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Perhaps the reason it works is because the dad character isn’t an overplayed masculine ideal, and therefore fresh. I personally suspect one reason for the “bum
by ip26 2y ago
Perhaps the reason it works is because the dad character isn’t an overplayed masculine ideal, and therefore fresh.
I personally suspect one reason for the “bumbling dad” trope is the “classically ideal dad” is everywhere in stories, and thus becomes boring.
Subverting the conventional power figure is also played for laughs a lot, while Bluey doesn’t ask us to laugh at anyone.
- whythre 2y agoHave you consumed any recent media in the last 5 decades? Fathers are depicted as staggering oafs or well-meaning clowns, to be suffered by their wives and insulted by their children. Classically ideal dads are so rare that this cartoon character is being lauded as one of the best examples of the ideal in recent memory.