Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of our latest stiff

(Props to Tammy)

Or
Things to do with Denver When He’s Dead
(Yours truly, with Monty sharing the epitaphany)

Or
Little Body
(Kudos to Michelle)

Or
Hey Little Dead Buddy
(Honorifics to Mark Coen)

Or
Down Bob Denver, Down Bob Denver / All he did was die
(Mo’ Me, with a cap tip to Jack Kerouac)
Add curing cancer with a coconut and bamboo to the list of things the Professor can’t do, as Gilligan has died at the age of 70. Bob Denver died of complications from his cancer treatment, 3 months after undergoing quadruple bypass. Best remembered for screwing up rescue efforts involving Hollywood producers and actors, cosmonauts and astronauts and the running list of people who stumbled upon the castaways’ tropic island nest, Gilligan was an iconic idiot for more than 40 years. Denver spent most of his career as Gilligan, first on the eponymous show, then through a series of increasingly awful, but popular TV-movies, two Gilligan cartoons, then cameos in Miss Cast Away, Meego, The New Gidget and ALF. He also played the Gilligan-like characters Dusty on Dusty’s Trail and Junior on Far Out Space Nuts. All of which overshadowed his brilliant beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, the man who said the word “work” much the same way Fonzie acknowledged he was “wrong,” and explained with a straight face that his middle initial “G” stood for Walter.