Television Mom & Dad?

[scotrace]

I looked and looked at that name before I posted it and kept thinking "it's not right." Thanks for correcting!

 

[Haversack]

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

I had to read this twice. At my first glance I thought you wrote, "WHEN did Ma and Pa Kettle get so good-looking?"

Haversack.

 

[Doctor Strange]

dhermann1, I love that Twilight Zone episode with Elizabeth Montgomery - it's called "Two", and her costar is Charles Bronson. A classic!

And while it does depict a grim postwar future (it was shot at the then falling apart Hal Roach studio) the ending is, if anything, hopeful. Plus, it really shows off her acting chops, as she has virtually no dialog, apart from one Russian word.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Memories

Ah, the beautiful Elizabeth Montgomery. Her dad was Robert Montgomery, star of the hilarious Alfred Hitchcock comedy Mr. and Mrs. Smith. There was a song in the 80s called Elizabeth Montgomery's Face that my brother liked.
I had also never heard of Television Mom & Dad but I'm going to go out on a limb and pick Samantha's parents.

 

[June]

Casting another vote for Ward and June. I actually had June Cleaver in mind when I chose my user name

 

[Marc Chevalier]

The only realistic TV family I've ever seen is that of Malcolm in the Middle.

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[Cousin Hepcat]

Growing up: The Cosby Show.

More recently, I'd say, the TV dad who most closely represented the dads in my neighborhood who didn't hesitate helping raise any neighborhood kids when any of us needed a little raising: Unequivocally...

(only, a little less like the cleaned-up TV show, and a little more like the comedy skit which it originated from in the film Kings of Comedy...)
- C H

 

[LadyStardust]

Well, I don't know if any kids looked up to them, especially seeing as it's cancelled now, but I thought the show Everwood did a good job of portraying a wholesome family dynamic. I miss that show.

 

[Twitch]

Besides Ward and June the Andersons of Father Knows Best are right up there. The only thing on today exhibiting longevity is Homer and Marge. And perhaps they are the parodies of today's parents that are closer to reality than any others. :eusa_doh:

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Here's a question ... how similar were our favorite TV parents to our own parents?

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[Baron Kurtz]

I dunno, TV parents never seemed to throw things at each other . . .

bk

 

[PrettySquareGal]

Here's a question ... how similar were our favorite TV parents to our own parents?

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I'd like to say my parents slept in the same bed, unlike TV parents of the 50's, but they were divorced.

 

[dhermann1]

Utterly not.

 

[Viola]

Here's a question ... how similar were our favorite TV parents to our own parents?

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The only couple on TV who ever reminded me of my parents in interaction was Batman and Wonder Woman on Justice League Unlimited.

One's a dark brooding antisocial cranky-pants who lives in a cave with an enormous computer! The other's fiercely idealistic and completely out of tune with modern Earth! They fight crime!lol

-Viola

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

Here's a question ... how similar were our favorite TV parents to our own parents?

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Without the make up.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

The worst TV parents ever:

 

[Big Man]

The Waltons

Although my "childhood years" were behind me when the show came on, John and Olivia Walton (as well as Grandma and Grandpa Walton) reminded me most of the type of family I had.

The older I get, the more I realize just how truly blessed I was to have the kind of family I had.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Augustus was okay . . . Livia was a right rotter, though. Was there anyone she didn't murder ('cept claw-claw)?

The worst TV parents ever:

 

[LizzieMaine]

My mom was (and, alas, still is) a sort of bizarre amalgamation of Archie and Edith Bunker. I understood the falsity of TV families very early on....

 

[Etienne]

Although my "childhood years" were behind me when the show came on, John and Olivia Walton (as well as Grandma and Grandpa Walton) reminded me most of the type of family I had.

The older I get, the more I realize just how truly blessed I was to have the kind of family I had.

GREAT CHOICE, Big Man!!! I'll second that vote and your late-in-life realization!