The Buckets by Greg Cravens for March 28, 2022

That must be it. What other reason could there be?

Hang on, I thought dads on TV were great at their jobs.

TV dad’s are often married to women who are much more attractive than they are

I qualify on that one

There’s still the clueless part.

But he is a famous comic strip dad :-)

Who started that? Homer Simpson or Al Bundy? Of course Peg was just as terrible as Al, so you didn’t have the complete trope it’s been since The Simpsons.