Well, the Pop and Cub episodes may have a tendency to end in tragedy, and I don't particularly enjoy it when Cub suffers, but Pop himself is still one of the show's funniest characters, IMO. It kind of both amuses and saddens me how he could be such a gruesome and negligent parent and yet still love and care about his son as deeply as he evidently does (which, I suspect, is part of the point). I'd have to say that their saddest episode is "And the Kitchen Sink"...being a TV episode it was longer than "Water Way To Go", so consequently Cub had to endure quite a bit more, and still came up way too short in the end for my liking. Fortunately, there are a small handful of episodes which Cub manages to survive unscathed (though seldom when he's a main character), and I do get quite a little buzz when he does.
