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===Plot twists and unexpected elements===
The series has abounded with random, unexpected occurrences and surprise [[plot twist]]s as result of the characters and the very makeup of the program.<ref name="avclub6">{{Cite web |last=McFarland |first=Kevin |date=April 29, 2013 |title=American Dad: "The Full Cognitive Redaction Of Avery Bullock By The Coward Stan Smith" |url=https://www.avclub.com/american-dad-the-full-cognitive-redaction-of-avery-bu-1798176625 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209071703/https://www.avclub.com/american-dad-the-full-cognitive-redaction-of-avery-bu-1798176625 |archive-date=December 9, 2021 |access-date=December 9, 2021 |publisher=The A.V. Club}}</ref> For example, in the episode "[[American Dad! (season 9)|The Full Cognitive Redaction of Avery Bullock by the Coward Stan Smith]]", Steve refers to Roger for help in dealing with a school bully, Luiz. Because Steve is able to correctly predict Roger's original game plan of handling the situation himself under an alter ego, Roger [[wikt: throw somebody a curve|throws him a curveball]]: he not only hires Stelio Kontos (from the episode "[[Bully for Steve]]") who was Stan's bully, to handle the matter, but hires him to bully Steve so Steve's original bully Luiz won't want another bully's sloppy seconds. Then Luiz, encouraged by Steve, goes to beat up the guy that beat him up yet learns that it is Stelio Kontos and the two bullies team up along with Roger to target Steve. The Stelio Kontos's song sounds, revamped by Roger adding "''and Luiz'' ". As another example, in the episode "[[The Vacation Goo]]", Francine becomes frustrated that she cannot get the family together for Sunday night dinner. For family time, Stan suggests a vacation, and the Smiths have a great time in [[Maui]] as a family. This is up until Roger shuts down the mechanism Francine and the kids are all attached to so as to believe they are all on vacation. Francine and the kids then learn that Stan has been programming a pseudo-vacation every year in a contraption dubbed "the goo chambers". After learning of this, Francine demands they go on a real vacation. Twice they appear to do so, first [[skiing]], then to [[Italy]], until it is ultimately revealed that they are in the "goo chambers" all along, with Steve and then Hayley having programmed the vacations, respectively. In the episode "[[Spelling Bee My Baby]]", Steve deliberately misspells his words in a [[spelling bee]] so as to express his love for [[Barry Robinson (American Dad!)|Akiko]] (who is also competing), instead spelling random [[Tyler Perry]]/[[Madea (Mabel Simmons)|Madea]] films.<ref name="avclub6" />