You know that they do. If you watch TV at all these days you know that the father in any sitcom is always a figure of ridicule. A moron. A weasel.
A prime example is the Jon Cryer character in "Two and a Half Men." He plays the dad of Jake the "half man". Alan (his character) sponges off of his rich brother Charley played by Charlie Sheen. Alan is an ineffectual dofus who has the right ideas about parenting but can never put them into practice because he is always undermined by his castrating ex-wife or the smart mouthed housekeeper or his playboy brother who teaches his nephew how to be the poster boy for "The Smoking Gun." I mean it is a familiar set up for TV. Two bachelors raising a kid. Like "My Three Sons" or "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" or even fucking Bonanza for that matter (Ben and Hop Sing were a couple by the way). But in all of the earlier sitcoms the dad is never the dickhead that he is made out to be today.
What a load of commie bullshit.
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Another thing sitcoms seem to do is have an idiot dad, who is quite often a little (or a lot) chunky. The wife is always much hotter than a guy like that would ever land and she is always calm and smart.
Well that started with "The Honeymooners" and the "Life of Riley" through the "Flintstones" to the present day "Simpsons"...Family Guy...According to Jim.
They just hate Dad's.
But there used to be shows where the dad wasn't a complete dick.
Like "Bonanza" and "Eight is Enough" and "Family" and "The Waltons" and every a sappy show called "Apples Way."
There was a show with a real dad called "Seventh Heaven" that played in syndication for quite a long time and was despised by critics and all the cool people. But it showed religious values and people in a positive light so the elites had to trash it every chance they got.
It's a Dad's job to, while driving the car with his left hand on the wheel whack the two mewling brats in the back seat with one sweep of his right hand without turning around missing a beat or swerving off the road, thereby restoring order. Contrary to liberal horsepucky kids remember their Dads with love for such expressions of tough love.
"Why do the people who write TV shows hate Dad?"
Because marketers know that Mom buys more, silly.
And then they prove that to the TV people with "statistics".
Sooooooooo...if Dad wants to take back his roost?
I would surely suggest a little less "cock a doodle do" and a helluva lot more math. Or physics, if he is feeling monkey haired, BOLD!
Poetry, art and music might have worked in ancient Persia. Not so much these days.
Dad's can still be the "maintenance man" though.
And of course, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.
Dads as TV show writers, and or stars?
Have you seen Seinfeld's latest TV entry?
Enough said.
So men? Dads? You need to... "differentiate"!
Best of luck to you...because we ladies...we are right on your tail, and it's good as it's ever been. ;)
Because marketers know that Mom buys more, silly.
I guess that explains our consumer bubble recession.
Some guy needs to get up on the floor of the senate and blame this second almost great depression on American women being so damn materialistic and always needling everyone to buy worthless shit.
I think it started with Madonna in the 1980s, right Trooper?
Anyway, Bill Gates as a role model? Sure, if you want to teach your kids to have no social skills and create wealth by ripping off other people's ideas.
That era is gone baby gone. Thank God.
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