Hayley and Roger board the alien mothership and find that the real Jeff has been killed previously and when they are captured, they are due to be next. In reality, he is an alien named Zebleer from a species that "collects" and he has come to sample more earth items, his race having dissected Jeff in order to find out more about him. Jeff appears to return from space in " Holy Shit, Jeff's Back!", but he acts strange, causing Hayley some doubts, although his new attitude soon wins over Stan. Unhappy with having upset the family and giving the elderly Hayley a heart attack, he returns through the wormhole and tells the again-young Hayley to move on with her life as he sadly gives up on her, unaware that Matt is killed by Roger very shortly after. In " The Longest Distance Relationship", Jeff is able to communicate with Hayley though a CB radio and discovers a way to return to earth through a wormhole, but arrives 60 years in the future and learns that he cost her a chance to have a great life with Millionaire Matt Davis. In " Lost in Space", he is forced to reveal the trickery of Emperor Zing in hiding true love from his people, setting off a revolution and escapes in a spacecraft, looking for a way to get back to Earth and to Hayley. When Roger asks Jeff for a hug before he leaves, Roger tosses him into a tractor beam from a ship sent to pick him up from his home planet which takes Jeff away, leaving a stunned Hayley behind. In " Naked to the Limit, One More Time", Jeff discovers about Roger being an alien and Stan has to kill one of them so the CIA wouldn't find out and risk his family. In " Daesong Heavy Industries II: Return to Innocence", a navy carrier captain believes that Jeff may be his long-lost illegitimate son, and carries a photo in a locket of a woman that bears a striking resemblance to Jeff. Jeff is wanted in Florida for possession of marijuana as he had skipped bail. In that episode, he went to his father Henry Fischer's farm in Raleigh, North Carolina, when trying to escape from Stan and Roger. Until " Joint Custody", Jeff had not spoken to his father for years and "his mother ran away before he was born". He has also recovered from being crushed under a heavy object in " Phantom of the Telethon" and having all his skin peeled from his body by Roger in " Love, American Dad Style". Jeff was brutally beaten by Stan's boss, Avery Bullock in " Bullocks To Stan". Recap page here.Jeff Smith, formerly Jeff Fischer, is Hayley's husband however, prior to their elopement in " 100 A.D.", they had been a frequently on again off again couple. On May 14th, 2023, the show was confirmed by creator Seth MacFarlane to have been suspended for an unspecified amount of time due to the ongoing writer's strike. Over time, however, as the characters' personalities began to be fleshed out, the show became less and less political in nature, to the point where only a small portion of the episodes featured politics as an active theme (curiously, as this was taking place, Family Guy was steadily becoming more political).īecause of low ratings and Fox's plans to revert the Sunday night line-up from "Animation Domination" to "Sunday Funday", American Dad was canceled on Fox, but has since been picked up by TBS. Initially, the show relied on caricatures of political personalities, as well as some of the more visible and controversial aspects of the right wing's policies and ideologies (although granted, usually the Strawman Political version of said policies) and was, in MacFarlane's words, ".going to be the next All in the Family". They also have a talking German goldfish named Klaus, who used to be a human.Įarly in its run, American Dad! followed a similar formula to Family Guy, but quickly developed its own identity by emphasizing story and character development while downplaying most of its parent show's trademark shticks, like the cutaway gags, flashback twists, surreal humour, overly long gags, and frequent references to pop culture. The pilot episode explains that, on a mission, Stan uncovered a runaway talking alien named Roger, who lives in the family's attic for protection from getting turned in to the federal agency, until he adapted more to the outside world and became more outgoing through the use of various disguises later in the series. Stan Smith singing the show's theme song.Īmerican Dad! is the second Animated Sitcom from the creator of Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane, along with Matt Weitzman and Mike Barker.Ī pillory of American ultra conservatism played out on Rupert Murdoch's network, it follows the daily life of paranoid and extremely patriotic CIA agent Stan Smith, his over-protective wife Francine, nerdy teenage son Steve, and liberal and rebellious teenage daughter Hayley.
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