SHORT TAKES : TV Dads Urged to Show Love

Dads in TV comedies should show a little more affection, says Bob Saget of ABC’s “Full House.”

Saget said he and other fathers in TV comedies are often insensitive incompetents because the basis for sitcoms is conflict, and the conflict often comes from the father needing help.

“For the show to work, you got to make him a goober sometimes,” Saget said in the June 16 issue of TV Guide. “If the father’s not a bit bumbling and the kids are not on top of it, where’s the comedy?”

Hal Williams, a father on NBC’s “227,” said the networks “add lighter moments, like a dad who has problems cooking a meal or changing a diaper or talking about something serious, but I find a lot of that stuff hard to believe.”