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Who is the best TV dad of all time?

by YPB Team

Warm, wise, useless, terrifying: television has produced every kind of father, and they all share one ballot.

  1. Homer Simpson — ranked #11
    Homer Simpson
    The Simpsons patriarch who strangles his son one minute and gives up everything for him the next.
  2. Philip Banks — ranked #22
    Philip Banks
    Uncle Phil from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, a tough judge who became Will's real father figure.
  3. Phil Dunphy — ranked #33
    Phil Dunphy
    Modern Family's relentlessly upbeat realtor dad who parents by cool-dad enthusiasm.
  4. Danny Tanner — ranked #44
    Danny Tanner
    Full House's obsessively tidy widower raising three daughters with hugs and life lessons.
  5. Red Forman — ranked #55
    Red Forman
    That '70s Show's ex-Navy dad, all threats and gruffness with real affection underneath.
  6. Bob Belcher — ranked #66
    Bob Belcher
    Bob's Burgers' burger-flipping dad who never once mocks his kids' weirdness.
  7. Hal Wilkerson — ranked #77
    Hal Wilkerson
    Malcolm in the Middle's manic, hobby-obsessed dad barely surviving four sons.
  8. Andy Taylor — ranked #88
    Andy Taylor
    The Andy Griffith Show's widowed small-town sheriff, the original calm and decent TV dad.
  9. Ward Cleaver — ranked #99
    Ward Cleaver
    Leave It to Beaver's 1950s father, the template every later sitcom dad reacted against.
  10. Eric Taylor — ranked #1010
    Eric Taylor
    Friday Night Lights' coach, a father to his daughter and half of Dillon's teenagers.
  11. Jack Pearson — ranked #1111
    Jack Pearson
    This Is Us' idealized father whose flaws and early death shaped three children's lives.
  12. Peter Griffin — ranked #1212
    Peter Griffin
    Family Guy's oblivious man-child, proof that being a TV dad is not the same as being good at it.

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Comments

Homer arrived in a sixty-second segment on The Tracey Ullman Show on 19 April 1987. Philip Banks is written to be admired; this one to be forgiven: https://youpick.best/articles/the-simpsons-ranked-many-ways

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