Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Fathers were thought of as the stern, no nonsense side of the parental unit.<< One of the running threads of that show, however, was the Ward was basically a reasonable, fair-minded guy. On the show, he often made reference to June about how his own no-nonsense dad might have handled a particular situation -- and it always was meant to show that his own dad was a little too stern and rigid and that he was trying to be a kinder, gentler sort of father than that.
Originally Posted By SFH "Oops. I now sheepishly realize I mixed up Fred Gwynne's name with that of his character. D'oh!!" That's okay. We'll just chalk that up to being a yute-ful mistake.
