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American Dad's sixth season starts with the show's 100th episode 100 A.D. Part 1:-

When Hayley and her old boyfriend, Jeff, elope, Stan freaks out and offers a reward to anyone who can stop them, sparking a wild goose chase throughout town.

The episode should be a real treat for Dad! fans as it will feature loads of past characters (check out some of the promo pics) and the return of Wheels and the Legman.

This milestone episode will air on Fox, Sunday October 3rd at 9.30pm ET/PT. Congratulations to all of the American Dad team for reaching the 100th episode (which they celebrated with a cake last year)!

Speaking at this year's summer TCA press tour Seth MacFarlane has said that he expects one of the upcoming American Dad episodes to get banned by Fox.

The Dad team have just completed about a year-and-a-half's worth of new episodes for the series and Seth expects at least one of these to get banned. He doesn't know which one, but knows that there are several controversial jokes lined-up. For example a preview of Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls (the upcoming Christmas special) was shown which ends with a young boy mowing down Santa's elves with a machine gun.

Several episodes of Family Guy have already been banned in the past, and then successfully released on DVD. It's good for publicity, "it's a structure that's been good for Family Guy," Seth said. "It looks like a sales ploy, but it isn't ... that episode [Partial Terms of Endearment] really was unacceptable to the network."

The sixth season of American Dad starts on Fox October 3rd with it's 100th episode! The banned abortion episode of Family Guy, Partial Terms of Endearment is out on DVD and Blu-ray from September 28th.

Here's the latest from this year's American Dad panel at Comic Con:-

• The producers show the first act of an upcoming episode in black and white
• Huge change is in store for the next season as Hayley gets married!!!
• Seth MacFarlane on rivalry with The Simpsons: "It was invented by the press. It doesn’t exist."
• Rumours of an American Dad movie may very well be just that (shame)

"Stan" made an appearance at the American Dad signing.

The Huffington Post is reporting that the FCC has proposed a $25,000 fine to Fox after they failed to respond to questions about a scene from American Dad that attracted 100,000 complaints.  The episode in question is Don't Look a Smith Horse in the Mouth and the scene is one in which it was implied that Stan had masturbated a horse.

In the episode Roger says to Stan: "You have to brush the horse's coat and mane, water and feed it, and then give it a full release ... You know, give it a happy photo finish. Take the glue out of the factory. Spank his front butt. Grant him a bone loan."

Of course the PTC have been vocal on this matter (as you'd expect), in a press release they said the following:-

A broadcast television network aired an animated program on a Sunday evening when children were in the audience, and the program featured a man masturbating a horse. Up until now, I never imagined that those exact words could ever be spoken in that particular order. But sadly, here we are ...

Under what definition of 'contemporary community standards' is the Fox broadcast standards department operating? The fact that this material even made it to air demonstrates the network's contempt for families. It also demonstrates their complete and utter disregard for the terms of their broadcast licenses that allow them to deliver their programming and their advertisements into every home in America for free.

American Dad's Patrick Stewart (voice of Bullock, and more famously Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek the Next Generation) was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London yesterday. According to the BBC Sir Patrick Stewart said that he literally owes everything to his English teacher, "Although many people in my life have had great influence on me, without this man none of it would have happened."

Fox have announced the Animation Domination schedule for next season, and sadly it seems that once again they are kicking American Dad into the 7.30pm death slot mid-season. Yes, just like this season when the Smiths made way for the spectacularly unsuccessful Sons of Tuson, 2011 will see it bumped by a new show; this time round its a new animated sitcom Bob’s Burgers created by Loren Bouchard.

It's the American Dad season 5 finale tonight on Fox at 9.30pm, Great Space Roaster:-

"It’s Roger’s birthday, and he begs to be roasted. But when he ends up devastated by the jokes, he vows to pull his life together. Things take a turn for the worse when Roger takes it one step too far, and the Smith family goes on the run."

Don't forget that Roger will be tweeting throughout the episode (9.30pm PST).

A couple of preview clips for tomorrow night's American Dad season 5 finale have been released on Youtube: clip 1 (above) and clip 2.  The episode is called the Great Space Roaster and Roger is celebrating his birthday:-

"It’s Roger’s birthday, and he begs to be roasted. But when he ends up devastated by the jokes, he vows to pull his life together. Things take a turn for the worse when Roger takes it one step too far, and the Smith family goes on the run."

It's on Fox tomorrow night at 9.30pm ET/PT and Roger will be tweeting throughout (9.30pm PST).

After a week-off American Dad is back at 9.30pm ET/PT on Fox with the all-new episode Incident at Owl Creek:-

"In preparation for a neighborhood pool party, Stan tells his family to get in tip-top shape. But when an accident ruins the Smith family name, a humiliated Stan fakes his family's deaths and moves everyone out of Langley Falls to escape his shame."

Family Guy and The Cleveland Show continue with reruns on Fox tonight, but thankfully the evening of animation domination ends with all-new American Dad! Tonight at 9.30pm ET/PT it's Bully for Steve:-

"Roger announces that he is putting a portfolio together so he can study crime scene photography. Meanwhile, Stan follows Steve around for the day and discovers that Steve shies away from obstacles, so he decides to bully Steve so that he will toughen up. But Francine does not approve of Stan’s approach and decides to help Steve stand up to Stan."