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Top 10 Worst TV Parents


where the hell did you get a gun I
borrowed it from Pam oh my god
dysfunctional families have always made
for great viewing but sometimes TV takes
bad parenting to whole new heights
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
worst TV parents for this list we’re
looking at all the parents to grace the
small screen and choosing those we think
messed up their kids the most mother
and if they didn’t it was a fluke number
10 Tobias and Lindsay phew NK Arrested
Development all homosexuals are
flamboyant oh my god have big sex Fame
class
Tobias and Lindsay few gay have taking
parental absenteeism and turned it into
an art form that’s my point you handsome
cowboy you oh great and now you’re
mocking me selfish country music loving
lady they’re both so self-involved when
their daughter may be purposely flunked
out of high school to get their
attention not only did they not notice
they actually moved out of town thinking
she was away at boarding school what
kind of a boarding school lose track of
its students openings is not a boarding
school I thought it was a boarding
school too the few days extremely
laid-back approach to parenting has led
maybe to become seriously independent
rebelling any way she can and
masterminding various cons try given
task to notice me I’ve been here for
like I don’t want to have but alas
Tobias and Lindsay are way too
self-absorbed to even notice and they
spent so much money trying to conceive
to she was made in a cup like soup a
hundred and thirty thousand dollar cup
of soup I’m leaving you Junior and I’m
taking him with me number nine
jr. and Sue Ellen Ewing Dallas he said
that I couldn’t love anyone he called me
a parasite this oil baron and his former
beauty queen of a wife spent far too
much time scheming and plotting to pay
much attention to their offspring John
Ross Ewing the third cuz I surely am NOT
going to change
you can go straight to him there were
also Affairs aplenty as juniors business
trips were often racy liaisons even
while he had a pregnant wife at home you
mean you’re leaving him just because he
cheated on you and that doesn’t bother
you that left Sue Ellen with nothing to
do but start drinking heavily again
while pregnant while little junior was
lucky enough to be born defect free his
life was far from drama-free as his
parents infidelity and stakes in the
family oil business kept them occupied
and embroiled in scandal seems like oil
is thicker than blood down in Texas hey
John Ross daddy’s here how’s my boy
number 8 Don and Betty Draper Mad Men we
thought about getting a nanny we have a
girl that comes in sort of a housekeeper
and sometimes babysitter in the mad
world of 1960s suburbia Don and Betty
Draper are too wrapped up in their own
lives and adult drama to pay much
attention to their little children he’s
dead he’s dead and he’s never coming
back nobody cares that he’s really
really really good shall he go watch TV
a far cry from June Cleaver stay-at-home
mom Betty seems bored and unhappy with
her life
rather have you do it in front of me
than behind my back often taking your
frustrations out on her daughter Sally
that is when she isn’t totally ignoring
her pretty good dawn on the other hand
is rarely home too busy working drinking
or womanizing this adman generally seems
more than satisfied to leave the
child-rearing to someone else I don’t
even know what to say number seven
Alan Peggy Bundy married with children
hi I’m Peggy Bundy
don’t let the wedding ring fool you
means nothing to me
as far as TV parents go the Bundys are
pretty terrible family before you go
would you bring old daddy’s shotgun and
stand close together
lazy cheap and dissatisfied with the way
his life has turned out papa bear al
spends most of his time parked in front
of the TV hey hot tub girls is on
big-haired obnoxious peg on the other
hand is too busy spending all of us
money on stuff they can’t afford rather
than you know buying groceries don’t you
understand if people keep shopping there
will be broken living under the ill well
not me I can always remarry as a result
there’s never any food in the house she
also refuses to clean or cook and his
famous for her total lack of attention
towards her children there are two
things Peggy Bundy doesn’t do number one
cook clean so vacuum ironing and parent
number six Peter Griffin family got
cooked much hey let’s be honest neither
griffin parent is exactly a parent of
the year material okay look Meg I’ve
been at this for 45 minutes I don’t know
what else I can say here’s a Sylvia
Plath book and a bottle of ambien
but Peter gets the nod over Lois for the
way he treats his kids especially his
only daughter meant
Oh in the kitchen meg he farts on her
pranks her insults her and even shoots
her at one point
hi dad he isn’t much nicer to the rest
of the family though exerting his
superiority over his older son Chris is
dad mad at me and barely interacting
with his youngest son Stewie Peter is
basically an overgrown child who thinks
only about himself often putting his
kids in dangerous situations
dad what’s wrong with you
luckily the 2-dimensional world is a
little more forgiving than the real
world it’s often nasty careful I might
be carrying a concealed weapon number 5
Frank Gallagher
shameless UK version he’s unemployed
he’s a drunk there’s to Alzheimer’s he
bullies his kids well let me put it like
this I won’t be not keen on any son of
mine Frank Gallagher is a shameless
patriarch of the Gallagher clan which
includes 8 children in total from two
different women which all things
considered ain’t that bad
Zulu Tommy what’s happened to the oval
one a single parent he’s rarely around
to care for his brood preferring to
expend his energy getting smashed at the
jockey running up a serious bar tab in
the process well I did it for all the
right reasons instead of contributing to
the household expenses he spends his
unemployment benefits on booze leaving
his kids to pick up the pieces
I wouldn’t put him anywhere never carp
until his cakes dry off a bit number
four
Walter and Skyler white Breaking Bad you
all know exactly who I am
high school chemistry teacher slash meth
coat and drug kingpin Walter White is
far from a model father you uh you wanna
cook crystal meth while his motivations
to get into the drug business are
somewhat understandable at first he soon
realizes this world is far more
dangerous than he bargained for how much
is enough how big does this pile have to
be slowly growing more ruthless as the
series progresses Walt ends up dragging
his wife Skyler into his world of
illegal activities to the point where
the couple’s kids are taken away from
them you seriously
kicking me out my own house while the
whites do usually treat their children
relatively well bringing Albuquerque’s
underworld to your doorstep is probably
not the best parenting move I am NOT in
danger Skyler I am the danger
a guy opens his door and gets shot and
you think that of me now I am the one
who knocks number three
Livia soprano The Sopranos she was i
strong my mother very dramatic
the revery night to her tonight at the
Opera I could stick this fork in your
eye
this is Libya Sopranos take on
motherhood and babies babies are like
animals they’re no different than dogs
this abusive manipulative and vengeful
woman doesn’t have a maternal bone in
her body taking pleasure and making the
lives around her miserable especially
her three children
you’re a real stone play on Gemma you
threatened to smother his children what
does that mean you know everybody
thought that was the ruthless one but I
got a hand in T as if this wasn’t enough
to send her kids running for the
psychiatrist’s couch Libya conspires
with her brother Junior to have Tony
killed for putting her in a nursing home
and bigger things to talk about the jean
cusamano’s is like feelings of
worthlessness sparked by your mother’s
plot to have you killed this is one mom
who did not relax with age I wish the
Lord would take me now well in the
meantime number two Vernon Schillinger
oz Hey
I manifested here prisoner number nine
to s110 burn chilling er isn’t only a
bad father he’s a pretty rotten human
being it’s funny you know raised by his
white supremacist dad Heinrich burned
his proof that the apple doesn’t fall
far from the tree as he leads the Aryan
Brotherhood in Oz the boys last name in
order would surely mean extremely racist
cruel and sadistic burn has no problem
killing or even raping fellow inmates
speak when you’re supposed to now watch
well if you don’t don’t you ever gonna
learn well he does show remorse for how
his two drug-addicted sons turned out he
fixes it so his eldest son will Oh Dion
smack and turns his other son into a
kidnapper and murderer for hire way to
spread the love dad how much how much
one once you cash okay you want the
crime you gotta pay the dime $1,000
oh ma used anything before we unveil our
top pick here are a few honorable
mentions you find it intolerable living
out of the same roof with the brother
who betrayed you then you and Jake can
come and live with me we’re good I need
your help
go to 11 no I can’t we are here because
you need to stop playing toys and come
help you stand here I have to go ahead
you have to be what toys
what twice as good twice as good as them
to get half the what’s my temperature 50
45 40 it’s all over I’m really sick huh
number one Craster Game of Thrones this
series is no stranger to poor parenting
case in point Tywin Lannister you will
do anything to secure the Lannister
family legacy and I wouldn’t let myself
be consumed by maggots before mocking
the family name and making you heir to
Casterly Rock but no father in Westeros
is more despicable than Craster the
wildling allied to the Nights Watch who
lives with his brood of wives 19 to be
exact beyond the wall he marries his
daughters like giving more daughters on
and on it goes
that’s foul now where does he find all
these wives
well most if not all of them are his own
daughters and more daughters than I can
count
I’m glad for you I know whom he weds
once they’ve reached an appropriate age
and fathers their children to ensure his
manhood goes unchallenged
he also sacrifices any sons his
incestuous harem produces to the White
Walkers
offerings he’s murdering his own
children he’s a monster worst father
ever
I am a godly mother Cindy busted
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and I are having a disagreement who do
you think is the worst TV parent for
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