# Single Dad Sitcom With No Help **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 4, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-dad-sitcom-with-no-help/410441 "2007-07-04T00:23:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-dad-sitcom-with-no-help/410441/41 "2007-07-06T03:27:37Z")
[QUOTE=Justin\_Bailey] (my sister was a pre-teen when the show started so if I wanted to watch Fresh Prince of Bel-Air I was screwed) [/QUOTE] That you wanted to watch Fresh Prince of Bel Air pretty much indicated you were screwed anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2007, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-dad-sitcom-with-no-help/410441/42 "2007-07-06T12:03:41Z")
Abe Simpson raised Homer alone after Mona left. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2007, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-dad-sitcom-with-no-help/410441/43 "2007-07-06T13:16:37Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Abe Simpson raised Homer alone after Mona left. [/QUOTE] And that demonstrates beautifully that a Mr. French/Mr. Belvedere/second Dad/Mrs. Garrett/Hop Sing is a REALLY good idea for single dads on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-dad-sitcom-with-no-help/410441/44 "2007-07-06T22:13:58Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Ned Flaunders on the Simpsons [/QUOTE] He gets help from Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2007, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-dad-sitcom-with-no-help/410441/45 "2007-07-06T23:32:17Z")
[QUOTE=Rilchiam] Actually, he pronounced it “Wo!” I never watched the show, but I watched enough ABC to see the promos. Every frakking week, the promo would feature a tight closeup of JL turning to the camera and saying “Wo!” That’s why I never watched the show. [/QUOTE] Isn’t “whoa” pronounced the same way as “wo”? ETA: Sorry, I missed the rest of the discussion on the words. But like the others, I always assumed it was "Whoa."Wiki also says that it was “Whoa.” ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-dad-sitcom-with-no-help/410441/46 "2007-07-07T09:34:13Z")
It only ran for 1 season, but Complete Savages was about a single dad raising 5 sons. The mom had run away 10 years prior. ---
**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-dad-sitcom-with-no-help/410441/47 "2007-07-08T06:08:03Z")
I really never wanted to think about it again but there was an Australian sitcom (we just shouldn’t do those) called: [Hey, Dad!](http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Dad..!) _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-dad-sitcom-with-no-help/410441/48 "2007-07-10T02:35:32Z")
[QUOTE=monstro] “One on One” is a show about a single father and his teenaged daughter. [/QUOTE] I know I have a dirty mind and all, but c’mon, that sounds like something out of _Penthouse Variations_. ---
**Author:** ![Ottoerotic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ottoerotic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ottoerotic)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-dad-sitcom-with-no-help/410441/49 "2007-07-10T02:49:52Z")
_Grace Under Fire_ comes to mind with Brett Butler raising children alone. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-dad-sitcom-with-no-help/410441/50 "2007-07-12T02:38:01Z")
[QUOTE=Shryn King] Disney’s \*\*[Hannah Montana](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493093/plotsummary) \*\* has Billy Ray Cyrus as the dad of two teenagers. I have only seen parts of it a couple of times; but, I haven’t seen where there is anyone else around helping with the parenting. [/QUOTE] One of the producers of this show joked that it’s Disney tradition to have one or both of the parents be dead. (There was one episode in which Hannah’s late mother, played by Brooke Shields, appeared in a dream sequence. No, I don’t have any children.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-dad-sitcom-with-no-help/410441.md?page=2)