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
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]
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.
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.
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.
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"Beyond the Alcove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Klaus"
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
^This episode was first released on Video On Demand on July 11, 2022 on Amazon.
