Is that an American Dad?

Don't you just love America. Land of the free and Home of the Brave? Men all around generous selfless and will help everyone they come past. Women freedom to be themselves and do what they want. Teenagers or young adults know how to become better leaders. Also, the best pets you can ever ask for. We do such a great job selling America being great but according to American Dad that is not the case at all.

In American dad we have Stan Smith who played the average American Dad but it is the complete opposite of what people think of men are. He is foolish, stereotypical, selfish, hilarious (without trying to be) and just an overall jackass we see in many rich white males. He also has a gun everywhere he goes and uses it without any cause. Francine smith is the average housewife who cooks and clean on such a routine that it might actually kill her if she stops and has to constantly make herself look good to please her husband. She also has to please everyone. Then you have Steve and Haley. Steve a dorky kid whose hormones levels are so high he might be able to hump anything at this point and Haley a stoner who pretends to care about the planet and others until she needs to make personal sacrifice. Heck Roger the alien who is by far the funniest character in the show might be more human than he is portrayed.

Yet this story is portrayed the way it is to shown. That Americans are not these great people like people in other countries may be. Each episode tends to focus on one character attributes and a little of the other ones. So for this example I will be using Stan Smith episode when he thought his next door neighbors were terrorist. The episode is very hilarious I will give it and will be shocked if you don´t laugh. However, the episode is about to middle eastern couples who just moved down the street and immediately he thinks they are terrorist. He frisked them, hid cameras in their house and even locked them up behind an electrified fence. How crazy can you be. Than you have the Francine tricking everyone that it's a party idea so everyone won´t hate them. The show is really funny, but shows that men like Stan Smith think everyone is out to get them and is so delusional that they will do anything to keep them in check.

The show has some interesting things about how Americans function. As bad as I want to say that this is not true it is and a lot of people can't handle the truth. It's easier to process things like this through comedy because it's not suppose to be taken seriously. Many grown people watch shows like this and will laugh without knowing that they are laughing at themselves because that's exactly how they act.