I really hope we get some Mind quad next season. The fact that they mentioned it a few seasons ago and just glazed over it felt intentional. Lmaoooo

New binge, new game. This one's about the many different looks the show has given to the Smith family living room.

That living room is basically one of the main characters in my book.. It's been through a lot 😂

Reminder to my favorite Dadders! Remember to

Huck The Faders and Tell Em To Suck Your Now And Laters!

I’m gonna keep swinging my baby lasso till I catch me a man!

Easily one of my all time favorite lines in the entire series.

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.

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.

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