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The Manley family, originally aired in 2008

posted 15 years ago by lassitude
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It was on tonight. The Manleys were the ones who had a son (7) and a daughter (4/5ish), and were divorcing... Did anyone catch the part where the father finally comes home, and the kids see him and yell, "DADDY!!!" and he goes, all apathetically, "Hi monsters."?

Hi monsters. Lol way to go dad. First bail on the family and then openly refer to your kids as monsters. No wonder they're so screwed up. He never did tell us why he wanted the divorce... but it's pretty obvious.

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[–] tegyeven 15 years ago

I've heard lots of parents call their kids these funny names, but they were only kidding. In this case, the kids were out of control, but not even close to being 'monsters', so I still think he was only joking. The children's problems were definitely caused by his absence and not getting answers as to why, rather than from their father's greeting.

[–] nuttytoknow 15 years ago

The father seemed like a jerk to me. Maybe I am just judging the book by the cover?

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[–] MidnightConfessions 14 years ago

I'm bringing to the top an old post from April about the Manley family. This episode has also aired a couple of times over the past month or so.

I found Mr. Un-Manley fascinating yet so very stereotypical. I loved the part where in answer to his little boy's plaintive question, "Why are you leaving, Daddy?" he launches into a rambling river of abstracts and excuses. He never does answer - or validate - the kid's question: Jo does, in a whitewashed version of the real truth.

How despicable the disdainful way Mr. Un-Manley looked at his wife when he announces that he has no desire to work on the marriage. I wanted to spit on his smug face when he summed it up: "I'm coming back [here] as a Father, not as a Husband."
Shmuck. Why not tell the truth? "Im coming back as a rejeuvenated teenager who has found his real soul mate (who, incidentally, makes the wife at home seem as exciting as a lump of play dough?")

[–] jennifer_libby 14 years ago

That guy was such a dick. That lady should be glad to get rid of him. He was a smug bastard. Notice how at the carnival he was like "personally, I don't need to break any bottles" (or whatever it was that the wife and son were going to break as part of that game). That was just his jerk way of letting the wife know he wasn't upset about the marriage breaking up. Ass.