10 American Dad Episodes That Pissed People Off
9. American Fung (S11E17)
This episode started in a similar way to 'Hot Water', as fictional Chinese billionaire Fung Wah addressed viewers in live action. He had traded a tennis shoe business to Seth MacFarlane for control of American Dad!, and was now running things.
It was incredibly weird, and the episode only got worse. Despite the business mogul claiming the show would be exactly the same as before, it was littered with references to him, his vast fortune, and bizarre fictional product placement. This was clearly supposed to be a payoff from the episode’s opening, but it just didn’t land. At all.
In the same way as Cee-Lo Green’s hot tub, this set up to the episode just didn’t work, and left fans more confused than anything, while both stories throughout the episode were lessened significantly by these ‘jokes’.
Stan’s arc of forgetting his and Francine’s anniversary yet again was already tired and something that has been done many times before, while Roger, Steve, and Hayley’s story only existed to bring Fung Wah into the episode further. This just missed on all levels.