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AMERICAN Dad is the subversive new animated series that revolves around Stan Smith (Seth MacFarlane, Family Guy), a CIA agent based in Langley Falls, Virginia, who is an undisputed weapons expert and proud family man.
The series will be shown on Orbit's SuperComedy every Thursday and Friday at 7.30pm from January 1.
Stan is constantly on the alert for terrorist activity and will go to extremes to protect his beloved America and keep his homeland secure. Just check out the terror-alert dial on his refrigerator and his immediate reaction is of shooting holes in the toaster whenever the toast pops up!
Stan's wife is the sweet, loving Francine (Wendy Schaal), who has carefully hidden her party girl personality for the sake of the conservative man she loves. But make no mistake, Francine's doting persona has its limits, and she's not afraid to stand up to her man when it's absolutely necessary.
Stan is constantly disagreeing with his ultra-liberal, 18-year-old daughter Hayley (Rachael MacFarlane), who is forced to go through an airport-style security check every time she comes home from a day of Women's Studies classes at the local community college. Hayley's 13-year old brother is the hapless, geeky Steve (Scott Grimes), a kid who seems to be on the verge of puberty, but just can't quite make it past his own awkwardness.
The Smith household is rounded out by two rather unconventional members. There's Roger (Seth MacFarlane), the sarcastic space alien Stan rescued from Area 51 who lives in the Smiths's attic. Roger resents the fact that he's forced to stay inside the house and watch bad television - especially when he just wants to run to the local convenience market and purchase cigarettes. Then there's Klaus (Dee Bradley Baker), a lascivious, German-speaking goldfish - the result of a CIA experiment gone seriously wrong - who has an unhealthy attraction to Francine. Unfortunately for Klaus, the closest he'll ever get to a date with her is in the washing machine spin cycle with her sports bra.
The goal for this eccentric family full of radically different personalities is to continue to love and trust each other during this increasingly stressful time in which something could go down somewhere, in some way, at some point. And with a guy like Stan trying his best to make America safer, it's bound to be a wild adventure through all of the safety alert codes that range from yellow, to orange, to red, and back again.
In the premiere episode, Stan Smith uses his CIA skills to help 13-year-old son Steve win class president and the heart of the hottest girl in class, Lisa Silver. But when being class president makes Steve mad with power, Stan must jump in to save the day.
Meanwhile, Roger the alien, helps 18-year-old Hayley with her school paper. In return, she hooks him up with boatloads of junk food to curb his sweet tooth. Unfortunately, some "Chocodiles" send him over the edge and a sugar crash prohibits him from finishing one of her papers, forcing Hayley to pick up the pieces. And Klaus, the goldfish with the brain of a German guy, pines after mother Francine.
