This restriction was soon abandoned and Roger begins adopting disguises and fictitious personas in order to have a life outside the house.
In early episodes of the show, Roger was disallowed from leaving the Smith house in order to conceal his being an alien. His most frequent relationships being the ones with Stan, who despises Roger for his annoying antics despite the fact that he saved his life Klaus, who is Roger's frenemy and Steve, who is Roger's best friend and his usual partner in most of their misadventures around the country. Due to that, Roger does have a love-hate relationship with the Smith family, who care about him despite being his most frequent victims. Over time, the character has also exhibited increasingly sociopathic, cruel, selfish, devious, and depraved behaviors. Roger is usually sensitive and careless, and often takes advantage of, cheats, and ridicules people. Having lived on Earth since crashing in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, Roger came to live with the Smiths after rescuing main character Stan Smith at Area 51 four years prior to the beginning of the series. Roger is a 1,601 year-old grey space alien living with the Smith family, around whom the show often revolves. Roger Smith is an extraterrestrial in the adult animated sitcom American Dad!, created, voiced, and designed by Seth MacFarlane.
