I Never Killed for My Father

Season 1, Episode 5, Aired

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Sensitive, liberal Steven and his macho, conservative father, Jake, clash during the Jake’s annual visit.
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    • TRIVIA (2)

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      • The episode never discloses what Jake is dying of.

      • Steven and Jake disagreed over where the felt tip pen was invented. Jake said it was invented in Russia; Steven disagreed. Steven was correct. The felt tip pen was invented in 1953 by Sidney Rosenthal from Richmond Hill, New York.

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      • Steven: (trying to make conversation with his dad, takes out a random card, glances at it) You notice, gas stations don't give out free maps anymore.
        Jake: I don't need maps. I never get lost.
        Steven: (tears up the card)

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      • In an Allusion within an Allusion, Steven assures Elyse that Jake will like light beer, for Bubba Smith and Dick Butkus like light beer. Bubba Smith and Dick Butkus co-starred in one of Miller Light's "less filling/tastes great" commercials, a series that Steven and Jake will parody a few moments later.

      • Steven and Jake do a two-round spoof on Miller Light's "less filling/tastes great" debate, a successful beer advertisement campaign from 1976-1978.

      • The title alludes to I Never Sang For My Father, a 1970 Gene Hackman/Melvyn Douglas movie.

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