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American Dad! season 19

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American Dad!
Season 19
Promotional poster for the 19th season
No. of episodes22
Release
Original networkTBS
Original releaseJanuary 24 (2022-01-24) –
December 19, 2022 (2022-12-19)
Season chronology
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List of episodes

The nineteenth season of the American TV series American Dad! originally aired on TBS from January 24, 2022[1] to December 19, 2022, and consisted of 22 episodes. It started airing on Cartoon Network's late night block Adult Swim on January 30, 2022.[2] and it has been renewed for seasons 20 and 21.[3][4]

Production

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At Comic-Con 2022, showrunner Matt Weitzman revealed the penultimate episode of Season 19, "Echoes" was intended to serve as the series finale, amid the restructuring of Warner Bros. Discovery's content, at the time leaving the show's fate in jeopardy.[4]

Episodes

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Main article: List of American Dad! episodes
No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code		U.S. viewers
(millions)
3231"Langley Dollar Listings"Jennifer GravesNic WegenerJanuary 24, 2022 (2022-01-24)GAJN010.52[5]
Francine and Roger successfully audition to become reality TV realtors, while the other Smiths start a coffee business in their front yard.
3242"Dressed Down"Tim ParsonsJeff KauffmannJanuary 31, 2022 (2022-01-31)GAJN020.47[6]
Stan finds it difficult to dress casually, so one of Roger's personas helps him spice up his wardrobe. Meanwhile, Hayley and Jeff attempt to raise their own chickens after learning that their eggs are factory-farmed.
3253"The Book of Fischer"Chris BennettParker DeayFebruary 7, 2022 (2022-02-07)GAJN030.40[7]
Stan takes Steve to the barbershop to mingle with his circle of friends, which ends with Stan, Steve, and Tuttle on the run from the Mafia after Stan lets it slip that Tuttle is in witness protection. Meanwhile, Jeff starts journaling after Hayley gets sick of him telling her every little detail about his day, and the journal ends up being the bible to a futuristic religion.
3264"A Roger Story"Josue CervantesJoe ChandlerFebruary 14, 2022 (2022-02-14)GAJN040.51[8]
Steve and Snot are forced to stop being friends after some friction forms between their mothers, so they enlist Roger's help.
3275"Epic Powder Dump"Shawn MurrayTim SaccardoFebruary 21, 2022 (2022-02-21)GAJN050.61[9]
Stan takes his family out to replicate the ski trips from his childhood. Meanwhile, Klaus harbors a crush on a tech support operator.
3286"American Dad Graffito"John O'DayKevin TylerFebruary 28, 2022 (2022-02-28)GAJN060.51[10]
Stan discovers that his favorite diner is closing down, and decides to bring the 1950s back to Langley Falls. Meanwhile Sub Hub, Hayley's workplace, plots to build a new location in the diner's place.
3297"Beyond the Alcove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Klaus"Jansen YeeJoel HurwitzMarch 7, 2022 (2022-03-07)GAJN070.49[11]
Klaus gets a new sense of mojo and becomes cool, but it only serves to make Francine jealous as she tries to upstage him.
3308"A Song of Knives and Fire"Joe DanielloCharles SuozziMarch 14, 2022 (2022-03-14)GAJN080.49[12]
After Stan becomes a firefighter, Francine begins to start fires in order to make his job more exciting. Meanwhile, Roger becomes a knife-thrower. Note: Following Episode #17AJN08 from American Dad!, TBS decided to carry on with American Dad! Episode #17AJN11.)
3319"The Curious Case of the Old Hole"Chris BennettSoren BowieSeptember 5, 2022 (2022-09-05)GAJN110.43[13]
Wheels and the Legman try to hunt down the perpetrators who destroyed Steve's secret swimming hole. Meanwhile, Klaus helps an aging Principal Lewis reclaim his confidence.
33210"Gold Top Nuts"Jennifer GravesBrett Cawley & Robert MaitiaSeptember 12, 2022 (2022-09-12)[a]GAJN090.39[14]
The Smiths return from a difficult, quarrelsome vacation, and end up on a desert island, with no memory of who they are and an obsession with an old commercial for mixed nuts.
33311"The Three Fs"Shawn MurrayAlisha KetrySeptember 19, 2022 (2022-09-19)GAJN130.43[15]
Francine's newfound friendship with a frog brings excitement to the whole Smith household. Unfortunately, it drives their neighbor, Greg, crazy.
33412"Smooshed: A Love Story"John O'DayNicole ShabtaiSeptember 26, 2022 (2022-09-26)GAJN140.50[16]
Steve goes on a class trip to Philadelphia, where he hopes to fall in love.
33513"The Fast and the Spurious"Joe DanielloCurtis CookOctober 3, 2022 (2022-10-03)GAJN160.38[17]
Roger is forced to confront himself after a series of car accidents. Meanwhile, Klaus and Jeff bond after the Smiths get blasted into space.
33614"A League of His Own"Josue CervantesSam BrennerOctober 10, 2022 (2022-10-10)GAJN120.50[18]
Steve profiles Stan for an essay contest at school, and Hayley tries to break Steve of hero-worshipping his father. Meanwhile, Francine gets trapped in a Port-a-John and stumbles her way around the world.
33715"You Are Here"Tim ParsonsJoe ChandlerOctober 31, 2022 (2022-10-31)GAJN180.34[19]
Roger and Steve try to save a dying mall; Stan, Hayley, Klaus, and Francine start a food truck.
33816"I Heard You Wanna Buy Some Speakers"Jansen YeePaul StroudNovember 7, 2022 (2022-11-07)GAJN150.37[20]
While his parents are away, Barry's dads speakers accidentally get destroyed, leading to Snot forcing Barry to get replacements from Roger. Meanwhile, Stan gets paralyzed trying to do a standing backflip and Steve and Toshi go on Shark Tank.
33917"Hayley Was a Girl Scout?"Jennifer GravesYolanda CarneyNovember 14, 2022 (2022-11-14)GAJN170.36[21]
After a cop arrests Stan for crashing into the CIA sign (like he has been doing during the opening credits since season five), Stan is sentenced to be Hayley's co-leader in her Girl Scout troop. Meanwhile, Steve tries to escape from his mundane, humiliating reality by imagining himself as Merlin the Wizard's personal assistant.
34018"Please Please Jeff"Chris BennettLaura BeasonNovember 21, 2022 (2022-11-21)GAJN190.38[22]
Jeff's people-pleasing nature gets in the way of his relationship with Hayley. Meanwhile, Stan wears a confusing costume to the CIA costume party and, after a head injury in the bathroom, searches for the one person who actually liked and understood it.
34119"Jambalaya"Josue CervantesNic WegenerNovember 28, 2022 (2022-11-28)GAJN200.34[23]
Roger turns the Smiths' house into a restaurant that serves jambalaya, against Francine's wishes. Meanwhile Stan and Hayley go on a road trip to stalk a woman on Facebook, and Steve and Klaus write a movie script starring John Cena.
34220"Gernot and Strudel"Shawn MurrayZack RosenblattDecember 5, 2022 (2022-12-05)GAJN210.34[24]
Hoping to teach him the value of sharing, the family recreates a television show from Klaus' childhood. Meanwhile, Steve has to keep Roger from doing drugs and get him to his piano recital, but Delmonico (the family's drug dealer who first appeared on "Portrait of Francine's Genitals") has other plans.
34321"Echoes"John O'DayJeff KauffmannDecember 12, 2022 (2022-12-12)GAJN220.47[25]
Steve starts a work-study program and discovers a strange secret about the Doppler radar at Channel 3 News. Meanwhile, Roger seeks redemption in the Nashville country music scene.
34422"The Grounch"Tim ParsonsZack RosenblattDecember 19, 2022 (2022-12-19)GAJN100.23[26]
In the 19th season finale (and the Christmas/holiday episode of American Dad!), the Smith family find Snot's list of how sexually attractive the family is. After Stan finds out he ranks number one, he sets out to create his own men's magazine, while Roger, upset that he is in last place, becomes so depressed that he gives up sex forever after marrying a woman he met at one of his famous sex parties. But when his new wife leaves him to go to Tuttle's sex party, Roger becomes a Grinch-esque monster out to steal all that is erotic and sexually pleasurable.

Notes

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  1. ^ This episode was first released on Video On Demand on July 11, 2022 on Amazon.

References

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