‘Blue Bloods’ Star Tom Selleck Admits He Thinks TV Dads Are Idiots

Tom Selleck has had an amazing career from Dr. Richard Burke in Friends to Frank Reagan in Blue Bloods. He is now opening up to GQ about his opinions on growing a mustache and TV dads. Spoiler: He isn't a fan of TV dads.

The 69-year-old sat down with GQ and told them that although he plays a father of a family of New York City cops on CBS' hit show Blue Bloods, he doesn't really like the way dad's are portrayed on television.

"I have a very positive idea of patriarchs," he told the publication. "And I think a man's got to grow into himself."

"I'm older than most of the actors. I play the patriarch, and it's a rare opportunity to show a positive example. I'm not-I don't believe in playing characters that aren't flawed. He's got issues, but at the same time, most dads on TV are idiots. Homer Simpson is an idiot," the Three Men and a Baby star explained.

Tom is clearly an adult, nearing 70 years old, but the first time he ever felt grown up was when his dad died in 2001. He remembers that at that point in his life he was a grown up, having become an executive producer on Magnum P.I. but college was a different story.

"I think I felt grown-up, certainly not in college-I never learned how to have fun and set aside time to study, and I wasn't very motivated at USC," Tom revealed.

While in college, Tom did have one focus, his job at United Airlines (he was also a basketball player at USC and eventually got a contract with 20^th Century Fox). "Every summer I worked, every vacation I worked in either ticketing or reservations or over at the airport, or in baggage. I was their campus representative. I got a free phone-that was a big deal. I was the envy of my fraternity," he recalled.

What about Tom's famous mustache? The Magnum P.I. actor told GQ all about his famous facial hair. Despite the fact that both Joey and Chandler on Friends tried to grow a mustache just like his, Tom doesn't have a nickname for his stache. When called the godfather of mustaches, Tom laughed and said, "I don't mind."

He also shared his advice to men trying to grow facial hair like his. "Go through puberty. Very important. I don't know, I know guys... Ashton Kutcher told me-I did a movie with him, I played his father-in-law-and he was joking; he said, 'I can't grow one.' Part of that's genetic. You either got it or you don't," he said.