# American Dad!, 6th season premiere (open spoilers)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-6th-season-premiere-open-spoilers/555965>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 4, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-6th-season-premiere-open-spoilers/555965 "2010-10-04T02:00:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-6th-season-premiere-open-spoilers/555965/1 "2010-10-04T02:00:41Z")

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This started out slow, but there was no reset at the end. Haley & Jeff actually got married! :eek: That was unexpected.

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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-6th-season-premiere-open-spoilers/555965/2 "2010-10-04T03:39:18Z")

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Actually, I thought Jeff’s van turning into Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was more unexpected.

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**Author:** ![heathen\_earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/13edae/32.png) [@heathen\_earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heathen_earthling)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-6th-season-premiere-open-spoilers/555965/3 "2010-10-04T04:01:19Z")

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I haven’t seen this series in a while and was kind of confused. Why was one of the characters a koala?

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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-6th-season-premiere-open-spoilers/555965/4 "2010-10-04T13:41:50Z")

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> [@heathen\_earthling](#):
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> I haven’t seen this series in a while and was kind of confused. Why was one of the characters a koala?

> **[Reginald the Koala](https://americandad.fandom.com/wiki/Reginald_the_Koala)**
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> Reginald the Koala introduces the back story of Reginald Koala first seen in "Family Affair", of a homeless man nicknamed Reggie, whose brain is switched with a koala. He becomes a more regular character in the series, often hanging around Hayley to...

He was a homeless man whose brain was placed into a koala by CIA scientists and now he works for the CIA. I think he started off as a one-off gag, but they brought him back a few times. At one point he was involved with Hayley – that’s why he was defending her honour to Bullock.

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**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-6th-season-premiere-open-spoilers/555965/5 "2010-10-04T20:54:37Z")

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I’m thinking this episode is a farewell to Haley. She’s practically a nonentity in the show lately.