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Old 01-06-18, 12:59 PM
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RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/06/jerry-...ke-dead-at-86/

I always thought he was hilarious.
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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

I loved him on Coach.

... and I’m surprised I never put two and two together that he and Dick Van Dyke were brothers.
Old 01-06-18, 01:31 PM
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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

I looked him up on IMDB and noticed he was on an episode of Grace Under Fire and The Drew Carey Show - both playing his "Coach" character Luther Van Damme. I didn't know they did any Coach cross-overs.
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He was great in Coach. Still remember the episode where he makes the whole team take a train instead of flying because of a bad dream he had. “Clickity-clack, Clickity-clack!”

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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

RIP. Loved him on Coach. He was great on The Middle. Hopefully they did something with him for the final season.
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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

RIP. He always made me laugh. I thought his older brother had passed away, too but apparently he's still around.
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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)



Both Jerry and Dick Van Dike were both on an episode of The Middle

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Jerry.
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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

Yeah, he was great in Coach. I remember his guest starring role as an eccentric professor on Charles in Charge when I was a kid. He would yell out "Nobody knows how I feel!" when someone would rhetorically tell him that they knew how he felt. I think Charles once replied with "EVERYONE KNOWS HOW YOU FEEL!" and he replied with "NOBODY KNOWS HOW I... really?" The comedic timing always cracked me up. The fact that I still remember that fucking line is nutty since it was almost 30 years ago.
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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

I was reading about his career and found out he turned down the role of Gilligan and also turned down an offer to replace Don Knotts on the Andy Griffith Show. Had he accepted either role, his career would have been much different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Van_Dyke
Old 01-06-18, 07:23 PM
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About two years ago, I was on twitter and some folks were talking about how Dick Van Dyke had just tweeted a full frontal nude video of his brother. I couldn’t believe it so I made the mistake of clicking through to see if it was some kind of joke. It was not.
Dick Van Dyke’s wife tweeted the link to the video, which she labeled as something along the lines of “and now here’s Jerry in his birthday suit (warning NSFW)”
Dick Van Dyke then retweeted this. And left it up for about a day. (Presumably it was his wife handling his social media, and maybe she and Jerry had some kind of argument and she did this to get even. But who knows?)
The brief video showed Jerry Van Dyke in a swimming pool, yelling and babbling incoherently. And someone off-camera pointed out that he was nude, if I remember correctly. It was recent (he was definitely in his 80s) and left nothing to the imagination. It is branded in my memory.
A bunch of people joked about it on twitter, but I was surprised that this didn’t make it to TMZ or something like that. It has been practically forgotten, erased from history. Which is only fair, Jerry didn’t deserve something like this to get out and put a tiny dent in his legacy in his later years. And it was mean of Dick’s wife to tweet it.
But I just can’t shake how f***ing bizarre this was.
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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

Yeah, Coach was a really fun show. I probably know him best from that. RIP.
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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

Hope he didn't see me naming him in my post in the "Most annoying characters in TV history" and take it personally.

I've always loved Dick Van Dyke, but was never a fan of Jerry.

That said, may he RIP.
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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

Right before I read this thread that he had passed away ,I watched Coach,the pilot episode.
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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

Once on Conan or Letterman, I tuned in just in time to see a young standup comic crash and burn. He was doing his routine, and he was awful. He didn't get one laugh from the audience. At the end of his bit, he walked across the stage, and Jerry Van Dyke was on the couch. Jerry was laughing until tears ran down his face. He said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I've been there. You're up there and nothing works." It was one of the kindest things I've ever seen on late night television.
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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

His character on Coach is one of the all-time great TV characters. Coach was one of those shows where the supporting cast were all funnier than the main leads.
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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

Originally Posted by Why So Blu?
Yeah, he was great in Coach. I remember his guest starring role as an eccentric professor on Charles in Charge when I was a kid. He would yell out "Nobody knows how I feel!" when someone would rhetorically tell him that they knew how he felt. I think Charles once replied with "EVERYONE KNOWS HOW YOU FEEL!" and he replied with "NOBODY KNOWS HOW I... really?" The comedic timing always cracked me up. The fact that I still remember that fucking line is nutty since it was almost 30 years ago.
He did that on Charles in Charge, too?

He originally did that, "NOBODY KNOWS HOW I FEEL," bit with his brother on The Dick Van Dyke Show in the mid 60's.
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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

If Jerry Van Dyke had done nothing but play Stacey Petrie his legacy as a hilarious comedic actor would have been cemented.

Fortunately, he did a heck of a lot of other stuff, too.

I always liked Jerry. He was absolutely hysterical on The Dick Van Dyke Show for the 4 episodes that he guested on.

Rest in peace, Burford, rest in peace.
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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

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He did that on Charles in Charge, too?

He originally did that, "NOBODY KNOWS HOW I FEEL," bit with his brother on The Dick Van Dyke Show in the mid 60's.


No shit?

Yeah, that's where I saw it as a kid. And it was through the second syndication run with the Powell family.
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No shit?

Yeah, that's where I saw it as a kid. And it was through the second syndication run with the Powell family.
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Holy shit. That's great!
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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

Originally Posted by B5Erik
He did that on Charles in Charge, too?

He originally did that, "NOBODY KNOWS HOW I FEEL," bit with his brother on The Dick Van Dyke Show in the mid 60's.
Yes, I was a writer on Charles in Charge and a huge Dick van Dyke Show fan, so when we got Jerry to guest star I put that bit in as a kind of tribute. I had to teach it to Jerry because he didn't remember it!
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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

Somewhere in here is a joke about it taking the writer four years to write that ...
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Re: RIP Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018)

Been too busy working on his screenplay "16 Years a Lurker"
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