LeN, I didn't want to repost your info, so I figured if I mentioned it then you could do it.

Is it wrong for me to drive (four hours) to my sister's for Thanksgiving on Thursday morning instead of Wednesday afternoon, so that I can watch Criminal Minds as it airs?

Dude, it's episode 100! The manangst (I don't want to call it manpain--it's a slightly different flavour) will be epic.

I know! Epic. She'll just have to deal. If she can rearrange her life around her boyfriend's intense love of sports, she can give me a little leeway for my intense love of certain television shows, right? Besides, she can't make me! stamps foot but in a really grown-up way

So - best TV dad currently:

Cal Lightman, Nick Castle or Jack Carter?

Well, I'm several episodes behind in Lie to Me, and I haven't seen Jack recently, so I'll go with Castle for the moment. I like his parenting a whole lot.

I would say Lightman. Best daughter would be Castle's - but she grew up despite some questionable parenting skills.

I think Cal has too much friction in his relationship with Emily to win. I'd probably give the edge to Jack because Alexis kinda raises herself--or maybe Rick gets the points for doing that good a job. It's a hard call.

Cal is still head and shoulders above a lot of TV dads. But my favourite of the past decade is probably Sandy Cohen from The O.C.

Granted - once upon a time Keith Mars would have topped my list, but I'm hard pressed to decide among the three now.

And what's up with all the great dads being single? I'm trying to think of a recent married great dad, and the best I can come up with is Hal from Malcolm in the Middle. And Hank Hill, I guess.

Coach Taylor!

I should mention that the reason I brought this up here was I just watched the most recent Lie to Me and thought Cal lied bigtime to his daughter, he also came clean about it in a great way.