Ignacio Suarez (as played by Tony Plana)
'Ugly Betty'
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Ignacio Suarez (as played by Tony Plana)'Ugly Betty' |
QUOTE: “Everybody on my side of the family has big crazy chompers.“
The series focuses on the life of wannabe writer Betty Suarez (America Ferrera), a plain girl from Queens, N.Y., who is smart, hardworking and savvy but has a different sense of style. Betty’s dad is Ignacio (Plana), who has raised Betty and her sister, Hilda, mostly by himself after the passing of his wife. Ignacio is a former amateur boxer who came undocumented to the United States from Mexico to be with the woman he loved while working as her and her abusive husband’s chef. Everything he does is driven by love and support for his daughters, even though he doesn’t always understand them or their pursuits, and it’s that kind unconditional love that makes dads so special.
Andre 'Dre' Johnson (as played by Anthony Anderson)
'Black-ish'
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QUOTE: “Baby it’s not what it looks like, I just ate too many biscuits. It was an over-the-cover biscuit nap!”
Black-ish revolves around the Johnson family’s lives, as they juggle several personal and sociopolitical issues, namely how they can assimilate into their majority-white community while still honoring their own black backgrounds and identities. Dre (Anderson) is a wealthy advertising executive at Stevens & Lido, who wants to make sure a balance of black culture is intertwined with his family’s ultra-suburban upbringing. After having a difficult childhood growing up in Compton, but worked hard to make a better life for himself. Now, even though he seems to have it all — a beautiful and highly accomplished wife (Tracee Ellis Ross), four (eventually five) great kids, and a beautiful home — he’s not going to rest until he’s helped broaden the minds and perspectives of his family, and oftentimes, learning something, himself, along the way.
Phil Dunphy (as played by Ty Burrell)
'Modern Family'
QUOTE: “I’m the cool dad, that’s my thang. I’m hip, I surf the web, I text. LOL: laugh out loud. OMG: oh my God. WTF: why the face.”
Modern Family revolves around three different types of families living in the Los Angeles area, who are interrelated through Jay Pritchett (Ed O’Neill) and his children, daughter Claire (Julie Bowen) and son Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson). Claire is married to Phil Dunphy (Burrell), a realtor and self-proclaimed “cool dad” who has the goofiness and awkwardness (and sometimes maturity) of an overgrown kid, and as a result, often embarrasses both his wife and children (but hey, that’s what dads are for). So while he can be a bit of a screw-up or goofball, Phil is ultimately loyal, loving, and — one of the most important traits a dad can have — knows that it’s his wife who’s the boss.
Homer Simpson (as voiced by Dan Castellaneta)
'The Simpsons'
QUOTE: “Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.“
As you all probably know, The Simpsons is a long-running animated sitcom that satirically depicts working-class life, as epitomized by the Simpson family, at the helm of which is donut-loving and Duff beer-guzzling dad, Homer Simpson (Castellaneta), who works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Homer is a buffoon whose carelessness often causes trouble for his family and those around him, often making himself his own worst enemy (although he’ll always be convinced that’s Ned Flanders), but despite it all, we love the guy because at the core of him is someone who loves his kids and tall-haired wife Marge (Julie Kavner) and wants to keep them together and happy. D’oh.
Julius Rock (as played by Terry Crews)
'Everybody Hates Chris'
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QUOTE: “If you smell smoke, and you think the house is going to catch fire, get your brother and your sister and get out of here. If you smell gas, and you think the house is going to blow up, get your brother and your sister and get out of here. If you smell smoke, and your brother catches on fire, get your sister and get out of here.“
Everybody Hates Chris is based on the childhood of (and narrated by) comedian Chris Rock and chronicles the misadventures of teenager Chris as he grows up in 1980s Brooklyn surrounded by his eccentric family. Leading the Rock crew is Julius (Crews), an extremely hard worker who is typically holding two or three jobs at once to try to make ends meet for his family. Julius is extremely frugal and is quick to discourage wastefulness and able to calculate how much of a thing — whether it’s milk leftover from a bowl of cereal or electricity used to power an alarm — is being wasted or misused down to the last cent. So sure, it’s hard to get the guy to splurge on or pay full price for something, and he doesn’t always give the most coherent or simple advice, but everything he does, he does out of worry, devotion, and love for his family.
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