8 Behind-The-Scenes Stories About Sitcom Dads (4 of 5)

6. Tom Bosley grew frustrated with the way studio audiences would scream for Henry Winkler and Scott Baio

Although Tom Bosley enjoyed a 55-year career as an actor, he will always be best remembered as Howard Cunningham, the patriarch in the 1970s sitcom Happy Days. He showed himself to be a devoted father, but he felt it was important for them to learn about the ups and downs of life on their own. While Bosley generally enjoyed filming in front of a live audience, the one exception was when younger audience members would go nuts every time Henry Winkler and Scott Baio came out on stage. It wasn’t their enthusiasm that he had issues with, but rather the need to reshoot some of the scenes after the audience had left because their screams would throw off the actors’ timing.

7. Bryan Cranston was always willing to go above and beyond

The first thing that probably comes to mind when most people think Bryan Cranston is Walter White, the teacher turned tormented meth cook and drug lord on the game-changing series Breaking Bad. But his original rise to fame came in the late 1990s when he played Hal, the immature but well-intentioned dad in Malcolm in the Middle. The producers quickly caught on that Cranston was pretty much game for any crazy idea that the script called for. This included drinking a highly unpleasant concoction of raw eggs and meat in one episode, and giving the green light to be covered in bees in another. Series creator Linwood has remarked how grateful everybody was to Cranston, stating his commitment as a performer allowed them to mine so much story material.