MR. C: Tom Bosley, beloved by so many in my generation as TV's Howard Cunningham on "Happy Days," has passed away. I can think of no better clip to remember him by than his last words on the show, this fourth-wall acknowledging toast at Joanie and Chachi's wedding:
Added: Linda Holmes, who has clips: "Very often, sitcoms offer fathers who are either loving but slightly remote and intimidating (like Ward Cleaver) or lovable but bumbling (like Tim Taylor on Home Improvement). Happy Days offered up Howard Cunningham, who genuinely fell somewhere in between.... Howard wasn't a guy who brought a briefcase home and wore a suit; he owned a hardware store. But although he could certainly be silly (the show got no end of jokes from his Leopard Lodge membership and the dream of becoming Grand Poobah), he wasn't a goof. He was a good dad and a good guy, and he loved his kids warmly and with humor."
