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Well, what are you going to do? It’s a big world out there, full of people. Some of them die. From the New York Times.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Bosley, the patient, understanding father on television’s long-running “Happy Days,” has died. He was 83.
Bosley died of heart failure early Tuesday at a hospital near his Palm Springs home. Bosley’s agent, Sheryl Abrams, said he was also battling lung cancer.
When he was first offered the costarring role in “Happy Days,” a series about teenage life in the 1950s, he turned it down.
“After rereading the pilot script,” he recalled in a 1986 interview, “I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. The father/son situation was written so movingly, I fell in love with the project.”
Just think. If he had turned the project down and never fallen in love with the script, he might have died like the hundreds of thousands of people who die every day, without any mention of the event being made on a pop culture blog. R.I.P. Tom Bosley. You will be missed. You’re in heaven now, working out with the angels.
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If people got pissed on the Dan Gordon-Levitt thread, I’m not sure I want to see what sort of ire the inevitable “Happy Days” jokes are going to incite.
Okay, I was wrong, I DO want to see that. Go for it!
Mr. Bosley is beyond my ability to make fun of. It is certainly not a Happy Day.
Although now I really wanna make a hair restoration joke. Damnit…
Sorry to nitpick, but Dan Gordon-Levitt didn’t die when he was 83.
Does age make a difference in whether or not people think it’s okay to make jokes about the recently deceased?
I think so. While dying is no fun in any form, and certainly not when it is from lung cancer, the whole idea of the death being ‘tragic’ doesn’t exist when someone is Bosley’s age. Sure it is sad he died, most likely in a lot of discomfort too, but he lived his whole life more or less. Dan GL did not live out his entire life, and likely left many family members in a sad and shocked state when he passed away so suddenly.
In other words Bosley got to enjoy his fair share of happy days where as Dan GL could have used at least 500 more days of summer before he departed this here third rock from the sun.
I agree, it’s hard to feel TOO sad when someone passes away after a long, prosperous life. But either you think it’s okay to make jokes at a time like this or you don’t. Either way is fine, but if you think that jokes about the dead are appropriate for SOME people, but not others, then you’re valuing one person’s life over that of another.
I’d say it makes it touchier. DGL dying in his 30′s implies tragedy. I think some tragedies really do need time to become comedy.
Like abortion?
I wanna know where all the dead old guy jokes are located.
http://tinyurl.com/2axyvhs
Still caint find em.
WHAT IF it’s just NOT COOL to make JOKES ON the behalf OF ANYONE who’s recently DECEASED?
“I may not always keep my cool like the Fonz, but being a father has given me many happy days”
Oh wait, is the Simpsons quotes thread over?
I’m going to go SIT ON IT!!!
These happy days will always be yours and mine.
Huh. I missed the episode of Happy Days that was written so movingly it made us reverse our career decisions.
I believe there was a motorcycle and a shark involved in that one.
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me Tom Bosley or give me death!”
-Bing
Scott Baio just put a picture of a frowney face in his wallet
Scott Baio can afford a wallet?
“Scott Baio’s Wallet” is slang for Renee Sloan’s ladyparts
Is that because moths routinely fly out of it?
#toofargum
Do you guys remember the episode of Super Mario SUper Show where marion won a contest and the prize was milk and cookies with scott baio? I was 8 and didnt get it at the time, but watching it again years later (shut up, yes, i watched it again) the fact that even the SMSS made fun of scott baio is pretty awesome.
marion ? wtf
First Barbara Billingsley, now this guy, who’s the third…?
How about Janet Hubert-Whitten, the original Vivian from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air…?
It’s a wild card, but you never know…
Sherman Hemsley (George Jefferson), Jean Stapleton (Edith Bunker), and Ralph Waite (Pa Walton) — all still alive — must be sweating bullets right now.
“who?”
“he was the dad on Happy Days”
“happy days?”
“it was a show on TV. you never watched Nick @ Nite?”
“Nick at nite?”
“Forget it.”
“OK. i’m gunna go listen to Willow Smith on my Zune”
Even though I’m only 19, I pretty sure Happy Days was the first sitcom I ever watched. Thanks Nick@Nite.
Let’s turn this into a Nick@Night Block Party!
R.I.P.
What is this insidious menace that is killing off all of our elderly actors?
Christine O’Donnell…?
You only have to make it 2 more years Ernest Borgnine, you can do it
Jadwiga’s in a broom closet, crying her eyes out. Certainly Tom Bosley has mourners.
Time is kind to no one, not even The Fonz
I think his wax figure might be shown more mercy…
“Patient and understanding father.”
Either I totally misread Howard Cunningham’s character or the New York Times has never seen an episode of Happy Days.
Oh my GOD, NOW IT’S TRYING TO GET HUCKABEAST!! RUUUUNNNN!!!
Also,
Cookiefoot:
Mongolian Death Worm? Not cool, Bing. Not cool.
From Nickelodeon? Nick@Nite just a little more Mongolian Death Worm.
The best kind of tribute I can think of. From The Onion circa 1998 http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-youre-thinking-of-david-doyle,10842/
Wait – Tom Bosley or Todd Bosley?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0098013/