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Next TV Parent to Die

Shirley Jones

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Florence Henderson

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Meredith Baxter Brinley

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Michael Gross

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Alan Thicke

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Joanna Kerns

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Marion Ross

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Bill Cosby

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Roseanne Barr

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Judith Light

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Max Wright (Willie Tanner of ALF)

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John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 19 2010 01:50 PM

There was June Cleaver and then Howard Cunningham. Shirley (don't say that!) these things come in threes. So put in your vote today! Discuss below!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 19 2010 01:54 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

Oooooh! (Claps hands in creepily fey fashion) How delightfully macabre! Went with "WILLie!" The real question is, how long will his colleagues at the Barnes & Noble stockroom where he now works take to notice?

Edgy DC Oct 19 2010 01:57 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

Clint Eastwood has taught me that this is dangerous territory.

DocTee Oct 19 2010 01:58 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 19 2010 01:59 PM

Roseanne (botched cosmetic surgery). John Goodman would've been my write-in but for his recent self-shedding.

Edgy DC Oct 19 2010 01:58 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

Conrad Bain, still alive.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 19 2010 02:02 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

Conrad Bain! See, I knew I was forgetting a ton. I also meant to put Mrs. Garrett up there. I actually looked up the actor who played Ricky Schroeder's dad in Silver Spoons but decided he wouldn't make the news enough. I thought Willie was superb in ALF.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 19 2010 02:13 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

John Astin (Gomez Addams) is 80. Dick Van Dyke is 84. (Does he count? His fatherhood was more incidental to his role.) John Amos is 70. Jean Stapleton is 87. (She may not count either; we never saw her as the mother of young children.)

metirish Oct 19 2010 02:16 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

katey Sagal................it will be a scandal

DocTee Oct 19 2010 02:25 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

John Amos is 70. At first I thought that said STAMOS, and I thought "damn that guy from Full House aged well!"

Edgy DC Oct 19 2010 02:32 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Jean Stapleton is 87. (She may not count either; we never saw her as the mother of young children.) Stepmother/guardian to Stephanie in the later years. Others that pop to mind: Ed O'Neill, Jim Belushi, Ray Romano, Bob Ueker, The Fresh King of Bel-Air, Bob F. Sagett, Tim F. Allen, Julie Kavner, Dan Castalanetta, Fran Drescher (she's got to be pushing 80), ... I don't play this game. Too creepy. But if I'm Charlie Sheen, I hate this thread and all threads like it.

metirish Oct 19 2010 02:35 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

I'm more scared if I'm Sheen's spouse or GF.

sharpie Oct 19 2010 03:25 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

Doris Day is 88. I'm going with her.

G-Fafif Oct 19 2010 04:01 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

DocTee wrote: John Amos is 70. At first I thought that said STAMOS, and I thought "damn that guy from Full House aged well!" Amos just did a delightful cameo on 30 Rock. Looks great.

metsguyinmichigan Oct 19 2010 04:12 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

You people are sick! Sick, you hear me! I love this. Marion Ross, who did not look well last time she was in something.

Frayed Knot Oct 19 2010 05:14 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

Sometimes the depth of sit-com knowledge in this place frightens me.

Kong76 Oct 19 2010 05:28 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

I have a type-written list of things that frighten me about this place :-)

Willets Point Oct 19 2010 06:01 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

Frayed Knot wrote: Sometimes the depth of sit-com knowledge in this place frightens me. Better than knowing a lot about the Yankees.

G-Fafif Oct 19 2010 06:47 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

Kong76 wrote: I have a type-written list of things that frighten me about this place :-) Do you need help scanning it?

TheOldMole Oct 19 2010 06:51 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

Went with the underdog -- Meredith Baxter Birney.

Edgy DC Oct 19 2010 07:18 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

The two single dads of Mayberry --- Andy Griffith and Ken Berry --- still living and may they stay so. Gloria Henry, ever-doting mother of Dennis the Menace, blessedly still walks among us. June Lockhart still raising collies and piloting lost saucers somewhere on this side of the veil. You go, June.

Frayed Knot Oct 19 2010 07:23 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

Willets Point wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Sometimes the depth of sit-com knowledge in this place frightens me. Better than knowing a lot about the Yankees. Perhaps, but mostly I think it's the level of retention that amazes me even more than the accumulation of all that knowledge in the first place.

Kong76 Oct 19 2010 08:01 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

Yeah, I don't know how people remember some stuff.

Fman99 Oct 19 2010 08:13 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

I voted for Mrs. Cunningham. Last I saw she looked like a beat up old first baseman's mitt.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 19 2010 08:17 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

TheOldMole wrote: Went with the underdog -- Meredith Baxter Birney. That channel that plays old Happy Days also plays of Family Ties shows. Tonight I caught Part 2 of the Very Special Family Ties when MB Birney's brother, Uncle Ned (a post-Bosom Buddies, pre-Splash* Tom Hanks), is arrested. *- I think. Meantime the ep where Richie is at a party with the tall chick dressed as the statue of liberty is on NOW!!!! Howard & Marion are playing cards upstairs!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 20 2010 08:22 AM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

TheOldMole wrote: Went with the underdog -- Meredith Baxter Birney. Unless you're getting odds, or you know something we don't-- that her hobbies include driving drunk and working glovelessly with corrosives, e.g.-- I'm not sure how this one's a smart bet... all else being equal, lesbians have longer life expectancies than either unmarried or single straight women/men and male homosexuals. And didn't John Amos die back in the '70s? That's why Esther Rolle had to get another job, with times subsequently and steadily getting much less good. (That 30 Rock cameo was golden. He also recently played someone's dad's-- Stacy Keach?-- gay lover on some CBS sitcom to which BetterHalfer's gotten unfortunately attached.)

MFS62 Oct 20 2010 08:30 AM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

I voted Bill Cosby, just ... cos. Later

dgwphotography Oct 20 2010 11:11 AM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

Where's the love for William Schallert?

metsguyinmichigan Oct 20 2010 01:26 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: TheOldMole wrote: Went with the underdog -- Meredith Baxter Birney. And didn't John Amos die back in the '70s? That's why Esther Rolle had to get another job, with times subsequently and steadily getting much less good. Loved John Amos in "West Wing." I suspect he demanded his "Good Times" character be killed off after the show denigrated into a weekly attempt by the writers to see how many times they could get Jimmy Walker to say "Dyn-o-mite!" rather than actually telling a story. Kind of like the Flo character in Alice saying "Kiss My Grits."

Vic Sage Oct 20 2010 01:34 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

they killed him off again in WEST WING. Recently, he has shown up a few times on 2 AND 1/2 MEN as Stacey Keach's gay lover. Don't ask...

Edgy DC Oct 20 2010 01:56 PM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

They killed off James, Sr. so Amos could film Roots. Norman Lear was always killing people, though. Killed James, kiled Edith... more or less killed Lionel too.

Edgy DC Oct 26 2010 10:06 AM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

You see?! You see why I wanted out of this thread?! http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebri ... tml?hpt=T2

Frayed Knot Oct 26 2010 10:57 AM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

Sheen currently plays a TV uncle so he only gets sick.

metirish Oct 26 2010 10:59 AM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

Another report has him hammered and his room trashed and the cops finding him naked and out of it.....

Frayed Knot Oct 26 2010 11:02 AM Re: Next TV Parent to Die

Another report has him hammered and his room trashed and the cops finding him naked and out of it..... A condition veteran Charlie Sheen watchers call: 'Tuesday' Either that or he was trying to re-enact his father's 'Apocalypse Now' role. C'mon Captain, time to get you cleaned up