Season 1:

01 American Dad (Pilot)

Steve is upset about his lack of popularity, and notices that girls seem attracted to guys with dogs, so he convinces Stan to get one.
Roger does Hayley’s homework, but when he flakes the dog is used as an excuse for late homework.

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02 Threat Levels

Stan accidentally brings home a deadly virus causing the CIA to put the entire family on quarantine.

The virus scare causes many neighbors to put their houses for sale which results in Francine wanted to be part of the real estate business. Hayley uses one of the houses in her mother’s portfolio to set up a shelter for the homeless.

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03 Stan Knows Best

Hayley dyes her hair green at a Green Party rally, so Stan shaves her head while she is asleep. Out to celebrate a colleague’s first assassination, Stan and his friends go to Hayley’s club, where he is appalled to see her dancing topless on stage. Meanwhile, Steve and hisfriends ponder about what they’ll do in the upcoming school dance.

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04 Francine’s Flashback

While midnight fishing with his friends, Stan eventually mentions that he’s glad not to be at home on that day, since it is the anniversary of a”huge fight” he and Francine had the previous year forgetting their wedding! Despite Francine’s early tips, Stan completely forgets their anniversary, only remembering that it was time for the CIA’s annual fishing trip. He leaves in a hurry, dropping food on the bed and soiling the stairway, since he didn’t have the time to go to the bathroom, all left for Francine to clean.

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05 Roger Codger

Roger later wakes up, in a landfill, and it is revealed that he had gone through a stress-induced hibernation. Desperate, Roger finally figures that he can go back home disguised as an old lady. While on his way,however, he gets confused with one of the senior citizens who are on their way for a tour in Washington D.C.

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06 Homeland Insecurity

Francine decides to throw a block party to get in touch with the neighborhood.

Stan learns his new neighbors are Iranian and immediately suspects that they are terrorists.
He turns his house into a detention camp and keeps them inside.

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07 Deacon Stan, Jesus Man

In this episode, we are introduced to the White family. Stan hates the father, Chuck, who always beats the Smiths to church.

At church,the deacon chokes to death on a communion wafer and Chuck volunteers to be deacon. Stan, wanting to beat him, also volunteers. Meanwhile, Roger is going through his reproductive cycle.

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08 Bullocks to Stan

When a colleague leaves for health reasons, Stan assumes he’ll be promoted to the job. At home, Stan prepares for the CIA family carnival, figuring it’s his chance to impress Director Bullock and secure his promotion. At the carnival, Steve finds Dick Cheney’s Blackberry. The next day, Stan visits Bullock at home, unexpectedly finding Hayley there.

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09 A Smith in the Hand

Stan teaches a cleaned up sex education class for Steve’s benefit and shows a film demonstrating the evils of masturbation. When Steve channels his pent up sexual aggression into wood burning, Stan suffers an embarrassing accident. His ointment use turns into an addiction to masturbation.

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10 All About Steve

The CIA is trying to decipher a strange geek alphabet being used by a terrorist to hack into computers controlling a dam,
but they can’t figure out the strange letters. So instead, they decide to go practice for the father/son softball game. Stan is ashamed of Steve’s geekiness and tries to cure him.

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11 Con Heir

Things are a bit mundane for Stan at the CIA, evident by he and his colleague passing the time with paper football while waiting for an assignment. An upcoming mission is deemed too dangerous for a family man and Stan is passed up. Francine tries to convince Stan that heshould be happy having a great family, when Hayley comes in to announce that Grandpa Smith has died…or did he?

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12 Stan of Arabia: Part 1

After doing a terrible job standing in for Jay Leno at Bullock’s anniversary roast, Stan is banished to Saudi Arabia. Francine and Hayley find their feminist fantasies dashed, while Steve and Stan find all their dreams come true.

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13 Stan of Arabia: Part 2

Driving around the desert, Steve gets a vision from God in the form of Angelina Jolie. When he goes back to the town and tells the public about his vision, they decide to stone him. Francine does a musical number casting off her clothes and is also sentenced to stoning.

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14 Stannie Get Your Gun

Francine forces Stan to rekindle the bonds he had with Hayley when she was a child, but Stan’s attempts lead to Hayley accidentally shooting and paralyzing Stan. Meanwhile, Roger takes revenge on Steve for eating his cookie by making Steve believe he was adopted into the Smith family.

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15 Star Trek

To inspire Steve, Stan shows him his Patriot Pigeonchildren’s books. Stan has written over a thousand of them and gotten almost as many rejection letters. Then, Stan sits Steve down at a desk and glues his right hand. At this time, Roger comes in and does something clumsy, inspiring Steve to write about him.

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16 Not Particularly Desperate Housewife

Francine skips puzzle night with Linda to go to an art opening with the Ladybugs at the nightclub . The Ladybugs still refuse to admit Francine, until a misunderstanding causes them to believe Francine is having an affair with the valet. They reveal to Francine the true nature of their organization: they cheat on their husbands. Francine receives a ladybug brooch and tries to maintain the fiction of her affair with the valet.

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17 Rough Trade

After Stan and Roger have a rough day, they get into a fight that leads to a Freaky Friday type switcheroo (without the body switch) where they get a taste of life in each other’s shoes. But after the excitement of a new life stales, they face each other’s problems as Roger is under pressure at work and Stan yearns to be needed. The swap gets out of hand as the family starts to crumble.

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18 Finances with Wolves

Francine opens a muffin shop without Stan’s approval which gets him to put Klaus’ brain back into a human body – only to discover it was a huge mistake as Klaus tries to win over Francine. Meanwhile, Steve is convinced he’s a teen wolf after being attacked by a wolf.

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19 It’s Good to Be Queen

In the present, Stan is close to realizing his dream, as Francine was voted Homecoming Queen of her school, winning by one vote. Stan proudly attends Francine’s reunion, where various items from their high-school years are brought out of storage. Among them is the Homecoming ballot box, which contains two previously uncounted votes for Francine’s opponent. It turns out that Francine had lost the Homecoming vote by one vote!

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20 Roger ‘n’ Me

When Stan goes to Atlantic City for a bachelor party and is shunnedby his so-called best friend, Roger steps in and becomes Stan’s new sidekick. Their friendship goes to a whole new level, but when they return home and face Francine, Stan realizes that what happens in Atlantic City doesn’t necessarily
stay there. Meanwhile, Haley andSteve team up to break up a good-looking couple.

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21 Helping Hands

Stan wants Steve to be popular and goes to desperate measures bygiving him steroids. But when they have an unexpected side effect,Steve gets a lot more attention than anyone expected. Meanwhile, after Hayley makes a movie about Francine’s life as a housewife, Francine is determined to start a new career as a doctor.

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22 With Friends Like Steve’s

After Steve shows a lack of interest in Stan’s job, Stan replaces him with Barry, Steve’s malicious friend. Barry frames Steve to eliminate him from the household, but when Steve discovers Barry’s weakness, he relies on his CIA skills to save the family. Meanwhile,Roger makes an impressive keg-stand and becomes a fraternity brother.

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23 Tears of a Clooney

When Francine’s birthday brings back haunting memories of a celebrity film moment stolen by George Clooney, Francine’s new dream is to destroy the star. But when she tries to win Clooney’s heart with thei ntention of breaking it, Stan actually becomes friends with him and sabotages the plan. Meanwhile, back at home, Roger builds a vine yard and starts up a private sweat shop using foster children.

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