One of the hallmarks of American Dad! is its strange characters. For instance, Klaus is a talking goldfish, and for a much different reason than Brian is a talking dog on Family Guy. And somehow in the future, Klaus has his human body again as well as a family.
Back in the 1980s, Klaus Heisler was an Olympic skier competing on behalf of Germany and their best weapon to win the gold. He was favored to win at the 1986 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta until the CIA stepped in. As part of an attempt to make sure that Klaus did not leave victorious, they abducted him and transferred his mind into the body of a goldfish. This raised a couple of big questions that can only be explained by fiction.
First, goldfish don't have vocal cords. While Klaus' mind was placed in the goldfish, which explains why the little guy was sentient, it didn't explain how he can talk. The other issue was how he was still alive. American Dad! takes place decades after the switch, and goldfish have really short lifespans. Klaus should have died years earlier.
Regardless of those current plot holes, one episode raised further questions. Set in the year 2045, Klaus told a story to his grandson about Stan and Francine in Season 2, Episode 7. Specifically, it focused on how Stan disappeared each winter to secretly figure skate, something he had hidden from Francine for decades. It was a whole clandestine thing with a depressing backstory, aka the Stan Smith special. But that wasn't the crazy part.
Klaus' future grandson immediately started asking questions about the whole goldfish situation. At no point did Klaus explain how he ended up in a human body, although fans now know it wasn't his original one. His real body was utterly destroyed in Season 8, Episode 19. But Klaus told his grandson that at different times he was two sharks and a monkey, which may have unintentionally addressed the goldfish lifespan issue.
Regardless, this glimpse of the future shows that Klaus eventually returns to a human body and even has a family. Stan said in that same Season 8 episode that he was going to prioritize helping Klaus become human. But seconds later, he also openly admitted that he wasn't likely to follow through on that promise. As such, it's highly unlikely that Stan was any help on that front and left Klaus in his fish form.
Keeping in mind that American Dad! has had more than a few alternate timeline episodes, the Season 2 episode could easily be written off as another one that fits in that category. The problem with that is it's an unverifiable theory at best. What it comes down to is that at some point Klaus becomes a human, moves on from the Smiths and has a family. Still, there are a lot of missing steps in this story that are unlikely to ever get filled in.
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