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Francine Smith (née Ling; formerly Dawson) is a fictional character on the animated television series ''American Dad!''. She is the wife of the title character Stan Smith and the mother of Hayley and Steve. Francine is voiced by Wendy Schaal. ==Fictional character biography== Francine was born to a wealthy South Carolina couple, Nicholas and Cassandra Dawson. She was abandoned by her birth parents because they were forbidden to bring their baby into first class with them, and so they left her at the airport. She spent her early childhood in a Roman Catholic orphanage. She is naturally left-handed but this was literally beaten out of her, with a side of beef (or a mackerel on Fridays), by the nuns working there who saw lefties as "the devil's minions." As a result she took to using her right hand and was conditioned to hate left-handed people. This was made evident in later life when she forcibly asked Steve's science partner to leave the house (at first the family thought she was a racist because Steve's science partner was an African American girl). But in recent episodes, she has adapted to being left-handed; she uses her left as her more dominant hand. In National Treasure 4: Baby Franny: She's Doing Well: The Hole Story it is revealed that as a toddler she fell down a well in her hometown of Grundy, Virginia. She was adopted at age 7 by Bàba and Māma Ling, Chinese Americans, who had first seen her at age 5 but could not afford to adopt her for another 2 years. She speaks fluent Chinese, and often speaks in it to her parents to disguise their conversations in front of Stan. Her parents have their own biological daughter, Gwen, but they're ashamed of her because although supposedly she's very attractive (Stan often rhapsodizes about how "hot" she is, to Francine's calm frustration), she's not as bright as Francine (as Bàba puts it, "Imagine a Chinese girl () can't do math!") and is obviously promiscuous. When Francine was about 14 years old, she had an obsessive crush on her algebra teacher, Mr. Feeny. At one point, his wife discovered her in his closet, "cutting herself and sniffing his T-shirts." The police were called and Francine lied to them and said that she and Mr. Feeny were lovers. Mr. Feeny was sent to jail, where he committed suicide. From then on in high school, she was attacked by a group of popular pretty girls while showering in gym class and was said to have been "very depressed" until she found the "miracle of marijuana", although in "Jones for a Smith," she doesn't believe Hayley smokes marijuana, despite Hayley's realization that she has a problem with it and begging to go to rehab (though this could simply be Francine looking down on and calling 911 on her daughter). In college Francine stabbed her roommate to death, which she casually admits to her family over dinner. Even though she was a party girl in college and seems to hold very liberal beliefs, she keeps them mostly to herself and follows her husband's conservative values. Exception: her extremely intent hatred of George Clooney. She hates him because he stole her spotlight in her only television appearance on an episode of ''Scarecrow and Mrs. King'', which would have guaranteed her a movie career (though in "Deacon Stan, Jesus Man", Francine hated George Clooney because he won't settle down and get married like everyone else). Since then, Francine's dream has been to, at the very least, make George Clooney cry--which she has accomplished with Stan's help. Francine first met Stan when he had just graduated from the CIA academy and been offered a post as an operative. She was a groupie trying to hitchhike home, and Stan pulled over and gave her a lift. During the trip, Stan veered to avoid hitting a car and accidentally ran over a raccoon, which he then shot to put it out of its misery. This act of compassion made her fall for him, and they married soon afterward. When Stan was still oblivious to the fact that next-door neighbors Greg Corbin and Terry Bates were gay, he suggested that he and Francine fix them up with her sister Gwen. While Francine knows they're gay, Stan thinks her reluctance is because Gwen is "too hot" and then reminisces about her appearance at their wedding (though Stan eventually discovers the truth). She and Toshi's mother Hiko don't get along, as demonstrated in "Weiner of Our Discontent", where they show minor hatred and Francine asks if anyone speaks "sushi-hostess" after Hiko finishes speaking. It escalated in "Spelling Be My Baby", where both she and Hiko push their kids trying to prove whose is better, even battling with swords. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francine Smith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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