God I love this show! I used to love Family Guy in the early seasons for both the jokes referencing old shows with characters and situations you'd never see on them like Good Times and The Jetsons but now, it still does that and yet it feels as though the writers only want to be outragous rather then funny.

American Dad is a whole different show with it's own unique characters and theres lots of stuff that passes by, the occasional comment or more sinster stuff like a kid who looks like amidget copycating Stan and then his father shouts at him "Stop it! this is why you keep getting molested."

I love Francine the most, she's not a popular character but works well as a peripheral or partnercharacter and has some cracking lines and distubring revelations like this one ep which begins with the family in a restaurant and listening to her story "I cant believe you didn't know I killed my room mate at collage.(chuckles) I stabbed her."

Best side gags include the squirels rendtion of whats eating gilbert grape, the tortoise and the hare, the golden turd and one involving animal control clearing a dead groundhog off the sidewalk.