Klosterman: 23 of 23

Consider this possibility:

A) Think about deceased TV star John Ritter.

B) Now, pretend Ritter had never become famous. Pretend he was never affected by the trappings of fame, and try to imagine what his personality would have been like.

C) Now, imagine that this person—the unfamous John Ritter—is a character in a situation comedy.

D) Now, you are also a character in this sitcom, and the unfamous John Ritter character is your sitcom father.

E) However, this sitcom is actually your real life. In other words, you are living inside a sitcom: Everything about our life is a construction, featuring the unfamous John Ritter playing himself (in the role of your TV father). But this is not a sitcom. This is your real life.

How would you feel about this?

What an oddly worded question. Basically, John Ritter is my father but any knowledge that I have of him, no longer applies. In short, I'd prefer my actual father in this sitcom that isn't actually a sitcom. Nothing against John Ritter but, famous or not, family is family.