American Dad! is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The show is produced by Underdog Productions and Fuzzy Door Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Creators and main directors, MacFarlane (creator of Family Guy) as well as two former Family Guy writers, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman aired the pilot episode in the United States on Fox on February 6, 2005, thirty minutes after the end of Super Bowl XXXIX; the regular series began May 1, 2005, after the season premiere of Family Guy. American Dad! follows the events of CIA agent Stan Smith and his family. Unlike Family Guy, American Dad! does not heavily rely on cutaway gags but instead focuses more on situational humor and non sequiturs.
American Dad! was officially renewed for an eighth season, taking the series through the 2012–13 season. On May 10, 2012 it was renewed for a ninth season taking it through the 2013–14 season. On September 20, 2010, TBS began re-running American Dad!, and now airs the series weekdays at 1ET. Fox also began syndicating American Dad! reruns to local stations in September 2010, with those episodes airing on weekends but as of
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