- They didn't cast Fred Sampson in this show
until he was like 74.
It was just late in the game.
- It don't matter, they don't got
(bleep) to do with (bleep).
- It should be "Sanford and Grandson"
- If you could be a father or whatever,
that ain't got (bleep) to do with (bleep),
don't be coming with that miscellaneous.
(laughing)
- He's like 80!
- He was funny, funny, if you
live you gonna get old, dummy.
(laughing)
- Precious don't like you.
- What you talking about, there's
grown kids out here, oh, I'm grown.
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- What up, it's your boy Kevonstage
and I'm here to tell you why
Reginald Veljohnson as Carl Winslow is
the best sitcom dad ever.
- Say his name again?
- Reginald Veljohnson.
- It was a terrible show and he was
a terrible father -
- Terrible show, why was it
on nine seasons?
- Cause Urkel
- No, cause he a cop, we don't
mess with the po-po!
- ♪ We don't mess with the po-po ♪
- It's your boy, Doboy.
New nickname alert, The Do-vinci Code,
and I am here to represent for the
best sitcom father ever,
Al Bundy.
- Why don't you like black people?
(laughing)
- I love black people, you're not gonna get
me with that one, I love black people.
- What up guys, Patrick Cloud
and I'm here to tell you guys why
the best sitcom dad on television
is Bill Cosby.
- Ugh, no.
(groans)
- Lemme just say this, do not sleep
on Bill Cosby.
(laughing)
- True, literally, literally!
- Or around him!
- That was awful, Patrick, that was awful!
- I gotta go with a comedian and I gotta go
with Fred Sanford!
Oh, me oh!
- Joke for joke nobody could see
him on this show versus all of yous.
- This was before my time.
- What's up everybody, my name is
Chinedu Unaka and the perfect
sitcom dad is Uncle Phil.
- I look at him as an uncle.
- Only Will calls him uncle.
- Only Will, he had his own kids.
- He had four kids.
- Everybody else said "dad."
- Do you ever remember them, the other
kids, calling him dad?
- [All] Yes!
- Ashley always called him dad.
- Hilary called him like, "Daddy, daddy
I want money!"
- Hey what's up it's Tahir Moore
and I'm talking about the best
sitcom dad and it has to go to
Pops "Bang, Bang, Bang" Witherspoon
of the Wayans works.
- No, that was a bad show and a bad father.
- You're slops.
(laughing)
- The reason why, Al Bundy was the best
sitcom father, he just didn't give a damn.
- He's a horrible father!
- No, no, see that's the thing that
you don't understand because you're stupid.
The thing is is that he's really,
they showed you what America really was,
like parents wasn't really like
Bill Cosby.
- That's a damn lie, you know he let
his daughter be a ho, no dad does that.
- A lot of dads do that.
- No, not Willy.
- Yes, then why are there so many hos!
- So, I'm only going to focus on
on-camera Bill, while the cameras
were rolling.
- Only why the cameras were rolling?
Even off the, when the cameras cut
he was wilin'?
- Alright, but for real, Cliff Huxtable,
was one of our first, black, positive
male role models, okay?
- He was, he was.
- He literally sat down with a team
of experts and studied -
- Gave them all juice?
- Huh?
- Hmm?
- He sat down with a team of experts
and people who studied African Americans
to make sure that there were no
negative black stereotypes on the show,
so that had to do with their jobs,
how they acted, how they, dressed,
they just wanted a different type of
black person on T.V.
- They wanted a white black family,
you know what I'm saying?
- Oh.
- There's black people like this, Precious!
- No, I don't want to just say
white means successful and, and -
- Not saying they mean it, but I'm
saying in the way it was depicted
they was like a perfect black,
perfect little family.
- Closer to how white people were
being portrayed on T.V. yes.
- Pops was amazing.
He had the best catch phrases,
"bang, bang, bang!"
- That wasn't even in that show though.
- "Yit-dee-dee!"`
- That was Friday.
- He did "yit-dee-dee" on that.
- And he taught them, he taught them ownership.
Pops had his own diner right at the
bottom of a New York building
and then he helps his kids get
their own newsstand.
(laughing)
- He was leasing that building.
- Nonetheless, he still owned a business.
- Carl Winslow is the only character
on that whole show who was on
every single episode, so who's show was it?
- So?
- Urkel didn't even come in until
midway through the first season.
- And he stole the show.
- Urkel said, "Put this show in the bag!"
- And matter of fact, the show started off
on perfect strangers.
- I will say this about Carl Winslow -
- You want to talk about Carl's Jr.
(laughing)
- I will say this about Carl Winslow
and Family Matters, they were the first
show to actually touch on a subject
of racially profiling cops.
- Nobody care about that, nigga.
- I do care about that.
- Your show don't care about black people
and you don't care about black people.
- Got racially profiled by that white cop -
- But did he arrest the cops?
He didn't arrest the cops,
he didn't shoot them.
- But he did show the chair real hard
like that, "Now you listen to me
you slime bucket!"
- He's an entrepre-negro, actually.
- He ran a junkyard.
- He could leg junk and then they
resell the (bleep) and so that's being
entrepreneur but he sent his son out to do it.
- He was a junkyard salesman?
- He sold junk?
- Junkyard salesmanship.
- What was the show about?
- At a pawn shop?
- Sanford and sons.
- It was about Sanford and his sons.
- [Doboy] One thing I will give you
to his credit, he was a rich dude,
he had wild money, but he wasn't like bougie.
- At all.
- That's what I did like about him.
- They had a poor house!
- But he wasn't bougie though, his kids
were, he wasn't though.
- He was stern.
- Uncle Phil brought them out.
- He got through Hilary, a bad,
remember her fiance died? Fell off,
got her through that (bleep).
- He got them through everything.
- She bounced back next episode (snapping)
forgot all about that dude.
(laughing)
- I know right.
- She really did!
- Got her some earring and she was cool!
- I think in terms of what it did
for the black community, not necessarily
what he was personally doing,
but what his work did for the black
community, was, you know, it did
more good than bad.
- Also, when he did the spin-off,
Different World, college enrollment
in the black community, rose 80 percent.
- Oh, I wanted to go to college.
- Yeah, that made me want to go, I did go,
(clapping)
and graduated.
- Thanks, Bill!
- He never wore pajamas, I had
an issue with that.
- He did used to wear pajamas.
- He wore pajamas?
- He always wore pajamas.
- The silk pajamas! He was fly
with the silk pajamas.
- He had the cool sweaters.
- Those were not cool, he was the
black Mr. Rogers.
- This is why Married With Children
was so groundbreaking as a sitcom
because they try to paint families
as like the perfect thing.
Like the dad is nice, the mom is nice,
the kids.
- Archie Bunker, a show with
Archie Bunker did that 30 years before.
- You're making my point for me.
It was the second show to ever do this.
(laughing)
He ain't care, like he knew Peggy was
probably cheating on him, he ain't care.
- What, was that a thing?
- Al Bundy, Al Bundy was the first public
body-shamer guy on T.V., he told
Marcy down every chance he got.
- Every episode.
- That family was better off without
that father.
(laughing)
- Well, Carl Winslow he was down,
he had raised great kids.
- Let's talk about Harriette.
- Let's not talk about Harriette, man,
this is sitcom dads!
- I don't like him, he could never
even stick up to Harriette, Harriette
used to put him in check.
- Yeah, she did wear the pants.
- You don't stand up to no strong
black women either!
- What?
- You don't stick up to no strong
black women either.
- But I'm not on T.V. on the lead
of Family Matters.
(laughing)
- Harriette had the tuxedo on when
they got married.
- She put the ring on his finger?
- He provided for his family, he took
a lot of jokes.
- He basically said you can racially profile
my kids and I'll do something,
but if you kidnap them, I'm not doing anything.
(laughing)
- He was rich, he was a lawyer.
- He was such a good lawyer he upgraded
to judge.
- He was a civil rights activist before
he was a lawyer, too.
- He didn't answer Will when he said,
"How come you don't want me Uncle Phil?"
He didn't have no answer.
- He hugged him.
- Why he didn't have no answer for Will?
- Wasn't that improvised?
- That was all improvised and he stayed
in character, he is the best.
- He stayed in character.
- If he broke character the scene
wouldn't have made it.
- Right, that's what I'm saying,
he's good.
- He's great, he's the best.
- He was a great actor, he did the voice
for Lion King.
- James Earl Jones!
(laughing)
- He's like, "Yeah he did!"
- He was the voice of Darth Vader.
- This was a man who taught his kids
good lessons about life, he stayed -
- He was drunk on the job, man.
He was drunk every day on that job.
- Okay, he dressed horribly,
but the kids still loved him, alright,
that's what a good family dad does
and that's what Pops did!
- Another reason why I don't like him is
like, he always plays somebody's dad.
- Why does that matter?
- [Doboy] Because he's not, it doesn't show
me range.
- Well picture him as a son real quick.
(laughing)
It's hilarious isn't it?
"Hey Dad, what you doin, yit-dee-dee!"
(laughing)
- Bill Cosby is a funny person.
- [Precious] True.
- Okay, he did the faces and stuff,
Juhahn Jones, you're welcome for -
(laughing)
It's like your whole thing!
- [Doboy] Another reason why he's
a terrible cop, he never even noticed
the difference between Steve Urkel
and Stefan.
- No body did in that show!
- I was actually just going to say that.
- Because in television shows when
you take off the glasses people are like,
"I don't know him."
Superman doesn't work, you take off -
- I'm sick of T.V.s and movies acting like
all you gotta do is take your glasses
off and you've just boost in attractiveness.
- Every time.
- It's always like a girl, like the
ugly girl takes her glasses off
and puts her hair down and everyone's
like, "What!"
(laughing)
That's the exact same.
- I love how he just handled himself
because he was like the only things
that really, what mattered to him
was like his brew, the game.
- You like that?
- He used to always live in his
yester-year with the Polk High.
I got a Polk High throwback jersey,
I should have wore it today.
- It's "Pork" High.
- Shut up.
(laughing)
- You watched "Married with Chicken."
- Look, like Al Bundy -
- "Married with Chicken"?
(laughing)
♪ Married with chicken, married with chicken ♪
- ♪ Finger lickin ♪
(all singing)
- As a sitcom father, he just didn't
do it for me.
- He was hilarious.
- He was hilarious, he wasn't never
not funny, you just made that up.
- The worst argument, if nothing else
he was hilarious, you could argue
a whole bunch of stuff.
- And you have to be a certain level
of funny to say what's funny.
(laughing)
- Ah, now she said you're not funny.
- Oh, Doboy's not funny guys.
(laughing)
- No, you can write you funny but I'm saying -
- Low key, I liked him better on
Friday though, he was a better character.
- Friday, Boomerang, you know what I'm saying?
- He actually gave Craig a life lesson
on Friday.
- I liked him better on Black Jesus.
- Well Black Jesus isn't a family dad sitcom
okay, and Friday was a movie,
so shut the hell up.
(laughing)
Best family sitcom dad.
- Bill Cosby is out here being positive,
he was actually funny.
- Is it on the air again yet?
- I don't think it will ever be on the air.
- I'm selling Bill Cosby episodes.
(laughing)
- I got a VHS.
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