American Dad!

Since its 2005 debut, Seth McFarlane’s American Dad! has been among Fox Television’s popular sitcoms. This animated feature chronicles the day-to-day lives of the Smith family of fictionalized Langley Falls, Virginia. The Smith household is comprised of husband and father Stan, wife and mother Francine, college-age daughter Haley, teenage son Steve, and two non-human entities; a goldfish implanted with the consciousness of an East German named Klaus Heissler and an alien escaped from Area 51 in Nevada

he became an executive producer. He then went on to write a few hit adult television series in the 2000’s including Family Guy and American Dad; both in which he voices characters. An ample amount of his success comes from the way he incorporates satirical techniques into his scripts. MacFarlane demonstrates different satirical techniques in Family Guy and American Dad, while exploring different institutionalized ideas of race, gender, and religion.     Satires     used in many ways to move an audience

Rick and Morty: Adventures Through Space and Morality Through the invention of the television, the art of animation was able to transition from the big screen to the small screen. Serialized animated adventures boomed in the 80’s and 90’s as a market to pander for children, with dry, easy to follow storylines and bright flashing colors – no room for adult humor or ideas. However, just as the medium changed from film to television, the medium of cartoons has changed as well, opening up for innovative

Skylar Thompson Dr. Russell Carter English 111-F18 February 20, 2013 Thesis Statement Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and when it comes to the television series, Family Guy, everyone does. A person either loves the series or absolutely hates it. Antonia Peacocke voiced her opinion on the hit series in her article, Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. At first she was just another addition to the other Family Guy haters, but she eventually came around

she and Freud meant the same thing. Also, her point of view of Family Guy may be similar to some, but not all. “…Those who pay more attention and think about the creators’ intentions can see that Family Guy intelligently satirizes some aspects of American culture.” (303). She speaks as if she’s talking for everyone. If someone from an opposing view read her essay, it might infuriate them, making them not want to read the rest of the

American Dad is an animated sitcom, created for adults, and originally aired on Fox before being picked up by the TV channel, TBS. The creators include Seth McFarlane, Mike Barker, and Matt Weitzman. It is an animated show centered on the Smiths, who live in Langley Falls in Northern Virginia with their unusual family, which includes an alien named Roger. This show has been on the air since 2005, and is about to premiere its thirteenth season. Since there are so many seasons, and so many episodes

course I immediately think, “Oh I’m Mexican, Native American, and whatever white my dad is.” While I do have a darker brown skin I was not raised in the traditional way it’s assumed I was. I am only a quarter Mexican, so I was not raised in a Mexican household. The reality of it is that I was raised in a small rural town, this particular tiny town goes by the name of Hotchkiss, CO. I suppose I would say my real ethnicity is Rural-Conservative American. Out of the 900 people that live there the two main

The spread of television has affected American households universally, which started in the 1940s but has continued to make a dramatic surge. There is a trend at that is being captured across televisions in households everywhere. Politics, reality television, social media and public information is being broadcast from household to household. Television has in a way become a mode of how we think and interact with each other. Television is starting to leave that bubble where it was strictly entertainment

My dad is the perfect picture of the “American Dad.” He plays football in the yard, has “a talk” with any boy before they are allowed to date me, and considers grilling a fine art; so, when he informed my family that we would be embarking on the “Good Ole American Family Road Trip” I was not even slightly surprised. Me being the travel enthusiast that I am was overjoyed at the idea of travelling to other states and experiencing things that I had not yet seen, but I was also weary at the thought of

My dad is a pawn, my dad is a bishop, my dad is a knight, sometimes he's a rook,other times he's a queen, but I am the king.Though very inferior yet without pawns, it is almost impossible to win a chess game.It serves as a wall,defending and attacking solemnly while adjusting to the different situations of a game.Coming to the US in 2012,I had a perception of how life would be due to what I heard and saw,life will be fun, I will have many friends,I will be rich in the future and I will enjoy the