"Parental Guidance" is sweet but milquetoast, an inoffensive trifle that's blandly predictable. The first program starred Ernest Truex as Caspar Milquetoast in "The Timid Soul". James Wilson was not the indecisive milquetoast depicted in the play. Caspar Milquetoast was portrayed by Ernest Truex. James Wilson was not the indecisive milquetoast depicted in the play and the film. One of the people fleeing is the protagonist, a milquetoast 16-year-old boy named Ken Taiga. Caspar Milquetoast was a popular American cartoon character created by H. T. Webster. Caspar Milquetoast in that episode, now lost, was portrayed by Ernest Truex. In contrast to his strong-willed daughter, he is something of a milquetoast. Caspar Milquetoast was seen on both Sunday and Monday. He tended to play "milquetoast" characters and in "The Warrior's Husband" he played a "nance". Mike Schiller from PopMatters called it "ill-fated" and "milquetoast". As it turned out, he was no milquetoast, and subsequently set about enthusiastically pursuing reform. Its connotation is similar to that of "milquetoast". Also during "Outland", Milquetoast is depicted as Opus' best friend, after Ronald-Ann Smith.