American Dad Appreciation Thread - Good Morning USA!
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Modern American Dad has alot more post-modern tone to the show compared to early American Dad
Seasons 1 and (most of) 2 focused too much on W. Bush derangement but had abandoned that by the end of season 3 by May 2007 and by the Season 4 premiere, it became a show of its own. Even dropping most of modern politics by the end of Season 6. Mostly the Fox era and especially the current TBS era has become less of Family Guy (despite the somewhat similar Seth MacFarlane artstyle) and more of the same beats as either King of the Hill, Beavis & Butthead, Archer, Futurama, Aqua Teen, Venture Bros., Regular Show, Angry Beavers, Fairly Oddparents and Freddy Got Fingered.
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It's weird seeing the show change slowly of time. Watching it all at once you easily notice but i remember watching most of the episodes as they aired and hardly noticed the change besides Stan no longer doing any C.I.A stuff but honestly that always felt more like a backdrop then anything.
It's weird how all three of Seth MacFarlane's animated shows started out differently. The Cleveland Show started out exactly like Family Guy until midway through season 1. Season 2 gotten better and season 3 and until the series ended was when the show was great.
Family Guy is also vastly different between season 1-7 (and yes, this is includes a couple post-cancellation seasons). And American Dad is also different as it started out as a Family Guy clone but with political sperging throughout season 1. By the time second season premiered in Fall of that year, it became a bit less and less political, and by 2010 they stopped doing the political commentary shtick.
I almost forgot about the episode from weeks ago where Hayley's conscious was a cow and its all because of her judgemental voice.
I have no idea why, but it gave me Watamote vibes. I can picture Hayley Smith acting more like Tomoko Kuroki in that episode.
I have no idea why, but it gave me Watamote vibes. I can picture Hayley Smith acting more like Tomoko Kuroki in that episode.
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I'm actually happy he left out the horchata bit. That one went on too long.
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Remember that crossover episode where a hurricane hit all three of Seth MacFarlene's shows (Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show?)
The American Dad episode is the best of the three, a good episode in its own right. The hurricane impacts the characters, not just being a background event. Stan makes everything worse, Roger deals with an annoying girlfriend, the family has a dilemma of what to do during the hurricane.
The ending was funny.
The American Dad episode is the best of the three, a good episode in its own right. The hurricane impacts the characters, not just being a background event. Stan makes everything worse, Roger deals with an annoying girlfriend, the family has a dilemma of what to do during the hurricane.
The ending was funny.
I personally thought Cleveland Show's episode was underrated, while the Family Guy one was forced as shit. But yes, the American Dad one will always be the best, especially the end here.
Necrobumping again (because sadly nobody in the Farms cares about this show anymore, and I don't know why) as last month's San Diego Comic Con's American Dad panel (via 20th Television Animation) had released clips for the show's upcoming episodes.
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thats a different voice for the narrator saying ricky spanish, show went downhill
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I love the show but I think it has gone downhill a bit. These days they lean heavily on wacky highjinks and plotlines. Remember when Stan would joke about how well the Iraq war is going? Remember when they had the terror alert color dial? The NRA episode?
The Missing Kink episode was a big tell also, as if Stan is repressed for not having tried every sex fad, or for not wanting to try them. AD won't incorporate political controversy anymore. It's mostly just crazy zany humor, which feels so detached from everyday reality people live, and further alienating is that they won't make jokes about egregious faults in our government. Not any of Hunter's antics. Not Bernie Sanders' bullshit runs for White House. Not San Francisco or any other blue metropolitan hellhole. Not green energy / renewable grifting. The fields of criticism are ripe for harvest, and the grain rots on the stalk.
They're not different voice actors you literal tard. They're the same, yet they're losing their voices. The voice actress who does the Ricky Spanish voice is literally the one who voices Hayley since day one, and it's Seth's sister.
It used to be a show about Seth's political sperging of the Bush era. Realizing how outdated most episodes were, they forgone that by between 2006 or 2012 to focus more on the family (and even Roger) in their out-of-the-ordinary antics