While Hugh Beaumont was "Americas Dad" in hearts and minds, he was only a T.V. dad for 7 seasons. Ed O'Neill was a T.V. dad for 22 total years.

I’d say that the longest running most popular TV dad is probably Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson.

No the ultimate tv dad is Ward Cleaver from Leave it to Beaver

"Sitcoms about friends hanging out" died in the 2010s because any show like that other than New Girl wasn't able to rake in multiple millions of viewers consistently. Pretty much all the big ones that premiered after New Girl failed. So Hollywood got scared out of making them. They'll come back eventually.

I’m quoting Hank Hill, my friend.

No it's called opinion, there are lots of people that don't like this show lol but anyways your opinion is better and more valid.

If you want to do an adult oriented (Bit of a misnomer since the cartoon was Primetime in the 60s) Flintstones, they should go with the comic DC put out a few years ago.

6 out of 15 in the current top level comments from the r/videos thread are copy/paste bots. One of those 15 comments is mine and another is someone who copy/pasted their own comment from r/television providing a mirror link. So basically 1 in 2 every top level comment is a bot.

You have one comment that was copied from an original user later for karma. In that same thread you linked to, other posters gave examples of bot sound bites that actually do get used consistently in nearly every thread about this show. You mostly just strengthened any argument against yourself.

I think Breaking Bad is the much better show.

They had a core idea: to turn a 'good' person into a 'bad' person. What makes the show truly great is how committed they are to this. They were fearless in taking the character down very dark paths even when they knew the audience might react poorly. They understood that even if we liked Walt, we had to see him 'break bad', to the point where he turns into a repulsive antagonist for the whole of the last season. This fearlessness gives the show its power.

Better Call Saul suffers from not being committed to anything. The writers have openly acknowledged that the show was going to be about Saul Goodman but they liked Jimmy so much that they kept stalling on his transformation to Saul, dragging their feet, taking things back. It's the opposite of Breaking Bad. They are not committed enough to turn the guy into Saul because they "like him."

This is a problem for the other stories too. There's really not much rhyme or reason to Mike, Gus, and Nacho being there. They are remnants of a show that never was. Their storyline has very little depth and we learn almost nothing about Mike and Gus that we didn't already know.

Check out the r/videos thread to see a prime example of this shows biggest fans

At this time 1 out of every 6 comments are bot copy/paste replies from the r/television Waffle House thread

Edit: downvote all you want, I’ve got you dead to rights you damn dirty robots

Here’s a blatant example I called out in another thread but believe what you want

The only sound bites I hear consistently, like SNL hasn't been funny in years, are negative though.

Bots, ai, shills, call them what you like

I’m waiting a few months before embarking on a full watch of both. I am looking forward to it very much. Both masterpieces of the medium.

The idea of something being better is subjective as fuck. Why can y’all just enjoy things without comparing them.

Toward the end, Letterman was pulling in 2.8 million viewers. Colbert pulls in 1.8 million.

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Machines?

True, I just think the first two seasons spun their wheels a bit and in the third it kicked into a higher gear. BB never felt like that.

honestly i don't think either of them is the better show. i like them both equally and appreciate the differences in what they are trying to be and what they accomplished. and there is so much overlap in the staff/talent between the two shows that i consider them to kinda be the same show but different volumes or chapters or whatever you wanna call it.

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Writers almost never have an ending in mind when they start out a show, BB included

Same. The female characters are so much more enjoyable to watch. I’ve always been annoyed by Skyler and Marie’s I’ve met in life, but the Kim Wexlers I’ve known are women I deeply revere and you can tell they really did the work to write better characters than BB. And yes I’m including Betsy Kettleman.