How come there never was a proper crossover episode with American Dad and Family Guy? Seems like a no-brainer to do

How come there never was a proper crossover episode with American Dad and Family Guy? Seems like a no-brainer to do

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The Family Guy writers didn't really know how a crossover episode would playmout

>A Family Guy/American Dad crossover was planned during seasons 7 and 8 but it never came through because they had difficulty on the plot. The best they could come up with was ''Peter works at the CIA now and ruins everything'' and there was going to be a scene from Lois Kills Stewie as a joke.
One was planned, but it didn't happen because the writers couldn't think of a suitable plot.

>plots in american dad and family guy are shit in the 90% of episodes
>they can't think a plot

Were the Family Guy writers in charge of it? Maybe the AD crew could've gotten the job done.

Yeah it was the FG writers, it was one of many scrapped storylines throughout the years.
AD is good

seems simple enough
i guess they would have wanted something "bigger"

It sounds generic as fuck, like your usual Simpsons episode.

AD and FG are too different in tone despite each plot being extremely out there and stupid

It worked pretty great for the Simpsons - family guy crossover

>couldn't think of a plot
The C.I.A. finds out that stewie is making WMDs and Stan has to go to Quahog to investigate it then he meets Peter and they do some boring predictable shit like drink beer, bam easy, how was this "too hard" to write a plot for?

They really couldnt come up with something? Its fucoing family guy, just have peter randomly befriend stan at the clam and then do whatever shitty jokes you have saved up

Pretty much. I'd bet AD's writers were quick to assess that both casts are too demanding on screentime to create a competent story that would service both shows in equal measure. Stan tends to operate alone in serious situations, Roger turns into whatever character the plot needs most of the time, and the other 3 chraracters tend to fill up backround screen time well enough. Were as Family guy tends to feature Stewie and Brian exclusively for serious situations, while Peter gets involved in less serious wacky plots with only occasional bouts of sanity. The two just don't mix well, unless you'd want an episode were Stan teams up with a dog and a baby to stop some big-bad together, while Peter convinces Francine that they can get rich quick or some such by doing something extremely silly while Steve and Haley just tag along to make sure they don't get themselves killed, then toss in a cutaway of Lois, Chris, and Meg sitting at home wondering were the others are.

and Roger can get in on it pretty fucking easily. He'd end up being Stan's way into Peter's circle of friends.

It would fuck up the Family Guy continuty since no one but Brian knows Stewie is a genius with weapons and high tech gadgets.

>continuity
Stop pretending there is one with FG

There is one, like how Peter changed jobs throughout the show, Brian moved out temporarily, characters die for good, character development etc...

Well if you like they could obliterate the Pentagon with Nukes.

That would keep up FG continuity! And also would maintain he "Life of wacky shenanigans by murdering people." thing.

>since no one but Brian knows Stewie is a genius with weapons and high tech gadgets.
They know and understand Stewie, they just don't care.

Where is pic related from?

Then Stevie ends it by convincing Bullock that it never happened. There.

There was a sort of crossover a few years back when Stewie and Brian infiltrated the CIA they ran into Stan and his boss. It was the episode where lois fights stewie in the white house.

One plot idea I had was either Peter or Chris see through one of Roger's personas in Quahog and kidnap him and try to force him to do stuff.

>a few years back
That was 13 years ago.

>characters die for good
Tell that to Brian

Fuck man don't remind me.

>Stevie

Promo art for when the crossover was first talked about, they made several of these back then.

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>Seems like a no-brainer to do
You would think, but if you stop and think about it, there's not much that a crossover would offer. Hell, AD has more to gain from crossing over with Archer, The Simpsons, or Bob's Burgers.

>Due to a misunderstanding involving Stewie being a baby, it's assumed that Peter is the evil mastermind. Stan befriends him in order to uncover his evil plot.

American Dad deserves better