7.8/10862 votes#1 - 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
7.9/10915 votes#2 - 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
7.0/10715 votes#3 - Dope & Faith
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/2007
Stan prays for a friend and one is provided: a guy named Brett who's like him in every way but one--he's an atheist. So Stan has some evangelizing to do. Meanwhile, Steve is accepted into wizardry school.
Director: Rodney Clouden
Writer: Etan Cohen, Michael Shipley
7.5/10750 votes#4 - Big Trouble in Little Langley
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 11/4/2007
Stan seeks out Francine's birth parents because her visiting adoptive parents annoy him so much. But they don't annoy Steve, especially after they give him fireworks.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Rick Wiener, Kenny Schwartz
7.6/10839 votes#5 - Haylias
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/2007
Stan, who had Hayley brainwashed because he wanted her to be a sleeper CIA agent, activates her and orders her to marry a senator's son. Meanwhile, Roger and Steve decide to open a detective agency like the ones in the '70s TV shows they have been watching.
Director: Brent Woods
Writer: David Zuckerman, Jim Bernstein
7.3/10762 votes#6 - The 42-Year-Old Virgin
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/18/2007
Although Stan is a veteran CIA agent, it turns out that he has never killed anyone, so three of his buddies from the agency (and Roger) take him out so he can bag his "first kill."
Director: Pam Cooke
Writer: Steve Hely
7.7/10836 votes#7 - Surro-Gate
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/2007
Terry and Greg, the Smiths' gay neighbors, want to have a baby, and Francine offers to be their surrogate. Not surprisingly, Stan objects. Meanwhile, Steve and Roger play a practical joke on Klaus, who vows revenge.
Director: Tim Parsons
Writer: Brian Boyle
7.1/10735 votes#8 - The Most Adequate Christmas Ever
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 12/16/2007
Stan dies on Christmas Eve while trying to find a perfect Christmas tree, then wreaks havoc in heaven (and limbo) trying to return to Earth to save his family--who were dragged along on his quest--from freezing to death in the woods.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Jim Bernstein, Chris McKenna
7.3/10738 votes#9 - Frannie 911
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 1/6/2008
Stan and Francine give the constantly nasty Roger an ultimatum: Be nice or ship out. Meanwhile, Klaus and Hayley play truth or dare, and Steve decides to become a backup dancer.
Director: Joe Daniello
Writer: Brian Boyle
7.2/10713 votes#10 - Tearjerker
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/2008
A James Bond spoof casts Stan as a 007-type agent assigned by B (Bullock) to infiltrate the set of a movie producer named TchochkieSchmear (Klaus), who's in cahoots with the diabolical villain Tearjerker (Roger). Their plan? To kill everyone in the world by making movies so sad, people will cry themselves to death.
Director: Mike Kim
Writer: Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman
7.2/10729 votes#11 - Oedipal Panties
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1/27/2008
When Stan's mom gets dumped by yet another boyfriend, she comes running to Stan for support, which he willingly provides (yet again). Francine, feeling threatened, seeks to loosen this umbilical cord, with Roger's help. Meanwhile, Klaus inadvertently gives Steve a fish disease called "ick."
Director: Rodney Clouden
Writer: Nahnatchka Khan
7.5/10854 votes#12 - Widowmaker
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 2/17/2008
Francine wants Stan to open up emotionally, and after a few sessions with "pretend psychiatrist" Roger, he's more touchy-feely than she can handle. Meanwhile, Hayley kills the queen bee from Steve's science project, and he vows vengeance.
Director: Joe Daniello
Writer: Dan Vebber
7.1/10692 votes#13 - Red October Sky
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 4/27/2008
Stan hunts for an ex-KGB agent but can't find him--until he moves in next door. And Steve is building a rocket for a school science project, but can't get it to work--until he gets some help from his new next-door neighbor. Meanwhile, Roger and Klaus head off on a European vacation.
Director: Caleb Meurer
Writer: Steve Hely, Laura McCreary
7.5/10778 votes#14 - Office Spaceman
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 5/4/2008
After outing himself as an alien, Roger (in disguise) finagles his way into being appointed the CIA's chief alien hunter to take advantage of a lavish expense account--while coming up just short in attempts to catch himself. Meanwhile, Francine shocks her family by displaying a prejudice they never knew she had.
Director: Brent Woods
Writer: Laura McCreary
7.6/10771 votes#15 - Stanny Slickers II: The Legend of Ollie's Gold
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 5/11/2008
After almost dying in a car crash, Stan decides that he must do something important with his life, so he digs for the gold he claims Iran-Contra figure Oliver North buried beneath his house. Meanwhile, Roger poses as a sexually provocative female office worker, hoping he'll be harassed so he can sue over it.
Director: Pam Cooke
Writer: David Zuckerman
7.3/10743 votes#16 - Spring Breakup
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 5/18/2008
Francine is out of town, giving Roger an opportunity to host spring break at the Smith house for visiting college students, one of whom becomes the straying Stan's "spring-break buddy." Meanwhile, cable music-channel host Carmen Selectra decides she wants to make Steve her sexual conquest.
Director: Rodney Clouden
Writer: Nahnatchka Khan
The Best Episodes of American Dad! Season 4
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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"The Vacation Goo" is the best rated episode of "American Dad!" season 4. It scored 7.8/10 based on 862 votes. Directed by Albert Calleros and written by Josh Bycel, Jonathan Fener, it aired on 9/30/2007. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Meter Made".