Happy Father’s Day, Blog Guy! What’s the thing that makes you think most about fathers and sons on this special day? Baseball? Fishing?
Television. Especially classic TV, when Dad came home from the office in a suit and kept it on until bedtime, and maybe didn’t even take it off then. To me, nothing says father like a scripted dad getting paid to love his pretend kids.
This week, there was an event reuniting make-believe good TV dads and former child actors. But it ignored the more interesting bad dads, like Tony Soprano, Archie Bunker, Homer Simpson…
And there’s Bryan Cranston, a mediocre father in “Malcolm in the Middle” and now, in “Breaking Bad,” a dad who makes and sells major supplies of crystal meth. Gee Dad, you’re the greatest!
Don’t you think Tony Soprano was the worst-ever TV dad?
Are you kidding me? I guess you don’t watch “The Tudors.” Tony Soprano was a regular Andy Griffith compared with Henry VIII.
“Daddy, I’m leaving the castle to go Christmas shopping for mommy!”
Oh Elizabeth, I wouldn’t worry too much about that, heh heh heh!”
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Above: Actor Dick Van Dyke (L) of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” poses with his TV son, actor Larry Mathews, as they arrive for “A Father’s Day Salute to TV Dads” hosted by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles, June 18, 2009.
Left: (Rear L-R) Actors Bill Paxton from “Big Love,” Jon Cryer from “Two and a Half Men,” Patrick Duffy from “Dallas” and “Step by Step,” Stephen Collins from “7th Heaven,” Reginald VelJohnson from “Family Matters” and (front L-R) Dick Van Patten from “Eight is Enough,” Dick Van Dyke from “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and Michael Gross from “Family Ties.” REUTERS photos by Fred Prouser
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[...] Father’s Day salute to Bad Dad! Happy Father’s Day, Blog Guy! What’s the thing that makes yo u think most about fathers and sons on this special day? Baseball? Fishing? Television. Especially classic TV, when Dad came home from the office in a suit and kept it on until bedtime, and maybe didn’t even take it off then. To me, nothing says father like a scripted dad getting paid to love his pretend kids. This week, there was an event reuniting make-believe good TV dads and former child actors. But it ignored the more inte Original post by Father’s Day salute to Bad Dad! [...]
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- Posted by iamallthatiamNot sure I would agree that Archie Bunker was a bad dad — a nasty father-in-law, perhaps. And even Tony Soprano’s shortcomings (bad-example-setting notwithstanding) were pedestrian: he raised spoiled kids. It was his nephew that Tony, er, did a Fredo on.
But you missed out on the worst dad of all: Robert Baxter.
- Posted by John C AbellRe Robert Baxter - at first I thought that was my name - did advise Ted not to put a fork in the toaster, which redeemed him.
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