Series like American Dad!

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   Family Guy

   Same creator

   1999 · Animation · Comedy

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   Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family. Bumbling Peter and long-suffering Lois have three kids. Stewie (a brilliant but sadistic baby bent on killing his mother and taking over the world), Meg (the oldest, and is the most unpopular girl in town) and Chris (the middle kid, he's not very bright but has a passion for movies). The final member of the family is Brian - a talking dog and much more than a pet, he keeps Stewie in check whilst sipping Martinis and sorting through his own life issues.

   Why it connects

   • the same creator
   • strong shared themes: adult animation and sitcom
   • similar audience response

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   Futurama

   Similar atmosphere

   1999 · Animation · Comedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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   The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.

   Why it connects

   • strong shared themes: adult animation and alien
   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • similar audience response

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   Solar Opposites

   Similar atmosphere

   2020 · Animation · Comedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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   A family of aliens from a much better world must take refuge in middle America after the destruction of their planet. Their mission: protect the Pupa, a living super computer that will one day evolve into its true form, consume them and terraform the Earth.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared themes: adult animation and alien
   • shared network: 20th Century Fox Television, 20th Television Animation, 20th Television

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   ted

   Same creator

   2024 · Comedy

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   It's 1993 and Ted the bear's moment of fame has passed, leaving him living with his best friend, 16-year-old John Bennett, who lives in a working-class Boston home with his parents and cousin. Ted may not be the best influence on John, but when it comes right down to it, he's willing to go out on a limb to help his friend and his family.

   Why it connects

   • the same creator
   • principal cast overlap
   • similar audience response

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   Archer

   Similar atmosphere

   2009 · 22 min · Action & Adventure · Animation · Comedy

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   Smart-mouthed superspy Sterling Archer and his dysfunctional team of secret agents turn dangerous missions into messy misadventures around the globe.

   Why it connects

   • strong shared themes: adult animation and central intelligence agency (cia)
   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Duncanville

   Similar atmosphere

   2020 · 22 min · Animation · Comedy

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   Like most 15-year-olds, Duncan can see adulthood on the horizon: money, freedom, cars and girls; but the reality is more like: always being broke, driving with one's mom sitting shotgun and babysitting one's sister. He's not exceptional, but he has a wild imagination in which he's never anything less than amazing.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared themes: adult animation and sitcom
   • shared network: 20th Television Animation, 20th Television

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   Ugly Americans

   Similar atmosphere

   2010 · 22 min · Animation · Comedy

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   Social worker Mark Lilly helps new citizens—both human and "other"—begin the process of adapting to life in the Big Apple, but his coworkers, demonic bureaucrat Twayne, drunken wizard Leonard Powers, surly law enforcement head Frank Grimes & his girlfriend, Callie, don't make it easy.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and series-style overlap

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   Phineas and Ferb

   Genre overlap

   2007 · Animation · Comedy · Family · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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   Each day, two kindhearted suburban stepbrothers on summer vacation embark on some grand new project, which annoys their controlling sister, Candace, who tries to bust them. Meanwhile, their pet platypus plots against evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

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   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era
   • similar audience response

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   The Orville

   Same creator

   2017 · Comedy · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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   Follow the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth's interstellar fleet, 400 years in the future.

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   • the same creator
   • principal cast overlap
   • similar audience response

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    Last Man Standing

    Shared themes

    2011 · 21 min · Comedy

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    A married father of three tries to maintain his manliness in a world increasingly dominated by women.

    Why it connects

    • substantial genre overlap
    • shared theme: sitcom
    • shared network: 20th Century Fox Television, 20th Television

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