The original dad from A Christmas Prince was a wonderful human being. Rudy was loving, hard-working, kind and most importantly, subtle. He was an exemplary father figure. In fact, he was even played by an actor with the last name of "Fathers."

In A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding, our beloved Rudy is replaced by a buffoon, seemingly pulled from a dated caricature of a "New Yorker." He is rude, off-putting, lazy, free-loading and likely does not possess the intelligence to even spell subtlety. It's as if Amber put out a Craiglist ad looking for someone to pose as her father for an Aldovian adventure, and this Joe Pesci/Andrew Dice Clay inspired jester was the first to respond. He even managed to mansplain to the Royal chef how to do her own job, while proudly serving those abominable well-done "hockey puck sliders." You wouldn't find those at a reception in a Golden Corral, let alone a Royal wedding in Aldovia. 

The biggest plot hole is not that a Prince proposed to a woman he barely met or that the heads of a country can't comprehend a simple money laundering scheme, but rather that this bumbling version of Rudy somehow operates a successful diner in New York City. 

We the people deserve better. Aldovia deserves better. In 2019's A Christmas Prince: The Royal Divorce, the original Rudy must return.