Who is your favorite TV mom and dad?
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Donut

Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 08:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I will go first (feel free to change the categories)---

Black and white era:

Dad--
Mr. Eddie's Father --smart, sweet, wise, and sexy
runners up: Steve Douglas and Gidget's dad

Mom--
I recently saw a Donna Reed episode, altho i didnt see it too much as a kid, and she seemed spunkier,funnier , smarter and more free-thinking than the others so i guess i pick her

Modern era:

Dad---
Hal, Malcolm in the Middle's Dad
I hate to admit it for fear of ridicule, but Bob Saget makes a good dad too...

Mom--
Marge Simpson

somehow i am blocking out a couple decades...
oh yeah, hubby just reminded me of Carol and Mike...

Most bang for the buck:
This category is for the most entertaining, but not necessarily GOOD parents:

George's parents, the Costanzas


while thinking about my choices, i realized that there are a lot more good dads to chose from than moms. theres even a lot of dad run families without moms at all, and even multiple dad families, good tv moms seem harder to come by than tv dads

Urgrace

Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 08:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
favorite dad:
Ozzie
Dan Conner on Rosanne

fav mom:
Marion Cunningham on Happy Days

Donut

Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 08:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
good choices gracie! I forgot about Dan. i liked him too.
OK, now heres the big question, but i think i know the answer...
Are you talking Ozzie and Harriet
or Ozzy and Sharon?:)

Sia

Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 09:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How about Dr. and Mrs. Robinson on "Lost in Space?" You'd never be grounded! And talk about totally clueless; a kid could get away with murder around those two!!

Urgrace

Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 09:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ozzy Osbourne (sorry, didn't qualify my answer and spelled it wrong to boot)

Urgrace

Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 09:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
As many times as I watched Lost in Space I never really liked it, but then we only had one station to watch

favorite uncle:
Uncle Martin on My Fav Martian
Uncle Buck with John Candy

Sia

Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 09:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Favorite TV father: John Abbott from "Y & R"
Favorite TV mother: Rachel Cory from "AW"

Donut

Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 09:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
wow gracie, i went by the spelling and totally guessed wrong! you wild woman,you!
love them uncles too...

Urgrace

Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 10:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh I totally forgot about Maw and Paw ? with the thirteen or so kids who lived in the hills in an unpainted shack. They let their kids run amok! They had to be the worst parents who couldn't even remember all their kids names, but they did make me laugh!

Bob2112

Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 10:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gracie, Are you looking for Kettle?

Weinermr

Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 11:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Absolutely without a doubt, Jim and Margaret Anderson of Springfield. Father Knows Best, my all time favorite fake TV family.

"Margaret, I'm home!"

Oregonfire

Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 11:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've never thought about it much, but I did like the Cunninghams on Happy Days.

Sam Stevens on "Bewitched" would be a cool mom--plus the magic genes on the female side to boot! Wasn't their son Adam lacking the magic gene? I never liked Darren One or Darren Two much--Darren One was too much of a yeller.

Seamonkey

Friday, June 21, 2002 - 12:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I like Sharon and Ozzy.

I loved the parents on That's Life (Paul Sorvino and Ellen Burstyn).

And the Parents on Life Goes On (Patti Lupone and um.. I forget)

Mware

Friday, June 21, 2002 - 08:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Seamonkey - that would be Bill Smitrovich who played Drew Thatcher

Webkitty

Friday, June 21, 2002 - 08:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ummmmm, I'll have to go with Ozzie Osbourne for the dad and Marge Simpson for the mom.

There are others, but those two jumped to mind right away.

Micknrc

Friday, June 21, 2002 - 08:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tony and Carmela Soprano

Webkitty

Friday, June 21, 2002 - 08:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ohhhhh, I forgot about Tony and Carmela, yes, they are up there.

Fanny

Friday, June 21, 2002 - 09:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The Huxtables (Bill Cosby)

Riviere

Saturday, June 22, 2002 - 10:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh definitely Samantha Stevens as Mom, I even look a bit like her, the magic genes would be a bonus.. Dad, that's a lot harder! The older TV fathers seemed so preachy and proper, modern TV dads a bit too frenetic and clueless. I think I'd have to pick Jed Clampett, always calm and cool and very indulgent!

Marysafan

Sunday, June 23, 2002 - 02:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ma and Pa Ingalls.

Tisha90029

Monday, July 01, 2002 - 02:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, if i can't have Ozzy and Sharon, I will be more than happy with Rosanne and Dan. And that give me a pretty boss aunt too.

Wcv63

Monday, July 01, 2002 - 04:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Has anybody else ever watched some of those older "classic" cartoon families and become absolutely APPALLED at the sexist leanings?

The Flintstones is but one example. Fred is always "ordering" Wilma around and she minces around always trying to please her man. The Jetsons, that supposed space-age family, had the same family structure.

Most of the older shows, cartoons or not, had the woman in a subservient position. That's why it is so hard to pick one that I could now consider a good role model.

My own self-expectations didn't suffer from watching those shows but I credit my own mother for that above all else.

Tisha90029

Tuesday, July 02, 2002 - 10:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wcv, I have to share a little story with you. My friends were always amazed when I went over to their houses that I wanted to watch I Dream of Jeannie in reruns, as if it were an impossible compulsion. Why? Because my mother forbade me from watching it. "I will not," my mother said, "allow my children to watch a show where a woman calls a man 'master.'"

I'm glad the Flintstones flew under my mommy's radar!

Wcv63

Tuesday, July 02, 2002 - 10:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I watched all the older shows Tisha and at the time had no problems with any of them. Like I said earlier, I didn't suffer any ill-effects nor were my ambitions paralysed by gender stereotyping.

My children now watch these shows and I am noticing things that didn't really make much of an impression on me as a child/young adult. I don't think my children will be negatively affected because I believe it's the parents that instill values and expectations.

Dahli

Wednesday, July 03, 2002 - 09:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
funny thing about Jeannie though, he might have been 'master' but she had the power!

Too many women lose sight of the fact that even with all the posturing by men, we do have more power than we know but seldom use or abuse it...jmho...

Squaredsc

Wednesday, July 03, 2002 - 10:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
my favorite are cliff and claire huxtable from the cosby show too. i also liked james and florida evans from good times.

Seamonkey

Wednesday, July 03, 2002 - 07:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I liked the way Max Bickford was trying to be a good dad, and doing a better job (and then he was cancelled)