Which TV family did you relate to growing up?

[ColbertWatcher]

Poll question: Which TV family did you relate to growing up?

During his introduction to his sister, Michelle, Craig Robinson mentioned they watched The Brady Bunch.

Which TV family did you relate to growing up?

Naturally, I have forgotten many, so feel free to vote for "Other" and post the name in reply. Have fun reminiscing!

Group 1

the "Nelsons", from The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952)

or

the "Andersons", from Father Knows Best (1954)

or

the "Cleavers", from Leave It To Beaver (1957)

or

the "Ingalls", from Little House On The Prairie (1974)

Group 2

the "Taylors", from The Andy Griffith Show (1960)

or

the "Douglases", from My Three Sons (1960)

or

the "Davises", from Family Affair (1966)

Group 3

the "Bradys", from The Brady Bunch (1969)

or

the "Drummonds", from Diff'rent Strokes (1978)

Group 4

the "Keatons", from Family Ties (1982)

or

the 'Huxtables", from The Cosby Show (1984)

Group 5

the "Waltons", from The Waltons (1972)

or

the "Bradfords", from Eight Is Enough (1977)

Group 6

the "Evanses", from Good Times (1974)

or

the "Royers", from One Day At A Time (1974)

or

the "Conners", from Roseanne (1988)

[DCKit]

1. The Addams. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

3. Aww damnit! I knew I'd forget someone!

Best TV Family ever!

[pnwmom]

5. Another classic you forgot:

All in the Family.

[ColbertWatcher]

11. Yeah, I know. n/t

[EFerrari]

13. "I love Lucy".

:)

[BB1]

56. The Bundy's

The money thing wasn't that hot in our house, but we had all the nasty remarks going on.

[Vincardog]

2. The Muensters

[aquart]

7. A cheesy family, at best.

[laststeamtrain]

17. My thought too.

Swiss Family Robinson, perhaps.

Oh lawd. Life is a carnival.

[pnwmom]

4. None. All of those families seemed happier.

Later I found out why -- or at least one reason. None of them had an unfaithful husband -- or an unhappy, closeted father.

[laststeamtrain]

6. Other

The Hills Have Eyes.

[Mind_your_head]

8. None of the above

:rofl:

[World Traveller]

9. Father Knows Best - I loved that show as a kid

I'm really showing my age here, but I was born in 1948, so I was a child in the 1950's. Father Knows Best was on Wednesday nights at 7:30. Jim, the wise, kind father, was the type of Dad everyone wants. And since I was a child, the teenage kids, Bud and Betty (aka Princess to her Dad) seemed very mature and sophisticated to me. I loved watching them, espeically goofy Bud, a teenager with a real knack for comedy.

They were the ideal '50's family, but so kind and nice and understanding with each other, they were a family you wanted to be a member of!

[Tulum_Moon]

16. WT?

What about Kitten? And I was not born in the 50's. I saw her Bio on the Bio channle. Very sad.

[World Traveller]

28. It was sad, what happened to actress who played youngest daughter

Kathy (aka Kitten to her TV Dad) was closest to my age at the time, and was actually my least favorite in the series. Don't know why, I guess it was because I preferred the 2 teenagers.

Series ran, I believe, till around 1959 or 1960 and I was a fan till the end!

It is very sad what happened to the actress who played Kitten, she became a drug addict and a prostitute as a young adult in her '20's. She did straighten out later on and I believe became a born-again Christian. So at least she was able to find the strength to leave a very self-destructive lifestyle.

[timtom]

36. I've always had a MAJOR crush on Elinor Donahue

She is five years older than I. And a Catholic. I would still jump at the chance to share precious moments with her.

I'm a bad boy. Sorry.

[WheelWalker]

19. Ozzie & Harriet... dysfunctional, like our family.

[blm]

60. Sherwood Schwartz was a writer on Father Knows Best...and later created Brady Bunch.

.

[tchunter]

10. simpsons

[DesertFlower]

12. ozzie and harriet.

there was another show. i think it was called "molly goldberg". it was about a jewish family and very funny.

[Lilith Velkor]

14. Lucan

[rpannier]

15. The Simpsons or the Addams' or the Connors

n/t

[DCKit]

18. Nobody mentioned the Sopranos.

Or Johnny Quest :evilgrin:

Even in the 1960's there were some alternatives.

[pnwmom]

25. How old would you be if you grew up with the Sopranos?

Less than 10?

[DCKit]

27. You're assuming all the posters on DU are grownups?

How do you stay insulated?

[pnwmom]

32. I'm assuming they're over 10.

It's also not a show that most responsible parents would want their young kids to watch.

[Gato Moteado]

20. what about the bundies.....

...from married with children?

or how about the osbournes?

[OnyxCollie]

45. I'll go with the Bundy's. nt

[Hardrada]

21. The Coneheads

Mebst!!

[whathehell]

22. "All in the Family"...My midwestern spouse related to "leave it to Beaver"

While my East coast Irish family thought "June, Ward, and 'the Beav' were incredibly boring and "unreal"!

[TahitiNut]

23. Henry!?! Henry Aldridge!!

Henry Aldridge Family

:rofl:

[RamboLiberal]

24. The Bunkers

I was the raging liberal like Meathead and Gloria. My dad could've been Archie. And my mom could've been Edith though less ditzy and didn't take the crap from my dad like Edith did from Archie. Though Edith knew how to outwit him.

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. None of these, didn't grow up in the states

and the thought never, EVER occurred to me about identifying myself with teevee characgters

My first memories of teevee was topo gigio, a nice little mouse... a mixture of kids teevee and educational teevee...

Then came a college course on the media and how it works, shall we say it has ruined teevee ever since?

All of these are mostly white, and if not white values... middle class... professional families. They are meant, yes even the Munsters, to push a certain view of the world

[whirlygigspin]

30. No Patridge Family?

I shudder

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. It was on teevee, dubbed

you could say I wasn't too much into teevee from young

My guilty pleasure was watching movies and ... get ready for this educational teevee

I LOVED the Biology and Astronomy lectures from the University of Mexico, even as a young kid. These days I watch more educational teevee than anything outside of political season... hell, my fave is David Attenborough, and the science progies in the History Channel have been great... As well as some of the actual history progies

(Go ahead, say it, every did when I was growing up... nerd)

[hunter]

29. Maybe the Twilight Zone?

One never knew what each new day would bring, and a lot of it was weird. We were that family the neighbors talked about.

But I always had a home to go to, and food to eat, and my dad's work had a good health plan, and quite honestly all the neighborhood kids were at our house because there always was so much going on and we were only supervised to the extent we didn't do permanent physical damage to one another. Things like broken arms, minor shrapnel wounds, missing windows, inexplicable holes in the walls, and people who were obviously not of this planet were all taken in stride.

[RoyGBiv]

31. The Bunkers ...

Not directly, but Archie and his family reminded me far more of members of my extended family than any of those other made-up families.

The Conners were closer except that my mother wasn't anything like that, and I had no father.

I was a poor, only-child raised by his mother and grandmother, which fits a lot of people I have discovered in the years since. I can't think of a tv family that captured it.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

34. "Dobie Gillis"

Working class, good-hearted but hot headed cheapskate dad ("Winnie, I'm gonna kill that boy, I really am.") Loving and supportive mom. Beatnik/nonconformist buddy Maynard G. Krebs (upon whom i modeled my own life, and much to my later horror, I made it). Dobie was a hopeless romantic in love with the unattainable Thalia Menninger (the delicious Tuesday Weld) and pursued constantly by the feisty, super-smart plain-Jane Zelda Gilroy (Sheila Kuehl. who later graduated from Harvard Law and became a California state legislator as an openly gay woman). The Gillises were by far the most realistic family ever on television.

[World Traveller]

44. Dobie Gillis - a funny, funny show

Loved that show too. I was a little older when that show was on, I remember watching it when I was 11 or 12.

It was very off-beat for the time (late 1950's), and had some great characters and funny stories. The great part was they never tried to teach you a moral lesson, like a lot of the family shows at the time did. They just went for the laughs. I thought all the characters on the show were great, especially Dobie, who was played straight by the actor as he came up with goofy schems to get what he wanted.

And later in mid-1960's, when the actor who played Maynard Krebs showed up on Gilligan's Island (a show I did not like, too sexist), I remember thinking, What the heck is Maynard Krebs doing there...

I was always surprised Dobie Gillis wasn't syndicated for re-runs much, later on. One of the best comedies ever on TV.

[Norrin Radd]

35. The Findlays, from "Maude" (1972-78)

[ColbertWatcher]

37. Another one I forgot: Cunninghams from Happy Days! n/t

[Swamp Rat]

38. The Flintstones, Jetsons,

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids :D

[Tutankhamun]

39. I could relate to the Bundys because they weren't idealized.

I thought the antithesis of the Cleavers/Bradys was much closer to reality and a whole lot funnier.

[rucky]

40. The Costanzas. n/t

[eshfemme]

41. The Winslows from Family Matters. My other favorites were the Bundys. :D

[cobalt1999]

42. The Clampetts from The Beverly Hillbilly's.

Not that we had money, but my Granny must have been the model they used to create their Granny right down to the hate of Yankees, carrying the shotgun, and having a still.

[Hubert Flottz]

43. The Darlin' family

[salguine]

46. "The Simpsons" weren't on the list.

[RebelOne]

47. None of the above.

I came from a dysfunctional family. Mother married 3 times and father 5 times.

[dysfunctional press]

48. i can't think of any that i 'related' to...

they all had better, more idealized existences.
and my father worked on construction, so i couldn't relate to any shows where the dad wore a suit and carried a briefcase to 'the office'- like on leave it to beaver, family affair, or my three sons.
the closest in that respect was probably the john amos character on good times- except that we weren't black, and we lived in a house in the suburbs, not an apartment in the projects.

[a la izquierda]

49. Other, for sure.

My upbringing: parents separated at 10. Divorced when I was 13. Raised by my mom, who is gay, and her partner. I got made fun of daily. When I was in high school, it was worse. I'm not bitter now about it, but I sure as hell was then.

My husband's family was like the Brady Bunch, minus the remarriage. 5 kids, perfection. Bleh.

[meegbear]

50. Did Charles Manson have a TV show?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

51. Father Knows Best was the closest because of the ages of the kids BUT a great show now, Mad Men is

much closer.

[bdamomma]

52. All in the Family

should be mentioned.

[vaberella]

53. As a Black person who wants realism I related to "Good Times"---Huxtables was fake. n/t

[TornadoTN]

54. The Griswolds

From National Lampoons Family Vacation and all of the sequels.

Seemed like they were telling the story of my family all through. My Dad had the same outlook, temperament, etc. as Chevy Chase and the things that happened to us always seemed like they came from or could come from one of these films.

[noonwitch]

55. The Foremans on "That 70s Show"

My dad was so Red Foreman, my mom was a flaky nurse, and it was the 70s.

[kskiska]

57. Then there were the Louds, (An American Family)

probably the first reality show on PBS in the 1973. They allowed TV cameras into their home.They had five children, one of which was gay. Pat Loud actually asked her husband for a divorce on camera.

[ColbertWatcher]

65. I remember them.

Genuinely ground-breaking television.

Nothing like the "reality" shows today.

[goddess40]

58. All in the family

Except Archie was an alcoholic and Edith was smarter

[goddess40]

59. Hubby - Nine is too many

instead of eight is enough.

His mom has no clue which kid had what childhood disease, his oldest sister didn't have children and often says she raised her family meaning her younger siblings. My husband has two mom's and he's the favorite of both of them, forever the baby boy.

[Marie26]

61. "Roseanne", definitely. nt

[ThatsMyBarack]

62. Sesame Street!

In the Elmo-free, boogie-down '70s! ;)

[Stinky The Clown]

63. The ones that spoke Italian .......

... of that's right ..... that would be none of them.

[lonestarnot]

64. Mod Squad Family

[LSK]

66. how much TV do you watch????????????????

I never watched half these shows or I cannot remember them very well.

:shrug:

[guitar man]

67. Our house was

a strange mix of the Waltons and The Bunkers! :rofl: