TV Dads' & The Strudel Lick Heard Round' The World

In this wildly entertaining episode of The Ben and Skin Show, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray—celebrate Father’s Day the only way they know how: by spiraling into a hilarious, nostalgic, and occasionally inappropriate deep dive into the greatest (and weirdest) TV dads of all time.From Al Bundy to Uncle Phil, the crew debates who belongs in the pantheon of iconic sitcom fathers. Expect hot takes, deep cuts, and a few “Wait, was he even a dad?” moments.Growing Pains, Family Ties, and the Clooney Lick: The crew stumbles through sitcom trivia, misremembers character names, and somehow ends up with George Clooney licking Mrs. Garrett’s strudel on Facts of Life. Yes, it’s as absurd as it sounds.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
It is yesterday.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
We did a touch of movie dads, you know, just
Father's Day's coming up on Sunday. He's right, it's a
good reminder if you're out there and weren't paying attention
to your father, Uh, that's gonna be happening.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
So get on that. What do you get the man
that has everything?

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Sexual experience, Yeah, because that's what we don't have. That
is a unique thing to get bothered. So funny we
didn't have those early in life. No game couldn't make
them happen, you know, And now we can't either because
we've been married so long. We're kind of stuck wedged
into you know, let's say you know, you know it is.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Do you know it's worth a rewatch? Let me just
throw this in six feet under. My wife is rewatching
all of it. And there's a really funny episode in
season one where Natea's asked ground going. So I'm six
months into my relationship. Is this when the sex stops?

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Pretty funny?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Back to you KT hops or starts?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, TV dads, all right, twenty five bad List probably
by the way, let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, we were playing the I'm sorry, but we were
playing a family feud game when we were at that
pizza joint in Garland fortunate son and Skin said, I
don't remember what the question was, but the answer about
marriage was sexual disinterest, yes, or sexual disinterest?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Al Bundy? Yeah, kind of a bad dad, wouldn't he? Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:35):
I I was about to say, I was about to
name him. I was like, are they going to be ironic?
Because if they are, they're gonna name Homer Simpson, Al Bundy,
Peter Peter.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, hey man, let's get to it all right.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Sounds like they're all on there.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, I actually don't know. Uh, Andy Griffith, What about
Archie Bunker? Was he a good dad?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Do you like era big than dad? I think when
I think of the best TV dads, I think of uh,
mister Clever, Oh yeah, Ward Clever for sure?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Is that who you meant?

Speaker 3 (02:07):
I met Richie Cunningham's dad Funds called him mister c
oh yeah. Tom Bosley, Yeah, yeah, he was a good dad.
Was great with trash bags. Who else?

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Uh? You know, father knows best?

Speaker 4 (02:17):
All the like, all the fifties dads, the way they
were presenting fifties and sixties sitcoms where they wore a
sweater and they were very nice, but then when the
camera turned off, they beat all their kids.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
So like the Brady Bunch dad, he was kind of
heavy dad. But yeah, Mike Brady, yeah, Brady on there,
number fifteen.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
All right, okay, uh actually these are all alphabeticals, so
don't don't what we did. What's not ranked things comparison
is that's that's a terrible thing.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Was mister Cunningham on there?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Uh yeah, Howard Howard I was our guy, Carl Winslow
of Family Matters Is there now? No, you have three
kids and was a cop. He also had to deal
with the annoying neighbor.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Okay, family, Okay, I know what that is now. That
was the guy that was eating the donuts and diehard
or the twinkies. Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, love rcle. What
was the show with Michael J.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Fox that day? Yeah? His real name was Michael Grossman, right,
Stephen Keaton.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Stephen Keaton was the dad on Family Tis Yeah, yeah, yeah,
he's on there.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Is that Michael Keaton's brother, Yeah, no, it's his dad
in real life show. Oh oh no, that's the character
name Michael Keaton's Michael P. Keaton was was Michael P.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Keaton.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
That was Wasn't that Michael Fox's character's name? Oh, Michael Michael, Jamie,
Michael J.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Fox. I don't know. You might be right on that, though, Jamie.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I feel like I should have bought a ticket to
that fifteen second ride.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
No, you just don't know anything about the show.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
That was the character's name, and he was his dad
worked at PBS.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
He was a lib dad and Michael J.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Fox who was Yes, he was Okay, he was a
twelve year old Republican.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
And his dad was a lib PBS show Alex Peak Alex.
How didn't they reboot that?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Right? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Perfect time?

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Dude.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
Family Ties was a fun show. And you know Justine
Bateman was on it. Uh, and I mean it was
great teeny others uh.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Picking of Bateman Michael Blooth rested development. Hell, yes, Growing Pains.
You know the dad on Growing Pants. I was trying
to remember it.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Jas know, Oh that's the thing shot Alan Think all
shot kid? No, the kid with a mullet perm Who
is the kid in that? Uh?

Speaker 1 (04:31):
I think Alan Think garnished his wages. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
I forgot the name of that kid, but you know
Alan Think is Robin Thick's dad.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah? Uh, uh, okay.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Looked at Growing Pains. This says deep aches or cramps
that often occur in the effort. No that I need
the show. What is the show?

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Uncle Phil great TV dad. But he was Uncle Phil, right?
It was Kirk Cameron, Yeah, Kirk Cameron A good job.
Benny full House Dad, Danny Tanner not on the list.
But shit it when you look at the cast of
Growing Pains, it has Leonardo DiCaprio on it.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, kids friends? Was that before he ate Gilbert Great?

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, he was like one of the kids friends.
Was that before he ate Gilbert Great?

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah? Okay, he was an autistic kid.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
What Yeah, that's a very sad movie, as many of
us are. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Uh oh.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
And then also, you guys know George Clooney was on
Facts of Life The Kloons.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah is that right? Yeah right, George Clowney am all right.
And of course George Clooney, his character would go in
there and get a big giant.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
Lick of missus Garrett Strude. He would never eat it,
but he lick it just to get a taste of it.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
There you have it.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
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