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"Because they're the best of the worst, dad!" one said.
"He's being the worst dad possible but he has this one little trope that he comes back to.
It's bad enough that – even if you have the Worst Dad Ever, who ran off when you were a baby and never paid child support – you still can't put your mother's name on your marriage certificate, but asking a father's permission smacks of that proprietorial phenomenon I always think of as "creepy, possessive dad".
If not, congrats, Craiglist guy, you are hereby the worst dad to ever make an appearance in the delivery room.
In honor of Father's Day, we rounded up the worst dad stories in art history, ranked from least to most unacknowledged children, and least to most collateral damage.
Outlook: The Showtime comedy (it is a comedy, right?) continues to fly under the radar of just about everybody but the Emmy voters who continue to give Macy love annually for his crazy, fearless portrait of the worst dad on television.
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One minute in, Jay Z invokes his own infant as a source of authority — what, Blue Ivy Carter is supposed to make us cry and also be the voice of God, huh? — and pulls the worst dad-hop move of the year.
Johansson is played Dan Scott in the 2000s teen TV drama, possibly one of the worst dads in TV history.
Losing Dad was the worst day of my life.
But this, like, ends up being the worst day ever because your dad's credit card has been fucked ever since you let your boyfriend try to buy you bulk quantities of 2CE on Silk Road for Pitchfork fest.
A decade or so ago, Brokaw recalled, he introduced his son to Walton, who said, "Your dad was responsible for the worst day of my life".
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