History Characters / AmericanDadSmithFamily

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "Hayley" is the official spelling of her name, but some source material, along with a few episodes, misspell it as either "Haley" or "Hailey". For example, "Pulling Double Booty" uses the former misspelling twice.

** Steve's friends have mentioned it about her. Jeff finds her attractive too (despite the marriage with Hayley making Francine his mother-in-law.) Even her son Steve has expressed how attractive he finds her.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Very few people seem to be all that surprised by a talking goldfish, in contrast to Roger, who has to disguise himself. Then again, considering it shares a universe with Seth McFarlane's other shows, this is less usprising when you remember that talking animals are rare, but not unusal (see: Brian and various other animals on ''Family Guy'' and Tim the Bear on ''The Cleveland Show''.)

* WomenAreWiser: [[ZigzaggedTrope It varies]]. It sometimes happens when Stan is portrayed as the smart, rational one in comedic situations where her flaws don't bring any serious consequences. During the actual plot, where stupidity ''does'' push the conflict, however, [[TheUnfairSex you won't see Stan having the high ground.]] One example of this is "Daddy Queerest", which starts with showing Francine as embarrassingly stupid at a party, while the actual plot concerning Terry hiding in the closet from his homophobic father shows Francine as reasonable for helping him uphold a charade of heterosexuality while Stan is portrayed as an insensitive idiot for outing him after he pushed Greg onto Stan as a scapegoat.

** Hayley's SoapboxSadie tendencies can switch between being genuinely passionate and well-intentioned, or [[HypocriticalHumor completely hypocritical]] and implied to be nothing more than a facade to irritate her father. Similar to Francine, she can switch between [[WomenAreWiser the most level headed of the family]] or as much a self-righteous {{Jerkass}} as Stan.

* NotSoAboveItAll: While she is much more sane than Stan, she still engages in zany schemes, like trying to assassinate Creator/GeorgeClooney because she felt he upstaged her (Deason 1 finale).

** She's very sweet and friendly person, but take care not to cross her, as she can as vengeful as Stan. Even Stan (who usually has a very low sense of self-preservation) is smart enough to be scared of her when she gets angry. Example? Season 1, episode 4.

* NotSoAboveItAll: While she is much more sane than Stan, she still engages in zany schemes, like trying to assassinate Creator/GeorgeClooney because she felt he upstaged her (season 1 finale).

* TookALevelInKindness: Starting at around season 14 or 15, she became less callous and neglectful to her family.

Hayley's on-again, off-again stoner boyfriend. They get married in the premiere of season 6.

* ADayInTheLimelight: He's the star of the season 9 episode ''Lost In Space'', which details what happened to him after Roger tossed him onto his "rescue" ship.

* MissingMom: He confirms in the season 2 episode "Joint Custody" that his mom ran away before he was born.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Very few people seem to be all that surprised by a talking goldfish, in contrast to Roger, who has to disguise himself.

** "Scents and Sensei-bility" After being coldy thrown out of the house by the Smiths due to his smell, he outsmarts them and kicks them out of the house. [[ThrowTheDogABone He manages to take over the house by the end of the episode]].

** She attempts it (and fails) in another episode, trying to get something out of some CIA agents. Lowering the straps of her dress doesn't work, giving him her panties (taken off right in front of him) doesn't work, but the second she mentions her brownies his partner charges over in a HumongousMecha and takes them. "He makes it hard to negotiate," the first scientist remarks.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His surname is sometimes spelled with one "s", and sometimes spelled with two.

* UngratefulBastard: In "Man in the Moonbounce", Klaus whines that he misses having hair, and Hayley gets him a doll wig out of sympathy. He then requests her to trim it so it resembles Creator/RyanPhillippe's haircut, but when she botches the job, he angrily calls her a failure and tries to ''drown'' her in the toilet.

* DumbassHasAPoint: In "Game Night", he is correct in pointing out that letting Stan win is hardly better than suffering through him being a SoreLoser, due to his unbearable UnsportsmanlikeGloating.

* AllGermansAreNazis: Zigzagged. Klaus was horrified when the others thought his grandfather worked at the Auschwitz concentration camps (he actually drove the kiddy train at the Auschwitz zoo); and outright admits that what the Nazi did was monstrous in the episode when he and Stan met Francine's birth parents. However, another episode has him pay his respects to the Nazi soldiers who perished during D-Day, and when labled as an anti-semite he just says "So that's how you spell it!"

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the first season, Klaus was far more unpleasant, openly lusting after Francine, and delighting in tormenting Roger. In later seasons, he's usually the lowest member on the Smith family totem pole, frequently being insulted or demeaned by the others, has dropped his crush on Francine (and is even irritated by her on occasion), and is generally more sympathetic.

* AllGermansAreNazis: Zigzagged. Klaus was horrified when the others thought his grandfather worked at the Auschwitz concentration camps (he actually drove the kiddy train at the Auschwitz zoo); and outright admits that what the Nazi did was monstrous in the episode when he and Stan met Francine's birth parents. However, another episode has him pay his respects to the Nazi soldiers who perished during D-Day.

%%* BlackSheep: Even described as such in-universe in at least one episode.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Scott Grimes once joked that he actually got an umbilical hernia from screaming "AWESOME!" so often during early series.

* IRejectYourReality: This, along with TheMadHatter, and {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. His mental health has obviously deteriorated due to being stuck in the body of a fish, and he's fully aware of it. He has conversations with himself, and has narrated his life and those around him as a DVD commentary, among other instances of insanity.
** Later episodes occasionally subvert this by having his delusions be RealAfterAll, most notably his boys in Florida, who have since become recurring characters.