American Dad! (TV Series) Who Smarted? (2021) User Reviews

Solid Seven

[vuileharry · 7/10 · 22 April 2021]

It's such a nice (and very rare!)feeling when you don't have to think and be in doubt over your rating. To me this was a dead clear, and solid, 7. Absolutely no more and absolutely no less.

The episode had an nice, fresh story putting Jeff in the centre for a change. I thought it was a pretty entertaining story and it gave me enough to giggle about. The secondary story about Steve and Roger going snake-hunting did feel a bit like a microwave dinner to me: quick and easy. But I cant say it failed to make me laugh a couple times!

Man it's hard to keep coming up with good episodes after so many seasons! Thats why I gladly forgive the couple of really lousy episodes we get every season nowdays. Because they do still have plenty good ones and even 3 or 4 REALLY good ones each season. And I appreciate that so much because I NEED them to make me enjoy and lauugh about silly stuff to help keep my sanity in an increasingly crazy world.

The exact same also goes for Family Guy btw, and I enjoy them battling each other for the best season each year since I enjoy both shows. Also nice to see them both on the way of beating South Park and The Simpsons in that specific area, since they completely lost their edge much earlier!

A Jeff Fisher centered episode!!!

[mja58 · 6/10 · 20 April 2021]

Pretty good episode with Hayley's husband being the center of attention.

Watch for:

1. Jeff's transformation - different hairstyle and clean shaven.

2. Roger's insane idea of collecting deadly snake venom for profit, and roping in Steve in the escapade.

3. Stan collecting neighborhood animals for experiments (this creeped me out).

Francine seemed to have a diminished role in this episode.

Has some laughs but unoriginal

[crazelord · 6/10 · 14 December 2021]

I've seen this Flowers for Algernon inspired plot a million times. Almost has the same exact beats of a Family Guy episode from a bit back where Peter becomes smart. Still saved by the extremes AD goes to with the plot.

Who Smarted?

[bobcobb301 · 7/10 · 22 July 2021]

Family Guy and other animated comedies have done similar episodes to this. Kind of funny in parts, but nothing too surprising here.

unoriginal

[10086cn · 5/10 · 20 April 2021]

Yeah, I was wondering when American Dad would do an episode like this. It finally came, yay (sarcasm). This sort of idea was already done in The Simpsons when Bart took focusyn in the episode Brother's Little Helper, and it was already done in Futurama when Fry had those parasites in his body in the episode Parasites Lost.

Here, American Dad takes that same principle and uses it for Jeff when he undergoes the intelligence enhancement procedure. I wouldn't say I hate this episode, I'm just glad they took the principle and got it over with. It seems to be fitting with the show, so they might as well have made this episode sooner or later, although I am docking it for the unoriginality, so yeah.