In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Henry Jones (Sean Connery) has a great -- if sad -- line: "You left just when you were getting interesting." Most parents acknowledge that the infant-toddler years of our kids are often mind-numbingly repetitive, but only the biggest assholes among us actually project that sentiment in front of our children.
What's that? You're broke? And unable to provide for your [four] children's long term well-being? HILARIOUS.
Clearly if you leave your woman home all day with children she'll have no recourse but to put on gloves and demand a night of romance-ification. We're such pigs, at least according to this guy:
Current Late Night host Fallon has admittedly shown flashes of intelligence on his show, but either those are anomalies or he was taking a nap when they were handing out writer/creator/executive producer tags. Coincidentally, or perhaps not, the guy has no kids of his own.
Once upon a time, men were depicted as decent fathers on TV: Mike Brady in The Brady Bunch for example, or Steven Douglas in My Three Sons. Maybe we're better at dealing with adolescents, or maybe it was decided the first half of Mr. Mom was a better yardstick to measure male parental skills. Nowadays it looks like the concept of fatherly competence, like dollar-a-gallon gas and moderate Republicans, has vanished from the face of the earth.
