American Dad: The 10 Best Characters

1. Roger

Roger Smith There comes a time in every man/space aliens life when he has to decide what he wants to be in the world. For Roger Smith, this moment came on September 18th 2005, when he resolved to become a barman. This moment came again on February 17th 2008, when he turned his attention to the profession of psychiatry, and again on November 14th 2010, when he tried his hand at being a restaurateur ... And many, many times in between. I suppose what this trend emphasises is that Roger is a jack of all trades, and master of n ... Well actually he's pretty bloody good at all of them isn't he? Like a lot of American Dad characters, Roger's behaviour is erratic to the extreme, although he takes this attribute one relatively large step further than most. I'm serious €“ remember when Stan told him to stop acting like a big shot so he decided to blow up Earth and obliterate the human race as we know it? And regardless of this monumental (and failed) threat, the Smith's didn't kick him out of the house, and why? Because he's likeable. A lot like Charlie Sheen, he royally screws up on a regular basis, takes copious amounts of hard drugs, ridicules as many people as he possibly can, and yet he still gets his own sitcom on Comedy Central! I mean, what the f**k does that b*****d have to do to suffer some sort of retribution!? Ok back to Roger, and the main reason for such vast popularity €“ his disguises. Since arriving on Earth in 1947 (or the beginning of American Dad in 2005), Roger has amassed over 175 personas, confirming either that he is one of the greatest actors alive today, or that he has the most severe case of MPD the world has ever known. I won't try to quote these personas - my feeble typing just couldn't do them justice, but I will voice his greatest character in the exalted and glorified medium that is my opinion: Roy Rogers McFreely So there you have it, Roger 'The Alien' Smith tops our list at number 1. It took me all of 2 minutes to pick a winner, but I'm sure there can be no argument. This grey, no-nosed oddball hops effortlessly between situations of craziness, being just as likely to sit on the sofa all day watching Dynasty as forcing the inhabitants of a small Caribbean peninsula to paint their island yellow, and if that's not good TV, I don't know what is.
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