Francine Smith

Francine Smith
American Dad! character
First appearance	"Pilot"
Created by	Seth MacFarlane Mike Barker Matt Weitzman
Voiced by	Wendy Schaal
Information
Nickname(s)	Frannie, Frantastic
Occupation	Housewife
Spouse(s)	Stan Smith Travis Bowe (ex-fiancé)
Children	Hayley Smith Steve Smith Libby Corbin-Bates
Relatives	Birth parents: Nicholas and Cassandra Dawson Adoptive Family: Bàba, Māma, and Gwen Ling
Birthday	September 26

Francine Lee Smith (née Ling; formerly Dawson) is a fictional character on the animated television series American Dad!. She is the wife of the title character Stan Smith and the mother of Hayley and Steve. Francine is voiced by Wendy Schaal.

Francine is often seen indignant, nagging and scolding her family (mostly Stan) over wrongdoings, sometimes even becoming berserk in these moments. Seemingly a voice of reason, Francine also nags at her family to uphold certain virtues.^[1]

Fictional character biography

Francine was born September 26 (1967 or 1971) to a wealthy couple in South Carolina, Nicholas and Cassandra Dawson. She was abandoned by her birth parents. She spent her early childhood in a Roman Catholic orphanage. She is naturally left-handed but this was literally beaten out of her by the nuns. She was adopted at age seven by Bàba and Māma Ling, Chinese Americans. She speaks fluent Chinese, and often speaks in it to her parents to disguise their conversations in front of Stan. Her parents have their own biological daughter, Gwen, who is attractive but not as bright as Francine.

When Francine was about fourteen years old, she had an obsessive crush on her algebra teacher, Mr. Feeny. The police were called and Francine lied to them and said that she and Mr. Feeny were lovers. Mr. Feeny was sent to jail, where he committed suicide.^[2]

In college Francine stabbed her roommate to death. Even though she was a party girl in college and seems to hold very liberal beliefs, she keeps them mostly to herself and follows her husband's conservative values.

Francine first met Stan when he had just graduated from the CIA academy and been offered a post as an operative. She was a groupie trying to hitchhike home, and Stan pulled over and gave her a lift.

Personality

Although she enjoys being a housewife and becomes sexually aroused during spring cleaning, Francine occasionally yearns for more fulfillment. She was briefly a successful realtor and owned a muffin kiosk at the mall,^[3] and became a surgeon for an organized-crime syndicate made up of handicapped people.^[4] Once she joined a group of ultra-chic local ladies by faking an affair with a valet.^[5] She drinks wine and occasionally smokes; she's used marijuana and cocaine. Previous to her marriage Francine had a history of sexual promiscuity, and was a groupie. She has been to prison.

Age

Francine was originally 38, but she became 40 years old in the episode "Tears of a Clooney". The episode starts with her 39th birthday, she attempts to get revenge on George Clooney for a year, and the episode ends with her 40th birthday. It's unknown whether or not the other characters aged as well, except for presumably Stan. He says in one episode that she is ten months younger than he is. However, in "May the Best Stan Win", Francine's year of birth is listed as being in 1971, and Stan's is shown to be 1967. However, in "Da Flippity Flop", he refers that he is an American made man since '68–implying his birth year was in 1968. In "Shallow Vows", it says Francine's birthday is September 26, 1967 on her driver's license. In the same episode, she later tells Stan she was indeed born on September 26.^[6]

References

External links

• Francine Smith at Fox.com
• Francine Smith on IMDb