Ryan Reynolds Brought a Special Date to a Taping of The View—And It Wasn't Blake Lively

Ryan Reynolds couldn't imagine a better guest to bring to The View.

The Deadpool joined his mom Tammy Reynolds, a major fan of the daytime talk show, to sit beside him during a taping.

"You never know what's going on here at The View," cohost Whoopi Goldberg said on the June 10 episode while peering into the audience. "Sometimes you look up and you go, this is really great! And then you look up and go, oh, snap, there's Ryan Reynolds!"

And Ryan soon revealed his appearance wasn't a bit. 

"My mom is here visiting her grandkids," he explained after the visibly shocked Whoopi wondered what he was doing in the audience. "And yesterday she said, 'It's my dream to go to The View.'"

So the 47-year-old—who shares daughters James, 9, Inez, 7, Betty, 4, and a 15-month-old whose name has not yet been shared with wife Blake Lively—called in a favor.

"I said, well, first off, I try to do what she says because you don't know what she's capable of—unspeakable violence, my whole life," he joked. "I said let's go to The View. I made a call, I said, 'I'm Blake's husband, I'd like to come to The View. Does that get us a little further?' Here we are."

And Tammy revealed she watches the talk show every day, adding that at home, "right now, it's being recorded."

But it's no surprise the Wrexham AFC co-owner made time for some mother-son time. For Ryan, spending time with family is a priority.

In fact, one of his favorite memories filming his new movie IF, about imaginary friends, was when Blake came by to film her cameo.

"She shows up as a kitty," Ryan told E! News in May. "A huge plus for the babysitting aspect because we both got to be on set with our kids at the same time."

While appearing in a kid-friendly movie isn't his usual gig, he loved that his daughters could watch him in his latest role.

"The only four-letter word I say in this movie is 'yes' with two s's," he joked. "My kids are psyched to see it, which is so nice. Cause you always want your kids to pay attention to what you do."

Keep reading to see more of Ryan and Blake's sweet and relatable quotes about parenthood.

"I have seen Frozen with my daughters so, so many times and people don't know this, but if you play Frozen backwards, it's actually a shot for shot remake of The Exorcist," Reynolds joked on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2018.

On Dec. 15, 2016, Reynolds and Lively debuted their daughters James and Inez for the first time, at the actor's Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony (a common setting for notoriously private celebrities to introduce the world to their kids). During his speech, Reynolds said to his wife, "You make everything better—absolutely everything in my life better. You've given us two of the most incredible children that I could ever hope to have. You've made me the father of my dreams when I thought I only had fun uncle potential."

In August 2016, before the birth of the couple's second daughter, Reynolds told E! News, "There's nothing on earth more grounding than having a baby. It's the best thing that could ever happen to someone."

"It's tough when you get pooped on and barfed on, but having a baby is wonderful," the proud mama told NW Magazine in 2016. "Even when it's tough and I'm exhausted, I think, 'I am so fortunate.'"

During a visit to the Late Show with David Letterman in 2015, Reynolds gushed about his marriage and his daughter, but made sure viewers knew who was more important. "'I would take a bullet for you. I could never love anything as much as I love you.' I would say that to my wife. And the second I looked in that baby's eyes, I knew in that exact moment that if we were ever under attack, I would use my wife as a human shield to protect that baby."

In tradition with his dark sense of humor, Reynolds shared this little parenting joke with his Twitter followers in 2016: "Being a father is the single greatest feeling on earth. Not including those wonderful years I spent without a child, of course."

"I always do the dirty work," Reynolds said on NBC's Today show in 2016. "I'm happy to do the dirty work. So does she, but I'm always, I love getting up in the middle of the night, I'm fine with that, you know, all that stuff."

Fatherhood, he said, has been "amazing."

"I had one of those mornings, rare mornings, where my daughter just didn't want me to leave—and it was only because my wife was asleep," Reynolds said in 2016. "But it was like, you didn't want to go. You just like, it kills you."

"You know, what was really weird was, we were watching the Super Bowl and my daughter saw it and she totally recognized me. There was like 12 of me, which is just like, to her, was like 24 useless boobs," Reynolds said in 2016. "She was so not impressed. She was like, 'Eh, whatever.'"

"Damn it's hard letting your infant daughter go somewhere alone for the first time, I was a total mess dropping her off at Burning Man," Ryan joked to his Twitter followers in 2016.

"She's great, man. She's great," the proud papa gushed in 2015 before revealing whether the couple's then-only child James has started speaking. "We're getting a lot of sounds, nothing that sounds like discernible English at this point," he quipped, adding, "I'm mocking her a lot."

"@vancityreynolds Since the day our baby was born, I've felt so strongly in my heart that you were most likely the father," Lively wrote on Instagram in 2015. "#ILoveYouSoMuchItsSilly."

"Having a baby is just living in the constant unexpected," Lively said in 2016. "You never know when you're gonna get crapped on or when you're gonna get a big smile or when that smile immediately turns into hysterics. It might be like living with a drug addict. But you have a baby and you think, 'I can't imagine ever not having a baby,' because they grow up so quickly. I'd be an 80-year-old woman with a baby if I could."

 "It's the best," Lively said in 2015. "It's the thing that binds us all—family. We have very unique jobs for a living, but we all are a part of someone's family. It's a nice thing."

"On Father's Day, my daughter smiled at me," Reynolds tweeted in 2015. "It was all the gift I needed as I packed a bag and left for 6 years to write a book on parenting."

"There have been times where I woke up, literally had no idea I had been walking for five minutes," he told E! News while promoting his movie Woman in Gold in 2015.

"But you love it. You wake up in the middle of the night, you got a big stupid smile on your face. I was telling someone else that. Anything else that woke you up every 45 minutes, you'd kill it. But when it's a baby, it's the best thing that ever happened to you."

"One of the most common things in the world is making out, having a couple of drinks, and then doing it, and then having a baby. I was perfectly sober for this one though. I gotta say," Reynolds joked in 2016.

"It's amazing. I just always marvel how common it is and yet how profound it is. And I always laugh because you know celebrities you always cringe when they talk about their kids. Like 'my child is the only one that has ever exited a womb out, ever.'"

"Well, a lot of people have done this, so you always want to temper it with a little of self-effacement. But I love it," Reynolds said in 2015 about then-only child James. "I truly worship that kid. It's terrible. She has me so far wrapped around her finger it's dumb. She says 'Dada' and I will walk through a cement wall to get to her."