Season 4
🎬 16 Episodes 📅 2007 ⏱ 22 min
Stan Smith's pride gets in the way when he discovers his CIA colleagues doubt his capabilities, leading him on a reckless mission to reclaim his reputation in American Dad! As chaos erupts both at home and in the field, the family finds themselves caught in Stan's web of desperation, while Roger seizes every comedic opportunity to exploit the situation. What unfolds is a heartfelt reminder that family matters far more than professional validation.
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📊 Season Stats
16
Episodes
2007
Year
22
min / ep
5.9
Watch Hours
4/22
Season No.
⭐ 7.6
Best Episode
Ep. 3 · Dope & Faith
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🎬 Episodes 16 episodes
1
⭐ 6.9
The Vacation Goo
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.
🎬 Albert Calleros ✍️ Josh Bycel
2
⭐ 6.7
Meter Made
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.
🎬 Bob Bowen ✍️ Dan Vebber
3
⭐ 7.6
Dope & Faith
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.
🎬 Rodney Clouden ✍️ Etan Cohen
4
⭐ 6.9
Big Trouble in Little Langley
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.
🎬 John Aoshima ✍️ Kenny Schwartz
5
⭐ 6.9
Haylias
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.
🎬 Brent Woods ✍️ David Zuckerman
6
⭐ 6.8
The 42-Year-Old Virgin
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."
🎬 Pam Cooke ✍️ Steve Hely
7
⭐ 5.7
Surro-Gate
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.
🎬 Tim Parsons ✍️ Brian Boyle
8
⭐ 6.9
The Most Adequate Christmas Ever
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.
🎬 John Aoshima ✍️ Chris McKenna
9
⭐ 6.8
Frannie 911
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.
🎬 Joe Daniello ✍️ Brian Boyle
10
⭐ 7.0
Tearjerker
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 them…
🎬 Mike Kim ✍️ Matt Weitzman
11
⭐ 6.9
Oedipal Panties
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."
🎬 Rodney Clouden ✍️ Nahnatchka Khan
12
⭐ 7.1
Widowmaker
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.
🎬 Joe Daniello ✍️ Dan Vebber
13
⭐ 7.0
Red October Sky
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.
🎬 Caleb Meurer ✍️ Steve Hely
14
⭐ 6.8
Office Spaceman
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 …
🎬 Brent Woods ✍️ Laura McCreary
15
⭐ 6.3
Stanny Slickers II: The Legend of Ollie's Gold
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…
🎬 Pam Cooke ✍️ David Zuckerman
16
⭐ 6.1
Spring Breakup
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.
🎬 Rodney Clouden ✍️ Nahnatchka Khan