American Dad!

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American Dad! is an American adult animated sitcom created and produced by Seth MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door Productions and 20th Television (formerly 20th Century Fox Television) for the Fox Broadcasting Company, who went onto air the first eleven seasons, until it was cancelled in 2013. It was then picked up by TBS in 2014. It has been on the air since February 6, 2005, with almost 400 episodes across 21 seasons. As of 2019, it is a property of the Walt Disney Company, which bought out 21st Century Fox, the parent company of Fox Broadcasting Company.

American Dad! is about the exploits of the Langley, Virginia-bound Smith family led by Republican and CIA agent Stan (voiced by MacFarlane), his loving wife Francine, liberal, hippie college-aged daughter Hayley (voiced by Rachael MacFarlane), geeky high schooler son Steve (voiced by Scott Grimes), the flamboyant, hedonist alien Roger (also voiced by Seth MacFarlane), who has hundreds of alternate identities with simple disguises, and their East German-accented talking goldfish Klaus (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker).

American Dad! has poked fun at the characters and concepts of Hanna-Barbera virtually since the beginning.

Captain Planet

Main article: Captain Planet and the Planeteers (TV series)

• "Honey, I'm Homeland:" Stan wants to replace Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln on Mount Rushmore with the leftists Sean Penn, Michael Moore, and none other than Captain Planet.

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Flintstones

Main article: Flintstones (franchise)

• "Stan of Arabia: Part 1:" Wilma appears in a fantasy dancing with Stan, along with other fictional TV wives of the Golden Age of television who knew their place, as Stan doesn't want a partner in Francine, just a wife.
• "Of Ice and Men:" Roger wears a wig resembling Wilma's hairdo at the end of the episode.
• "A Boy Named Michael:" Roger (disguised as Michael) sings what he believes to be the Dartmouth song set to the tune of "(Meet) The Flintstones."
• "Z.O.I.N.C.S.:" Jeff has a dream where he goes to the bathroom cabinet to get a big bottle of Flintstones Vitamins, but is disappointed to only find Bamm-Bamm.

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Powerpuff Girls

Main article: Powerpuff Girls (franchise)

• "The Longest Distance Relationship:" Jeff and Sinbad travel through a wormhole to get back to Earth, which temporarily shapeshifts them into different stylized versions of themselves, which includes Jeff and Sinbad as a Powerpuff Girl and Professor Utonium, respectively.

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Scooby-Doo

Main article: Scooby-Doo (franchise)

• "Wife Insurance:" Wheels and the Legman, the detective alter egos of Steve and Roger, get way in over their heads when they see the bloody body of Jim, and opt out of this line of work, with Legman/Roger reflecting, "On our darkest day, we're Scooby-Doo."
• "100 A.D.:" An artist's rendition of fugitives Haley and Jeff makes them look like Velma and Shaggy, respectively. Upon seeing the news, Jeff yells, "Zoinks!"
• "The Full Cognitive Redaction of Avery Bullock by the Coward Stan Smith:" Bullock says, "Jinkies," Velma's catchphrase, when he thinks he's found a clue on the bogus mission he's taking Stan on.
• "Z.O.I.N.C.S.:" The episode title is a reference to Shaggy's catchphrase, which in this episode is actually referring to an FBI monster-hunting project. The family also dresses up as Mystery Incorporated for Halloween, which involves Klaus as Scooby, Jeff as Shaggy, Hayley as Fred, Francine as Daphne, and Steve as Velma, who discover Z.O.I.N.C.S. and a monster on the premises.

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Smurfs

Main article: The Smurfs

• "The Scarlett Getters:" Steve admits to Hayley that he accidentally wore her underwear which he discovered gave him good luck, but has now been stolen by his best friend and Hayley's unwanted admirer, Snot. Hayley tells Steve that it was never her underwear that gave him that good luck, it was him all along, comparing it to the time Papa Smurf pretended to give Weakling (who she calls Wimpy Smurf) a magic courage potion, but was really Smurfberry jam, which actually did happen in The Smurfs episode "A Little Smurf Confidence."
• "Bahama Mama:" When Steve finds out he is going to become an uncle, he decides to give away all of his trademarked toys, including Smorfs.

Snagglepuss

Main article: Snagglepuss (segments)

• "The Boring Identity:" Stan says "Heavens to Murgatroyd," the catchphrase of Snagglepuss.

Tom and Jerry

Main article: Tom and Jerry (theatrical shorts)

• "Merlot Down Dirty Shame:" Roger mentions "Tom and Jerry" as a spa package.