More like American Dad!
Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
American Dad! orbits a rigidly patriarchal father whose certainty about family and country collides daily with an oddball household he can't quite control — a zany alien full of masquerades, a man's mind trapped in a goldfish, a wife with her own stubborn inner life, and kids pulling in opposite directions. The show's humor runs on quirky characters and their relationships rather than cutaway gags — a taste signal pointing toward works where family is both the warmest and most chaotic thing in a person's life.
About American Dad!
American Dad! is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman for Fox and TBS. 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 Jeff Fischer joined the main cast, followed by Rogu, Roger's neoplastic son who joined in the fifteenth season. 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.
From the Wikipedia article American_Dad!, available under CC BY-SA.
Films like American Dad!
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Super Sex
A dad's children try to give him the one thing he claims to want, with unexpected comedic results.
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Daddy's Home
A stepfather's earnest bid to be the best dad collides with the chaos of competing parental authority.
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TV-Dad
A man's recorded fatherly wisdom attempts to fill a domestic void long after he's gone.
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Mom and Dad
Suburban family life is the setting when parents suddenly turn on their own children in darkly comic horror.
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A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas
Holiday chaos descends on a dysfunctional animated family, with a homicidal baby demanding plutonium from Santa.
Film
Playdate
An ordinary dad playdate turns into a mercenary-fueled survival comedy of absurd obstacles.
Games like American Dad!
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Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards
American Dad! joins four other animated shows in a collectible card battle spanning beloved characters.
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Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator
A dad and his daughter settle into a new town where fatherhood and comic romance intertwine.
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Proud Father
A father figure navigates multiple family relationships across branching story routes.
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The Addams Family
A misled family member falls under a villain's spell, threatening an eccentric household's stability.
Books to read after American Dad!
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Family
An American family is portrayed with equal measures of love, perception, and irreverence.
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Ghost Dad
Siblings bond over their love for a father who has become something stranger than they expected.
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Bad Dad
Fatherhood is catalogued in all its contradictory shapes — silly and serious, clever and absurd.
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The Courtship Of Dusty'S Daddy
A child engineers a plan to find his widowed dad the perfect romantic match.
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Like father, like daughter
A divorced father's quiet ranch life is disrupted when an old friend's widow arrives unexpectedly.
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Fatherhood Fever!
A confirmed bachelor recalibrates his life when the pull toward family and fatherhood takes over.
More series like American Dad!
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Dads
Two men's settled lives unravel when their own nightmare fathers move in uninvited.
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Family Guy
A dysfunctional animated family navigates twisted, politically incorrect domestic chaos every episode.
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$#*! My Dad Says
An opinionated, politically incorrect father delivers unsolicited rants to sons who can't escape them.
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Our Dad
A group of parents navigate the interactions and growth that come with raising children together.
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American Family
A father tackles everyday family troubles alone after loss reshapes his household.
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Full House
Three men share the unexpected labor of raising children in a reconfigured, unconventional household.
Frequently asked
What should I watch after American Dad!?
If you love American Dad!'s character-driven dysfunctional-family humor, Family Guy is the obvious next stop — it's from the same creator and follows a similarly chaotic household, though it leans more on cutaway gags.
Are there any games for American Dad! fans?
Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards actually features American Dad! alongside other animated favourites like Family Guy and Futurama in a collectible card game, making it a direct fit for fans of the show.
Why do people love American Dad!?
Fans tend to love it for its surprisingly consistent character work — Stan, Roger, and Klaus each have distinct, escalating personalities — and for pushing its absurd premises (alien housemate, sentient fish) further than most animated sitcoms dare.