# Do you know who "Squiggy" is? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 24, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187 "2013-05-24T01:56:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/61 "2013-05-25T00:23:21Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > McKean’s had some success as an actor on his own, but he owes it all to his exposure with Squiggy on Laverne and Shirley. I would say that _Spinal Tap_ has been much better for Michael McKean’s career than Lenny and Squiggy. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/62 "2013-05-25T01:47:49Z")
I remembered the name mostly because of a Mad magazine parody which called him “Squeegee”… ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/63 "2013-05-25T03:02:32Z")
After all these years it just occurred to me. Laverne and Shirley. Lenny and Squigey . L and S. Coincidence? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/64 "2013-05-25T03:12:49Z")
For a more obscure reference, he was a Ferengi in an episode of Star Trek: TNG. ---
**Author:** ![split\_p\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@split\_p\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/split_p_j)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/65 "2013-05-25T08:06:36Z")
Yes, 41. ---
**Author:** ![Ken001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@Ken001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ken001)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/66 "2013-05-25T09:30:54Z")
Michael Landon is Squiggy?? Little Joe? Tell me it’s not so please :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/67 "2013-05-25T12:49:45Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > If you have kids and they watch Nick Jr. you probably hear his unmistakable voice every day. He voices Henry the Penguin on the show Oswald. > Since I hear it playing in the background but never watch the screen I just picture Squiggy the whole time. Once, Henry’s cousin came to visit. It was Michael Mckean voicing. I thought that was great and my daughter had zero clue why I was so amused. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/68 "2013-05-25T12:55:59Z")
He used to sing with Leonard and the Squigtones. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/69 "2013-05-25T13:23:39Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I would say that _Spinal Tap_ has been much better for Michael McKean’s career than Lenny and Squiggy. He wouldn’t have been in Spinal Tap if he didn’t play Lenny. Look who directed it, and who he was married to. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/70 "2013-05-25T16:04:15Z")
I don’t know anyone who didn’t watch at least a little Nick-at-Nite as a kid. Of course I know who Squiggy is. Age 28. My sister also knows, age 25. My cousin also knows, age 18. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/71 "2013-05-25T18:14:24Z")
I accidentally voted no but I meant yes, of course I know who Squiggy is! I even know who Ziggy is! I’m 43. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/72 "2013-05-25T18:32:37Z")
Yes, and I’m 48. I watched the show pretty often back when it first on. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/73 "2013-05-25T18:33:45Z")
Yes, I’m 47. Watched a little TV when I was a kid. I even know that he painted the inside of his toilet bowl black. That’s what the landlady told Laverne & Shirley. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/74 "2013-05-25T20:23:10Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > He used to sing with Leonard and the Squigtones. That would be [**Lenny** and the Squigtones](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLTx5ZwJiS0). ---
**Author:** ![chewsick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@chewsick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chewsick)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/75 "2013-05-25T20:35:06Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > After checking: Squiggy was played by David Lander, Lenny was Michael McKean. Well, that sucks. I voted “yes” (age 30-40), but I thought it was the Michael McKean character, not the other one (I can picture his face, but didn’t know the actor’s name). So, apparently I don’t really _know_ Squiggy. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/76 "2013-05-25T23:10:31Z")
I got to speak to both Lenny and Squiggy on the phone. Years ago they hosted a local telethon here. I called in to make a donation and was put on the phone with each of them separately. I loved Michael McKean on the XFiles. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/77 "2013-05-26T01:42:30Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > 1. _ **Laverne and Shirley** _ came on about a month before I left the US to live in England in 1976. I really, _really_ liked the first few episodes, but when I came back 14 months later, it had degenerated into what looked like a parody of _ **The Lucy Show** _. I remember reading that _Second City TV_ once attempted to parody _Laverne and Shirley_ and found that it was not possible. No matter how ridiculously they played it, not matter how over the top, it just came across like an episode of _Laverne and Shirley_. Maybe that is what happens when the original is already a parody. ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/78 "2013-05-26T04:21:38Z")
Yes, I know which one is Squiggy and which one Lenny. Am 43. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187/79 "2013-05-26T04:38:31Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > …I loved Michael McKean on the XFiles. I did, too. And if you want to see him a genuinely scary role as an evil clown: [The Thaw (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Thaw_(episode)) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-squiggy-is/659187.md?page=3)