American Dad!: Season 4

2007 · 16 episodes · ★ 6.9

What Season 4 of American Dad!

Season four opens with Francine discovering that their family vacations were fake. Stan was creating them with a CIA device to keep everyone distracted, so she demands a real vacation. Meanwhile, Roger wants to become the greatest actress in history. Stan longs to feel respected and becomes a parking meter vigilante, and his lack of friends also weighs on him. The political debates with Hayley continue, but the focus is spread across the supporting characters, who take center stage and drive over-the-top, unpredictable storylines.

16episodes

Sep 30, 2007premiered

May 18, 2008latest episode

5.9 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 The Vacation Goo
Sep 30, 2007 · 22 min · ★ 7.1
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.
Directing: Albert Calleros · Writing: Josh Bycel, Jonathan Fener · Starring: Jeff Fischer, Elizabeth Banks, Patrick Bristow, James Patrick Stuart
4x02 Meter Made
Oct 7, 2007 · 22 min · ★ 6.8
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.
Directing: Bob Bowen · Writing: Dan Vebber · Starring: Forest Whitaker, Shawn Michael Howard, Mike Rowe, Brian Lally
4x03 Dope & Faith
Oct 14, 2007 · 22 min · ★ 7.6
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.
Directing: Rodney Clouden · Writing: Etan Cohen, Michael Shipley · Starring: Eartha Kitt, Eric Stonestreet, Jay Thomas, Rolando Molina
4x04 Big Trouble in Little Langley
Nov 4, 2007 · 22 min · ★ 6.9
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.
Directing: John Aoshima · Writing: Rick Wiener, Kenny Schwartz · Starring: Jeff Perry, Holland Taylor, Amy Hill, Tzi Ma
4x05 Haylias
Nov 11, 2007 · 22 min · ★ 7.0
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.
Directing: Brent Woods · Writing: David Zuckerman, Jim Bernstein · Starring: Jeff Fischer, John Ennis, Karen Maruyama, Rolando Molina
4x06 The 42-Year-Old Virgin
Nov 18, 2007 · 22 min · ★ 6.8
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."
Directing: Pam Cooke · Writing: Steve Hely · Starring: Don Lake, Victor Raider-Wexler, Patrick Stewart
4x07 Surro-Gate
Dec 2, 2007 · 22 min · ★ 5.9
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.
Directing: Tim Parsons · Writing: Brian Boyle · Starring: Mary Jo Catlett, Leisha Hailey, Brian Lally, Mike Barker
4x08 The Most Adequate Christmas Ever Mid-Season Finale
Dec 16, 2007 · 22 min · ★ 6.9
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.
Directing: John Aoshima · Writing: Jim Bernstein, Chris McKenna · Starring: Tim Dadabo, J.K. Simmons, Paget Brewster, Steve Hely
4x09 Frannie 911
Jan 6, 2008 · 22 min · ★ 7.1
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.
Directing: Joe Daniello · Writing: Brian Boyle · Starring: Patton Oswalt
4x10 Tearjerker
Jan 13, 2008 · 22 min · ★ 7.1
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 themselves to death.
Directing: Mike Kim · Writing: Matt Weitzman, Mike Barker · Starring: Don LaFontaine, Enn Reitel, David Hemingson, Ivana Miličević
4x11 Oedipal Panties
Jan 27, 2008 · 22 min · ★ 7.0
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."
Directing: Rodney Clouden · Writing: Nahnatchka Khan · Starring: Ivana Miličević, David Hemingson, Swoosie Kurtz
4x12 Widowmaker
Feb 17, 2008 · 22 min · ★ 7.2
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.
Directing: Joe Daniello · Writing: Dan Vebber · Starring: Sandra Bernhard
4x13 Red October Sky
Apr 27, 2008 · 22 min · ★ 7.0
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.
Directing: Caleb Meurer · Writing: Steve Hely, Laura McCreary · Starring: Patrick Stewart, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Curtis Armstrong, Kevin Michael Richardson
4x14 Office Spaceman
May 4, 2008 · 22 min · ★ 6.9
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 knew she had.
Directing: Brent Woods · Writing: Laura McCreary · Starring: Raven-Symoné, Patrick Stewart, David Koechner
4x15 Stanny Slickers II: The Legend of Ollie's Gold
May 11, 2008 · 22 min · ★ 6.4
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 over it.
Directing: Pam Cooke · Writing: David Zuckerman · Starring: Ed Helms, Raven-Symoné, Shawn Michael Howard, Skyler Gisondo
4x16 Spring Breakup Season Finale
May 18, 2008 · 22 min · ★ 6.3
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.
Directing: Rodney Clouden · Writing: Nahnatchka Khan · Starring: Paget Brewster, Leisha Hailey