Season 3
🎬 19 Episodes 📅 2006 ⏱ 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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19
Episodes
2006
Year
22
min / ep
7
Watch Hours
3/22
Season No.
⭐ 7.3
Best Episode
Ep. 2 · The American Dad After…
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🎬 Episodes 19 episodes
1
⭐ 6.9
Camp Refoogee
When Stan tries to trick Steve into attending summer camp, things go horribly wrong and Steve ends up in a refugee camp. However, Stan, being the eternal optimist, joins Steve and manages to stage a camp Olympics between the refugees and the rebel faction living across the river.
🎬 Albert Calleros ✍️ Josh Bycel
2
⭐ 7.3
The American Dad After School Special
Stan realizes his own weight problem after he criticizes Steve about his new, overweight girlfriend, so he goes overboard with exercising, and develops anorexia. Steve realizes that his overweight girlfriend is the root of his father's problems, and he has to make a hard choice in an effort to save …
🎬 Pam Cooke ✍️ Dan Vebber
3
⭐ 7.2
Failure is Not a Factory-Installed Option
Stan loses his confidence, and his job, when a car salesman gets the best of him in a negotiation. Meanwhile, Roger and Steve set up a makeshift drive-in to try to get to first base with popular schoolgirls.
🎬 Rodney Clouden ✍️ Etan Cohen
4
⭐ 6.1
Lincoln Lover
Stan has his heart set on speaking at the Republican National Convention on behalf of the Langley chapter, but when they pass him up for another candidate, he accepts the only endorsement he gets from the local chapter of Gay Republicans. While the people around him disapprove of his new lifestyle c…
🎬 Brent Woods ✍️ Kenny Schwartz
5
⭐ 7.2
Dungeons and Wagons
After Francine tells Stan she's looking for excitement in their marriage, Stan gets in the driver's seat and becomes involved in drag racing to spice things up. Meanwhile, Hayley breaks up with her boyfriend, Jeff, who is emotionally crushed until he joins Steve's world of online gaming. When Hayley…
🎬 Anthony Lioi ✍️ Jim Bernstein
6
⭐ 7.0
Iced, Iced Babies
When Steve's new relationship with his girlfriend gives Francine empty nest syndrome, she tries to convince Stan to have another baby. Meanwhile, Roger tries to enroll in college with Haley in order to experience college life, but while Roger ends up teaching the class, Haley finds a new crush in he…
🎬 Caleb Meurer ✍️ Steve Hely
7
⭐ 6.9
Of Ice and Men
When Francine discovers Stan's secret, decades-old passion for competitive figure skating, she decides to be supportive and becomes his pairs partner until Stan's competitive nature gets the best of him and he ditches her for a new partner. Meanwhile, Steve's classmate Snot finds new respect among h…
🎬 John Aoshima ✍️ Brian Boyle
8
⭐ 7.3
Irregarding Steve
When Roger helps Steve see that his father isn't as smart as he always believed, the power-hungry pair set their sights on fame and fortune in New York City. It doesn't take long for Roger to lose everything on Wall Street, and Steve contemplates prostitution after Jon Stewart shoots down his comedy…
🎬 Pam Cooke ✍️ Chris McKenna
9
⭐ 7.2
The Best Christmas Story Never Told
When an injunction prevents Langley Falls from lighting their annual Christmas tree, Stan blames secular non-believers for ruining his favorite holiday. With Stan's holiday spirit at an all-time low, the Ghost of Christmas Past visits him and tries to show him the true meaning of Christmas. However,…
🎬 Albert Calleros ✍️ Brian Boyle
10
⭐ 6.8
Bush Comes to Dinner
When Stan enters an essay contest to have his personal hero, President Bush, come over for dinner, he is overcome with joy when the President arrives at his doorstep. However, not everyone in the Smith family shares Stan's excitement. Hayley tries to drill President Bush on the Iraq war, and Steve a…
🎬 Mike Kim ✍️ Matt Weitzman
11
⭐ 7.2
American Dream Factory
When Stan feels like he's not climbing the ladder fast enough at work, he turns to his lifelong ambition of making festive teddy bears. However, when he realizes that making a quick profit takes a lot of work, he resorts to using illegal aliens as cheap labor. Meanwhile, Hayley sees her father's new…
🎬 Rodney Clouden ✍️ Nahnatchka Khan
12
⭐ 7.0
A.T. The Abusive Terrestrial
When Roger is rejected by Steve, who seems to be over him, Roger heads out in search of a new human companion. But when this new friend starts to abuse Roger and the relationship turns into a lot of excuses and sorry's, Steve and Hayley scheme to get Roger out of the bad relationship and back home w…
🎬 Joe Daniello ✍️ Dan Vebber
13
⭐ 6.9
Black Mystery Month
While researching a paper about George Washington Carver in celebration of Black History Month, Steve uncovers a conspiracy that's been going on since the Civil War. When the curator of the Smithsonian Peanut Museum reaches out to tell Steve the truth, he's mysteriously murdered, and Steve and Stan …
🎬 Brent Woods ✍️ Laura McCreary
14
⭐ 7.2
An Apocalypse to Remember
Stan arrives late to a CIA nuclear drill and thinks it's real. He decides to move the family into the mountains to survive the apocalypse. Even though he realizes his error, he begins to enjoy the attention that he gets from the family so much that he doesn't tell them the truth. However, when the f…
🎬 John Aoshima ✍️ Erik Durbin
15
⭐ 7.0
Four Little Words
Stan sets Bullock up on a date with one of Francine's friends. Fearing that Francine will be right about the outcome of the date, Stan goes to great lengths to make sure it goes well by getting everyone drunk. Unfortunately, Bullock accidentally kills the woman, to which Stan frames Francine for the…
🎬 Caleb Meurer ✍️ David Zuckerman
16
⭐ 7.0
When a Stan Loves a Woman
After Stan discovers that Francine has a secret sex garden, he feels like their marriage may be crumbling. Looking to rekindle their romance, Francine asks for a divorce so that Stan can experience life as a bachelor again, and both learn a valuable lesson in love. Meanwhile, addicted to an energy d…
🎬 Rodney Clouden ✍️ Kenny Schwartz
17
⭐ 6.8
I Can't Stan You
When Stan brings home CIA equipment designed to eavesdrop on conversations, he finds out that his neighbors don't think too highly of him. In retaliation, Stan has the entire neighborhood evicted so that he can live free of any criticism. However, when an unexpected friend comes to his rescue, he re…
🎬 Pam Cooke ✍️ Jim Bernstein
18
⭐ 6.9
The Magnificent Steven
After Stan is prosecuted for sending contaminated cattle to a slaughterhouse, he says that it began as a quest to make a man out of Steve. Meanwhile, Roger sparks a cat fight between Francine and Hayley, for reasons of his own.
🎬 Mike Kim ✍️ Steve Hely
19
⭐ 6.7
Joint Custody
Roger becomes a bounty hunter, and he and Stan race cross-country to turn in Jeff, who is wanted for smuggling pot into Florida.
🎬 Joe Daniello ✍️ Keith Heisler