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American Dad! Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2005 - 2006
Episode 1
Pilot
Sun, Feb 6, 200525 mins
In order to help him get a girlfriend, Stan rigs the school election to make Steve class president. Things go awry when the powers of his new position go to his head.
Episode 2
Threat Levels
Sun, May 1, 200523 mins
Feeling like her life has hit a slump, Francine gets a job as a real estate agent who makes more money than Stan. Meanwhile, Stan, feeling emasculated, gets an idea from Steve to film "bum fights" and make profit.
Episode 3
Stan Knows Best
Sun, May 8, 200523 mins
When Hayley dyes her hair green and moves into her boyfriend's van, Stan decides to cut her off financially. Hayley, in need of money, gets a job as a waitress at a strip club.
Episode 4
Francine's Flashback
Sun, May 15, 200521 mins
After forgetting their anniversary, Stan arranges to have the last 24 hours of Francine's memory erased, but accidentally erases two decades causing Francine to believe she's 19 again.
Episode 5
Roger Codger
Sun, Jun 5, 200522 mins
Roger runs away after he and Stan have an argument. Once the CIA finds out, they organize a search team in order to find him and bring him in for questioning. So now Stan must either kill Roger or choose friendship over his career.
Episode 6
Homeland Insecurity
Sun, Jun 12, 200522 mins
Stan panics after discovering that his new neighbors are Iranian-American; Steve finds himself at the mercy of the Scout Rangers.
Episode 7
Deacon Stan, Jesus Man
Sun, Jun 19, 200522 mins
In another one of his attempts to one up his neighbor, Chuck White, Stan runs for deacon of his church. Meanwhile, Steve falls in love with Chuck's daughter, Betsy.
Episode 8
Bullocks to Stan
Sun, Sep 11, 200522 mins
Stan worships the ground Mr. Bullock walks on, but things complicate once he discovers Bullock has formed a physical relationship with his daughter, Hayley.
Episode 9
A Smith in the Hand
Sun, Sep 18, 200521 mins
Stan becomes addicted to masturbation, and when he is caught by his son, he blames it on television and declares war on TV.
Episode 10
All About Steve
Sun, Sep 25, 200522 mins
After disowning Steve for being a geek, Stan must rely on his son's knowledge of science fiction and fantasy to catch a cyber-terrorist.
Episode 11
Con Heir
Sun, Oct 2, 200522 mins
A man claiming to be Stan's real father shows up at his father's funeral. Stan explains that the man to whom everyone knew to be his father was in reality a stranger he met at a bus stop on his wedding day. So now Stan's real father, a secret agent, wants Stan to accompany him on a top secret mission. Unbeknownst to Stan, his father has a hidden agenda.
Episode 12
Stan of Arabia: Part 1
Sun, Nov 6, 200522 mins
After embarrassing his boss at an award ceremony, Stan and his family are transfered to Somalia . At first hesitant, Stan quickly begins to enjoy the fascist ways of the country and even goes as far as getting a second wife after Francine refuses to do work until Stan asks for his old job back. While outside of the house, Steve learns that boys his age are considered men in the new country & Haley falls in love with a terrorist.
Episode 13
Stan of Arabia: Part 2
Sun, Nov 13, 200522 mins
Cultures continue to clash, and the entire Smith family is arrested by the Vice and Virtue Police and sentenced to death by stoning.
Episode 14
Stannie Get Your Gun
Sun, Nov 20, 200522 mins
Stan's efforts to get Hayley to become a gun-lover backfire on him when she accidentally shoots him and turns him into a quadriplegic.
Episode 15
Star Trek
Sun, Nov 27, 200521 mins
Roger is overjoyed to discover that Steve's new book is all about him - until he finds out that it paints him in an unflattering light.
Episode 16
Not Particularly Desperate Housewife
Sun, Dec 18, 200522 mins
In order to gain entry in a women's social club known as the Ladybugs, Francine pretends she is cheating on Stan. After her fellow Ladybugs wish to meet her "boytoy", guilt stricken Francine confesses that she is not having an affair. Now she must either actually cheat on her husband or the Ladybugs will kill her in an attempt to keep their secrets safe.
Episode 17
Rough Trade
Sun, Jan 8, 200621 mins
When Stan and Roger trade places, Roger gets a job as a car salesman, while Stan ends up in jail.
Episode 18
Finances with Wolves
Sun, Jan 29, 200621 mins
Francine gets a kiosk at the mall, feeling that her life is getting stagnant. Meanwhile, Klaus is given a human body and Stan has to stop him before he seduces Francine.
Episode 19
It's Good to Be the Queen
Sun, Feb 26, 200622 mins
Because of a past incident at his own prom, where he was lured into a dance with the homecoming queen only to have a pile of pigs dropped on him, Stan wants revenge by showing off that he married a homecoming queen, Francine.
Episode 20
Roger 'n' Me
Sun, Apr 23, 200622 mins
Stan and Roger become best friends in Atlantic City, taking their friendship to a whole new, unexpected level, when Roger absorbs all of Stan's memories. Meanwhile, Hayley and Steve conspire to break up a good-looking couple so that they can date the two.
Episode 21
Helping Handis
Sun, Apr 30, 200622 mins
Stan devises a plan to make Steve more popular at school, but the plan backfires when the side effects make him a little too popular; Francine becomes a surgeon and aids a criminal organization.
Episode 22
With Friends Like Steve's
Sun, May 7, 200622 mins
Steve's friend Barry turns evil after skipping his meds, and schemes to replace Steve in Stan's life.
Episode 23
Tears of a Clooney
Sun, May 14, 200622 mins
Francine becomes grouchy on her birthday and she lashes out at her family. Stan learns that his wife was in a TV show and George Clooney stole her spotlight. Stan decides to help Francine get revenge on George Clooney for ruining her acting career and the two go to Hollywood, CA. But Stan becomes friends with George Clooney, much to Francine's dismay. Francine becomes angry at Stan for betraying her and she takes matters into her own hands. Stan realizes he should've helped his wife and he ends his friendship with George; leaving Francine satisfied. Meanwhile, Roger tries to create a vineyard to make wine and he hires children to do the job. At the same time, Hayley is recovering from an illness and she reports Roger to Child Services, the children are removed from Roger's custody and when he tries to taste the wine, it tastes awful.
