Best TV Dads

Are these the top TV dads of all time?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So this was up on Facebook.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
We asked, is the mount rushmore of fathers on television?
Homer Simpson, Mike Brady, Danny Tanner from Full House, Tim
the Toolman, Taylor from Home Improvement, and Uncle Phil from
The Fresh Prince bel Air?

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Did you say four? Was that four? I last count?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
That was five?

Speaker 4 (00:18):
Oh, because if we were going to do the real
mount rushmore like the real like because there's lots of choices,
but like four and they're going to be solidified.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
In a mountain.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, you have to take it, get a rid of
what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Or in any of those five? Is that who you?

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Because I feel like mister Brady has to be one
of those spots.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, that's Mike Brady.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
That was Oh did you say that?

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
All right, you did all that. I started checking in
when you got to three, four, five?

Speaker 1 (00:46):
All right. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
So like you have Homer Simpson and then Danny.

Speaker 5 (00:52):
May all your days be a little bit like this one,
Bob Saggett, full of joy and happiness and surrounded by
the people who love you.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Oh so good, I know.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
And then it's hard because like I always want to
do this thing where Okay, forget about the four, we
have to.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Pick the one, right, who would be the one? And
that's really hard?

Speaker 4 (01:15):
And I was like, okay, and I don't even I
didn't really care for this show, even though I saw
every episode. I was like, would it be Pa from
Little House on the Prairie?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Oh, didn't even make the list?

Speaker 3 (01:23):
He was good? He was a good dad.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
What about like, what about word Cleaver from Leave It
to Beaver?

Speaker 3 (01:28):
I don't. I mean, it's super old times, it is,
but it counts?

Speaker 5 (01:32):
And what about Sully from Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman?

Speaker 3 (01:35):
No, no one knows who that is?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
No one knows.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
I speaking of old though. What about Father Knows Best
that doctor Welby guy?

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh yeah, No, that's.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Really old too, but it's called father knows Best. He
must have been a good dad.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Well, let's hear what you guys said, Linda said Al Bundy,
Wayne said Carl Winslow from Family Matters. Oh I liked Carl,
Lynn says Michael Land from uh Prairie And Tom says
Fred Flintstone.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Fred Flintstone, was he a dad?

Speaker 5 (02:07):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah? What was thesbbles?

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (02:13):
I think so?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, a lot of people said Phil Dumphy for Modern
Family should be on there?

Speaker 5 (02:21):
Which one who played Phil Dumphy. It wasn't Eric Stone
Street Cam and Mitchy.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Curtis said, don't forget Red Foreman. A lot of people
say Red Foreman he.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Was a gruff dad, wasn't Heah, I didn't really watch that.
He's not someone that I would think of being.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Like one of the top dads. But that's like Homer Simpson.
He's a very irresponsible dad. But that's funny. You know
what about.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Roseanne? What's his name?

Speaker 1 (02:51):
My god, damn right, wonderful to make the list.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Wow, that's why it's And like, for as much as
I want to be like, that's the yeah, really.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Subjective because everybody goes what they're attached to.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
When I was a kid, I always thought of Roseanne
as being a show that I would hate.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
I thought that I didn't like.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
Her or him, And then when I watched it as
an adult, I was like, this is actually a really
good show and they are good parents. They have a
lot of quirks, but like they're good parents.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Michael Seaver from Growing Pains right Kirk Cameron's sad on
Growing Pains. That was a big show for me, Like
in the.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Nineties and he took his patience in the house.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
I didn't have to go to an office.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
So weird.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
It was weird.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
It was so weird. Not that there's anything wrong with that,
but I know a lot.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Of people do that, but it was weird.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, Like my mom used to cut hair in the house.
That was no big deal on a couple of days
a week. See a couple ladies getting their hair cut
in the house.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
But somebody coming, it's like your psychiatrist to go to
an office.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, that's okay.

Speaker 5 (03:51):
Yeah, And I don't think that you'd want your clients
to know where you live.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
That's the point.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, if you mean if you're.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
A doctor, if you're a doctor or a psycho, yeah,
you're gonna have a lot.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Of Have you ever seen What about Bob?

Speaker 4 (04:03):
No?

Speaker 3 (04:04):
I haven't.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
I don't think there was any finer movie for Richard Dreyfus. Right, Hey, listen,
this is up on Facebook if you want to join
in on the conversation, just like Kevin did, who said
the dad from Boy Meets World and Laura said, John
Walton and Charles Ingalls. Okay, I can't pick one, Curtis
says oh yeah, okay, and Mike says Jack Arnold, probably

(04:28):
from the Wonder Years. Yeah, oh yeah, the Arnold's okay,
all right, there you go, let us know