{"id":2272775,"date":"2026-02-08T17:53:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2272775"},"modified":"2026-02-08T17:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:53:27","slug":"the-burbs-og-actress-wendy-schaal-on-returning-for-seth-macfarlane-reboot-says-american-dad-wont-let-me-retire-after-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-burbs-og-actress-wendy-schaal-on-returning-for-seth-macfarlane-reboot-says-american-dad-wont-let-me-retire-after-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Burbs\u2019 Og Actress Wendy Schaal On Returning For Seth MacFarlane Reboot, Says \u2018American Dad!\u2019 \u201cWon\u2019t Let Me\u201d Retire After 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">As Peacock goes home to The \u2018Burbs with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6511148\/\">Celeste Hughey<\/a>\u2019s series reboot of the 1989 dark comedy, fans of the original will recognize a familiar face.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0769446\/\">Wendy Schaal<\/a>, who played housewife Bonnie Rumsfield in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001102\/\">Joe Dante<\/a>-helmed Og, recently spoke with Deadline about returning onscreen for the first time in 20 years to play librarian Judy in the series, now available to stream, and how <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0397306\/\">American Dad<\/a>! just \u201cwon\u2019t let me\u201d retire.<\/p>\n<p>The reason that I have been doing <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0397306\/\">American Dad<\/a>! for the last 20 years or 20 seasons is because of that movie,\u201d she said of the Fox\/TBS animated series, in which she voices Francine. \u201cSo, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0532235\/\">Seth MacFarlane<\/a> was one of the guys that loved that movie and kind of designed the character Francine for me from that movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the movie\u2019s apparent influence on MacFarlane in hiring her way back in 2006, Schaal admitted they \u201chad not even spoken\u201d about the reboot,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Peacock goes home to The \u2018Burbs with Celeste Hughey\u2019s series reboot of the 1989 dark comedy, fans of the original will recognize a familiar face. 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