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Top 10 TV Families


I told you we’re not starting without
your father dinner just isn’t dinner
without him who where perhaps I could
help simulate the experience good
they’re loving caring or just plain
dysfunctional welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top 10 TV families for this list
we’re taking a look at those television
families that have cracked us up filled
us with envy or have made us more
grateful for the loved ones already in
our lives not so fast
tiger number 10 the Taylor’s home
improvement oh honey not now Kenny wait
talk to dinner with three boys a
wisecracking dad and an equally sharp
but loving mom this TV family had
something for everyone in addition to
Tim the tool man Taylor day to day
antics and the endless patience of his
wife the three Taylor children developed
their own unique identities with their
own unique problems and growing pains in
a house full of testosterone
there is still a great deal of
tenderness and new us underneath all the
tough love do you know what special
event we have coming up next week you
don’t even have to ask me I know what it
is you’re bluffing what is it our
anniversary ha ha ha ha ha ok mr. big
shot what day of the week is it
dear the week is it that’s easy what day
of the week is over tiny
Friday Friday Saturday Saturday cheddar
number nine the Connors roseann freeze
right there when I tell you about
killing your brother in the living room
they were the royal family of blue
collar nobility as a lower middle class
family their on-screen struggles
resonated with a wide demographic
watching the family persevere through
hardships or revel in small triumphs it
was easy to see why the show was so
popular yeah I will
stud what Anna yeah what happened some a
woman married me underneath all the
sarcasm and in spite of their various
problems they displayed a bond that can
only come from surviving and enduring in
the face of adversity this is a Magic
Kingdom where you just sit up here on
your throne oh yeah and you think
everything gets done by some wonderful
wizard Oh poop the laundry’s folded both
dinners on the table wanna fix dinner
number eight the cleavers leave it to
beaver
my name’s beaver beaver is that your
given name yes ma’am
my brother giving it to me many consider
them the quintessential example of an
all-american family the cleavers were a
safe suburban Bunch with a milquetoast
lifestyle with the adventures of one
precocious young boy beaver being the
primary focus of the show the cleaver
family was constantly central to almost
every plot have you ever kissed any
other married woman besides mom themes
like working hard and education were
primary to the show making it pretty
much a guideline for how to exist in
suburbia your mother and I both know
that there are a lot of things to learn
and a lot of things to accomplish before
you really grown up she dead when I came
downstairs I was feeling real good why
did you have to go and say stuff like
that
number seven The Simpsons The Simpsons
no remember as far as anyone known for a
nice normal family this animated clan
has all the makings of a traditional
American family with three kids a
housewife and the breadwinning father
but that’s where the parallels end Bart
how could you
a little sister my finger slipped not in
mine for the most part this nuclear
family is anything but conventional
between homers constant bumbling Bart’s
perpetual mischievousness Lisa’s
highbrow intellectualism and Marge as
the steadfast matriarch the family
members have stuck to their roles over
the decades call me daddy
Homer daddy Homer daddy
da-da-dah yes donar why are you a little
number 6 the tenors full house honey
you’re ready for the prom you said this
would be good hey if you can’t have fun
with your little sister then what’s the
point in having one three grown men
raising three young girls in the hills
of San Francisco seems reasonable
particularly when one is a musician and
the other is a comedian
everywhere I go I hears those damn birds
right although it may have seemed
avant-garde the show’s themes weren’t
that unconventional with the help of his
two pals a widower and his daughters
live their lives together and it’s the
love in the household that makes the
scenario more believable and I know how
much you girls miss your mother because
I miss her too very much number five the
banks The Fresh Prince of bel-air as
long as you live in my house you will
abide by my rules and that goes for the
rest of you that’s telling us Dad
after moving to a high-end suburb to
live with his wealthy extended family
Will Smith plays Will Smith a
street-smart Philly teen while the show
centers on his fish-out-of-water
adjustment to his affluent and somewhat
sheltered family the entire banks clan
is grounded in their appreciation or not
for will Steve David Henry this is will
my nephew by marriage the family evolves
together and in spite of butting heads
they grow thanks in part to wills
presence it is amazing you certainly
have grown will well we all have number
four the Seavers growing pains all right
lady drop that spatula or you’re
screaming go ahead make my day this
all-american family had a teen
heartthrob a do-gooder sister a con
artist brother and an infant that
morphed into a six-year-old within two
seasons add to that a psychiatrist
father with an at-home practice and a
busy journalist for a mom and the show
was chock-full of family-friendly
shenanigans
tell me sir isn’t it unusual for a
father and a son to attend a rock and
roll concert together no no way no not
in our family not in any family that
loves each other right hmm
number three the Bradys the Brady Bunch
we became much having a blended family
on TV was a bold move for the 60s the
eight-member family which included six
children and two adults was comprised of
a widower and his three sons and a
single mom and her three daughters any
trouble in here oh no everything’s fine
fine fine add in their raw housekeeper
does anything I can’t stand it’s a
perfect kid and six of them yes and the
Brady family wasn’t exactly an example
of Americana but it was a glimpse into
how the American family dynamic was
shifting what’s the matter I don’t hear
anything
what’s the matter with that six kids and
no noise that’s what’s the matter with
that number – but Keaton’s family ties I
guess the parent of the Year award is
pretty much out the window who knew
ex-hippies with a conservative kid would
make for good primetime TV
clearly the producers did and the
relationship of a family politically at
odds with their own children is the
heart of this series I can’t believe you
guys can watch this you look ridiculous
half a million people trying to stop a
senseless war you find that ridiculous
I’m talking about the outfits despite
their differences however this TV family
manages to stay dedicated to each other
even in the depths of the Reagan era
yeah I haven’t seen him this excited
since Reagan was elected
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions yeah purples
don’t cry daddy’s gonna take you
downtown
oh all right all right all these join me
up and that’s pretty much the way that
summer went I guess it was really my
last summer of pure unadulterated
childhood but Peter why would they make
you president well maybe it’s because I
can recite all 50 states in a quarter of
a second but it’s about Malcolm I didn’t
do it is it it I saw listen to that
dynamo he’s a chip off the old block
thanks dad
speaking of your bluff what’s wrong with
your hand
aha your mother likes to make jokes I
just got a deadline to meet that’s all
what’s he mean he’s got a deadline he
means he’s gonna be dead if you don’t
tow the line funny number one the
Huxtables The Cosby Show I’m Sondra
Denise’s older sister Alvin Sandra’s
husband Francine Alvin’s mother
mr. father of every grandma Anna her
husband grandpa Russell on cliffside
whip is my husband Denise’s father it’s
nice to meet you all well we gotta go
back into the kitchen now we got a lot
of work to do by the huxtable family
forever changed the landscape of
American sitcom television this
well-to-do Brooklyn based family set the
groundwork for future family sitcoms
representing a wholesome well-structured
and diverse unit that’s the dumbest
thing
no wonder you get DS and everything the
epitome of charm and baby soft humor the
Huxtables represented a different
version of the American Dream with their
five kids attorney mother and physician
father in the crazy sweaters I am your
father I brought you in this world and
I’ll take you out do you agree with our
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today my pimples getting worse oh honey
I am so sorry can you stand yeah well
then the pictures happening it’s all
anybody’s gonna see I wouldn’t be so
sure about that
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