American Dad Renewed For Season 18 and 19: Stan Smith To Die And Go Undercover In Season 17

The American Dad is a combination of comedy and a farce that chronicles the lifestyle of an old-fashioned CIA-agent that loves his family. The show is more than a decade old with the first episode airing as early as February 6, 2005. American Dad is one of the most popular animated series on Television.

HIGHLIGHTS:

The show’s growing popularity
Story so far
Dilemma: Stan chooses duty over family

The show’s growing popularity

The shows’ fan-base has only been expanding season by season since its inception. The show was passed to TBS in 2014 before which it was being aired on Fox. Season 16 of American Dad comprises a total of 22 episodes.

American Dad is an animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane who is also the creative head behind other superhit animated series The Family Guy and The Cleveland Show.

However, American Dad’s seventeenth episode of the sixteenth season will witness a plot twist when Stan Smith (protagonist) is pronounced dead.

Story so far

TBS American Dad recently aired its sixteenth season and seventeenth episode on TV. In the episode, Stan Smith is targeted and shot by a group of disguised men.

Stan Smith is on his way back home when armed assailants attack him in the parking lot. Unwavered by the masked men, Stan fights them back. A couple of shots are fired in the air when one unintentionally hits Stan in the stomach. Petrified of police action, the armed men quickly vacate the spot leaving Stan to die alone in the bitter cold.

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Next is a jump shot where the Smith family receives the casket with his body. The Smith’s grieved to his body and is in complete denial of Stan’s death. However, cut to two or three episodes set in the future, Stan Smith re-surfaces alive.

Plot Twist: Stan’s not dead

The real plot twist arrives when Stan in a conversation to an old friend reveals that he had pulled off the entire drama of being dead to go undercover for a highly sensitive and critical mission involving terrorists. Stan turns emotional while narrating his plight to his friend as he misses his family.

However, his family is still unaware of the news that Stan is alive and is part of an undercover mission. And that all of this was nothing but a plot to make it look as real as possible so that he could protect his family.

Stan chooses duty over his family

We are aware that Stan is known to be a family guy. Weeping through his tears, Stan chokes and his voice cracks as he accepts that he is extremely guilty of making his family go through a tormenting ordeal.

The sixteenth season of American Dad has garnered more views than all the seasons gone by, previously. The upcoming episodes of American Dad will be set on a climax where the Smiths will come to know that Stan is alive and on a classified mission.

Fans have high expectations

Now with such a huge shift in the storyline, fans can’t wait to see what happens in the next episodes of American Dad. The upcoming episodes are only going to be more and more gripping. Meanwhile, various fan theories are emerging on Reddit about Stan’s murder. However, American Dad fans have high expectations with the season’s finale as the show approaches its end.

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