There's a YouTube video essay I watched a month or so back that touched on this. It looked at parental figures throughout the history of television and used the

There's a YouTube video essay I watched a month or so back that touched on this. It looked at parental figures throughout the history of television and used them as a reflection for generational ideals of what a parent should be The boomers parents made shows like Father knows best, leave it to beaver, etc, where the father was an almost unimpeachable authority figure. Boomers (and gen x) made shows like the Simpsons and family guy, where the oaf father comes in, and family is mostly viewed as dysfunctional, an obligation rather than something to be enjoyed. Gen x produced shows like Bob's burgers which removes some of the physical violence of the family but maintains the Father as an aloof oafish character. And millennial fathers, as depicted by TV, are like bandit. The oaf is gone, but so is the dictatorial authority figure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRN5gKC9_CU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRN5gKC9_CU