# "American Dad" question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 16, 2013, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-question/671379 "2013-10-16T06:23:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-question/671379/1 "2013-10-16T06:23:24Z")
I just watched a new episode of _American Dad_ on Hulu and I was a little surprised. Haley was making out with some guy and I was thinking “isn’t she supposed to be married?” But I figured I haven’t watched the show in a while and they must have written out her husband Jeff. So I checked on Wikipedia: > [@](#): > > In season 8 episode “Naked to the Limit, One More Time” (February 17, 2013), Jeff learned that Roger is an alien. Because of this, Stan informed that he must kill either Roger or Jeff to protect his family. Roger, however, informed that he’d call his fellow aliens to take him back to his birth planet; in this manner, it was understood that neither Jeff nor Roger would have to die since Roger would be leaving Earth. At the last minute, however, Roger chucked Jeff into the spaceship, while he stayed on Earth. This storyline is ongoing through multiple episodes, and Jeff has yet to return: In the episode “Spelling Bee My Baby” Roger casually speculated that his fellow alien species have probably not only killed Jeff by now, but completely dismembered him. In “Lost in Space,” Jeff escapes from the alien spaceship and starts to make his way back to Earth. However, there are over 47,000 planets by that name, and as of completion of the show’s 9th season, he has still yet to return home. Seriously? Did this actually happen or has somebody vandalized the wikipedia page? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-question/671379/2 "2013-10-16T06:27:42Z")
Yes, those things did happen in the show. The _American Dad_ plots can veer wildly and some are “out there”. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-question/671379/3 "2013-10-16T13:20:16Z")
I recommend the episode “Lost in Space” for the sheer spectacle of its space ship and numerous aliens species. I don’t know if Hayley sleeping with other men is a surprise. Not after Jeff supposedly had sex with another man to put the spark back in their marriage in “Killer Vacation” and they suggest he worked as a prostitute to support them when they came back into the series in “There will be Bad Blood.” But all that is probably because Hayley is a bad influence. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-question/671379/4 "2013-10-16T14:37:43Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > So I checked on Wikipedia:Seriously? Did this actually happen or has somebody vandalized the wikipedia page? One of the few episodes I have seen fairly recently, but yes, that happened. ---
**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 16, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-question/671379/5 "2013-10-16T19:44:28Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > I recommend the episode “Lost in Space” for the sheer spectacle of its space ship and numerous aliens species… Yep, we finally got to see other members of Roger’s species, and it turns out that Roger’s _ex-boyfriend is their emperor_. And Roger’s cheating is what let to Emperor Zing to wander the galaxy using the Majestic to trick his slaves into getting “the smoothening”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-question/671379/6 "2013-10-17T02:25:46Z")
I’m reminded of this article from Cracked: [6 TV Shows That Completely Lost Their Shit](http://www.cracked.com/article/242_6-tv-shows-that-completely-lost-their-shit/). ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-question/671379/7 "2013-10-17T12:09:52Z")
But “American Dad” has always thrown in an insane episode every season or so. The post-Apocalyptic episode where Stan had to help Jesus rescue Francine from the Antichrist, the time-travel episode where President Mondale surrenders unconditionally to the Soviets a few weeks after taking office, the James Bond/Sexpun episodes, etc. Given that they already had an alien, having one episode take place on an alien ship is pretty normal for them. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-question/671379/8 "2013-10-17T16:12:12Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > But “American Dad” has always thrown in an insane episode every season or so. The post-Apocalyptic episode where Stan had to help Jesus rescue Francine from the Antichrist Of course, the funny thing about that episode, is Stan goes to heaven at the end, and as a reward, his own personal heaven is whatever he wants, so it simulates him being back home a few hours before the Rapture happens, and then of course the Rapture doesn’t actually happen in his heaven-dream, so he and his family can live the rest of their lives together. So technically, from that point onward, _nothing that happened in American Dad actually happened._ It’s all just been Stan’s “Heaven Dream” or whatever. Of course, that can certainly be considered null and void from the fact that plenty of AD episodes are “non canon”/fantasy, like the “Tearjerker” James Bond spoofs, the hot tub episode where they all die, etc… ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-question/671379/9 "2013-10-17T16:18:43Z")
I like the one where Stan dies from an allergic reaction because Roger used his epi-pen ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-question/671379/10 "2013-10-17T19:37:14Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > Of course, the funny thing about that episode, is Stan goes to heaven at the end, and as a reward, his own personal heaven is whatever he wants, so it simulates him being back home a few hours before the Rapture happens, and then of course the Rapture doesn’t actually happen in his heaven-dream, so he and his family can live the rest of their lives together. > > So technically, from that point onward, _nothing that happened in American Dad actually happened._ It’s all just been Stan’s “Heaven Dream” or whatever. > > Of course, that can certainly be considered null and void from the fact that plenty of AD episodes are “non canon”/fantasy, like the “Tearjerker” James Bond spoofs, the hot tub episode where they all die, etc… Wasn’t Klaus stuffed and mounted on the wall in Stan’s Heaven? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-question/671379/11 "2013-10-17T21:05:18Z")
Plus a few of the characters got yanked over to _Family Guy_’s spoof of _Return of the Jedi_ so… canon… whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-question/671379/12 "2013-10-17T22:49:35Z")
> [@MegaBee](#): > > Wasn’t Klaus stuffed and mounted on the wall in Stan’s Heaven? Yes. So, technically, the Rapture episode is just non-canon. > [@Aquadementia](#): > > I don’t know if Hayley sleeping with other men is a surprise. Not after Jeff supposedly had sex with another man to put the spark back in their marriage in “Killer Vacation” and they suggest he worked as a prostitute to support them when they came back into the series in “There will be Bad Blood.” Hayley is one of the most insane characters ever. She’s been a stripper, an evil glutton at a refuge camp, a prostitute, and she dated Stan’s Double and volunteered to do some seriously sick with him (and then burned down a forest when he dumped her). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-question/671379/13 "2013-10-17T23:48:30Z")
Plus she was a homicidal sleeper agent. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-question/671379/14 "2013-10-18T16:33:06Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Plus she was a homicidal sleeper agent. I knew I forgot one! ---
**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 19, 2013, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dad-question/671379/15 "2013-10-19T00:31:15Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > …Hayley is one of the most insane characters ever. She’s been a stripper, an evil glutton at a refuge camp, a prostitute, and she dated Stan’s Double and volunteered to do some seriously sick with him (and then burned down a forest when he dumped her). Carlotta Monterrey