'American Dad!' Soundtrack Release Coming Soon As New Season Awaits

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By now, we’ve covered that Family Guy is starting its 23rd season on Hulu with two holiday specials, premiering new episodes in season elsewhere than Fox for the first time, though it will return to Fox midseason. In fact a lot has been thrown off about adult animation this year, and not everything about it had to do with the strikes. For Bob’s Burgers it was, ending last season this past Sunday in time for the new season next Sunday. Having long missed the window that recent seasons had been premiering in, the creators of South Park revealed that season 27 would not be premiering until 2025 for reasons unrelated to any actual production troubles. However, there’s another long-running Seth MacFarlane-created adult animated series that’s been strangely absent this year as well: American Dad!, which Saturday marked ten years since its Fox exit for TBS, where it would resume a month later. It also means it’s made TBS its home longer than it called Fox home.

In the past 5 seasons, labeled 16-20 on Wikipedia and 14-18 on Hulu, each had begun no later than April 19, and three of the past four seasons have ended on Christmas episodes that air at Christmastime, one with a little more distance than the rest. Which means fans have been waiting all year and since two weeks before the end of last for new episodes. The season that didn’t ended with a Halloween episode instead. Back in July in Ballroom 20 at San Diego Comic-Con, stars Wendy Schaal (Francine), Scott Grimes (Steve), Seth’s sister Rachael MacFarlane (Hayley), Dee Bradley Baker (Klaus and Rogu), Jeff Fischer (Jeff Fischer), show co-creator Matt Weitzman, and fellow executive producers Kara Vallow and Nic Wegener held a panel to reveal all sorts of things about the upcoming season of differing number depending on the source. Seth, who voices Stan and Roger, couldn’t make it. Weitzman and MacFarlane created the series Mike Barker, who left the series early after the move.

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Opening with a teaser promising a fall premiere and filled with largely out-of-context scenes and an intro variant, Weitzman shared the list of the upcoming season’s guest stars. It includes Charles Barkley, Michael Imperioli, Leslie Jones, Joel McHale, Bret The Hitman Hart, Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias, Neal McDonough and both Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick. He then shared upcoming episode plots such as Roger and Stan getting in a train accident, and they must fuse to save each other’s lives. Rogu gets a deadly illness and whole family has to pretend they’re doctors to save him. And yes, there’s a Christmas episode, as well as another musical episode, this one featuring Klaus rapping.

It’s unclear how many of the songs featured in that episode will make it to the show’s very first soundtrack, which was also announced at the panel. Reportedly it will only contain about 13 songs give or take, which doesn’t exactly cast the widest net no matter how you count your seasons. It will include “Daddy’s Gone” from “Hot Water” and “When I Dress My Body”, known as “These Shiny Shoes” on the show’s wiki, from the episode “Fight and Flight”. They will be available to stream Spotify and Apple Music and purchasable on all the typical digital markets. The release is supposed to coincide with the premiere of the new season but as demonstrated, no season premiere date has yet to be set. It is currently TBS’s last scripted original series.

Even 12-14 songs from the series will put it above Family Guy, whose only album isn’t a soundtrack in that way. Aside from the theme song, the show has released nine other songs from seasons 3 to 9 as singles. That includes the Emmy-winning "You've Got a Lot to See", the nominated “Down’s Syndrome Girl”, and the cut “I’ve Got a Little List”. The Simpsons did a bunch of soundtracks, but their last, Testify was released between the movie and season 19, nearly half the show’s lifetime ago.

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Source: Variety