Sitcom Fail: Why Doing Everything For Your Kids Is Not a Good Idea. Or Funny.

Denise Schipani / 9 Comments / bad parents in fiction, discipline, family life, humor, modern families / CBS TV, sitcoms, The Middle /

You know what’s funny? It’s not most sitcoms (ba-da-bum!). What’s funny is that after the last time I wrote about the CBS TV sitcom “The Middle,” my friend Sally wrote to agree with me, and also to wonder how it was that I even managed to sit down for an 8pm show. Sally and I […]

November 18, 2010

“The Middle”: A Sitcom Dad Actually Gets it Right

Denise Schipani / 9 Comments / bullying, family life, modern families, other parents, TV Moms (and Dads), Uncategorized / ABC TV, Bill Bixby, Bill Cosby, Eden Sher, Frankie Heck, mean girls, Mike Heck, Neil Flynn, Patricia Heaton, Sue Heck, The Middle /

So, I was going to write about homework this week, but that will have to wait, because an extraordinary thing happened last night, sometime between 8:00pm and 8:30pm, while I was watching the ABC-TV sitcom, “The Middle.” I say extraordinary because this involved a TV dad, who was not Bill Cosby or Bill Bixby (is […]