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The Best Episodes of American Dad! Season 4

Every episode of American Dad! Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of American Dad! Season 4!

The Best Episodes of American Dad! Season 4

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...
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    7.9/10(960 votes)

    #1 - Meter Made

    S4:E2

    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.

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    Director:Bob Bowen
    Writer:Dan Vebber
  2. Background image for The Vacation Goo
    7.8/10(902 votes)

    #2 - The Vacation Goo

    S4:E1

    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.

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  3. Background image for Surro-Gate
    7.7/10(874 votes)

    #3 - Surro-Gate

    S4:E7

    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.

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    Director:Tim Parsons
  4. Background image for Haylias
    7.6/10(874 votes)

    #4 - Haylias

    S4:E5

    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.

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  5. Background image for Stanny Slickers II: The Legend of Ollie's Gold
    7.6/10(804 votes)

    #5 - Stanny Slickers II: The Legend of Ollie's Gold

    S4:E15

    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.

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    Director:Pam Cooke
  6. Background image for Widowmaker
    7.5/10(892 votes)

    #6 - Widowmaker

    S4:E12

    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.

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    Director:Joe Daniello
    Writer:Dan Vebber
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  8. Background image for Office Spaceman
    7.5/10(816 votes)

    #7 - Office Spaceman

    S4:E14

    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.

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  9. Background image for Big Trouble in Little Langley
    7.4/10(782 votes)

    #8 - Big Trouble in Little Langley

    S4:E4

    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.

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  10. Background image for The 42-Year-Old Virgin
    7.3/10(796 votes)

    #9 - The 42-Year-Old Virgin

    S4:E6

    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."

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    Director:Pam Cooke
    Writer:Steve Hely
  11. Background image for Frannie 911
    7.3/10(773 votes)

    #10 - Frannie 911

    S4:E9

    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.

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    Director:Joe Daniello
  12. Background image for Spring Breakup
    7.3/10(777 votes)

    #11 - Spring Breakup

    S4:E16

    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.

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  13. Background image for Tearjerker
    7.2/10(752 votes)

    #12 - Tearjerker

    S4:E10

    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.

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  14. Background image for Oedipal Panties
    7.2/10(761 votes)

    #13 - Oedipal Panties

    S4:E11

    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."

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  15. Background image for The Most Adequate Christmas Ever
    7.1/10(766 votes)

    #14 - The Most Adequate Christmas Ever

    S4:E8

    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.

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  16. Background image for Red October Sky
    7.1/10(723 votes)

    #15 - Red October Sky

    S4:E13

    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.

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  17. Background image for Dope & Faith
    6.9/10(749 votes)

    #16 - Dope & Faith

    S4:E3

    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.

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Meter Made" is the best rated episode of "American Dad!" season 4. It scored 7.9/10 based on 960 votes. Directed by Bob Bowen and written by Dan Vebber, it aired on 10/7/2007. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Vacation Goo".