Yeah, seeing the contrast between the kids and the grandparents would have been fun, and really could have shown the generation gap better.
Hyde's parentage was weird. Showing Earl was a very uncomfortable reality about a guy struggling with himself to be a father and his son already against him. I felt like they really blew it by ignoring that storyline after a couple episodes and then retconning it and replacing it with the super-weird, "You're rich and half-black!" thing.
I'm pretty sure there are implications in the first season or two that Red does know what they're doing, and it's not until later when they decide to make a storyline out of it that Red is shown to be suddenly aware and angry about it.
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