who is your favorite TV dad?

[WI_DEM]

Poll question: who is your favorite TV dad?

[Commendatori]

1. Al Bundy

I don't tune in to too many of those shows, but the Bundy Christmas episodes still make me laugh.

[Ganja Ninja]

9. Al Bundy -Super Dad!

Yea those Christmas episodes are a scream.

[jdsmith]

26. Homer Simpson

TV's most loving dad ever.

And as an antidote to Cliff Huxtable.

Mark Crispin Miller once talked about how the Rudy, Theo, et al. would some day all wake up (under a psychiatrist's care) to the realization that Cliff was a "subtle thug" who turned his kids into foils for his comic riffs and ALWAYS got his way.

[Wickerman]

2. I like the drunken, rambling Dad on Boy Meets World

He was a wild man - always hooking up with cocktail waitresses, etc.

[Whitacre D_WI]

10. Damn straight!

Blake Clark is quite the outstanding comedic character actor. And Chet Hunter explains just why Shawn was always so much cooler than Cory. Of course, who can be cool with a name like "Cory," anyway?

[Wickerman]

13. the show would've been so much more interesting

if it would've been about Shawn instead of nimrod Cory. Though, it was nice that Tapanga (sp?) got so much screen time.

[Whitacre D_WI]

16. I loved that show.

Topanga was a little young for me -- I was always a Maitland Ward fan myself (I forget her character's name -- the tall redhead that roomed with Eric and the Hunter brothers). Yummy!

Oh, and Will Friedle is a comic GENIUS. Ever see "Trojan War?" Basically a slapstick remake of "Some Kind of Wonderful" with Friedle and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Yeah, I know, it sounds hideous; but it's brilliant.

[Wickerman]

27. Maitland Ward - how did I forget her?

ah yes. Nope, never saw Trojan War. might have to look at it sometime - slapstick can be good.

[Shrek]

Jack Bristow on "Alias"

Now that's a Dad!

[Guaranteed]

3. Simpson, Homer J.

The dad to beat all dads.

[Kahuna]

4. Ward Cleaver... Boy, what I could do with a man like that...

:smoke:

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Jed Clampett!

Had the best looking daughter too!

[Whitacre D_WI]

6. Peter Griffin

[cerulean_ink]

25. Good answer

You can't beat Peter Griffin for pure Family Guy hilarity.

[LostInAnomie]

35. Yes

[nuxvomica]

7. Jim Anderson (Father Knows Best)

Always smiling, always fair, wise, and caring. Not the usual bumbling dad you see on most sitcoms.

[Supormom]

8. Mr. Costanza

George's dad from Seinfeld.
:7

[ET Awful]

20. FESTIVUS. . . .

It's time for the airing of grievances :) :) :). . . .


serinity now
serinity now
serinity now

:)

[Whitacre D_WI]

11. Oh -- DUH!

Iggy Pop as Mr. Mecklenberg in "The Adventures of Pete & Pete!"

[noonwitch]

12. Red Foreman is my dad

Honest to God, he says the same kinds of things my dad always told us when we were teenagers.

[Wickerman]

14. excellent choice

dumbass! :P

[Whitacre D_WI]

15. I AM Red Forman...

...minus 20 years, plus a little hair.

[WI_DEM]

17. excellent choice

I wish I had thought of him when setting up the poll.

[SCDem]

19. yeah he is a great one.... tell it like it is!

[ET Awful]

21. Red RULES. . . .

And Kitty is cool too :).

Nobody's putting their foot in anybody's ass.

[Bertha Venation]

18. Tom Cunningham!

Everyone on "Happy Days" was my TV family when I was groing up.

[Bertha Venation]

22. d'oh! It's HOWARD Cunningham!

TOM Bosley was the guy who played him.

Still, I know Mr. C. better than my own father . . . .

[BringEmOn]

23. Fred Sanford

[m-jean03]

29. I second that!

"You big DUMMY!":-) RIP Redd Fox :cry:

[Jack_Dawson]

24. Mr. Keaton

Alex's Dad. A good DU'er

[terrya]

28. John Stamos in "Full House" Woof! :-) eom

[jdsmith]

30. The poll is about "fathers"

Not quasi-dads

[physioex]

31. Al Bundy

Wish I had a father like that...lmao

[Van Helsing]

32. Al Bundy!

[Scout]

33. it was close

but I had to go with Tom Corbett ... I had a huge crush on Bill Bixby for a long time, and I loved Eddie's Father for other characters too. Jodie Foster's "Joey Kelly" and Brandon Cruz' "Eddie" were pretty good too.

[VolcanoJen]

34. Mike Brady. Now, and forever. (n/t)

:D