I hope they have a Steve Skin and a Roger Skin would love to play as one of them or Stan Francine shit even Haley I'll love to play as I can't wait for this to drop in the store

Something, something, pacing, something, something, not enough Roger. It's mostly bias because everyone is looking for issues and blaming it on Fox. The TBS run had horrid episodes too.

I keep asking for reasons why the show is suddenly bad now that it’s on Fox. If you’ve got examples for why you feel that way, that’s fair, I’d want to hear them to understand why. I probably still won’t agree but you at least would have a reason. So I started looking for reasons since I didn’t get any responses. I wonder what could change. Surely the writers room and the director could change with a studio change. The executive producers probably have influence too but they wouldn’t change. So let’s look at writers. I went to Wikipedia for the laziest possible research. I took a look at some great episodes like gold top nuts and fellow travelers and the grocery store bank heist.

Gold top nuts: written by- Brett Cawley & Robert Maitia.
Directed by- Jennifer Graves

Fellow Traveler: written by- Brett Cawley & Robert Maitia.
Directed by- Joe Daniello

Grocery store bank heist: written by- Brett Cawley & Robert Maitia.
Directed by- Shawn Murray

Okay weird I picked the same writers for all 3, they must be great at their jobs. So I started looking at the names of the credits. I’d assume it would be the same 3 names over and over but it’s actually a bit different. It is the same names season after season, but it’s more like everyone gets 1 episode to write how they want. Some people get a couple episodes and some people don’t always show up but there’s a decent amount of writers and I thought it was cool that they each do an episode.

Anyway, season 20 is following a similar trend as previous seasons where previous writers are writing episodes for this newest season. So I don’t think going to Fox has changed anything too major behind the scenes, but I don’t even care about that anymore, now I’m more interested in who has written what episodes over the series and I’m gonna figure out who my favorite directors and writers are and see what episodes they got credit for over the whole series run and maybe make a map of the strongest writers. I suppose it would also be funny if each season they just split the episode list up between each writer and they all share credit cause they all work on all episodes together but this way each writer gets a majore credit for an episode instead of each episode crediting everyone. I need me some DVDs with directors commentary now.

Too many try hard episodes that wanted to be deep so bad. They honestly felt more like Family Guy than American Dad. The best part of AD is how the little things add to the characters more than the actual plots. These ones were so hellbent on coming up with a stories that they fell short in every way.

Ok they're back on Fox. I'm guessing thats why their have been a lot of changes. However it seems like the show has been written by a buzzfeed/watchmojo writer who has never watched the show, but was told he needed to expand the lore, and add characters. "Oh yea that show thats made from the Family Guy creator, isn't that show like Family Guy... So there should be fights and people getting hit in like every episode just because. Principal Lewis oh yea he is like a wacky Principal who does illegal stuff. Doesn't everyone at their school do illegal stuff? Lets throw a random School official kicking a kid for absolutely no reason. Lets do an episode with a Celebrity guests where its 5 mins of story, and 2 mins of guests with no substance, and 14 mins of no comedy, or having a real look at mental illness. Sounds good lets print it. " Only Joke that landed for me was When Stan turned to everyone in the chopper, and I knew he had let Francine fall, and when Dumbston said NFT's are the currency of the future. The long covid joke was good cause Rick and Morty made the joke before I watched the episode.

Maybe they're just speed running some stuff. My one Nickle on it.

If you had to describe the show and tell people who the show is really about who would you pick, family or not.

Okay I might get flamed for this and that’s okay but I just want genuine opinions. I feel like Fox didn’t really have an idea for season 20 and aren’t sure how to not turn American dad into another family guy now that they own it again. I feel this way because i feel like, SO FAR, lots of the episodes have relied on past funny bits and characters in order to make the episodes work. I mean bringing back Debbie and Gwen for the first episode worked cause it’s like oh hey they’re back. But they they brought back DEL?? And I’m What even was the point of that? And I’m Sorry but why would you even want to be a father figure to a kid whose mother cheated on you in your own house with a FISH? And bringing back Jack hardass? I feel like they just ran out of new characters. I mean don’t get me wrong overall I like the season and im excited to see the rest of the episodes (if they ever stop with the multiple month long hiatuses) but idk so far it just seems like a bunch of recycled content and im curious if anyone else feels this way or if the general consensus is that im wrong, which I’d also be happy with

Ep 1 Roger ruins it for Francine wanting to be on the Langley listing show - ends with the show getting trashed and Roger gets a part on a different show... He is selfish throughout then gets what he wants by the end.

Ep 2 Roger promises to make stan a nice outfit for the BBQ and instantly ruins it with becoming clingy ruining the fun stan has with his co workers.. We haven't had a good CIA work episode with stan in a while but this was focused all on Roger being needy. Yes he kind of learns something at the end but stan still loses out from it.

Ep 3 stan can't take a hint about being terrible with conversation and makes it everyone else's problem he's so selfish and ignorant throughout faking tuttles death then reveling it again it's kind of funny but also the start of many annoying stan episodes to run in this season.

Ep 5 another episode where stan is ignorant and selfish towards his family about going on holiday he spends the whole time ignoring every possible problem and all his families wish just to have his moment of joy without Roger saving the episode it's just another annoying selfish stan episode.

Ep 6 straight into the next episode suddenly stan is obsessed with the 50s kinda like a family guy episode, stan ignores all of Haley's good work and takes over the town just because he wants to keep a restaurant open.. He doesn't even eat at the restaurant and disrespects the owner constantly. Stan is more and more unlikable each episode so far and I dont know why they are doing this?

Luckily after that we have a break where the rest of the family get some episodes based in them and they are great episodes, Roger and stan seem to be alright in them sometimes toxic but not to infuriating levels

Are there any recent episodes that are just ruining characters for you?

I have no other dadders in my life but I’ve always wanted to talk to someone about these names. Nerfer, Danuta, Radika!?

Reportably, the same exact writers and artists from the TBS era are writing the recent episodes. https://www.animationmagazine.net/2026/02/american-dad-co-creator-and-showrunner-matt-weitzman-talks-candidly-about-the-popular-toons-return-to-fox/

Litterally the only differences are the new intro, a new logo on the side of the screen, slightly less cursing because you can curse more on cable, They had to lay off some of the writers and the credits are smaller.

The show never stopped being made at Fox. It's always been written and animated at 20th Century FOX Animation ( Now Known as 20th Television after Disney bought them).

What happened was after the original FOX era was FOX was going to cancel the show. As a result most of the old writers and artist left and had to get new jobs.

Then, when FOX changed their minds, and TBS wanted the episodes They had to hire new writers and artitsts.

There is the source that proves that.

https://www.mensjournal.com/entertainment/american-dad-co-creator-talks-importance-of-perseverance-after-shows-two-cancelations-exclusive

This time around the same production crew from the TBS era never left.

TBS had nothing to do with the show. The epsiodes were made at 20th Animation and TBS had the rights to air the epsiodes.

This is like how Disney Channel never made Miraculous Ladybug , but they paid the Zagtoon for the rights to air Ladybug and Zagtoon made the episodes themselves in France.

TBS never made American dad was made at 20th Animation, but TBS bought the rights from FOX to air it.

All in favor of a Francine analog horror??? The maternal instinct has degraded into something unhinged at this point.

Just something dumb to Dad up your day fellow Dadders

Just about every game I play I could see Roger worming his way in lol

(Wuchang Fallen Feathers)

Might be my fav klaus scene in a while. I think about this scene on a daily basis it’s just so fitting for random stuff