# American Dad! season 16

The sixteenth season of the American TV series American Dad! originally aired on TBS from April 15, 2019, to April 27, 2020, and consisted of 22 episodes.

## Episodes

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
| 257 | 1 | "Fantasy Baseball" | Jansen Yee | Tim Saccardo | April 15, 2019 (2019-04-15) | DAJN01 | 0.77 |
| Steve joins the town's baseball team as an umpire, and his antics lead to Steve being hired to change baseball into a live-action role-playing game, which doesn't sit well with Stan. Meanwhile, Francine's and Roger's favorite soap opera, Sex Hospital, gets canceled, leading Roger to stage soap opera scenarios with real people so he and Francine can get their daytime drama fix. ||||||||
| 258 | 2 | "I Am the Jeans: The Gina Lavetti Story" | Joe Daniello | Nicole Shabtai | April 22, 2019 (2019-04-22) | DAJN02 | 0.70 |
| Francine tries to be a better friend to Gina Lavetti, one of Roger's personas, when Lavetti begins making and marketing jeans for the average woman. Meanwhile, in a spoof of Freaky Friday, Stan and Steve magically swap eyebrows and must learn what it's like to walk a mile in each other's facial features. ||||||||
| 259 | 3 | "Stan & Francine & Connie & Ted" | Pam Cooke & Valerie Fletcher | Jeff Kauffmann | April 29, 2019 (2019-04-29) | DAJN03 | 0.82 |
| Steve introduces Stan and Francine to Barry's parents, and soon regrets it when he discovers that Barry's parents are swingers looking for a new couple. Meanwhile, Roger goes blind after staring into an eclipse and is tricked into thinking he's a Daredevil-esque superhero who fights with heightened senses. ||||||||
| 260 | 4 | "Rabbit Ears" | Tim Parsons & Jennifer Graves | Brett Cawley & Robert Maitia | May 6, 2019 (2019-05-06) | DAJN04 | 0.82 |
| On Big Trash Eve, Stan brings home an old television that airs a Playboy After Dark-esque talk show with a disturbing secret. Meanwhile, Roger inexplicably becomes a baby and the rest of the family waits on him hand and foot. ||||||||
| 261 | 5 | "Jeff and the Dank Ass Weed Factory" | Chris Bennett | Joe Chandler & Nic Wegener | May 13, 2019 (2019-05-13) | DAJN05 | 0.82 |
| In this stoner parody of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Jeff wins the chance to tour Tommie Tokes' (voiced by Snoop Dogg) marijuana factory, and Stan comes along so he can take down Tokes as part of his CIA mission. ||||||||
| 262 | 6 | "Lost Boys" | Josue Cervantes | Joel Hurwitz | May 20, 2019 (2019-05-20) | DAJN06 | 0.75 |
| Roger breaks up Steve's friendship with Snot, Barry, and Toshi after Steve refuses to be Roger's squash partner. Meanwhile, Hayley, Stan, and Francine think Jeff has a gift for flipping houses. ||||||||
| 263 | 7 | "Shark?!" | Shawn Murray | Jordan Blum & Parker Deay | May 27, 2019 (2019-05-27) | DAJN07 | 0.76 |
| Stan has Roger pretend to be a shark in order to make Steve overcome his fear of the ocean, turning Steve into an adrenaline junkie after he loses his arm. Meanwhile, Klaus struggles with dating Hayley's hot friend, Danuta. ||||||||
| 264 | 8 | "The Long March" | Rodney Clouden | Charles Suozzi | June 3, 2019 (2019-06-03) | DAJN08 | 0.73 |
| Scared at the prospect of her life becoming a grind after getting a promotion at Sub Hub, Hayley quits her job, moves into Jeff's van, and lives life on the road as an Instagram promoter. Meanwhile, Steve and Francine are menaced by a creepy Uber driver named Ernie after giving him a bad review. ||||||||
| 265 | 9 | "The Hall Monitor and the Lunch Lady" | Jansen Yee | Zack Rosenblatt | June 10, 2019 (2019-06-10) | DAJN09 | 0.81 |
| When Klaus gets fired from his job serving lunch at Pearl Bailey High, Steve works with Detective Turlington and goes undercover as a hall monitor to solve the mystery. Meanwhile, Roger and Stan go catatonic after seeing Steve's tailor die in a horrific escalator accident. ||||||||
| 266 | 10 | "Wild Women Do" | Joe Daniello | Marc Carusiello | June 17, 2019 (2019-06-17) | DAJN10 | 0.79 |
| Stan recruits Jeff to take Francine out on the town and keep her from going wild. Meanwhile, Klaus abducts Steve and forces him to watch his celebrity impression video. ||||||||
| 267 | 11 | "An Irish Goodbye" | Pam Cooke & Valerie Fletcher | Laura Beason | June 24, 2019 (2019-06-24) | DAJN11 | 0.69 |
| While Stan, Jeff, Roger, and Rogu pretend to be frontiersmen, Hayley discovers that Francine deals with Stan's childish ways by drinking at an Irish airport bar and Hayley begins to flock there to escape Jeff. ||||||||
| 268 | 12 | "Stompe Le Monde" | Tim Parsons & Jennifer Graves | Zack Rosenblatt | July 1, 2019 (2019-07-01) | DAJN12 | 0.63 |
| When his uncle dies and leaves him with a large inheritance, Stan uses the money to buy the rights to the off-Broadway play Stomp rather than a family vacation, leading to a life on the road, scamming townspeople. ||||||||
| 269 | 13 | "Mom Sauce" | Chris Bennett | Sasha Stroman | July 8, 2019 (2019-07-08) | DAJN13 | 0.65 |
| Snot's mom gets rich selling homemade dipping sauce, which doesn't sit well with Steve when he finds out that Snot's mom stole the recipe. Meanwhile, Klaus, Stan, Roger, and Jeff become mall models. ||||||||
| 270 | 14 | "Hamerican Dad!" | Josue Cervantes | Sam Brenner | July 15, 2019 (2019-07-15) | DAJN14 | 0.85 |
| Stan reluctantly lets Roger into his ham club -- and Roger ends up winning over the other members. Meanwhile, Francine decides to scare her next door neighbor, Greg. ||||||||
| 271 | 15 | "Demolition Daddy" | Shawn Murray | Paul Stroud | July 22, 2019 (2019-07-22) | DAJN15 | 0.76 |
| Thanks to Roger, Snot discovers that his long-deceased father was a demolition derby driver. Meanwhile, Hayley teaches Steve how to drive by taking him on a truck run. ||||||||
| 272 | 16 | "Pride Before the Fail" | Rodney Clouden | Soren Bowie | July 29, 2019 (2019-07-29) | DAJN16 | 0.69 |
| Roger tries to force Hayley into graduating from community college so he can move into her room. Meanwhile, Klaus repairs Francine's car and turns the garage into a mechanic's shop. ||||||||
| 273 | 17 | "Enter Stanman" | Jansen Yee | Jeff Kauffmann | August 5, 2019 (2019-08-05) | DAJN17 | 0.76 |
| Stan gets jealous of Francine when Francine admits she had a sex dream about Jeff, so he recruits Roger (as his new therapist character, Dr. Buttblast, the twin of the recently deceased Dr. Penguin) to go inside Francine's mind while she sleeps... and ends up releasing a vampiric monster that represents Stan's insecurity. ||||||||
| 274 | 18 | "No Weddings and a Funeral" | Joe Daniello | Tim Saccardo | August 12, 2019 (2019-08-12) | DAJN18 | 0.73 |
| Klaus runs away from home, tired of being the family's punching bag. 15 years later, the Smiths (all of whom have changed during Klaus' absence: Hayley and Jeff have moved out and are parents, Steve has bulked up and is head of his own tech company, Roger has become famous for his memoir about being an alien, Francine has married Toshi, and Stan has gained weight, lost most of his hair, and lives in a dirty apartment with a suicidal cat) hear that Klaus has died, and a nun forces them to have a funeral for Klaus. ||||||||
| 275 | 19 | "Eight Fires" | Pam Cooke & Valerie Fletcher | Brett Cawley & Robert Maitia | August 19, 2019 (2019-08-19) | DAJN19 | 0.75 |
| Roger helps Francine be a better cook by taking her to a remote island in Patagonia. Meanwhile, Stan becomes a mute piano virtuoso after getting a nail stuck in his head. ||||||||
| 276 | 20 | "The Hand That Rocks the Rogu" | Tim Parsons & Jennifer Graves | Jordan Blum & Parker Deay | August 26, 2019 (2019-08-26) | DAJN20 | 0.68 |
| To prove to Francine that he's responsible enough to babysit, Steve looks after Roger's tumor, Rogu, while Roger (dressed in the prostitute costume he wore in "Persona Assistant") goes out on a date with Dick. Meanwhile, Stan tries to find an exotic dish for the CIA exotic food club and ends up spelunking for oyster cans at the late-night grocery store. ||||||||
| 278 | 21 | "Downtown" | Chris Bennett | Nic Wegener & Joe Chandler | April 20, 2020 (2020-04-20) | DAJN21 | 0.68 |
| Hayley drives Steve to his PSATs, but her car breaks down next to a suburban house where perfume sellers murder people who fail to meet sales targets. Meanwhile, Stan, Francine, and Roger think Hayley and Steve went downtown and go to rescue them (because Stan thinks downtown is a scumhole), but end up getting distracted over how downtown has become a gentrified haven for millennial hipsters and forget about them. ||||||||
| 279 | 22 | "Cheek to Cheek: A Stripper's Story" | Josue Cervantes | Charles Suozzi | April 27, 2020 (2020-04-27) | DAJN22 | 0.67 |
| In this loose parody of Midnight Cowboy, Roger takes Jeff on the road to open up a chivalric male strip club, but Jeff takes to the world of raucous (and raunchy) male stripping to raise the money, while Klaus moves into Steve's room and causes trouble. ||||||||