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On the other hand
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 Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:34 pm Post subject: Don Knotts dies |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11566794/
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LOS ANGELES - Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on ��The Andy Griffith Show,�� has died. He was 81.
Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at a Los Angeles hospital, said Paul Ward, a spokesman for the cable network TV Land, which airs ��The Andy Griffith Show,�� and another Knotts hit, ��Three��s Company.��
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The Andy Griffith Show was in sporadic syndication when I was growing up, and I don't think I ever watched it. Loved him on Three's Company, though. Funnier than the Ropers, I thought. |
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igotthisguitar
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Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 1:28 am Post subject: |
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Heard he wasn't doing so well a while back.
Have in fact been wondering for some time now when the inevitable would occur.
Respectable entertainer & gag man.
RIP. |
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Alias
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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I'm going to work wearing a plaid polyester suit in his memory.  |
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jajdude
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:17 am Post subject: |
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In high school I used to imitate Ralph Furley for a few laughs.
I liked him in that movie "Pleasantville" too. |
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Rteacher
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I'm so frickin' old that my fondest memories of Don Knots go back to when he was one of the "man on the street" regulars on Steve Allen's Late Show. He'd be like incredibly trembling when interviewed night after night and yelp "Nope!"  (looking in all directions like a scared bird...) whenever asked if he was nervous... Wish him well (they can probably use court-jester types on higher planets...) |
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coolsage
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Location: The overcast afternoon of the soul
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:20 am Post subject: |
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| Never much cared for his work, but he made me laugh once: as Furley on 'Three's Company', talking with Jack (John Ritter): Furley: I see you're growing a moustache. Jack: Yes, I think it'll make me more attractive to the ladies. Furley: I once broke up with a girl over a moustache. Jack: You broke up because she didn't like your moustache? Furley: No, I didn't like hers. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:24 am Post subject: |
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Never much cared for his work, but he made me laugh once: as Furley on 'Three's Company', talking with Jack (John Ritter): Furley: I see you're growing a moustache. Jack: Yes, I think it'll make me more attractive to the ladies. Furley: I once broke up with a girl over a moustache. Jack: You broke up because she didn't like your moustache? Furley: No, I didn't like hers.
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Jack admitted an interest in women to Furley? |
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coolsage
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:59 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, it was Roper who thought he was gay. ( If I'm having this discussion, I really need to get a life soon.) |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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Even in the 70s, those ridiculous striped suits he wore as Mr. Furley were great!
In the early Three's Company shows, Jack pretended he was gay to Mr. Roper so that he would permit a man to live with two women. No one seemed to ask the question why it was more likely that Mr. Roper would rent to a gay man. By the time Furley came along, the joke had worn out, I guess, and times had changed.
My favorite shtick on the show was whenever Janet or someone warned that they might be late with rent and Furley would quiver and his eyes would bounce around in panic: "You mean.. you're going.. to be late.. WITH THE RENT? My big brother Bart will kill me!" Late in the series, there's a great show where the infamous Bart who's going to kill everyone finally appears, and he's a meek, tiny little man.
Ken:> |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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In the early Three's Company shows, Jack pretended he was gay to Mr. Roper so that he would permit a man to live with two women. No one seemed to ask the question why it was more likely that Mr. Roper would rent to a gay man. By the time Furley came along, the joke had worn out, I guess, and times had changed.
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This is incorrect. Furley also thought that Jack was gay. There was an episode where Jack and Furley were locked in Mr. Angelino's freezer together, and Jack, thinking that they would never get out alive, confessed his heterosexuality to Furley. When they were released, Furley expressed the view that Jack must have been hallucinating to imagine himself to be heterosexual.
There were other episodes where it was indicated that Furley thought Jack was gay, that's just the one that pops into my head right now. |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:15 pm Post subject: yes |
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With him and John Ritter now gone, there can't be a Three's Company reunion.
How am I gonna live? |
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Moldy Rutabaga
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:39 am Post subject: |
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| This is incorrect. Furley also thought that Jack was gay. |
Hehe-- well, I may be wrong. I haven't seen the show regularly in over twenty years. And when I see the occasional rerun, it's quite painful. But my favorite characters were the non-regulars: Furley, Larry, and the girl who used to always chase Jack, Lana (for obvious reasons).
Ken:> |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:14 am Post subject: |
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Furley, Larry, and the girl who used to always chase Jack, Lana (for obvious reasons).
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Jackie-Boy...
For the record, the woman who played that role is now in her 70s. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
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Lana is now in her 70s? Yikes. But then, this was nearly thirty years ago, and she was pretty hot then in her early forties. Hey, Brigette Bardot's not looking so milfable lately either! 
Ken:> |
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