com. April 3, 2006. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
↑ "FOX Salutes 'American Dad' by Moving Up Its Timeslot Beginning Sunday, May 1, on Fox". The Futon Critic. February 9, 2005. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
↑ Arthur, Kate (May 3, 2005). "Arts, Briefly; A Sweeping Weekend". The New York Times. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
↑ Arthur, Kate (May 10, 2005). "Arts, Briefly; Is 'Elvis' Really Dead?". The New York Times. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
↑ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC. May 17, 2005. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
↑ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC. June 7, 2005. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
↑ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC. June 14, 2005. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
↑ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC. June 14, 2005. Retrieved March 24, 2011.

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American Dad!

Characters	Stan Smith Francine Smith Steve Smith Hayley Smith Roger Klaus

Seasons	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

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American Dad! episodes

Season 1	"Pilot" "Threat Levels" "Stan Knows Best" "Francine's Flashback" "Roger Codger" "Homeland Insecurity" "Deacon Stan, Jesus Man"

Season 2	"Bullocks to Stan" "A Smith in the Hand" "All About Steve" "Con Heir" "Stan of Arabia: Part 1" "Stan of Arabia: Part 2" "Stannie Get Your Gun" "Star Trek" "Not Particularly Desperate Housewife" "Rough Trade" "Finances with Wolves" "It's Good to Be Queen" "Roger 'n' Me" "Helping Handis" "With Friends Like Steve's" "Tears of a Clooney"

Season 3	"Camp Refoogee" "The American Dad After School Special" "Failure is Not a Factory-Installed Option" "Lincoln Lover" "Dungeons and Wagons" "Iced, Iced Babies" "Of Ice and Men" "Irregarding Steve" "The Best Christmas Story Never Told" "Bush Comes to Dinner" "American Dream Factory" "A.T. the Abusive Terrestrial" "Black Mystery Month" "An Apocalypse to Remember" "Four Little Words" "When a Stan Loves a Woman" "I Can't Stan You" "The Magnificent Steven" "Joint Custody"

Season 4	"The Vacation Goo" "Meter Made" "Dope & Faith" "Big Trouble in Little Langley" "Haylias" "42-Year-Old Virgin" "Surro-Gate" "The Most Adequate Christmas Ever" "Frannie 911" "Tearjerker" "Oedipal Panties" "Widowmaker" "Red October Sky" "Office Spaceman" "Stanny Slickers II: The Legend of Ollie's Gold" "Spring Breakup"

Season 5	"1600 Candles" "The One That Got Away" "One Little Word" "Choosy Wives Choose Smith" "Escape from Pearl Bailey" "Pulling Double Booty" "Phantom of the Telethon" "Chimdale" "Stan Time" "Family Affair" "Live and Let Fry" "Roy Rogers McFreely" "Jack's Back" "Bar Mitzvah Hustle" "Wife Insurance" "Delorean Story-an" "Every Which Way But Lose" "Weiner of Our Discontent" "Daddy Queerest" "Stan's Night Out"

Season 6	"In Country...Club" "Moon Over Isla Island" "Home Adrone" "Brains, Brains and Automobiles" "Man in the Moonbounce" "Shallow Vows" "My Morning Straitjacket" "G-String Circus" "Rapture's Delight" "Don't Look a Smith Horse in the Mouth" "A Jones for a Smith" "May the Best Stan Win" "The Return of the Bling" "Cops and Roger" "Merlot Down Dirty Shame" "Bully for Steve" "An Incident at Owl Creek" "Great Space Roaster"

Season 7	"100 A.D." "Son of Stan" "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls" "Stan's Food Restaurant" "White Rice" "There Will Be Bad Blood" "The People vs. Martin Sugar" "For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls" "Fart-Break Hotel" "Stanny Boy and Frantastic" "A Piñata Named Desire" "You Debt Your Life" "I Am the Walrus" "School Lies" "License to Till" "Jenny Fromdabloc" "Home Wrecker" "Flirting with Disaster" "Gorillas in the Mist"

Season 8	"Hot Water" "Hurricane!" "A Ward Show" "The Worst Stan" "Virtual In-Stanity" "The Scarlett Getter" "Season's Beatings" "The Unbrave One" "Stanny Tendergrass" "Wheels & the Legman and the Case of Grandpa's Key" "Old Stan in the Mountain" "The Wrestler" "Dr. Klaustus" "Stan's Best Friend" "Less Money, Mo' Problems" "The Kidney Stays in the Picture" "Ricky Spanish" "Toy Whorey"

Season 9	"Love, AD Style" "Killer Vacation" "Can I Be Frank with You" "American Stepdad" "Why Can't We Be Friends?" "Adventures in Hayleysitting" "National Treasure 4: Baby Franny: She's Doing Well: The Hole Story" "Finger Lenting Good" "The Adventures of Twill Ongenbone and His Boy Jabari" "Blood Crieth Unto Heaven" "Max Jets" "Naked to the Limit, One More Time" "For Black Eyes Only" "Spelling Bee My Baby" "The Missing Kink" "The Boring Identity" "The Full Cognitive Redaction of Avery Bullock by the Coward Stan Smith" "Lost in Space" "Da Flippity Flop"

Season 10	"Steve & Snot's Test-Tubular Adventure" "Poltergasm" "Buck, Wild" "Crotchwalkers" "Kung Pao Turkey" "Independent Movie" "Faking Bad" "Minstrel Krampus" "Vision: Impossible" "Familyland" "Cock of the Sleepwalk" "Introducing the Naughty Stewardesses" "I Ain't No Holodeck Boy" "Stan Goes on the Pill" "Honey, I'm Homeland" "She Swill Survive" "Rubberneckers" "Permanent Record Wrecker" "News Glance with Genevieve Vavance" "The Longest Distance Relationship"

Season 11	"Roger Passes the Bar" "A Boy Named Michael" "Blagsnarst, a Love Story"

Season 12	"Blonde Ambition" "CIAPOW" "Scents and Sensei-bility" "Big Stan on Campus" "Now and Gwen" "Dreaming of a White Porsche Christmas" "LGBSteve" "Morning Mimosa" "My Affair Lady" "A Star is Reborn" "Manhattan Magical Murder Mystery Tour" "The Shrink" "Holy Shit, Jeff's Back!" "American Fung" "Seizures Suit Stanny"

Season 13	"Roots" "The Life Aquatic with Steve Smith" "Hayley Smith, Seal Team Six" "N.S.A. (No Snoops Allowed)" "Stan Smith as Keanu Reeves as Stanny Utah in Point Breakers"

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