
Besides that, starting with this season several of the show's writers that were around since the beginning are either starting to leave or be laid off and replaced by more inexperienced first-time writers who likely view the show as the Family Guy clone that it did initially start off as thus continuing to emulate that show (even going as far as to have cutaway gags in "Naked to the Limit, One More Time") with episodes like "The Boring Identity" often being viewed as an episode of Family Guy just with the Smiths in place of the Griffins. Style" & "Naked to the Limit, One More Time". The two episodes that most people point to for why they feel this way are "Love A.D.
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Although many fans believe that American Dad! holds up better than Seth MacFarlane's other shows The Cleveland Show and Family Guy, the series has been said to have suffered a decline in the later seasons:.While the show itself is pretty divisive to begin with, most fans of All Grown Up! say that it declined after Season 2 due to more drama and less comedy, Flanderization, an Art Shift, and more unrealistic plots.note Later material went out of its way to confirm that yes, Finn and Huntress Wizard are still dating. The finale, while well received, also got some flak for feeling rushed note it actually was, as the crew had expected to get an additional season, leaving several loose ends unresolved, Finn being reduced to a secondary character and not giving him a romantic closure with Flame Princess or Huntress Wizard. While it has a share of good episodes, some criticize episodes like "Always BMO Closing", "Ring of Fire" and "Blenanas" for being unnecessary and pointless, the half-assed conclusion to Jake's shapeshifter plot and Gumbald being a not very interesting villain compared to the Lich.

The final season, especially after seasons 7 and 8 brought back those who abandoned the series.It's also the point where many fans believe the show had lost sight of what made it so much fun in the first place, with the whimsical nature of early seasons giving way to more somber, introspective episodes like "Astral Plane" and "Something Big." The two-part season premiere, though, was well-received, if only for advancing the plot, Ron Perlman's sinister and chilling speech, and, after much foreshadowing, Finn losing his arm (although his arm is temporarily restored in "Breezy" only 4 episodes later). Season 6 gets criticism for the lack of focus on its plotlines and ending in a fairly big anti-climax.Thankfully, the season did recover during the last episodes with the debut of Betty and the reveal that Finn's father is still alive. Featuring the breaking up of Finn and Flame Princess, the increased involvement of the increasingly creepy Lemongrabs in plots, Princess Bubblegum's moral ambiguity beginning to border on full-blown sociopathy and possible villainy, and Finn, of all people had Taken a Level in Jerkass, with his immaturity being played up to ridiculous levels. While "Seasonal Rot" might be a strong term, it's a common agreement that Season 5 (especially the second half) is weaker than the rest of the series quality-wise (this was around the time Rebecca Sugar, one of the show's most acclaimed writers, left to create Steven Universe).
