So I was watching reruns of Full House...

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Anonymous wrote:I totally felt like having a kid ruined Mrs Doubtfire for me. The wife was definitely a douche to Robin Williams after they got divorced (she should've just let him take care of the kids after school from the beginning), but I totally understand why she was pissed at him. Letting a petting zoo into their super fancy San Francisco house, especially when the kid wasn't supposed to have a big birthday party because his grades were bad?! Ridiculous. Plus, she went to the effort to get him a cake and was going to have a small party for him anyway. When I saw that movie as a kid, I thought the dad was the coolest. Now I think he was a nice dude, but totally not a responsible husband at all.

She absolutely should've let him take care of the kids. He wasn't an adulterer, alcoholic, or drug addict...he was just immature. That bothered me as a kid and it still bothers me.

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Anonymous wrote:I totally felt like having a kid ruined Mrs Doubtfire for me. The wife was definitely a douche to Robin Williams after they got divorced (she should've just let him take care of the kids after school from the beginning), but I totally understand why she was pissed at him. Letting a petting zoo into their super fancy San Francisco house, especially when the kid wasn't supposed to have a big birthday party because his grades were bad?! Ridiculous. Plus, she went to the effort to get him a cake and was going to have a small party for him anyway. When I saw that movie as a kid, I thought the dad was the coolest. Now I think he was a nice dude, but totally not a responsible husband at all.

She absolutely should've let him take care of the kids. He wasn't an adulterer, alcoholic, or drug addict...he was just immature. That bothered me as a kid and it still bothers me.

Me too. But it rings true - sometimes people in the middle of a divorce are so mad at their spouse, they can't see they are still good parents despite being lousy partners.

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Oh, my thing is open doors. We have an escape artist dog, so I am constantly shouting at TV characters, "Close the door! the dog!" Even when there is no dog on the show at all.

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Anonymous wrote:At least she was in a car seat! They used to just put babies on the floor of the backseat surrounded by pillows and blankets.

20 years before Full House. My younger brother was born in 84 and definitely was in a car seat.

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I am watching Fuller House on Netflix right now (don't judge- my husband does enough). Tommy is always just wandering the house alone, being "watched" by children, etc. DJ wanders in and kisses him and then goes out for hours. Those Tanners...

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Anonymous wrote:I am watching Fuller House on Netflix right now (don't judge- my husband does enough). Tommy is always just wandering the house alone, being "watched" by children, etc. DJ wanders in and kisses him and then goes out for hours. Those Tanners...

+1, talk about free-range kids.

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Anonymous wrote:The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV

Wait... isn't it The milkman, the paperboy, and even MTV?
Have I been singing it wrong for decades?

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Anonymous wrote:The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV

Wait... isn't it The milkman, the paperboy, and even MTV?
Have I been singing it wrong for decades?

NP. Haha, yes, you've been singing it wrong!

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, having kids ruins frivolous TV. I keep waiting for Little Ricky to scream bloody murder from the room he is always playing in quietly alone while Lucy and Ethel plot out something. And talk about reliable childcare - Mrs Trumbull was always available to babysit at a moment's notice.

Why aren't all kids like TV kids?

I know! I want TV kids! I was watching an episode of "7th Heaven" and the two younger kids are quietly playing in their room with no TV when the mother comes in with open cups of milk and a huge plate of cookies and asks them to please stay in their room while she and the father entertain a guest. Like my kids would ever do that especially after all the sugar from the cookies and spilling milk all over!

Oh, and the episodes of some shows, like everyone loves Raymond, where there are entire episodes where you either do not see the kids or barely see them. Where are they?

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Anonymous wrote:The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV

Wait... isn't it The milkman, the paperboy, and even MTV?
Have I been singing it wrong for decades?

That's how I sang it too!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha ha! I had no idea it was "evening" TV.

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Anonymous wrote:The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV

Wait... isn't it The milkman, the paperboy, and even MTV?
Have I been singing it wrong for decades?

That's how I sang it too!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha ha! I had no idea it was "evening" TV.

MTV makes no sense in the context in the song! How did two of you come up with that?!

Funny.

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I saw (only) the final episode of the Melissa McCarthy sitcom, and they were installing a car seat for a newborn, and it was a FF convertible. I couldn't understand how no one working on that show knew how to install an infant car seat!

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Anonymous wrote:The part that gets me is that in some of the early episodes, they're celebrating Danny's 30th birthday. A few episodes later, DJ mentions she's 11. He was a teen dad, but now he lives in one of San Francisco's painted ladies? What?

Sounds like he must have a ton of family money.

I always had issues with the age thing . . . It confused me.

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Anonymous wrote:I noticed the carseat recently too!

That plastic shield thing looks terribly uncomfortable.

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Anonymous wrote:It was the 80s ... I was born in 86 and remember my friend and I riding in the trunk of my parents' station wagon with no seatbelts ... we were just in that big trunk area having fun. I think our dog was there too.

I did that all the time. I was recently lamenting the wasted space at the back of my SUV when we had to pile extra people in.