History Heartwarming / AmericanDad

* The 2014 Christmas special ends with the entire Smith family in a GroupHug. ''Even Klaus''.

* The end of the episode "Rapture's Delight". At the end, after Stan sacrificed himself to save Jesus and Francine from demons (ItMakesSenseInContext), we find out what Stan's personal paradise is: When he enters his personal heaven, events rewind back to before the apocalypse/it turns out to just be a dream, and Stan is living with his family, a wiser man than before.

* Stan broke off his friendship with Creator/GeorgeClooney in "Tears of a Clooney" in order to make up for betraying Francine to him earlier in the episode and force him to cry so she can fulfill her dream of ruining his life. Doubles as a mild TearJerker because he ''really'' didn't want to and the last shot of the episode is Stan tearing up about it.

* While played for laughs and is an example of QueerPeopleAreFunny, Greg and Terry's entire relationship, before their breakup in Season 12, is genuinely wholesome and adorable.

* While played for laughs and is an example of QueerPeopleAreFunny, Greg and Terry's entire relationship in the early days is genuinely wholesome and adorable.

* While played for laughs and is an example of QueerPeopleAreFunny, Greg and Terry's entire relationship in the early days is genuinely wholesome.

* In "The Scarlett Getter", Steve, in a rush to get to school, dogs through the washing machine and accidentally dons a pair of Hayley's panties, but since his luck improves drastically while wearing them, he decides to keep them. Until Snot stole them. When Steve comes clean to Hayley, Hayley shows no anger towards Steve and even sweetly reassures him that the panties weren't lucky, it was him all along, affectionately bopping him on the nose as she says so. Though it turns out that the panties are lucky (or at least she believes they are), and once Steve leaves the room, Hayley hightails to Snot's house and kicks his ass for stealing her underwear.

* In "The Scarlett Getter", Steve, in a rush to get to school, dogs through the washing machine and accidentally dons a pair of Hayley's panties, but since his luck improves drastically while wearing them, he decides to keep them. Until Snot stole them. When Steve comes clean to Hayley, Hayley shows no anger towards Steve and even sweetly reassures him that the panties weren't lucky, it was him all along, affectionately bopping him on the nose as she says so. Though it turns out that the panties are lucky, and once Steve leaves, Hayley hightails to Snot's house and kicks his ass for stealing her underwear.

* The ending to "Why Can't We Be Friends?" with Steve and Snot air-guitaring.

** Also, when the family (mistakenly) thinks they are about to be shot to death, what does Stan do? He puts himself protectively in front of the family member he is standing close enough to do so. That family member? [[PapaWolf Haley]]. Similarly, Francine holds Steve close to her, and tries to shield [[MamaBear Steve]]. For all their faults, the Smiths will protect their children with their lives, to the last moment.
* In "Bush Comes to Dinner", President Bush standing for Haley after Stan called her a lost cause and Stan realizing he was wrong about her.

* In "NSA (No Snoops Allowed)" Stan normally a massive StrawMan without hesitation forgives Steve for giving away CIA secrets to the NSA proving he relay dose love his son more than his career.

* The 2014 Christmas special ends with the entire Smith family in a GroupHug. ''Even Klaus]]''.

* The episode "Of Ice and Men". Despite it being a parody of ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', it is actually a very touching moment where Stan puts aside his usual stubborn attitude and has a very meaningful bonding experience between him and Francine. The B-Story has a rather touching and [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]] moment, when Toshi, at Snot and Svetlana, the [[ItMakesSenseInContext mail-order Russian bride]]'s wedding, interrupts it by admitting his love for Svetlana ''in fluent Russian.''
** The FramingDevice for "Of Ice and Men". It's nice to know that someday, Klaus will finally be human again.
*** And will live long enough to bond with his grandkid.

* In The Best Christmas Story Never Told, after Stan's Time Travelling Hijinks cause the Soviet Union to take over the United States, it comes down to him needing to shoot Ronald Reagan due to a sobered up Martin Scorsese never making Taxi Driver, which means Reagan was never shot by John Hinckley, nor did he felt empowered by surviving an assasination attempt, which meant he lost to Walter Mondale in the new reality, who surrendered control of the USA to the Soviet Union. At First, Stan refuses to shoot his hero, even when Francine reminds Stan how much he loves Christmas, and how that wouldn't be allowed if the Soviets controlled the US. Stan says that he doesn't care as long as he's with Francine and the kids.........
** ......That is until Michelle points out that in the Alternate-Soviet Ruled future, Stan and Francine might never meet, which means Steve and Hayley won't exist. Swallowing his pride, Stan agrees that he must shoot Reagan, but what gets him to shoot Reagan is not to save Christmas, or America, it's this:

* Hayley actually taking Stan's side during the hurricane episode.
** How about Stan trying to save his family throughout that episode? Sure, every attempt failed miserably and made things [[FromBadToWorse even worse]] but like Hayley said, he was really trying.

** [[TastesLikeDiabetes Debatable.]]