American Dad fandangles Dr. Seuss’ red fish typewriter blue fish

(part of my ongoing Unexpected Literary References series)

Season 1, episode 15 (“Star Trek”), of the always entertaining “American Dad” plots the sudden rise of Steve Smith as a children’s book author. This premise, of course, is perfect for literary nods. Strange, though, that I only caught two.

See the entire episode here:

Additional hilarious photo (I paused the embedded video at just the right/wrong time):