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03 Jul 2012, 4:22 pm

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I was waiting for someone to mention them! In the G1 incarnation of Transformers, Sparkplug Witwicky really isn't a bad dad. What's more, he's a SINGLE dad, so that's deserving of a lot of respect in my book.

Maybe Sparkplug was a good father but he and his son Spike were characters I didn't like. All they ever did was scream like girls. But the parents from the movies, yeah they were bad. They wern't so bad in the first movie though but in the sequels they were freaking annoying.

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05 Jul 2012, 9:25 pm

The dad in That 70s Show. His son Eric is afraid of him because he's usually in a bad mood & treating to put his foot up Eric's ass

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05 Jul 2012, 10:44 pm

-the mom on Carrie
-Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest
-evil stepmother in Cinderella
-Ingrid Magnussen in White Oleander
-child's family in The Nanny Diaries

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05 Jul 2012, 11:00 pm

Bill heslop in Muriel's Wedding the way he was always putting Muriel and her brothers and sisters down all the time, calling them useless lumps and all.
He didn't treat Betty his wife all that well either.

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07 Jul 2012, 12:19 am

The parents from Parents, a horror/comedy film where they had introduced their young son to cannibalism.

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07 Jul 2012, 12:22 am

CyclopsSummers wrote:

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Darth Vader
A great villain and character but his parenting skills raises a few questions such as slicing off his son's hand and sentencing his daughter to death, though you could forgive him for that one since he didn't know she was his daughter at the time.

Well, that's just it, Vader was never given the chance to do any parenting at all. When he met Luke, it was as mortal enemies, Luke was a Jedi, Vader was a Sith. And Luke was full-grown. Do you really think it mattered to Vader at that point how Luke would end up? As far as he was concerned, Luke was done, unless he could turn him to the Dark Side, which he attempted (but Luke refused). So Vader, being the tool of fate he always allowed himself to be, thought "Luke is the last thorn in the side of the Empire, kill kill kill!! !!"

Also I thought it was implied in the final prequel, Revenge of the Sith, that Vader now thought teh babies were killed when he, as Sidious misinformed him, "killed Amidala in a fit of rage".

So surely he only found out about Luke at a later date, when Sidious mentions 'the son of Anakin Skywalker' to him in the original movies. If he had known before, he would most certainly have searched for young Luke to take him in and turn him to the Dark Side. Whether or not he would have made a good parent in that situation is beyond our imagination, as we may assume that Sidious would have taken care of most of Luke's formal training as a Sith (if only to prevent the Skywalker bloodline from leaning more to the Light considering Vader's volatility).

Also, it has to be remembered, Vader/Anakin had sacrificed himself to save his son. Sounds to me like he had in the end wound up a pretty decent father.

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07 Jul 2012, 1:04 am

Lisa's mom from The Room.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnTqFTHGuc

Skip to 0:33. "I got the results of the test back! I definitely have breast cancer."

Also when Lisa tells her her boyfriend hit her, she feigns interest then starts bitching about her own life again.

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08 Jul 2012, 5:10 pm

not her parents, but the foster family in 'An American Crime' were scumbags, they just turned a blind eye to the torture and murder of a child who was supposed to be in their care.

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08 Jul 2012, 5:27 pm

nick007 wrote:

The dad in That 70s Show. His son Eric is afraid of him because he's usually in a bad mood & treating to put his foot up Eric's ass

I like Red Foreman. Back then a lot of parents were hardliners that way. He wouldn't really hurt Eric, although I'm sure he spanked him as a child, as many parents did back then. Also, in my experience, overkill on threats is very common. My grandmother threatened to 1. Snatch the hair off my head, 2. Slap that smile off my face, 3. Sell me to Gypsies (and she actually put me in the car and drove me to this place where she told me Gypsies lived) 4. Knock me into next week, 5. Call up the devil and tell him to just come get me, etc. The most she ever did was spank me and usually with a hickory so it didn't do much more than sting.

I agree with some other posters about the mom in Carrie. I also agree about Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest if it was true, which I've read many places that it's not.

I nominate the parents in "The Virgin Suicides" and the mother of Keanu Reeves in "Rivers Edge".

If you want to mention TV, there are a whole lot from the Jerry Springer show that would fit the bill.

Also, the mother in the video "Dear Mama" by Tupac.

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08 Jul 2012, 6:26 pm

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Home Alone, the premise of which I think is child abandonment as humour

It's actually rather funny if it involves child abandonment in a mansion that's going to be attacked by burglars with a good sense of slapstick comedy.
Plus, it can't be as bad as sleepovers at Michael Jackson's house.

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08 Jul 2012, 6:49 pm

^Dude, not cool.

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08 Jul 2012, 9:52 pm

HisDivineMajesty wrote:

FalsettoTesla wrote:

Home Alone, the premise of which I think is child abandonment as humour

Haha, ironic that those two are linked by MaCauley Culkin. Are we playing 6 degrees of seperation?

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18 Nov 2012, 10:48 pm

Victoria's parents from the Corpse Bride weren't very pleasant, forcing their daughter to marry a man she had never met (although she and Victor fell in love when they did first meet) and telling her that love was not a good reason to marry and they didn't even love each other. And all of the of the other parents from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

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18 Nov 2012, 11:36 pm

Gomez and Mortia adams.

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19 Nov 2012, 6:46 pm

The Penguin's parents from Batman Returns
They threw their one and only son away for being so ugly and he even forgave them.

The Dursleys from The Harry Potter Movies
OK so they're not actually Harry's parents but they're the closest. Forgive me for sounding cruel but when weren't they killed off. They should've gotten the cruciartas curse (sorry can't spell that) at least. Why did Harry even go back to these people during the summer holidays? Couldn't he have stayed with the Weasleys?

Matilda's Parents
They're kinda like the Dursleys in the American way. They leave her at home when she was little, heck they left her in the car when they brought her home from the hospital. You'd think that child services would be paying attention to this somehow, but I guess they're losers in the world of fiction.

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21 Nov 2012, 6:47 am

Ruth DeWitt Bukater. Rose's rude and snobbish mother in Titanic. She cared more about maintaining wealth and social position than cared about her own daughter.

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