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"American Dad!" is an animated comedy series that uses satirical humor to comment on American politics, culture, and society. The show has become a notable part of the animated sitcom landscape, offering an irreverent take on contemporary issues through its main characters and storylines.
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It sits within the topics 2000s American adult animated television series, 2000s American animated comedy television series and 2000s American satirical television series.
Its subject is documented across 49 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Genre
- Animated sitcom
- Created by
- Seth MacFarlane Mike Barker Matt Weitzman
- Showrunners
- Matt Weitzman Mike Barker (seasons 1–10) Steve Callaghan (season 8) Brian Boyle (seasons 12–present)
- Voices of
- Seth MacFarlane Wendy Schaal Scott Grimes Rachael MacFarlane Dee Bradley Baker Jeff Fischer
- Theme music composer
- Walter Murphy
- Opening theme
- "Good Morning, USA", by Seth MacFarlane
- Ending theme
- "Good Morning, USA", (instrumental)
- Composers
- Walter Murphy Joel McNeely Ron Jones
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English
- Number span no of episodes
- 397 ( list of episodes )
- Executive producers
- Seth MacFarlane Mike Barker Matt Weitzman Brian Boyle Kenny Schwartz Rick Wiener David Zuckerman Richard Appel Nahnatchka Khan David A. Goodman Erik Sommers Steve Callaghan Jordan Blum Zachary Rosenblatt Joe Chandler Nic Wegener Joel Kuwahara Jeff Mednikow
- Producers
- Kara Vallow Diana Ritchey Zac Moncrief Michael Rowe Brian LoSchiavo
- Editor
- Rob DeSales
- Running time
- 21–24 minutes
- Production companies
- Underdog Productions Fuzzy Door Productions 20th Television (seasons 1–18) 20th Television Animation (season 19–present)
- Network
- Fox
- Release
- February 6, 2005 ( 2005-02-06 ) –, September 21, 2014 ( 2014-09-21 )
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Official website
Warner Bros. Discovery
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 21
- FilmAffinity ID
- 197656
- Official website
- www.tbs.com/shows/american-dad.html
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- number of seasons
- 21
- title
- American Dad!
- Commons category
- American Dad!
- number of episodes
- 383
- start time
- 2005-02-06
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Encyclopedic overview
American Dad! is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman for Fox and TBS. The series premiered on February 6, 2005, following Super Bowl XXXIX, with the rest of the first season airing from May 1 of the same year. The show centers around the Smiths, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Stan and Francine, their children, Hayley and Steve, as well as a goldfish named Klaus and an extraterrestrial named Roger. In the seventh season, Hayley's boyfriend (turned husband) Jeff Fischer joined the main cast, followed by Rogu, Roger's neoplastic son who joined in the fifteenth season. Unlike MacFarlane's other show, Family Guy, American Dad! does not lean as heavily on the use of cutaway gags, instead deriving its humor mostly from the quirky characters and their relationships.
The show was conceived by MacFarlane and Weitzman after the two were inspired by the 2000 United States presidential election, and Fox Broadcasting ordered a pilot presentation of the series in September 2003. American Dad! was the first series made specifically for Fox's Animation Domination block. The series moved to TBS for its twelfth season in 2014 until the conclusion of its twenty-first season in March 2025. It returned to Fox for its twenty-second season on February 22, 2026. In addition, the show has been renewed through its twenty-fifth season on the network.
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