10.0/101 votesLoading...#1 - Brown Lotus
Season 21 Episode 2 - Aired 11/4/2024
Hayley and Jeff take a staycation at a nearby luxury resort, while the CIA is forced to rebrand.
Director: John Drake O'Day
Writer: Nic Wegener
9.0/103 votesLoading...#2 - 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
8.8/101,778 votesLoading...#3 - 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
8.7/101,106 votesLoading...#4 - 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
8.5/101,165 votesLoading...#5 - 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
8.5/102 votesLoading...#6 - Saving Face
Season 20 Episode 9 - Aired 5/29/2023
In an attempt to maintain his "prime," Stan explores some cosmetic solutions that could not go worse.
Director: Jennifer Graves
Writer: Charles Suozzi
8.5/102 votesLoading...#7 - Frantastic Voyage
Season 20 Episode 10 - Aired 9/4/2023
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
8.5/102 votesLoading...#8 - A Little Mystery
Season 20 Episode 11 - Aired 9/11/2023
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
8.5/102 votesLoading...#9 - Don't You Be My Neighbor
Season 20 Episode 12 - Aired 9/18/2023
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
8.5/102 votesLoading...#10 - Productive Panic
Season 20 Episode 13 - Aired 9/25/2023
Francine becomes an overnight sensation when a famous art dealer discovers her homemade pottery.
Director: Shawn Murray
Writer: Nicole Shabtai
8.5/102 votesLoading...#11 - Z.O.I.N.C.S.
Season 20 Episode 15 - Aired 10/30/2023
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
8.5/102 votesLoading...#12 - A New Era for the Smith House
Season 20 Episode 16 - Aired 11/6/2023
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
8.5/102 votesLoading...#13 - Footprints
Season 20 Episode 18 - Aired 11/20/2023
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
8.5/102 votesLoading...#14 - Steve, Snot, and the Quest for the Og 4LOCO
Season 20 Episode 19 - Aired 11/27/2023
To have a chance with a girl, Steve and Snot must track down a keg of 4Loko.
Director: Tim Parsons
Writer: Nic Wegener
8.5/102 votesLoading...#15 - The Pink Sphinx Holds Her Hearts on the Turn
Season 20 Episode 20 - Aired 12/4/2023
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
8.5/102 votesLoading...#16 - A Little Extra Scratch
Season 20 Episode 21 - Aired 12/11/2023
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
8.4/101,163 votesLoading...#17 - 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
8.4/101,178 votesLoading...#18 - 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
8.2/101,035 votesLoading...#19 - 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
8.2/101,017 votesLoading...#20 - 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
8.1/10973 votesLoading...#21 - 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
8.1/10836 votesLoading...#22 - 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
8.1/101,003 votesLoading...#23 - 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
8.1/10568 votesLoading...#24 - 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
8.0/10835 votesLoading...#25 - 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
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!!
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Best Episodes Summary
"Brown Lotus" is the best rated episode of "American Dad!". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by John Drake O'Day and written by Nic Wegener, it aired on 11/4/2024. This episode scored 1.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Into the Jingleverse".