 Stan Smith, who works for the CIA and is constantly on the alert for terrorist activity. Stan will go to extremes to protect his beloved America from harm; as evidenced by the terror-alert color code on his fridge, and his frequent knee-jerk reaction of shooting holes in the toaster whenever the toast pops up. In addition to Stan s wife and teenage children, the Smith household has two rather unconventional members. There s Roger, the sarcastic space alien who rescued Stan from Area 51 who deeply resents the fact that he s not allowed to leave the house, and therefore, has been reduced to drinking wine and smoking cigarettes, and Klaus, a lascivious, German-speaking goldfish; the result of a CIA experiment gone seriously wrong where the CIA tried to give a fish a German man s brain. Stan s son is a dorky teenager who tries to be cool. His wife has had a past life of sex and drugs.