If You Think About It, My Two Dads Was Weird

Seriously, what an odd premise for a primetime TV show: “since your dead mom isn’t sure which ex-boyfriend knocked her up, you’re going to live with both of them.”

Everyone who watched tv growing up probably has an argument about which decade had a better class of sitcoms. For me, that would be the eighties, the era where sitcoms were “filmed before a live studio audience.” The 1980s saw massive hits like “The Cosby Show,” “Cheers,” “Growing Pains,” and “Family Ties.” But there was also a slew of sitcoms that didn’t hit rating records, but had their fair share of fans, too. For me, one of those shows was “My Two Dads.”

This is a show that I watched when it originally aired, but had forgotten about until I came across it a few days ago on some cable channels that air only old TV shows. For those who are too young or can’t remember the series, “My Two Dads” premiered in 1987 and starred Paul Reiser, Greg Evigan, Staci Keanan, Florence Stanley and Dick Butkus. But the show I remember watching in the late 1980s is very different from the one I watched a few days ago… read more >