RIP: Abe Vigoda

[cartman]

He's now officially passed away at the age of 94.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/abe-vigoda-barney-miller-godfather-star-dead-article-1.2510170

[QuikSand]

Attention http://www.abevigoda.com/

YOU HAD ONE JOB...

[cartman]

Can you get me off the hook, Tom? For old times' sake?

[Vince, Pt. II]

Talk about odd timing: the early morning national radio show I was listening to this morning was chatting about him and mentioned it's crazy that he's still alive.

[QuikSand]

YOU HAD ONE JOB...

Fixed, now. :(

[molson]

https://twitter.com/abevigoda/status/692070316974215168

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I was alive and now I'm not :(</p>&mdash; Abe Vigoda (@abevigoda) <a href="https://twitter.com/abevigoda/status/692070316974215168">January 26, 2016</a></blockquote>
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[Ben E Lou]

MCA had rhymes like him.

[cartman]

MCA had rhymes like him.

Now I can't get the song out of my head... :mad:

I got a girl in the Castle and one in the pagoda
You know I got rhymes like Abe Vigoda

[Suicane75]

To Donald,

I was not Don Corleone

Yours,
Abe Vigoda

[stevew]

Talk about odd timing: the early morning national radio show I was listening to this morning was chatting about him and mentioned it's crazy that he's still alive.

I may be confusing my memories but I swear on 9/11 I was listening to the local norfolk hacks and they were talking about how cheap airfare was and how they were going to give all kinds free air trips away.

[albionmoonlight]

So I don't know if this belongs here or in the Thoughts Not Important Enough for Their Own Thread thread, but Vigoda passing got me clicking on Wikipedia and, one thing and another, I ended up watching an old episode of Barney Miller on YouTube. It was on in the background when I was a kid, but I never watched it before.

(1) Amazing theme song.
(2) For an older show, it holds up really well. It certainly has that 70s-80s sitcom feel to it. But I watched the whole episode and enjoyed it. A lot of 80s shows I can't get through more than 5 minutes. This was a lot better show than a lot of what was on at the time.

[cuervo72]

Agreed on both counts.

[sabotai]

Conan's tribute to Abe:

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