American Dad
Genre: adult animated sitcom
Format: Observational comedy turned farce, Surreal humor, Shock value, Cringe comedy, Gallows humor, Political satire (limited to early seasons)
Created by: Seth MacFarlane,Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman
Voices of Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal, Scott Grimes, Rachael MacFarlane, Dee Bradley Baker
Composer(s) Walter Murphy, Joel McNeely, Ron Jones
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 10
No. of episodes 154 (List of episodes)
Production
Executiveproducer(s): Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman, Rick Wiener
Kenny Schwartz, Steve Callaghan
Co-executive producers:
Jonathan Fener, Brian Boyle, Judah Miller
Murray Miller, Erik Sommers
Producer(s): Keith Heisler, Kara Vallow
Supervising producers:
Lesley Wake Webster, Laura McCreary
Erik Durbin
Editor(s) Rob DeSales
Running time 22–24 minutes
Productioncompany(s) Fuzzy Door Productions, Underdog Productions
20th Century Fox Television
Distributor : 20th Television
Broadcast
Original channel: Fox (2005–present)
TBS (2014-)
Picture format 480i (SDTV) (2005–2009)
720p (HDTV) (2010–present)
Original run February 6, 2005 – present
Chronology
Related shows: Family Guy, The Cleveland Show
American Dad! is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker, and Matt Weitzmanfor.
The main focus of the show is the Smith Family. Stan Smith is the husband/father, not in the country bumpkin way.francineishis wife. Their daughter is Hayley. Steve is their son.
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, andbreadwinner Stan Smith; his better halfhousewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."
Creative direction of American Dad! has largely been guided by Barker and Weitzman as opposed to MacFarlane, this believed to have nurtured in distinguishing the series from its counterparts. Unlike its sister shows, Family Guy and The Cleveland Show,American Dad! is not filled with intentional humor, such as through the use of repeatedcutaway gags and other blatant joke-telling deliveries; rather its humor is subtler, focusing on the nuttiness and oddities of its characters and their circumstances. As opposed to joke references to every pop cultural target possible—a staple of MacFarlane's Family Guy material—Barker and Weitzman have structured American Dad!so as to center on a bizarre concept in combination with an everyday-life human story that grounds it. While the core issues and resolutions are relatable in most episodes, the execution tends to enter into wild and crazy extremes, thus anobservational comedy/farce. As absurd as the show gets, there is typically a family story with cozy elements behind it.
American Dad! has been nominated for numerous awards, most prominently twoPrimetime Emmy Awards and two Annie Awards. In June 2013, it was awarded as top television series by "American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers." Since its debut, the series has broadcast 154 episodes. American Dad! is complicated by aseason number discrepancy that presents the show as existing in two differently numbered seasons: one of the conflicting reports would imply that the show's first season consists of solely its first 7 episodes, while the other would imply it consists of its first 23 episodes.
Wikipedia acknowledges the former. American Dad! has been renewed through its 11th season. Its 10th seasonpremiered on Sunday, September 29, 2013.[12] On July 16, 2013, it was announced that season 10 will be American Dad!'s final run on Fox, and that new episodes of the series will then move to TBS. TBS has picked up the series for a 15-episode 11th seasonslated to begin airing in late 2014.[13]
