C'mon folks! "Dobie Gillis" was Bob Denver's finest hour!

Zomby Woof

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Tue Sep-06-05 07:09 PM
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C'mon folks! "Dobie Gillis" was Bob Denver's finest hour!

"You rang?"

Shit, "Gilligan's Island" was one of the worst shows ever. "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" on the other hand, was quite a comic gem in its day.

RIP, Bob. You never once complained about being forever known as Gilligan, and for that, you had class.

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mac56

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Tue Sep-06-05 07:13 PM
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1. Amen.

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DeposeTheBoyKing

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Tue Sep-06-05 07:13 PM
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2. I agree

He was a hipster doofus before being a hipster doofus was cool.

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Lydia Leftcoast

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Tue Sep-06-05 07:21 PM
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3. I believe that he was single-handedly responsible for the

use of "like" as a pause filler in American English. (As in, "He was, like, afraid of work.")

I'd never heard it before that show.

Anyway, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was one of my absolute favorites. It was always slightly loopy and even ventured into surrealism at times.

There were so many great characters: Dobie's parents, Zelda Gilroy, Chatsworth Osborne Junior, Thalia Menninger, Mr. Pomfret, and, of course, Maynard.

All together, in honor of Bob Denver, let's squeal "Work!"

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H2O Man

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Tue Sep-06-05 07:23 PM
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4. He had a cabin

in Delaware County, not far from here. He seemed pretty laid-back. The Gilligan bit didn't fit him at all.

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Crazy Guggenheim

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Tue Sep-06-05 07:31 PM
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6. It's so "interesting" about some of these actors that they are

not the same person in private that they are on T.V. It may sound dumb but he was a good actor.

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chknltl

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Tue Sep-06-05 07:29 PM
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5. B.D. is still cool daddio..... n.t.

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SocratesInSpirit

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Tue Sep-06-05 08:24 PM
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7. I've seen only a couple of episodes of Gilligan's Island...

And Gilligan annoyed the crap out of me so much that I thought if ever they had to resort to cannibalism, they should eat him first.

As for Dobie Gillis, I remember watching reruns of the show on Nick at Nite when I was younger but I don't really remember what it was about. Was it the show where he'd address the audience in the park under "the Thinker"? That's about all I remember. :shrug:

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AVulgarianHue

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Tue Sep-06-05 08:33 PM
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8. When a little kid...

I wouldn't miss a show. When picked up by Nick at Nite..it was, like, damn...It's still wonderful...what a cool, hip, savvy kid to love and be influenced by "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis."

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