Great TV dads, horrible father figures

Who's your daddy? Thankfully, not these twisted TV dads

By Jonathan Kimak, Special to Metromix

Fathers: They give you life, grill you a couple of burgers and suddenly they expect you to take time out of your busy schedule to call them every single Father's Day.

So to commemorate the apple in our collective mother's eye, we've wrangled our favorite TV dads whose twisted careers and questionable life choices make them horrible role models for their oh-so-perfect TV kids.

From a mob boss to a drug dealer to a time-stopping alien who sounds an awful lot like Burt Reynolds, check out our list of bad, bad daddies.

Did we miss your favorite bad daddy? Leave us a note in the comments section!

^{Photo credits: Clockwise from top left: Lynch-Frost/CIBY 2000/The Kobal Collection; NBC-TV /The Kobal Collection; Isabella Vosmikova/Fox; HBO; NBC-TV/The Kobal Collection;HBO; Fox}