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From the delightfully twisted creative minds behind Family Guy comes American Dad, the animated tour de force featuring CIA operative Stan Smith, his outrageous family, and Roger, the alcoholic extra-terrestrial who lives with them! Follow the adventures of the Smiths from the California desert where Stan's wife Francine relieves her wild youth at the Burning Man Festival to Saudi Arabia, where the entire family is sentenced to death by the Vice and Virtue Police! Whether it's rigging elections, erasing memories, chasing sleazy strip clubs, or staging "bum fights," it's all in a day's work for Stan, and it's all here in the side-splittingly hilarious first 13 episodes of American Dad!
Customer reviews for 'American Dad!, Vol. 1'
«VOLUME ONE: DVD of American Dad.»
This is a great show, which took a few viewings to get into, perhaps even funnier than, Family Guy.
[Thursday, November 19, 2009]
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«Evolution of a great show»
American Dad debuted to mixed reviews at first, but has picked up steam since and never turned back. The show begins as what is essentially Family Guy with new characters. The pilot episode has everything from a stupid father figure to nonsensical cutaways. But then the show found its own identity and took off running, to the point where it now far exceeds its coutnerpart Family Guy in terms of humor and quality.
American Dad is another in a long line of sitcoms with a stupid, ignorant dad and his adventures with the family. The twist here is that Stan Smith is a CIA agent and extreme supporter of the then-current conservative Bush government. It's notable, though, that while Stan comes across as stupid, he's not a jerk. It's refreshing to see that Seth McFarlane, who couldn't keep his political views out of Family Guy, takes a fairly balanced view here. Stan is offset by his extremely liberal daughter Haley, and each is wrong about as many times as they're right - very much like political extremists in real life. Most importantly, there is still a caring core to the family, so Stan becomes a guy that you like. Unlike Peter Griffin or Homer Simpson, whose stupidity has risen to epic levels in later years of their respective shows, Stan Smith remains a guy with a ten-cent head but a million-dollar heart.
American Dad is at its best when it keeps that last point in mind, channeling Archie Bunker instead of Peter Griffin. It takes the show a few episodes to find its footing, but once it does you'll see that Stan and his family, including surrogate additions such as an alcoholic alien and a talking fish, present a perfect balance of comedy. While future DVD sets eclipse the quality here, it's worth checking this set out because of the evolution you get to see in the show. Here you'll be able to watch American Dad go from poor cousin to comic gold.
[Thursday, November 05, 2009]
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«amazing quality»
I love this show and when my boyfriend and I received it in the mail we watched the complete season the same day! And it was in perfect condition no scratches, the only thing that made it not brand new was the fact that it didn't have the plastic around the outside.
[Tuesday, October 06, 2009]
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