RIP Little Buddy

Bob Denver just passed away, I've heard. It's childishly simple to make fun of his career. But I was always a fan. Maynard G. Krebs is the Ur-Slacker of our times. As to Gilligan's Island, it, (along with the much maligned Green Acres) is vastly under-rated. Others have written about its virtues, so I won't belabor them here. But I will repeat something I tell everyone who scoffs at the show's importantce. NO ONE knows all the words to our National Anthem, but EVERYONE knows the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song.