Bullock could be the morally ambiguous administrator of this experiment and have full control over all that happens in it, right down to the non-canon episodes like "Raptures Delight" and every Big-Lipped Alligator Moment. In the virtual world, Real! Stan's life is comprised of...
- Francine: Ideal representation of what he'd want as a wife.
- Steve: Ideal son of him and the brunette woman who Francine was based upon that real world! Stan loves or loved.
- Haley: The opposite of Steve political ideology wise but as ignorant and stubborn.
- Roger: Stan's id personified.
In addition to those, the virtual world adds things like Francine's occasional Axe-Crazy moments, Steve's femininity, and Haley being his daughter. And the kicker? Klaus is the really-real world! Stan. You see, as Klaus is the show's Butt-Monkey, it acts as a reflection of what the program sees him as and gives a german accent to offset his German prejudice. The main Stan is a representation of what real world! Stan wants to be in life. Roger might be a relative or friend of the real world! Stan acts as a Spanner in the Works to the series, thus being the Ensemble Dark Horse everyone loves since he writes his material. The off-the-rails gags like the Stan and Francine subplot in the Barmitzvah heist episode is Bullock, Roger, or some other technician getting bored and doing some crazy crap.
- Francine isn't a natural blond (in "Star Trek," she let her brownish-red roots grow back after her usual hairstylist quit his job when he discovered that being heterosexual is a choice).
- However, in flashbacks of Francine as a child, she was blonde. Of course, this can be fan wanked, since many blonde children grow up to be brunette adults.
- They were flashbacks. Who's to say Francine is telling the truth?
- Francine isn't a natural blond (in "Star Trek," she let her brownish-red roots grow back after her usual hairstylist quit his job when he discovered that being heterosexual is a choice).
- In the latest episode "Blagsnarst, A Love Story", the woman tells her son she's sorry, and he eventually finds it and soon starts to make a deal with an evil man he didn't want to have any deals with. Plus, before he found it, he saw someone get hurt and a little girl was crying, and he was about to go out and help. But now he just ignored them.
- The father figure is a competent and reliable employee that is largely humorless, and, if anything suffers from an extreme lack of imagination rather than ludicrous ADD.
- The wife/mother is an idiot with few translatable skills.
- The son is a savvy and intelligent nerd with a regular clique of friends.
- The daughter is sexually desirable (despite cracks about her allegedly mannish looks from Roger and, in one episode, Karl Rove), sexually active (though most of the time, she sleeps with men to get weed or money — In "Helping Handis," she's seen picking through a pile of stems and seeds, then grumbles, "Damn it, Eddie, I slept with you" and in "Failure Is Not a Factory-Installed Option," she slept with a group of sleazy men to pay the bills when Stan had abandoned his family), politically active, married, and is only treated like a Butt-Monkey by Stan because of her political views, not because she's the least favorite family member.
- Instead of a megalomaniac baby that will grow up to be an ineffectual adult, we have an egomaniacal alien that has actively been affecting human culture for over sixty years.
- Instead of a talking dog that has grown to be a Small Name, Big Ego-ish Author Avatar, we have a talking fish who is largely pitiable and has been Demoted to Extra as of late.
- Peter works a desk job at a beer factory (though he started as an assemblyman at a toy factory) while Stan is a field agent in the CIA, allowing for some interesting plots or plot devices.
- Unlike Chris in Family Guy who's an Expy of his dad, Stan & Steve are opposites (though Steve, like Jamie on Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, does look up to his dad and believes what he believes [until Stan gets outed as a hypocrite in some way], i.e., that homosexuals are insidious and planning to indoctrinate heterosexual men as seen in "Lincoln Lover" or that masturbation is a sin as seen in "A Smith in the Hand") which adds for some interesting dynamics in the episodes where they are paired up together.
- Think? We know.
- He may have helped with that. Fred Savage has been impersonating a good dozen of people including Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore for years, who's to say he might not be from the same planet and such?
- That... Would be a HILARIOUS episode.
- Their abduction of Jeff was a lucky break, as it allowed them a viable source on human biology. This will allow their next step-creating perfect human avatars which allow them to escape detection from expert alien hunters.
- He came close to this goal (albeit accidentally) when exposed to the radiation from the giant hadron collider and split into dozens of separate personas in "The Two Hundred".
- Or the pills have a side-effect of lethargy and slowed-down metabolism. As someone who has gained a lot of weight from taking Paxil as a child, I can tell you right now that such things are possible. If this is the case, rather than my above WMG, it would probably make better social commentary about the American pharmaceutical system. However, it would probably only be mentioned in passing, and would sadly sacrifice the opportunity for an excellent episode showing Barry returning to his true Large Ham Chess Master self.
- Linda's secret attraction to Francine.
- Hayley and Jeff's troubled marriage. Snot will make sure it becomes worse.
- Now that Jeff is Put on a UFO and Snot lost interest in her, this won't happen. But he might return along with Roger's people.
- Jeff came back a long time ago.
- Now that Jeff is Put on a UFO and Snot lost interest in her, this won't happen. But he might return along with Roger's people.
- Francine's real parents.
- Debbie wants to get back with Steve.
- Toshi will give a "Reason You Suck" Speech to the characters.
- And it will be in English, or just in Japanese and people will think he's saying something heartwarming.
- A crisis involving a terrorist group. The leader is the Big Bad from one of the main characters' past. This time Stan will be good in the crisis.
- The gold turd becoming important to the plot.
- At one point, the whole family will get into a fight, due to their suppressed animosity towards each other. They explain why they're angry with one another (based on fan criticisms of the characters). And split up. But they'll eventually miss each other and become a family again.
- Jeff's mom shows up.
- Hayley and Jeff's adopted son shows up.
- Steve's evil clone is brought back to life. And so does the cat, who wants nothing better than to kill Steve (original or clone, it doesn't matter).
- Miles and Trudy from "Roger n' Me" get back at Hayley and Steve for screwing with their relationship.
- Better yet... everyone the Smiths screwed in the past and got away with it will gang up on the Smiths simultaneously just like in that episode of The Amazing World of Gumball "The End"... well at some point the Smith's Karma Kredit Kard should run out!
- Barry stops taking his pills again. Becoming the Big Bad. With the evil Steve clone as The Dragon/The Starscream.
- There'll be a fight between Roger and the King of his alien planet.
- Bullock gets Killed Off for Real.
- This trooper doesn't think Hayley really wants half the stuff she thinks she does. For example, she dumped Jeff right after she thought society wanted her to get married.
- If "Killer Vacation" didn't confirm this, I don't know what would
- She expressed interest in having sex with women when Stan pretended to be Bill. She wouldn't be doing it to rebel because she didn't know he was really Stan.
- She has a sex garden and we only assume it’s with various men.Who’s to say they aren’t a few ladies in there. She has been known to turn a few heads
- She Didn’t seem phased by her kiss with Linda probably due to assuming it was to save her life but still she didn’t need a minute to process.
- from “my morning straitjacket” She seemed in no way reluctant to make out with a female security bouncer. as well as said bouncer getting a feel of Francine’s rump, and the implicit 3 way between her, Stan and the Bouncer.
2. He can survive an extreme amount of punishment, as seen from the numerous times he's been hit with cars or dropped from great heights.
3. He can move at unreasonably fast speeds, as seen in "Jenny from da block" when he impersonated a cousin of Steve's to date Snot. Oh and the horse episode when he said I hope the horse whisperer isn't me this time. He got there and said "oh crap", as the camera moved to the seat we saw Roger all changed into his other costume and then as the camera moved back he was with Stan again and said, " thank goodness I'm just his secretary".
4. I would call this a power while most wouldn't, his ability to completely and mentally snap of a personality of his into it's own life, still within himself. As seen in the episode mentioned above with the horse, but more importantly as seen in the episode where he was missing a glove and it turned out to belong to another personality that he lost when he got married.
5. He can probe you and learn everything you know.
6. He seems to stand still on time, he was around when biggie was shot, he was around when he got those free nights at the hotel, he was around when he ended up becoming the creator of disco, but he always looks the same. He created disco when stan went back in time with that angel and left a record there, that Roger happened to find. And he got the free night in the hotel when stan Steve went back in time to end up becoming the person in the painting he jacked it to.
- I don't think he can move super fast and that "Jenny Fromdabloc" episode could possibly be non-canon. If he could move at light speed wouldn't he be practically invincible? Think of all the times he nearly got caught by threatening pursuers such as the C.I.A and wouldn't his supposed powers help Steve conduct his scheme to ruin that Jewish guy's barista easier. I believe that was to just help close the episode easier.
- I think that his super-speed IS cannon. If you think about it, Roger is the type to make life unnecessarily difficult for himself, just to make things more interesting. Also, I think that he knows that he can pull the light-speed powers out of his back pocket if he really needs them (like his survival depends on it). He didn't use them when the CIA was after him, because he didn't believe them to be a real threat to him. Then, when they actually did capture him, he was locked in a room with no means of escape. Super-speed wouldn't have saved him in that situation - he'd need super-lock picking skills, or the ability to blow holes in metal doors, etc. No matter how fast he moved, it wasn't going to get him out of there.
- in another episode it's shown that he's immune to fire and explosions (firecracker explosions anyway) as well
- No, that just means he possesses resilience against something. We the viewers aren't one hundred percent sure that his crap has "hypnotising powers" that man could have just been really greedy, and there are also plenty of other organisms that can stand large amounts of pain and damage to the body so that's not a power either. Roger may have a real high mental capacity that enables him to so-called switch personas, just because someone's real smart doesn't mean they have powers, and besides Roger hasn't been shown to perform any supernatural feats so why would he have powers. He just has abilities exclusive to his race not powers. A fish can breath in water but that doesn't mean it has powers.
- It's called "cool alien powers" if they are to his race only they count as a power. Breathing underwater is a cool fish power, that Comic Book/Aquaman has, and we call that a power.
- Note that, when the Smiths tried to escape into space in order to escape an angry Roger, the guy was hitching a ride on a rocket. One of his abilities is apparently to survive in the vacuum in space.
- Jossed, there's a crossover episode.
- What ep?
- Jossed, there's a crossover episode.
- The Storm Episode, Bada-Bing!
- Didn't Stewie mention in "Poltergeist" that Jesus was Chinese? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that Quahog's Negative Continuity means Jesus can be a completely separate character. God is supposed to be an Eldritch Abomination, so He can look different. Not to mention that God isn't even technically God because [[spoiler:Stewie accidentally created the universe via Stable Time Loop.
- When Peter and Chris went to fat camp on Family Guy, one of the other fat campers was Barry from American Dad.
- Wow, someone sorted out what was going on with the time machine dates in Chap Stewie not matching up to the ones in Back to the Pilot
- This is actually joked about in "Bullocks to Stan", where they apparently ARE actors. And considering the fact that the episode has been mentioned later, this is a possibility.
- I accept this as my personal canon. Also, this would be the reason why Roger was "chosen" to be the "Decider". He may not be the only one, his planets' leaders and/or government deliberately chose types like Roger to send them away, and believe they'll likely die in a crash.
- Sounds like Invader Zim. Aliens just love to banish people.
- Well not utopian, but "Lost In Space" does hint that at the very least Roger's dickishness may not be the norm: while okay with enslaving abductees, Roger's people seem capable of true love, despite being lied to that it doesn't exist. Said person responsible was Roger, who cheated on their Emperor, thus making him declare war on love. Even if Roger's people are dicks, it seems they can probably feel empathy.
Judging from the damage everyone received, I think he hates Francine the most, I mean he shot her, that's pretty bad.
He also beat the snot of Jeff, but has already, on several occasions, mentioned he hates him.
To add to that I think he had C.I.A. agents plant the shark specifically for Halie to be taken by.
And had them move his house off of the foundationHis actions in "Hurricane" and "The Mural of the Story" seem to prove that he does hate his family.
- Unlikely as Stan is shown to love his family in some episodes.
- Some days they piss him off a little less, like the episodes you speak of.
- I still do not think so, if he doesn't like his family couldn't he have abandoned them years ago. Think of the episodes where he tries to bond his family, and in An Apocalypse when he thought that the world was ending, wouldn't he have left them to die? I think this is not true.
- Perhaps it is because his own father abandon him. As a result he views actively ruining their lives as less evil than simply abandoning his children and wife.
- Some days they piss him off a little less, like the episodes you speak of.
- Alternatively, she lives with her mom (somewhere in Langley Falls, presumably, as she's enrolled in the local high school), who has full custody, or maybe Principal Lewis has partial custody, but Janet happens to be at her Mom's/a friend's whenever any of the main cast go to his house.
- Who in the HELL would give Principal Lewis partial custody?
- Janet is shown to be a spoiled Rich Bitch who can apparently afford to go into plastic surgery offices for casual liposuction. So it's unlikely that she's a foster child, but it is clear that she doesn't live with Lewis.
- Maybe she lives with a rich foster family?
- Eh, compare the cats side by side, they have different designs and they're different colors.
- In an interview with one of the producers, he said that the Season 7 premiere episode "Hot Water" was made at a time when they feared FOX wouldn't renew the show, so they thought it would be a good idea to end the show with killing the main characters. The show was renewed, so it was just used as a non-canon season opener. This indicates that for the real finale, they want something big to happen. Since killing the main characters was already used in "Hot Water", they might not go with that again, but maybe end the last episode/season on some other big event like Roger and other aliens being revealed to the world.
- New York for its topical tone
- This power cannot be controlled consciously. His species shares this ability with the Kryptonians, similar to how people can't recognize Clark Kent as Superman when he wears his glasses. When Roger sees himself as a certain person, the minds of those around him are affected and they too see him as that person. Only his close friends and a few alien hunters can recognize him out of disguise, as the Smith family have spent so much time around him that they're immune to his mind-screw abilities, and an expert alien hunter with a lot of will and concentration could overcome the effects on their own.
- Further proof of this is the fact that Roger tells Steve that everyone in the family has an alter ego of Roger's that they don't recognize. Steve's is a girl around his own age that he played Spin the Bottle with at a party. Can't remember off the top of my head what the others are, but they all have one.
- I believe Francine's was a little Korean boy or something.
- Roger will be be discovered, but eventually trapped somewhere with Bullock. They'll become friends, and when they finally reach civilization Bullock will let Roger go. Because, come on, it would be freakin' HILARIOUS to see the two characters interact.
- A subplot will be the Smiths being chased, captured, interrogated/tortured, and nearly executed for harboring Roger.
- It would explain his Ambiguous Gender.
- Or he's hermaphroditic, which would go to explain how he can match the physical form of both male and female.
- The cancelled crossover seems to joss this? Not really-remember that Stewie has a time machine. When Stewie decided to avert his Diminishing Villain Threat (think "Stewie Kills Lois", only for real), they locked him up in a time machine and planned to send him about ten+ years in the past, giving instructions on how to curb his homicidal actions. The reason he was sent then was because they still cared for Stewie, and wanted to see him again.
- Or Toshi HIMSELF is the alien! When he landed on earth, he landed right smack dab in japan or where his fake parents lived. His ship, or the chance he's a robotic alien, his programming picked up his parent's language of birthplace which explains why he doesn't speak English when the rest of his family can.
- Stan loves Hayley most, he just hides it after she developed the opposite of his political views and they became pseudo-enemies because he was disappointed and hurt.
- Hayley loves Steve most.
- Steve loves Francine most.
- Francine loves Stan most.
- Black hair is a dominant gene, so unless either Francine or the other guy have their hair dyed, the black hair could prove that Stan is her father.
- Francine does dye her hair, but her true color is brown, not black. Still possibly confirmed.
- Black hair is a dominant gene, so unless either Francine or the other guy have their hair dyed, the black hair could prove that Stan is her father.
- Or maybe he's already crazy, and is just doing a ''really'' good job hiding it. That puts his interactions with Hayley in a disturbing new light.
- He could be a furry who's happy to take the form of his favorite animal. American Dad has dealt with that subculture before.
- It's because Klaus couldn't move around that he became insane. (Think about it, wouldn't you go nuts if you had to spend the rest of your life trapped in a small bowl that you couldn't leave without dying?)
- They won't get along, due to Stan reminding Quagmire of Brian.
- With all those times he keeps losing potential girlfriends, either he's gonna kill the ones who makes them lose his girls (his family), turn gay, or both!
- We've only seen the royal family as sociopaths, mind you.
- Stan Smith is the future version of Trent.
- This also explains that Avery Bullock is Chris McLean in the future.
- Lindsay is Francine.
- Chef Hatchet is Principal Lewis.
- Leshawna is Lorraine.
- Well it's bound to happen after being "cockblocked" so many times. it's not only to rebel against Stan because he's one of the reasons why it keeps happening, but he also has no success with ladies, he can't even get a permanent girlfriend, and because he thinks he'd have better success with guys... unless he does have the same lack of success with guys eventually.
- Because that is totally how sexuality works
- Hey pal! It also doesn't help that one time Steve planned to exact revenge on a bully by dressing up as a girl and seducing him and Roger replies, "Yeah, let's keep that plan between you, me, and the string of therapists who won't be able to help you."
- Because that is totally how sexuality works
- Steve doesn't seem to have much interest in politics, and I think he just goes along with what his dad says. Knowing how they write, he'll probably end up working in some kind of science capacity and marry a female scientist.
- Maybe he's doing so to frustrate his strict mother?
- Or maybe he's ashamed of his family's Americanized lifestyle and decides to fully embrace his heritage.
- I wouldn't say ashamed. If so, why would he always hang out with three Americans?
- Confirmed. Even Toshi's mother exclusively speaks English to him.
- She also states that she can't understand him.
- Confirmed in "Can I Be Frank With You"
- His multiple personality disorder probably has something to do with this. With all those personas, Roger has lost track of his genuine memory.
- It wasn't his home planet, it was a spaceship owned by his people.
- The creators of the show have sometimes expressed fears that the show would suddenly get cancelled. The season 7 premiere (the one where Stan buys an evil hot tub and it kills him and Francine in the end) was written at a time when the people working on the show feared it would get canceled, so they wrote it in case they would need it as a series finale. Even if there's no concrete word yet on if the series will end soon, the creators of the show might still be fearing it. After all, American Dad! usually gets fewer advertisements and is more likely to get shoved around on the time slots, like FOX is still trying to screw it over.
- Supported by his vindictive nature; odds are he sent Roger to earth for cheating on him, and if he survived the revelation, he'll be looking for Jeff. If Jeff makes it back to Earth, Zing will call on an invasion.
- Perhaps in Francine's body. He might even have sex with Linda Memari. After getting her body back, Francine will be confused when Linda says "you were great, baby". Francine says to herself, "She is a weird chick."
- HOLY SHIT! This was confirmed in "Bahama Mama". CALLED IT!
It will also be another outlet for Seth's Survivor's Guilt.
- If you ask me, Klaus would be the easiest choice. He's pretty much generic compared to the rest of the family. And I bet the CIA has a lot more animal test subjects that would make lovely pets. This pet in question will replace Klaus in the opening theme of a few episodes (or even until the season finale), and then Klaus will make his big return.
- As for how or if they bring him back, Klaus will "die" in a freak accident to try and get a better body, with it seeming as if his mind has been wiped. In reality, the freak accident jettisoned Klaus out of his body, turning him into a disembodied consciousness.
- This would make a good episode or fanfic.
- This is touched upon in "The Longest Distance Relationship". When Jeff travels through a wormhole to get back to Earth, but ends up in the future the two are a couple because they couldn't get a girlfriend by age 21. Though their only complaint is they should have set the age higher.
They did, or at least her father did, in the episode "Family Plan". Her mother was revealed to have killed herself, and her father is a grade-A looney who arranged the death of his entire family in a Hunger Games-style battle over excessive phone data usage.
It explains why Stan is inconsistent in his beliefs — some of his clones are OK with popular music, others aren't. It also explains why he can survive seemingly insurmountable threats — he doesn't; he dies and is replaced with another clone. His family has accepted it as a function of his hardheadedness.
Prime Stan could be dead, embedded in deep cover, or may have just wanted to leave his family while not making them go through the pain of a divorce.
Roger's character can flutter from a mere Jerkass, an Ax-Crazy Hate Sink or Jerk with a Heart of Gold on a dime because the art is driving him insane. The personas/different personalities have begun to bleed into and alter his main personality, resulting in his erratic behavior and mood swings. The inability to express his true alien self in public doesn't help, and neither is the Smith family because they don't recognize he's Becoming the Mask; they just think he loves playing dress-up. Some of his bitchiness may also be responsible for never being able to be himself since he first landed on Earth in 1947, and is taking it out on the world.
"The Dentist's Wife" was Roger beginning to become aware that personas have taken over his life, but unfortunately he doesn't realize he should try and stop and suffers Aesop Amnesia because of this. Eventually, there's going to be an episode where Roger will forget his identity and be lost in his personas, and it will be to the Smith family to snap him out of it. It's possible that if Roger keeps it up he'll completely lose his original personality.
Stan Smith is a living stick in the mud with an obsession with authority, conformity, and power, yet is surrounded by vastly different family members. Besides Rule of Funny, two things can explain this:- In Dreaming of a White Porshe Christmas, it is revealed that the Smith family we know is a "punishment" family, meant to get Stan to appreciate his real family. His real family is shown to be more to Stan's ideals and expectations than the punishment one. Stan has had to deal with a flighty klepto, a rebellious daughter, and a less-than-masculine son, amongst a more psycho Roger and an annoyingly talkative goldfish to teach him that what he had wasn't so bad. In a twist, Stan actually prefers the punishment family. This shows that there is a part of Stan that loves and is drawn to the very things he was believed to hate, which leads to part two:- No matter if there is a "real" or a "punishment" family, Stan himself has a bunch of issues that have come from paternal abandonment and maternal over-reliance (and the fact that a tree was his role model). Stan had to use figures of authority (the government, religion) as a mental crutch to stay stable and maintain a sense of self-worth. However, deep down he actually yearns to separate from those values, but both doesn't know how and doesn't completely understand why. This is touched upon in The Missing Kink where Stan goes way over the top in every sexual act known to man and alien. For the most part, Stan's family is a representation of his repressed nature, leading to the love-hate relationship that drives the show. This is why he didn't appreciate his "real" family if they do exist. He loves the quirks in his family, even if he can't express them.
Roger likes to experiment with different personas. So, when Stan freed him from his CIA containment cell, he decided to create a persona of an alien who couldn't get out of the house and became depressed. We all know Roger has some Reality Warper powers (as suggested in a previous WMG) so he made up the "alien"'s species and characteristics from whole cloth. In the first episode he wore a disguise, he wasn't so much Hugh Mann as a poorly-disguised freak, because he was still "in" the persona - people commented he was deformed in one way or another, while nowadays he can pass as anything he wants, from attractive women to animals.
Because not one single person questions why a newborn baby is gray-skinned and weighs far more than it should ("Persona Assistant") or the fact that someone (Dr.Kalgary) can completely gloss over the bizarre anatomy, no matter how shady and questionable their practices are.
- Perhaps this could be used for a "non-canon" episode and be played for creepiness and horror, and portray Roger as a sort of evil god playing with a crew of astronauts he found drifting through space to amuse himself.