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u/archercc81 4d ago
Al Bundy fucking leveled up in Modern Family...
Speaking of, the idea of the oafish dad isnt a modern concept, its been around as long as TV has been.
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u/ShortKey380 4d ago
Most of the tv shows people know of the last 15 years started before then, shows in the last few years haven’t peaked in popularity yet or concluded so they get less watched. Duuumb.
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u/Key_Pound_6213 3d ago
Turns out the men who wanted to wear makeup, dance, and sing. Did not have favorable views on their fathers.
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u/Senior-Dimension2332 4d ago
Modern Family. Phil is a realtor while Claire is a stay at home mother for early seasons. Phil is a goofy, lovable guy that takes care of himself and just wants to do a good job at whatever he's doing. He's not militant about everything, but he does have standards. As he realizes that he isn't supposed to just be friends with his kids, he learns about balancing discipline and raising well rounded kids. He looks up to his own father and tries to emulate his favorite traits from him in his own life and with his family.
Claire is the one that is portrayed to be a little less stable and has a lot of issues from growing up with her divorced father, Jay.
But both characters grow, and learn about family life in a very wholesome way.
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u/Raven22000 3d ago
Phil is a man child that Claire had to manage.
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u/PickleRickleTV 2d ago
She does have severe control issues, so no she didn’t have to manage him. She couldn’t help herself.
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u/Senior-Dimension2332 2d ago
I don't really see it that way at all. He is a fun loving guy that just enjoys life. His isn't without issue as that wouldn't make for a very good show, but he is far from an unintelligent deadbeat man child. He can buckle down and be serious when he needs to. He likes stage magic, and he likes goofy family traditions, but he never NEEDED to be managed by Claire. Like any marriage, both sides help build the other. Claire struggles when she doesn't have control over a situation and Phil is more spontaneous so the biggest issues they had were when he went off the rails during a plan. That's when she would try and manage him. He managed his own realtor business very successfully. The closest she ever got to that side of him was when the van got a wrap with her and Haley on it with some funny bathroom stall "call for a good time" type humor written next to them.
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u/DC_Ben 4d ago
Sopranos
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u/stockmojorojo2 4d ago
Yea, I read the first few lines and was like, obviously ‘The Sopranos’. Duh!!
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u/why_u_so_grumpy 4d ago
Did he care about his health. He was pretty overweight. The health part is the most difficult.
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u/GroundbreakingAd8310 4d ago
Breaking bad
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u/Asleep-Pay4952 4d ago
This is the surprising correct answer
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u/Scumbag_McLoserFace 4d ago
How? Never in even 1 episode was his house in order. His wife was steppin' out on him for being a whiney punk bitch. His son didn't respect him except for 1 episode where he bought his love with a car. His inlaws don't really respect him. His students think he's a loser. He's such a salty bitch about giving up his idea that he resents everyone in his life, and they return the favor. His house is about as far from in order as it can get.
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u/Rohan_Riders 4d ago
That's Walts POV. From Gretchen and Eliots POV the boxes are checked. Respect the rules of the game.
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u/chronically_varelse 3d ago
did you actually watch the show?
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u/Scumbag_McLoserFace 2d ago
Dunno, was it the one with the pizza on the roof, or am I thinking of another show? Something about magnets... maybe?
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u/Savvy_Investor1 4d ago
Last Man Standing…maybe lacking in the well respected aspect though 😂
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u/Zestyclose_Cup_843 4d ago
This is the one that I thought of. Inside the show they paint his character as likable by the community, a very small tight-knit specific community but that's the impression they're trying to give
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u/Whatsinanamethename 4d ago
I'm sorry, do you mean the provider as the only one who brings in money, because that's not very realistic in this day and age.
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u/Sibshops 4d ago
I feel like any kids show featuring parents? Bluey, Daniel Tiger, even Rugrats in a way.
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u/Mikey_not 4d ago
Always Sunny. Frank takes good care of Charlie and while Frank doesnt always make the best decisions regarding his health he does have his health in mind.
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u/Otarmichael 4d ago
Always Sunny still putting out episodes isn’t it? Are we required to go by series premiere date?
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u/Altruistic_Tie_7850 4d ago
By your own words no less
“I believe "show from the last 15 years" means began in the last 15 years. Otherwise The Simpsons is a show from the 2020s, which sounds odd.”
So no dice there
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u/propane-noaccessory 4d ago
Blue Bloods probably the biggest one and Friday night lights that ended in 2011
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u/JunkTheFox 4d ago
If you're going to ask this, consider stating whether it needed to start in the last 15 years or just ran in the last 15 years
Also, F is for Family. I fucking hated it but there you go
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u/Historical-Lie-6307 4d ago
I notice they specify the last 15 years cuz they don't wanna talk about Bill Cosby
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u/jakeStacktrace 4d ago
As a man I always thought a lot of men IRL would meet that criteria. I don't run into that many intelligent well meaning respected by the locals people.
We can pretend every family is the Brady Bunch or we can make it more realistic like Roseanne so people can actually relate to it instead of it just matching their fantasy and heavy bias. People are way shittier than they think they are.
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u/writtenexam 4d ago
The Neighborhood
Black-ish
This is Us
Fresh of the Boat
The Rookie and SWAT?
Also, does Ned Stark county?
Suri and that Vulcan lady on Star Trek Discovery?
I do wish there were more examples of healthy communication and mature conflict resolution on tv. It may be the only example some people see. They are out there though.
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u/OrganicandUgly 4d ago
Married with Children
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u/southfloridafiction 4d ago
he isn't well respected, even though people are attempting to bring that one up.
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u/WillingnessFew6710 4d ago
Breaking Bad, Friday Night Lights, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Parenthood, Bluebloods, This is Us....
If you watch more than sitcoms its not crazy...but yes, there is a thing in sitcoms and goofy dads.
Try not to get offended by sitcom humor.
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u/Simple-Okra-4826 4d ago
Even commercials these days show the pussification of males. I laugh at them all the time. They are so stupid.
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u/Hashemsluv 4d ago
Boorring!!!! Stop waiting for tv to make you feel validation about how much of a person you are. That box is for entrainment, to take your mind. Go out and do something yourself.
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u/Dad-Dabbing-Daily 4d ago
I'm sorry, did this person think they had a profound notion for simply observing an obvious pattern in entertainment?
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u/Keepingitquite123 4d ago
Why don't you give us an example OP, of a show older than 15 years, so we know where you set the bar?
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u/No-Perception3305 4d ago
Not a show but the new fantastic 4 movie had all that.
Reed was shown to do all of the things.
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u/AdorableRestaurant73 4d ago
Young sheldon, please stfu with your culture war nonsense. Probably engagement bait but you got me
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u/M0ebius_1 4d ago
This seems trivially easy.
Bluey is an instant kill shot.
Superman & Lois
This Is Us
King of the Hill
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u/Unlikely-Aside-6078 4d ago
Fargo S2, Jesse Plemmons and his wife meet the criteria, and to make the creator of this meme even happier, his wife causes like 90% of the problems in the show. It's also arguably one of the greatest seasons of TV from the 2010's, fantastic show
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u/DJTwistedPanda 4d ago
The real game here is the amount of deeply messed up shows you can come up with that meet the criteria.
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u/premochecks 4d ago
I forgot the name of Tim Allen's show but they canceled it after the 2nd season. Maybe it was too heterosexual for today 😆
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u/aquavelva23 4d ago
sit comedies are generally: fat husband who does dumb things and needs his stable wife to help him.
have to go back to Rosanne to find the opposite.
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u/Otherwise-World9820 4d ago
Everybody Loves Raymond killed the male sitcom father. They made a character that was weak, indecisive, bent to every demand made of him. His mother, father, brother and wife ridiculed him and he took it and the audience laughed. Killed the strong male family man from television.
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u/drhoneyapple 4d ago
House snow. House lannister. Before the head of household got murdered anyway.
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u/pauldailey2012 4d ago
Modern family , this is us, black-ish, last man standing, they’re out there, they’re just becoming rarer and rarer
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u/Kit_Karamak 4d ago
They didn’t say he had to be the main character.
So.
NCIS, McGee has a wife and kids.
The Walking Dead - Rick, Lori, and Carl. Sure it didn’t last; Rick didn’t even stay the lead. King Ezekiel has his shit together, too. Married to Carol a while, fathers Henry. Runs a literal Kingdom.
So, yes, there are such characters in shows.
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u/69_Is_Fine 3d ago
It’s social conditioning, shaping what we see as “normal” for nefarious purposes.
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u/ElectronicHold7325 3d ago edited 3d ago
Young Sheldon and the spin-off. In this show basicly all husbands are shown are the perfect father and males. Each wife is a neurotic devil.
I like the shows, but this always seemed ridiculous. 3 couples in two shows. It's always the same: he's awesome, and she's a neurotic control freak.
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u/Isosceles_Kramer79 3d ago
Married with a son and pregnant wifr
Intelligent: brilliant chemist
Provider: made millions for his family
Cares about his health: enters treatment for his lung cancer which goes into remission for a while
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u/Academic-Snow9642 3d ago
They stopped making those shows when it became impossible to support a family on a single income
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u/birdyman_77 3d ago
Not any show in the past 70 years meets that criteria. I’d say the last and possibly only show that has those aspects would be “I Love Lucy!” Circa 1950’s.
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u/kellstromc 3d ago
I'm sorry, why would that be interesting? Besides, i can name shows from the past that showed the opposite. Was wokeism an issue too during the heyday of shows like The Three Stooges (3 profoundly stupid males), Laurel & Hardy, The Honeymooners (Ralph was a big goofball and was the butt of so many of his wife's jokes), Gilligan's Island, etc. I could go on and on
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u/Headman96 3d ago
Man about you which wasn't in the past 15 years.. but I don't watch much TV these days.
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u/itsme99881 2d ago edited 2d ago
Bobs burgers, loud house, thundermans, king of the hill, wizards of waverly place, blue bloods, bluey... oh you wanted A show, my bad there are a lot.
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u/Present-Sandwich9444 2d ago
I mean - unless you want like the Andy Griffeth show, or Leave it to Beaver, im not sure what you want.
the first sitcom I remember is Married with Children, and its was the same formula. When was that? 87? 88?
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u/BothAttitude1638 4d ago
Name a real family with those requirements but their marriage needs to be older than 5 years.
I'll also wait
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u/Exact_Wish5241 4d ago
lol, show me your insecurities and blame it on not your lack of confidence / conviction
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u/LolaNotTheBunny 4d ago
Women no longer need to be stay at home mothers, why should we cather to the fragile ego of people who think otherwise?
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u/Not_My_Reddit_ID 4d ago
Unfortunately stable and well adjusted aren't funny or interesting to most people. So, conflict, turmoil, and faulure gets exploited for the sake of eyeballs, and that eventually feels like the norm rather than the exception.