American Dad! is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman. 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. The series moved to TBS for its twelfth season in 2014 until the conclusion of its twenty-first season in March 2025. It has received generally positive reviews and has been nominated for numerous awards.
The series focuses on the eccentric upper middle class Smith family in a fictionalized version of Langley, Virginia. The family's unusual goldfish, Klaus, who has the brain of an East German athlete; Roger, the alien, is a flamboyant, hedonistic, self-serving master of disguise; and Roger's ex-tumor son Rogu.