After celebrating the reach of 200 episodes since debuting in 2005, and being a longtime fan of the series, I felt like I kind of had to do a review of American Dad’s latest outing. In this episode we get a post-apocalyptic Langley Falls, Virginia, and a totally tatted up Stan Smith as he searches for his separated family in the new world. Naturally, the disastrous events that cause the new world is caused by Roger with some strong comedic effect to go along with it.

American Dad is an 2005 animated comedy series, it is produced by Fuzzy Door and airs on TBS. New episodes currently premiere on Monday nights.

American Dad hits another triple digits.

The special thing about American Dad when comparing it to other Seth MacFarlane works such as Family Guy (which is struggling greatly in quality), is the fact that even if they rehash ideas from the former, the laughs are still visibly present eight times out of ten. Yes, Family Guy has done Ferris Bueller references. Yes, Family Guy has done the post-apocalyptic thing, but American Dad frees itself from too many direct references and cutaways through (usually successful) surrealism comedy that occurs as the episode goes on. “The Two Hundred” had comedy a plenty as Roger inadvertently causes the end of the world, as well as a 200 count personality split, literally.

The end is indeed here.

THE GOOD: First, let me just admit since landing on TBS, the series has had some rather hit and miss episodes since the departure of Mike Barker, when most episodes were hit at that point, however the series has slowly found a nice groove midway through season thirteen. The 200th episode is a testament to this, as the episode was full of some great comedy, albeit with a rehash of Stan regretting not spending time with his family more and once again in an apocalyptic setting, but a lot of the laughs were fun, such as Principal Lewis becoming a sharp toothed cannibal, and cutting off Greg’s legs (“I only wanted a nibble, so I got my nibble, and we cool now!”), Roger consistently urging Stan to ditch the crippled, but optimistic Greg, etc. There’s even an awesome moment where pretty much every one of Roger’s personalities appeared on screen at once (including Ricky Spanish, who’s intro is still hilarious).

The Smith family reunites.

THE BAD: There were some rehashes from both American Dad and Family Guy, but the writers were able to make them work without feeling too annoying.

Another 200 episodes please.

OVERALL THOUGHTS: “The Two Hundred” is general American Dad fun with a ton of laughs. with Stan and Roger basically leading the episode. Strong comedy and a good, though reused plot carried the episode to a rather amusing closing minutes. Otaku Dome gives ” The Two Hundred” an 90 out of 100″.