"Inside the CIA" was a short film for the television program American Dad!

American Dad!

American Dad! is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane and owned by Underdog Productions and Fuzzy Door Productions. It is produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television...

. It featured the main cast in some shenanigans in front of Stan Smith's video camera. It was shown in theatres with Fever Pitch

Fever Pitch (2005 film)

Fever Pitch, which was released as The Perfect Catch outside of the United States and Canada, is a 2005 Farrelly brothers romantic comedy film. It is a remake of a 1997 British film of the same name. Both films are loosely based on the Nick Hornby book of the same name, a best-selling memoir in...

on April 8, 2005, to promote the show. Besides the series pilot, "Inside the CIA" was the first episode of American Dad! to be aired. In another similarity to the pilot, Inside the CIA features a cutaway. Although a hallmark of Family Guy

Family Guy

Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian...

, American Dad! almost never uses cutaways.

Plot

Stan's video is ruined by constant interruption by his family, including Roger, whom Stan passes off as a kid who smoked a "marijuana cigarette", thus explaining his strange physical appearance. Hayley gets in front of the camera and starts complaining about the government. In desperation, Stan shoots at the camera, which dies with the second bullet and goes to static.

External links

• Inside the CIA at the IMDb