CORPORATE LINE: From the delightfully twisted creative minds behind Family Guy comes American Dad, the animated tour de force featuring CIA operative Stan Smith, his outrageous family, and Roger, the alcoholic extra-terrestrial who lives with them! Follow the adventures of the Smiths from the California desert where Stan’s wife Francine relieves her wild youth at the Burning Man Festival to Saudi Arabia, where the entire family is sentenced to death by the Vice and Virtue Police! Whether it’s rigging elections, erasing memories, chasing sleazy strip clubs, or staging “bum fights,” it’s all in a day’s work for Stan, and it’s all here in the side-splittingly hilarious first 13 episodes of American Dad!
THE REVIEW: American Dad is Family Guy V.2. Every character on Family Guy is mimicked on American Dad right down to the talking dog from the Family Guy and the alien on American Dad. The biggest problem is that American Dad isn’t nearly as funny. All the political jokes rapidly grow tired after the first dozen or so. Many of the jokes carry so long that they wear thin long before the punch-line.
As the season comes to a close is when American Dad finally starts to hit its stride. American Dad gets better and better as the season progresses with episodes like “Jesus Man” shining.
THE EXTRAS:
There are episode commentaries for every episode but one. Creators & producers Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman, Seth MacFarlane all offer hilarious insight on the episodes.
“Making of Featurette” – Offers a little information on the show. It mostly sounds like a studio made EPK to turn viewers onto American Dad. From the love-fest one might deduce that this may have been sent out to get TV reviewers interested in the show.
“Animatic Comparisons” – Little more than the sketches of the show and the finished product.
“Table Read” – This is actually very interesting as you can listen to the different audio tracks from beginning to end.
There are forty-three deleted scenes that needed to be cut.
FRANKLY: American Dad is no Family Guy even though it tries hard to be. A few episodes like “Jesus Man” and “Bullocks to Stan” are hilarious—to bad they come so late in the season.
+ Charlie Craine
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