
The wonderfully warped minds behind "Family Guy" present this animated comedy about conservative CIA operative Stan Smith, who spends his time chasing bad guys, rigging elections and wishing for the days when men were men and women stayed home. Meanwhile, his screwball family -- dippy wife Francine, raging liberal daughter Hayley, geeky son Steve, rogue alien Roger and German skier-turned-goldfish Klaus -- keeps Stan on his toes.
This season includes the following episodes:
1. Pilot - Steve is aiming for the girl of his dreams and Stan wants to help him by rigging the School Body President elections because 'a girl loves a man with power'. Steve goes mad with the power and locks himself in the school. Meanwhile Roger wants to help Hayley with her term papers in exchange for junk food because Francine has put him on a diet. 3.5 stars.
2. Threat Levels - Stan steals Steve's lucrative idea to stage and videotape "bum fights," in which homeless men are forced to beat each other senseless, but when Hayley helps the transients to organize, Stan is forced to step into the ring himself! 3.5 stars.
3. Stan Knows Best - Hayley takes a job as a stripper after moving into her boyfriend's van and being financially cut off by Stan. Meanwhile, Steve claims that Roger is his horribly disfigured burn-victim sister in order to gain sympathy points and "get boob" at the school dance. 3.88 stars (Dale-4, David-3.75)
4. Francine's Flashback - After forgetting his anniversary, Stan arranges to have the last 24 hours of Francine's memory erased, but a bungling technician accidentally erases 20 years, sending Francine back to relive her days as a wild and carefree teenager. 4.13 stars (Dale-4.25, David-4)
5. Rodger Codger - When Stan gets jealous of fellow worker 'Agent Duper' he invites his boss over for dinner and tries to make him look like a terrorist, Roger puts Stans job at risk and he calls Roger a burden. Roger falls into a 'Stress Induced Coma' and Stan throws him in the Dump. Roger finds himself in D.C and the CIA spot him and are going to find him and torture him to find out the family that have been hiding him. Stan tries to get there first and kill Roger to protect the Smith Family but Stan learns he has feelings for Roger. 3.75 stars (Dale-4, David-3.5)
6. Homeland Insecurity - Stan panics after discovering that his new neighbors are Arab-American. He gets paranoid as Francine wants to throw a Neighborhood party while he tries to find evidence that they are terrorists and eventually ends up looking them in the Smith's backgarden which has been turned into a detainment center; and Steve finds himself at the mercy of the Scout Rangers who are not as clean-cut as they appear to be. 3.38 stars (Dale-3.75, David-3)
7. Deacon Stan, Jesus Man - Stan competes with his "smug bastard" neighbor to become deacon of his church, and Steve accidentally gets pregnant as Roger goes through his alien reproductive cycle. 5 stars.
8. Bullocks To Stan - Eighteen-year-old Hayley is sleeping with Stan's boss, Bullock, but Stan can't say or do anything about it because he's up for a promotion! 4.75 stars.
9. A Smith In The Hand - Stan objects to the sex education program at Steve's school, so he decides to teach Steve the facts of life himself, taking matters into his own hands and becoming addicted to sexual self-gratification along the way! 4.5 stars.
10. All About Steve - After disowning Steve for being a geek, Stan must rely on his son's knowledge of science fiction and fantasy to catch a cyber-terrorist, and Roger attends the Mecca of geekdom -- a sci-fi convention -- in order to interact with humans without needing to be in costume. 4.38 stars (Dale-4.5, David-4.25)
11. Con Heir - Stan's real father, a studly super-agent, reappears after a 20 year absence to recruit Stan for a top-secret mission, but Francine suspects that he's a con man involved in a plot to steal precious Egyptian artwork. 3.63 stars (Dale-4.25, David-3)
12. Stan of Arabia: Part 1 - When Stan ruins his boss's party, he's reassigned to Saudi Arabia, where the Smiths experience culture shock stemming from their new country's male-dominated social norms, which, of course, Stan loves! 4.25 stars (Dale-4.5, David-4)
13. Stan of Arabia: Part 2 - Cultures continue to clash, and the entire Smith family is arrested by the Vice and Virtue Police and sentenced to death by stoning. Roger is wooed by an Arab prince, who thinks Roger is a morally loose "American girl." 4.25 stars
2005 TV-14 13 episodes
4.07 stars. A hilarious show with lots of craziness! Love this first season!