Some of my favorite recurring secondary characters on  American Dad  are those wonderfully weird nerds that make up Steve’s peer group . “The Wrestler” set us up to watch Toshi, Snot, Barry and Steve flounder about outside of their com more

There are a lot of things that exist in Stan’s world that make him angry. In “Old Stan in the Mountain,” it happened to be the elderly, but Stan has been condescending and rude to various groups of people in the past. There’s a somewhat typical cours more

“Wheels and The Legman” have been featured in quite a few episodes of  American Dad , but as far as I can recall,  “Wheels and The Legman and The Case of Grandpa’s Key”  is the first time that Roger and Steve’s alternate detective hero pers more

I’m usually suspect of story lines that  rely on an inexplicably convenient change in circumstance to make a particular plot setup feasible. It’s not that I expect  American Dad  to be in any way realistic, but it feels like   more

Although  the relationship between  Stan and Steve on  American Dad  is generally not a very normal one, “The Unbrave One” focused on the relatively universal desire of adolescents to attain approval and acceptance from their fath more

In keeping with the  American Dad  tradition of going completely  off the wall  for its Christmas specials, “Season’s Beatings” delivered a hefty dose of dark and twisted humor in a holiday setting. After being told he was to more

AMERICAN DAD  “The Scarlett Getter” Season 7 , Episode 6  – Roger has been a fugitive for seven seasons of  American Dad  and although he always manages to weasel his way out of captivity, I appreciate that  American Dad more

AMERICAN DAD  “Virtual In-Stanity” Season 7, Episode 5 – Tonight Stan realized that he hasn’t been living up to the role of greatest  American Dad . When he looks back on the milestones in Steve’s life and is horrified to discover that he’s miss more