"Son of Mr. Green Jeans" Response

This piece is about misconceptions and fatherhood.  I think?  What I seem to be getting out of it is that there is a lot of misinformation and misconceptions about a lot of things.  Fatherhood being one of them.  Like when in the beginning the critic suggests to Tim Allen that a father is useless once a baby is started.  Then it goes on to talk about Carp and how male Carp will save their babies by hiding them in their mouths.  There are several other examples of misinformation and rumors that turn out to be false in the story. 

I am extremely intrigued by the style of this story.  Once you start reading and realize that each section connects to the next (usually?) it becomes pretty interesting.  There is also some humor sprinkled in.  Like the part about Toilets.  The level of personalness is also appealing.  In short order we quickly learn about the author's father and grandfather and how they were crappy dads.  There's also some information about drug use that makes the author seem like he could be similar to his father and grandfather which makes it believable that'd he'd be hesitant to have children. 

There really aren't too many characters in this story mainly the author and his father and grandfather.  His grandfather is characterized as a jerk and a lot of sympathy is built for his father (who also isn't a good father).  My major issue with the story is that I don't and haven't watched most of the shows discussed so I have trouble keeping the different actors straight.  There isn't too much dialogue which is jarring but not a bad thing.  I think the story reads well and is pretty interesting just a little hard to follow.  The conflict is a little bit dry but at least there is some suspense: like when he says he had a vasectomy.  It did seem a little predictable to me too.  I more or less figured out that he was going to have children as soon as he talked about his wife wanting them.  Overall I liked it, but I didn't love it.