SUMMER MADNESS WITH "AMERICAN DAD!"

Another prime example of the American Family? We hope not! The cast of AMERICAN DAD! Image: FOX.

They might not have caught the public's imagination, or their funny bones, in quite the same way as their Quahog resident forebears in FAMILY GUY, but Seth MacFarlane's other out there comedy series about a dysfunctional family-AMERICAN DAD-has its fair share of equally devoted fans clearly enjoying its fine belly laughs alongside its well-written, often controversial, political and subversive humour.  Lead character/father Stan Smith is the ultimate square jawed plonker family man/CIA Agent whose patriotism and pure stupidity in the dedicated pursuit of keeping the country safe, and its stars and stripes flying, lead him into some of the most incredibly silly situations, watched and sometimes goaded on by his equally zany family, including petulant wife Francine, liberal daughter Hayley, cocky wannabe cool son Steve, and, how could we not forget him, the campily ego-centric, Paul-Lynde-type (cowardly, yet in your face at the same time) alien "rescued' from AREA 51, and now living the high and low-life with his human family, Roger. Oh, and there's also their resident little anthropomorphic goldfish with the brain of an East German Olympic Ski Jumper: Klaus!

Memorable episodes on this sixth volume, available on a special features packed DVD from 27th June, include Stan getting involved with a horse in "Don't Look a Smith-Horse in the Mouth", then getting hooked upon Crack Cocaine in "A Jones for a Smith", Francine hitting it off with Jesus Christ, who's now obviously defected over from FAMILY GUY, in the Biblical end of days tale "Rapture's Delight", plus Roger, clearly the star of the series these days, revealing his past as a steroid abusing Olympics hockey player, then becoming a policeman, a crime scene photographer and, finally topping it all off, a Che Guevara wannabe dictator on a tropical island!

And you thought your family was strange?!

 

Get it here: American Dad! - Season 6 [DVD]: Amazon.co.uk: Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal, Dee Bradley Baker, Scott Grimes, Rachael MacFarlane, Mike Kim, Joe Daniello: Film & TV

Volumes 1-5 of AMERICAN DAD are also available on DVD from FOX.