Hayley Smith (American Dad!)

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Hayley Smith
American Dad! character

Gender:	Female
Age:	18
Religion:	Episcopalian or Atheist
Political Leaning:	Liberal
Voice Actor:	Rachael MacFarlane

Hayley Smith is the daughter of Stan and Francine Smith on the animated television series, American Dad!. She's voiced by Rachael MacFarlane, the younger sister of one of the series co-creators, Seth MacFarlane.

1 Biography and personality
2 Romance
3 Religion
4 Quotes

[edit] Biography and personality

Unlike her father and her brother, Steve Smith, Hayley is ultra-liberal (possibly a member of the Green Party--in "Stan Knows Best, she dyed her hair green and went to a Green Party rally). She often helps the homeless, is in favor of gun control, uses marijuana, and is a vegetarian (although she ate meat in the episode "Camp Refoogee"). Hayley seems to be an expert on women in American History and promotes women's rights. This causes a great amount of distrust for Stan. When she was younger, Hayley and Stan got along very well. They used to go kite-flying and play guitar together on the beach. Stan got her to eat her peas by saying it helps protect her from Bill Clinton's sexual advances. She still lives with her parents and goes to Groff Community College, though she moved out temporarily.

Hayley is almost always the one in the family that doesn't go crazy or become selfish. While Stan and Francine were in Prague for a year so Francine can achieve her dream of destroying George Clooney, Hayley suffered a serious illness (likely a form of cancer) whose treatment involved chemotherapy. In the meantime, Roger the Alien and a little later, Steve were enslaving foster children. Hayley promised to stop Roger if she ever recovered. Ultimately she recovered, and stopped Roger. Nevertheless, she sometimes is sometimes used for the (incredibly rare) jokes about liberalism, and other members of the family seem to find her a bit annoying (for example, Roger — who seems to have little political affiliation — once told her to "give it up" while she complained about President Bush).

[edit] Romance

Hayley has a on-and-off boyfriend named Jeff, who is a vegetarian, as well (though apparently less so than Hayley). They sometimes go hiking and use marijuana together. She once dumped Jeff, because he agrees with everything that she says. During this time, she slept with Stan's boss, Deputy-Director Bullock, a conservative. This happened after they had an argument; he apologized and she ended up sleeping with him at his house. At first, Stan was outraged, but he later ignored their relationship and decided it was a great chance to be promoted to "Deputy-Deputy Director". Hayley later dumped Bullock before annoucing Stan's promotion. Bullock learned that a more assertive Jeff came back into her life. Being very upset, Bullock promised Stan the promotion if he killed Jeff. Stan didn't kill Jeff, but ended up battling his boss upon him insulting Hayley. Before Stan finished him off, Bullock gave him the job.

When the Smith family was relocated to Saudi Arabia, Hayley also slept with a Shawarma King guy named Fazim because she was impressed by his (false) claim about being a tormented, conflicted member of Al Qaeda, but presumably did not tell Jeff of her infidelity. In "Dungeons and Wagons" the two are shown dating, but again Hayley dumps Jeff for being too clingy; he then goes on to develop a hobby of playing Dungeons and Dragons (or a similar game) with Steve instead of begging Hayley to get back together, as she had suspected, and she becomes jealous and, with Klaus' help, kills Steve in the game. Rather than winning Jeff back, however, this makes Jeff horrified at how mean Hayley is, by destroying Steve in the one thing he was good at; Hayley tries to win Jeff back by finding a way to bring Steve's character back to life, but then decides to date another player she met in the game instead. Given their track record, however, Jeff likely will appear in later episodes as Hayley's boyfriend again.

She has also turned to prostitution in order to suppliment the family's income during hard times in "Failure is not a Factory-installed Option".

[edit] Religion

In the episode "Roger Codger", Hayley is clearly an atheist at the beginning; she says that God is fake, but later in the episode, when Francine started to become an atheist, Hayley was trying hard to revive Francine's faith in God; it is unclear if Hayley was acting out of some sense of faith herself or if she merely wanted to help Francine's sense of bitter disappointment. Two episodes later in "Deacon Stan, Jesus Man", when Roger asked how church was, she said it was a waste of time. This could mean she's not a devout Christian or still an atheist. In "Tears of a Clooney," however, after contracting a terminal disease, she makes a "promise to God" to do good if she survives, which may mean that her sickness revived a sense of faith in her, at least temporarily.

[edit] Quotes

Hayley: How can you think of eating that cake? Don't you know how many poor cows were raped, or as you claim "milked", to make that cake?
Stan: Shut up, Hayley.

Hayley: Shut up, Steve. I have a term paper due.
Steve: Ooh, community college. Big girl, big girl. Think they'll save you a table when you're waitressing at the Olive Garden?
Hayley: Think you'll hit puberty before you turn 14?

Hayley: (about selling herself for sex) I've... done things.

Steve: Mom, dad, I think I'm pregnant. (Steve shows his belly and everyone gasps)
Hayley: You can't be pregnant! You're a virgin... and a boy!

Hayley: (about a mail-order Russian bride) She is not a whore until one of you marry her.
Steve But you're not married and you're a total whore!
Hayley That's because I was born in America!