American Dad! The 10 Darkest Episodes Ranked

American Dad!: The 10 Darkest Episodes, Ranked

American Dad! may be known for its over-the-top hilarious stories, but some of its episodes went to really dark places.

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Seth MacFarlane and his co-creators Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman initially conceived American Dad! as a soft political satire that would lampoon Bush-era policies through the eyes of a conservative CIA agent and his liberal daughter. However, after MacFarlane left the series in Barker and Weitzman’s hands, they phased out the political elements and leaned into the weirdness.

Since then, the show has focused more on Stan’s sociopathy than his politics, while Roger’s use of disguises has taken over as the series’ defining component. American Dad!’s humor has gotten a lot darker than its early days in Family Guy’s shadow.

10 Cops And Roger

Roger is inspired to join the police academy in “Cops and Roger” after getting scared by a mugging. Stan helps him train and, for once in his life, Roger actually accomplishes something he sets out to do.

And then, just a few hours into his career on the force, he becomes corrupt. In the episode’s gruesome climax, Roger jumps elbow-first onto a crooked cop, exploding his head in slow-motion.

9 Camp Refoogee

Stan is desperate for Steve to spend his summer at camp in the season 2 premiere “Camp Refoogee.” He accidentally sends him to a refugee camp in Africa without realizing it’s not a summer camp, and after going to pick him up, he decides to stick around and turn the refugee camp into a summer camp.

Local militant rebels raid the camp, burning down tents and killing people, but Stan brushes it off as a “panty raid” and pledges to get them back without acknowledging the severity of the situation.

8 Oedipal Panties

Stan’s mom goes through yet another breakup at the beginning of “Oedipal Panties” and comes running into her son’s arms for a shoulder to cry on.

Annoyed by the fact this keeps happening, Francine does a little digging and finds out Stan has been kidnapping his mom’s boyfriends and stranding them on a remote island, because “she’s my mommy!”

7 Hot Water

Stan buys a second-hand hot tub in “Hot Water” and becomes so obsessed with it that it drives his family away. The hot tub turns out to be an evil, paranormal entity that kills its owners.

Unlike most American Dad! episodes, things don’t go back to normal at the end of this one. A narrating CeeLo Green dryly says, “Well, there you have it. That’s our story. Stan’s dead. Goodnight.”

6 Stan’s Best Friend

Stan refuses to let Steve have a dog in “Stan’s Best Friend,” because he was forced to shoot his dog as a kid and he can’t bear to get close to another mutt. But Francine gets Steve a dog anyway, Kisses, and Stan quickly falls in love with it.

However, once again, Stan’s dog dies a horrible death. Refusing to lose another beloved pet, Stan takes Kisses to a mad scientist to be brought back to life as an unholy Frankenstein’s monster.

5 Rabbit Ears

The season 14 episode “Rabbit Ears” is one of American Dad!’s strangest, most surreal installment. It could work as an episode of The Twilight Zone. Stan gets sucked into a black-and-white fantasy world inside an old TV in the basement.

Things take a sinister turn when Stan tries to escape from the TV dimension, becoming more horror than comedy in its final scenes.

4 Ricky Spanish

Roger digs out an old disguise he doesn’t remember in “Ricky Spanish.” When he wears it out on the street, heads start turning as everyone recognizes him as Ricky Spanish, the most callous and evil of all Roger’s personas.

Steve helps Ricky as he makes amends with all the people he’s wronged, but then he double-crosses Steve and runs off with his former partner-in-crime.

3 42-Year-Old Virgin

Stan’s friends discover he’s never killed anyone in season 3’s “42-Year-Old Virgin” and set about to help him pop his cherry. They find pathetic barflies for him to kill, but his perfect victim arrives in the form of Randy, a sex offender who moves to the Smiths’ street.

Randy lures Steve and his friends into an ice cream truck and takes them to a secluded place in the water park where he used to work, while Stan rushes down there to save them.

2 Son Of Stan

Stan and Francine’s ideas for how to raise Steve differ in “Son of Stan,” so Stan decides to clone him, naming the clone “Steve-arino,” so that they can each raise their own Steve and see whose parenting tactics work better.

Stan’s Steve gets in shape and achieves all kinds of academic accomplishments, while Francine’s Steve gains weight, slacks off at school, and becomes addicted to video games. Just when Stan is about to declare himself the winner, his Steve clone turns out to be a lunatic who’s been decapitating cats.

1 Love, American Dad Style

When Hayley starts singing at Roger’s bar, he takes a shine to her. Steve insists that it’s just a phase that’ll pass, but Roger is driven so insane by his desire that he tries to murder Hayley. Then, he goes to visit her in the hospital and brings her Christina Aguilera’s bloody, surgically removed larynx.

Then, he abducts her from the hospital and ties her to a bed in an abandoned warehouse. Realizing she loves Jeff instead of him, Roger kidnaps Jeff, removes all his skin, and wears it. And then, it turns out Steve was right, it was just a phase, and he loses interest in her.

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