Executive Meddling [2/4] by MrGorf
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Ah, the ubiquitous BUMBLING DAD... A recent TV commercial made it painfully clear: a child tells us, "Looks like Dad screwed up AGAIN. Good thing Mom is here to save the day!"
Okay. Okay. I am willing to accept that women are smarter than men and are morally superior. I am willing to accept that anything a man can do, a woman can do better.
I am NOT willing to accept that ALL men are bad at EVERYTHING.
A whole generation has grown up with this in 90%+ of family sitcoms. Since that is almost all you see, it may be hard to separate entertainment from reality. Young women are being trained that the cute guy they are interested in will, inevitably, someday turn into Homer Simpson.
Or, you could take a more feminist approach to the bumbling dad: if women were the clowns, male audience members would not find it entertaining at all. There was only one Lucy.
One thing that fascinates me though: most TV shows target males ages 18 to 49. Being weak-minded, they are easier to influence with commercials. So, if these shows and commercials are targeting men, and feature men being utterly inferior, does that mean that deep down, male viewers want to be told how inferior they are?
Oh, well. They'll keep doing the same thing until audiences stop laughing. By the way, what happens when the bumbling dad goes to work? He becomes the IDIOT BOSS, but that's another story.
It may surprise you that I'm the kind of person who doesn't laugh very often. This is part of the reason.
Comments (6)
Faemike55
Excellent points! and I agree with them all which is one reason I don't watch television shows except for CSI (all); NCIS; Mythbusters and shows like that
MKeyes
I agree totally with Faemike55 - including the shows he watches, I'm a CSI & Criminal Minds fan, and Dexter is my thing as well. The rest, you hit the nail on the head! I watch specific TV, so it is hardly on in this house until bedtime and the above mentioned shows are running, once they've been watched, it's back off! As for this strip, brilliant! But then, what else is new? Love your mind!
MrSynnerster
lol. This is too cute. lol.
Knechtruprecht
I love how Mr.Gorf looks in the second panel! The rest is well made as always, but - ouch - so cheap! ;-> BTW: What is a sitcom?
T.Rex
This is how the politically correct imbeciles want us to believe we are, by constatly putting people down and calling it "funny". Maybe we should make a politically incorrect sit-com where the ones put down are politically correct imbeciles. There is SO much that can be made of their bending things and hypocrisy that it would make for a very long sit-com, but, sigh, they're so pathetic I doubt if anyone could make a laugh from them. Let's have back our normal kids and normal parents! Yay for Didi and her dad, and so on. Well made images! I really like your expressions, particularily hand to forehead in the last frame. Keep up the good work! :-)
njb2000
Nice point of view and cartoon strip regarding this subject I would just like to add that I hate those sit coms with the dubbed laughter! Give me half an hour of family guy without adverts anytime!