History Trivia / AmericanDad

** JockDadNerdSon
** NoBisexuals (the watch Stan wears on "It's Good to Be the Queen" has "Gay", "Straight", and a thin sliver representing "Curious").

* ApprovalOfGod: Creator/ScottGrimes and Creator/DeeBradleyBaker's cover of "Dessert" in the episode "From West to Mexico" has been praised by Dawin himself. The singer has left a comment in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXJCAzAZ6jI the clip uploaded on TBS' youtube channel]], calling it "the best version" of the song.

* ApprovalOfGod: Creator/ScottGrimes and Creator/DeeBradleyBaker's cover of "Dessert" in the episode "From West to Mexico" has earned the approval from Dawin himself. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXJCAzAZ6jI the clip uploaded on TBS' youtube channel]], the singer has left a comment calling it "the best version" of the song.

** Adult Swim rarely reruns "Hurricane!" (the third part of the Seth [=MacFarlane=] animated trio crossover where the Brown-Tubbses from ''The Cleveland Show'', the Griffins from ''Family Guy'', and the Smiths from this show all try to weather a hurricane) during the active months of the Atlantic hurricane season, as the episode takes place inside of the storm.

* TheWikiRule: Has a wiki [[https://americandad.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page here]].

* 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]] that this). As of 2019, the episode has been reinstated.

** Surprisingly averted with the episode "Apocalypse to Remember" on Hulu. Since June 2020, most TV shows (notably ''30 Rock'', ''It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia'', and ''Community'') that have episodes featuring characters in black- or brownface have been banned due to the George Floyd riots bringing about heightened concerns over racism against black people in America. This episode (which had a scene where the Smiths go to an [=NAACP=] dinner in blackface due to Stan misreading the invitation) was not banned.

** "The Vacation Goo" was scheduled for April 29, 2007, but was replaced with "When a Stan Loves a Woman". This was due to a scene where the family walks into the living room (after being tricked into taking a virtual reality trip in the vacation goo) to find Stan watching a Georgetown game on TV and wearing Georgetown gear. According to the DVD commentary, Stan was originally going to wear Virginia Tech gear and be a Virginia Tech fan, but then the shootings at Virginia Tech happened, so they had to change it to a less controversial school at the time. The former ultimately premiered on September 30.

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: In 2020, Adult Swim pulled "Threat Levels" from their rerun rotation, whose beginning is about Stan accidentally bringing home a deadly virus causing the CIA to put the entire family on quarantine, in the wake of the ongoing [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19 pandemic]]. However, the episode is still shown on TBS and available on DVD, [=OnDemand=] (on TBS), and streaming services. By the end of the year, "Threat Levels" returned to the Adult Swim rerun rotation (even though the pandemic is still going on, with a third wave happening in the United States as of late 2020).

** Adult Swim rarely reruns "Hurricane!" during the active months of the Atlantic hurricane season, as the episode takes place inside of the storm.

* PlayingAgainstType:
** Half the things Avery Bullock says are hilarious simply because they sound so bizarre coming out of Creator/PatrickStewart's mouth.[[note]]Picture Picard saying this to his crew and try to keep a straight face. "Gentleman do whatever it takes to empty our coffers: lapdances, champagne dances, shower dances. Oh, the things you can buy for a hand full of bills. It makes me excited. It gives me these chills. They'll be filcher rubs, breeders, hambones and tweeners, zobos and debos and blorps that go 'eenahs'. For a one dollar bill you can pull down their zippers. I am the Snorlax, I speak for the strippers!"[[/note]]
** Principal Lewis for Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson. Just like Bullock, most of Lewis' humor come from how out-of-place and insane his dialogue is coming from Kevin Michael Richardson's mouth.

** "Piece of Cake"[[note]]the episode where Steve goes on a road trip for Snot's estranged father's funeral while Stan and Roger invent an automatic cake-cutter for the Home Shopping Network[[/note]] became "Independent Movie"

* BigNameFan: Music/TheWeeknd is a [[https://variety.com/2020/music/news/the-weeknd-american-dad-trailer-exclusive-1234597173/ longtime, devoted fan of the series]]. So much, in fact, that he co-wrote and guest starred in an episode ("A Starboy is Born").

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: In 2020, Adult Swim pulled "Threat Levels" from their rerun rotation, whose beginning is about Stan accidentally bringing home a deadly virus causing the CIA to put the entire family on quarantine, in the wake of the ongoing [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19 pandemic]]. However, the episode is still shown on TBS and available on DVD, [=OnDemand=] (on TBS), and streaming services. By the end of the year, "Threat Levels" returned to the Adult Swim rerun rotation.

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: In 2020, Adult Swim pulled "Threat Levels" from their rerun rotation, whose beginning is about Stan accidentally bringing home a deadly virus causing the CIA to put the entire family on quarantine, in the wake of the ongoing [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19 pandemic]]. However, the episode is still shown on TBS and available on DVD, [=OnDemand=] (on TBS), and Hulu streaming. By the end of the year, "Threat Levels" returned to the Adult Swim rerun rotation.

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: In 2020, Adult Swim pulled "Threat Levels" from their rerun rotation, whose beginning is about Stan accidentally bringing home a deadly virus causing the CIA to put the entire family on quarantine, in the wake of the ongoing [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19 pandemic]]. However, the episode is still shown on TBS and available on DVD, [=OnDemand=] (on TBS), and Hulu streaming.

** Creator/{{Fox}} initially treated this show very well early in it's run, as they frequently promoted the show alongside sister-series ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', to the point that they screwed over ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' just to promote this show. [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Fox later did the opposite halfways through its run on the network...]]

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: In 2020, Adult Swim pulled "Threat Levels" from their rerun rotation, whose A-plot is about Stan accidentally bringing home a deadly virus causing the CIA to put the entire family on quarantine, in the wake of the ongoing [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19 pandemic]]. However, the episode is still shown on TBS and available on DVD, [=OnDemand=] (on TBS), and Hulu streaming.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Episodes from the first two seasons before the show shifted from politics to outlandish plots are very clearly a product of both the mid-to-late 2000s and the Bush administration, with the constant bashing on Bush, his administration's policies and events that occurred during the time like the War on Terror. Beside that, the earlier episodes also had contemporary references like ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' and Kobe Bryant's rape trial that he was later acquitted for due to a lack of good evidence.

*** The season finale "Joint Custody" was originally conceived as a way of continuing the Golden Turd storyline with the death of Mrs. Marylin Thacker from the previous installment either in a condo pool in Boca Raton by an alligator or being killed by a liquor store delivery man to steal the turd to give to a Cuban crime boss to save his sister. The idea was ultimately cut for time and it would be another eight years before another installment was featured in the Season 10 episode "Blagnarst: A Love Story" (which focused on Marylin's district attorney son finding the Golden Turd and calling an oil company magnate for financial support on his campaign to become Senator).

** In 2020, Adult Swim pulled "Threat Levels" from their rerun rotation, whose A-plot is about Stan accidentally bringing home a deadly virus causing the CIA to put the entire family on quarantine, in the wake of the ongoing [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19 pandemic]]. However, the episode is still shown on TBS and available on DVD, [=OnDemand=] (on TBS), and Hulu streaming.

%%* AdoredByTheNetwork:

* ChannelHop: Because of low ratings and Fox's plans to revamp their Sunday night line-up with live-action shows (which eventually failed and later went back to more animated family sitcoms, as seen with its inclusion of ''Bless the Harts'' and ''Duncanville''), ''American Dad'' moved to TBS in late 2014. Initially, it was going to end its run there by airing a handful of episodes that Fox never did, but was eventually renewed for several additional seasons.

* UnCanceled: The show ended its run on Fox due to low ratings, inconsistent scheduling, and plans to revamp the Sunday night line-up. TBS picked up the show and started airing new episodes in fall of 2014, making this the second Creator/SethMacFarlane show to get canceled and revived (after ''Family Guy''), and the first one to get canceled by Fox and revived on another network (''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' does air in reruns on cable, first on Adult Swim and TBS, and now on [[Creator/FXNetworks FXX]] and Creator/{{Freeform}}, but it's still on Fox).
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Episodes from the first two seasons before the show shifted from politics to outlandish plots are very clearly a product of the Bush administration, with the constant bashing on Bush, his administration's policies and events that occurred during the time like the War on Terror. Beside that, the earlier episodes also had contemporary references like ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' and Kobe Bryant's rape trial that he was later acquitted for due to a lack of good evidence.