American Dad! - Crossovers With Other Shows

Crossovers With Other Shows

Characters from Family Guy and The Cleveland Show have made crossover appearances in American Dad! and vice versa. Family Guy and The Cleveland Show and American Dad! have all made an episode related to the same theme. The Hurricane episode was all the premieres in the 2011 season.

Family Guy

• Brian Griffin makes a brief cameo in "The People vs. Martin Sugar" as Stan's #1 Fictional Dog. Brian carelessly asks Stan, "Do I know you?" before walking away and Stan shouts, "Stop pretending I don't exist!"
• Brian has an epiphany in the episode "Excellence in Broadcasting" where he changes his political views to Republican Conservatism. Once he realizes this, a cut away shows Stan Smith sitting on the couch supposedly watching Brian and says, "Good. Good for Brian."
• Stan and Deputy Director Avery Bullock attempt to catch Stewie after he breaks into the CIA in "Lois Kills Stewie", where Stewie mistakes Stan for Joe Swanson.
• In "The Worst Stan", Steve and Roger are watching a fictitious episode of Family Guy featuring Stewie and Brian going to Miami to enroll in Florida State University, with Steve questioning how a baby and a dog were able to get on an airplane.
• At the end of the Family Guy episode "Meet the Quagmires", Peter is commenting that everything is back to normal when Roger enters the living room and says, "Who ate all the Pecan Sandies?", a reference to the American Dad! pilot.
• In the first Family Guy Star Wars special "Blue Harvest", Roger is seen as one of the various aliens in the Mos Eisley cantina.
• In the third Family Guy Star Wars special "It's a Trap!", Roger makes a cameo as an Imperial Officer sent to meet Darth Vader (played by Stewie) when he arrives at the second Death Star and Stewie remarks "Did we run out of our own characters?" Elsewhere in the episode, Klaus plays Admiral Ackbar.
• In "Killer Queen", Barry is shown as one of the fat kids that is sitting next to Peter Griffin.
• In the Family Guy episode, "Foreign Affairs", Bonnie remarks to Lois before having an affair, "Joe just isn't the same man I married." The American Dad! opening sequence from the early episodes (in which the running gag that is the newspaper headlines, not the later ones with Roger in a different costume) is then shown, with Joe replacing Stan.
• At the beginning of "The Return of the Bling", Klaus proclaims he is ready to pretend to go to school if someone wants to pretend to see his bus outside. He has a Family Guy lunch box and is wearing a baseball cap with Brian Griffin on the front.
• The end of "The Unbrave One" had Quagmire as the mysterious Internet doctor, Dr. Vadgers, whom Francine kept emailing for results on her pregnancy.

The Cleveland Show

• In "Gone With the Wind", Quagmire tells Cleveland that after he drops Loretta's coffin at the funeral home, he is heading to Langley Falls for a background gag in a bachelor party scene in American Dad!.
• In "Ain't Nothin' but Mutton Bustin'", Rallo has a belt buckle of Roger that he was looking to replace after winning his first mutton busting competition at the fair.
• Roger is shown on a stained glass window in "Jesus Walks".

The first ever crossover with all three MacFarlane series occurs in Night of the Hurricane, with a hurricane storming through the towns of Stoolbend, Quahog and Langley Falls. In the first part of the crossover, "The Hurricane!", Channel 6 News reporter Larvell makes a meta-reference to the event stating that the hurricane will make its way through Stoolbend, Quahog and Langley Falls (which is referred to as "American Dad town"). The actual crossover of the event takes place at the end of the final part – the American Dad! episode, "Hurricane!", when Stan faces Cleveland Brown and Peter Griffin in a standoff after the hurricane has passed.