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Parenthood: Brian D.McLaughlin

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What can you say about a family dramedy based on a mediocre Steve Martin movie? That it had Joss Whedon as one of its writers (how's this for circling back to Buffy?) and was a lot funnier than the film, with a cast including everyone from Ed Begley Jr., in Martin's dad role, to a 15-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio as one of his kids, to David Arquette as (what else?) an eccentric housepainter, to Ken Ober (host of MTV's Remote Control — that's right, the one who wasn't Colin Quinn, Adam Sandler, or Kari Wuhrer).