American Dad! - Season 5

Apparently American Dad!'s fifth season ended abruptly a few weeks ago without anyone telling me, but it was a solid 13 episode run, I guess. I'd much rather have a full 20+ episodes of this than The Cleveland Show, but what can you do. To be honest, Family Guy has recently retaken the title of my favorite running Seth MacFarlane show with its constantly escalating absurdity and Dad! losing its unique spark a little bit, although it's still got some life left in it. By the way, do you know how many times Seth has actually written a script for one of his shows besides a pilot? Twice, both on Family Guy, and one of them was a single segment of the viewer mail anthology. He's a funny guy, but his primary strengths are definitely his voice and his existence now as a brand. Anyway, there was some fun stuff this season, like the crazy extent of the Vietnam reenactment on a golf course in the premiere and the totally nuts episode where the rapture occurs and Stan and Francine are stuck in a post apocalyptic earth, with an ending that would put the reality of the rest of the series in question if it wasn't for a small detail. To be honest, I'm sort of getting tired of the constant cycle of Stan being the worst husband in the world, learning an important lesson, and then forgetting it by the beginning of the next episode, but it's still entertaining and manages to separate itself from Family Guy enough to be its own show.