The Best TV Dads Ever
For television viewers of a certain age, he'll always be Danny Tanner, the dad from Full House. As a single father raising three daughters  well, four, if you count the fact that the youngest was played by both Olsen twins  with the help of his two friends, he taught the world that everywhere you look, there's a face of somebody who needs you. But he's also a famously raunchy funnyman  and, in his new book, Dirty Daddy The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian, he's a little of both. In honor of the book's April 8 release, TIME asked Saget to share his top five favorite dads in TV history. Here they are, in his own words