American Dad: Season Two

American Dad is arguably one of the most intelligent and hilarious (and surreal) satirical television shows being made in the States at the moment, and the fact that this is an animated show no longer seems to matter one way or another.

The dysfunctional Smith family - CIA agent Stan (Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane), his wife Francine (Wendy Schaal), and their children, Hayley and Steve - have definitely joined the ranks of classic landmark animated families such as the Simpsons and the Hills, but with an extra dose of the weird in the form of the family’s other ‘members’: Klaus, the family’s German-talking goldfish, and Roger, the alien Stan rescued from Area 51, who between them usually have the best lines. American Dad presents a hilariously exaggerated (but perhaps not too exaggerated) picture of the social and political climate in contemporary America, the conflicts being played out in the endless disagreements between the ultra-right Stan and his feminist liberal daughter. This is great, subversive stuff

Extras: Commentaries, ‘Political Humour: Writing American Dad’ feature, ‘Drawing Stan’ feature, and deleted scenes.

Released on 28th May 2007 by Twentieth Century Fox.