The thirteenth season of the American TV series American Dad! originally aired on TBS from January 25, 2016 to June 27, 2016,[1] and consisted of 22 episodes.
On November 18, 2014, TBS renewed the series for a 22-episode thirteenth season.[2] Additionally, in August 2015, TBS would announce that the network had ordered a fourteenth and fifteenth season, both consisting of 22 episodes.[3]
Because of Mike Barker's departure from the show, his characters Terry Bates and John Sanders were written out of the series in "Anchorfran" (Terry left Greg so he can follow the band 311) and "Widow's Pique" (Sanders died on a body recovery mission), respectively. The season also included the two-hundredth episode, "The Two Hundred".
Stan is in favor of a new football stadium being built in Langley Falls, until he learns its construction will destroy a sacred tree from his childhood. Meanwhile, after Steve learns that he hasn't grown an inch in several years, he considers surgery to increase his height, and turns to a child physician named Dr. Calgary, whom Steve discovers is actually a mad surgeon from Germany.
Steve joins the water polo team, and finds that the only way he can become a star player is if Klaus hides in his Speedo. Meanwhile, Roger and Stan win a boat at a CIA auction and soon regret their purchase.
In an effort to bring back a long-lost sense of joy and innocence, Roger's persona Dr. Penguin hypnotizes Hayley into being six years old. Meanwhile, Steve and his friends buy a slow cooker off a shady, trenchcoated man and spend days trying to create the perfect pulled pork.
Steve goes to work with Stan to help him troubleshoot his computer -- and ends up entangled with the NSA after Steve gets mad at Stan for mocking him. Meanwhile, Hayley goes on a meat-eating spree after eating Klaus' hazelnut omelette (which has veal in it).
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Stan finds himself stressed out on his day-off from work, due to Steve's new friendship with a murderous derelict, Hayley and Jeff's pregnancy scare, Francine's shoplifting, and Roger's attempts to get the World Cup to be held in the house. As Stan returns to work, Bullock believes that surfers may be the cause of a recent cyber attack after watching Point Break (the original 1990s version starring Keanu Reeves), and volunteers to go undercover as a surfer in order to relax and put his stress behind him.
Stan begins to question his marriage with Francine when they have a terrible "Kiss Cam" experience. Meanwhile, Steve and Roger travel to Carson City in order for Roger to re-elect his Senator persona on the Nevada legislature to fulfill his promise of keeping the city's water supply clean.
When Stan is chosen to put together the annual CIA pin-up calendar, he attempts to find an assistant. However, when he fires assistant after assistant, Hayley takes the assistant job in order to get revenge for ruining a picture she drew for him as a child. Meanwhile, Roger gets a Discovery Card on his first (and only) day of college, but finds that no one takes Discovery (except for a secret section of the local mall that hasn't been touched since the 1980s) and must fake his death when he can't pay the bill.
Steve is sentenced to attend a class for delinquents and ghetto teenagers after Roger eats the chocolates Steve was supposed to sell for charity. Meanwhile, Stan and Francine decide to shop for retirement homes, but when Stan decides to stay and gets hooked on the medications they give their patients, Francine, Hayley, and Jeff attempt to free him.
Greg has been depressed over Terry leaving him to go on tour with the band 311, so Francine attempts to help Greg out by joining him on the newscast. However, her newfound fame on the set leads to Greg's suffering. Meanwhile, Hayley digs up her old "Dream Phone" game, leading Roger to grow an unhealthy obsession with a character.
A tattooed Stan, along with Roger and Greg, set out to find the other Smiths when an unidentified entity known as "The Two Hundred" has turned Langley Falls into an apocalyptic wasteland and all the citizens, led by Principal Lewis, turn into savages and cannibals.
Steve and Snot set out to throw a party for the unpopular students, but when the party they throw changes their futures, they are forced to make things right. Meanwhile, Roger is upset when a waiter compliments Hayley's order at a restaurant and not his.
Roger finds himself in an identity crisis after he becomes interested in a local dentist's wife named Meredith Fields, a reference to Samantha Kingsbury. Meanwhile, Klaus tortures Stan, Steve, Hayley, and Jeff with a party with perverted guests when they become incredibly stiff and sore from a workout session with CrossFit.
When one of Stan's co-workers dies on assignment, Francine prepares herself for the possibility of becoming a widow should Stan die. Meanwhile, Steve and his friends put on a wrestling show, but Principal Lewis shows up to challenge them for a championship belt.
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When Francine becomes upset that she can't do anything she wants to, she joins Steve in his live-action role playing game in the park. Meanwhile, Stan confiscates a shark aquarium from a drug lord and is convinced by Roger to open a SeaWorld knock-off called "Oceanland."
Part one of two. Stan's faith in God is shattered when he tries to teach Steve the Bible and Steve points out all the logical errors in the stories, leading Stan on a downward spiral of hedonism and self-destruction. Under Francine's orders, Steve restores Stan's faith when he discovers a Korean tanker the same measurements as Noah's Ark -- and things take a turn for the worse when Stan ropes the family into going to Korea to find the fabled tanker as he believes he's the next Noah.
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Conclusion. The Smiths (and Jeff, but not Klaus, who was thrown off the boat at the end of the previous episode) are still stuck on the Korean tanker, which blows up after Roger's "If They Could See Me Now"-style musical number. Now shipwrecked, Stan and Francine end up washed up on an island with no clothes and no memory of who they are and become a modern-day Adam and Eve, with an off-screen narrator directing them in their state, trying to get them to have sex. Meanwhile Jeff and Hayley are rescued by the U.S. Navy, and Steve is trapped on a lifeboat with a wolf and Roger's dangerous survival tips.
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When Stan wants to play a game of basketball with Roger, he ends up being rejected by him for being too old. But when Roger ends up getting a hairline fracture on his leg (despite many past episodes revealing that Roger has no bones in his body), Stan reluctantly invites him to join his basketball league in order to get revenge on him. Meanwhile, Steve recounts his day in a send-up of R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet.
A power washer accident uncovers a salt deposit in the backyard, but while Stan and the rest of the family see a cash opportunity, Steve (the actual owner of the yard's mineral rights) refuses to go along with it out of nostalgia.
When Stan drags Hayley to James A. Garfield's former house for a tour in celebration for Presidents' Day, Stan decides to bring President Garfield back to life to teach her about his life and history, only for Hayley to befriend Garfield and get him hooked on orange soda and Step Up movies. Meanwhile, Steve joins the school newspaper, and becomes famous for his sexually suggestive articles.
Stan is forced to solve the mystery of who didn't bring a gift to the CIA's annual "Evil Santa" gift exchange. Meanwhile, Steve scores a date for the Harvest Dance after buying a handkerchief from a famed ladies' man, and ends up running a scam where he pretends to be the sexless good-boy date for teenage girls who date older men and sexy bad boys behind their parents' backs.
Stan sets out to find an activity that he can share with Steve, but gets left out when Steve shows great talent in bowling and becomes famous. Meanwhile, Hayley and Roger compete to see whose attention span is the worst by watching a Ken Burns documentary.
Stan must defeat Deputy Director Bullock in a DJ battle in order to get out of a suicide mission. Meanwhile, Jeff begins drinking psychedelic teas and hallucinates a musical instrumental, leading Roger to help him find it as a prank.
