American Dad! is an American adult animated sitcom created by Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman, and Seth MacFarlane for the "Animation Domination" lineup on Fox. Kenny Schwartz, Rick Wiener and Nahnatchka Khan serve as the program's executive producers. 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-fish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who's "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics." Unlike its sister shows, Family Guy and The Cleveland Show, American Dad! is not filled with intentional humor, such as through the use of repeated cutaway gags and straight-out joke-telling deliveries; rather the series typically uses unintentional humor through the nuttiness and oddities of its characters and their circumstances. Creators of American Dad! have highlighted the show's tendency to use observational comedy-turned-farces in which circumstances begin as relatable before eventually entering wild and crazy extremes. Mike Barker explained, "As weird as we get, it’s always a family story." As opposed to repeated joke references "to every pop cultural target known to man" existent in MacFarlane's Family Guy material, Barker and Weitzman have distinguished their American Dad! material by making the series a true family show, offering "emotional resonance" in combination with wild punch lines. Wikipedia [ - ]

American Dad! is an American adult animated sitcom created by Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman, and... [ + ]