This is legit what I think Belch, Vic, and Patrick's dads look like:
(Images are Danny Devito as Harry Wormwood in Matilda, Bruce Willis as Ernest Menville in Death Becomes Her, and Justin Long as Gary in Weapons)
Justin Long is honestly PERFECT casting in my head for Patrick's dad, I'm not kidding, I cannot imagine anyone else. I know Danny Devito is like a meme and all, but he really does give me a Mr. Huggins vibe in the way he acts. It also helps that he's super short, and Belch is described as being super tall as a kid so I think it'd be funny if Belch dwarfed his dad.
Interestingly enough, Ernest Criss being based off of Ernest from death becomes her in my head actually has a really weird history. It started way back when I was writing my Ben hanscom cannibal au and had a scene where Ben went to the derry morgue, i thought it would be funny to have Vics dad work there as a bit, and since Ernest from death becomes her is a mortician I named him Ernest. From there that characterization just kind of stuck, and now Vic's dad works in the Derry morgue and is named Ernest just because. He also gets the bald head and thick glasses from Ernest Menville too. Although interestingly enough personality wise Ernest M and Ernest C could not be more different, as Ernest Criss's personality is actually based off of Hal from Malcolm In The Middle.
They probably don't look EXACTLY like these guys, i mean Justin long is a bit too young to be Brian Hockstetter, I don't want Ronald Huggins to just be Danny Devito, and Bruce Willis is too handsome to be Ernest, but this is like, the closest I can get to my vision.