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It's been a long road, and we've all learned a lot about dads—fictional and otherwise. merritt wraps things up for the second anniversary and the last episode of dadfeelings.

merritt just doesn't watch a lot of prestige TV, so this week we brought in expert Eric Thurm to cover a history of dark television fathers all the way from The Sopranos to Breaking Bad.

We're going under the sea this week to look at Albert Brooks' depiction of the heroic dad Marlin in 2003's Finding Nemo.

Yes, we did Batman way back, but since then a film has come along that perfectly encapsulates Batman's whole deal as a man and a dad—and who would have guessed that it'd be a Lego movie?

Patrick Klepek guests to discuss his real-life dadxperience and the perils of making friends as a parent.

He's part wolf, part mech, part rabbit, part fox, part sunglasses, part dragon, part dad, all dad, all knives, and he died for our sins.