History Quotes / WhenYouComingHomeDad

-->--'''The Horror Guru''', in ''WebVideo/SomeJerkWithACamera’s'' episode on ''Film/TheHauntedMansion''

-> “Yeah, we got a lot of these bullshit movies in the 90’s! Movies where an aging comedian plays a workaholic dad who learns through supernatural contrivance that he’s a worthless human being unless he spends EVERY WAKING MOMENT with his [[TheSimpsons DAMN WEINER KIDS!]] These films reinforce the bottomless the bottomless egos of the damn weiner kids of the baby boomers!”

'''Dukat''': When my son looks back on this day, the only thing he'll remember is that a Federation officer, on a Federation ship invaded his home, and kept his father away from him on his eleventh birthday, and he won't look back with understanding. He'll look back with hatred, and that's sad.

->''A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.''

-->-- '''Music/HarryChapin''', "Cat's in the cradle"

->''Family decay: I think it came mainly from both parents working outside the home. It was said again and again that, from midcentury on, both parents had to have jobs just to pay the bills. If this was true, why was it not necessary in the first half of the century? How did laborsaving machinery and enormously increased productivity impoverish the family?''
-->--''Literature/ToSailBeyondTheSunset''

->''The number one problem facing this country is the absence of involved, responsible fathers.''
-->--'''Larry Elder'''

->''Family decay: I think it came mainly from both parents working outside the home. It was said again and again that, from midcentury on, both parents had to have jobs just to pay the bills. IF this was true, why was it not necessary in the first half of the century? How did laborsaving machinery and enormously increased productivity impoverish the family?''

-> “Yeah, we got a lot of these bullshit movies in the 90’s! Movies where an aging comedian plays a workaholic dad who learns through supernatural contrivance that he’s a worthless human being unless he spends EVERY WAKING MOMENT with his DAMN WEINER KIDS! These films reinforce the bottomless the bottomless egos of the damn weiner kids of the baby boomers!”

-->--'''The Horror Guru''', in SomeJerkWithACamera’s episode on ''Film/TheHauntedMansion''

"My son got mad 'cause I worked all the time/He grew up to be a jerk, just like me!"

->''"If you miss little Timmy's softball game even once, he'll end up a serial killer all because of your terrible parenting."''
-->-- '''Nathan Rabin''''s review of ''{{North}}'', ''The AV Club''

->'''Thane:''' You're angry because I wasn't there when your mother died.\\
'''Kolyat:''' You weren't there when she was ''alive''. Why should you be there when she ''died''?!

[[TropeNamer When you coming home, dad?]] I don't know when\\

-->-- '''HarryChapin''', "Cat's in the cradle"

->'''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Jotaro:]]''' Hey, Jolyne... How's it going?\\
'''Jolyne:''' [[ClusterFBomb Fuck you, dad! You leave me and mom to go out adventuring in your fucking ocean with your fucking narwhals and then come and visit me in fucking prison like none of that ever happened?]] What do you have to say for yourself!?\\
'''Jotaro:''' ... I made fajitas?

->'''Gul Dukat:''' I'd promised to take him to the amusement center in Lakarian City. He always wanted to go, but I never had the time. I told him, "This year will be different, Mekor. This year I will ''make'' the time."\\
'''Capt. Benjamin Sisko:''' I had the same experience with Jake. At that age, they never understand, do they? You just hope that, one day later, they'll look back and say, "Now I understand. Now I know why he did that."\\
'''Dukat:''' When my son looks back on this day, the only thing he'll remember is that a Federation officer, on a Federation ship invaded his home, and kept his father away from him on his eleventh birthday, and he won't look back with understanding. He'll look back with hatred, and that's sad.
--> -- [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E09Defiant "Defiant"]], ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''

->'''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Jotaro:]]''' Hey, Jolyne... How's it going?
->'''Jolyne:''' [[ClusterFBomb Fuck you, dad! You leave me and mom to go out adventuring in your fucking ocean with your fucking narwhals and then come and visit me in fucking prison like none of that ever happened?]] What do you have to say for yourself!?
->'''Jotaro:''' ... I made fajitas?

->'''Thane:''' You're angry because I wasn't there when your mother died.
->'''Kolyat:''' You weren't there when she was ''alive''. Why should you be there when she ''died''?!

->'''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Jotaro:]]''' Hey, Jolyne... Hows it going?
->'''Jolyne:''' Fuck you, dad! You leave me and mom to go out adventuring in your fucking ocean with your fucking narwhals and then come and visit me in fucking prison like none of that ever happened? What do you have to say for yourself!?

->''"If you miss little Timmy's softball game even once he'll end up a serial killer all because of your terrible parenting."''

->'''Kolyat:''' You weren't there when she was alive. Why should you be there when she died?!

-->-- '''Bert''', "A Man Has Dreams", ''MaryPoppins''

-->—- '''Nathan Rabin''''s review of ''{{North}}'', ''The AV Club''

-->—- '''Nathan Rabin''''s review of ''{{North}}'', ''The AV Club''

And it's too late for you to give''\\
-- '''Bert''', "A Man Has Dreams", ''MaryPoppins''

->''"If you miss little Timmy's softball game even once he'll end up a serial killer all because of your terrible parenting."''\\
—- '''Nathan Rabin's review of ''North''''', ''The AV Club''