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Date Posted: Tue, Apr 18 2006, 20:52:18
Author: Webfuhrer (the great educator)
Subject: Victorian Dad

You lot need to know this.


Victorian Dad is a character in the British comic Viz.

First appearing in Viz in the 1990s, Victorian Dad lives in the contemporary age but dresses and acts like a stereotypical gentleman of the Victorian era. He has a large top hat, always wears a suit, and sports a walrus moustache and monocle. According to Viz editor Chris Donald, Victorian Dad is similar to his creator Graham Dury because Dury himself is actually a puritan.

Victorian Dad (his first name is given by his wife as Lupin in one episode, and the family name is revealed to be Pooter in another) is married with a young son and daughter, as well as an older married daughter. The rest of his family do not share his conservative, prudish beliefs, which usually results in misery for them. For example, Victorian Dad once reacted with fury and horror when he realised his daughter was left handed, based on the old belief that left-handed people were somehow evil. On another occasion, he threw his grown-up daughter, who was married three years previously, out of the house (calling her a "hussy") when she announced that she was pregnant.

He is a firm believer in corporal punishment, often brutally beating his son and daughter whilst shouting "I will have respect from you, I will!"

At a day at the beach once, Victorian Dad spanked his children for daring to have fun, and also declared that one should change into one's swimming costume in the dark, declaring that it was disgusting for someone to look at their own naked bodies, let alone other people's.

The main premise of the strip is that Victorian Dad is a complete hypocrite. He once took his family to Amsterdam, hoping to take in some fine scenery and continental culture. When he finds out the liberal attitude towards prostitution and cannabis in the city, he drags his wife and children to the hotel and locks them all in to protect them from the unclean depravity outside. Claiming to be in need of fresh air after the shock of the day's revelations, Victorian Dad later goes for a "walk." He swiftly ends up at a brothel where he has sex with a prostitute whilst begging forgiveness from God for his lapse into the "sins of the flesh.".

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