Bait And Switch / American Dad!

• In "Not Particularly Desperate Housewife", Klaus tells a joke:
  Klaus: There was a very famous Jewish girl who kept a diary. It... ended badly. But enough about Fran Drescher! [laughs] You thought I was making a Holocaust joke! Shame on you!
• A twofer in "Four Little Words": after Roger gets a Kevin Bacon-style prosthetic nose and makes the real Kevin Bacon look bad while impersonating him, Hayley tells him that he may be beautiful on the outside like Kevin Bacon, but he's ugly on the inside like Tommy Lee Jones... on the outside. And the inside.
  • Later in the episode, after Francine decides to start a new life in India after Stan frames her, she adopts an Indian baby. When Stan comes clean about him convincing her that she murdered her friend Melinda earlier, she asks what will she do with the baby; the scene cuts to Stan and Francine at the woodchipper that they used to dispose of Melinda's body, only Stan is simply inserting a piece of wood and the baby was given to Bullock.
• The beginning of the episode "100 A.D." claims that 100 characters from across the show will die. After Roger stops the meter from going up by 1 after claiming that his smoking will kill him and Stan almost kills Jeff, rather than any notable recurring characters dying, the victims are a dog that Stan tries to reattach its legs to after blowing them off, 96 minor characters that die when they take a bus that backs off a cliff and explodes, Stan's friend Brett from "Dope & Faith", who converted to Satanism after attempting to kill himself when Stan ruined his life to get him to convert to Christianity, the Bobby Bullet mascot from "Stannie Get Your Gun", who tried to kill Stan for stealing his job and expires after being launched by the bus explosion and impaling Brett in the chest, and a serial killing motel manager who hung himself after being unable to live with what he did.
• At the end of "Wheels & the Legman and the Case of Grandpa's Key", Steve finally gets the courage to tell people the truth. He tells one of his and Roger's clients that her missing bird was dead all this time, another client that his grandfather was an idiot and his legacy was a satchel that lights up when opened, Klaus that he's not cute (after he spent the whole B-plot trying and failing to prove that he was)... and then he runs up to Dane Cook at one of his shows and says that he finds him hilarious against everyone else thinking so.
• "Naked to the Limit, One More Time" has a big one: after it looks like Roger is returning to his home planet, he suddenly pushes Jeff into the transport ship's tractor beam, kicking off a several season-long story arc about Jeff being taken to an alien space colony and going on a long journey to return to Earth.
• In "News Glance with Genevieve Vavance", Roger pulls out a gun, finds that it's unloaded, and questions why he doesn't have a bullet intern to make sure he always has bullets. When one worker tells him that he did have one, Roger asks what happened to her. After a Beat that implies she was shot, it turns out that she just went back to school.
• In "The Nova Centauris-burgh Board of Tourism Presents: American Dad", Stan and Roger convert the house into a sea park and bring in an enormous, vicious-looking orca to be the star attraction. Instead of eating a Too Dumb to Live kid who wanders into a bucket of chum and Roger pushed into the pool, it politely brings him back to the stage and kisses him. What actually tanks their business is when the orca waves at the audience and splashes water on them, which causes the bleachers to weaken and collapse because Roger had to cut corners to afford the orca and made the bleachers with a 3D printer, so the audience is hospitalized and the park is shut down.
• At the beginning of "Portrait of Francine's Genitals", it seems like the late artist Reynolds Jasperterian was just another of Roger's alter egos, only for it to turn out that he was a real person. Roger himself is surprised at this.
• In "Family Plan", Francine's biological father mentions that his wife had died offscreen. Apparently, it was from a car crash, but she wasn't in it; she saw someone else in one and had a heart attack, then at the hospital, she contracted a flesh-eating virus and beat it, only to hang herself shortly after.
• At the end of "Ninety North, Zero West", Santa is swallowed by Humbaba in an attempt to gain his powers, but the Sequel Hook in the end credits shows that he survived after Humbaba was beheaded. The following Christmas episode "Santa, Schmanta" has Santa climb out of Humbaba's neck and almost fall back in, only to fall forward instead and break his own neck. He gets better.
• In "A Star is Reborn", Roger describes his love of Bones in a way that sounds like an innuendo for an erection, but is actually just a smile.
  Roger: I love Bones. You know what I get from watching Bones, Steve? A big, throbbing smile.
• Several in "Escape from Pearl Bailey", during the sequence where Steve enacts revenge on the girls he believes responsible for running a smear campaign against Debbie.
  • Just as he concludes his dramatic they will pay for this! speech, he withdraws what looks like a time bomb from his rucksack. Snot, Barry and Toshi all gasp in horror, but Steve hastily clarifies it's just a novelty lunchbox and nothing to do with his revenge plan.
  • Toshi helps him by giving him his samurai sword. Steve unsheaths the sword and strikes a dramatic pose with it ("So it begins..."). But then it turns out he only wanted to sell it on to a tradesman.
    Steve: Perfect! This is just enough cash to bankroll my revenge schemes!
  • As Amy is taking her new car out for its debut run, it seems Steve has tampered with her brakes and she's about to plunge off the edge of the cliff to her doom. But then she realizes she's actually just been hitting the clutch by mistake, and her brakes are still in perfect working order.

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