History Trivia / AmericanDad

* BannedEpisode: For a while, it appeared as though Adult Swim refused to rerun "The Mural of the Story" due to the excessively gory face surgery scene (though TBS reran it no problem and it is available on streaming and [=OnDemand=] services and despite the fact that Adult Swim had aired [[WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}} series]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}} that]] [[WesternAnimation/KingStarKing are]] [[WesternAnimation/MrPickles much]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Primal}} more violent]] than this). As of 2019, the episode has been reinstated.

* RecycledScript: The overall plot for Season 14's "My Purity Ball and Chain" is the exact same one from Season 1's "A Smith in the Hand" (Stan being afraid to give Steve "the talk", despite already giving it to him in the aforementioned), but also rips off "Cleveland Jr. Cherry Bomb" from ''The Cleveland Show''.

* TheWikiRule: [[https://americandad.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page American Dad! Wiki]]

** Reginald Koala's voice for his first two appearances in "Family Affair" and "Wife Insurance" was done by Donald Fullilove of ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' fame. Starting with "The Return of the Bling" and ending at "Gorillas in the Mist"[[note]]season six finale where Stan and Steve become friends rather than father and son while Roger marries a trailer-trash woman in order to fully understand why country songs are about misery and hard-living[[/note]], Erik Durbin (who writes for the show) voices him.

** The B-Plot of "Stan Fixes a Shingle" has Haley, Jeff and Roger go on a quest to return Creator/{{Gallagher}}'s mallet before his next show. Gallagher died on November 11, 2022, whereas the episode aired on May 22, 2023. He would have been alive during most of the episode's production period and his death likely occurred too late in production to change it. Though this is possibly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] within the episode itself when one of the characters asks "Isn't Gallagher dead?" and at the end of the episode [[spoiler: Gallagher is killed when Jeff runs him over.]]

* ProductionLeadTime: This is the reason for the series shift from topical political satire and more to an over-the-top apolitical {{Farce}}. The show runners stated it could take an episode up to two years from being written to being broadcast, hence why the show needs r9 be written in a more timeless manner.

** The B-Plot of "Stan Fixes a Shingle" has Haley, Jeff and Roger go on a quest to return Creator{{Gallagher}}'s mallet before his next show. Gallagher died on November 11, 2022, whereas the episode aired on May 22, 2023. He would have been alive during most of the episode's production period and his death likely occurred too late in production to change it. Though this is possibly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] within the episode itself when one of the characters asks "Isn't Gallagher dead?" and at the end of the episode [[spoiler: Gallagher is killed when Jeff runs him over.]]

* DescendedCreator: Nicole Shabtai (the voice for Mrs. Lonstein[[note]]Snot's mother[[/note]] since "Santa, Schmanta" as well as Danuta in "Shark?!") wrote "Mean Francine"[[note]]the episode where Francine becomes a guidance counselor[[/note]] and "I Am the Jeans: The Gina Lavetti Story"[[note]]the episode where Roger creates jeans for the average woman[[/note]].

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Recent episodes instead of just making Stan the DesignatedVillain focus more on Stan’s AmbiguousDisorder or a third party to show why his approach while maybe not wrong is flawed. For example in "Standard Deviation" Stan becomes angry when Hayley refuses to have a plan for her future life and the episode shows that he is in the right given that Hayley keeps dropping out and reinstating into college to the point where she doesn’t care anymore. However Stan's adherence to MyMasterRightOrWrong and inability to invoke IndyPloy shows that he isn’t exactly the right person to teach her how to do that.

** The final two episodes of Season 15, "Downtown" and "Cheek to Cheek: A Stripper's Story", were originally scheduled for September 2 and 9, 2019 respectively. However, those episodes were moved to season 16 (though on Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}, they're listed as the last two episodes of season 15, not season 16 episodes).

** Akiko (Toshi's sister) was voiced by Creator/GreyDelisle until "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls", where she was replaced by Grace Park.

** Seth [=MacFarlane=] voices Stan, Roger, and Greg.

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting:
** An episode says that George Washington Carver didn't invent peanut butter and that the US government had credited him with the discovery in order to help ease race relations after the UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. In reality, George Washington Carver actually ''did not'' invent peanut butter. Peanut butter actually dates back to the Aztecs and Incas, and the first patent was issued to Marcellus Gilmore Edson in 1884. Carver did invent a lot of peanut products, but his main accomplishment was his environmentalist efforts and creating various techniques to prevent soil depletion.
** The episode "Spelling Bee My Baby" has Steve and Akiko compete in a spelling bee, only for neither of them to want to win so they keep deliberately misspelling words. By the end Akiko is asked to spell "a" and replies with "seven". While a joke, the numeral 7 is actually sometimes used as a letter to represent the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop glottal stop]], a sound made by closing off the very backmost part of your mouth and can be found before syllables that start with a vowel (though almost nobody is aware they're doing it). Thus, Akiko technically spelled the first part of the word correctly.

* TalkingToHimself:
** Seth [=MacFarlane=] voices both Stan and Roger, who have many scenes together. In fact, there are several entire episodes that are mainly just the two of them. Compared with ''Family Guy'', however, Seth doesn't voice a lot of characters on the show, the only other prominent one being Greg, a recurring character. His sister, Rachael, however, does, voicing Hayley and many incidental and one-shot female characters.
** Dee Bradley Baker voices Klaus and Rogu. They don't interact much apart from the episode "Klaus and Rogu in Thank God for Loose Rocks: An American Dad! Adventure".

* Dick was voiced by Creator/StephenRoot until "Four Little Words". Creator/DavidKoechner took over the role beginning with "Office Spaceman".

* TalkingToHimself: Seth [=MacFarlane=] voices both Stan and Roger, who have many scenes together. In fact, there are several entire episodes that are mainly just the two of them. Compared with ''Family Guy'', however, Seth doesn't voice a lot of characters on the show. His sister, Rachael, however, does, voicing Hayley and many incidental and one-shot female characters.