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Bumbling Dad

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Bumbling Dad	comment	Born out of the Sitcom Dysfunctional Family, he's a deliberate subversion of the Standard '50s Father. Now so ubiquitous the older trope is nearly forgotten. Although he's clever at times, he's not usually allowed to be smart. He has no idea that Shortcuts Make Long Delays. He's lazy, gluttonous, and has miscellaneous other glaring vices. His children may love him, but they often don't respect him. However, he is still a sympathetic character; the source of his charm is his complete love and loyalty to his family, even if the main way he shows it is by fixing problems he caused himself. His family is made up of at least one child nearing or in their teenage years, and a wife (usually much prettier than Dad) who spends her time Parenting the Husband. If he has one or more teenage daughters, at least one will be a Bratty Teenage Daughter or a Daddy's Girl; whether they are or not, the dad will be a Boyfriend-Blocking Dad in regards to the girl(s) — and quite often Amazingly Embarrassing to the girls and the boys alike. Naturally, this is filled with problematic messages. This trope essentially agrees that dads shouldn't be expected to do anything but watch sports and drink beer, but rather than being due to traditional gender roles, it's because they're simply too stupid and incompetent to accomplish anything else. While indirectly paying women a compliment by depicting them as the more capable gender, women are therefore expected to be the responsible ones and to shoulder all of the work of keeping a household stable. Asking a man to do something, like look after the kids, is only asking for disaster, and the long-suffering woman can only sigh and clean up his mess. Traditional gender roles are therefore still enforced. The reasoning is simply re-framed in a way that infantilizes men. It also present the mother as either cruel or indifferent when there is no explanation for why she doesn't try to stop some of the more dangerous behaviour. Many a Bumbling Dad has been on the receiving end of Familial Chiding. This trope is still mostly seen in sitcoms and cartoons, along with many commercials, especially ones aimed at kids. In anime, this type of character is taken more respectfully, since it usually consists of a goofier dad, more involved with his family than the stereotypical Salaryman. This is even more common when his children have no visible mother. When the mother is visible she'll often be presented as knowing better but doing nothing to stop the dad. This is an example of how a Subverted Trope can end up becoming the norm. Back in the day, fathers were assumed to be wise and in charge, and the bumbling dad was something fresh and unusual—which was arguably what made it so funny in the first place. Today, despite some pushback, sitcoms have made bumbling dads an Undead Horse Trope, and consistently competent fathers are a comparative rarity.
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Bumbling Dad / int_10550610	comment	Mr C in Happy Days. Not quite as bumbling as later examples, but an early subversion of "Father Knows Best" type dads (to quote one meddling executive: "He doesn't look like a father. He looks like my father.")
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Bumbling Dad / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: Hunson Abadeer is Satan in this universe. When it comes to Marceline his daughter, he reverts into a light parody of the trope.
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Bumbling Dad / int_151de869	comment	Genta Igarashi from Kamen Rider Revice is an embarrassing, hammy goof who spends his time filming himself doing different challenges, tricks, and records instead of taking care of the family's bathhouse business, much to his children's chagrin. However, given the later reveal that he's an experimental Human-Demon Hybrid and was once an executioner for the organisation that remodeled him and was responsible for his parents' death, him losing his memories and becoming his present self almost feels like a well-earned happy ending.
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Bumbling Dad / int_162fcaab	comment	Dinosaur Train: Downplayed with Mr. Pteranodon. While he's by no means an idiot, he's prone to getting flustered (such as when he meets his favourite dinoball player), and his rivalry with Larry Lambeosaurus gets him into trouble a few times. Larry Lambeosaurus is a straight example. He's very, very stupid. In one episode, he gets stuck in a mud put because he insists he can reach a few leaves hanging above it; and in another, he thinks all animals are dinosaurs.
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Bumbling Dad / int_1640f921	comment	Subverted in Cheaper by the Dozen (2003). Tom is unable to control the kids at times, but he's clearly frustrated, not stupid. Although many claimed Tom was stupid, this clearly is not the case.
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Bumbling Dad / int_167a1b19	comment	Inverted in Up All Night, as noted here. Chris began sort of this way, but as a stay-at-home dad got things under control. His wife, Reagan, who continued working as a TV producer, is instead the one who tends to bollix things up when she takes charge.
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Bumbling Dad / int_18acb3a5	comment	Also averted by Uncle Phil on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Yes, he has his moments of stupidity, but overall, Uncle Phil's portrayed as competent and knowledgeable way more often than other sitcom dads. And he's also an excellent lawyer and an even better judge, although his skills as a handyman and cook are even less impressive than Bill Cosby's above.
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Bumbling Dad / int_19948e9a	comment	The Story of Saiunkoku has Kou Shoka, who fills the role not only for his daughter Shuurei but also to a lesser degree for both Seiran and the young Emperor, Shi Ryuuki. He mostly comes off as kind and good-natured but hopelessly inept, at least until it's revealed that he's also the highly skilled assassin known as the Black Wolf and that his bumbling is mostly an act.
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Bumbling Dad / int_1b021fcb	comment	Omakes in Tokyo Ghoul:re reveal Yoshitoki Washuu to be one to his Antagonistic Offspring, Matsuri. His various attempts at family bonding fail miserably, primarily because of how completely different father and son are in personality and interests.
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Bumbling Dad / int_1b386512	comment	In Ranma Â½, both Soun Tendo and Genma Saotome were often Bumbling Dads more typical of the American form of the trope than the Japanese style (as opposed to the egregious Principal Kuno in the same series, who was very much in the Japanese mold despite his obsession with Hawaii). This was even more pronounced for those times when they did act like the competent martial artists they were supposed to be. Genma's a rather... interesting case in that he's often more straight-up malicious than your standard Bumbling Dad. There are quite a few stories where he doesn't even have a hint of good intentions behind his actions, and he's motivated by pure selfishness/sadism.
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Bumbling Dad / int_1b51bb94	comment	Gomez Addams of The Addams Family, had eccentric habits and interests and could lean towards Cloud Cuckoolander tendencies at times, but was still depicted as a selfless, loving, and attentive husband and father. In addition to being Happily Married, he and his wife Morticia usually worked together to solve various family problems.
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Bumbling Dad / int_1c2f4835	comment	Noah in Rebirth can be this during his particularly bad attempts to be kind to Neo. Like trying to be nice and inviting him to breakfast...while forgetting it was also his birthday.
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Bumbling Dad / int_1c552432	comment	Inside Job (2021): Deconstructwed by Rand Ridley. On the surface, he's a perfect example of this trope: a lazy, hedonistic stoner who mooches off of and constantly embarrasses his daughter Reagan with his ZanySchemes, but seems to genuinely love her. However, his erratic behavior is the result of decades of hard drinking and drug use that have been unchecked, and it becomes gradually clear that he's an abusive father who genuinely abused Reagan throughout her childhood and serves as a constant toxic influence on her. It culminates in the first season finale, which reveals he erased her Only Friend from her memory so he could force her to skip grades so he could fast-track her to success, making it clear he only ever saw her as a meal ticket at best.
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Bumbling Dad / int_1cc09117	comment	In Bleach Isshin Kurosaki, Ichigo's widower father. However, we learn later on that Isshin is in fact an exiled captain-level shinigami, and that his goofiness is a put-on. He's still goofy after The Reveal, just more of a badass. Also, most of his goofiness in relation to Ichigo was actually him being a Stealth Mentor, teaching Ichigo how to fight without Ichigo even realizing it. He is still, however, a completely incompetent boob when it comes to Yuzu and Karin.
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Bumbling Dad / int_1cf10d97	comment	Boruto: Naruto and Sasuke. There's a good balance of it being Played for Laughs and Played for Drama. Not helping is Naruto not having parents to begin with, and Sasuke's parents being somewhat incompetent. The "Family Day arc", shows a lot of humorous bumbling dad moments with Naruto, Choji, and Sasuke as they spend Parent and Child Day with their respective daughters. In the first episode, Naruto goofs up buying a Kuraa-ma toy Himawari wanted and ended up buying a Shukaa-ku toy instead, which initially disappoints her until she changes her mind by the end. The next episode opens with Choji getting kicked out of his house by his wife for being lazy and eating the sweets she bought for the family to enjoy, and almost losing an eating contest with Chocho in an attempt to win his wife's affection back. The last episode has Sasuke trying to bond with Sarada. Sadly, with a combination of poor social skills and bad advice from Kakashi, he ends up embarrassing her. It isn't until he remembers how spent time with his own father, and getting more practical advice from his wife Sakura does he succeed in bonding with her.
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Bumbling Dad / int_1d42b351	comment	Professor Bomba from Epic (2013) is already unused to interacting with humans, let alone his own daughter.
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Bumbling Dad / int_1ed2c571	comment	Cliff Huxtable from The Cosby Show was created specifically as an antidote for this. Bill Cosby was tired of all the father figures on TV being essentially dominated by their kids and created a competent, intelligent, but still funny father character for himself. It's still present in a downplayed form, as his family refuse to let him try to fix household appliances.
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Bumbling Dad / int_1f418bf4	comment	TaleSpin: In a way, Baloo, though he wasn't married to Rebecca, and wasn't Kit's actual father.
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Bumbling Dad / int_2013fd01	comment	Franco De Vita: The theme of "No Basta" (It's Not Enough), and depicted very realistically. In it, Franco calls out a father who trivializes the problems his child consults to him, including the concept of sex or being bullied in school. Said father does try to make his child happy by buying toys and the like, but never gives himself time to actually be with the child and share time together.
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Bumbling Dad / int_207896c6	comment	Clark Griswald is very much this in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies. Pretty much, every movie where Chevy Chase plays the dad, starting with Cops and Robbersons and going rapidly downhill. His role as Clark Griswold might have been an aversion if he could have kept his plans from going to hell, but that was rarely ever his fault; fate just doesn't like the Griswold clan. Whatever it may be, Rusty Griswold is looking to receive this same treatment in Vacation.
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Bumbling Dad / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: The page image, quote source, and Trope Codifier himself, Homer Simpson is almost certainly the most iconic example of this trope - an alcoholic, lazy, disgusting, self-centered, insensitive, occasionally abusive Too Dumb to Live Jerkass who constantly neglects his job, for which he is entirely unqualified for, and spends a solid chunk of the series having to haphazardly deal with problems he's caused that puts his family - and occasionally, the entire town - in danger. That said, although how big of an asshole he is can vary wildly, one thing that remains relatively consistent is that he does deeply love his family, is extremely faithful to his wife, and can be one hell of a Papa Wolf when the situation calls for it, often to the point of Chronic Hero Syndrome. Kirk Van Houten (Milhouse's father) is not "bumbling" per se, but has elements of the Extreme Doormat. Ever since his initial divorce from Luann, and to some extent after they re-connected, he's suffered from an extreme lack of self-confidence, and this effects his ability to accomplish things well or to be taken seriously by others.
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Bumbling Dad / int_27f4c7fb	comment	The Father in Coraline. In contrast, the Other Father is attentive, caring, and much cooler.
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Bumbling Dad / int_28d593a0	comment	You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah: Downplayed with Stacy's dad Danny. He's not really that dumb, he just doesn't understand his kids as much now that they're growing up. He is the kind of guy to sleep on a couch in the store while his wife and daughter go shopping, though.
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Bumbling Dad / int_2dd877c1	comment	Shinji Ikari Raising Project transforms Gendo Ikari into one of these. He is an Adaptational Nice Guy, but the times that he embarrasses Shinji with his Large Ham Cloudcuckoolander tendencies are legion.
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Bumbling Dad / int_2fb93b17	comment	We Are Lady Parts: Both of Amina's parents are lovingly awkward, but her father is less perceptive and in tune with her emotions and has a tendency to say the wrong thing. Her mother teasingly dismisses him as a manchild.
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Bumbling Dad / int_30065ab	comment	Wally Warbles from Cuphead is an interesting example. He's shown as short-tempered and aggressive, but he's not exactly bumbling, being as tough a boss as the others in the game. His unnamed child mentions the two of them "bringing the pain" together and doesn't seem to be ashamed of him. Despite this, Wally still shows signs of incompetence, most namely during his bullet hell phase, in which he strains himself to the point of losing his breath.
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Bumbling Dad / int_31ffa133	comment	In Zeus' Godly Goodtime, Zeus is a well-meaning but very embarrassing father to Kratos.
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Bumbling Dad / int_32318e9a	comment	Largely averted with Dan Conner on Roseanne. While he could be a little bumbling (such as needing help finding his lost pants) and occasionally lazy in regards to household chores such as cooking, he is, for the most part, attentive, hard-working, and an excellent father to his children, providing Cool and Unusual Punishment when the need arises and not being afraid to take on anyone who hurts his family.
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Bumbling Dad / int_33fdae4d	comment	In an odd dramatic example, Don Draper of Mad Men tends to be cluelessly oblivious, if well-meaning, towards his children (particularly Sally), in sharp contrast to Betty (who is generally quite cold and hits Sally for her acts of rebellion).
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Bumbling Dad / int_3b34143f	comment	Several in Harry Potter: A downplayed example in Arthur Weasley (Ron's father), who somewhat gives off this vibe, although he seems to be competent enough when it really counts and a fair amount of the bumbling comes down to his fascination with Muggles and Muggle technology, and the reader knowing just how little he knows about either. Otherwise, he is a hard-working, loving father, excellent as his job, a skilled fighter, and, notably, not bigotted against Muggles or non-Pure Bloods, unlike most Pure Bloods. Ron possibly fulfills this trope during the epilogue era. Vernon Dursley might count as a rare villainous version, being a buffoon, extremely overwight, bigotted against wizards, abusive towards Harry, and spoiling Dudley rotten (though Dudley manages to make a Heelâ€“Face Turn after Harry saves his life).
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Bumbling Dad / int_3be307d1	comment	Tenchi's dad Noboyuki in Tenchi Muyo!. He is a pretty competent architect, but when off-duty he exemplifies the trope.
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Bumbling Dad / int_3c38c613	comment	Old Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice. This arises partly from the fact that he's too blind to recognize his own son.
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Bumbling Dad / int_3f3abe9	comment	Rick and Morty: Jerry Smith is a rather dark deconstruction of this trope. He's not especially bright even when compared to his kids, but his wife is a great deal smarter than him and his father-in-law is an outright Omnidisciplinary Scientist. His incompetence and relative lack of intelligence do provide some comedy, but they've also left him extremely insecure, resentful of his entire family, and have caused some severe problems with his marriage.
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Bumbling Dad / int_41c629e2	comment	Usually averted by Darryl MacPherson of Baby Blues. We're talking about a guy who changed a diaper in the men's room at the mall.
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Bumbling Dad / int_436556fe	comment	Averted by Jimmy Chance on Raising Hope, who is shown to be a loving, attentive, and good parent. His father (and mother) are shown to be bumbling parents in flashbacks.
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Bumbling Dad / int_45a5beb2	comment	WordGirl: Becky Botsford's adoptive father has no idea she's the titular character, and often makes stupid mistakes and screw-ups. Really, the show has no intelligent adults in it at all. Well... none that aren't also either insane or evil.
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Bumbling Dad / int_45d61749	comment	In the series Father Knows Best, the titular father complains about this trope in the Show Within a Show called Father Does It Again, exclaiming that such a "stumblebum" husband could only exist on television. After watching the show he becomes Wrong Genre Savvy, convinced his family is pulling a sitcom-style deception to keep him from going hunting.
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Bumbling Dad / int_4617a9f2	comment	Al Bundy of Married... with Children is a more caustic version of this. In the case of Al Bundy, it's more along the lines of a reasonably competent man who's been surrounded by insane circumstances for so long it's hard for him to care anymore and he doesn't apply himself. He hates his life, his wife, his kids, his job, his neighbors, his boss, and everything else he has to deal with, and when he proves he knows what he's doing nobody cares. Why even bother?
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Bumbling Dad / int_4811a5a6	comment	Asura from Asura's Wrath was like this before being betrayed. Unlike most of the other examples, however, this isn't out of actual idiocy: Since his Mantra is that of Wrath, he's so angry about almost everything that the only parenting he knows is of the two-step variety: 1) Find reason daughter is crying. 2) Apply punch to the face of said reason.
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Bumbling Dad / int_483036c0	comment	Josh's dad Alan on Please Like Me is a well-meaning guy who nevertheless manages to behave irresponsibly with a certain regularity.
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Bumbling Dad / int_4962e658	comment	Mean Girls has Cady's father who doesn't know that kids aren't allowed outside when they're grounded.
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Bumbling Dad / int_4a11097d	comment	Oh Yeah! Cartoons: The short "That's My Pop" starred a Child Prodigy bear girl named Naomi whose father was a complete imbecile who could barely read.
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Bumbling Dad / int_4b1c5240	comment	Nanjiroh Echizen in The Prince of Tennis, though it can be said he's also a case of Obfuscating Stupidity. In the manga, Tezuka's father Kuniharu is hinted to be a bit like this too. Quite a contrast with his kid and his dad.
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Bumbling Dad / int_4bd693d0	comment	As Told by Ginger: Jonas is an example of how this trope can affect children in real life. Jonas left the family years prior to the series and only recently began trying to reconnect with them despite seeming borderline incapable of keeping his word. One kid sees him through rose-colored glasses and wants him and their mother to get back together so they can be a happy family (and is later sobered up to the reality), the other is bitter and resentful at being abandoned, and both children seem to have issues with trust linked to their father's lack of reliability. To top it off, Jonas is very aware of how much of a flake he is and eventually gives his ex-wife away to a second husband who is far more reliable than he was.
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Bumbling Dad / int_4ddcf970	comment	Ouka, father of Recca Hanabishi, in the Flame of Recca manga is like this, despite being a stoic badass leader of Recca's 8-headed dragons, Resshin. In the anime, however, he's just like a normal, stoic dad.
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Bumbling Dad / int_4efd20ba	comment	Freakazoid!: Dexter's father takes it to ditz levels. When imprisoned, he can't even learn to do tally marks correctly.
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Bumbling Dad / int_4f57b33a	comment	Ichigo's dad in Tokyo Mew Mew is a bit...off his rocker, but nonetheless a very nice guy. Ichigo speaks of him and her mother as her "ideal couple", and hopes that she and her love interest Aoyama will be like them one day. Recca's adoptive father, Shigeo Hanabishi, however, plays this trope straight in both versions.
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Bumbling Dad / int_50b9086a	comment	Ready Jet Go!: Carrot is this due to being very silly and often clueless compared to his wife. However, he provides helpful information to the kids and is a great baker, making this thankfully downplayed. It helps that Celery is also goofy at times.
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Bumbling Dad / int_510974b4	comment	Johnny Test: Zig-zagged with Johnny's dad Hugh. Although he runs an EXTREMELY tight ship when it comes to his family's manners, responsibilities, and keeping the house clean (the latter of which borders on OCD), he's often shown to be wholly incompetant in matters outside the domestic sphere. His attempts at maintianing control are flauted more often than obeyed, and even his workaholic businesswoman wife thinks his obesessions go too far sometimes.
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Bumbling Dad / int_5704eeb5	comment	Inukami!: Dai Youko, Youko's father, is the goofy dad type; described as an "adult child", he throws tantrums when he finds out Youko's in love with her tamer. However, he's far from incompetent. Instead he's the only one capable of fighting the Big Bad in single combat.
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Bumbling Dad / int_59215319	comment	Jun Kurosu's father, Akinari Kashihara, in Persona 2: Innocent Sin, which contributed to his divorce, and lead to young Jun's embarrassed lies about his father, which created a shadow copy of Akinari that Nyarlathotep took over. Somewhat de-Bumbled in the second half of P2, Eternal Punishment, enough to at least keep his marriage intact.
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Bumbling Dad / int_5921531b	comment	Persona 4: Ryotaro Dojima downplays this. While he isn't a totally incompetent parent, he still feels he's not doing good at raising his daughter Nanako on his own after his wife's death. The protagonist can help Dojima reconnect with Nanako in both their Social Links. Sadly, he does play this trope straight later on, but in a very tragic light. Once he suspects the protagonist of being involved with the murders, Dojima takes him to the police station to question him, while leaving Nanako alone at the house, which makes it very easy for Taro Namatome to kidnap her, throw her into the TV World, and much later note Provided the protagonist makes the right choices, permanent death.
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Bumbling Dad / int_5ce3fc86	comment	In Soul Eater, Shinigami and Spirit count. Though the case of the former, it's partly the result of putting on a more child-friendly persona, which he then apparently became fond of.
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Bumbling Dad / int_5e41eec2	comment	While on the subject of classic Disney characters, Pluto can also be seen as this in a handful of shorts where he becomes a father to at least one or more puppies, such as in "Pluto's Quin-Puplets" and "Pluto, Junior".
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Bumbling Dad / int_5f3128db	comment	In Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure Scamp sees his father as one of these, a lazy dad who could never understand his desire to be a wild dog. Little does he know that his father was THE wild dog back in the day.
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Bumbling Dad / int_5f4f7a65	comment	Octodad, who due to being an invertebrate creature with poor motor controls has difficulties performing tasks that would be otherwise simple for human beings (at least in gameplay).
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Bumbling Dad / int_5febbf4e	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_5febbf4e	comment	Deconstructed in The Unicorn. Wade's introduced as a fairly typical single TV dad, with a messy house and two daughters who are given free rein. However, this is because he's been spinning his wheels since his wife passed away. Once he begins processing his grief properly, the house gets cleaned up and he gets his kids back in line.
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Bumbling Dad / int_615c5032	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_615c5032	comment	Inverted in Maleficent, where three female pixies are bumbling moms and the only male involved in raising the child is shown to be quite good at it.
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Bumbling Dad / int_627b3897	comment	In Everybody Loves Raymond, there is Frank Barone, a blustering uberboor with no concept of sensitivity or restraint who embodies this trope: his husbanding skills to Marie are non-existent, and his concept of bringing up sons involved intimidation and lots of shouting combined with insults and rough treatment—all for their own good, naturally. His sense of personal hygiene is hazy and he is a voracious glutton as well as an exemplar of Doom It Yourself. His son Raymond views wife Debra as almost a surrogate mother and he is inclined to be lazy and to let her do all the work. When prodded to do chores, he has gone so far in ineptitude as to burn out the kitchen with an accidental fire; he has bought a new vacuum cleaner for no better reason than that he found the saleswoman attractive; and his parenting of three children is wildly inconsistent, veering from permissive to Victorian Father. There is every sign that his brother Robert, who married late, is learning from a master in his relationship to wife Amy. A few episodes of the show suggest that Ray deliberately invokes this trope—by messing up simple tasks, he gets out of doing work. Granted, that's just as frustrating...
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Bumbling Dad / int_641203c1	comment	Played with on Schitt's Creek with Johnny Rose. Because he was once a suave, globetrotting billionaire and is now broke, he has many moments where he bumbles through seemingly ordinary situations. Yet, he is also shown to be hard-working, intelligent, and at times clever, but that doesn't stop his adult children from endlessly razzing him over things like his not knowing anything about social media or his adoption of buzzwords like rollout. He also is a very bad gift-giver, having tried to give his Camp Gay son a basketball hoop and giving Tomboy Stevie a case of makeup.
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Bumbling Dad / int_6505f7f3	comment	Molly of Denali: Subverted with Walter. While he is goofy, he's no idiot as he is very talented with machines. He is overall a competent worker and father to Molly.
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Bumbling Dad / int_696b75c2	comment	Averted in A Brother's Price - the fact that the Whistlers are such a well-organized family is attributed to Jerin's grandfather Alannon, as the grandmothers were a ragtag bunch of soldier-spies. Jerin's father seems to have done a good job, too, and Jerin is a very competent replacement dad for his younger siblings. His love interest points out that he's good at parenting in an attempt to convince her relatives that he'd be a good match.
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Bumbling Dad / int_6d2c2611	comment	Clarence: The titular character doesn't live with his dad, but his stepfather Chad can play this role, being a total Manchild.
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Bumbling Dad / int_6ed555bb	comment	Wally of Stone Soup is another notable aversion. He takes care of the kids as much as his wife, and he can cook.
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Bumbling Dad / int_71c01786	comment	Felix Unger in the TV adaptation of The Odd Couple mostly averts this (being an incredibly good cook and housekeeper), but his dorky demeanor usually draws his children's attentions towards Oscar.
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Bumbling Dad / int_73e1e827	comment	Sanjay and Craig: Vijay Patel is more of a dork rather than an outright idiot.
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Bumbling Dad / int_7470104d	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_7470104d	comment	Bill Miller on Still Standing is your typical fat, lazy, drunken, sports-loving manchild who's not great at being a parent, especially to his nerdy son Brian. But unlike most examples of this, his wife Judy is just as immature and incompetent at parenting as Bill is.
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Bumbling Dad / int_7579423f	comment	Boggy from Banjo-Kazooie is a polar bear who is utterly incompetent at parenting. In the original game, he abandons his kids at Christmas to go sled racing, leaving Banjo and Kazooie to find their missing presents. In Banjo-Tooie, he has given up sled racing to watch his big-screen television set, leaving his wife to take his kids to the Witchyworld amusement park, and Banjo and Kazooie to round them up for her.
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Bumbling Dad / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: Greg Universe is an interesting example. The Crystal Gems consider him to be this trope, due to his inability to help with many of the dangers and threats that the characters face. However, as an actual father, he's a very loving and supportive parent who tries to raise Steven as best he can, having built the house Steven lives in (despite living in a van himself), covers their living expenses, and was the one to raise Steven for several years due to the Gems having no concept of child-rearing and Steven's mother Rose Quartz giving up her physical form to give Steven her gem. Steven Universe: Future presents a Double Subversion for Greg. "Mr. Universe" reveals that he may be a loving parent, but he didn't raise Steven with structure, neglected him of any kind of normalcy, couldn't provide a stable home, a proper education, or even a medical visit for his son. At the end, Steven realizes this and resents him for it.
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Bumbling Dad / int_7953313b	comment	Blondie (1930): Dagwood Bumstead ranges between a Standard '50s Father and this. Justified by his Idle Rich background — he never learned to do most of the things required of him as a working-class father.
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Bumbling Dad / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: Lawrence Fletcher, while neither dumb nor irresponsible nor lazy, can be quite dorky and is also extremely laid-back and mellow when it comes to everything. He's also completely useless when it comes to Candace's quest to bust her brothers, as his reaction to their insane exploits ranges from mild confusion to approval.
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Bumbling Dad / int_7d122312	comment	The Flintstones: Both Fred and Barney were bumbling dads when Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm came along. They'd been bumbling husbands since the start of the show, though, so it wasn't really new for them.
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Bumbling Dad / int_7d985ff1	comment	Martin Blyndeff from Epithet Erased is a deconstructed case. Martin is an incompetent, forgetful Manchild of a father. This is portrayed as a serious character flaw rather than an endearing trait, as his constant mess-ups are shown to seriously affect his daughters, with his bumblyness being more like Parental Neglect, if not outright abuse. In the very first episode, he forgets to pick up Molly from a field trip, leaving her alone in a museum at night, his irresponsability forces Molly and Lorelai to run his shop in his stead (and due to his lack of disciplining, Lorelai ends up pushing most of the work onto Molly, causing her great stress), and his frivolous spending results in his daughters being malnourished as they can't afford proper food. This results in him being treated as a Hate Sink by the narrative.
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Bumbling Dad / int_7dc116eb	comment	Kris Longknife: Henry Smythe-Peterwald XII. To Kris, he's a man who has tried to kill her multiple times, probably did have her baby brother killed, conquers stars by subterfuge and sabotage, and is so wrapped around the finger of his newest empress that he's clueless that her in-laws are running his country into the ground. To Vicky Peterwald, he's all of the above—including being clueless that her stepmother put a hit out on his surviving child from his first marriage—but he's also still her father whom she loves.
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Bumbling Dad / int_865c4621	comment	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Wayne Szalinski is a more highly intelligent version of the bumbling dad. But he is far from irresponsible, even though his inventions have done bizarre things to his loved ones. Big Russ Thompson, on the other hand...
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Bumbling Dad / int_8f36f969	comment	The Loud House: Not just the father, but both parents seem to shift between this, being Good Parents, and Parents as People, depending on the episode.
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Bumbling Dad / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible: Downplays this trope with Kim's father, who is a rocket scientist and is more an Absent-Minded Professor than a real bumbling dad, and who has often dispatched sage advice, even if he does still refer to her as "Kimmy-cub". Ron's Dad, on the other hand, once showed up in public wearing a cape. There have been times when he bumbled due to being distracted when he's advising Kim. Like that time he accidentally launched a rocket ahead of schedule when talking to Kim on the phone.
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Bumbling Dad / int_92844ddb	comment	Earl Sinclair on Dinosaurs. The episode "Dirty Dancing" has Earl watching a show called "Totally Ineffectual Dad", which is all about the father being a bumbling dad. At one point an advertisement for the show mentions that it is followed by other shows with the "bumbling dad" concept, such as "Dad's a Moron" and "Father Knows Nothing".
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Bumbling Dad / int_9688ee61	comment	Ouran High School Host Club has Fujioka Haruhi's widowed father Ranka. He's an odd person considering he's a Wholesome Crossdresser, bisexual, and can be a bit silly at times (especially in some of Haruhi's flashbacks when she was little). His bumbliness is very much portrayed as endearing, and a trait he shares with Haruhi's Love Interest Suou Tamaki. On the other hand, he's the rare bumbling dad who crosses to Good Father too. It's obvious that he loves Haruhi genuinely and has done his best to raise her ever since his wife/Haruhi's mother Kotoko died, working hard in his very uncommon work in the okama bar to support both of them - to the point that at least once Haruhi rebukes him not for leaving her alone, but for overworking himself for her.
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Bumbling Dad / int_96cfa532	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_96cfa532	comment	Hikari No Densetsu: Hikari's dad always has his nose in a newspaper and it's actually hard to tell if he's invested in what's going on or not. We never see his face because this◊ is his default position most of the time.
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Bumbling Dad / int_97abe183	comment	The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Hugh Neutron. Many times, Hugh would screw up one of Jimmy's inventions.
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Bumbling Dad / int_9871d4f3	comment	Bluey: Bluey's father Bandit is a very downplayed case; although Bandit tends be goofy and act quite brashly at times, a lot of his bumbling tends to come from his competitive nature or sheer bad lucky than any lack of wit or common sense. He is overall portrayed as being a lot more down-to-earth and understanding than most other examples of this trope. He's also a highly competent dad and can even be a Stealth Mentor at times through the games he plays with his daughters.
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Bumbling Dad / int_98b9912e	comment	Goofy: In Goof Troop, A Goofy Movie and, earlier, in his '50s cartoon shorts where he attempted to play a Standard '50s Father named George Geef. A perfect example of this trope in action is "Father's Day Off", in which Goofy, as Geef, assumes his wife's duties while she goes out for the day. However, it's easy to forgive Goofy for being bumbling as a family man, because bumbling has always been part of his overall personality. Pete can also be a fairly bumbling dad on Goof Troop depending on the episode and has more of the stereotypical traits such as laziness and gluttony, but generally speaking, he's actually worse, with most of his "bumbling" coming in non-parenting forms such as not thinking through his schemes. While on the subject of classic Disney characters, Pluto can also be seen as this in a handful of shorts where he becomes a father to at least one or more puppies, such as in "Pluto's Quin-Puplets" and "Pluto, Junior".
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Bumbling Dad / int_98c4e2dc	comment	Hilda: Hildaâ€™s father Anders is this: heâ€™s a freedom-loving explorer, who constantly gets into risky misadventures on air, and is bad at sticking to timetables and paperwork. While heâ€™s absent for most of Hildaâ€™s life, he does love her dearly and the two have a good relationship. In the finale he eventually settles in Trolberg to make up for his previous neglect and be in her life more.
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Bumbling Dad / int_99055407	comment	Carl Winslow from Family Matters was this on occasion. For instance, in the "Opposites Attract" episode when Harriet asks, "Why must I take part in such a pointless activity?" Carl responds, "Because we are men and we thrive on pointless activity." Additionally Carl is shown as being no better at household repairs than Cliff Huxtable, with one early episode involving an attempted repair being titled "Mr. Badwrench."note A play on the longtime Mr. Goodwrench (now GM Certified Service) automotive service brand familiar to many as the longtime sponsor of the #3 NASCAR car of Dale Earnhardt.
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Bumbling Dad / int_996d6ce0	comment	The X's: Mr. X is your typical bumbling father, who knows 50 ways to destroy a man with his bare hands alone.
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Bumbling Dad / int_9a6791aa	comment	The title character of King Lear is a tragic example. The old man is well on his way to senility, asks his daughters before the court how much they love him, and is enraged when his youngest daughter Cordelia replies, "As much as a daughter should"—which, as she explains in a subsequent monologue, means she loves him so much despite his flaws that she's willing to remain unmarried so she can continue to care for him. Instead she's banished from court and marries the King of France and things go downhill.
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Bumbling Dad / int_9a67b688	comment	Case Closed: Kogoro Mouri is a loser, but his care towards his daughter Ran is utterly remarkable, which makes him a Papa Wolf all the way. He may burn through a bar's worth of alcohol and tobacco in a day, but if anyone threatens his little girl Ran and his charge Conan he will have their face for a doily.
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Bumbling Dad / int_9ad446cd	comment	Mr. Fitzgerald in The Great Brain is a mild case. As a newspaper editor, he is obviously intelligent and often quite competent at most things. However, he can be gullible from falling for an obvious con man to honestly believing in Tom's prank that a dinosaur is roaming the countryside outside their town. He also has a tendency for things like getting the family lost trying to find a new fishing hole on a camping trip. It's clear his wife has long become used to having to keep her husband from bumbling too much and focused on the smarter things he does.
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Bumbling Dad / int_9c698d34	comment	Ben Winchester's father in Loserz. See this strip
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Bumbling Dad / int_9ce851a3	comment	Hal from Malcolm in the Middle. However, he shows great intelligence and patience for an example of this trope - his relationship with his family is as far as the similarity goes. Certainly his wife is more of an antagonist than him. In fact, it's frequently hinted that Hal used to be a happy, intelligent, emotionally stable guy before marrying Lois. There's also a great episode where Hal becomes increasingly reckless and carefree when Lois isn't around to temper his more compulsive attributes. Hal is the INSTIGATOR for most of the madness in the Middle household, and the part of the equation the kids get their mischief from. Lois might be more strict and punishing, but Hal is the one with all the crazy schemes.
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Bumbling Dad / int_9e63932d	comment	All the fathers in Ojamajo Doremi, to some degree. Special mention goes to Kenji Senou, Aiko's single father.
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Bumbling Dad / int_a0627264	comment	Sand Chronicles: Masahiro is hardworking and has good intentions but also a bit of a scatterbrain, and his daughter Ann says she used to think of him as "naive and unreliable" as a child.
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Bumbling Dad / int_a5edba34	comment	Love and Destiny: Le Bo, Ling Xi's adoptive father, is more interested in drinking alcohol than in listening to his daughter.
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Bumbling Dad / int_a60f8e43	comment	Gang-du from The Host (2006) is clumsy, immature, and absent-minded, which explains why his wife left him. He feeds his daughter Hyun-seo beer and can't even gather enough money to buy her a cell phone. In fact, he's so clumsy that he inadvertently allows his daughter to be captured by a giant monster from the river Han. Still, as incompetent as he is, he loves his daughter more than anything else in the world and fights with all his might to save her. And as it turns out, the authorities are even more inefficient than he is.
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Bumbling Dad / int_a851d974	comment	As pointed out by The Nostalgia Chick in her episode on Disney Princesses, there was a pretty huge trend in "infantile, impotent fathers" that the Disney girls had to put up with during the company's Renaissance era; while they were always well-meaning and wanted the best for their daughters, they tended to get easily fooled, were intelligent but eccentric, were too caught up in traditional values, etc.. Interestingly enough, the main aversion to this is Fa Zhou, wise, poetic, kindhearted Retired Badass and father of Mulan, who wasn't even really a princess.
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Bumbling Dad / int_a8729c90	comment	The Fairly OddParents!: Cosmo and Mr. Turner. The show is fair enough to show that Mrs. Turner isn't that much brighter... That may explain Timmy. It should also be noted how Wanda used to be not much brighter than Cosmo, who had gone through severe Flanderization, and in fact in the pilot episode, they describe themselves as "two halves of a whole idiot". Practically all the dads (and adults, for that matter) are bumbling. Special mention goes to Chester's dad. And in one episode Mr. Crocker. Ironically, despite normally being a Child Hater, he's shown to genuinely care for Denzel Jr. DJ Poof. Though, his parental skills are quite questionable since Crocker tried to teach him how to shave in total darkness and how to drive... despite the latter being an infant.
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Bumbling Dad / int_a8e4ca16	comment	Step by Step: Frank Lambert was a clear example, usually by trying too hard to be the father. This often annoyed or outright angered eldest stepdaughter Dana many times, who viewed him as uncouth and uneducated ... but many times, Dana could rely on Frank to stick up for her in her time of need.
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Bumbling Dad / int_aca7b22d	comment	The Amazing World of Gumball: Gumball and Anais' dad Richard; in fact, he's such a bumbling dad, it's even shown that the universe literally falls apart when he gets a job. By contrast, his wife Nicole is a neat freak perfectionist to the extreme, though since she actually enjoys being busy all the time it works out fine for the most part. The show actually explains why he's like that: after his father abandoned him and his mother, she became extremely overprotecive of him, not allowing him to do anything and as such led him to become a complete moron. Banana Bob, who is Banana Joe's father. Banana Barbara could also count as a Bumbling Mom since she's as stupid as her husband and son.
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Bumbling Dad / int_ae22fbec	comment	Miles from Tomorrowland: Downplayed with Leo Callisto; he may be a bit more laid-back and goofy than his wife Phoebe, but he's certainly no idiot.
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Bumbling Dad / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Joseph Joestar is this in Part 4, due to becoming a senile old man. One example of his bumbling, has his son Josuke entrust the elderly Joseph with his money to buy Shizuka baby supplies, only to unwittingly spend all of it, to Josuke's ire. Joseph was something of a bumbling granddad in Part 3 as well. A lot of the humor came from him screwing up in one way or another. Jotaro becomes a more serious example in Part 6. Due to his rather bad parenting, as in, not being around a lot, divorcing his wife at some point, and not talking to her as much, his daughter Jolyne begins the story with less than pleasant feelings toward him. Once he appears to bail her out of jail, Jolyne beats a guard up in order to extend her stay just to get away from him.
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Bumbling Dad / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Mace Tyrell is entirely Played for Laughs as a bumbling, sycophantic Momma's Boy. Tytos Lannister is remembered as a good man who nearly ruined House Lannister.
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Bumbling Dad / int_b36c82c6	comment	Played with in Juno, where the protagonist's father and stepmom look clueless in the beginning but appear wiser and emotionally supportive as the movie advances.
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Bumbling Dad / int_b3933a70	comment	Tim Taylor in Home Improvement. Unlike most bumbling dads, however, he is actually very competent at his job. At least, he would be if it weren't for his almost mental-illness-level compulsion to "improve" things. When he isn't creating outdoor grills that can achieve geosynchronous orbit, he's actually a very skilled handyman. He's far more "No concern for safety or moderation" than "Doesn't know what he's doing". As far as his family goes, Tim is a little closer to the standard for this trope, usually not always understanding how he should act in various circumstances, as having effectively raised himself after his dad died, he's not clear how a family works. This conversely means that in any episode where someone dies, Tim ends up being much more competent and capable.
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Bumbling Dad / int_b3f687d1	comment	Roger Fox from FoxTrot gives Homer Simpson a run for his money. In one strip, he managed to burn his silhouette onto the wall trying to light the furnace. In another, even more ridiculous strip, Roger flooded the house when he tried to use the dishwasher, and that was while Andy was out of town. And that's only one of the things he screwed up when he was in charge of the household while Andy was away. That's not even mentioning his regular failure to properly operate a grill... using a "whole bottle of lighter fluid" at a time, more or less. One grill strip brought it to Epic Fail levels. After he piles on the lighter fluid and charcoal, it makes a fire blast that continues upward into space. In the second to last panel, it destroys one of the Mars rovers. The last panel implies this has happened before. Every single one of Roger's camping trips has been horrible from the get-go, whether at Skeeter Falls (during a mass mosquito infestation), Cactus Flats (in the middle of August), or a cabin in the woods. And in classic Bumbling Dad form, he doesn't ever notice that he's the only one to enjoy them: one year, he quits his job (more on that later) and once he gets it back, announces that they won't be able to go camping that year, is puzzled by the kid's (and wife's) obvious joy. He once bought a mobile phone... that's bigger than a backpack and has 10 power cords to charge it up. Roger once quit his job to spend more time with his family. When he told Andy and the kids, their reaction was a unanimous "Are you insane?!?". Thankfully he managed to get it back. Surprisingly, Roger wasn't always like this; there was a period of the strip where he was rather competent (at least 60% of the time, as opposed to 10% in the later ones) as a father and not just at chess. (Now it's a Running Gag that anyone can beat him unless they're trying to lose.) One gag constant from the strip's beginning is his need of youngest son Jason's help to operate the computer because he can't even remember how to turn the thing on. In one arc the kids accidentally destroy the computer and only fess up after about a week of Roger being blamed for it (as he was the next to use it). In one arc he buys a tax program for Windows... because there's a window right there in the office. In one strip he pushes the computer off the desk because it told him the hard drive needed backing up. Roger is very, very bad at chess. Jason once agreed to play chess with his father, and immediately rattled off both his and Roger's moves and thanked him for the good game, leaving Roger thinking he might have gotten too predictable. Jason once set up a computer chess game where Roger had 16 queens and the AI had 16 pawns. Guess who lost. In a 2020 strip, it's shown that he spends large amounts of money on a pay-to-win chess app... and still loses. Roger is generally a complete idiot when it comes to matters of money and technology. He bought lots of stock in "GrowCo" because a friend said it was a "good buy". The company crashes and burns the very next day (and their only response to questions about this is "So sue us"). Roger doesn't even know what GrowCo does, despite still being completely convinced that it will rise again. Roger is also very sensitive about the fact that he's going bald.
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Bumbling Dad / int_b61bbe0a	comment	Modern Family has Phil Dunphy as an overgrown manchild who loves to do extremely silly things, especially with his youngest son (the two older daughters are far too cool). He really tries to project the "cool dad" image, often leaving discipline to his wife. But while he does love bumbling around, he also provides well for his family (for the first few seasons he is the sole breadwinner for a family of five) and tries to be a devoted father and husband.
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Bumbling Dad / int_b7db5642	comment	Ted Wheeler from Stranger Things lives and breathes this trope. He's useless whenever the family gets into an argument, speaks in lame baseball metaphors to a son who couldn't be less interested in sports, and instantly believes everything the government cover-up team tells him.
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Bumbling Dad / int_b8b584cf	comment	Jeremy from Zits sees his father Walt as this. In reality, Walt is perfectly competent at anything he learned during, say, the first half of his life - he just doesn't seem to have bothered to learn anything new since he was in his twenties, making him completely clueless about new technology, modern trends, and anything else that Jeremy considers important.
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Bumbling Dad / int_b8e9c6dc	comment	Subverted in Suffragette; Maud's husband Sonny seems to be this at first when he fails to dress his son in the morning and the child still wears a pyjama when he's sent to the carer. However, it soon turns out that he is not loyal to his family, but ruthless enough to give the son up for adoption without Maud's consent, which the law of that time allowed.
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Bumbling Dad / int_ba4c43ec	comment	Mr. Mom is about a bumbling dad who has to stay at home and take care of the kids while his wife works. Once he stops feeling sorry for himself about being unemployed and his wife being the breadwinner, he gets it together and gets quite good in the role.
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Bumbling Dad / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Danny Phantom: Jack Fenton. One good look at him and you can tell he's not meant to be treated seriously... at least until he gets dangerous (especially when his family is at risk). He is also something of a Genius Ditz, having invented at least half the Fenton gadgets, which go between being useless (The Fenton Ghost Gabber) and working a little too well. (Fenton Ghost Catcher, Ghost Peeler, Ectxo-Skeleton).
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Bumbling Dad / int_bc42183b	comment	The Proud Family. Oscar Proud is an unsuccessful inventor of snack foods. He regularly engages in, and loses, competitions with his Rival "The Wizard." He is the frequent victim of cartoon-slapstick mishaps. His mother, the cool grandmother Suga Mama, insults him constantly. And to top it all off, many episodes portray him foolishly overprotective of his daughter Penny.
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Bumbling Dad / int_bcb03d22	comment	Hazbin Hotel: Lucifer Morningstar (yes, that Lucifer) is shown to be this when it comes to his daughter, Charlie.
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Bumbling Dad / int_bd0407d8	comment	This trope's over-use in advertising is frequently Lampshaded and held up for scorn on advert deconstruction forum Ad Turds.
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Bumbling Dad / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, Mr. Verres seemed like this initially with such blunders as telling Tedd that Grace is infertile in her half-squirrel form and agreeing to foot the pizza bill for 8 teenagers. However, he eventually subverted this starting here.
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Bumbling Dad / int_be0a4529	comment	Al in Better Off Dead is well-meaning and rather ineffectual, but he's also one of the most normal people in the entire town of Greendale.
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Bumbling Dad / int_c0369f1b	comment	The Powerpuff Girls: Professor Utonium, despite having a talent for science and inventing, as well as his unconditional loving nature to his three superheroic little girls, still falls victim to this trope, because almost every adult in Townsville is an idiot for the sake of plot. Not helping the case is when you consider the context that he's the only adult, the only male, and the only non-superpowered member of the Utonium family.
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Bumbling Dad / int_c11dc7e6	comment	Teddy Almanzor from Less is Morgue is Riley's tiny, ineffectual father. He doesn't even believe that Evelyn exists, and doesn't seem to fully understand what a podcast even is.
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Bumbling Dad / int_c43df4d8	comment	In Doctor Who, though we never saw any of his family aside from his granddaughter, it's heavily implied that the Doctor was one of these, due to most of his incarnations being wonderfully eccentric.
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Bumbling Dad / int_cf39ca4f	comment	Larry the crocodile from Pearls Before Swine. He is completely idiotic, even compared to the rest of Zeeba Zeeba Eata, and he is quite an Alcoholic. Once he didn't even bother to rescue his wife, Patty, when Zebra kidnapped her, and they only got her back when Zebra realized he was only hurting their son Junior.
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Bumbling Dad / int_d181882f	comment	Steven Universe: Future presents a Double Subversion for Greg. "Mr. Universe" reveals that he may be a loving parent, but he didn't raise Steven with structure, neglected him of any kind of normalcy, couldn't provide a stable home, a proper education, or even a medical visit for his son. At the end, Steven realizes this and resents him for it.
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Bumbling Dad / int_d26874b6	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_d26874b6	comment	Frank Heffley in Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a bumbling dad. He acts like he's in his 80s. Not only does he regularly yell "Dagnabbed rotten teenagers!", but in the webcomic, he tries to get Classical music playing throughout the town to scare the teenagers away, is apparently teenager phobic, can't figure out how Gregory's game system is even hooked up to the TV, and says people at drive-thrus are idiots...yet he tries to place his order through a garbage can.
Bumbling Dad / int_d26874b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_d26874b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Diary of a Wimpy Kid	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_d26874b6
Bumbling Dad / int_d2d206b6	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_d2d206b6	comment	Played with in American Beauty. Kevin Spacey's character is initially a depressing version of this, but as the movie continues, he manages to shirk the mantle.
Bumbling Dad / int_d2d206b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_d2d206b6	featureConfidence	1.0
American Beauty	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_d2d206b6
Bumbling Dad / int_d69208d2	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_d69208d2	comment	Codename: Kids Next Door: Monty Uno is the most prominent parent of the main characters, and his various quirks are a constant source of embarrassment to his son Nigel/Numbuh 1. In the Big Damn Movie, it's revealed that he is in fact Numbuh 0, a legendary hero to the KND, and his bungling nature are a result of decommisioning.
Bumbling Dad / int_d69208d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_d69208d2	featureConfidence	1.0
Codename: Kids Next Door	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_d69208d2
Bumbling Dad / int_d8570146	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_d8570146	comment	Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race: Dwayne is this. He screws up so many times, he and Junior are lucky to get as far as they have.
Bumbling Dad / int_d8570146	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_d8570146	featureConfidence	1.0
Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_d8570146
Bumbling Dad / int_d9c602eb	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: Randy Marsh has drifted in this direction over the years; in the beginning, he rarely appeared (and the first episode he played a major part in needed him because he was a scientist); now, he usually gets caught up in every stupid fad, and is frequently portrayed as the single dumbest individual in any of the kids' families, while his wife is one of the sanest (...of the adults, at least).
Bumbling Dad / int_d9c602eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_d9c602eb	featureConfidence	1.0
South Park	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_d9c602eb
Bumbling Dad / int_da3a2b69	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_da3a2b69	comment	A stock trope on The Munsters was that Herman Munster would screw up in some well-meaning way as a father/family patriarch and the rest of the family would rally around to get him out without damaging his ego (too much). Also from the series was Grandpa, who didn't let the fact his daughter was All Grown Up stop him from acting just as bad as Herman in the fatherhood department.
Bumbling Dad / int_da3a2b69	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_da3a2b69	featureConfidence	1.0
The Munsters	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_da3a2b69
Bumbling Dad / int_db7e8e42	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_db7e8e42	comment	The comic Adam@home embodies (and lives on) this trope with its bungling and adorkable (though still rather competent) title character, apart from his reasonably more attractive (and assertive) wife, his two kids (his son is somewhat of a Cheerful Child and his daughter is quite bratty) and more recently, a labradoodle.
Bumbling Dad / int_db7e8e42	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_db7e8e42	featureConfidence	1.0
Adam@home (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_db7e8e42
Bumbling Dad / int_de48ce05	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_de48ce05	comment	Pop of Happy Tree Friends. It's usually fatal for Cub when he's Distracted by the Shiny. He means well, but he doesn't exactly live in a world that pities mistakes or oversights. (Or seemingly safe and sensible decisions for that matter.)
Bumbling Dad / int_de48ce05	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_de48ce05	featureConfidence	1.0
Happy Tree Friends (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_de48ce05
Bumbling Dad / int_dfc5bbd0	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_dfc5bbd0	comment	Dad's heart is bigger than his head; he means well, but he embarrasses Daughter, struggles to have any sort of authority, and is generally a goof.
Bumbling Dad / int_dfc5bbd0	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_dfc5bbd0	featureConfidence	1.0
Dad (Web Video)	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_dfc5bbd0
Bumbling Dad / int_e033aa72	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_e033aa72	comment	El Tigre: The title chracter's father Rondolfo Rivera, AKA the legendary hero White Pantera, isn't as bumbling as most examples, but he comes off as way too goody-goody, especially for his Anti-Hero son and Card-Carrying Villain papi.
Bumbling Dad / int_e033aa72	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_e033aa72	featureConfidence	1.0
El Tigre	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_e033aa72
Bumbling Dad / int_ea4f62db	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: Peter Griffin is often this at best while being a Psychopathic Manchild at his worst.
Bumbling Dad / int_ea4f62db	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_ea4f62db	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Guy	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_ea4f62db
Bumbling Dad / int_ec2af712	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_ec2af712	comment	Pete can also be a fairly bumbling dad on Goof Troop depending on the episode and has more of the stereotypical traits such as laziness and gluttony, but generally speaking, he's actually worse, with most of his "bumbling" coming in non-parenting forms such as not thinking through his schemes.
Bumbling Dad / int_ec2af712	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_ec2af712	featureConfidence	1.0
Pete	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_ec2af712
Bumbling Dad / int_ed8b580	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_ed8b580	comment	Michael from My Wife and Kids, on the other hand, was a subversion of the bumbling dad trope Gone Horribly Wrong, or perhaps true to life. Instead of being a bumbling dad whose controlled by his wife and children... his relationship with them throughout the series can be summed up with this quote, "I Bugs Bunny'd you."
Bumbling Dad / int_ed8b580	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_ed8b580	featureConfidence	1.0
My Wife and Kids	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_ed8b580
Bumbling Dad / int_ee829854	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_ee829854	comment	Eric Sweet, on House of Anubis, after he was revealed to be Eddie's father. He tried hard to rebuild their relationship, but was a bit clueless, making it get awkward for the both of them at times. However, he wasn't a complete moron, he was just not used to being a father.
Bumbling Dad / int_ee829854	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_ee829854	featureConfidence	1.0
House of Anubis	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_ee829854
Bumbling Dad / int_f4100371	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_f4100371	comment	Bunnicula: Mina's single dad, Arthur Monroe. Despite the fact that he's a good father to Mina, he's barely aware of his surroundings. For example, he thinks Mina's thirteenth birthday is her third birthday, and when Bunnicula creates a bunch of Mina clones, the only thing he notices wrong is that the clones served him pancakes instead of waffles for breakfast, rather than the fact that there's only supposed to be one Mina.
Bumbling Dad / int_f4100371	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_f4100371	featureConfidence	1.0
Bunnicula	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_f4100371
Bumbling Dad / int_f6c05e8e	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_f6c05e8e	comment	In Friends, Ross and Monica's father Jack Geller is a goofy man who makes inappropriate comments all the time.
Bumbling Dad / int_f6c05e8e	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_f6c05e8e	featureConfidence	1.0
Friends	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_f6c05e8e
Bumbling Dad / int_f78e69f	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_f78e69f	comment	Buck Cluck from Chicken Little struggles with being a father due to being a widower and not knowing how to be there for his son.
Bumbling Dad / int_f78e69f	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_f78e69f	featureConfidence	1.0
Chicken Little	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_f78e69f
Bumbling Dad / int_f7ee126a	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_f7ee126a	comment	Thunder Road: Played for both comedy and drama. It is humorous to see Arnaud bumble his way through trying to connect with his daughter, but it is also an immense source of stress in his life that he can't connect with his daughter nearly as well as his ex-wife.
Bumbling Dad / int_f7ee126a	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_f7ee126a	featureConfidence	1.0
Thunder Road	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_f7ee126a
Bumbling Dad / int_f97ee457	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_f97ee457	comment	Whatever it may be, Rusty Griswold is looking to receive this same treatment in Vacation.
Bumbling Dad / int_f97ee457	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_f97ee457	featureConfidence	1.0
Vacation	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_f97ee457
Bumbling Dad / int_f9f60778	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_f9f60778	comment	Played With in Moms' Night Out. Alysson imagines all sorts of horror scenarios when Marco and Sean are in charge of the kids. However, most of the shenanigans, including the fathers and their kids winding up in jail, are the fault of the mothers.
Bumbling Dad / int_f9f60778	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_f9f60778	featureConfidence	1.0
Moms' Night Out	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_f9f60778
Bumbling Dad / int_fc0e7530	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_fc0e7530	comment	Dexter's Laboratory: Both parents, though their primary flaw was being clueless to Dexter's Laboratory (and he has a memory erasing gun, so it's more like they look stupid by comparison to their supergenius son.) Also, Dexter's father turns out to be a stunt biker when his job is finally revealed (up to then, he left every day dressed for an office job), making him much cooler and more competent than the typical example.
Bumbling Dad / int_fc0e7530	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_fc0e7530	featureConfidence	1.0
Dexter's Laboratory	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_fc0e7530
Bumbling Dad / int_fd3e4089	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_fd3e4089	comment	In Deep Secret and The Merlin Conspiracy, Ted Mallory is a generally competent individual and a best-selling author, but he absolutely does not understand his teenage son Nick.
Bumbling Dad / int_fd3e4089	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_fd3e4089	featureConfidence	1.0
Deep Secret	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_fd3e4089
Bumbling Dad / int_fdfa23fe	type	Bumbling Dad
Bumbling Dad / int_fdfa23fe	comment	The Royal Diaries: Played for Drama (or deconstructed) in the case of Ptolemy XII (aka Auletes), Cleopatra's father, in Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile. Unlike his intelligent and bookish daughter, he's an alcoholic, self-absorbed Sheltered Aristocrat who loves partying and playing the flute and has no regard for ruling, which makes him deeply unpopular with his people and makes it easy for Cleopatra's evil older sister Tryphaena to seize the throne. During their exile, his incompetency frustrates and upsets Cleopatra and forces her to come to terms with the fact that she must be the more mature one of the two.
Bumbling Dad / int_fdfa23fe	featureApplicability	1.0
Bumbling Dad / int_fdfa23fe	featureConfidence	1.0
The Royal Diaries	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_fdfa23fe

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Bumbling Dad	processingCategory2	Always Male
Bumbling Dad	processingCategory2	Brain Chain
Bumbling Dad	processingCategory2	Characters as Device
Bumbling Dad	processingCategory2	Comedy Tropes
Bumbling Dad	processingCategory2	Dysfunctional Family Index
Bumbling Dad	processingCategory2	Gender Dynamics Index
Bumbling Dad	processingCategory2	Stock Characters
Bumbling Dad	processingCategory2	Stupidity Tropes
Bumbling Dad	processingCategory2	The Parent Trope
Bumbling Dad	processingCategory2	Undead Horse Trope
Animat Planet Show (Animation) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Mézga család (Animation) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Scamper the Penguin (Animation) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Colorful (2010) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Kiki's Delivery Service / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Ojamajo Doremi / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Onegai! Samia-don / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Ultimate Muscle / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Smile (Raina Telgemeier) (Comic Book) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Spirou & Fantasio (Comic Book) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Tiny Titans (Comic Book) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
X-Men (2013) (Comic Book) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Adam@home (Comic Strip) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Baby Blues (Comic Strip) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
On the Fastrack (Comic Strip) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
PreTeena (Comic Strip) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Stone Soup (Comic Strip) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Broons (Comic Strip) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Zbeng! (Comic Strip) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Murderer's Row (Fanfic) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Phantom Thieves of Hope (Fanfic) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Stories and Tales from Dimension 63 (Fanfic) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Washed Down The Drain (Fanfic) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
A Christmas Story / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Amarcord / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
An Education / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Another Gay Movie / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Arthur and the Invisibles / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Beauty and the Beast (2017) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Before Midnight / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Better Off Dead / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Chalet Girl / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Comic Book The Movie / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Coming to America / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Courageous / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Daddy Longlegs (2009) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Edward Scissorhands / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Eighth Grade / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Everything Everywhere All at Once / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Extraordinary Measures	seeAlso	Bumbling Dad
Father of the Bride (1950) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Father of the Bride (1991) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Fido / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Friday / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Infinitely Polar Bear / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Jeune & jolie / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Jingle All the Way / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
King For A Day / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Late Spring / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Les Fugitifs / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Love the Coopers / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Loveling / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Maleficent / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Mean Girls / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Moms' Night Out / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Mr. Mom / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Mrs. Doubtfire / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Nancy Drew / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
National Lampoon's Vacation / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
RV / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Re-Animated / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Shadow of a Doubt / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Summer Rental / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Boogeyman (2023) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Cremator / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Host (2006) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Little Rascals / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Shaggy Dog / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Sleepover / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Three Fugitives / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Thunder Road / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Troll (1986) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Uncle Buck / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Vacation / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
We Can Be Heroes (2020) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Whip It / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Young & Beautiful / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Disney Channel Live-Action Universe (Franchise) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
PewDiePie (Lets Play) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
A Brother's Price / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Alice Series / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Angela's Ashes / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Anne of Green Gables / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Bert Diaries / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Big Little Lies / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Farming Life In Another World / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Inukami! / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Knuffle Bunny / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
North and South / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Old Kingdom / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Splinter Cell / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Summerland / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Berenstain Bears / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Great Brain / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Royal Diaries / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The True Meaning of Smekday / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Zorro (2005) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Nintendo Power (Magazine) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
AbominableChristmas	seeAlso	Bumbling Dad
CityOfDeadSorcerer	seeAlso	Bumbling Dad
Discussed Trope / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Family Man / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
HumbertoVelez	seeAlso	Bumbling Dad
Kerai	seeAlso	Bumbling Dad
Kouji Ishii	seeAlso	Bumbling Dad
MyFamilyAndMe	seeAlso	Bumbling Dad
Parlé Productions	seeAlso	Bumbling Dad
Ptitlel0ddpon7	seeAlso	Bumbling Dad
UnstableFables	seeAlso	Bumbling Dad
Bamboo Blade (Manga) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Boruto (Manga) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Boys over Flowers (Manga) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
City Hunter (Manga) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Daa! Daa! Daa! (Manga)	seeAlso	Bumbling Dad
Daytime Shooting Star (Manga) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Don Dracula (Manga) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Flame of Recca (Manga) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Happy Marriage?! (Manga) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
I.O.N (Manga) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Karin (Manga) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Kinnikuman (Manga) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Master Keaton (Manga) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Mitsudomoe (Manga) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Ninja Papa (Manga) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
To Love Ru (Manga) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Whispered Words (Manga) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Franco De Vita (Music) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Vinyl Cafe (Radio) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Equestrian Legends (Roleplay) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Baby Daddy / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Bernard's Watch / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Better with You / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Big Love / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Call the Midwife / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Dinosaurs / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
En daarmee basta! / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Fargo / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Genie in the House / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Good Luck Charlie / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Home Improvement / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
I Hate My Teenage Daughter / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Just the Ten of Us / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Kevin Can F**k Himself / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Kevin Can Wait / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Kirby Buckets / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Lab Rats / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Last Man Standing (2011) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Lizzie McGuire / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Louie / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Love Me Licia / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Malcolm in the Middle / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Married... with Children / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Masked Rider / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Modern Family / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Moone Boy / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Mrs. America / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
My Brother and Me / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
No Good Nick / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Padam Padam / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Parenthood / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Please Like Me / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Raising Hope / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Roundhouse / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Scrubs / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Smart Guy / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Step by Step / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Still Standing / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Supah Ninjas / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Supernanny / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Tensou Sentai Goseiger / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
That '70s Show / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
That's So Raven / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Middle / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Munsters / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Odd Couple (1970) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Osbournes / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Pitts / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Slap / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Unicorn / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Upshaws / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Too Cute / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Trailer Park Boys / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Trophy Wife / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Two Fathers / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Up All Night / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
We Are Lady Parts / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Yuugen Jikkou Sisters Shushutorian / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
August: Osage County (Theatre) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
HONK! (Theatre) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Next to Normal (Theatre) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Merchant of Venice (Theatre) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Chibi-Robo! (Video Game) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Down in the Dumps (Video Game) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Frog Fractions (Video Game) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Happy Wheels (Video Game) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Mister Mosquito (Video Game) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Octodad (Video Game) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale (Video Game) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Rusty's Real Deal Baseball (Video Game) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Simpsons: Tapped Out (Video Game) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Zone of the Enders (Video Game) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Axanael (Visual Novel) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Sable's Grimoire (Visual Novel) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Battle of the Multiverse (Web Animation) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Bowser's Koopalings (Web Animation) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Pokémon: Path to the Peak (Web Animation) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
RWBY Chibi (Web Animation) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures (Web Animation) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Tankmen (Web Animation) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Code MENT (Web Video) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Ryan ToysReview (Web Video) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Mysterious Mr. Enter (Web Video) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Chess Piece (Webcomic) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Crowbar Benson (Webcomic) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Dandy and Company (Webcomic) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Evil FTW (Webcomic) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Megamanspritecomic (Webcomic) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Original Life (Webcomic) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
PreTeena	seeAlso	Bumbling Dad
PvP (Webcomic) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Rebirth (Webcomic) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Second Generation (Webcomic) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Starcrossed (Webcomic) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Ad Turds (Website) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Andy Panda / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Bob's Burgers / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Bunnicula / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Chop Kick Panda / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Classic Disney Shorts / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Committed / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Cow and Chicken / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Crash Canyon / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
David Copperfield (1993) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Family Dog / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Father of the Pride / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Freakazoid! / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Gerald McBoing-Boing / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Glenn Martin, DDS / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
God, the Devil and Bob / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Goof Troop / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Goofy / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Gulliver's Travels / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
House of Mouse / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Inside Out / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Kiff / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Little Princess / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Maggie Simpson in / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Mike, Lu & Og / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Miles from Tomorrowland / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
My Dad the Rock Star / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Oh Yeah! Cartoons / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Olivia / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Operation: Z.E.R.O. / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Peppa Pig / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Pete / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Pluto the Pup / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Problem Child / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Regal Academy / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Rotting Hills / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Rupert / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
TaleSpin / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Flintstones / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Patrick Star Show / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Replacements / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Simpsons Movie / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Tofus / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Wild Thornberrys / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The X's / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Hell Girl / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Be More Chill / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Limit / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Septimus Heap / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Bill Nye the Science Guy / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Too Close for Comfort / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Wizards of Waverly Place / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Gaia Online (Website) / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad

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