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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #333 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-05-12
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 401 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
"I’m not beloved," CIA Agent Stan Smith is shocked to discover after eavesdropping on his mocking neighbours in the episode, "I Can’t Stan You". With all the resolve this "pig-headed" Red State poster boy and George "The Dub" Bush devotee can muster, he vows, "I will make these people like me." For those still on the fence about American Dad, this collection of 18 episodes ought to do the trick. These characters may not be as indelible as the Family Guy clan, but these episodes rarely flag. If the outrageous storylines don’t grab you, the rapid-fire random gags will. Like King of the Hill’s Hank Hill , Stan (voiced by series co-creator Seth McFarlane) is oft confounded by a world seemingly gone mad. Unlike Hank, he is the voice of un-reason. In "Surro-Gate," Stan’s dizzy wife, Francine (Wendy Schaal) agrees to be the surrogate for the Smith’s gay neighbors, prompting the disapproving Stan to kidnap the infant, as well as the brood of a lesbian couple. In "Black Mystery Month," Stan reveals a Da Vinci Code-like conspiracy involving George Washington Carver that’s plain nuts. In another episode, "Bush Comes to Dinner" for a night of drunken debauchery; some easy-target Bush-bashing is redeemed when the President makes peace between Stan and his "lost cause" liberal daughter, Hayley (Rachael MacFarlane). Some of the best episodes focus more on the Smith family than politics. In "The Vacation Goo", Francine demands a real family getaway after discovering that all previous vacations were artificially created memories. In "Haylias," it is revealed that the unwitting Hayley is a brainwashed sleeper agent, who is activated by Stan to stop her from moving to France. "The 42-Year-Old Virgin" reveals another shocker: trigger-happy Stan has never actually killed anyone!

American Dad revels in guy humour. As Stan tells an unamused Hayley at one point, "You don’t get a willy, you don’t get the silly." American Dad brings the silly, but while the series is not above (or beneath) moth fart jokes, it is also smart enough to reference, say, "Equus" or the touching "When Somebody Loved Me" number from Toy Story 2. Stan’s geeky son, Steve (Scott Grimes), bitchy alien Roger (MacFarlane), and talking fish Klaus (Dee Bradley Baker) are no Chris, Brian, or Stewie, but this set contains some of their more memorable outings. In "Frannie 911," it turns out that it actually would kill Roger to be nice. In "Surro-Gate," Klaus vows revenge on Roger and Stan following a waterslide prank. American Dad fans will salute this three-disc set’s generous features, including a riotous Comic-Con cast table read of the episode, "The 42 Year-Old Virgin," nearly a half hour of deleted scenes (deleted jokes would be more accurate), unrated versions (with unbleeped profanities) of certain episodes, and freewheeling audio commentaries ("Hey, aren’t we supposed to talk about the episode?" one participant tries to steer one digressive conversation). --Donald Liebenson

DVD Description

Special Features

Three disc edition contains 18 hilarious American Dad episodes

Audio commentary on every episode

Over 60 deleted and extended scenes

Uncensored versions of selected episodes

Comic-con table read

Synopsis
From the creators of THE FAMILY GUY comes another outrageous and over-the-top take on the American nuclear family. With his doting wife, Francine, at his side, CIA agent Stan Smith runs a household that includes his ultra-liberal daughter Hayley; his nerdy son Steve; a sarcastic alien named Roger; and a lascivious German goldfish, Klaus. Features the complete third series.

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Customer Reviews

American Dad 3
As good as the first 2 series.I enjoyed it more after repeated viewings and it grew on me as i missed some of the jokes 1st time around.
I think American Dad is a bit cleverer than Family Guy and obviously more political but Family Guy is still the best IMO.
The Magnificent Steven is my favourite episode and i would have given this dvd 4 1/2* and not 5* if i could but wanted to boost the overall rating.

This might be Volume 3, but it's not the third series/season.
I won't go into the contents of this box or the quality of American Dad! as a series per se. I just want to point out, that the UK releases of American Dad! might be more or less chronological (box 3 leaves out the 8th episode of series 3, a christmas special), but are released not in a season-per-box way. Read: This "Volume 3" contains the episodes 10 to 19 of season 2 plus the first 7 episodes of season 3 and episode 9 of season 3. Basically all episodes (apart from the said x-mas episode) that were originally shown in 2007 in the US. Just to clear things up a bit.

Where are you going with this?
Loved the first two Vols, even though problems had started to rise. However, with Vol. 3, the creators seemed to have gone mental with one character. Stan Smith. He has always been a bit edgy making bad decisions, but in Vol. 3 turns into a fullblown terrorist, a monster of a person.

He started in Vol. 2, when he left his family in hunger and poverty to get back at a salesman, now he frames his wife for murder, leaves her to have casual sex with another woman, evicts his entire neighbourhood including his own family, forces his family to live in the woods because he won't admit to have made a mistake, just to name a few from the first disc.

Not only do these things make him totally unlikeable, worst of all, they're not even funny enough to justify all that. If you want horrible things done, let them be done by Roger, that would be in character. I know, it is a comic and not to be taken too seriously, still, I don't know how much more of this horror Stan puts all the people around him through without any consequence I can watch.

It looks they make the same mistake they made with Family Guy. Creating more hate in the characters, forcing new charactertrades onto existing ones that don't fit, effectively killing the sympathy we had for them. The humor goes down too. It's a shame, American Dad used to be fun at first, as did Family Guy, but as they say: The brightest flame burns quickest.