All parents were bad, fathers especially. Father's role got reversed. He became the subject of derision, the sort of do-do that Bill Cosby portrayed, always being outsmarted by either his children or his wife. He seldom got credit for wisdom or knowledge and he especially was outfoxed by his youngest child, who was less innocent than crafty. These days fatherhood is sort of nowhere in the media.
Few fathers appear as main characters in television sitcoms.
Frasier's father, for instance, a guy I like to think is my age, although actually I think he is younger, grumps around. Frasier pays him little attention and not much respect. Frasier has a son, but divorce keeps them mostly apart and hence knows nothing about children, and seems to be possessed by a long-term sexual fantasy which has nothing to do with children or fatherhood. Nor are there many other father figures about in television. Most TV sitcoms are about young, sexually starved couples who are without children, or with small children.