Line #75 NightmareFuel/AmericanDad


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4	As ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' was made by the [[Creator/SethMacFarlane same mastermind]] behind ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', it shouldn't be surprising that this show can sometimes go into [[NightmareFuel nightmarish territory]].
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8	!! General
9	* Roger in general. He's a dangerously sociopathic and depraved Alien Manchild with countless disguises and personas that allow him to be anywhere and he has no qualms over killing and mutilating others to obtain even the smallest of advantages, sexual or otherwise. God help you if you piss him off, because no matter where you go, ''' he will find you''', as the Smith family once found out. It's telling that ''he'' was the one who laid [[ArtifactOfDoom The Golden Turd]], only someone (or some''thing'') as awful as Roger could produce something so life-destroying.
10	* Hayley, period. [[BerserkButton Dump her?]] [[BerserkButton She]] [[DisproportionateRetribution would burn an entire mountain resort to the ground, destroy a mall and a classroom, as well as kill an innocent (PREGNANT!) hamster.]] And you don't want to know what she was like during puberty or the time that Stan activated her Sleeper Agent mode...
11	* How about Santa Claus? Do you think he's a jolly fat man who loves giving toys? No. Not at all. He's a man who can hold a grudge for a long time, as seen when Steve accidentally kills him as then comes back to life to kill the Smith family with an army of elves, reindeer, and snowman monsters! "Minstrel Krampus" also shows how evil he is when it's revealed that Krampus punished kids because he cared for them, while Santa spoils them rotten no matter who was naughty or nice because he makes money off of it.
12	* '''The Golden Turd'''. An ArtifactOfDoom that makes anyone who comes in contact with it more than willing to commit atrocities including ''murder'' and ''letting the ones they love the most die'' just to get their hands on it. By the end of The Golden Turd Saga, various people have suffered horrible fates, including the Smith family themselves.
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14	!! Season 1
15	* The Lady Bugs from "Not Particularly Desperate Housewives". They were ''this'' close to killing Francine by ramming shopping carts into her, had Linda Memari not stepped in.
16	** The episode itself became darker as Francine discovered that the woman who was found murdered in the parking lot in ''broad daylight'' was Anne Flemming, a former member. Just as Francine thought she was safe at home, to her horror she recognized burns on Stan's shirts and found her seasonings disorganized. A phone call right after confirmed that The Lady Bugs were able to get to her friends, family, and [[AndYourLittleDogToo her seasonings]] and even ''rigged her vacuum cleaner to explode upon turning on'', which sends Roger flying.
17	*** The revelation that almost every woman in Langley Falls is a member of the Lady Bugs is horrific: Francine runs to the police station where an officer tries to get Francine to calm down. Francine does so but jumps at the fact that the woman [[FridgeHorror had called Francine by her name.]]
18	* Barry's criminal mind when he doesn't take his medication. Special mention goes to the scene where a bug crawls into Barry's mouth while he's threatening Steve, and he just ''eats'' it.
19	* In "[[Recap/AmericanDadS2E16TearsofaClooney Tears of a Clooney]]", Stan handcuffs Francine to a radiator so she won't go out and kill George Clooney. Francine escapes by ''[[LifeOrLimbDecision cutting her own hand off.]]''
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21	!! Season 2
22	* Stan's eating disorder in "The American Dad After School Special". When we finally see how skinny he ''really'' is... It isn't pretty. The episode is pretty clever about it, too. At first, you think Hayley and Francine are trying to sabotage Stan's attempts to lose weight to get back at him for judging Steve's girlfriend, but it's later revealed that they're trying to help Stan since he's starving himself to death.
23	-->'''Stan:''' I was just fine until you all decided to teach me a lesson by scheming against me. Now even my boss says I have a weight problem!
24	-->'''Francine:''' ''[[WhamLine You DO have a weight problem! But it's not that you're too fat!]]''
25	-->'''Hayley:''' Dad, we've done some research and we think you're anorexic.
26	-->'''Stan:''' What?
27	-->'''Francine:''' You keep thinking you're fat, no matter how skinny you get!
28	-->'''Stan:''' That's ridiculous! ''(takes off his upper shirt)'' Look at me!
29	-->''(everyone gasps in horror)''
30	-->'''Francine:''' It's worse than we thought!
31	-->'''Stan:''' ''([[WhamShot is actually all skin and bone]])'' I know! I'm a huge tub of lard!
32	** What's worse is that ''[[TruthInTelevision this is how anorexics see themselves in real life]]''. No matter how horrifically skinny they get, their minds will always see themselves as fat and they'll work on being skinny, even if it kills them (which it will). The episode won a Prism Award for showing anorexia nervosa in a realistic light (and showing that eating disorders aren't just something insecure girls and women get; insecure men and boys can get them too).
33	** And people with eating disorders will sometimes have a {{Jerkass}} imaginary "friend" who represents their ED thoughts, and he/she ''does'' tell them they are useless, fat, need to stop eating, etc.
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35	!! Season 3
36	* In "The Vacation Goo", the family goes on vacation and meets a girl named Becky. Through a series of misadventures, they end up on an island being hunted for sport and wind up completely sealed into a cave. Scary, right? Not the worst part. Becky is killed by the cave-in and the family, starving, resorts to ''[[ImAHumanitarian eating her corpse]]''.
37	** The fact that the "hunt" was a literal game intended to welcome guests to the island, and that she died and was effectively eaten for ''nothing''. Francine decides it would be best to [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain never discuss it again]], and for good reason.
38	** Why did this happen? Because Francine thought she was in Stan's LotusEaterMachine again.
39	** The titular 'vacation goo' is a machine the CIA uses on people which puts them into a realistic virtual simulation, which Stan uses on his family without their knowledge so they think they're having a dream vacation together, while Stan is just watching football without them.
40	*** It gets even worse when we see both Hayley and Steve succumb to the temptation and put their family into the goo themselves so that THEY can have some quiet time away from them, proving they're just as terrible as Stan in the end.
41	*** One last part worth mentioning is when Hayley asks if Steve undressed her to put her into the goo, only for him to reply that his friend Toshi did it instead. Toshi's response? 'I was not gentle.'
42	*** Oh, and did we mention simply touching the goo has the unavoidable side-effect of making you STERILE?!
43	* A BrainwashedAndCrazy Hayley in "Haylias".
44	** Her NightmareSequence from the beginning, where a school-aged Hayley gets in trouble for not coloring an American flag in the lines, symbolizing how everyone wants her to conform. The worst part? It ''wasn't'' a dream.
45	** It then becomes Nightmare Fuel for Stan when he learns that the sleeper agent program was a failure because eventually, the brainwashed subjects will turn on their handlers; too bad Stan happens to be Hayley's handler.
46	* Stan's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Roger at the end of "Frannie 911". While it is [[{{Jerkass}} Roger]], that doesn't make the realistic sound effects and cries of pain any less disturbing. As a bonus, it's happening offscreen and it's cut off by the end credits, so the viewer can only wonder just how far the beating is being taken.
47	* "Tearjerker":
48	** The title villain (played by Roger) creates a film so sad, that it makes people die crying. Roger then shows Stan and Sexpun (Francine) the results of the critics' screening, with their dead, pale, teary-eyed bodies.
49	** The agent being drowned in Tearjerker's statue in the beginning.
50	* Francine accidentally slitting Steve's throat at the end of "Office Spaceman".
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52	!! Season 4
53	* Stan's presentation on why above-ground sprinklers are bad in "Roy Rogers [=McFreely=]" consists of showing a [[NightmareFuelColoringBook crude cartoon]] that depicts a little girl falling on and being impaled by a sprinkler, which shoots blood into her friend's face.
54	* While the actual reason why Stan doesn't want to enter a bike race with Steve is a lot better, the story he tells about his friend getting hit by a train and having pieces of the bike lodged into his organs seems a little... Unnecessary.
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56	!! Season 5
57	* Steve's "war flashback" from "In Country... Club", which is depicted in an ArtShift to a more realistic style, where a soldier is graphically split in half by a helicopter blade.
58	* "Moon Over Isla Island": the dictator Juanito tripping over the upwards escalator after choking on a corn dog, which in addition to killing him, leaves his body disfigured.
59	** Also HarsherInHindsight due to the (natural) death of Ricardo Montalban a few months later, making this his final role.
60	** Not to mention at the end, where it's revealed that Stan and Roger's actions [[NiceJobBreakingItHero cause the dancer Hector Aldozar to take the title of General; he became the most bloodthirsty ruler in Isla Island's history, earning the nickname 'The Dancer of Death'.]] It doesn't help that the revelation plays over a slowed-down version of [[ItMakesSenseInContext Bananarama's "Venus."]]
61	* When Stan visits Roger's mind in "Brains, Brains, and Automobiles", a bird lays an egg on the boat that hatches into a Klaus fish with Steve's glasses and Hayley's hair. It then makes a ''horrible'' screeching sound.
62	* Stan, Francine, and Jesus getting [[BuriedAlive buried alive]] by [[TheAntichrist the Antichrist]] in "Rapture's Delight". They're only trapped for a few seconds, but the fact that Francine's scream gets drowned out to silence as they're buried is rather chilling; and it happens so quickly as well.
63	** The whole world during Armageddon. Demons straight out of ''{{VideoGame/Doom}}'' are everywhere, the surviving humans have been reduced to thugs, prostitutes, and mercenaries, the whole landscape is just a wasteland under a red sky and the moon has been broken in two.
64	** Overall, that whole episode is pretty disturbing, which is why it's probably a good thing it's not canon. Gems such as Klaus being stuffed and mounted with a horrified expression on his face, the entire world being in ruins, Stan accidentally killing an innocent child because it looked like a stereotypical CreepyChild and he thought it was the Anti-Christ, the list goes on...
65	* In "Cops And Roger", a [[DirtyCop crooked detective]] Chaz Migliaccio is about to kill Stan when Roger is about to come to his rescue. Roger kills Chaz by smashing his head with his elbow and his head '''[[{{Squick}} implodes]]'''. And the scene gets played ''multiple times'', [[GrossUpCloseUp with the camera zooming in each time]].
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67	!! Season 6
68	* [[AxCrazy Steve-arino]], Steve's evil clone as a result of Stan raising him. A sadistic cat killer who later attempts to KillAndReplace Steve. In one scene, he juggles three disembodied cat heads in front of Stan and Francine. ''[[{{Squick}} And takes bites out of them every few seconds.]]''
69	** Steve himself ends up as a nightmare in another way. Francine's hands-off parenting turned him into a slovenly and slothful brat.
70	* In "Fartbreak Hotel", Francine's ImagineSpot when she stabs Roger, decapitates Stan with a butcher knife, and chases down Steve and snaps his neck.
71	-->'''Francine:''' You see, sometimes I escape into a little place in my head where nobody complains about the meals I cook.
72	-->''(She takes a knife and stabs Roger in the side of his neck)''
73	-->'''Francine:''' And there's no more scrapping snot-rockets off the shower titles.
74	-->''(She decapitates Stan in a single blow with a butcher knife)''
75	-->'''Francine:''' And no more PB&J with the crust cut off.
76	-->''(Steve tries to run, but Francine grabs him and snaps his neck. The ImagineSpot ends, showing Francine holding a butcher knife and everyone freaked out)''
77	-->'''Francine:''' Anyway, if you don't wanna eat it, I can fix something else.
78	-->''(She menacingly buries the knife into the table)''
79	* Stan getting both his legs bitten off by a polar bear in "You Debt Your Life".
80	* Francine getting [[FacialHorror disfigured]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOz8htJVZUA with acid]] in "Flirting with Disaster." Her scream of pain when she had it thrown in her face is chilling. What she looks like after the attack isn't revealed until the very end before undergoing surgery, and it's just as disturbing as the other character's reactions make it out to be.
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82	!! Season 7
83	* In the episode "Hot Water," when the evil hot tub voiced by Cee-Lo Green reveals its psychotic nature. Not only did it manage to estrange the Smith family, but it [[ImAHumanitarian swallowed Principal Lewis whole]], drowned Francine, and blasted Stan out the window with its jets, effectively killing him. It then cuts to Music/CeeLoGreen simply saying "Stan's dead. The end." The disturbing part is [[SeriesFauxnale that the episode would have been the very last episode]] had Fox not renewed it.
84	* In the episode "Hurricane!", the family gets caught inside their house, now upside down, during a flood. The scary part is when a shark swims into their house and gores Hayley. Throughout the rest of the episode, they are menaced by the beast and can never tell when it will surface and attack. Not to mention Stan making things worse at every turn, including letting a ''bear'' into the house, which ends up teaming up with the shark, and electrifying the water.
85	* "A Ward Show"'s B-story (Stan and Francine going to the biggest water park in the world, and getting bored of it two hours in, but can't get a refund) ends with Stan and Francine trying to have sex on the biggest water slide in the park. As Francine waits at the end of the slide to "receive" Stan, and he goes in the slide belly-first, he soon realizes he's going way faster than intended, and as a result, he and Francine end up ''destroying'' their pelvises. Granted, we don't see the explicit impact, but ''we do get a gratuitous puddle of blood filling the screen as it happens''. They reappear in the final scene in Steve's hospital room, completely bandaged from the waist down. Roger immediately figures out what happened based on their injuries.
86	** Freddy, the boy Roger picks to be Steve's friend while Roger is his legal guardian while Stan and Francine are gone. He's mostly a nice kid, but he has a very disturbing defense mechanism: whenever he feels threatened, he emits an ear-piercing shriek [[BrownNote that makes your]] [[EyeScream eyeball pop out]] if it goes on long enough. He does it once to Roger, and then again to Roger, Stan, Francine, and Steve in the last scene.
87	--> '''Roger''': pushing his eye back in Don't. Do. That!
88	* Roger's body being '''completely dissected''' in "The Scarlett Getter". Later on, Scarlett's death, where she is shot by Francine, rolls into the fireplace and ''instantly burns up into ash''.
89	-->'''Stan:''' "Wow, she was really dry."
90	* The gruesome remains of the rat from "[[ChristmasEpisode Season's Beatings]]", and is the result of Roger trying to make his ideal spiked eggnog. He gives a sip of it to the brown rat, which takes effect after a [[{{Beat}} beat]]. It squeaks like a banshee while clawing at its head for a few seconds, then rips the black rat's head off and makes out with it, before putting it on its head like a hat and running a couple of laps around the cage in a frenzy, before finally pausing to vomit up a fountain of blood and keel over dead. Then its chest explodes and its head pops off its neck.
91	-->'''Roger (already drunk as it is):''' ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice Perfect!]]''
92	** Nemo, the parody of Damian from ''Film/TheOmen''. He controls animals into doing his bidding, possesses Steve and makes him into an apostate of Satan, and nearly drowns Stan, Roger, and Jeff while they're in the Vatican's catacombs. It's no wonder Steve says after he's freed that he's going to have nightmares for life.
93	--> "I'll see you again, Stan Smith. When the Rapture comes!"
94	* "Stan's Best Friend"
95	** Kisses undergoes a Frankenstein-like operation when Stan refuses to let him rest in peace after a horrific accident... He went from being the cutest dog ever to everyone's nightmare for the next few weeks as soon as you see him... He's the page image for a reason.
96	-->'''Roger:''' ''(laughs loudly)'' Is that Kisses? Oh, my God! ''(laughs some more)'' Oh, no! No, now this dog I like. He can stay.
97	** The unlicensed vet ''replaced his testicles with his eyeballs''. If a MercyKill has ever been demanded by Man and God in the history of the world, this was it (Steve tearfully begs the dog to die)! Fortunately, Stan complies after realizing his mistake... ''By blowing Kisses up with dynamite''!
98	* The last scene of "The Kidney Stays in the Picture" is supposed to be a humorous BrickJoke close-out. Trouble is the "brick" was a rather gruesome explanation of kidney farming Roger gave to Steve earlier in the episode to paralyze him with terror and steal his sandwiches. The joke stays mostly intact until the ending, where he ''actually does it'' so Stan will have a kidney for Hayley in case the blood test does say that Hayley's biological father is the man Francine had sex with the night before her wedding (which the viewer never finds out).
99	* A scene from "Toy Whorey" where Stan and Steve meet a guy who uses hand puppets as the prostitutes for his whorehouse (think [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Mitch Connor]]). One of the puppets has [[MindScrew human teeth and tongues]] (and is later seen vomiting).
100	-->'''Steve:''' The hell is going on down here?!
101	** The first prostitute they meet, who's overweight, missing both her legs and [[{{Autocannibalism}} is using a stove at the time]].
102	--->'''Steve:''' Was she ''cooking?!''\
103	'''Stan:''' I...I don't know what the plan was for that tortilla.
104	** Stan assumes that the third brothel will be the good one. It's not, [[TakeOurWordForIt we don't even get to see what's going on inside]], just Stan and Steve running outside while vomiting violently.
105	--->'''Stan:''' I was wrong! The third one was the ''worst''!
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107	!! Season 8
108	* Roger cutting off Jeff's skin and grafting it onto his own in "Love, American Dad Style". Worse, Roger nearly did the same thing to Hayley [[{{Yandere}} out of love]].
109	-->''' Roger:''' The hat's keeping it all together.
110	** Roger surprising Hayley with Christina Aguilera's severed larynx. And Roger using it as a whistle with Aguilera's voice ''actually coming out of it''.
111	* A scene from "National Treasure 4: Baby Franny: She's Doing Well: The Hole Story" where Henri Watkin sees his wife again... and bites off her nose.
112	** At the end of the episode, Henri goes back into the well, and it's revealed that he died instantly because he dived head first.
113	* "Blood Crieth Unto Heaven" is rather creepy and mostly based on the atmosphere and lacks many actual jokes the show might normally have.
114	* In the episode "Naked to the Limit, One More Time", Roger throws Jeff into the UFO's beam that was meant to take Roger back to his planet. We're pretty sure we'll never hear much of him again...
115	** We do, though the fate of those abducted by Roger's people is scary: they are kept as slaves on the shopping mall-style gigantic spaceship (which itself isn't that scary). You can leave at any time, as long as you pass the love test: a test that proves the alien abduction separated you from your true love. If you fail you get castrated, and it's [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption rigged for you to fail]].
116	** It's no surprise either to find out that this brutal punishment is also Roger's fault, for cheating on Emperor Zing and breaking his heart.
117	*** Roger must hate Jeff-- he's also skinned him alive and left him steeping in a bathtub full of his blood, dropped a canoe on him, and violently beaten and mugged him right in the Smiths' hallway.
118	* "The Boring Identity" has Stan, Bullock, and others killing workers at Doug and Buster's in painful and gory ways.
119	* Klaus' decaying human body in the episode "Da Flippity Flop". And later, he [[GrandTheftMe steals Stan's body]].
120	** Klaus' situation altogether. His human body was lost and he's been trapped in the body of a goldfish for decades, simply because the CIA didn't want him winning a gold medal for East Germany in the 1986 Winter Olympics. Even if he wasn't a nice guy before getting turned into a fish, he still didn't deserve that awful fate.
121	* It's played for BlackComedy, but there's some major worries when the Smith family's babysitter breaks her leg in a soccer game. [[FromBadToWorse When she asks if her leg will heal so that she won't lose her soccer scholarship, she's told that she has a staph infection and her leg needs to be amputated.]] [[FromBadToWorse Then the staph infection spreads and kills her seconds later]] while she's surrounded by her family.
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123	!! Season 9
124	* The mutant clone mix of Steve's girlfriend Glitter and Stan's dodo Darren from the end of "Steve and Snot's Test-Tubular Adventure".
125	* The Poltergasm, created from Francine's repressed unsatisfied sex drive from "Poltergasm". Specifically, the [[NightmareFace demonic face]] on Roger's surveillance camera.
126	-->'''Roger:''' ''(recording)'' 3:43... Just pissed myself.
127	** Klaus' SanitySlippage over being stuck in his hotel room with a broken back in Atlantic City with the hotel guide menu on a constant loop with the remote out of reach.
128	* The [[AnimalisticAbomination living turducken]] in "Kung Pao Turkey." For those who don't know, a turducken is a chicken, grilled inside a duck, grilled inside a turkey. All of which are very much dead long before any cooking or stuffing takes place.
129	* In "Minstrel Krampus", Stan and Santa's elves killing all of the [[AnimateInanimateObject Animate Inanimate Objects]] that Steve had befriended, they bleed despite not being human, which makes their deaths all the more disturbing.
130	* The War of Family Land, orchestrated by deranged [[MrAltDisney Walt Disney expy]] Roy Family, who unthawed from his cryogenic sleep as his statue and imprisoned all the attendants of his amusement park for such horrible sins as gluttony and interracial dating. All the horrible urban myths about Disney are true for Roy Family. He ends up driving the imprisoned park attendants into a desperate genocidal war against each other, promising that the winning faction will be allowed to leave while intending to kill them as well. When the Smith family reunites and defeats him, he reveals that it was all a psychotic lesson to "teach you to appreciate family", and lifts the lockdown before returning to cryostasis... and Family Land is immediately closed permanently, buried under a mountain of lawsuits for the hundreds of deaths that occurred there. Roy Family is presumably trapped permanently in his statue.
131	--> '''Roy''': watching the carnage That's it... ''kill eachother...''
132	** Although an evil bastard for all of the above? Roy Family goes back into cryostasis in a rather bizarre combo of AndIMustScream and PottyEmergency that manages to be terrifying despite the comedy.
133	* Roger and Steve switching faces in "Introducing the Naughty Stewardesses." Seeing Steve's exposed muscles is enough to make anyone want to puke.
134	* Stan's transformation into a woman from "Stan Goes on the Pill".
135	* In "Permanent Record Wrecker", Roger bets a coffee shop guitarist named Jimal, whom he insults, that if he can beat him in a guitar play-off the loser will never show up to the shop again. Roger struggles for the better part of the episode until he makes a [[DealWithTheDevil Faustian bargain]], selling his soul to the Devil (and seeming almost oblivious) to become an expert and beat Jimal. When Jimal asks if he can keep his job and keep playing in the shop, Roger offers to allow it if Jimal covers the cost of his lessons...cue a flame from Hell spouting up from beneath Jimal and dragging him off to Hell while Roger claps his hands. Not so much awesome for Jimal.
136	* In "The Longest Distance Relationship", Jeff and Sinbad find a wormhole that takes them back to Earth and so returns so he can return to Hayley. However, the wormhole takes Jeff 60 years into the future. He is still reunited with Hayley and gets to see what happened to all the Smiths in the future. Francine has had loads of plastic surgery to look young still but looks [[UncannyValley horrifying]]. This was most likely intentional.
137	** [[Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes Intelligent apes taking over the city]] in the ending, including murdering Ape!Stan when he tries to join them.
138
139	!! Season 10
140	* In "Roger Passes the Bar", he attempts to meditate at one point to get it off of his bucket list - only to be met with a sudden JumpScare of screeching skeletons surrounded by flames for the span of a second, instantly taking him out of it as he writes off to try again some other time.
141	* Gwen Ling, when you first heard about her, she was the hot dumb sister to adopted Francine. As of "Now and Gwen", she is hot, but she is intelligent and a criminal. She ran an illegal sweatshop in the Smiths' garage while getting away with it because she took the fall for Francine burning down their old school. Worse, there was no evidence that the sweatshop was gone and Gwen was going to burn down the old school again, but frame Francine for arson, the sweatshop, and the deaths of the people who worked there. While Francine took the blame for the school burning down, she got off while Gwen was sent to prison for a long time, but not before she swore revenge on the Smiths.
142	* In "Holy Shit Jeff's Back!", Hayley tries to rescue Jeff from a group of aliens called the Collectors, then when she gets on their ship, she sees Jeff's body parts floating in liquid, and then we learn those aliens used to be the Dissectors.
143	** To expand upon this, the Collectors put specimens and objects from every planet they come across on display, hence their name. To acquire an ideal specimen, such as humans, they first abduct one to disguise themselves as and blend into society so they can send them through a machine called the Blorfer, which slowly and painfully grinds up the specimen to transfer to the mothership. They got their original names because they dissect the first specimen they abduct, which is done by strapping them to a chair and cutting them open with a buzzsaw while they are still conscious. It nearly happened to Hayley and Roger, had Stan not taught them about empathy, self-sacrifice, and frozen yogurt.
144	** The matter transporter the Collectors use is essentially a high-tech paper shredder, which is why they prefer to only use it for non-living things. If a living being is put through it, they experience the pain of being shredded alive. There's no actual damage, and the pain immediately stops once you're through, but the experience itself is ungodly painful.
145
146	!! Season 11
147	* "Anchorfran" featured a subplot about Roger becoming obsessed with a character from a board game, and searches for the male model used for the character's picture. Unfortunately, Roger discovers the model is nothing like the character. When Roger is seen driving home with Klaus, Hayley, and Steve, they ask him why the phone from the board game is covered in blood, and what is inside a jar Roger brought back with him. Roger calmly responds "Dylan was bad. And now we have the jar."
148	* "Criss-Cross Applesauce: The Ballad of Billy Jesusworth": No, not Roger's storyline, but Steve's. It involves Steve getting stuck in a locker after getting away from Mertz. Then Principal Lewis falls on one of the girls. It gets dark when we find out that Principal Lewis banged Snot's mom. Then twelve adults with their guns out. Luckily, Steve, Snot, and Mertz escaped just when the adults were laughing.
149	** Earlier during Steve's story/song, Lewis ''shot his secretary'' because he heard a noise in his closet and thought someone was spying on him. It's only lessened by the fact that she's one of the adults who show up at Snot's house, albeit bandaged.
150	** The scene during the basketball tournament when the hairline fracture in Roger's leg breaks completely when he tries to do his criss-cross counter, the bone tears through his skin and ''impales another player in the leg'' is no picnic either. What's worse is that Stan was counting on that to happen to slow down the other player so he could make the winning shot.
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152	!! Season 12
153	* Roger's method of getting Jeff a human body by being pregnant (which isn't scary); he gets pregnant via eating the top of Jeff's skull and sucking out his brain like a noodle.
154	* Dudley Dingleberry (Roger's [[DemonicDummy ventriloquist dummy]] persona), who is Roger's most psychotic persona to date. The makeup used on him drives Roger so into the deep end that he literally can't remember what happened afterward ([[EvenEvilHasStandards he was horrified that he shot Steve]]).
155	** As it turns out, it's the facepaint Roger uses for the Dudley persona that causes his psychosis and memory loss, so he puts it away in his makeup cabinet with a note reminding himself of it's effect and to never use it again... and it promptly falls off the jar, drifting to the bottom of the cabinet, joining dozens of other notes with the same message, revealing that this exact scenario has happened before, and very likely will again.
156
157	!! Season 13
158	* Stan's finished attempt to perform [[MeatgrinderSurgery reconstructive surgery]] [[FacialHorror on Hayley's face]] in her sleep in "The Mural of the Story". We also see the process of him doing the surgery (which one online review for the episode describes as "something I'd expect from ''Family Guy'' on an off night"), starting with him [[EyeScream popping her eyes out of their sockets]] with a chisel before cutting her face off.
159	** Even worse is that the scene of the actual surgery itself was first shown at SDCC 2017 about eight months before the episode aired. And according to reports from people who went, it was shown in a room full of ''KIDS who were unaware that it was even gonna happen'' in which their reactions mostly consisted of horrified screams!
160	** The shot of Hayley's butchered face is the episode's Creator/{{Hulu}} thumbnail, so people who aren't aware of that scene when they click on the Season 13 tab are in for one hell of a surprise.
161
162	!! Season 14
163	* Roger going blind in "Stan & Francine & Connie & Ted".
164	* ''Nighthawks Hideaway'' from "Rabbit Ears" is a mysterious TV show seemingly set in the 1960s, even though there's no record of its existence. It only airs on old televisions late at night, and only when there is a single viewer in the room. The same episode (involving a cocktail party) is shown over and over again but with subtle differences each time. Viewers become obsessed with the show, and eventually, enter it via TelevisionPortal. They become trapped there and relive the party episode over and over again as their memories fade (when Stan writes the names of his loved ones down on his hand, the writing changes as soon as he stops looking at it) and they become just another LivingProp. Anyone who breaks character or becomes disruptive gets EatenAlive during the commercial breaks. When Stan and Tuttle try to escape, they discover that the world outside of the party is fake, and when they do seemingly make it back to the real world, they're brought back to the party as soon as they step through the front door of Stan's house. Alistair Covax, the entity that controls ''Nighthawks Hideaway'', is notably completely devoid of comedic elements outside of a bit where he refers to one of the party guests as the city's best "white, non-union" jazz pianist, or when he yells at Tuttle for interrupting his enjoyment of the jazz music.
165	** Stan's search into the mysterious tv show eventually leads him to a support group of similar obsessives, only to find his neighbor Al Tuttle as the only member. There used to be several more participants, but as Tuttle reveals, they all disappeared one by one. As the rest of the episode reveals, they were either trapped forever within Nighthawks Hideaway, or devoured by Alistair.
166	** Alistair turning into his OneWingedAngel form as Tuttle and Stan manages to break through the wall, revealing television static. We don't see much, aside from his jaw extending and his eyes turning red, but as the two manage to escape through the TV set, a ''massive'' claw reaches through the screen, trying to drag them back. They only barely escape.
167	** The ending of the episode shows Stan and Francine moving the television to the lawn for the garbage man, and watching his neighbor Greg take it, with Stan remarking "Poor Bastard". All is well that ends well... until Francine and the family start talking about the Hi-Fi speakers that help with listening to jazz. As the camera zooms out, the narrator reveals in a humorous bit that American Dad is now a television show within a television show, however, the horrific implications are that Stan never escaped the television. His family and his life are doomed to be lived out on television, and given his family was talking about jazz in a robotic tone, it's likely Alastair Covax still has control over his existence. You can also see Stan fall to his knees at the revelation, and Alastair ends the episode.
168	* Roger biting Steve's arm off in "Shark?!".
169	* "The Hall Monitor and the Lunch Lady" features a man getting sucked through an escalator and then his body graphically coming out the other end; having witnessed this, is it any wonder that Stan and Roger spent the rest of the episode in shock?
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171	!! Season 15
172	* "Tapped Out" combines this with {{Squick}} and possibly even NauseaFuel. It's just... out of all the disturbing episodes, all the weird moments, even the scenes that make you feel uncomfortable pale in comparison to this episode. So long story short, Francine has been secretly giving Steve and only Steve her breast milk for years for... something that makes about as much sense in context as it does out, and when Steve is reasonably freaked out, Francine sneaks something in his drink to make him sluggish and makes him think that without the milk he's going to crash at the play (which ironically fittingly enough is based on Oedipus Rex). It culminates in him drinking her milk from his mother's chest in front of the entire audience, getting them sent to the basement and Roger agrees to film them to "prove it's normal", [[EvenEvilHasStandards but even he thinks it's disturbing]]. It's only when Francine sees the footage herself does she finally agree what she's doing is creepy. And how does she get Steve to stop? She poisons the breast milk with bee venom, ''which he is allergic to''!
173	* In "The Old Country," Steve submits his DNA to an ancestry website in order to learn more about the Smith family's origin. The results come back that they are Canadian and he eventually manages to get Stan to meet their long-lost relatives. But during a welcome dinner, Steve noticed that there are subtle un-Canadian foods present. Then the two are drugged ''and have their organs harvested''. The ancestry website was a scam, trying to find organ donors for billionaires.
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175	!! Season 17
176	* "Beyond The Alcove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Klaus". Klaus manages to hypnotise almost everyone in Langley Falls into loving him, using hypnosis a la ''Film/GetOut2017''. Only Roger and Parker Deay manage to resist this. Even Francine, who had resented Klaus throughout the episode, wasn't immune to it thanks to Klaus's use of an air horn to hypnotise her, which he almost immediately proceeds to do. And then, after a two-month TimeSkip, Francine and Roger return to the town to see Klaus has turned it into a full-blown {{Egopolis}} with faded colours, loudspeakers broadcasting his voice, statues of him and pictures of his face everywhere. And anyone who doesn't voice their love for Klaus is captured in a similar manner to ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers''. Thank goodness Francine was able to use a series of {{Chekhovs Gun}}s to return everything to normal.
177	* "A Song of Knives and Fire" Francine becomes an arsonist so Stan can have some fires to put out while acting as a 'honorary firefighter'. She soon becomes addicted and decides as a 'masterpiece' to set fire to a dumpster warehouse leading her to get trapped inside. Stan comes to rescue her and, after patching up their differences, helps her get out by giving her his firefighter gear to wear as he carries her out in a rather heartwarming moment...that is until they emerge, and we see Stan has been GROTESQUELY BURNED! All Stan can do is let out an absolutely BLOODCURDLING SCREAM as the episode ends!
178	* "You Are There". Steve gets a summer job working at an old mall that Roger seems... unusually fixated on restoring, mainly out of devotion to his conspicuously absent boss, Mr. Javitz. Whom Roger is... ''unusually'' venerable towards. It is fairly obvious from the start that there is supposed to be something off about the mall, most notably when Roger unveils a room full of so many mannequins that the enormous pile of them touches the ceiling. But all of the jokes and humor being delivered in typical ''American Dad'' fashion causes those warnings to be overlooked. And then we actually meet Mr. Javitz. [[spoiler:And we find out he is an immortal, undead warlock with some [[BodyHorror seriously bad physical decay]] that, for the past several decades, has been using the mall as a tourist trap to lure in hundreds of souls to feed a spiritual EldritchAbomination hidden beneath the building. All of the employees in the mall are former victims of Javitz whose spirits are forced to remain in the mall until their spirits inevitably fade away... and transform into mannequins. There were ''hundreds'' of mannequins stored in the mall, which really emphasizes the body count that Javitz has built up over the years. Roger helps Mr. Javitz because he is under a powerful mind control, and Mr. Javitz makes several attempts to put Steve under the same thing.]] Honestly, the whole episode is like something pulled out of a Creator/StephenKing novel.
179	* "Gernot and Strudel" gives an interesting window into Klaus' psyche and how he became the way he is through the titular puppet show. Given it was made in Cold War Eastern Germany it's as messed up as you would expect. It is a heavily-fascist propaganda piece taking place in an old coat hanger factory with a theme song talking about how children are meant to live a life of serving the government and work force as slaves until they die. Among its regular segments are something called the grammar gulag and reading off the new government regulations. What's worse is why the show messed up Klaus to begin with. [[spoiler: as a child he was called up to the stage to take part in the lesson of the day for an episode. Unfortunately his sexual attraction for the puppet Ushi caused the puppeteer to fall into electrical wiring and die; the puppeteers for Strudel and Dr. Dudu Dankers also die trying to save them. Gernot's puppeteer would shoot himself in the head later that same day. Though it could also count as RefugeInAudacity given Klaus was aroused by one of the puppets as a child causing all of this and the sheer overplayed darkness, you have to admit watching your favorite childhood characters die right in front of you would fuck anyone up.]]
180	* "Echoes" is an episode written akin to something out of Creator/HPLovecraft. Steve takes an internship at Channel 3 News where he finds the Doppler Radar that Memphis Stormfront has been VERY hesitant to even discuss. Upon entering the thing he gets hit by a flash of… what can only be described as an otherworldly flash of light, where he gets horrible visions of the future. At first he is able to use this to gain favor with the studio and get a high grade, then Memphis reveals the truth. [[spoiler: The Doppler is actually an alien device the previous weatherman dug up in the Mojave Desert that has some sort of connection to an EldritchAbomination known as Bathazalon the Nameless. Those future visions Steve has been getting? The last weatherman before Memphis abused those and the horrors of what he saw prematurely aged him into an old man at 32! Memphis tricks Steve into destroying the radar thinking it will trap Bathazalon, only to reveal the Doppler was the only thing keeping it asleep! The episode ends right as the Smiths are about to be killed by Bathazalon… with the perspective zooming out from Earth all the way through the universe right at the moment where Steve decides on his internship choice in a GroundhogDayLoop.]] It's been confirmed this was one of the episodes written as a potential SeriesFinale should the show not be renewed!
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182	!!Season 18
183	* “Frantastic Voyage” sees a miniaturised Francine and Agent Kara stuck inside Stan’s body (ItMakesSenseInContext). That alone is bad enough, but then they find themselves under attack by vicious spiders INSIDE STAN’S BRAIN! Stan has to miniaturise friends he had previously hidden from Francine and inject them into himself in order to save Francine and Kara from the spiders. Worse? One of them doesn’t make it out. The very idea of spiders living in one's brain sounds like an arachnophobe's worst nightmare.

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