Bob Saget is trying to destroy our childhood. Over the weekend, video circulated of the one-time Full House super-dad accompanying Ben Folds on a cover of the Dr. Dre classic “Bitches Ain’t Shit,” reminding us once again that Danny Tanner is dead. Since we’ve followed Saget’s antics over the past few years, the incident wasn’t a surprise. It did, however, get us thinking about all the actors who have played apparently wholesome parents on our favorite TV shows, but who turned out to be a bit more complicated in real life. From raunchy comedians and crazy people to drug dealers and sex criminals, our list of badly behaved sitcom parents is after the jump.
Bob Saget, Full House
It didn’t take his and Folds’ rendition of “Bitches Ain’t Shit” to prove that that Bob Saget is nothing like sweet, neat-freak Danny Tanner. Ever since the show wrapped, he’s been intentionally exploding his wholesome image with raunchy humor. His appearance in The Aristocrats is positively filthy — and Saget’s potty mouth is hardly limited to his telling of the infamous dirty joke.
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You missed out on Bob Crane and PeeWee Herman.
I think you need to re-think some of this. Tim Allen has more than made up for a sorrid past, and so has Suzanne Somers.
And I think it’s a shame that we tend to mesh a celebrety”s personal and public life with their acting.
I can’t believe someone thought Pee Wee Herman should be on this list. Pee Wee was caught when he masturbated in the back of a porn movie theatre. Alone.. Let him be. As for skanky Bill Cosby, that’s ANOTHER story. He’s accused of rape MULTIPLE times over years by 14 different women and he’s not been tarnished with some people. He does have influential friends. Add he’s very rich. Perhaps that makes it OK with some people.
Love the SUNY Oneonta shout-out. Do you have a connection with the school?
They are talking about TV PARENTS. Neither Bob Crane or Pee Wee ever played a parent.
As far as Sagat, he didn’t start doing the “blue stuff” after FUll House wrapped. If you remember he went on to do the family friendly AFHV which carried a somewhat lienient morals clause. It wasn’t until he left THAT show that he returned to the dirty jokes. I say returned because he started off as a blue comic and opened for Richard Pryor; Pryor who then got him a small role in his film Critical Condition, where he was noticed by the producers of Full House and then hired for what they assumed was his wholesome presence.
He didn’t try to wipe out his wholesome image, it was always false. And how is telling filthy jokes somehow make him a less-than-honorable person in real life?
To Blues Bob: FYI Before Hogans Heroes, Bob Crane starred in “The Bob Crane
Show” as a sitcom father.
As far as bill cosby goes, none of that stuff was ever proven. Bill Cosby actually has a lot of important and intelligent messages to be delivered, if only people listened… But really, when you’re rich & famous, and especially if you’re a rich & famous black man (YES), people will try to bring you down, a lot of women just want attention and the money. Probably got their heartbroke, and look at this as revenge.
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