86 was Enough

(An epitaphany shared with Monty and Phil)

Or

Roland Roland Roland, Get the Hearse for Roland

(Props to Phil)

Dick Van Patten, nucleus of the Van Patten project, which determined that the interaction of one Adam (-12) with another Adam (Rich) could unleash a series of unpleasant interactions, or bombs – his failed series, his family's failed series, his TV family's failed series, has died of complications of diabetes at the age of 86. And if this sounds even vaguely similar, I assure you that you are not thinking about a host segment from Master Ninja I featuring Crow T. Robot. Best known as Tom Bradford, patriarch of the dramedy Eight is Enough, Van Patten also played Druidia’s King Roland in Spaceballs (even though he didn’t look Druish), Friar Tuck in When Things Were Rotten, blob chow in Beware! The Blob, Beverly Ann Stickle’s ex-husband on the pathetic last season of The Facts of Life and the blind weatherman on the pathetic only season of WIOU.