Man, I'm a little worried about how this show will do. The 2nd clip is great. Pilots aren't always great and I hope this show is given a chance to hit it's stride. http://tv.yahoo.com/feature/americandad.html
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/entertainment/3024887 It's a post-Super Bowl family affair on Fox But Simpsons, American Dad lack the subtlety to be big winners By MIKE MCDANIEL Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle With Paul McCartney as featured entertainer, Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show promises to go off without a vulgar hitch or a wardrobe glitch. No, this year the smut comes after the Super Bowl... Subtlety lost Likewise, there's nothing subtle about American Dad, which airs immediately following The Simpsons. Dad is Stan Smith, a trigger-happy CIA agent. He has a quiet wife; a liberal, college-age daughter; a 13-year-old geek for a son; a fish who talks with a German accent (love the fish); and an extraterrestrial with an addiction to junk food (love him, too). This is a tricky show to make in these security-conscious times, especially considering it takes anywhere from six months to a year to produce an animated show. The show also tries to throw in pop-culture references. So when both the set-ups and the jokes seem dated, that's why. The show has its moments, like when God calls up President Bush, then begs off the line. "Uh, that's Cheney, I gotta take it," God says. Funny joke, even if we've heard it before. But the humor is hit and miss, and often juvenile. Still, it would be folly to bet against it. MacFarlane's Family Guy was rejected at first, too, and now it's scoring everywhere — on Fox, on Cartoon Network and in DVD sales.
Oh, you can see some behind the scenes vids of American Dad and Family Guy at the official websites, you can see McFarlane in the booth doing the voices of Peter and Stewie. http://www.fox.com/americandad/home.htm http://www.fox.com/familyguy/
It seems like they focus on the 30 something crowd the most, because most of the references seem to leech from the 80's genre. Perhaps that is what they want me to believe.
