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American Dad! Season 21
The twenty-first season of ''American Dad!'' premiered on TBS on October 28, 2024, and ended on March 24, 2025. The season featured guest appearances from Kevin Bacon, Charles Barkley, Bret Hart, Gabriel Iglesias, Michael Imperioli, Leslie Jones, Neal McDonough, Joel McHale, and Kyra Sedgwick. The series focuses on the eccentric upper middle class Smith family in a fictionalized version of Langley, Virginia and their eight housemates: Father, husband, CIA agent, and Republican, Stan; his wife and housewife, Francine; their liberal, hippie, college-aged daughter, Hayley-Fischer; their dorky high-school-aged son, Steve; the family's unusual goldfish, Klaus; flamboyant, master of disguise alien, Roger; Jeff Fischer, Hayley Smith's stoner husband who resides with the Smith family; And Roger's ex-tumor son Rogu. Season 21 aired weekly without breaks throughout October 2024 to March 2025. It was the tenth and final season to premiere on TBS as the series would return to its orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TBS (American TV Channel)
TBS (an initialism of Turner Broadcasting System) is an American basic cable Television broadcasting, television network owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery Global Linear Networks, Global Linear Networks division of Warner Bros. Discovery. It carries a Generalist channel, variety of programming, with a focus on television comedy, comedy, along with some sports events through TNT Sports (United States), TNT Sports, including MLB on TBS, Major League Baseball, Stanley Cup playoffs, and the NCAA March Madness (TV program), NCAA men's basketball tournament. As of September 2018, TBS was received by approximately 90.391 million households that subscribe to a pay television service throughout the United States. By June 2023, this number has dropped to 71.3 million households. TBS' sister networks are TNT (American TV network), TNT, TruTV, and Turner Classic Movies, with the first two channels also providing sports coverage through TNT Sports. TBS was originally established on December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francine Smith
Francine Lee Smith (formerly Ling; née Dawson) is a fictional character on the American animated sitcom ''American Dad!''. She is married to the main character, Stan Smith and the mother of Hayley and Steve Smith. Francine is voiced by Wendy Schaal. Early in the series, Francine is often seen as the voice of reason in her dysfunctional family, adopting the stereotypical role of the long-suffering wife or doting mother. However, as the show progresses, her backstory develops with allusions to unconventional and surreal activities, including working for strip clubs, underground fighting rings, cult memberships, multiple murders, and substance abuse. Character biography In the series, Francine was born to a wealthy couple from South Carolina, Francine's birth parents – Nicholas and Cassandra Dawson – gave her up when she was a baby so they could be upgraded to first class on a flight in " Big Trouble in Little Langley". Daddy issues stemming from her unstable relationship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Water (American Dad!)
"Hot Water" is the seventh season premiere of the American animated comedy series ''American Dad!''. It aired on Fox on September 25, 2011, and is written by brothers Judah Miller and Murray Miller and directed by Chris Bennett. It was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour). This episode, narrated by CeeLo Green, is a parody musical of Little Shop of Horrors. It follows Stan buying a hot tub to relieve his daily stress, only to get into hot water when the hot tub begins killing his family and friends. The song "Daddy's Gone" was performed by Scott Grimes and Seth MacFarlane, and was made available for download at iTunes shortly after the episode aired. Plot Stressed out by his family and his obligations, Stan allows Principal Lewis to take him shopping for a hot tub at the Little Shop of Hot Tubs. Stan is drawn to a used hot tub in the store's back room that the salesman, Maguerite, tries to talk him out of purcha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Dad! Season 8
The eighth season of the American TV series ''American Dad!'' originally aired on Fox from September 25, 2011, to May 13, 2012, and consisted of 18 episodes. On February 23, 2011, it was announced that the series had been renewed for an eighth production cycle. During the season, Roger travels to the Middle East to support the troops and meets Ricky Martin, Francine gets jealous with Stan's old flame and starts a catchphrase legacy, The Smith family adopts a new puppy and buys a new hot tub, Stan is cursed to living life as an old man, and attempts to fulfill his dream of being a best man by making Principal Lewis marry the school's superintendent, Hayley and Jeff adopting a demon baby, and make a bet with Stan that he and Francine can live on minimum wage for a month. Guest stars of the season include Cee Lo Green, Gabourey Sidibe, Kristen Schaal, Sarah Natochenny, Kathy Griffin, Anjelica Huston, Elisabeth Shue, Andrea Martin, Scott Foley, Sharon Lawrence, Sarah Michelle Gellar, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Series Finale
A series finale is the final installment of an episodic entertainment series, most often a television series. It may also refer to a final theatrical sequel, the last part of a television miniseries, the last installment of a literary series, or any final episode. Origins in television Most early television series consisted of stand-alone episodes rather than continuing story arcs, so there was little reason to provide closure at the end of their runs. Early comedy series that had special finale episodes include '' Howdy Doody'' in September 1960, '' Leave It to Beaver'' in June 1963, '' Hank'' in April 1966, and '' The Dick Van Dyke Show'' in June 1966. One of the few dramatic series to have a planned finale during this period was '' Route 66'', which concluded in March 1964 with a two-part episode in which the pair of philosophical drifters ended their journey across America and then went their separate ways. Considered to be "the series finale that invented the modern-day s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Dad! (season 21)
''American Dad!'' is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series premiered on February 6, 2005, following Super Bowl XXXIX, with the rest of the first season airing from May 1 of the same year. The show centers around the Smiths, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Stan and Francine, their children, Hayley and Steve, as well as a goldfish named Klaus and an extraterrestrial named Roger. In the seventh season, Hayley's boyfriend (turned husband) Jeff Fischer joined the main cast, followed by Rogu, Roger's neoplastic son who joined in season fifteen. Unlike MacFarlane's other show, ''Family Guy'', ''American Dad!'' does not lean as heavily on the use of cutaway gags, instead deriving its humor mostly from the quirky characters and their relationships. The show was conceived by MacFarlane and Weitzman after the two were inspired by the 2000 United States presidential election, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
