The Best Episodes of American Dad!
Every episode of American Dad! ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of American Dad!!
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "American Dad!" is "Into the Jingleverse", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was directed by Jansen Yee and written by Nic Wegener. "Into the Jingleverse" aired on 12/18/2023 and is rated 1.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Stan Time".
10.0/10 1 votes#1 - Into the Jingleverse
Season 20 Episode 22 - Aired 12/18/2023
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
8.8/10 1,748 votes#2 - Stan Time
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 2/8/2009
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
8.7/10 1,071 votes#3 - Portrait of Francine's Genitals
Season 14 Episode 4 - Aired 11/28/2016
A mold of Francine's vagina is displayed in a museum.
Director: Rodney Clouden
Writer: Steve Hely
8.5/10 1,144 votes#4 - G-String Circus
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/2009
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
8.4/10 1,132 votes#5 - Bush Comes to Dinner
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/7/2007
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
8.4/10 1,152 votes#6 - Toy Whorey
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 5/13/2012
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
8.2/10 1,006 votes#7 - Camp Refoogee
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/2006
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
8.2/10 995 votes#8 - 1600 Candles
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/2008
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
8.1/10 946 votes#9 - Failure is Not a Factory-Installed Option
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/2006
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
8.1/10 824 votes#10 - Weiner of Our Discontent
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 5/3/2009
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
8.1/10 961 votes#11 - Son of Stan (2)
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/2010
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
8.1/10 551 votes#12 - Daesong Heavy Industries II: Return to Innocence
Season 13 Episode 16 - Aired 5/16/2016
Everyone is separated after the ship explodes: Stan and Francine lose their memories and resort to primitive living on an island; Hayley and Jeff are rescued by the Navy and Jeff decides to enlist; and Roger and Steve try to survive on a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean.
Director: Josue Cervantes
Writer: Zachary Rosenblatt
8.0/10 821 votes#13 - Live and Let Fry
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 3/1/2009
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
8.0/10 850 votes#14 - National Treasure 4: Baby Franny: She's Doing Well: The Hole Story
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 12/23/2012
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
7.9/10 947 votes#15 - Not Particularly Desperate Housewives
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/18/2005
As Stan continues to dominate the household, Francine finds herself idolizing a group of women who seem to have it all. She tries to impress them and even lies in order to gain acceptance into their group, until she realizes they aren't as perfect as they seem. Meanwhile, loyalties are tested when Stan gets a new best friend.
Director: Brent Woods
Writer: Dan Vebber
7.9/10 875 votes#16 - Irregarding Steve
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/10/2006
When Roger helps Steve see that his father isn't as smart as he always believed, the power-hungry pair set their sights on fame and fortune in New York City. It doesn't take long for Roger to lose everything on Wall Street, and Steve contemplates prostitution after Jon Stewart shoots down his comedy routine. Meanwhile, the rest of the family is certain that the two have just run away to the tree house, so when it explodes in a lightning storm, they are devastated, but console themselves with Steve's college fund.
Director: Pam Cooke
Writer: Chris McKenna
7.9/10 912 votes#17 - Meter Made
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/2007
After Stan punches a male meter maid during a disagreement over a parking ticket, a judge sentences him to two weeks of community service--as a meter maid. Meanwhile, Hayley poses in the nude for an art class, where one of the artists turns out to be Roger.
Director: Bob Bowen
Writer: Dan Vebber
7.8/10 998 votes#18 - A Smith in the Hand
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/2005
When Steve brings home a permission slip to take sex ed at school, Stan flips out and demands to teach it himself. However, after Stan unrealistically explains the birds and the bees to Steve, he gets into an accident that causes him to take matters into his own hands. Meanwhile, Roger becomes a bartender in hopes of making something of himself.
Director: Pam Cooke
Writer: David Hemingson
7.8/10 848 votes#19 - Roger 'n Me
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 4/23/2006
When Stan goes to Atlantic City for a bachelor party and is shunned by his so-called best friend, Roger steps in and becomes Stan's new sidekick. Their friendship goes to a whole new level, but when they return home and face Francine, Stan realizes that what happens in Atlantic City doesn't necessarily stay there. Meanwhile, Hayley and Steve team up to break up a good-looking couple.
Director: Anthony Lioi
Writer: Rick Wiener, Kenny Schwartz
7.8/10 841 votes#20 - When a Stan Loves a Woman
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 4/29/2007
After Stan discovers that Francine has a secret sex garden, he feels like their marriage may be crumbling. Looking to rekindle their romance, Francine asks for a divorce so that Stan can experience life as a bachelor again, and both learn a valuable lesson in love. Meanwhile, addicted to an energy drink, Steve finds himself panhandling in the streets to support his new habit.
Director: Rodney Clouden
Writer: Rick Wiener, Kenny Schwartz
7.8/10 861 votes#21 - The Vacation Goo
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/2007
Francine demands that Stan take the family on a vacation after she learns all of their previous vacations never actually happened: The CIA had planted artificial memories of the "vacations" in their brains so Stan could ditch them. Meanwhile, Roger wants to be a thespian.
Director: Albert Calleros
Writer: Josh Bycel, Jonathan Fener
7.8/10 790 votes#22 - White Rice
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 11/21/2010
After an argument between Stan and Francine breaks out, Stan suggests they go see a counselor, who hypnotizes Francine and reawakens her lifelong dream of being a comedian. Meanwhile, back in Langley Falls, Steve brings home a potential love interest for Klaus.
Director: Bob Bowen
Writer: Rick Wiener, Kenny Schwartz
7.8/10 769 votes#23 - The People vs. Martin Sugar
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 12/5/2010
If there’s one thing that Stan Smith loves, it’s a good jury trial. He anxiously awaits his annual jury summons. But when Roger is the defendant in the trial where Stan is the foreman, he is finally in a position to make Roger accountable for his misdeeds. Meanwhile, Jeff and Hayley move in with the Smiths, and Francine tries to get Jeff to clean up his act.
Director: Pam Cooke
Writer: Jonathan Fener
7.8/10 868 votes#24 - Home Wrecker
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 5/8/2011
Stan and Francine fight over how to redecorate the house. It goes so far that they split the house down the middle and try to live without each other. Meanwhile, Principal Lewis discovers a talent of Barry.
Director: Joe Daniello
Writer: Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland
7.8/10 806 votes#25 - Blood Crieth Unto Heaven
Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 1/27/2013
When Francine invites Stan's father to a party, a dark secret about the Smith family's past is revealed.
Director: Joe Daniello
Writer: Brian Boyle