Blunt and scathing, she was quick to point out to her clueless "parent" how the other Starscream Clones represented their creator's egotism, cowardice, sycophancy and deceit.

He manages to keep the lab a secret from his clueless, cheerful parents (voiced by Jeff Bennett and Kath Soucie), who never notice any evidence of the laboratory.

I mean, it's been two years since that reality series first appeared on the Fox network, the one in which stern British women shake up and shape up clueless parents with hopeless children.

But for us clueless earthling parents in search of child-rearing advice, be warned from the outset that Professor Danesi is no Ann Landers.

Perhaps no archetype in film history is as helpless as the clueless parent.

The expression on the face of a clueless parent is timeless, in part a horrified recognition of how easily one generation replaces another.

So why not a quick fix, with or without a toothless dash of gun control, that will accomplish nothing beyond impressing the most harried or clueless suburban parents?

What they have in common are tastes for drugs and partying, a desultory attitude toward school, and absent or clueless parents.

Their indulgent, clueless parents were doing very little to control them.

He is a somewhat clueless parent and cannot really keep track of Tory's activities.