FOX unveiled its new animated comedy "American Dad" after the NFL's Super Bowl. Now, the network is putting the show on movie screens across the country, paired with a baseball movie.

A three-minute "American Dad" short, subtitled "Inside the CIA," will air before the feature film "Fever Pitch," which opens in theaters Friday (April 8). The series is due to premiere on FOX Sunday, May 1.

The short, a parody of Cold War-era CIA training films, will follow "American Dad" lead character Stan Smith (voiced by co-creator Seth MacFarlane) through his work as an agency operative. The series will follow the ultra-patriotic Stan as he looks for threats to America everywhere, including in his own liberal daughter.

"Fever Pitch," an adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel that stars Jimmy Fallon as an obsessive Boston Red Sox fan and Drew Barrymore as his girlfriend, is being released by 20th Century Fox, corporate sibling to the network.

This is not the first time a FOX cartoon has been added to a theatrical release. In the late 1980s, "Simpsons" shorts ran before movies like "The War of the Roses" and "say anything ..." when the cartoon was still part of "The Tracey Ullman Show." Both movies and the show (and later "The Simpsons") were produced by James L. Brooks.