Horrible.
The thing that bothered me the most was the similarity in appearance to Family Guy. It kept me looking for Family Guyish jokes. However this series seems more like a current events shtick rather than the 70-80s nastalgia gags of the Fmaily Guy. I’m going to give it more time.
My favorite gag was the “we’re on Terror Alert level orange, which means something, migh happen somewhere, maybe…” which sounded like something I’d hear here.
Jack In the Boxes have been in the South for over 15 years at least. I had thought they had expanded nationally. It is a shame because they have the funniest fast food commercials you’ll ever see.
I am not sure about Chocodiles (sounds familiar, but not something I have bought regularly), but I was able to pick that one up on context alone.
When I watched it, I wondered if I didn’t find it particularly funny because I wasn’t a lefty (I also thought, though, that the same sort of show with some ultra-bleeding heart stereotype and running that joke into the ground, would have gotten the same lack of laughter from me), but I’m glad I wasn’t being politically biased in thinking it was awful! 
Well, maybe on reflection, awful was too strong a word, but it certainly wasn’t all that good.
(Ohh, and I’m a person who absolutely cracked up at the first episode of Family Guy, probably because of the blatant political incorrectness in the show, which AD just doesn’t have…)
They used to sell Chocodiles in the East. I ate them in NY in the 80s or so all the time. They sold them one at a time for 25 cents.
The show? Yuck yuck yuck. And not the laughing kind of yuck, which I spell yuk.
Yeah, that was painful. I was drunk, so at least I got the laugh value out of it being so awful. At one point, the people watching it with me posited that Seth M deliberately made it awful just to tweak Fox. I miss Family Guy and Futurama. The ressurected FG will hopefully last, and be better than that awful drek AD.
Looks like this year’s Super Bowl had a humour malfunction. I watched to the first commercial break and gave up.
A weird hijack, but I wonder why they haven’t gone national? Excellent by fast food standards.
Ah, okay. Yes, the evidence does suggest that.
And I plan to keep it that way. 
Hmmn… I wonder if being a fan of the Family Guy taints your perception? Because I never got into Family Guy, but I did watch American Dad, and I thought it was pretty good. The old dog gag was hilarious, and I liked how they kept dragging the dog back into scenes until the overkill threshold was reached. The fish/skiier flopping down the ski run was hilarious. I loved when the Dad told his son he’d pretend to snatch a purse and the kid could be a hero by catching him, then went absolutely bananas. There were a few more gags that went over pretty well, and how much more can you expect in a half-hour show that is busy introducing characters?
I give it a thumbs up, at least for a pilot. Ten episodes in we’ll know if it’s a dud or not.
Fan of Family Guy–hated it, especially the fish. I couldn’t continue after the first commercial break. After watching AD, I’m a bit worried about how the new episodes of Family Guy are going to turn out.
I’m one of those “can take or leave Family Guy” types and I’d say the same for this show.
Probably won’t be on my viewing list.
I think they should re-dub the show with the voices of the Family Guy Characters.
But I think Stewie should be the fish, and Brian should be the alien.
In fact, I think I’ll turn the sound off and read the lines from the closed-captioning next time it shows up.
Does anybody know how Seth Mcflarne is going to go about making both of these shows at once? Is American Dad going to get a brand new writing team of it’s own, or is Family Guy’s writing team getting divided up into two teams?
American Dad got a few laughs from me, but I wasn’t too impressed. If the quality doesn’t improve, this one is getting cancelled. I’d hate to see Family Guy’s quality decline as a result of Seth Mcflarne biting off more than he can chew.
Maybe the whole thing is a big hoax, like Squidbillies on AS, and he’s really just going to be doing Family Guy.
I’m sure it’ll have its own writers; that would just create problems for everybody. MacFarlane is probably an actor and producer. According to IMDB he didn’t write many episodes of Family Guy (they list two) and I don’t know if he wrote the pilot for American Dad. It doesn’t include his name and I don’t think he’ll write. He’s listed as a producer of Family Guy and director of the American Dad pilot. He created both shows and is involved with them at a high end, I don’t think he’s “making” either show.
I see. Thanks for the answers 
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I liked parts. There were definitely flaws, but well it’s a cartoon that I watched to laugh.
the Dad’s fascination with the Osama pencil was great. As was his getting carried away purse-snatching, and subsequent apology.
Call from God gets a thumbs up, as does the German Fish skier
The alien diet arc didn’t do much for me, and neither did the cheerleader/school president thing.