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American Dad! Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
18 Episodes 2010 - 2010
Season 5 was a star-spangled banner campaign for CIA operative Stan Smith and his family and got off in appropriate style. In the first episode, Steve is chosen to sing the national anthem at the Langley Falls Veterans' Day celebration, but Stan doesn't think he's ready for it, and feels that Steve must experience real war first, like the one Stan experienced in Vietnam. In other exceptional outings, Stan crashes a My Morning Jacket concert to drag Hayley out of it and discovers that he likes the band---so much so that he becomes a groupie and goes out on the road with them. Band members have voice cameos; and Roger decides to turn his life around following a birthday-party roast that hits a bit too close to home. But his efforts to do so go too far, and the Smith family must go on the run.
Episode 1
In Country...Club
Sun, Sep 27, 2009 30 mins
Season 5 premiere: Steve is chosen to sing the national anthem at the Langley Falls Veterans' Day celebration, but Stan doesn't think he's ready for it. He thinks that Steve must experience real war first, like the one Stan experienced in Vietnam. Meanwhile, Stan won't give Roger the pay-per-view code numbers to watch a Barbra Streisand special.
Episode 2
Moon Over Isla Island
Sun, Oct 4, 2009 30 mins
Stan gets Roger to pose unwittingly as the dictator of a small island nation after he accidentally kills the real dictator, and Roger takes quickly to his new role. Meanwhile, it's Steve vs. Snot in a sex contest involving their unwitting mothers.
Episode 3
Home Adrone
Sun, Oct 11, 2009 30 mins
Stan, Lois, Hayley and Roger leave for a college visit for Hayley, leaving Steve home alone---alone, that is, until Snot, Barry and Toshi arrive. They soon find what they think is a flight-simulator video game in Stan's study. It isn't. Meanwhile, the Smiths' flight is delayed on the tarmac because of a UFO in the area.
Episode 4
Brains, Brains and Automobiles
Sun, Oct 18, 2009 30 mins
With the kids away for the summer, Stan and Francine are home alone---with Roger, who's getting in the way. So, with Francine's help, Roger gets a place of his own. Stan will regret it.
Episode 5
Man in the Moonbounce
Sun, Nov 8, 2009 30 mins
Steve becomes the man of the Smith household when Stan, who never had a real childhood, suddenly begins behaving like a kid. "Your inner child put his foot down," as Roger (who's working as a prison psychologist) puts it. Meanwhile, Hayley gives Klaus a haircut. (Since Klaus is a fish, she puts a doll's wig on his head and cuts that.)
Episode 6
Shallow Vows
Sun, Nov 15, 2009 30 mins
As their 20th wedding anniversary nears, Francine lets herself go to see if Stan loves her for more than her looks, while wedding-planner Roger organizes their vow-renewal celebration. Meanwhile, Steve and Hayley search for a gift.
Episode 7
My Morning Straitjacket
Sun, Nov 22, 2009 30 mins
When Stan crashes a My Morning Jacket concert to drag Hayley out of it, he decides that he likes the band---so much so that he becomes a groupie and follows them on the road. Band members have voice cameos. Heavyset Man/Norman: Zach Galifianakis.
Episode 8
G-String Circus
Sun, Nov 29, 2009 30 mins
Stan tries to prove to Hayley that she still needs his advice, but his plan backfires when he finds himself in a seedy new business.
Episode 9
Rapture's Delight
Sun, Dec 13, 2009 30 mins
Stan's frustration at being unable to get a good pew in church on Christmas leads to a divine intervention, and he decides that he wants to get into heaven with or without Francine. But then she's kidnapped.
Episode 10
Don't Look a Smith Horse in the Mouth
Sun, Jan 3, 2010 30 mins
When Francine demands that Stan get rid of his SUV to save money, he buys a horse---one that Roger (who's a jockey) swears to him will win a big race and bring in enough money to cover the gas guzzler's expenses. Meanwhile, Steve and his friends Snot, Barry and Toshi learn that good deeds don't go unpunished when they assist a neighbor.
Episode 11
A Jones for a Smith
Sun, Jan 31, 2010 30 mins
Stan becomes a crack addict after a "pharmaceutical salesman" tells him it's cold medicine. Meanwhile, Steve's biology lab partner turns out to be the girl of his dreams, and her father supports the relationship. But he does want to meet Steve's parents. Voice of Bullock: Patrick Stewart.
Episode 12
May the Best Stan Win
Sun, Feb 14, 2010 30 mins
When the cyborg version of Stan zooms in from the future on Valentine's Day, Stan is more interested in him than he is in romancing Francine. She gets her loving from Cyborg Stan instead. Meanwhile, Steve, Barry, Snot and Toshi make a movie (with Roger directing) that's a combination of "Mannequin" and "Goonies."
Episode 13
The Return of the Bling
Sun, Feb 21, 2010 30 mins
Roger reveals that he was a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic men's hockey team after Stan expresses his admiration for its members. Meanwhile, Reginald takes Hayley to a concert. Guest voices include 1980 hockey Olympians Mike Eruzione and Rob McClanahan.
Episode 14
Cops and Roger
Sun, Apr 11, 2010 30 mins
After he and Francine are mugged, Roger enters the police academy and falls in with a corrupt cop (voice of Bobby Cannavale). Meanwhile, Hayley makes a new friend, which might disrupt a long-standing relationship.
Episode 15
Merlot Down Dirty Shame
Sun, Apr 18, 2010 30 mins
Roger kisses Francine after drinking too much at a wine tasting, then tells Stan that it was Francine who had been the instigator.
Episode 16
Bully for Steve
Sun, Apr 25, 2010 30 mins
Roger wants to become a crime-scene photographer; Stan wants to toughen up Steve, so he picks on him.
Episode 17
An Incident at Owl Creek
Sun, May 9, 2010 30 mins
Stan becomes a laughingstock following an embarrassing incident at a new neighbor's pool party. So he packs up the family, burns down the house and they leave Langley Falls in the middle of the night to become vagabonds.
Episode 18
The Great Space Roaster
Sun, May 16, 2010 30 mins
Season 5 finale: Roger decides to turn his life around following a birthday-party roast that hits a bit too close to home. But his efforts to do so go too far, and the Smith family must go on the run.
