--- title: Hero Dad Dresses As T-Rex To Wait For Daughter's Bus description: A viral hero dad dressed up as a T Rex has pulled off the ultimate dad joke of 2017. canonical: https://time.com/5071509/dad-dressed-as-t-rex-goes-viral/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-14T17:35:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:23.118Z og:title: Hero Dad Dresses As T-Rex To Wait For Daughter's Bus og:description: It may be the ultimate dad joke og:url: https://time.com/5071509/dad-dressed-as-t-rex-goes-viral/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd895c7c27f68a638/6988f5bcfb4eac36c28950aa/25593028_863074337203682_2009556515_o.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 25593028_863074337203682_2009556515_o og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hero Dad Dresses As T-Rex To Wait For Daughter's Bus twitter:description: It may be the ultimate dad joke twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd895c7c27f68a638/6988f5bcfb4eac36c28950aa/25593028_863074337203682_2009556515_o.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hero Dad Dresses As T-Rex To Wait For Daughter's Bus by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 14, 2018 5:35 PM UTC  Courtesy of Tad Parnell by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 14, 2018 5:35 PM UTC A Louisiana father may have just pulled off the [ultimate dad joke](http://time.com/4722100/chuck-schumer-april-fools-joke/?iid=sr-link4). Tad Parnell went to greet his daughter as she got off of the school bus, but he wasn’t dressed like any other dad. In a video posted to Facebook, Parnell can be seen waiting for the school bus to arrive dressed like a giant, inflatable Tyrannosaurus Rex. It’s clear that Parnell is excited to pull off his [joke](http://time.com/4542944/saturday-night-live-tom-hanks-cut-for-time-sketch/?iid=sr-link10), as he can be seen dancing in the driveway in anticipation of the bus’s arrival. When the bus finally shows up, the door open and a girl emerges. She instantly spots the giant T-Rex (which is admittedly hard to miss) who goes in for a hug with his tiny T Rex arms. The girl starts laughing, but then tries to flee before she can be further embarrassed by the [dad joke](http://time.com/4993154/george-w-bush-barakc-obama-laugh-bill-clinton-speech/?iid=sr-link1) in progress. She makes a break for it with her dad close behind and her mother cracking up laughing, capturing the whole thing on camera. The video went viral, of course, as fathers around the world have a new bar to reach with their [dad jokes](http://time.com/4621362/barack-obama-best-dad-moments/?iid=sr-link7). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5071509/dad-dressed-as-t-rex-goes-viral/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5071509/dad-dressed-as-t-rex-goes-viral/"},"headline":"Hero Dad Dresses As T-Rex To Wait For Daughter's Bus","datePublished":"2018-02-14T17:35:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:49:23.118Z","description":"It may be the ultimate dad joke","url":"https://time.com/5071509/dad-dressed-as-t-rex-goes-viral/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Family","dads","dinosaurs"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd895c7c27f68a638/6988f5bcfb4eac36c28950aa/25593028_863074337203682_2009556515_o.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd895c7c27f68a638/6988f5bcfb4eac36c28950aa/25593028_863074337203682_2009556515_o.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"25593028_863074337203682_2009556515_o","caption":"","creditText":"Courtesy of Tad Parnell","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5071509/dad-dressed-as-t-rex-goes-viral/","name":"Hero Dad Dresses As T-Rex To Wait For Daughter's Bus"}}]}] ```