What television family did your family most resemble when you were a child.

Grace Under Fire
Minus the recovering alcoholic part and the boyfriends.

We were poor, my mom was tired, the kids didn’t get along a lot and shit happened.

I am not sure which one we most resembled. But I know which one I wanted us to resemble. I wanted us to be the family from Bewitched. For the longest time, I kept secretly hoping that my dad was a warlock and someday I would inherit the magical powers and be a witch. Just a few more days before my parents call me and tell me the truth I am sure. Then we will do the “witch and warlock converting ritual” for me and my brother and I will never have to worry about running late for any due date ever. Yep. Any moment now.

Sanford & Son

My dad was stubborn/ sarcastic (but not funny) and collected junk, and the rest of the family was just a bunch of misfits

Malcolm in the Middle. Mom = Lois, Dad = Hal (almost exactly—kinda scary actually). I suppose my brother would be most equal to Malcolm, and I to Dewey.

My mom worked at a nuclear plant and my dad was retired so he stayed at home. He also did lots of stupid things, and I always got in trouble and my younger brother was always the book smart one. So I have say the Simpson’s FTW

A mix between Little Miss Sunshine and Royal Tenenbaums. Minus the divorce, add autism, and multiply the quirkiness.

I know they aren’t TV shows, but my family is NOTHING like what you see on TV

@seekingwolf: Arrested Development? :P

@seekingwolf I should have included movie families too. Many more wonderful options to choose from!

@asmonet

Nope…I’ve seen that show (hated it!) but I don’t think the feel of that family matches mine.

The Wonder Years. I was the hippie chick smoking pot and various other drugs, and I had the really good brother and the really snarky one and my mom was oblivious to everything.

Star Trek.

There were days when it definitely seemed like Roseanne.

The Flintstones.

No TV family. Novelist Pat Conroy’s The Great Santini.

@seekingwolf
Good that you hate it. It got sued because the 90’s Band Arrested Development© was first. When they saw that this show was out with their name, they brought it to court.

None that I can think off. My then best friend’s parents, however, resembled the old radio show, The Bickersons.
(In fact his dad even looked a bit like Don Ameche.)

In make up we were quite a bit like the Brady Bunch; three boys and three girls. But in order to make us really like the Brady’s you would have to add a single father, alcoholism, abuse and three more bedrooms, then take away the maid, the flooring, and the furniture. (Yes, I did mean to write flooring and furniture – we lived on the concrete slab for at least four years.)

The Adams family

@90s_kid

Whoa…so did Arrested Development get pulled off the air?

Six Feet Under. It’s that weird sense of projecting and acting in a brady family way when deep under I think each one of us has this whole other life of some happiness, and some turmoil.

Maybe a little bit like Everybody Loves Raymond. Not so much the family members themselves, but the comic aspect for sure.

Swingtown

The proper and repressed Millers—though I always HOPED my parents were swingers, tried dope or did something wild…

The Bunkers.

I have to say like Everybody Loves Raymond because of the family aspect of everyone being in everyone else business a bit and an overbearing mother.

sometimes when I watch it I don’t find it funny because I say thats my life

I would have to go back a few years and say it was more like a Dickens Novel. Wasn’t his work the “television drama” of his day?

@seekingwolf: No, the case was settled if I remember correctly.

I think Arrested Development ended when they wanted it to, not as a result of a lawsuit.

@janbb: Actually, they were canceled. But it had nothing to do with the case, you’re right.

@seekingwolf
read @asmonet ‘s comment.
I could have handled it asmonet, but thanks anyway.

Oh, okay guys. Thanks for the answer. :) I was just curious.