Father's Day Special - Top 3 Iconic TV Dads with Seth Reneau

In this Father's Day episode of Clarksville Insider, Josh and guest Seth Reneau reflect on moments that defined some of television's most meaningful father figures. They explore themes of sacrifice, protection, wisdom, and stepping up—not just for their own kids, but for anyone in need of guidance. Through stories of tough love, late-night bonding, and life lessons disguised as everyday moments, this conversation highlights how fictional dads shaped real ideas of what it means to show up, speak truth, and lead with both strength and heart.

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Welcome back to a special, special episode. We are going to be talking about the best or best is a big word, but iconic in a good way. TV dads and to talk about it with me is my good friend Seth Rennell. And we've prepped a little bit. We've shared a little bit of kind of where we're going and who we're. Listing is pretty off the cuff off script. Yes, so we've we've made our lists and we're doing top three Although I feel like we could do top 20 each of us and still have not a lot of overlap still have some some but I think given a little bit of distance and we even know when you've said When you ran the idea by me on favorite TV dad first thing that came to mind happened to be the first thing that you had already had. So there is overlap. Yes, and we'll get to that. to set it up, you're already thinking, bet, oh, who would I pick? And so we had to figure out at least a set of criteria, not specific, but just some idea of what makes it iconic or a good TV dad. And so that's what got us started. So we're thinking, OK, defends his family, challenges his kids. really, you think of a guy doing his best, right? that? And not that not the dopey necessarily dopey funny like dad's the butt of the joke. And, the stereotype that started, I think, really kind of in the 80s of not a good dad. but a likable character type thing, know, not incompetent or anything, like just a good dad, which you would want to have as a model, like yourself as a dad, something like that. Yeah. And they're all going to be flawed in some way, but there are others that are very flawed. so there's no Walter Weitz on here. There's no Tony Sopranos. That's a different list. And The other thing we got too before we get to the list is why not movies? And we really settled on the idea, there's just so many, so many movies. we felt like, or I felt like you just, you don't get enough time with them. That's pretty much what we settled on, right? Yeah, yeah, you build a relationship with a TV character, especially where we're... where you and I are both kind of landing is we're basically the same age, 90s dads, and so we grew up with them. So it'll be relatable to people who are probably more around our age, I think. Yes. With a few outliers. But in the middle of it though, I'm sure you'll be filling it in because you've got some ones like from 50s, 60s iconic TV, you've got Howard Cunningham from, you know, Happy Days, which he's iconic in the era, but not to me personally. And so finding things that actually connect with me. So how do we pick our top three? It's really in that era. if you're, just like you said, if you're in that 90s era, born in the 80s, come up through TGIF, Saturday morning, Saturday night dramas, all those kinds of things. That's where we landed. so we said top three, but just like every list you've ever seen, we had to add a couple more. So we've got a couple of honorable mentions. We're not going to get too into them because they're honorable mentions. They don't get a full segment. But what I thought we would do is we go back and forth and just kind of, kind of, okay, here's what I've got. Here's what you got. And then give a little bit on each one. We could lump the honorable mentions together and say, here's our, so we've got two. You did two honorable mentions? Yeah. You want to kick us off or you want me to get this ball rolling here on the, these are the iconic TV dads personalized through our TV experience and era, but feel free to add yours along the way as we share. You said through our experience and era, so I'm going to go completely the opposite direction. My first honorable honorable mention and I'm not even going to get into it because most of you will not even know who this is or even know what the TV show is. But Josh, as you know, I've got a thing for Westerns and you know the pioneer days. My honorable mention first honorable honorable mention is Lucas McLean from the rifleman. He was the dad. He was a single dad, his wife died, he's raising his son by himself out in the West in a small town and truth, justice, the American way, always doing the right thing. Obviously really good with the rifle, legend in this time and just always knew what to say to his kid, how to walk him through the circumstances, how to deal with the bad guys, how to treat people with respect and dignity. That's Lucas McLean. My next honorable mention, this will be More people know about this. And this is not necessarily the good wholesome dad. It's a little bit loosening the standards, but Frank Barone from Everybody Loves Raymond. Okay. Yeah. Loosening. Sorry. You mean to... You go ahead. Right off the bat, we set the premise of this is going to be the good classic dad. know, Frank Barone, I believe was a good dad. He was a product of his generation, in a little bit wild, like a couple of key moments that... His comedic timing in the show was just fantastic. like the, there's two things that really stand out. One is a line that he said where Marie, his wife, is saying something about, I don't remember the exact scenario, but she stands up and says, you know, I have a mind of my own. I can think for myself. I'm not just some trophy wife. And he just gets this puzzled look on his face and he goes, what? Contest in hell did I win as classic Frank Barone? Another moment which was not it was a serious moment, but it was a oh my gosh type thing was there was an episode about Marie's jar of fat that Frank poured out. This is an old story that she's recalling and still upset about that happened in the 70s where she had this fat that she had been saving from you know all the cooking that she had done and he poured it out one day. because he needed the jar for his coins for the tolls. And she's still mad about this decades later and she brings it up and they get into an argument about it. She's like, that was my kitchen. You had no right to pour that fat out. And he comes back with some wrath. was, it was pretty, it was pretty intense saying, hey, that jar was for my coins. I needed that for the tolls. And if I needed to dump it out, If I needed to jump out that or dump out that jar of fat to collect the coins that paid for the tolls that got me to work to pay for the meat that made that fat and paid for that kitchen, I'll dump it out whenever I want. And I don't give a damn what you think. And I remember watching that episode with my mom and dad when that happened, we were like, oh, and then Marie, her comeback was, that's right, you never did give a damn, did you? And she walks off. But those are moments that really stick out with Frank Barone to me. What you got? This one is a product for honorable mention this one is a product of my life now of a show that plenty of parents of Bandit from Bluey Iconic in the sense that you know the episodes are only seven minutes long and but he's he seems like he's just always up for something and I think it it's It sets some sort of little bit of an impossible standard because first of all, it's a cartoon. But it's in the same way. It's like, oh, it's a little bit of a reminder to stay playful, to stay connected and do your best. And I feel like in that moment, just even there's there's whole episodes where he's taking the trash out with the kids. And it's just like four nights of that and like the conversations that they have and how they progress or taking the kids to the playground and they don't want to go to the playground. So they go to the creek and it's just the walk to the creek. It's the conversations along the way. It's how they get there. So that's it. That's a big one. That's just kind of an interesting one. We are almost we're almost on the we don't watch blue anymore age. And so it's kind of like, OK, that was an arrow we went through. But there's a couple of those stick out. The other one for me. And just the tip of the spear on the 90s sitcoms, this one was Tim Taylor, the home improvement. this guy definitely, he didn't shape my idea of what a man's supposed to be, so to speak. He screwed up a lot of stuff, level-boiled. I felt like even in his conflict with Jill, I never felt like it was malicious. I felt like it was either clueless or I didn't realize you felt like that or... And there was, it seemed like to be a pursuit of resolution. And so just along the way, you know, with the boys, you know, pushing them to work out stuff and challenging them when they feel like they went over the line, especially like the older ones with Mark, you those kind of things. it it seemed like it was iconic because it was so huge. It was such a tour de force of just the culture on improvement. And, you know, seeing, seeing that and seeing him just interact with the different, different things, especially it wasn't a dad moment, but it was his shop teacher. You remember that episode where like his shop teacher comes on the show. Yeah. You can't cut the and he wants to help him, and he has a crisis of himself because he's watching a guy that he looked up to and idolized. And he can't do it, and he doesn't want to. But he gets mad at him for like offering to help, and it's whole thing, and it's almost like, oh yeah, I guess we do deal with that on the front end with the people we look up to and then the people we have to lead in our families. So those are honorable mentions. To add to the home improvement thing, because he was a good dad, he was a dope. A very early episode is when it was the don't touch the dishwasher episode. so Tim is braising Mark the youngest and he wants Mark wants to be like his dad. You remember the shirtless part where he puts the tool belt on and they're out in the garage and then after Jill leaves, they're they're coming back into the kitchen to replace the dishwasher and He's trying to act like he knows what he's talking about and he sees all the wires. He's like, oh, that's a lot of wires. And Mark's like, how do you know which one to cut? He goes, well, it's one of the green is the ground because, the grass and then yellow. That's that's the hot one because the sun heats the grass and and then he cuts it and electrocutes me gets up and he starts dancing. And then Mark gets up and starts dancing, too. And he's trying to play it off. And yeah, it's like the one arm kind of. to the side, my hand kind of thing. Yeah. So honorable mention. Pretty good. Not quite our top three. Couldn't quite make the list. So my top three, my number three, I'm going to go with Mike Heck from the middle. Now this was right on the cusp of right on the beginning of shows being like losing the studio audience, like the sitcom era. and getting it to the point where it's just set in the middle of Indiana. the whole premise is middle America, middle class, middle age. It's all those things. And three kids, the dude works at a quarry. And he's like a middle manager kind of guy. He's in charge of some guys. And he just goes to work every day and does his best. But you start to pull it back and realize, like, man, like, his childhood was very cold. Like, because you start to meet his dad. And he's very passive aggressive. I don't want to be a bother. Come on, dad. You're coming over for Thanksgiving. Well, do you even want me to come? I mean, it's very like that. And you're like, oh. And I would imagine with a lot of these guys, like, the way they build out the character, I mean, it went for nine seasons. So they can really play with it. And the way he relates to his football playing all-star son, and he has a very unathletic younger son who he just has no idea what to do with him. And so it's like, okay, this kid reads all the time and I don't know what to do with him. And then there's an episode about Super Bowl Sunday where the youngest son, Brick, starts to read about football. And he's like, hey, dad, did you realize? And it was like, there's a connection. made. So it's and and really the theme of this is doing their best kind of thing. And so I feel like he he's really one that you can see progress and have an arc along the way. So my number three top three dads TV dads is Mike Heck from the middle. My number three sentimentally what's not the highest on my list of shows, but this show was really important to me in the 2000s came out 2001. And it was the first show that my mom, my dad, my brother, and myself would all sit down and watch together. And we did that until my brother moved away, but we still, every episode, religiously watched it from start to finish. And the father's Jonathan Kent from Smallville. I think the reason that, I think the reason my parents got pulled into it is because Jonathan Schneider, Duke's a Hazard, was the dad. And so they're like, oh, man, let's check this out. Remember watching the first episode, the pilot, when it aired. And just got really into the show so much. So a little obsessive at one point. Made a handful of trips to Vancouver, British Columbia, to the studio, the set, and some of the outside filming locations. The Kent farm, been there a couple of times to visit. And so I had a really strong bond with him as a dad. He just, again, he was one those guys that did everything right, always knew how to handle a situation. Even when he didn't know how to handle a situation, he still did it with, you know, character and held his honor intact. Probably like the ultimate episode where that happens is, I forget the exact scenario, but he basically, he dies of a heart attack after he made a deal with Jarrell, who, Forgive me if you're big into comic books, I'm not. I just really got into this show. think Jarrell was Superman's dad and he was taking him away from Earth and he made a deal that he can have his son back, but you have to give up your life for him. And so Jonathan dies in the scene where he dies, he's having a heart attack and Clark, and I think the mom was... was there and this happens in the driveway of the farm and he dies and he's giving up his life for his son and I'm getting goosebumps. I need to re-watch that episode. for me, he was a dad that I really grew with and the other characters in the show as well and he was just, you want to be like Jonathan Kent, hardworking American farmer. Even when push came to shove, he wouldn't bend his knee to Lex or Lionel Luther and the influences and the pressures. He almost lost the farm at one time and one of the Luther's offered to buy it just to save his family, to save the farm. And he wouldn't take the money from the Luther's. He was going to find a way and do what was best for his family. And yeah, he would be my number three. Cool. All right, we're cranking it up a notch. And these we had to compare because we both had these TV dads on our list. We just made a separate list, came together, and said, all right, let's see who we can talk about. And so my number two TV dad iconic or iconic TV dad is Carl Winslow. Carl Winslow, the big guy. There was no one bigger in my era that I remember than Steve Urkel for like two years, two and a half years. So much so that I, like my parents had me make a Steve Urkel phone message. So people would call and then they would just listen to the message. And it was all over the place, Urkel Doll, TV, you all the, and- You couldn't get away from Steve Urkel. Yes. several years in 90s. his agitation for the neighbor, was like it's a new version of Dennis the Menace almost. Yeah. Where he's got the neighborhood pest always showing up at the wrong time, always breaking things, just doing everything he could to comedically just destroy the life of the neighbor, family and the dad. So here we have Carl Winslow and he's got three kids and then two kids as the season goes on, because apparently Judy just kind of disappears and they really just focus on Eddie and Laura. But there are so many moments that you don't think about until you think about them. And this dude, Chicago cop, and I mean just going to work every day at some point. coming home and realizing he's got his mom that he moved in with them. taking care of his family. Mother Winslow moves in and that's the premise. That's how it starts. And then like his wife Harriet, who is just an iconic mom too. Holy cow. mean, she's totally with it. Totally. And so they are just the... He's a little bit of the bumbling. I gotta say. He's a little bit. They put him in these... scenarios where he's up in a hot air balloon freaking out because he's afraid of heights. He, you know, his barbecue blows up because Steve does something and he comes in covered in, you know, charcoal looking, you know, stuff. And in the middle of all that in through it all, here's a guy that is challenging his teenage son to treat people right, to tell the truth. His car gets stolen or he makes it in a way because he's realizing that things have gone away and he's constantly challenging Laura. He's at one point just kind of takes on Steve as another son because he's just on the show so much. But the thing about this was it was just I watched those shows so many times. They are just they I don't know if they are anymore, but they were on they were on TV. Yes, nonstop. Yeah, so you just watch over and over and over and over and over over again and it's You knew it was getting serious when he would say Edward Edward listen to me when he was trying to get him to be on the basketball team and He was trying to work it but he missed it because Eddie didn't want to play and do I mean There's just so many things as I'm thinking about it, but Carl for me That was a guy who truly was doing best. And he was providing for his family, working hard, coming home and really putting the things in place and really caring. He wasn't absent when he was home. He was all in with what was going on with the family, regardless of the off the wall zaniness that they put him in just for the TGMA era. he was all the way there when he was home. And you could feel it that he really cared about how his kids turned out. He really did care about his wife. He really cared about Harriet. And he cared about his mom, who, you know, he brought in and really made a part of the everyday family and even her sister. her little Richie. Richie. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. And so just it was like a different version of Full House. But I felt like I felt like Carl, you know, was more earnest. Yeah. So he connected with me. So number two on my list, Carl Winslow. And as so here's the other thing too, is he said Carl Winslow, my top three, his top three. These are all I think these could be you could make really good arguments to where they could be interchangeable. Yeah, Carl was just such a fantastic character. My number two. Again, could be interchangeable with Carl, but it's Uncle Phil. probably, do you think Uncle Phil was probably the most famous TV dad? I mean, outside of Bill Cosby, but kind of tainted that. Not making the list for the record. So yes, I would say, and this is where we had to like... compare notes because we both had both these guys on here and I had a little more of a connection with Carl because I was a big Family Matters kid, but I think famous wise, yeah, and the one that has lasted more in the like I would say more people now know about Uncle Phil than Carl. Oh, it stood the test of time because I think there's enough. You'll probably hit a few of these, but it's probably a lot of these like clips that just live and just exist on their own. Probably people that have never seen the show. They know why don't you want me? Yeah, they know those episodes. So I'm sure you've got some like reasons and things for you as you watch. which I completely agree with you. The Carl Winslow. I have a better connection with because just the show in general, I've liked better than Fresh Prince, which I love Fresh Prince. But really, they're kind of interchangeable. But Uncle Phil, think is the, he would probably, in most people, if you just did a random polling, he would probably be number one. Uncle Phil though, man, he's a judge, lives in Bel Air, takes in his troubled nephew from Philly and, Again, he always does the right thing, has the right thing, knows the right thing to say, has the best advice, respected in the community. The, don't he want me? Man is the, that's the one that still, you know, if I see that today or even in, you know, like they'll have memes about that or I'll just randomly scroll across and there's a picture of him, you know, hugging, hugging Will. And those were. you know, not his biological son, but still was there to look out for Will and look out for everybody else in the family and just always do the right thing. One of my favorite moments though from that show is I think the first episode, or not the first episode, the first season when Will's getting hustled by the pool shark and Uncle Phil steps in and breaks out, what was it, Lucille? Breakout Lucille. Yeah, and he brought, what's his name, the butler, right? And the butler had his special pool cue and just proceeds to clean house at the pool table and turns it into a good lesson about not letting pride, with will, not letting pride get in the way of wisdom and whatnot. Those are the couple of things that really come to mind. And then of course, always throwing Jazzy Jeff out the front door. That's classic. Yeah. And I'll piggyback on our top ones here. With the episode with Will, I feel like that has become like a top three, like just moment from television. And the episode, if you remember, like Right before that, Will just loses it on him because Uncle Phil is trying to protect Will because he knows what this guy's gonna do. Because he done it before. And he said, he's just gonna leave. he says something like, I don't care what you think, you're not my father. And walks out and Phil has to sit on that. seriously, like. I don't have any goosebumps too because I forgot about it. Hopefully you are too while you're just but and then he has to be in the room and he has to tell I mean jeez holy cow um and he doesn't say anything he doesn't say I told you so he doesn't say I knew he would do this he just grabs him pulls him in and there's nothing else in the episode It just ends like that and it ends on the sculpture with the dad with the little little boy like kind of sitting cross-legged. You know, remember that it just kind of pulls out and pans down to the thing. And that was what Will had gotten his dad as a gift. And so just man, writing was so good. And you never knew when you're going to get an episode like that. OK, top one. In comparing notes, we compare we made notes separately. and we compared and our number ones were the exactly the same. And there was a moment where I was thinking, okay, well, I'll change. I'll change my number one that just for the sake of conversation. And as we were just kind of prepping to come on here, it was like, nope, that's my number one guy. It was like, well, he's my number one guy too. I knew as soon as you asked me the question. Hadn't really talked much about or give much of a you know structure around it but like good TV dad what and I thought for three seconds the first one that pops in mind is Number one for both of us and I'm letting it happen. I'm allowing it. This isn't PTI this we're agreeing on this one Boy Meets World Alan Matthews Alan Matthews often overlooked oft overlooked. Yes And to the point where on the list, I just threw on chat GPT. was like, all right, what do you say chat? And it listed Mr. Feeny ahead of him. And in parentheses, in parentheses, it said not a dad, but a father figure. I'm like, give me a break. Which Mr. Feeny, if you had a favorite TV teacher. Okay. Teacher, neighbor, you know, whatever. Then we could do the neighbor. We could do the neighbor list and have number one. It's Alan Matthews. Yeah. One of my favorite moments from Alan was when he had he had gone through. He got fired or laid off from his grocery job and he didn't know what to do. So he went through already just this like, OK, now what moment? And he ends up opening this store, this like outdoor store. And Eric, his oldest son, who's probably college age. is working for him and he's just treading water, floating through life, and he's not really doing anything. And his wife, the mom, she says, Alan, you have to let Eric go. And so the whole episode is him coming to grips with the fact that he has to fire his son and send him out into the world because he's babying him. And he is. And so like that episode is a journey from many other steps as a journey. And so getting getting to that point, it was just like, man, he's he's really doing a lot. You've probably got one that stands out. Yeah. This one actually just came to me while you were talking was you remember the episode where Corey, you know, the kids at the school have bring your dad to work for Career Day and your dad gets to talk about what he does for a career. Yep. and Alan is a grocer. And there was an issue with Corey being kind of embarrassed about, my dad is a grocer, he works at grocery store, he manages a grocery store. And I remember watching that episode and watching the turn from Alan feeling a little embarrassed, like why am I not a doctor? Or just something more prestigious and Corey being kind of ashamed to... to go and admit and tell the class that he's a grocer. But the episode, if I'm remembering it right, it goes through a series of conversations and leads to a moment where Corey is like, yeah, my dad's a grocer. And he introduces him to talk to the class. And that was a very relatable thing to me, thinking growing up. And my dad was a mechanic. And nothing wrong with being a mechanic. you've got, when you're a kid and you're looking at, boy, Well, his dad, he does, you know, whatever, you know, a more white collar job or something like that. And that episode for me helped me to realize and remember how hard my dad worked for me and my brother and my mother and put in honest, hard days work and always provided and always did the best he could under the circumstances and was a real relatable life lesson. For me and on TV it was it was great to see do you remember that one? Oh, yeah, yeah I remember also because I think they had one of the monkeys on there as to pang his dad. That's right who like made guitars Yeah, yeah, that's right. And I feel like they had an astronaut or like yeah, just to really drive the point home and yeah, so the main event the main event of Alan Matthews really being being a dad was, if you remember the episode where Sean joins a cult or gets pulled into the idea of being one. And Sean is really going for it. he's, speaking of going on journeys, Sean has really gone through some stuff on that show. But at this point, he's really connecting with this cult leader. And then, One of his favorite teachers, the guy he used to live with for a time on the show, Mr. Turner gets in a motorcycle accident and they're all in the waiting room. They don't know what's going to happen with Mr. Turner and the cult leader shows up and they're all in there together. Mr. Feeney, the Mathews, and they walk in there and they're going back and forth. And at one point, the cult leader says, well, it's pretty much up to Sean. And or he says something like that. I'm I'm you have to go watch it. Just pull it up cult leader boy meets world, but they're in there and just even he says what does he say the leader? Mr. Feeney and Alan and the mom are talking with the cult member about you know, the guys were saying I want Sean to come with me Sean wants to come with me and They both know what this guy is up to and they're like, no, you're not coming with him. And Mr. Feeny starts to get upset and the guy's just smug. And you could tell he played the role really well of somebody who would be a manipulative kind of grooming cult member type deal. And Alan steps in between them. And I can't remember what the guy said. He said something and You saw a fierceness come out of Alan and he shoves him against the wall and points his finger in his face and I don't remember what did he say? says, no, no, you listen. Shows him and he says, Sean is the, something like Sean is the best thing that ever happened to my kid. He's the best friend he's ever had and I will kill you if you get in my way. I will kill to protect him. Yes. And so it was like, It's very similar to the Uncle Phil moment because he's really stepping in and stepping up for somebody who's not his son. Not his son and needs protection. But views him as a member of the family and really saying this is the time you set it for fierceness. so just iconic overall. And he's got a lot of those moments, but Part of my connection is he gets overlooked sometime. He gets left behind. He the lists and So well, he wasn't really funny. He wasn't comical. He didn't have the you know, Carl and uncle Phil They all had one even Danny Tanner Danny Tanner. Yeah, he is, you know goofy tall clean freak Danny, but I feel like he was a real character I feel he was real cursor and he was When you think about what I think about when it comes to being a dad and being a man He's somebody who made good choices and had wisdom and was there to take care of his family, provide for his family. But you don't think, oh, he's a grocer and he doesn't look anything. But if you mess with his family or somebody he cares about, look how fast that fierceness came out and he was ready to defend when needed. And that's like, that's the thing that I'm like, okay, that's how you need to be. Remember the episode. where his dad keeps him up late, it's like first season, to watch a perfect game. Oh yeah, that's such a great episode. And Feeny becomes the villain because he flunks him, he flunks, or does something, I can't remember. I'm gonna have to watch it again. But Feeny then realizes the relation, the bond that was... Being made throughout. through the sport. through the stay up late through those kind of things. And no joke, there have been moments where with my eight year old or 11 year old where it's stay up late. We did that for the Lions playoff win when they beat the Rams a year ago and they hadn't won a playoff game in 30 years. It was Sunday night school the next day and we're staying up till 1030 to watch the confetti hit the ground. And it was my Alan Matthews. That was that moment from the show was letting me know it was OK to do it. Yeah. And and come Feeney or whatever else it was. These are the just the little steps along the way. And they made a whole episode out of that. Well, it was those it was those kind of little moments. Yeah. And what was cool about that, correct me if I'm wrong, Feeney didn't have kids, but he taught kids his whole life. And so that was a moment where Feeney realized, you know, he didn't necessarily understand because he had never had kids of his own. So he was coming across as this strict, you know, teacher disciplinarian. But then he realizes that, oh, some things are more important than, you know, a single day where you're tired and you can't get through class. Bingo. think he was falling asleep. was falling asleep. That's what it was. And so, so it's stuff like that. And I would imagine or hopefully while we were mentioning our top three, you were either forming your own list or agreeing with us, nodding your head going, exactly, exactly. Or what about, you've probably got your own Uncle Phil moments. You're like, yeah, what about this one? What about this one? I mean, there's so many, but we just wanted to get it, especially for Father's Day weekend. Yeah. And not get too sentimental, not get too, you know, those, but still, still hit some highlights. And one thing, This is the last thing that I'll point out, and I didn't realize this until we're going through this list and we're talking about all these different scenarios and different episodes. One thing that all of these dads have in common with the exception of maybe like Frank Barone or something like that, but the ones that we're seriously like, these are in our top three and maybe the honorable mentions as well, is they all, it wasn't just them looking out for their family, it was looking out for people that couldn't look out for themselves. They all had that character, the Sean Hunter in Boy Meets World. Uncle Phil, obviously with Will. All these guys, they had that in them where they were willing to look up and felt a responsibility to look after, you know, the kids or the extended family members who couldn't look out for themselves. So taking on that extra burden, even when the burden's already so heavy with what they got going on their own family, that's just a thing that it's like, wow, I didn't make that connection there. That's something that's a really honorable Yeah, thank for a dad to do. So for you, who were your top three? What's your top three of iconic TV dads like that? And so in the comments, in the messages, whatever, you can reach out Clarksville Insider on Instagram. You can email me if you've got a list. so appreciate you coming along for the journey. Happy Father's Day weekend. If you're listening to this. at some point in October, two years from now, we launched this during Father's Day weekend. So that's why we did it. But just a one-off, not necessarily Clarksville related, but we live in Clarksville and maybe you do too. it's recorded in Clarksville. exactly. Okay. Live. Yeah. From Clarksville. There you go. That's our connection. So appreciate you coming along for the ride on this one and we'll catch you next time.