Al was the one who knew what was really supposed to happen or be done. Normally after that line Tim would find something to glue his head to or cut in the wrong place. Tim Taylor may be the most memorable and well known TV Dad of the 90's though. He may be remembered, much as we remember Ward Cleaver in the 50's and 60's, as what a in Dad in the 90's must have been like. Tim Taylor is not what a real dad of the 90's is like.
Television is much like a time capsule.
It tells a lot about the time that we live in. When people think of the 50's, they think of a family that was much like the Cleaver's. When people think of the 90's, hopefully they will not think of Taylor's as the family of the 90's. A true 90's family is not like that, at least, not mine or those that I know. Although many issues and problems that are dealt with in the show are the same issues and problems that face the family of the 90's, the way they are handled are not the same.