# Jerry Van Dyke, RIP **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 6, 2018, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-van-dyke-rip/806004 "2018-01-06T22:38:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-van-dyke-rip/806004/21 "2018-01-07T20:50:53Z")
RIP, Jerry. ☹ I have not seen a single episode of _Coach_. I remember him mainly from playing real-life brother Dick’s brother on _The Dick Van Dyke Show_. I think I did catch him occasionally on _My Mother the Car_, but not often since that was not a show my parents usually watched. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-van-dyke-rip/806004/22 "2018-01-07T22:11:09Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > And Dick van Dyke was [pulled from a burning car](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-23760186/actor-dick-van-dyke-pulled-from-burning-car). The linked story is from 20 Aug 2013? ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-van-dyke-rip/806004/23 "2018-01-08T17:01:11Z")
I was wondering which brother would die first. I hope not to see Dick succumb but its inevitable RIP! Great guy/entertainer! ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-van-dyke-rip/806004/24 "2018-01-08T18:07:07Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > On _ **MTM** _, \*\*\*My Mother, the Car \*\*\* was always on the WJM schedule whenever they showed it. Must have been Mary’s \*homage \*to the Van Dykes. It was also because many of the people involved with _MTM_ had worked on _My Mother, the Car_ and referenced it as an inside joke. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-van-dyke-rip/806004/25 "2018-01-08T23:59:22Z")
**My Mother, the Car** aired when I was a little kid (six?) and I LOVED it. I must have been the target audience. Is the (one-year) series on YouTube, or any other place to see it for free? We should set up a group viewing. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-van-dyke-rip/806004/26 "2018-01-09T00:47:50Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > **My Mother, the Car** aired when I was a little kid (six?) and I LOVED it. I must have been the target audience. > > Is the (one-year) series on YouTube, or any other place to see it for free? We should set up a group viewing. Supposedly, the audience for show mostly consisted of kids like yourself and teens/young adults. I suspect the latter group, however, might’ve been a bit herbally enhanced when they watched it (especially considering the premise of the program). Another interesting bit of trivia about _My Mother the Car_ is the writing staff included James L. Brooks and other people who went on to create such classic 70s sitcoms like _Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, Barney Miller_, and _Taxi_. It would be like if more than half the players on the 2017 Cleveland Browns eventually became perennial All-Pros and members of the HOF. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-van-dyke-rip/806004/27 "2018-01-09T01:31:29Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > **My Mother, the Car** aired when I was a little kid (six?) and I LOVED it. I must have been the target audience. > > Is the (one-year) series on YouTube, or any other place to see it for free? We should set up a group viewing. It was running on Antenna TV on weekends. However, they seemed to have dropped some shows, including MMTC, with the coming of the new year. I thought it was a one-joke show. Most of the plots involved Avery Schreiber as Captain Manzini, a car collector who kept attempting to gain possession of the car, a 1928 Porter, by fair means or foul. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-van-dyke-rip/806004/28 "2018-01-12T23:09:29Z")
Luther Van Dam The whole f’n show Loved him on coach. Best ep was when coach babysat his bird and lost it, so opened all the windows and Luther comes back to a room full of pigeons making mess of the place. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-van-dyke-rip/806004/29 "2018-01-12T23:16:07Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Loved him on coach. Best ep was when coach babysat his bird and lost it, so opened all the windows and Luther comes back to a room full of pigeons making mess of the place. Hate to be a grammar nazi, but you have a typo. You wrote “when coach babysat his bird and lost it, so opened all the windows and Luther comes back to a room full of pigeons making mess of the place” when you meant to write “Turtle World.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-van-dyke-rip/806004.md?page=1)