Television Mom & Dad?

[PrettySquareGal]

Who do you think kids look to as their TV Mom and Dad these days? Or is that concept itself outdated?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

These days, it's fraught with 'hip' irony. Oh, how I loathed Married With Children.

When I was young(er), my favorite TV parents were the Huxtables. Cosby's Dr. Cliff Huxtable was the bomb.


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[Samsa]

I've never heard of that concept before this thread. I don't know if that's instructive...

 

[PrettySquareGal]

I've never heard of that concept before this thread. I don't know if that's instructive...

TV Land actually has an awards ceremony for this. It was a familiar concept for many decades.

Mine is, and always be, Ward and June.

I can't even imagine who kids would pock today, although Leave it to Beaver was before my time even then.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

These days, it's fraught with 'hip' irony. Oh, how I loathed Married With Children.

When I was young(er), my favorite TV parents were the Huxtables. Cosby's Dr. Cliff Huxtable was the bomb.


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I'm with you on both accounts!

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Maybe it is outdated. I can't think of any parental role models from current TV. But then, I seldom watch the idiot box, because of shows like "Married with Children" which projected a negative view of the family,...and was quite loathsome to say the least!
Your new avatar looks like the archetypal golden age mom PSG.
I suspect that is no coincidence?

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

If I get to back to vintage TV, then I would pick the Ward and June too.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

Your new avatar looks like the archetypal golden age mom PSG.
I suspect that is no coincidence?

Do I? Why, yes, it is a funny coincidence! I like to embrace my inner June Cleaver now and again.

 

[Sefton]

I bet that not too many around here watch much new TV of the type where you'd find Mom and Dad role models. I only watch TCM and a few cartoon shows here and there. I do see the ads for the current shows and if that's any indication it would seem to be a wasteland as far as role models go. Unless you want thug role models...

I'll go with the Ward and June vote too. I loved that show when I was growing up,despite the fact that no one in my family or anyone else's family that I ever knew had parents that were so perfect!

My second and third runners up would be Gomez and Morticia Addams and Herman and Lily Munster. Good loving family,just a little weird. Like my family!

 

[LizzieMaine]

I'll go with Fred and Doris Ziffel.

They were always so good to their boy Arnold.

 

[Etienne]

Well, my "kids" are 27 and 31 now, so it's hard to know. We were never much of a TV family, though I suspect the kids watched it more than I remember! One night, not too long ago, our son was over and said he'd like to watch the Cosby show. He then said that Claire Huxtable always reminded him of ME!! I confess to tuning in now and then to see just what
Claire was like, in case I have made some unknowingly devastating impression upon my offspring! HA! So far I've been pretty relieved!

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

I haven't watched many television shows in a couple years, but the last show I saw that had the "parents concept" was a show on Nickelodeon called "Romeo" with Lil' Romeo's (the rapper) real life father Peary Miller (Master P). The format was pretty much the same as many shows, nothing really special other than the fact it was an African american cast, with the exception of a few of the other roles. Though there have been many others far before them.

Married with Children was somewhat like Roseanne's format. Disfunctional family that at the end has their meaningful moments and a heart. I believe the parents of both shows were good because they weren't perfect, but still pulled through for their families and themselves.
Full House on the other hand seemed too perfect to me in terms of family values, but was still a nice show with only a single parent family. That moment when the music breaks in and they all hug and kiss and say they're sorry just was unnatural to me.

With the Cosby show, Cliff Huxtable was laid back a lot of the time, but knew when to act as the father of the house, while Clair Huxtable was representing the "I am woman, hear me roar" motherly (and as a woman) figure. Good show too.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Oldie But Goodie

Well,most recently,surely not Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. More like Ozzie and Sharon Osborne.
BTW..anyone here remember the mid '50s TV series,"I Remember Mama"??
A norwegian emigrant family living in America during the golden age. Dick Van Pattens first starring role as the Hansen's son,Nels. His sisters name was Dagmar.
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[Tomasso]

Frank and Estelle Costanza, now they had chemistry.

 

[Viola]

I was rather fond of Johnathan and Martha Kent, though I only watched the first two seasons of Smallville, I think they've offed Johnathan.

Also, WHEN did Ma and Pa Kent get so good-looking? That was kinda weird.

-Viola

 

[scotrace]

Well, if I couldn't have Elizabeth Stevens as my mom...

Cliff Huxtable, and Ward and June Cleaver. Ward was always fair, generally serious, and commanded respect. Cliff was fun, fair, hilariously funny, and had piles of money.

I doubt there have ever been so many television shows on the air with such lousy parental role models as you can find on the Disney Channel right now. The kids are always smarter than the clueless parents.

June Cleaver wore heels and her pearls to clean the toilets.

 

[Tomasso]

Well, if I couldn't have Elizabeth Stevens as my mom...

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Do you mean Samantha Montgomery?

 

[HoosierDaddy]

How about Elizabeth Montgomery...as Samantha Stevens..!
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[dhermann1]

Mom and Dad

This thread has clearly decided that it's more interested in old parents than current ones. How about Dobey Gillis's parents. "I gotta kill that boy, I just gotta" "Now Herbert!"
Speaking of Eliz Montgomery, did you ever see the Twilight Zone episode with her as a post end-of-the-world war soldier? Very grim.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

June Cleaver wore heels and her pearls to clean the toilets.

Whereas many current TV moms wear artificially enhanced, uh, adornments. (And this is supposed to show freedom and empowerment of modern moms.)