Like, Later, Maynard

Bob Denver passed away on September 2. Most of you probably remember him from "Gilligan's Island". Not me. I don't think I ever watched an episode of that all the way through. I remember him as Maynard G. Krebs in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis".

This LATimes article does too.

For that, we have Denver to thank. Even though his face will forever be associated with Gilligan, whom the skipper blamed for every mishap on the island, I suspect he was more of a beatnik than a shipwrecked buffoon. If only today's television teenagers were less like Gilligan and more like Maynard. May Bob Denver, like, rest in peace.