american dad is a show we've covered quite a bit on this channel and we still have a lot
of questions that need answers today we want to tackle some of the most well-known theories
surrounding the cartoon and see if we can bring some light to some possible truths or debunk some
conspiracies just like our king of the hill video we'll be breaking these theories down
and ranking them by plausibility from the bs and full of holes to the possible to the probable and
absolute truth bombs i'm kyle with wickedbinge and this is american dad theories bs to truth bombs
first up let's get the theories out of the way that have been debunked these theories either
have so many holes in them they can't possibly be true they lack evidence or they've been confirmed
false by the creators simply put these theories are [ __ ] roger is the smith's firstborn son
this theory has been circulating on reddit and we felt it was worth mentioning here at the very
bottom the theory goes that roger was a normal kid to start with that he was popular and did
pretty well in school but after being abducted by aliens at a fairly young age he just wasn't
the same cia's here this should be interesting the ordeal made roger so depressed he took up drinking
doing drugs and fell into a fantasy world where he depended on these various personas and ridiculous
stories to cope with the trauma while we can see some of the reasoning behind this theory
we feel that it's debunked pretty harshly due to the lack of evidence after all the
smiths don't do well with keeping secrets with eventually everything being exposed in some way
we can't help but think if roger was just a young man struggling with a horrible experience
that he wouldn't have all of the abilities and relationships he has shown to have throughout the
show all of the characters are roger's personas this was an idea originally presented by reddit
user the fact sphere it centers around the content of the episode the wiener of our discontent
in season 4. in this episode roger reveals himself to stan as being dubbed the decider by his people
being given the task to see if the people of earth were worthy of being left to live or if
they deserve to die however when roger goes to end all life using a ship it doesn't work and this is
where he finds out that he was sent as a crash test dummy the alien inside is merely a crash
test dummy however what if it was a way for roger to cope with what really happened the speculation
at play is that roger did in fact end all life on earth at one point using his ship and was unable
to do it again he had no memory of it due to the trauma the event caused him and so roger then went
on to create these other characters as a way to cope with what he had done it's really not likely
at all considering we see what events occurred that led roger to come to earth in the first place
but it's a fun thing to suggest since we do see in an episode of family guy that characters can be
subjected to trauma after committing regrettable actions displayed when peter goes crazy after
turning everyone into robin williams with that said that's obviously not evidence so we'll
strike this theory up as bs but moving out of the bs to the next category these theories still
have a lot of problems not enough to say they're completely debunked but still these theories are
full of holes stewie controls american dad all of seth macfarlane's shows correlate with one another
in some way with a few character interactions between the main protagonists taking place there
was even a series of hurricane-based episodes on all three shows showing each family struggling
with the storm in their own way this idea starts with stewie building a machine to live out his
fantasy of finally killing lois and taking over the country in this scenario stewie infiltrates
the cia and uses the computer to hold the united states hostage by taking control of the power grid
i now control the entire planet's power grid he ends up in a confrontation with stan and bullock
during this time suggesting that the entire process of american dad is a figment of stewie's
imagination it's an interesting idea but there's also some evidence that family guy is completely
fictional according to american dad stan lists brian as his number one favorite fictional dog
stan is seen watching family guy and praising brian for becoming republican and stephen roger
are seen watching an episode of one of brian and stewie's adventures while on a bus criticizing the
show's unrealistic nature then again we also see peter stan in cleveland all interacting during the
hurricane storylines so take that information how you will oh man classic american dad
stewie is one of roger's personas this one was posted on reddit by user jake userjk22
and suggests that stewie is a product of roger's love of creating characters on the one hand
it's an interesting theory the characters aren't shown to have direct interaction with one another
unless you count the brief gag of the smiths and griffin's meeting and even for that circumstance
we've seen roger use his speed to switch places more than a few times even going back and forth
from a plane when interacting with francine as she goes to meet her new cooking instructor that's
enough turning around there's also the fact that stewie was able to become pregnant using brian's
dna something that roger is also capable of doing stewie is able to talk and behave unlike any other
kids his age and the two of them share a lot of flamboyant characteristics however we have
to give this theory a low spot due to a couple of reasons stewie is shown in early episodes to
be pretty clueless about his surroundings and certain aspects of life even when alone he had
no idea the man in white was really meant to be a doctor taking out a cult leader by mistake he
panicked that the idea of trick-or-treaters didn't understand his tricycle was stolen by a bully and
is still trying to learn the things kids his age do like the alphabet and shapes you do have to
ride it to truly appreciate its virtues not to mention when time literally reversed and stewie
was almost put back into his mother's womb no matter how good of a character roger makes
he wouldn't be able to trick time itself we also feel the need to point out that roger doesn't
really appear to have the capability to create the same devices and machines that stewie can
roger is seen more taking advantage of alien technology than his own abilities anything
he creates is along the lines of a character or performance of some sort the closest we see roger
deal with time travel is when he's dragged along with stan's wish to be a bachelor and with that
said we now enter the middle category where we may stumble onto some truth maybe these theories are
the possible a tv show inside of a tv show now in a previous listing we mentioned how the
american dad universe may be a figment of stewie's imagination but this theory goes even further over
the course of american dad we see more than a few times where the fourth wall is broken
and that the characters are performers we've seen stan give roger a trophy for a vagina joke klaus
in front of a green screen when stan refuses to read a script and we've seen roger urge steve to
say his lines after falling from a window i just get paid the most by far but you all make it work
we've also seen this same format on family guy with the griffins giving commentary of their time
on the show however in one episode in particular seth and the rest of the cast interact with the
griffin family and seth is heard telling all the characters that nothing they did mattered because
they aren't real none of you are real you're all tv characters we realize that's a part of
the family guy universe but as the shows interlock in many ways we feel it's necessary to point out
if this were to hold up with american dad as well then the family may be aware on some level that
their time on screen is a performance for us which is why we get the occasional fourth wall break
that is meant to relieve the writing staff from creativity fatigue avery bullock is susie swanson
this is a pretty common idea among fans and is one we've covered once on the channel before
as seen in the episode virtual insanity avery's chosen avatar is an infant so that he can indulge
in a weird fetish he has another feeding my you have quite the appetite avery and susie's inner
thoughts are voiced by patrick stewart leading to a lot of viewers thinking that avery is giving
commentary on susie's life while using the suit honestly that makes it even more morbid that suzy
just sits and listens to her brother breaking down over everything that he experienced while in war
and would portray avery to be even more cold-hearted than he already is but we've seen
plenty of times that avery has gone to extreme measures for national security it wouldn't make
a whole lot of sense for him to inhabit the body of a young girl that is neighbors with
stewie who is the ultimate threat with his various weapons and machines avery is pretty careless but
that would probably pop up on his radar at some point moving on to our next category these next
conspiracies make a lot of sense in fact we think they're more likely to be true than not
these theories are the probable the cia knows about roger and the smiths reddit user a baker 74
made a few good points suggesting that the cia is well aware of roger's location during the show
long time viewers will know that roger is a unique being with a lot of abilities super speed being
able to blend in with various disguises and being able to manipulate those around him makes him
hard to keep track of you hustling me boy the theory states that the cia decided to use stan
as a way of keeping roger in one location to keep a better eye on him they chose stan because he was
the most gullible agent who could be picked and had a family that roger could become emotionally
attached to the reason the cia keeps bringing up having to look for roger but ultimately keep
failing is that they are well aware of roger's need to feel like the center of attention and be
deemed important such as when he was obsessed with being the decider this also has the added benefit
of the smith's making sure roger disguises himself in order to keep the general public in the dark
about alien life another user trevor j414 expanded on the original post giving a few more supporting
pieces of evidence stating that stan has roughly seven tracking chips on him according to bullock
and that during stan's time job hunting he was tracked all over by snipers who took out
anyone that stan mentioned his cia work too always shouting for stan to put a sock in it you really
gotta put a sock in it stan the entire show is cia footage this idea is also given to us by
reddit user trevor j414 and is a relatively long one basically the idea goes that the cia has the
know-how to monitor and control agents this ties in with the previous entry of the cia knowing the
whereabouts of roger even if avery himself or the langley location as a whole doesn't it plays with
the idea that the entire show is the result of monitoring and controlling the smith family and
their environment to keep an eye on roger using stan and his family in the process the cia upon
finding roger's location decided that the family was amusing and worth watching and so decides to
make it their entertainment when avery shows his employees the holodeck he shows the others
a memory of himself in an all-boys school but we see the memory not from avery's perspective but
from the outside avery had stated that this was a result of cia headphones that were meant to scan
memories but from the camera shots it makes more sense that it would be the result of monitoring
there is also the fact that stan is well aware of his theme song seen visibly jumping from bed and
singing and even scolds roger at one point for not being present in the car before he crashes it dick
even makes a comment about stealing stan's spot at the flagpole once stan is thrown off of his
morning routine i'm taking your spot today there's more the post goes over such as toshi stating he
knows roger is an alien in a wig and perhaps that is why he's only able to speak japanese
even though his own family doesn't perhaps it was a way the cia kept toshi from talking and left
them to keep watching the smith family this would also explain why in later seasons we have these
random side characters who go on about themselves before turning to the camera and winking or
stating that now the audience knows everything about them finally we've reached the truth people
have blown the whistle on these theories with such compelling evidence that they must be true
or a creator outright confirmed it these theories are the truth bombs the cia created the humanoid
animals this was pointed out by reddit user dial taylor and they presented a lot of interesting
evidence to back this up it's been established in not only american dad but also family guy ted and
the cleveland show that humanoid animals aren't a rare thing and in the cases of reginald and
klaus they have direct links to the cia and are able to place their existence on a common source
though it was for different reasons klaus's brain was switched after he almost won the gold for
germany reginald was the product of an experiment when he went in for a free meal the cia deciding
a koala would be less suspicious to run around as an agent in the sister show family guy dr
hartman even makes a comment that giant chicken is the result of some lab experiments gone wrong
the result wound up being a man-sized chicken that was incredibly hostile it wouldn't be too much to
think that the cia would hire random doctors and scientists to work on these humanoid creatures
creating so many that it got to the point that no one really noticed them as being all that
different roger is a hive mind with multiple bodies this has been made canon in the show
but was further discussed by reddit user sexy shafter now in one of the many post-apocalyptic
time frames roger is shown to be responsible for the downfall of society after visiting the langley
quantum labs roger becomes cod in a crossfire that causes some of his particles to separate
creating entire bodies for his personas and creating the dreaded 200 that roger had assumed he
simply made up though the end of that episode led us to believe that all of the other bodies were
taken out by a giant fire-breathing clouds that's another issue on its own roger was sent to be a
crash dummy by emperor zing we've already touched on the episode where roger realizes that his role
as the decider is a fabrication the episode leads to roger having to come to terms with
the fact that he was considered disposable by his own race however roger is easily able to call his
race to pick him up in a later episode after jeff finds out he's an alien so how does all this come
together jeff and the majestic reveal that emperor zing and roger had a relationship in the past but
the emperor was heartbroken after roger cheated on him with a human can we please be grown-ups about
this because i can't this would then lead to zing denouncing love and claiming it is non-existent
and having roger's sentence to be exiled or killed on the home planet of the species he
cheated on zing with the fact that roger was able to easily call the ship to pick him up only helps
solidify that fact zing had everything set up for a new slave to be working in the food stand meant
to represent earth's greatest contribution it's not hard to guess that emperor zing was prepared
to have roger return with their people only to be disgraced as a slave and the only reason he
hadn't before was because he assumed roger died on impact roger is as powerful as superman reddit
user raunchking91 starts this speculation with a pretty simple entry listing some of roger's powers
his ability to survive in space his super speed his super strength when compared to a human and
is near immortality roger can take a lot of damage he has no issue being tossed through
a moving car can handle being lit on fire can create a charge with his body that's like that of
a defibrillator and can survive an obscene amount of drug and alcohol use how'd you know i was fire
proof i didn't even know we even see that roger is able to create gold with his body as seen with
rogue when he's under a great deal of pressure and that's not even getting into his hive mind
abilities and the ability to become pregnant the world has ended slash stan's personal heaven
this was actually confirmed in season 6 after the rapture occurred as user some weird italian
points out on reddit this would explain why so many ridiculous things happen within the show
that stan and his family are able to overcome it is what your heart most desires while the smith
family does seem to face some consequences for their actions they usually end up getting the
bare minimum as far as any real punishment goes times such as haley and stan going on a bender and
jumping off rooftops able to avoid injury due to intoxication stan surviving his car plunging into
the river twice and the family escaping from a pow camp while competing on a tv show there have been
some episodes in which stan had died either with or without his family at his side but all of those
instances were overcome fairly easily such as when he was able to make a pact with the devil to go
back to earth in exchange for being damned this theory also correlates with another episode where
an angel takes stan to his original family with the explanation that francine steve and hayley
were sent to be a lesson to get stan to appreciate his life more where's my real family this is your
real family later on in the series when stan does die he spends his eternity with the family
he claimed he loved more that being the flawed people that were supposed to be a punishment
but what do you think let us know in the comments section below which of these theories you think
are the biggest truth bombs and which ones are total bs and make sure to watch our american dad
good to evil video where we go over the morality of the full american dad cast make sure to hit
that notification bell and binge our bs the truth bomb playlist but most importantly stay wicked