# Camelot mourns tonight \[Robert Goulet dead at 73\]

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 31, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649 "2007-10-31T00:42:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/21 "2007-11-01T12:27:06Z")

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Don’t let it be forgot  
That once there was a spot  
For one brief shining moment  
That was known as Camelot.

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**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/22 "2007-11-01T16:34:44Z")

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Anybody remember “Blue Light?” (1966) It was an attempt to make Goulet into a secret agent, a la “The Man from Uncle” - except it was set during WW II. Not a bad show, as I recall, but I don’t think it lasted a whole season.

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/23 "2007-11-01T19:50:35Z")

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Besides stealing your things when you sleep, Robert Goulet is also infamous for another thing: Elvis famously shot his television after seeing Robert Goulet singing, apparently because he was [cheating on one of Elvis’s girls](http://en.allexperts.com/q/Presley-Elvis-562/Robert-Goulet.htm).

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/24 "2007-11-02T00:02:20Z")

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[QUOTE=MaxTheVool]  
Robert Goulet, Robert Goulet, my god Robert Goulet!  
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😃 Bob Goulet out, Steve McQueen in!

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**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/25 "2007-11-02T02:50:20Z")

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Let’s not forget his classic appearance on \*\*The Simpsons \*\* when Mr. Burns builds a casino and hires Robert Goulet to entertain, only to have Bart and Nelson intercept him to instead play at Bart’s treehouse casino.

Best lines:

Bart: Mr. Goulet, come with me."

Goulet: “Are you from the casino?”

Bart" “I’m from a casino.”

Goulet: “Good enough for me.”

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As Robert Goulet is climbing the ladder to the treehouse, he is havings doubts.

Goulet: “This doesn’t seem right. I’d better call my secretary.”

Nelson: “Your secretary says ‘shut up’”.

Goulet: “Vera said that?”

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