The Best Episodes of American Dad!

When Steve gives the family better Christmas gifts than Stan, Stan goes to great lengths to regain his title of "King of Presents."

Director: Jansen Yee

Writer: Nic Wegener

Stan is ecstatic--and energetic--when a coworker gives him pills that allow him to stay up all night.

Director: Joe Daniello

Writer: Brian Boyle

A mold of Francine's vagina is displayed in a museum.

Director: Rodney Clouden

Writer: Steve Hely

Upset that Hayley no longer wants his advice, Stan decides to prove that she is missing out on his sage counseling. After meeting a stripper on an important CIA mission, Stan takes it upon himself to improve her life and show Hayley that his advice works. But when he opens a new business, hoping to prove Hayley wrong, he finds himself dancing for cash to cover up his failures.

Director: Bob Bowen

Writer: Erik Durbin

In an attempt to maintain his "prime," Stan explores some cosmetic solutions that could not go worse.

Director: Jennifer Graves

Writer: Charles Suozzi

When Stan goes too far to keep his work friend away from Francine, she is forced to save her new "little" friend.

Director: Tim Parsons

Writer: Laura Beason

Hayley makes Jeff get a friend to add some mystery to their relationship but gets more mystery than she bargained for. Francine attempts to grow the world's longest fingernails.

Director: Chris Bennett

Writer: Laura Beason

The Smiths get new neighbors! Meanwhile, Roger dreads having to be a little boy's kite for a day.

Director: Josue Cervantes

Writer: Paul Stroud

Francine becomes an overnight sensation when a famous art dealer discovers her homemade pottery.

Director: Shawn Murray

Writer: Nicole Shabtai

It's Halloween night and Stan is missing, so the Smith gang heads to the spooky, abandoned CIA headquarters to investigate.

Director: Shawn Murray

Writer: Jeff Kauffmann

Klaus house sits for the Smiths while they are away on vacation. Roger investigates the origin of powerful winds plaguing the Eastern Seaboard.

Director: Jansen Yee

Writer: Yolanda Carney

Stan and Roger go on a mission to leave their mark on humanity. Jeff finally deals with the reality of losing his signature hat.

Director: Jennifer Graves

Writer: Joe Chandler

To have a chance with a girl, Steve and Snot must track down a keg of 4Loko.

Director: Tim Parsons

Writer: Nic Wegener

Francine enters the strange and dangerous world of poker in order to learn how to hide her true feelings from Steve and Hayley.

Director: Chris Bennett

Writer: Brett Cawley, Robert Maitia

Suspicious about Hayley's mysterious, newfound wealth, Francine decides to get to the bottom of it. Roger sets out to make Stan an internet celebrity.

Director: Josue Cervantes

Writer: Jeff Kauffmann

When Stan enters an essay contest to have his personal hero, President Bush, come over for dinner, he is overcome with joy when the President arrives at his doorstep. However, not everyone in the Smith family shares Stan's excitement. Hayley tries to drill President Bush on the Iraq war, and Steve and Roger attempt to convince him that they've found Osama Bin Laden, but instead get him drunk. Stan tries to save the President from public humiliation, while Hayley revels in his fall from glory.

Director: Mike Kim

Writer: Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman

When Stan catches Steve playing imaginary games with his toys, he decides to take his son down to Mexico to help him become a man. But the trip takes a turn for the worse when Stan and Steve are kidnapped by a drug cartel, and it’s up to Steve to break himself and Stan out of captivity.

Director: Jennifer Graves, Tim Parsons

Writer: Matt Fusfeld, Alex Cuthbertson

When Stan tries to trick Steve into attending summer camp, things go horribly wrong and Steve ends up in a refugee camp. However, Stan, being the eternal optimist, joins Steve and manages to stage a camp Olympics between the refugees and the rebel faction living across the river.

Director: Albert Calleros

Writer: Josh Bycel, Jonathan Fener

It's Roger's 1600th birthday, but the Smiths are too freaked out by Steve's impending puberty to celebrate. So Roger decides to make his own birthday fun.

Director: Caleb Meurer

Writer: Rick Wiener, Kenny Schwartz

Stan loses his confidence, and his job, when a car salesman gets the best of him in a negotiation. Meanwhile, Roger and Steve set up a makeshift drive-in to try to get to first base with popular schoolgirls.

Director: Rodney Clouden

Writer: Etan Cohen

Roger declares that he was sent to Earth to be "the decider" of humanity's fate, and Stan challenges him on it.

Director: Tim Parsons

Writer: Laura McCreary

Francine and Stan compare parenting skills after Stan creates a clone of Steve; Roger searches for the missing bride and groom.

Director: Chris Bennett

Writer: Erik Sommers

When Langley Falls bans trans fats, Stan and Steve become smugglers. Meanwhile, Klaus gets word that he has received an inheritance but can't collect it because the CIA has turned him into a fish.

Director: Rodney Clouden

Writer: Laura McCreary

A talk show reveals that Francine was the toddler who, famously, was rescued from a well by a firefighter; Francine makes a discovery when she falls down the well on the anniversary of her rescue; Stan and Roger come up with a business idea.

Director: Chris Bennett

Writer: Murray Miller

Stan, tattooed and haunted, travels a barren Langley Falls alone. Meanwhile, a mysterious element known as "The Two Hundred" has reigned terror on the town and separated Stan from his family.

Director: Jansen Yee

Writer: Brett Cawley, Robert Maitia