Channel Frederator Blog

So, it’s midnight here on the East Coast and I’ve been reflecting on Fathers and fatherhood in general. I’m not a father yet, but hopefully I will be one day at some point. I can’t wait to be a father.
(well… yes, i can…)

Needless to say, I’ve been thinking about my own father today, and his father, who unfortunately isn’t with us anymore. I was also thinking about my mother’s father, who also isn’t around anymore as well. I called my girlfriend’s father and her brother-in-law and wished them a happy father’s day.
I even called Fred and wished him a good one.

So, it’s been on my brain yesterday.

I wanted to come up with a list of the Top Ten Cartoon Fathers of all time, so I spent some time thinking about all the animated fathers I grew up watching, and a few new ones I watch nowadays from time to time.

This list is really not in any order, and by all means, if you peeps reading this figure out some I’ve forgotten to mention, chime in with a comment!

THE CHANNEL FREDERATOR TOP TEN CARTOON FATHERS OF ALL TIME!!!
(and also some honorary mentions)

10) David Seville, father of Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. A likable enough guy, if not a bit reminescent of Michael Jackson’s father. I bet he pushed those chipmunks hard to make him his $$$. I also found out, during my Cartoon Father research, that David Seville is based on a real recording artist by the same name. I had no clue.

I think Splinter gets an honorary mention, because he’s almost in the same boat as David Seville was in. At least in the sense of finding his “children”, whereas David found musically inclined chipmunks and pushed them hard to be pop superstars, Splinter found a bunch of mutant turtles and raised them as his own. Underneath the New York sewers, and trained them to be Ninja killing machines, which I guess could be the same as Pop Superstars.

9) Geppetto, the puppet master toy maker. I have a soft spot in my heart bones for Geppetto, because he really meant well, with his (wood) Block head son. I guess that’s sorta what he gets for placing his trust in a grasshopper. Maybe I’m being too rough on jiminy and good ol Geppetto. I mean, the guy ended up in a whale while searching for his fake son. That’s some true, genuine love right there.

Poopdeck Pappy, Popeye’s poppa. Ah, One eyed, sea-faring love between a sailor father and sailor son. We’ll forget the fact that Popeye was abandoned at a young age by Poopdeck, cause eventually the sea, in the end, brought these two together again. And that’s always a good thing.

And let us not forget that Popeye and Olive Oyl eventually married and had a kid of their own. At least from what I remember in that show, Popeye didn’t abandon his son. Although it is weird to me that he wasn’t born with his poppa’s birth defect, and has 2 perfectly normal eyes. I wonder if Popeye resented that. Makes me question Olive Oyl’s faithfulness in their marriage. Any bets on Bluto, Wimpy or even the Sea-Hag being the proud papa?

7) Peter Griffin, prime-time father. I admit it. I watch Family Guy when I can. Peter…is… well… Peter. He’s kind of like Jackie Gleason if he was… uh… severely retarded.

6) Homer Simpson. What can I say? I love Homer. He showed me that tough love could be funny.

5)Professor Utonium, powerpuff girls proud inventor and father. Who knew that taking ingredients like Sugar, Spice, and everything Nice and mixing it all up with a vial of chemical x whoop Ass would create some of the cutest (and strangest) looking little trio of crime fighting girls. Professor U is so scientific and caring, not bad for a single father who also happens to be a man of the Science.

4) George Jetson, Father of the future. The futuristic modern working man.
He has everything a man of the future could ever want, robotic maids, pill foods, a car space buggy that transforms into his briefcase, 2 great kids, and a cute dog with a speech impediment. We’ll forgive Hanna Barbera for the 1980s and creating that new pet that was white and had springy legs.
Nice guy, easygoing, does his job, loves his family, and still nothing seems to really go his way. But he still keeps persisting and pushing forwards.
I think we all can relate a little bit to that.

3) Fred Flintstone, Prehistoric Papa of the Past. What a lovable doof this guy was. Take Jackie Gleason (2nd reference), give him some high blood pressure medication, put him in a caveman suit, and you got Freddie boy. He has a great wife and family, a great pet as well, great friends, and an easygoing, hardworking, normal joe job. For a caveman.

2) Papa Smurf, Blue, little, and full of white bearded love.
Papa Smurf. Father to millions of tiny blue smurf things. And one girl smurf thing. Worthy mystic opponent to the dreaded Gargamel. He might be tiny, but he has a level head, and lots of heart.

1) ?
Who do you think should be number one?

Channel Frederator. Yr #1 SOURCE for Cartoon News & Interviews!
One Love.
<3,
-JX!

Who Do YOU want to see On Channel Frederator?
<a href=”http:// www.channelfrederator.com “>Click here to subscribe to Channel Frederator or go to iTunes. Please send your suggestions to promotecartoons@gmail.com.

Wanna know what else is cool about Channel Frederator?!?

Seriously. If yr film or short is featured on CH.Fred, what better way to promote yrself than embedding the Fred on yr very own website, blog or myspace page? For the extreme Fredheads, there’s the ultimate “Always Fresh” embedding code.
What are you waiting for? All the cool kids are doing it. I have mine up on my Myspace Page now.
Don’t believe me? <a href=”http:// http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=851017]Take Take> a look, and add me while yr at it!
Cheers!