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| “ | Good morning USA. I got a feeling that it's gonna be a wonderful day. The sun in the sky has a smile on his face and he's shining a salute to the American race. Oh boy, it's swell to say, good morning USA! | „ |
| ~ Stan Smith in the intro for American Dad!. |
| “ | "sigh". What a f*cking moron. | „ |
| ~ Stall vendor, American Dad S15 E01. |
Stanford "Stan" Leonard Smith is the titular main protagonist of the TV show American Dad!.
He is the conservative patriarch of the Smith family and a CIA agent. He is the husband of Francine, the father of Hayley and Steve, and the father-in-law of Jeff. While he is the protagonist, he’s not as kind as many people like to imagine, as he is known for frequently having a dark side throughout the series. In fact, he often causes misfortune towards his family and other people he’s close to, even committing many villainous deeds, while thinking of himself first and causing issues due to his incompetence. He was originally the series’ titular anti-heroic protagonist; but later in the series, there are many episodes where he is mostly shown as a villain protagonist or sometimes a full antagonist.
He is voiced by the series' co-creator Seth MacFarlane, who also voices several other characters in the show and Family Guy, such as Roger the Alien, Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, and Stewie Griffin, as well as I.S.R.A.E.L. in The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! and Mike in Sing.
Appearance[]
Stan is muscular, yet slightly plump man with an exaggeratedly large chin, which has been described satirically as a " Jay Leno jaw". He usually wears a blue suit with a lapel pin that is a simplified version of the U.S. flag, consisting of three red and white stripes and a blue square.
Personality[]
Stan is a man with very conservative, patriotic, and xenophobic views. Although he is a loving patriarch, he is often the one to cause issues and tension with his family due to his views and actions. This is most prominent with his daughter Hayley, as his views often put him at odds with her, which is the catalyst to several episodes of the show. He is not particularly intelligent as he thinks he is, since his stupidity and incompetence causes him to engage in criminal activity and cause many problems for other people, including his family. He is also extremely selfish towards his family, such as in the episode where Bullock, his CIA boss develops a relationship with Hayley, which Stan was fine with despite their age difference because he wanted a promotion. In the same episode, Hayley leaves Bullock for her boyfriend and later husband Jeff and Stan willingly attempts to kill Jeff after Bullock told him to.
Furthermore, Stan is a narcissist with incredible insecurity, which is seen many times. A perfect example is was when he used CIA surveillance equipment to eavesdrop on his neighbors and was so hurt and offended by their private opinions and conversations about him that he had them all forcibly relocated, which included his family when they tried to stop him. Another example was when he found out Francine had been engaged to another man named Travis Bowe before him and went out of his way to find this man while wondering whether or not Francine truly loved him or if she'd just settled with Travis by means of faking his death, which backfired as he and Roger were left stranded for months. He even used Roger's ability to enter dreams to find out how Francine thinks of him and was mortified to see Francine's private thoughts showing him as a wailing baby, a clown, an ogre, and other unflattering examples.
Stan is also a massive control freak and was psychoanalyzed to be so afraid of change that for twenty years, he took Francine to a hypnotist by lying to her that he was a marriage counselor in order to hypnotize her into making her forget her problems, feelings, thoughts, or anything that Stan didn't want to deal with or because he thought they affected his life. He used Hayley's training as a sleeper agent to force her to marry a man of his approval (not realizing this man was gay and only agreeing to the marriage so his own father wouldn't disinherit him), only for the sleeper agent programming to cause Hayley to turn against Stan and kill him, although it was temporary and Stan didn't learn his lesson as he was just glad he got away with it. Despite his love for Hayley, Stan is very untrusting of her due to her ethical left wing views at odds with his extremist right wing beliefs, and he once admitted her middle name is Dreamsmasher due to her birth forcing him to give up his search for Oliver North's gold.
He's gone out of his way to force his son Steve to meet his expectations, such as becoming an actual bully to force Steve to stand up for himself, which is hypocritical as Stan never stood up to his own bully Stelios Kontos and Steve found this bully and paid him to beat Stan into submission. He tried to get Steve to hang out with cooler kids than his own friends Snot, Toshi, and Barry, and has at multiple times forced Steve and even his friends into activities he and his friends didn't want to do. Part of Stan's reasons for being so hard on Steve is that he wants him to be popular and because he himself wasn't popular in his adolescence and it can be assumed he wants Steve's youth to turn out better than his own did. He also reacted very negatively one time when Steve told him that he didn't care about being popular.
Stan is also antagonistic and unfair to Roger and Klaus, although Roger deserves the mistreatment for his actions. Early on in the series, Stan forbade Roger from leaving the house at all and was unsympathetic to Roger's cabin fever and boredom, until Roger started using his disguises/personas to be able to get out and have a social life. However, the CIA was hunting Roger, and Stan only sheltered him to protect him and his family. Stan is horrible to Klaus, ignoring him, being condescending to him, and constantly breaks his promises to give him a human body or improve his living situation. He is the reason why Klaus was a fish in the first place; Klaus, who is German, was an Olympic skier and Stan and his C.I.A co-workers transferred his brain into a fish just so Germany wouldn't get the gold medal at the 1986 Winter Olympics. His negligence caused Klaus' human body to decompose. He even once tried to swallow the fish by drinking his fishbowl.
Biography[]
Stanford Leonard Smith was born on July 1, 1967 to Betty Smith and Jack Smith.
His father had left him when he was a child, which is most likely why he looks up to and is a lackey of Director Avery Bullock.
He attended John DeLorean High School in the early 80s. As an unpopular student, he was often bullied and humiliated by the popular students.
He met his future wife, Francine Dawson (later Smith), when she was hitch-hiking and Stan gave her a ride. He had run over a raccoon accidentally and put it out of its misery, which Francine saw as the kindest act she had ever seen. They got married the same year.
Stan Smith has worked for the Central Intelligence Agency since the 80s, as a field agent and weapons expert, and later on in the series, the Deputy-Deputy Director, placing him on the third tier of importance in the C.I.A. under Deputy-Director Avery Bullock. As at the start of Season 2, his official job title is apparently "Deputy Deputy Director", although the official announcement of his promotion wasn't actually seen in any episode. In this role, his work has included the interrogation of possible terrorists. Stan is always on alert for terrorist activity, at work, and in his home life.
Relationships[]
Family[]
- Jack Smith - Father
- Betty Smith - Mother
- Hercules - Stepfather
- Rusty - Half-Brother
- Francine Smith - Wife
- Hayley Smith - Daughter
- Steve Smith - Son
- Jeff Fischer - Son-in-Law
Allies[]
- CIA
- Avery Bullock - Superior, Occasional Enemy and Attempted Victim
- Dick Reynolds
- Jackson
- Roger Smith - Best Friend, Housemate, Occasional Enemy, Attempted Killer and Attempted Victim
- Klaus Heisler - Housemate and Attempted Victim
- Principal Lewis
- Krampus
Enemies[]
- Santa Claus - Archenemy
- Stelio Kontos - Childhood Bully
- Chuck White - Rival
Villainous Acts[]
- In the pilot episode, when teaching Steve on how to impress a girl, Stan pretends to be a thief by stealing a customer’s purse and escaping the mall, not before pushing away many customers in the mall.
- In "Threat Levels", he steals Steve's lucrative idea to stage and videotape "bum fights," in which homeless men are forced to beat each other senseless.
- In "Stan Knows Best", he shaves off Hayley's green hair, due to his hatred of her green hair and goes as far as to forbid her from hanging out with her boyfriend, Jeff. He also kidnaps her from a party she attended with Jeff, leading Jeff to briefly believe she might have been killed.
- In "Francine's Flashback", he arranges to have the last 24 hours of Francine's memory erased just because he forgot their anniversary.
- Trapping the whole neighborhood in a prison camp (his backyard). This all started when he racially profiled an Iranian couple who moved in his neighboorhod because he believed them to be terrorists which included doing security checks on them in a barbecue, harassing them, and installing security cameras in their house to spy on them without their knowledge.
- In “Deacon Stan Jesus Man” he takes advantage of Roger’s reproductive cycle by forcefully putting him in a milking machine and over feeding him so Stan could win the position of church deacon.
- In "Bullocks to Stan", he allows Bullock and Hayley to date just to maintain his promotion while disregarding the age gap.
- In "A Smith In The Hand" Stan becomes addicted to masturbation after an accident with a wood burner used by Steve when teaching him hobbies. He previously berated Steve for it, saying that masturbation is a sin and showing a very unrealistic and outdated video on it. Steve catches Stan in the act and calls him out for his hypocrisy. Rather than own up and admit that he was a hypocrite and apologize, Stan blames his masturbatory addiction on television even though television had nothing to do with it and he decides to take over the TV network to broadcast his anti-sex classes.
- In both parts of "Stan of Arabia", when the Smiths got relocated to Saudi Arabia, he ends up embracing the country's male-dominated social norms out of pure misogyny while not caring about the rest of the family experiencing culture shock.
- In "Stannie Got Your Gun", he stages a robbery so that Hayley has to use a gun to save the family just to get her to apologize for singing an anti-gun song so that Stan can go back to Gunland regarding their opposing views on gun control.
- Abusing or mistreating Klaus for trivial or no absolute reason whatsoever. This is even worse, considering Stan and his C.I.A. co-workers are responsible for putting Klaus in the body of a goldfish to cheat Germany out of an Olympic gold metal and confining Klaus to a miserable life. Granted, Klaus acted like a pervert and inappropriately hit on Stan's wife Francine a lot in the past, but that is in part to Klaus' loneliness for female companionship, and only began to stop because Stan ended up saving Klaus' life by putting him in a new fish body after having his new human body fatally wounded. But Stan has still continued to abuse Klaus, along with his family.
- Stan beats up Roger in “Not So Desperate housewives” over a dog named Fussy who was spending more time with Roger than with him. This causes Stan to also throw Roger through a wall and into Hayley’s room. However it turns out that Stan’s efforts were for nothing because Fussy ditches both him and Roger in favor of a homeless man.
- In "Finances With Wolves", he assaults Klaus and tries to save his life by putting him in a new fish body, leaving his human body fatally injured.
- In "It's Good to Be the Queen", upon discovering that a classmate of Francine's named Betty Sue was the real homecoming queen at Francine's high school, he becomes furious to have his dream of going to a high-school reunion with the Homecoming Queen taken away from him to the point of taking the real Homecoming Queen to the reunion instead of her, therefore committing infidelity.
- In "Roger n' Me", while enjoying the bachelor life, he runs over Francine while arguing with Roger in the car, causing her to need to be saved by a $178,000 operation. They sign up for a game show called Best Buddiez!, but lose because Stan knows nothing about Roger.
- In "The American Dad After School Special", when he realizes that Steve's girlfriend is not the petite cheerleader he was expecting, he forbade their relationship all because of his obsession with physical appearance, which spirals out of control and causing him to develop anorexia and Steve's decision to dump Debbie feeling she is the source of Stan's problem. However, upon finding out that Stan is cheating on his diet, Steve becomes enraged and yells at Stan saying that he dumped Debbie, the best thing that ever happened to him, for him.
- In "Failure is not a Factory-Installed Option", he ruined his family's lives in order to exact vengeance on a car salesman for petty revenge by putting them in poverty. This also led Hayley to having to act as a prostitute to get money for the family, something that clearly traumatized her and yet Stan didn't care one bit.
- In "Of Ice and Men", it is revealed that Stan has been hiding a secret passion for competitive figure skating for the past 20 years. When Francine joins him as his pairs partner, Stan's competitive nature gets the best of him and he ditches her for Roger.
- In "The Best Christmas Story Never", when an injunction prevents Langley Falls from lighting their annual Christmas tree, Stan blames secular non-believers for ruining his favorite holiday. With Stan's holiday spirit at an all-time low, the Ghost of Christmas Past visits him and tries to show him the true meaning of Christmas. However, Stan is convinced that Christmas can be "saved" by changing the outcome of Vietnam, but finds that changing the past only caused the United States to be under control by the Soviet Union.
- In "An Apocalypse to Remember", when Stan arrives late to a CIA nuclear drill and thinks it's real, he moves the family to the mountains to survive the perceived apocalypse. Even after he realizes the mistake he made, he enjoys the attention from the family so much that he doesn't tell them the truth. He also stole food from Camp Winnicooper for the Deaf.
- Framing Francine for murdering her friend (Bullock was the actual culprit) and putting her in a really dark place, just so Francine wouldn't say "I told you so".
- His ego causes him to believe he has the best sense of judgment and has to make all the vital decisions in a dire situation when his incompetence actually makes things much worse. In one instance, his actions caused his family to be trapped during a hurricane, which flooded their neighborhood, made the house flip over, got a shark stuck in their already flooding house, made things even worse by bringing a bear to kill the shark only for the bear to attack the family along with the shark, accidentally electrocuted Roger, and inadvertently harpooned Francine when he was aiming for the bear. His bad decision making even continues after the hurricane when he shoots Francine in the arm on impulse during a standoff between him, Cleveland Brown, and Peter Griffin.
- Running a sweatshop with undocumented Mexicans so he could earn money after criticizing Hayley for dating one prior, making Stan a hypocrite.
- In "When a Stan Loves a Woman", after Francine divorces Stan in order for him to have meaningless sex, he ends up making a relationship with a woman named Joanne. After Francine regrets her decision, she tells Stan how uncomfortable she is with their relationship and when she wants everything to go back to normal, Stan tells her that he's married, which leaves Francine devastated and heart-broken, as well as upsetting Hayley. What's worse is how Stan hardly cares and he even proceeds to have sex with Joanne five times in a row, which stuns Francine who is betrayed. It's not until the end of the episode where he finally reaches to his senses that he stops himself from continuing his relationship with Joanne to return to Francine. Most of all, he loses half of the Smith possession in his divorce.
- In "I Can't Stan You", he evicted his entire neighborhood from their homes because he found out that they were making fun of him and saying bad things about him behind his back. He even evicts Francine, Hayley, and Klaus for the same reason too.
- In "The Magnificent Steven", he buys a small herd of cattle and makes the Smith house into a ranch, and makes Steve and his friends into cowboys. He has one of the calves killed for food without remorse, only to come down with mad cow disease. At the time, he decides to bring the cattle to the slaughterhouse to sell, and takes the boys and the cattle through the streets to do so. As a result, the cows mix in with the other cattle there, and the infection quickly spreads, resulting in thousands of cattle having to be put down and Stan getting arrested.
- In "Joint Custody", when Roger finds out that Hayley's boyfriend, Jeff, is wanted in Florida for smuggling marijuana, he and Stan turn into bounty hunters and chase Jeff across the country in an attempt to turn him in and get him out of Stan's life.
- In "Vacation Goo", Francine discovers that all their family vacations have been artificial memories created by the CIA just so that Stan could ditch the family. Even when confronted by his family, he is shown to not feel any guilt.
- In "Meter Made", he assaulted a meter maid for giving him a parking ticket and calling him a "nobody". As a result, he is sentenced to community service as a meter maid. During that time however, Stan decides to take advantage of his sentence and steal money directly from parking meters to lavish his and Francine’s lifestyles.
- Ruining every aspect of his atheist friend Brett's life so he could be closer to God (i.e., blowing up his house, destroying his family, etc). This caused Brett to attempt suicide and become a satanist.
- When he destroyed Brett's family, he had C.I.A. scientists use an experimental ray to make Brett's wife to a lesbian, therefore forcefully converting her sexuality (unknowingly) against her will.
- Another horrendous act he did towards Brett in his conversion efforts was that he ruined Brett’s breakfast business by contaminating the food with an avian virus, which caused multiple people to get very sick.
- In "Haylias", it is revealed that Hayley was brainwashed as a child by the CIA. Before she can leave for France, Stan uses Hayley's trigger phrase, "I'm getting fed up with this orgasm", and Agent Small Wonder is activated. He then sets Dill up as her boyfriend. However, once Hayley is married, Stan is unable to deactivate her before 7:35. During the reception, she acts hostile towards him, and Bullock reveals that Hayley won't lose her free will, but will in fact turn on her handler, which is Stan and that she won't snap out of it until she's convinced that Stan is dead. What follows is Hayley beating up Stan to the point of shooting him in the head as karma for controlling her.
- In "42 Year-Old Virgin", he killed one of his former CIA pokers, Bad Larry when he was trying to shoot the pedophile, Randy. He did feel remorseful for this at first but moved past it quickly.
- In “Surrogate Stan” after Francine agrees to be a surrogate mother to Greg and Terry, Stan kidnaps the baby immediately after she is born and attempts to take her to Nebraska because he believed that gay couples can’t raise children. During the road trip he accepts hospitality from a lesbian couple only to kidnap their children too, until he gives the children back to their respective families, and they file a restraining order against him.
- In "The Most Adequate Christmas Ever", he forced his entire family to join him on a search for the perfect Christmas tree on the evening of Christmas Eve just because they didn't decorate the house and tree to his satisfaction and that he sees himself as all-knowing.
- It is revealed in “Oedipal Panties” that Stan had been repeatedly kidnapping his mother’s boyfriends out of obsessive jealously for over 35 years and had dumped them all on an uncharted island and left them to fend for themselves.
- In "Widowmaker", he and Roger plotted together a scheme to pretend to open up with Francine before they dropped the false-murder secret that Francine's friend Julie's husband relocated to Laos to get away from Julie's constant nagging, just to get Francine to stop all the "sharing nonsense".
- In "Stanny Slickers 2: The Legend of Ollie's Gold", after finding Ollie North's gold and showing it to his family and Greg and Terry, he flips them all off twice.
- In "1600 Candles", he injects Steve with a needle full of serum that made Steve an adult just to skip Steve's puberty, resulting in Steve turning into an old man. Before that incident, he called Francine out for injecting Steve with serum, despite doing it himself right after, making Stan a hypocrite.
- In “One Little Word”, Stan refuses to take Bullock to the hospital and leaves him to die after Bullock gets shot in the leg by his wife Miriam when she finds out that Bullock was cheating on her with a woman named Coco. In the same episode, he cheated on Francine during a game of "Spin The Bottle".
- In "Choosy Wives Choose Smith", he fakes his own death in order to decide whether Francine will move on with Travis, a man who she thought died from a plane crash and would marry Stan afterwards. This proves how insecure Stan is and how he risks his and Roger's life over something not too serious.
- In "Pulling Double Booty", after learning that Hayley is dating his CIA double, Bill, he approves of this out of pure narcissism while disregarding the ephebophilia that was going on.
- In “Phantom of the Telethon” Stan plagiarizes Roger’s idea to hold a telethon that raises funds for the CIA and lies about it to the whole family, causing Roger to go on a vengeful crusade to sabotage the telethon when it aired.
- In "Chimdale", when Steve is forced to wear a back-brace for six weeks to fix his scoliosis, Stan tells him it's what inside that matters, despite the fact that he wears a wig to hide his baldness, revealing himself to be a hypocrite. The next day, he goes to work bald and gets ridiculed there. After Steve encourages him to embrace his baldness and goes to the CIA to visit him, he discovers him wearing his hair in a wind tunnel. Stan later smugly and remorselessly reveals that he lied about going to work bald and about getting ridiculed at work when Steve confronts him. After preventing Steve from exposing him to the rest of the family, Steve tells Stan that he lost his son. It was that same moment where Stan finally regrets his actions and reveals his baldness to the family, only for them to reveal that they knew he was bald the entire time.
- In "Live and Let Fry", when Langley Falls implements a ban on trans fats, Stan sets a poor example for the rest of the family when he blatantly disregards the law by smuggling trans fats into the town and using Steve as a trans-fatty food mule just to satisfy his own gluttonous desires. This is all against the fact that Stan claims that laws should be followed no matter how ridiculous they are, making Stan a hypocrite as Hayley points out to him.
- In "Wife Insurance", Stan casually and heartlessly admits to having a plan to marry his dentist if Francine dies before him while disregarding how hurt Francine was from what he admitted.
- In "Every Which Way But Lose", when Steve comes home with a platinum 78th place medal from a chemistry competition at school, Stan ignores him and calls him a loser. Later, when Steve tries to join a junior football team to gain Stan's respect, Stan assumes the position of head coach and kicks Steve off the team just for not being good enough in his eyes. However, after Steve's own team of misfits beat Stan's team, Stan attempts to commit suicide all because of his complete intolerance of failure. He also punched Steve in the groin just because he thought Steve ruined their father-son bonding moment.
- In "Daddy Queerest", Stan gets drunk and reveals to Terry's dad, Tank Bates, that Terry is gay, causing Tank to disown Terry as his son.
- In "In Country...Club", Stan forces Steve to experience real war in order to sing about America's military prowess, causing Steve to suffer from PTSD due to the extreme pressure he put on him just to perform the national anthem the normal way.
- In “Moon Over Isla Island” Stan accidentally kills the island dictator. Instead of telling the island citizens the truth and letting them move towards democracy, he has Roger impersonate the dictator in order to cover the death up and get a promotion from work.
- In “Brains, Brains, and Automobiles”, after Francine teaches Roger to be self-sufficient and helping him get his own place, Stan fears that Francine will leave him for being too boring. To get Roger to move back into their house, Stan keeps him there by spiking his drinks with rat poison to get him sick. He even places Klaus in the freezer to prevent him from warning Roger about this. This continues until Roger falls into a coma from the poison, in which Stan and Francine go into Roger’s subconscious to wake him up.
- In "Man in the Moonbounce", Stan forces Steve to start acting like an adult. After Roger (as psychologist Dr. Penguin) convinces him to encourage his inner child to help himself adjust, Stan takes things too far when he and Steve's friends decide to egg a bully's house and are caught by the police and ends up getting sent to minimum security Chimdale Prison, forcing Steve to take up Stan's duties and rapidly age. While Stan himself never had a childhood because of his own father leaving him, it doesn't excuse him from taking Steve's own childhood from him.
- In "Shallow Vows", while in the middle of planning his and Francine's wedding renewal, Stan remorselessly and arrogantly reveals to Francine that he only married her because of her looks, revealing himself to be extremely shallow. Upon discovering this, Francine quits trying to look pretty as a test of love, causing Stan to go to great lengths to try and make it work, to the point of eventually blinding himself, just because he found her to be ugly.
- In "My Morning Straitjacket", after hearing a band called "My Morning Jacket", he becomes enthralled to the point of ignoring his job, his family, and everything else in his life.
- In "Rapture's Delight", after Stan and Francine are left behind during the Rapture due to Francine seducing Stan into having sex with her in the janitor's closet at church to relieve his stress, Stan finds out that Jesus will be appearing and tries to blame the entire incident of him and Francine having sex at church on Francine just to get raptured and because he thinks he's better than him, despite the fact that he's actually way worse than her, making Stan come off as a hypocrite. This act of pure arrogance and selfishness causes Francine to rightfully leave him. After Stan discovers that he was tricked by a fake Jesus, he tries to make up with her by lying about choosing not to get raptured, only for Francine to reveal that she's not falling for his lies because she's dating the real Jesus.
- In "Don't Look a Smith Horse in the Mouth", Stan drains the family's savings on his gas-guzzling SUV, including causing havoc on the road without a single care. When Francine demands that Stan gets rid of his SUV, he bets on a horse race in order to win money and keep his SUV, only for the horse that he bets all his money on to win to come in last place.
- In "A Jones For A Smith", Stan admitted that his fellow colleagues and him have distributed crack to inner-cities, and in the same episode became addicted to crack and refused to get professional help until he hit rock bottom and ended up temporarily stranded in Colombia. Beforehand, he had pawned many things in his house to pay for more crack and even ended up taking his neighbors Greg and Terry hostage for a plane to get to Colombia in the first place. His addiction also ruins Steve's new relationship with his girlfriend Jeanine by attempting to prostitute himself to her father for more drug money. Also in the same episode Hayley accidentally chokes on cereal and struggles to clear the blockage. Stan not only does not help Hayley and instead continues reading his newspaper but he also refused to let Francine help Hayley when she tries to.
- In "May the Best Stan Win", Stan blows another romantic opportunity by going to Hershey Park without Francine and stealing her pillow at night, causing Francine to rightfully accuse him of being selfish and insensitive and taking her for granted. The next morning, Stan promises her breakfast in bed but eats it while remorselessly and proudly admitting it. Before Francine reveals to him that her Valentine's Day gift to him is a couple's coffin for the both of them, Stan attempted to shoot and kill her just to get out of the trouble he caused her.
- In "Merlot Down Dirty Shame", Stan bails on Francine for wine tasting. Later on, after Roger kisses Francine and lies to Stan about her kissing Roger, Stan refuses to believe the truth from her just to maintain his friendship with Roger. It wasn't until Roger admits the truth to him after burying him alive that Stan realizes his mistake and rightfully beats up Roger.
- In "Bully for Steve", he bullied his own son as a demented way of teaching him self-reliance.
- In "An Incident at Owl Creek", Stan bosses his family into getting into tip-top shape fearful of a faux-pas in preparation for Buckle and Sharri's pool party to celebrate their moving into the neighborhood. After pooping in the pool while doing a cannonball, he blows up his house to fake the family's death and takes the family in search of somewhere where no one knows who he is after being made into a laughingstock by the entire town. However, every time he is recognized, he moves on leaving death and destruction behind him as he tries unsuccessfully to find a place that has never heard of his misfortune. He later concocts a plan to make President Obama make the same faux-pas just to negate his shame, until Obama tells him that he needs to ignore what other people think and not let the laughs get to him. However, this whole thing turns out to be a dream fantasy Stan was having.
- In "Son of Stan", when Stan and Francine have a clash over how to raise Steve, they have a BMX race to determine how to raise Steve, which Francine wins. Stan creates a clone of Steve named Steve-arino, causing him and Francine to compete with each other to determine who has better parenting skills. Francine's parenting ends up turning Steve into a slovenly spoiled brat with no desire to do anything whatsoever, while Stan's parenting makes Steve-arino incredibly athletically adept and successful at school. However, it later turns out that Steve-arino was a psychopath that faked running away and committed various acts of animal cruelty and had kidnapped Steve with the intention to kill him, along with all the city's cats being held at a magazine factory because he hated all of Stan's rules and wanted Steve's easy life. These results made Stan realize that he was way too hard on Steve-arino and too strict as a whole.
- In "Stan's Food Restaurant", it is heavily implied that he molested his priest when he was a child.
- In "White Rice", it is revealed that Stan takes Francine to a counselor, who hypnotizes Francine and clears her memory of any controversial issues she raised with Stan in the past for twenty years just because he refuses to discuss any issues with Francine and has an aversion to change. It is also revealed that Stan and Francine had another son named Bailey who was born alongside Hayley. However it is strongly implied that Bailey died because Stan refused to get him vaccinated.
- In "There Will Be Bad Blood", when Steve becomes too demanding as the only remaining child in the household after his sister's marriage, Stan decides to take him to Rusty's house to make him appreciate what he has. But when they arrive, they find out that Rusty is far wealthier than he let on, having taken what their great-grandfather believed was worthless land and now earning 18 million a year in copper deposits. Afterwards, Stan and the family return to the house and kidnap Rusty and his family, forcibly transplanting them to their old house while the Smiths move into theirs.
- In “The People V Martin Sugar” Stan assaults a federal officer by clubbing him in the head with a rock and stealing his jacket and dog in order to pursue Roger. Although, Stan is right that Roger deserves to be in prison for all the despicable things he's done throughout the show.
- In one Christmas episode, Stan gives Steve a gun for Christmas despite promising Francine that he wouldn’t. This causes a chain of events that put the entire family in danger after Steve accidentally shoots Santa Claus.
- In "Stanny-Boy and Frantastic", while having trouble keeping up with a younger couple named Tom and Cami, Stan and Francine try slowing them down by ruining Tom and Cami's birth control so they will be stuck taking care of a child of their own. It wasn't until the moment the couple broke up that they realized their mistake.
- In "A Pinata Named Desire", Stan and Roger fought for the same lead role in a play by trying to upstage one another, resulting in the both of them getting arrested for performing an indecent act during the love scene. Stan also basically cheated on Francine with Roger during the same love scene.
- In "I Am The Walrus", when Stan become stressed that he is losing his dominance to Steve, he tries to reassert himself by physically and emotionally abusing Steve, including tricking Steve into walking into his parents' room while they were having sex.
- In "License to Till", Stan scares Francine a few times just for his own amusement.
- In "Jenny Fromdabloc", when Stan drinks his first martini, he runs out on his neighborhood street at night in only his underwear.
- In "Flirting With Disaster", when Francine gets a job at the CIA, it cramps Stan’s style and his ability to flirt with co-workers. In response, Stan tries to get her fired by planting Bullock's partially-eaten sandwich in Francine's desk.
- In "Hot Water", he prefers to relax in a hot tub over helping his family, further showing that he is a neglectful father for the most part.
- In "Hurricane!", his reckless and stupid actions made his family trapped during a hurricane by refusing to let them evacuate the house, despite Buckle's important offer to get the whole family out of the house. Not to mention, when Stan tried to stop the house from flooding by using an anchor out of Roger’s wine box collection, it also causes the house to overturn and Roger’s date to be fatally impaled by an antler chandelier. He also brought a bear and shark to attack the family and harpooned Francine when he was aiming at the bear. When he engaged in a brief standoff between Peter Griffin and Cleveland Brown from Family Guy, he shot Francine in the arm.
- In "The Worst Stan", he tricks Principal Lewis into choking on a chicken bone when he tells him the wings are boneless. Upon discovering that Tracey Bryant was Lewis's "prison wife" and insists that by prison rules they are still married, Stan attempts to kill Tracey but returns to find him back with Lewis. When Stan tries to remind Lewis of his planned wedding to Ellen, Lewis admits he still has feelings for Tracey. Deciding to play by prison rules, Stan beats up Lewis and makes Tracey his prison bitch.
- In "Virtual In-Stanity", after realizing that he has missed every milestone in Steve’s life, Stan makes a desperate attempt to bond with his son by creating a busty blonde bombshell alias, Phyllis, whom he sends Steve’s way, even going as far as to make a desperate offer through Phyllis to have sex with Steve, his own son. He is even shown to be proud and remorseless for his actions at the end of the episode.
- In “The Scarlett Getter”, Stan fawns over an old crush he met a boot camp named Scarlett Reynolds, making Francine upset and jealous. During this time, Stan becomes very rude and disrespectful towards Roger, first by calling Roger a pig for showing attraction to Scarlett and then ruining Roger’s date witch Scarlett by crashing it and spreading humiliating lies about Roger to Scarlett. When Roger calls Stan out on this, Stan threatens to lock Roger in his attic. Stan also promised Roger to not interfere with his relationship with Scarlett but later goes back on his word and sells Roger out to alien hunter Shannon Sharpe. It was because of Stan’s lust for Scarlett that made Francine accidentally put Roger in danger when it was revealed that Scarlett was actually an alien hunter herself.
- In "Season's Beatings", when he finds out that Roger got the role of Christ in the story of Christ at the mall, he attacks and beats him senseless (although Roger deserves the beating for his many despicable actions), causing church leaders around the world to universally agree to kick Stan out of all religion.
- In "The Unbrave One", when Steve runs for help instead of jumping in an altercation at a movie theater, Stan neglectfully resigns himself to believing that Steve isn't brave.
- In "Stanny Tendergrass", after being paid off by Roger as part of a plot to hustle the club members in exchange for a split of the wagers and enough money to join the club, Stan becomes a spoiled jerk while not caring that he shafted over his fellow employees to join the club. It wasn't until when Steve gets Stan's hero Hulk Hogan and shows him that achieving his wants though the easy way has turned him weak that Stan realizes that he has become what he hates the most
- In "The Old Stan in the Mountain", Stan reveals himself to have an overly enthusiastic hatred for old people. But when he messes with the wrong senior citizen at a camping store, a hex is placed on him that turns him into a frail, old man. After deciphering the hex, he decides that he must live his dream of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to break it. But when his hearing aid malfunctions on the climb, he believes that Hayley and Steve are out to kill him and vows to kill them first. After being told by a passerby that being old isn't easy, Stan has a change of heart that breaks the curse, but as Hayley and Steve are being carried to a hospital, they note that Stan has turned black and he has to deal with a new curse, proving that Stan is racist towards black people.
- In "The Wrestler", Stan decides to restart the wrestling team, but when he is unable to find any interested students, forces Steve and his friends to be his wrestling team. Barry turns out to be a surprisingly good wrestler, winning enough matches to challenge Stan's state record. In response, Stan arranges for Barry to lose with Roger's help, including trying to shoot Barry from Roger's Place.
- In "Stan's Best Friend", upon learning that it's okay to let his new dog, Kisses, go by the spirit of his childhood dog, Freddy, Stan kills Kisses by blowing him up with dynamite without remorse.
- In "Less Money, Mo' Problems", after losing his patience with Hayley and Jeff for their freeloading ways, Stan bets the young couple that he and Francine can live on minimum wage for a month just so he can kick them out if he wins. This determination ends with Stan attempting to rob his own home.
- After Hayley is hospitalized and in need of a kidney transplant, Stan decides to donate his own kidney but after finding out from Francine that she slept with a man named Joel days before their wedding, Stan has Roger break into Joel’s apartment and forcefully take a kidney from him.
- In "Toy Whorey", Stan gets tired of Steve's playing and insists that it is time he becomes an adult. Stan hatches a plot to get rid of Steve's toys but Steve overhears and plants booby traps. After Klaus suggests that Steve will get over his toys when he gets with a girl, Stan decides to take Steve to Mexico to get him laid.
- In "Love, American Dad Style", Stan tries to sell his SUV by putting on a show involving a bathing beauty and a lion which results in the lion attempting to eat the girl until they both end up in the SUV as it rolls into a power pole and bursts into flames, the girl finally being caught by the lion as the flames consume both as Stan slips back into the house away from the shocked onlookers.
- In "Can I Be Frank (With You)", Stan blows Francine off for his nights at the CIA Chill House with the guys. When Francine makes several efforts to make friends with Stan in a full-body costume by the name of Frank, Stan gets suspicious and knocks her out in preparation of killing her. Her efforts to tell Stan are misinterpreted and Stan beats her senseless until he destroys enough of the suit to reveal her. A concerned hiker comes to check on the couple, but Stan says they're fine, threatening to shoot him if he doesn't go away and mind his own business.
- In "Why Can't We Be Friends?", Stan tries to destroy Steve and Snot's friendship by setting up a fake gang hit with Snot as a witness, sending him off into a witness protection program and making him tell Steve that he had to move to Wyoming with Stan's orchestrations all because he finds Snot not cool enough for Steve. It is also revealed that he did the same thing to a black friend of Hayley's. After bonding with Snot, he and Steve fight for Snot's attention.
- In "Naked to the Limit, One More Time", when Jeff figures out that Roger is an alien, Stan orders that either Roger or Jeff must be killed immediately. However, after Roger tosses Jeff into the ship's tractor beam which sucks Jeff up and then immediately takes off when it was meant for Roger, Stan is happy with Roger's choice without a shred of care for Hayley or Jeff.
- In "Spelling Bee My Baby", when Stan and Roger plan to play an intense game of badminton and consider Hayley, who is going through the five stages of grief after losing Jeff, to be their line judge, they rush her through the stages. Afterwards, Hayley accepts that Jeff is gone but still rightfully blames Roger and Stan for making her lose Jeff and takes their shuttlecock.
- In “The Missing Kink”, Stan domestically and verbally abuses Francine when he finds out that Francine was framing Steve for multiple offenses such as spreading mud in the house with Steve’s shoes and throwing a bike at the house window all so she could be aroused by Stan’s spanking on her. Upon learning this, Stan makes up a verse from the Bible that women who trick their husbands into spanking them will go to hell. Francine calls Stan out for making up holy texts and Stan proceeds to hit Francine in the face with the Bible and makes up another verse to banish her to the woods for two days. He even goes as far as to call Francine a deviant for her kinks.
- In "The Boring Identity", while successfully capturing Osama Bin Laden, Stan and other deputy officials murder the staff of Doug and Busters. Stan even goes as far as to kill a member of staff quite brutally, blinding him and damaging his heart before shooting him.
- In "Da Flippity Flop", when Klaus asks when he will get back to being human, Stan admits that it will never happen out of pure neglect.
- In "Steve and Snot's Test-Tubular Adventure", after discovering that Steve and Snot cloned a couple of teenage girls to create prom dates, Stan murders Snot's and attempts to do the same to Steve's. It turns out that Stan did not need to kill the clones because they were on their last couple hours of life anyway.
- In "Faking Bad", after Hayley takes the blame for Steve's counterfeiting, Stan refuses to arrest her, but then negligently asks Bullock to do it for him.
- In "Cock of the Sleepwalk", he acts like a complete jerk to Francine by uncaringly rejecting her suggestions and to a homeless guy by forcing him to tie his shoe for nothing. While on his "nice" streak, he discovers that his "good" self adopted a child whom he promptly abandons in his runaway car. At the end of the episode, he takes a good night's sleep and meets with his good self in a wild west dream who offers a team up, but Stan instead sets him up to be dragged off by his horse, heavily implying that he didn't learn any life lessons again.
- In "I Ain’t No Holodeck Boy", Stan slips Steve and his friends hamburgers laced with knockout pills and when they awake, they find themselves in the CIA's new hologram deck while Stan manages their experience in the control room. Deciding that they are not reacting enough, he turns down the heat and sends in a bear. His reason for all of this is just to keep them away from watching television and video games.
- In "Stan Goes On the Pill", Stan refuses to pay attention to Francine just so he can have sex with him. However, when he takes a pill the CIA developed in order for their male agents to listen to female agents, it transforms him into a woman. Later, Bullock takes him to his house to have sex with him, causing Stan to cheat on Francine with his own boss. It isn't until when Stan discovers that Bullock refuses to listen to Stan's pitch does he suddenly realize what Francine has gone through as well as the errors of his ways.
- In "She Swill Survive", when Stan gets left out of a CIA inner circle, he takes out his anger on Hayley and begins to worry that Hayley hasn't developed any survival skills, causing him to demand that she get a job and pay rent. When she gets a job at Roger's Place, Bullock talks her into drinking with him, giving Stan the idea to use her to get closer to Bullock. Even when she eventually gets drunk, he continues to use her.
- In “Rubberneckers”, Stan shows unfaithfulness and infidelity towards Francine by looking at other women even while on a date with Francine when he peeped at the bartender. Upon learning the art of rubbernecking from his co-workers, Stan then takes numerous pictures of other women including a jogger while he was driving, which causes him to get into a car accident. To prevent Francine from finding out, Stan lies about the accident to his car insurance company that a dog got in his way on the road. This gets Stan arrested for insurance fraud and sentenced to 6 years in prison when Roger inadvertently leads Heinrich Brown to discover Stan’s hidden phone with the inappropriate pictures on it.
- In “Permanent Record Wrecker”, after trying to find a job outside of the C.I.A., he ruins Steve’s job as assistant manager at a grocery store by not knowing how to stack up the butter in a grocery store that causes one of the customer’s children to slip over some butter, killing the child in the process. This consequently results in Steve losing his job at a grocery store.
- In "The Longest Distance Relationship", when Hayley is moping due to the one-year anniversary of Jeff's abduction due to Stan and Roger, Francine tries to get her to perk up without luck and proposes a therapist. Stan, however, decides to smoke her out instead, setting the house on fire and landing Hayley in the hospital.
- In "Dreaming of a White Porsche Christmas", Stan wishes he had Principal Lewis' carefree life while placing the angel on the Christmas tree, causing him and Principal Lewis to switch lives. Distressed upon discovering that Principal Lewis inherited his family, he takes the family back to his home, holding them at gunpoint.
- In "Morning Mimosa", he crashes through the car that rammed into the water hydrant and poorly parks his car that damaged a biker’s motorcycle and later carts himself naked in the supermarket, which resulted in his own arrest. Furthermore, when he was being arrested, he assaults the two police officers before attempting to escape, which all started when he blatantly snaps his fingers to pretend that everyone disappears.
- In "My Affair Lady", Stan steals Steve's date for the mother-son dance with Francine, leaving Steve out and embarrassed for not having a single dance with his “date.” The plot ends with Stan arranging for a do-over dance, but later taking off with Francine again while calling Steve a bitch.
- In "Holy S**t, Jeff's Back!", when Jeff returns from space, Stan threatens to kill him until he gives him a clock as a gift. It is later revealed that Jeff is really an alien because Jeff's real body has been dissected and killed. However, after an alien offers to replace him at the cost of his own life by transplanting Jeff's brain into his body so that Jeff may live again, Jeff awakens and is back to normal, much to Stan's chagrin.
- In “American Fung” Stan puts Francine in a psychiatric hospital because he forgot their anniversary once again and wanted more time to get Francine a good gift in order to avoid her yearly tantrum over the forgotten anniversary. However he not only spends the money meant for her gift on himself but also forgets that he left Francine in the hospital, causing her to stay there for three days. When Stan does show to pick Francine up from the asylum, he gives her a bucket of fried chicken as an anniversary gift, causing a chain of events that lead to him and Francine almost getting a lobotomy.
- In "Seizures Suit Stanny", Stan arranges to have the signal cut off from the house to stop Hayley from texting. However, after his work friends teach him about the various ways of texting, he becomes addicted to texting, making himself come off as a hypocrite once again. After driving off a bridge while texting and driving at the same time, he blames the whole accident on a seizure. When Klaus rightfully calls him a hypocrite for what happened, Stan blows him off. After taking the last of his seizure meds, he and Jeff head out together and Jeff reveals that he knows the truth from receiving his last text. While trying to silence him by making an embarrassing text of Jeff's butt, they drive off the bridge together and Stan starts to save Jeff, then plants him back in the driver's seat and calls for others to save him, blaming their crash of Jeff on texting while driving and causing Jeff to be in a coma. Stan later has a side effect of a hallucination named Daniel Calf from his meds, who tries to convince him to kill Jeff to keep the secret. After figuring that the only thing they need to do is destroy the cell phone mainframe, Stan heads off, the meds also giving him the appearance of Frankenstein's monster. Going to the store, Stan crashes around trying to rip the mainframe apart until Hayley calls that Jeff is awake. Upon returning to the hospital, he crashes through the wall in his car and crushes Hayley, confessing over her broken body what he has done, while the doctors tell the real, unscathed Hayley that Stan is still hallucinating from his meds and in reality has destroyed a Poweraid soft drink machine. At the end of the episode, Stan reads a eulogy in a grocery store for Hayley while still suffering the side effects of his medication as Hayley and the doctors allow him to continue for their amusement as karma for his actions.
- In "Stan Smith as Keanu Reeves as Stanny Utah in Point Breakers", Stan disguises himself as a surfer in order to rob a bank to save money for his quests.
- In “Anchorfran”, in order to get Greg to become a gay couple with Memphis Stormfront, Stan abused his position by ordering the CIA to create a natural disaster, which costed the lives of a lot of people and massive destruction, in which he never showed any remorse for his crime.
- In “Next Of Pin”, Stan beats up an innocent bystander at a bowling alley for refusing to support Steve during a game, which causes Stan to get banned from the bowling alley. In the same episode, Stan violates the ban by sneaking into the bowling alley during one of Steve’s championship matches and stabs Steve in the ankle with a switchblade to prevent him from winning and moving away from the family to pursue success, therefore ruining Steve’s bowling career in the process.
- In "Father's Daze", he erased his family's memories of spending Father's Day in order to have Father's Day every day, as he thought their attempts to make another celebration for him wouldn't be enough. When the family discovered this thanks to Klaus, Stan openly berates them for their inability to give him a perfect Father's Day and goes on a tirade towards them that causes them to be shocked and disgusted towards him.
- In “Bazooka Steve” Stan lets Francine rat out Steve to the Bazooka Sharks and the public when Steve convinces quarterback Johnny Concussion to quit mid-game out of concern for his health, turning Steve into a town pariah in the process. Eventually, the public tries to kill Steve and Stan joins in with them instead of protecting Steve from them. He even tries to kill Steve himself with a bolas, only to miss when he threw too high. Nevertheless, this forces Steve to run away to an uncharted island.
- In “The Mural Of The Story” Stan volunteers to restore a beloved mural after noticing it was wearing out due to vandalism and natural wear and tear. However he blows funds for the restoration of the mural on a pre party and has to restore the mural by himself. He ends up ruining it by making it look like it was painted by a preschool student and decides to pin the defaced mural on Hayley. Instead of listening to Hayley’s pleas to tell the truth, Stan chloroforms her and mutilates her face so she would not be recognized and hated anymore, which leads to her going insane and swearing revenge on Stan.
- In “A Starboy Is Born”, Stan commits a lot of crimes in a hypocritical attempt to teach Roger a lesson on following rules. First off, he abducts a musician Roger likes named The Weeknd. After Roger gets grounded, runs away, and ends up in jail in Las Vegas and wanting to apologize to Stan for his earlier behavior, Stan refuses to accept the apology and get Roger out of jail out of his demented meaning of “Tough Love”. He even rejects Roger’s apologies and pleas for help again when Roger and Klaus get stranded on a volcanic island but Francine convinces Stan to change his mind. However, in a plan to save Roger and Klaus, Stan infects Francine with the bubonic plague and loses the cure when he tries to give it to her, forcing The Weeknd to sacrifice himself to save Francine.
- Infiltrated a cannabis factory to steal the "ever-lasting edible" (which supposedly granted a cannabis user an everlasting high), under the pretense of "doing whatever it takes to the fight the War on Drugs", even though cannabis is legal in Virginia (Note: At the time of airing it was only in American Dad continuity; In real life, cannabis was at the time illegal in the state of Virginia), and his boss Avery Bullock (who has a notorious history of drug abuse) simply wanted the edible all to himself, and made little effort to hide it. Stan and his fellow agents abuse the fact that cannabis is illegal on a federal level to have his agents raid legal cannabis shipments to steal and acquire a "golden blunt rap" to gain entry to the factory where the edible was created.
- In the same episode he preached inverted facts about the effects of cannabis legalization saying it "raises crime and brings the economy down" when it actually does the exact opposite by generating more revenue and removing cannabis from the illegal drug trade, while also ridiculing Jeff for being a cannabis user.
- When a utopian society was formed upon the destruction of Roger's golden turd and his body, Stan and his family grew bored with their new utopia, even though world peace was finally achieved, and after learning that they could restore Roger's body as well as the more chaotic world, the Smiths jumped at the chance, as they viewed their old lives as more interesting, even though it would cause all the good that came from it to revert back to a much worse time. After succeeding ,the Smiths succumb to the recreated golden turd's corruption inducement, and Stan pretends to be immune and plans to keep the turd to himself, which indirectly results in his entire family killing each other over it, including Stan himself. Roger, however, is able to reset the timeline by using the turd to talk to his past self, effectively erasing Stan's heinous actions, but the world is still left with conflict, as now the utopian society wasn't even able to come into being in the new timeline, which Stan is partially and unknowingly responsible for, as Roger wouldn't have had to change the timeline if Stan and his family allowed Roger's body to stay destroyed since it would've enabled a new age of peace and harmony.
Trivia[]
- Stan's voice is based off of 50s radio announcers.
- Seth MacFarlane has said doing Stan's voice is exhausting, and this was poked at in an episode where Roger dressed up as Stan but had trouble getting his voice right and settled for making him sound like Sean Connery. The joke here is that Roger is also voiced by Seth.
- Stan is meant to be a negative stereotype to mock Republicans, as Seth MacFarlane, Stan's voice actor and co-creator of the show, has identified as Liberal.
- In the early seasons, it's quite obvious that Stan is the anti heroic protagonist; on the other hand, when the series started to progress, he appears as a villain protagonist or as the main antagonist in several episodes.
External Links[]
- Stan Smith on the Heroes Wiki
- Stan Smith on the American Dad Wiki
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