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To sum up, we have an improbable comedy filled with hard-to-like characters mouthing lines that didn't get funnier after rewrites. Daddio, heck. Oh, brother! [23 March 2000]
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Too contrived and agreeable, Daddio plays it safe all the way. From hugs to lessons, the usual narrative suspects are alive and well, in case anyone forgets that this is supposed to be good-for-you entertainment. It’s almost blasphemy that it bows on a night still associated with “Seinfeld”; must-see TV used to mean something.
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Michael Keaton set the standard for stay-at-home dads in the funny 1983 movie "Mr. Mom." But Daddio is no "Mr. Mom" (it also doesn't look and sound like any of today's sophisticated, edgy and smart comedies), and Chiklis is no Michael Keaton.
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Daddio and Battery Park are wisps of shows, so slight and feeble that they're not ready for prime time. They're not ready for anything, really. Lumping them with Friends and Frasier only makes them look punier.
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Numbingly unfunny. [23 March 2000, p.49]
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New York Daily NewsNov 26, 2019The studio audience roars and laughs so loudly, for no apparent reason, at every scene in "Daddio" - especially the allegedly emotional climax - that you begin to suspect a mind-altering gas was pumped into the studio as this pilot was taped....Which, come to think of it, would explain the lethargic performances of the cast members. [23 March 2000]
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Baddio, saddio and very old-hattio. [23 March 2000, p.C01]
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It also lacks something you expect in a comedy, but rarely get these days: Laughs. Daddio is cry-out-loud lousy.
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Nearly unwatchable -- a dreadful rehash of old sitcom jokes that are, at best, lame and, at worst, offensive.