American Dad! (season 9)

Region 1 cover art for "Volume 9"
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	19
Release
Original network	Fox
Original release	September 30, 2012 (2012-09-30) – May 12, 2013 (2013-05-12)

American Dad!'s ninth season debuted on the Fox network on September 30, 2012, at 9:30/8:30c, and concluded on May 12, 2013.

Guest stars for the season include Wayne Brady, Alison Brie, Sean Hayes, Mariah Carey, Charlie Day, Michelle Dockery, Nathan Fillion, Will Forte, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Rupert Grint, Jon Hamm, and Shaun White.

Episode plots include Jeff being stranded on an alien space ship ("Lost in Space"), Klaus finding his human body ("Da Flippity Flop"), Roger becoming Stan's stepfather ("American Stepdad") and Hayley getting a job as a bar singer for Roger ("Love, AD Style").

The episode "Minstrel Krampus" was scheduled to air on December 16, 2012, but was replaced by a repeat of "Wheels & the Legman and the Case of Grandpa's Key" out of sensitivity for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. To compensate for this, they aired the episode "National Treasure 4: Baby Franny: She's Doing Well: The Hole Story" early. "Minstrel Krampus" eventually aired in the tenth season.

Episodes

See also: List of American Dad! episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
134	1	"Love, AD Style"	Josue Cervantes	Erik Durbin	September 30, 2012 (2012-09-30)	7AJN03	5.25
Roger develops a crush on Hayley after he recruits her as the main entertainer in his new crooner's bar, and ends up kidnapping her when she tells him that she cannot be in love with him because she is already married. Meanwhile, Stan (once again) tries to prove his manhood by negotiating a good price for an SUV he wants, and tries to sell his black SUV to get money for the new one.
135	2	"Killer Vacation"	Rodney Clouden	Rick Wiener & Kenny Schwartz	October 7, 2012 (2012-10-07)	7AJN05	5.18
The Smith's family's tropical vacation turns out to be anything but relaxing when Stan is assigned a mission to kill the activities director at their resort, whom his boss at the CIA insists is an ex-war criminal. Meanwhile, Hayley and Jeff try to revive their dead sex life and meet a swinger couple, Steve joins a British boy (guest star Rupert Grint) to find a nude beach, and Roger (posing as an old widow) falls for an old widower.
136	3	"Can I Be Frank with You"	Pam Cooke & Valerie Fletcher	Judah Miller	November 4, 2012 (2012-11-04)	7AJN08	3.99
Francine fears that she and Stan are growing apart because he spends so much time hanging out with his buddies at the "CIA Chill Zone". Meanwhile, Steve and his friends are recruited to join a boy band and make a music video.
137	4	"American Stepdad"	Shawn Murray	Jordan Blum & Parker Deay	November 18, 2012 (2012-11-18)	7AJN10	4.21
Stan invites his mother to come live with the family after Stan's stepfather, Hercules, dies, and tensions rise when Roger is forced to share his attic with her. But Roger and Stan's mom quickly fall in love and get married, and Stan is forced to deal with Roger as his new stepdad, which goes very well once Roger actually makes fatherly advice to Stan. Meanwhile, Steve and his friends discover a mysterious plane crash while on a bike ride and come across a long-lost script of a Fast and the Furious sequel that reveals a shocking truth about the entire series.
138	5	"Why Can't We Be Friends?"	Jansen Yee	Jonathan Fener	December 2, 2012 (2012-12-02)	7AJN06	4.25
Stan decides that Snot is not cool enough to be Steve's friend, so he attempts to separate them by staging a shooting at an ice cream parlor, of which Snot is the only witness and is then placed in the CIA Witness Protection program. Meanwhile, Roger hires Jeff to clean his attic for extra cash, but keeps robbing him every time he goes back to Hayley's room. Features Joe Satriani's "Always with Me, Always with You".
139	6	"Adventures in Hayleysitting"	Tim Parsons & Jennifer Graves	Matt Fusfeld & Alex Cuthbertson	December 9, 2012 (2012-12-09)	7AJN09	4.67
The Smith family's regular babysitter, Lindsay, breaks her leg in a soccer match, so Stan and Francine are forced to leave Steve with Hayley, despite her track record of being extremely irresponsible. When Hayley teases Steve about being a dweeb, Steve is determined to prove her wrong and sneaks out of the house to go to a party with the cool kids.
140	7	"National Treasure 4: Baby Franny: She's Doing Well: The Hole Story"	Chris Bennett	Murray Miller	December 23, 2012 (2012-12-23)	7AJN04	4.21
When Greg and Terry's new talk show does a news story on the 35th anniversary of the rescue of "Baby Franny", Francine begins to feel guilty over wasting her life while the fireman who rescued her from a well died in her place. Meanwhile, Stan and Roger team up with Toshi's dad Mr. Hideki Yoshida to invent and market sexy shoes for male strippers. However, the deal sours when Hideki double-crosses Stan and Roger and keeps all the royalties for their creation to himself.
141	8	"Finger Lenting Good"	Joe Daniello	Laura McCreary	January 6, 2013 (2013-01-06)	7AJN07	5.65
Francine encourages the family to give up their various vices for Lent (Stan's yelling, Steve's crying, Hayley's junk food snacking, Jeff's need to hug people, and Francine's cigarette smoking), but they all get drunk at Roger's Mardi Gras party and sign a pact letting Deputy Director Bullock stay over to make sure the Smith-Fishers stick to their sacrifices. Meanwhile, in a risque parody of Cinderella, Roger finds a nipple pastie the morning after the Mardi Gras party and, along with Klaus, goes searching for the perfect bosom.
142	9	"The Adventures of Twill Ongenbone and His Boy Jabari"	Josue Cervantes	Brian Boyle	January 13, 2013 (2013-01-13)	7AJN11	4.82
Francine tries to teach Roger the value of hard work after his character "Twill Ongenbone" fakes a degree in archaeology, but she quickly regrets her decision. Meanwhile, Steve asks Stan questions about Stan's past for a school project, but is disturbed when he keeps recording Stan's depressing ramblings about his life and marriage. Unable to create a proper report because of this, Steve eventually resorts to calling his father and having him speak over the phone for a report. Stan's disturbing comments drive his teacher to kill himself.
143	10	"Blood Crieth Unto Heaven"	Joe Daniello	Brian Boyle	January 27, 2013 (2013-01-27)	7AJN15	4.27
In this parody of the Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play "August: Osage County," Francine throws a birthday party for Stan, which brings back bad memories of when his father abandoned him. Meanwhile, Roger (playing a black maid named Edna) kills off the love child had between Avery Bullock and Hayley.
144	11	"Max Jets"	Tim Parsons & Jennifer Graves	Keith Heisler	February 10, 2013 (2013-02-10)	7AJN17	3.88
A waitress gets her claws on Roger's philanthropic character Max Jets, who's just gotten out of prison and is helping the Smiths with their financial woes.
145	12	"Naked to the Limit, One More Time"	Chris Bennett	Keith Heisler	February 17, 2013 (2013-02-17)	7AJN12	4.15
Roger tries to convince Jeff that he is his imaginary friend so Roger can go naked in the house, but when Jeff blabs that the Smiths have an alien, Stan must choose between killing Roger or Jeff so the secret can stay a secret. Meanwhile, Steve feels left out when his friends' butts have filled out, but not his.
146	13	"For Black Eyes Only"	Jansen Yee	Jonathan Fener	March 10, 2013 (2013-03-10)	7AJN22	3.27
In this follow-up to season four's James Bond parody "Tearjerker," Sexpun T'Come (Francine) is shot and killed by Black Villain (Principal Lewis). Stan must now team up with Tearjerker (Roger) to stop Black Villain's plan to melt the Arctic glaciers, even if going through a clone of Sexpun T'Come, who is black instead of white.
147	14	"Spelling Bee My Baby"	Rodney Clouden	Lesley Wake Webster	March 24, 2013 (2013-03-24)	7AJN13	4.53
Francine enters Steve in a spelling bee contest, where he faces competition from Toshi's sister, Akiko. Meanwhile, Roger and Stan try to rush Hayley in getting over her lost husband, Jeff (who was caught off guard by Roger and chucked into a spaceship by Roger and thus sent into outer space in "Naked to the Limit, One More Time"), all for the purposes of getting her to act as a line official for them in a game of badminton.
148	15	"The Missing Kink"	Pam Cooke & Valerie Fletcher	Jeff Chiang & Eric Ziobrowski	April 14, 2013 (2013-04-14)	7AJN16	4.23
Unsatisfied with missionary sex, Francine finds out she has a spanking fetish when Stan tries to punish Steve. Meanwhile, Hayley tries to move on from Jeff being sent into outer space and agrees to go out on a date with Snot.
149	16	"The Boring Identity"	Jansen Yee	Erik Sommers	April 21, 2013 (2013-04-21)	7AJN14	3.81
After a failed CIA raid at a restaurant where Osama bin Laden is working, Stan loses his memory, which Francine takes full advantage of for him to become the perfect husband. Meanwhile, Roger joins Steve's paper route, but he gets involved in the seedy side of the business.
150	17	"The Full Cognitive Redaction of Avery Bullock by the Coward Stan Smith"	Shawn Murray	Erik Durbin	April 28, 2013 (2013-04-28)	7AJN18	4.03
CIA Internal Affairs tells Stan that Deputy Director Bullock is showing early signs of dementia and must have his memory erased. Meanwhile, Steve runs into a bully at school, so Roger hires an old friend, Stelio Kontos, to take care of the problem, since his personal trick of switching personas, which "I know a guy", goes awry and ruined thanks to Steve and his unthinkable recollection.
151	18	"Lost in Space"	Chris Bennett	Mike Barker	May 5, 2013 (2013-05-05)	7AJN20	5.00
Months after the events on "Naked to the Limit, One More Time," Jeff—still on a spaceship owned by Roger's race of aliens that was originally intended to return Roger back to his birth planet—must prove to the emperor (voiced by Michael McKean) of the alien spaceship that he's truly in love with Hayley so as to get back to Earth.
152	19	"Da Flippity Flop"	Rodney Clouden	Matt Weitzman	May 12, 2013 (2013-05-12)	7AJN21	4.01
Klaus' human body is located and placed in a freezer at the CIA. When Klaus finds out, he begs Stan to put him back in it, but when Stan refuses, Klaus swaps bodies with him. Meanwhile, Roger turns the attic into a gym, and tries to pressure Steve into a long-term membership.