American Dad! (2005)

Animation · Comedy

The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, 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."

IMDb rating: 7.4 (145,856 votes)
Episode average: 7.2 -0.2 vs IMDb
Seasons: 20
Status: Still airing
Streaming (US): Hulu
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 20 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2005)

7.40 avg 23 episodes 7.2 → 7.6 22 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	7.2	1,737
2	Threat Levels	7.1	1,414
3	Stan Knows Best	7.2	1,373
4	Francine's Flashback	7.3	1,374
5	Roger Codger	7.5	1,285
6	Homeland Insecurity	7.5	1,286
7	Deacon Stan, Jesus Man	7.2	1,226
8	Bullocks to Stan	7.7	1,278
9	A Smith in the Hand	7.7	1,257
10	All About Steve	7.3	1,151
11	Con Heir	7.1	1,114
12	Stan of Arabia: Part 1	7.7	1,266
13	Stan of Arabia: Part 2	7.7	1,236
14	Stannie Get Your Gun	7.4	1,122
15	Star Trek	7.3	1,095
16	Not Particularly Desperate Housewife	7.2	1,106
17	Rough Trade	7.5	1,079
18	Finances with Wolves	7.4	1,063
19	It's Good to Be the Queen	7.1	1,034
20	Roger 'n' Me	7.6	1,060
21	Helping Handis	7.1	1,033
22	With Friends Like Steve's	7.7	1,124
23	Tears of a Clooney	7.6	1,139

Season 2 (2006)

7.52 avg 19 episodes 7.7 → 8.0 22 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Camp Refoogee	7.7	1,183
2	The American Dad After School Special	7.9	1,216
3	Failure is Not a Factory-Installed Option	7.5	1,048
4	Lincoln Lover	7.7	1,112
5	Dungeons and Wagons	7.6	1,053
6	Iced, Iced Babies	7.3	1,022
7	Of Ice and Men	7.1	985
8	Irregarding Steve	7.2	1,032
9	The Best Christmas Story Never Told	7.9	1,138
10	Bush Comes to Dinner	7.4	996
11	American Dream Factory	7.3	953
12	A.T. The Abusive Terrestrial	7.2	1,005
13	Black Mystery Month	7.8	1,025
14	An Apocalypse to Remember	7.5	988
15	Four Little Words	7.6	948
16	When a Stan Loves a Woman	7.5	925
17	I Can't Stan You	7.4	903
18	The Magnificent Steven	7.3	885
19	Joint Custody	8.0	1,070

Season 3 (2007)

7.66 avg 16 episodes 8.2 → 7.8 22 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Vacation Goo	8.2	1,221
2	Meter Made	7.8	1,054
3	Dope and Faith	8.1	1,129
4	Big Trouble in Little Langley	7.3	946
5	Haylias	7.4	956
6	The 42-Year-Old Virgin	7.4	930
7	Surro-Gate	7.5	956
8	The Most Adequate Christmas Ever	7.9	1,045
9	Frannie 911	7.5	945
10	Tearjerker	8.4	1,328
11	Oedipal Panties	7.2	927
12	Widowmaker	7.6	917
13	Red October Sky	7.3	905
14	Office Spaceman	7.7	936
15	Stanny Slickers II: The Legend of Ollie's Gold	7.4	890
16	Spring Break-up	7.8	1,015

Season 4 (2008)

7.38 avg 20 episodes 7.8 → 7.4 23 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	1600 Candles	7.8	1,019
2	The One That Got Away	7.9	1,081
3	One Little Word	6.9	844
4	Choosy Wives Choose Smith	7.4	887
5	Escape from Pearl Bailey	7.6	967
6	Pulling Double Booty	7.3	899
7	Phantom of the Telethon	7.8	981
8	Chimdale	7.1	856
9	Stan Time	7.3	864
10	Family Affair	7.2	855
11	Live and Let Fry	7.2	859
12	Roy Rogers McFreely	7.6	948
13	Jack's Back	7.1	815
14	Bar Mitzvah Hustle	7.5	882
15	Wife Insurance	7.6	867
16	Delorean Story-An	7.3	877
17	Every Which Way But Lose	7.0	831
18	Weiner of Our Discontent	7.5	869
19	Daddy Queerest	7.2	820
20	Stan's Night Out	7.4	865

Season 5 (2009)

7.61 avg 18 episodes 8.2 → 8.2 22 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	In Country... Club	8.2	1,200
2	Moon Over Isla Island	7.6	920
3	Home Adrone	7.3	851
4	Brains, Brains and Automobiles	7.3	823
5	Man in the Moonbounce	7.2	932
6	Shallow Vows	7.2	893
7	My Morning Straitjacket	7.4	972
8	G-String Circus	7.3	850
9	Rapture's Delight	8.8	2,025
10	Don't Look a Smith Horse in the Mouth	7.5	822
11	A Jones for a Smith	8.0	985
12	May the Best Stan Win	7.4	843
13	Return of the Bling	7.5	834
14	Cops & Roger	7.6	871
15	Merlot Down Dirty Shame	7.7	845
16	Bully for Steve	7.6	899
17	An Incident at Owl Creek	7.1	827
18	Great Space Roaster	8.2	994

Season 6 (2010)

7.47 avg 19 episodes 7.7 → 6.9 22 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	100 A.D.	7.7	925
2	Son of Stan	7.7	903
3	Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls	7.7	942
4	Stan's Food Restaurant	7.4	862
5	White Rice	7.1	816
6	There Will Be Bad Blood	7.5	867
7	The People vs. Martin Sugar	7.6	856
8	For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls	8.6	1,341
9	Fart-Break Hotel	7.4	837
10	Stanny Boy and Frantastic	7.6	844
11	A Piñata Named Desire	7.4	819
12	You Debt Your Life	7.3	805
13	I Am the Walrus	7.6	815
14	School Lies	7.4	808
15	License to Till	7.1	780
16	Jenny Fromdabloc	7.3	803
17	Home Wrecker	7.3	790
18	Flirting with Disaster	7.3	778
19	Gorillas in the Mist	6.9	780

Season 7 (2011)

7.44 avg 18 episodes 7.4 → 7.2 22 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Hot Water	7.4	1,466
2	Hurricane!	8.2	1,182
3	A Ward Show	7.1	803
4	The Worst Stan	7.0	825
5	Virtual In-Stanity	7.9	932
6	The Scarlet Getter	7.3	784
7	Season's Beatings	7.9	913
8	The Unbrave One	7.3	745
9	Stanny Tendergrass	7.4	779
10	Wheels & the Legman and the Case of Grandpa's Key	7.3	766
11	Old Stan in the Mountain	7.6	815
12	The Wrestler	7.1	737
13	Dr. Klaustus	7.5	753
14	Stan's Best Friend	6.8	830
15	Less Money, Mo' Problems	7.6	806
16	The Kidney Stays in the Picture	7.5	779
17	Ricky Spanish	7.8	1,037
18	Toy Whorey	7.2	746

Season 8 (2012)

7.34 avg 19 episodes 7.4 → 7.5 22 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Love, American Dad Style	7.4	923
2	Killer Vacation	7.7	928
3	Can I Be Frank with You?	7.7	879
4	American Stepdad	7.5	798
5	Why Can't We Be Friends?	7.2	814
6	Adventures in Hayleysitting	7.6	813
7	National Treasure 4: Baby Franny: She's Doing Well - The Hole Story	6.6	779
8	Finger Lenting Good	7.1	768
9	The Adventures of Twill Ongenbone and His Boy Jabari	7.4	754
10	Blood Crieth Unto Heaven	6.8	1,076
11	Max Jets	7.3	792
12	Naked to the Limit, One More Time	7.5	767
13	For Black Eyes Only	7.2	843
14	Spelling Bee My Baby	7.4	758
15	The Missing Kink	7.1	746
16	The Boring Identity	6.8	731
17	The Full Cognitive Redaction of Avery Bullock by the Coward Stan Smith	7.1	702
18	Lost in Space	8.5	1,346
19	Da Flippity Flop	7.5	761

Season 9 (2013)

7.31 avg 23 episodes 7.6 → 7.0 21 min avg

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Steve and Snot's Test-Tubular Adventure	7.6	931
2	Poltergasm	7.4	955
3	Buck, Wild	7.3	824
4	Crotchwalkers	7.2	840
5	Kung Pao Turkey	6.6	840
6	Independent Movie	7.2	1,105
7	Faking Bad	8.0	988
8	Minstrel Krampus	7.8	1,219
9	Vision: Impossible	7.8	869
10	Familyland	7.8	941
11	Cock of the Sleepwalk	7.2	778
12	Introducing the Naughty Stewardesses	7.0	779
13	I Ain't No Holodeck Boy	7.2	750
14	Stan Goes on the Pill	7.2	774
15	Honey, I'm Homeland	6.9	724
16	She Swill Survive	7.3	741
17	Rubberneckers	7.0	852
18	Permanent Record Wrecker	7.3	726
19	News Glance with Genevieve Vavance	7.3	723
20	The Longest Distance Relationship	7.4	733
21	Roger Passes the Bar	7.2	715
22	A Boy Named Michael	7.4	754
23	Blagsnarst, a Love Story	7.0	764

Season 10 (2014)

6.95 avg 15 episodes 7.2 → 6.7 22 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 10 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Blonde Ambition	7.2	723
2	CIAPOW	6.9	950
3	Scents and Sensei-bility	6.8	687
4	Big Stan on Campus	6.9	829
5	Now and Gwen	7.4	685
6	Dreaming of a White Porsche Christmas	7.3	731
7	LGBSteve	7.4	746
8	Morning Mimosa	7.4	702
9	My Affair Lady	7.1	791
10	A Star Is Reborn	7.0	695
11	Manhattan Magical Murder Mystery Tour	7.1	662
12	The Shrink	7.4	666
13	Holy Shit, Jeff's Back!	7.6	687
14	American Fung	4.0	1,810
15	Seizures Suit Stanny	6.7	729

Season 11 (2016)

7.26 avg 22 episodes 7.0 → 7.0 21 min avg

Mid-peak

Season 11 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Roots	7.0	660
2	The Life Aquatic with Steve Smith	7.3	678
3	Hayley Smith, Seal Team Six	7.3	626
4	N.S.A. (No Snoops Allowed)	7.0	606
5	Stan Smith as Keanu Reeves as Stanny Utah in Point Breakers	7.0	600
6	Kiss Kiss, Cam Cam	6.7	573
7	The Devil Wears a Lapel Pin	7.1	573
8	Stan-Dan Deliver	7.1	579
9	Anchorfran	7.3	594
10	The Two Hundred	8.6	1,086
11	The Unincludeds	8.1	757
12	The Dentist's Wife	7.2	606
13	Widow's Pique	7.0	594
14	The Nova Centauris-burgh Board of Tourism Presents: American Dad	7.1	573
15	Daesong Heavy Industries	7.3	627
16	Daesong Heavy Industries II: Return to Innocence	7.1	609
17	Criss-Cross Applesauce: The Ballad of Billy Jesusworth	7.5	773
18	Mine Struggle	7.3	623
19	Garfield and Friends	7.0	562
20	Gifted Me Liberty	7.4	564
21	Next of Pin	7.4	562
22	Standard Deviation	7.0	548

Season 12 (2016)

6.97 avg 22 episodes 7.5 → 7.3 21 min avg

Season 12 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Father's Daze	7.5	668
2	Fight and Flight	6.6	583
3	The Enlightenment of Ragi-Baba	6.8	591
4	Portrait of Francine's Genitals	6.8	612
5	Bahama Mama	7.3	573
6	Roger's Baby	7.1	582
7	Ninety North, Zero West	7.3	609
8	Whole Slotta Love	6.9	587
9	The Witches of Langley	7.2	602
10	A Nice Night for a Drive	6.8	563
11	Casino Normale	6.9	628
12	Bazooka Steve	6.6	540
13	Camp Campawanda	6.6	532
14	Julia Rogerts	7.1	714
15	The Life and Times of Stan Smith	7.3	641
16	The Bitchin' Race	6.8	577
17	Family Plan	6.6	565
18	The Long Bomb	7.0	560
19	Kloger	6.6	687
20	Garbage Stan	6.7	520
21	The Talented Mr. Dingleberry	7.6	568
22	West to Mexico	7.3	562

Season 13 (2017)

7.01 avg 22 episodes 6.5 → 7.0 21 min avg

Season 13 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Santa, Schmanta	6.5	580
2	Paranoid Frandroid	7.2	588
3	The Census of the Lambs	6.8	545
4	Shell Game	7.0	613
5	The Mural of the Story	6.7	538
6	(You Gotta) Strike for Your Right	6.8	527
7	Klaustastrophe.tv	6.9	531
8	Death by Dinner Party	7.7	599
9	The Never-Ending Stories	6.8	521
10	Railroaded	6.7	503
11	My Purity Ball and Chain	7.3	564
12	OreTron Trail	7.7	563
13	Mean Francine	6.8	517
14	One-Woman Swole	6.8	522
15	Flavortown	6.2	537
16	Persona Assistant	8.2	697
17	The Legend of Old Ulysses	6.9	496
18	Twinanigans	6.9	485
19	Top of the Steve	7.4	551
20	Funnyish Games	7.1	464
21	Fleabiscuit	6.8	475
22	The Future Is Borax	7.0	462

Season 14 (2019)

7.07 avg 20 episodes 7.0 → 7.2 21 min avg

Season 14 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Fantasy Baseball	7.0	517
2	I Am the Jeans: The Gina Lavetti Story	6.6	535
3	Stan & Francine & Connie & Ted	7.5	549
4	Rabbit Ears	8.7	1,347
5	Jeff and The Dank Ass Weed Factory	7.4	606
6	Lost Boys	6.6	495
7	Shark?!	7.2	524
8	The Long March	7.0	494
9	The Hall Monitor and the Lunch Lady	6.7	505
10	Wild Women Do	6.8	511
11	An Irish Goodbye	6.4	488
12	Stompe le Monde	7.0	514
13	Mom Sauce	6.7	496
14	Hamerican Dad!	6.5	512
15	Demolition Daddy	6.7	492
16	Pride Before the Fail	7.1	485
17	Enter Stanman	7.7	571
18	No Weddings and a Funeral	7.4	515
19	Eight Fires	7.2	510
20	The Hand that Rocks the Rogu	7.2	504

Season 15 (2020)

6.88 avg 24 episodes 6.9 → 7.7 21 min avg

Season 15 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	100 Years a Solid Fool	6.9	621
2	Downtown	7.2	548
3	Cheek to Cheek: A Stripper's Story	6.2	536
4	A Starboy is Born	6.7	688
5	Tapped Out	6.3	536
6	Brave N00b World	6.7	532
7	Into the Woods	6.7	493
8	One Fish, Two Fish	6.8	476
9	Exquisite Corpses	7.4	509
10	Trophy Wife, Trophy Life	6.5	478
11	Game Night	7.4	552
12	American Data?	6.5	472
13	Salute Your Sllort	6.6	550
14	Ghost Dad	7.0	461
15	Men II Boyz	7.1	495
16	First, Do No Farm	7.3	508
17	Roger Needs Dick	7.0	465
18	The Old Country	7.0	436
19	Businessly Brunette	6.5	435
20	The Chilly Thrillies	6.3	441
21	Dammmm, Stan!	6.5	437
22	The Last Ride of the Dodge City Rambler	6.7	446
23	300	8.0	602
24	Yule. Tide. Repeat.	7.7	510

Season 16 (2021)

6.84 avg 22 episodes 7.1 → 6.5 21 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 16 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Who Smarted?	7.1	491
2	Russian Doll	7.1	495
3	Stan Moves to Chicago	6.5	649
4	Shakedown Steve	6.9	457
5	Klaus and Rogu in Thank God for Loose Rocks: An American Dad! Adventure	5.9	546
6	The Wondercabinet	7.1	448
7	Little Bonnie Ramirez	7.5	474
8	Dancin' A-With My Cell	7.0	437
9	Mused and Abused	6.7	417
10	Henderson	7.3	443
11	Hot Scoomp	6.5	470
12	Lumberjerk	7.0	422
13	Stan & Francine & Stan & Francine & Radika	7.5	460
14	Flush After Reading	7.0	424
15	Comb Over: A Hair Piece	6.1	421
16	Plot Heavy	6.7	405
17	The Sinister Fate!!	6.9	395
18	Dr. Sunderson's SunSuckers	7.1	407
19	Family Time	6.8	396
20	Cry Baby	6.5	377
21	Crystal Clear	6.7	374
22	Steve's Franken Out	6.5	384

Season 17 (2022)

6.72 avg 22 episodes 6.8 → 6.3 21 min avg

Mid-peak

Season 17 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Langley Dollar Listings	6.8	689
2	Dressed Down	7.1	664
3	The Book of Fischer	6.7	629
4	A Roger Story	6.7	636
5	Epic Powder Dump	6.5	640
6	American Dad Graffito	6.3	646
7	Beyond the Alcove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Klaus	6.8	646
8	A Song of Knives and Fire	6.9	656
9	The Curious Case of the Old Hole	7.1	655
10	Gold Top Nuts	7.6	870
11	The Three Fs	6.7	651
12	Smooshed: A Love Story	7.2	686
13	The Fast and the Spurious	7.0	617
14	A League of His Own	6.5	558
15	You Are Here	6.3	464
16	I Heard You Wanna Buy Some Speakers	6.8	440
17	Hayley Was a Girl Scout?	6.4	404
18	Please Please Jeff	6.6	372
19	Jambalaya	6.5	377
20	Gernot and Strudel	6.3	378
21	Echoes	6.8	395
22	The Grounch	6.3	407

Season 18 (2023)

6.87 avg 22 episodes 7.6 → 7.0 21 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 18 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Fellow Traveler	7.6	674
2	The Professor and the Coach	6.6	548
3	Viced Principal	6.7	526
4	The Pleasanting at Smith House	6.5	525
5	Stretched Thin	6.1	514
6	Better on Paper	6.4	501
7	Cow I Met Your Moo-ther	6.2	528
8	Stan Fixes a Shingle	6.3	492
9	Saving Face	6.6	501
10	Frantastic Voyage	7.1	477
11	A Little Mystery	7.2	476
12	Don't You Be My Neighbor	7.1	492
13	Productive Panic	6.8	485
14	Multiverse of American Dadness	7.6	536
15	Z.O.I.N.C.S.	7.5	494
16	A New Era for the Smith House	6.5	377
17	Between a Ring and a Hardass	7.6	473
18	Footprints	6.9	354
19	Steve, Snot, and the Quest for the OG Four Loko	7.3	379
20	The Pink Sphinx Holds Her Hearts on the Turn	6.7	354
21	A Little Extra Scratch	6.9	338
22	Into the Jingleverse	7.0	357

Season 19 (2023)

6.84 avg 22 episodes 7.6 → 7.4 21 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 19 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Grocery Store Bank	7.6	436
2	Brown Lotus	6.7	358
3	I've Got a Friend in Me	7.1	358
4	Touch the Sun: A Chimborazo Adventure	7.1	339
5	Under (and Over, and Beside) the Boardwalk	6.7	321
6	The Violence of the Clams	6.5	327
7	An Adult Woman	6.0	326
8	Piece by Piece	6.5	309
9	Nasty Christmas	7.0	303
10	Idiot Rich	6.6	287
11	Killer Mimosa	6.8	303
12	The Legend of Mike Madonia, the Rototiller Man	7.0	299
13	The Clearview Motel	8.0	445
14	The Girl Who Cried Space Jam	6.6	302
15	Get Him to the Greek Life Style	7.0	282
16	The Mystery of the Missing Bazooka Shark Babe	6.9	289
17	Pork 'n Feelings	6.6	270
18	Oh Brothel, Where Art Thou?	6.8	264
19	The Sickness	6.8	286
20	Silicon Steve	6.0	313
21	Guardian	6.7	273
22	What Great Advancements!	7.4	351

Season 20 (2026)

6.91 avg 13 episodes Still airing 7.3 → 7.3 22 min avg

Season 20 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Aw Rats, A Pool Party	7.3	324
2	The Flume Flume Room	6.8	274
3	Powering Through	7.6	283
4	Camera Stan	6.7	237
5	Idol Threat	6.3	235
6	The Treasure of Old Chinatown	6.6	227
7	Reaper Madness	6.6	218
8	Dude, You're Getting a Del!	6.9	194
9	Where the Wild Boars Are	6.7	193
10	Dumbston Checks In	6.5	181
11	A Donkey's Shame	7.1	166
12	400?!	7.4	138
13	Tales from the Outer Frontier	7.3	130