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Standard '50s Father

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Standard '50s Father	comment	The Standard '50s Father was born in a small town in the American Midwest (or, as in the case of the quote above, the English Home Counties). His parents were farmers of some sort, or perhaps his father was a druggist. A veteran of World War II, he put himself through college (possibly through the G.I. Bill) and is now a white-collar professional... unless he is the proprietor of some small local business (pharmacy, cobbler, grocery, etc.). The Standard '50s Father is solid, dependable, and responsible. He's Happily Married to his wife, whom he met when they were both teenagers. And if the love he gives his children is slightly distant, it is no less heartfelt for being so. He's an upstanding citizen who rarely swears or drinks to excess, if he smokes he smokes a pipe, and attends a regular "bowling night" with his friends (darts in the pub if British). If he plays cards it will be bridge, probably in partnership with his wife, not poker in a dingy room full of cigarette smoke. He wears a shirt and tie with dress pants and a cardigan during the day (even while he cuts the lawn on Saturday morning) and sleeps in sensible cotton pajamas. He usually wears glasses. He's buttoned-down, calm, wise, and thoughtful. None but a few things can rattle him: 1.) His daughter getting a boyfriend, 2.) His wife revealing that she's going to have a baby (and her later going into labor), 3.) His wife deciding that she wants a job (assuming that it's her idea and not his), or 4.) The threat of losing his job (combining 3 and 4 could send him into open hysterics). If the Red Scare is in effect, he'll go berserk at the thought of someone close to him being a communist. When played straight, the Standard '50s Father's primary function is to offer object lessons and moral instructions to the various members of his family. When Played for Laughs, he's the butt of jokes and the perfect example of dorkiness. When played Darker and Edgier, he's often the male version of a Stepford Smiler, hiding his neuroses, insecurities, and other issues behind the fatherly facade, because a man isn't supposed to show weakness in public. Note that he is rarely played straight anymore. Husband to the House Wife. Father to the Girl Next Door and The All-American Boy. Contrast Bumbling Dad and Amazingly Embarrassing Parents, two tropes created as a direct subversion to this one.
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Standard '50s Father / int_11b7db91	comment	Marceline's dad on Adventure Time is a rather amusing subversion. He is very like this in terms of voice and personality....and he's also the soul-stealing demon lord of the Nightosphere.
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Standard '50s Father / int_11da66aa	comment	Taeko's father in Only Yesterday is depicted as one during her childhood flashbacks, though her memories as a ten-year-old take place in 1965. He's stern and stoic but can be loving towards Taeko in his own way, wears glasses, frequently smokes cigarettes, and wears a suit when going out (though he wears a kimono at home, showing his traditionalist mindset).
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Standard '50s Father / int_174feaf6	comment	Colonel Strickland from The Shape of Water is a pretty thorough deconstruction of this trope. He is deeply unsatisfied with his bland, mediocre home life, and is constantly driven to progressively more depraved acts because of this. He conforms obsessively to the social mores of his time period, feeling that he always has to be "in charge" and tends to overcompensate because of this. That's not mentioning that he's a racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, Bible-thumping Hate Sink.
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Standard '50s Father / int_17e6cb15	comment	Bojack Horseman: Played for Drama with Bojack's father, Butterscotch, who admonishes his son for having an Imaginary Friend because they were "invented by Communists to rip off welfare". We eventually learn in flashbacks that he took up this exaggerated version of the persona purely out of spite after he failed to make it as a Beat writer and married into money. Deconstructed with regards to Bojack's maternal grandfather Joseph Sugarman, who got his wife Honey a lobotomy because he was woefully unprepared to handle her grief over their son's death in World War II, and then threatened his daughter Beatrice (Bojack's mother) with one of her own if she didn't keep her emotions in check.
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Standard '50s Father / int_195f30bf	comment	The limbless husband and patriarch Bob Oblong from The Oblongs may be the eponymous example of the 1950s TV show father. He treats his wife like royalty, uses child-friendly minced oaths, and is very chipper and upbeat despite his deformities and family's position as lower-class citizens living near a chemical spill.
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Standard '50s Father / int_1c3e89c5	comment	Red Meat: Ted Johnson looks like one of these, with this slicked hair and pipe, but is yet another subversion. He's as much of a perverse Cloud Cuckoolander as any other character in that strip.
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Standard '50s Father / int_1ed2c571	comment	Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show was a reconstruction of this trope for The '80s. Bill Cosby envisioned him as everything that a father (and specifically a black father) should be, an aspirational, kind-hearted family man with a playful sense of humor and decidedly old-school tastes in music who is always there for his kids. This was a big part of why Cosby's arrest for sexual assault hit so hard for so many people: creating and playing Cliff for eight seasons had earned him a reputation as "America's Dad".
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Standard '50s Father / int_33fdae4d	comment	Subverted in Mad Men with Don Draper - once the audience realizes he is the 50s dad at the end of the first episode, it comes as a surprise. And of course, he is most definitely not a paragon of American virtue (what with the affairs, stolen identity, etc). He also drove his wife to divorce.
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Standard '50s Father / int_3496b8ab	comment	Ed Avery from Bigger Than Life is this at the beginning of the film, being a dutiful husband and father trying his best to provide for his family. Unfortunately, his behavior takes a turn for the worse when he starts abusing cortisone, and he becomes increasingly abusive toward his family.
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Standard '50s Father / int_3558eaa2	comment	In the Community episode "Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy", Chang wants the chance to be a father to Shirley's son (it's a 50/50 chance he's the biological father) and Jeff tells him Shirley might give him the chance if he acts responsibly, just to get him out of his apartment. Chang starts dressing and acting like every '50s tv sitcom dad in a clear case of Sanity Slippage.
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Standard '50s Father / int_400469e	comment	In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin's Dad looks a bit like one of these, wearing an outdated suit to his job as a patent attorney, and trying to present an image of stern discipline and authority to his son. He's also the Trope Namer for Misery Builds Character. He occasionally subverts it by making up bizarre Just So stories. For example, he tells Calvin that the reason that old movies were in black-and-white is that the world was black-and-white then and that the sun sets each night in Arizona, which is why the rocks there are so red. He also practices cycling as a hobby, with a few strips focusing on his escapades.
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Standard '50s Father / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: Henry Winchester has elements of this. A suit and tie are his main clothing choices, with a trench coat and fedora for when he goes out. He took his son, John, to see Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy and keeps a picture they took together in his wallet. The only major deviation is his job: demon hunting. The Monster of the Week in "A Very Supernatural Christmas" is a pair of pagan Gods. While they have no children, they dress, talk, and act like a couple from a 50's sitcom. Emphasis on "act".
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Standard '50s Father / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill: Hank Hill fits this archetype in many ways. Could be seen as a Deconstruction, as this personality type is portrayed more as an eccentric quirk, than as normal, and is constantly clashing with the fact that the world he lives in is not like a 50s sitcom. Sometimes crosses over with The Comically Serious.
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Standard '50s Father / int_4da4f10d	comment	Work It Out Wombats!: Fergus Fishman appears to be a modern reconstruction of this archetype. He is a caring, responsible father who dotes on his children and will do anything to make his family happy.
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Standard '50s Father / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: Played with: at first, Mr. Egbert appears to be one of these — a caring, pipe-smoking, hat-wearing, sensible man — albeit with a bizarre passion for harlequins that convinces his son John that the elder Egbert is a street performer. And then it turns out that he's secretly a.) a perfectly ordinary businessman whose apparent harlequin fixation is in fact an attempt to support John's chucklevoodoo-induced love of clowns and b.) a superhumanly strong, Made of Iron Papa Wolf capable of taking out enormous monsters with his bare hands. And he's also John's half-brother via cloning. It's complicated. After the Scratch, most characters are iterated into different forms and different lives. Aside from being Properly Paranoid due to Crockercorp's influence and lacking interest in clowns, Mr. Crocker is the exact same as Mr. Egbert.
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Standard '50s Father / int_50be8f2d	comment	Henry Winchester has elements of this. A suit and tie are his main clothing choices, with a trench coat and fedora for when he goes out. He took his son, John, to see Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy and keeps a picture they took together in his wallet. The only major deviation is his job: demon hunting.
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Standard '50s Father / int_5319ce6c	comment	Loid Forger in Spy X Family, though he's European, a non-smoker, and the series is ostensibly set in the '60s, he tends to fall into this mold in both sides of his life. As Loid Forger, he's a kind and respected psychiatrist, and when not in a lab coat, he usually wears a shirt and tie with dress pants and a cardigan during the day. And while he's wise and diligent, he's kind of a Bumbling Dad who takes raising his daughter to comically serious levels. As Twilight, he's a veteran, and generally unflappable in the face of danger, but he went into his line of work through genuinely altruistic reasons and is a firm but fair disciplinarian toward his adopted daughter.
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Standard '50s Father / int_60a7a86d	comment	Shade, the Changing Man once encountered a cult led by a man who was obsessed with normalcy, which to him meant forcibly turning everyone in the neighbourhood into '50s nuclear family stereotypes. Wearing a suit and tie and smoking a pipe was mandatory for men.
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Standard '50s Father / int_611b218d	comment	Call the Midwife: Dr. Turner is a reconstruction of the trope: an actual father in the 1950s (the series begins in 1957), who actually dresses like the stereotype (although he smokes cigarettes, not a pipe), he's a genuinely wise, caring physician with much love and firm but fair discipline for his son Timothy. However, as a widower, he has trouble balancing his hellish work schedule and his duties to Timmy; this gets easier after he marries Shelagh, the former Sr. Bernadette. He also has distinct Bumbling Dad tendencies at times, and his obligatory experience during the War (as he was a medical graduate, working in a field hospital) resulted in a mental breakdown (from all the goriness of the wounded, sick, and dying in the war).
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Standard '50s Father / int_671d5c19	comment	Professor Utonium from The Powerpuff Girls (1998) is sort of like a scientific variant of this. He carries a pipe and is a good guy in general.
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Standard '50s Father / int_6d2fb4ea	comment	In National Lampoon, "The Appletons" was a regular strip, a very typical "50s family" with a dad who's a smiling, pipe-smoking psycho who constantly messes with his kids' heads.
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Standard '50s Father / int_704a8353	comment	In the movie White Christmas, Bob invokes the pipe, slippers, and newspaper idea of a husband when ribbing Phil, who has just (supposedly) gotten engaged.
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Standard '50s Father / int_7362e6cc	comment	Audrey imagines Seymour this way in Little Shop of Horrors. She even sings, "He's Father; he knows best."
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Standard '50s Father / int_75907260	comment	As the Fallout series is based on 50s culture with Zeerust technology, many subversions, parodies, and deconstructions of this character appear throughout. Jack Smith and his neighbour Willy Wilson in Fallout 3 are almost iconic. Serious men who dress properly, care for their small families, don't vote for no commie beatniks and don't take kindly to strangers using bad language where the kids can hear. They love their families and believe that it's a man's job to "bring home the bacon". Quite literally since Andale is populated with cannibals.
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Standard '50s Father / int_78fc0025	comment	Harshly deconstructed on the very retro-'50s Twin Peaks with Leland Palmer, who becomes increasingly vulnerable as we see him mourning the death of his only daughter, and the uncovering of her dark secrets that come with the murder investigation, and he's forced to deal with his failures as a father. Also, he's the killer.
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Standard '50s Father / int_8f88ec9e	comment	Libby's father Dave Mannering in I Saw What You Did bears many of the classic hallmarks: he is a besuited, pipe smoking businessman who is sweetly overindulgent of his daughters, and has a tendency to downplay his wife's concerns as typical female overreaction. Kit's father John Austin is similar, but doesn't smoke a pipe, and is probably too suspicious and proactive to truly fit the mold.
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Standard '50s Father / int_93df96	comment	Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird may be the quintessential example. He's a lawyer from a small, Southern town who is willing to uphold due process when a black man is accused of raping a white woman. He stoically endures being spit in the face by his enemies and definitely imparts wise lessons to his children.
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Standard '50s Father / int_976efc02	comment	Mike Nelson perceives himself as one around youngsters. He writes in his book Mind Over Matters that anytime kids wind up in his house: "Somehow, though I don't own one, a pipe ends up in my hands, my hair automatically Brylcreems itself into place, I look down to find slippers on my feet, and I'm wearing a robe." He then goes on to utterly creep them out by dropping increasingly dated references, starting with quizzing them on the popularity of Tone Loc and ending with advising them to take precautions against the Bubonic Plague. "Oh, the kids today, how they love me."
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Standard '50s Father / int_9871d4f3	comment	Bandit Heeler of Bluey is an Australian Reconstruction of this trope for The New '10s. He's a sensible, hard-working, hard-playing guy who always makes time for his kids and who loves and is loved by his family. He's not perfect, but he's far from the typical Bumbling Dad.
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Standard '50s Father / int_98b9912e	comment	Goofy in the Disney cartoons, where he plays a bumbling suburban father named George Geef.
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Standard '50s Father / int_9e876c22	comment	Mr. Young in Good Omens is pretty much the Platonic ideal of this kind of character. He's so serious-minded that in the finale his mere arrival on the scene is enough to dispel Satan.
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Standard '50s Father / int_9e87e13f	comment	The title character of The Stepfather cultivates this image for himself and seems to think of himself like this. At one point, he's explicitly compared to Ward Cleaver. Unfortunately, the accent here is on cleaver.
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Standard '50s Father / int_a144cb39	comment	Clay Puppington from Moral Orel is a deconstruction of this trope. While he certainly acts like an upstanding, mentoring father, it quickly becomes apparent that this demeanor hides his true personality: a bitter, cynical, washed-up drunkard who hates his wife and son with a passion and craves attention above all else. It's best shown in "Nature", where he becomes drunk in front of Orel and goes on an unhinged rant about having "no one to be", forced into the role of this trope as a result of Moralton's deeply pious culture.
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Standard '50s Father / int_a5b2bea0	comment	In Vanilla Sky, it is implied that David invented a father figure for himself (Dr. McCabe) in this mold, based on Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Standard '50s Father / int_a956302b	comment	The Nuclear Family was a supervillain team who fought Batman and the Outsiders. They were robots programmed to act like the stereotypical 1950s Dad, Mom, Son, Teenage Son (Biff), and Daughter — with superpowers, of course.
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Standard '50s Father / int_a9924342	comment	In Bicentennial Man, Sir, known to everyone else as Richard Martin, undergoes some minor changes, mostly expanding his lines and giving him the role of mentor to Andrew. He is very dependable, and does a good job of teaching his moral opinions to other family members. His clothing, naturally, reflects his affluent yet conservative style, with him choosing cardigans and ties in the relaxed setting of his home, even as fashions change around him. Despite the film being set 20 Minutes into the Future.
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Standard '50s Father / int_c4282b71	comment	Carrot Cake from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic exhibits a few traits. He's well-dressed, wearing his baker's outfit with a matching tie even when he's not working and he's firmly devoted to his wife and twin children. It's even implied that he was a Panicky Expectant Father on the day the twins were born.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	hasFeature	Standard '50s Father / int_c4282b71
Standard '50s Father / int_c62995ba	type	Standard '50s Father
Standard '50s Father / int_c62995ba	comment	In Child of the Storm, Joe Danvers Sr. is a darker variant on the trope - a Stepford Smiler who tries to force his older two children (a sporty Action Girl and tomboy, and a quiet and artistic boy) into the roles he feels they should follow: the demure Proper Lady (though he'd settle for a Girl Next Door) and The All-American Boy (like his youngest child). In a complicating twist, he does actually love his children, sincerely believes that he's doing what's best for them - even when that extends to asking Harry to Mind Rape his daughter into compliance - and was genuinely good with them when they were small... and not defying his expectations.
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Child of the Storm (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Standard '50s Father / int_c62995ba
Standard '50s Father / int_d16f2e4a	type	Standard '50s Father
Standard '50s Father / int_d16f2e4a	comment	Disneyland Dream features the Standard '50s Father in his natural habitat, being amateur filmmaker Robbins Barstow's record of his family's vacation to Disneyland in 1956. Surely nothing is more Standard '50s Father than Dad giving his son a crew cut.
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Standard '50s Father / int_d16f2e4a	featureConfidence	1.0
Disneyland Dream	hasFeature	Standard '50s Father / int_d16f2e4a
Standard '50s Father / int_dab7c96c	type	Standard '50s Father
Standard '50s Father / int_dab7c96c	comment	Pleasantville, as a parody of the "good old days", features one. This one's a Stepford Smiler type, but with a slight twist; the emotion he's primarily suppressing behind his facade isn't hatred or anger, but rather affection, which he's not allowed to openly display as the stern patriarch. His change to color (which in the film happens when one taps into something suppressed), is triggered by accepting the love he has for his wife and family.
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Pleasantville	hasFeature	Standard '50s Father / int_dab7c96c
Standard '50s Father / int_dc00344f	type	Standard '50s Father
Standard '50s Father / int_dc00344f	comment	Nick Laemle from Parents at first appears to be a loving family man to his wife and son. In reality, he's a Serial Killer who preys on innocent people to provide food for the family.
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Standard '50s Father / int_dc00344f	featureConfidence	1.0
Parents	hasFeature	Standard '50s Father / int_dc00344f
Standard '50s Father / int_de48ce05	type	Standard '50s Father
Standard '50s Father / int_de48ce05	comment	Pop from Happy Tree Friends is a subversion: he has the general look and personality of this, though his wife is nowhere to be seen and implied to be dead. What keeps him from being a true example, however, is a bad case of Parental Obliviousness that keeps getting his son killed.
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Happy Tree Friends (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Standard '50s Father / int_de48ce05
Standard '50s Father / int_dfc5f0d0	type	Standard '50s Father
Standard '50s Father / int_dfc5f0d0	comment	Henry Mitchell in Dennis the Menace (US) is tall, thin, has black hair, wears glasses and a tie, is Happily Married to Alice, his bond with Dennis is stronger than that of Alice, and in his earlier appearances, he smoked a pipe.
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Dennis the Menace (US) (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Standard '50s Father / int_dfc5f0d0
Standard '50s Father / int_ef7b3325	type	Standard '50s Father
Standard '50s Father / int_ef7b3325	comment	Fantastic Four:
Standard '50s Father / int_ef7b3325	featureApplicability	1.0
Standard '50s Father / int_ef7b3325	featureConfidence	1.0
Fantastic Four / Comicbook	hasFeature	Standard '50s Father / int_ef7b3325
Standard '50s Father / int_f57525ab	type	Standard '50s Father
Standard '50s Father / int_f57525ab	comment	George Bailey from It's a Wonderful Life tries his best to provide for his four children and steer them on the right path. His lashing out at his family after taking the fall for the theft of $8,000 dollars is the start of his downward spiral that leads to his attempted suicide.
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It's a Wonderful Life	hasFeature	Standard '50s Father / int_f57525ab
Standard '50s Father / int_fcacaa36	type	Standard '50s Father
Standard '50s Father / int_fcacaa36	comment	The Man in the High Castle subverts the trope with John Smith, a loving but authoritative American father who has a proper breakfast with his two kids and homemaker wife each morning... while in uniform as a high-ranking Nazi SS officer.
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Mighty Avengers (2013) (Comic Book) / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Shade, the Changing Man (Comic Book) / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Dennis the Menace (UK) (Comic Strip) / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
My Life as a Teenaged Von Neumann Device (Fanfic) / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
PostMU: Life's a Scream! (Fanfic) / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Bicentennial Man / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Disneyland Dream / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
I Saw What You Did / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Parents / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
The People Under the Stairs / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
The Shape of Water / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
The Stepfather / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
The Tree of Life / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Vanilla Sky / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Dekada '70 / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Le Petit Nicolas / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Malory Towers / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Melendy Quartet / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
The Virgin Suicides / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Three Bean Salad (Podcast) / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Call the Midwife / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Happy Days / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Leave It to Beaver / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
My Three Sons / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
State of Grace / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
The Andy Griffith Show / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
The Man in the High Castle / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Bye Bye Birdie (Theatre) / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Octodad (Video Game) / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
asdfmovie (Web Animation) / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Mr. Buddy (Web Video) / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Brawl in the Family (Webcomic) / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Wendy (Webcomic) / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Classic Disney Shorts / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
George Shrinks / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
Minions / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father

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