# RIP Dick Clark **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201 "2012-04-18T19:54:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/41 "2012-04-19T01:02:55Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Wanna see something weird? Dick Clark’s [Flinstones inspired house in Malibu](http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/real_estate/1203/gallery.Dick-Clark-house/index.html). The interior is more Fred & Wilma than the exterior. That would be awesome for about a month. One bedroom? For 3.5 mil? Wow. R.I.P. Mr. Clark. Your “American Bandstand” was a staple of my youth. I think I’ll keep one calendar in the house turned to Dec. 2012 since you won’t be announcing the change. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/42 "2012-04-19T01:06:35Z")
> [@Kozmik](#): > > That settles it. 2012 is the end of the world. Glad I read the thread. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/43 "2012-04-19T01:10:51Z")
2013…Happy BLUE year. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/44 "2012-04-19T01:35:30Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Glad I read the thread. I’m sure that many are now expressing that sentiment. I [posted](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14748119&postcount=66) earlier this year that Disney needs to get to work on the animatronic version of Dick Clark. Necessity is the mother of invention. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/45 "2012-04-19T02:00:40Z")
So, who is the world’s oldest teenager _now_? ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/46 "2012-04-19T02:02:02Z")
As one of my friends said on Live Journal: “I guess someone found the picture.” RIP Dick. New Year’s Eve will never be the same. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/47 "2012-04-19T12:00:35Z")
I have this image in my head of his family & loved ones gathered round his bed in his final moments chanting “Ten…nine…eight…seven…(etc.)” ---
**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:** [April 19, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/48 "2012-04-19T20:14:32Z")
A little piece of my childhood just died. My mother, siblings and I would watch Bandstand every Saturday. Dick Clark was responsible for intergrating his audience and introducing “colored” acts–quite a big deal back then. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/49 "2012-04-19T22:54:51Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > I have this image in my head of his family & loved ones gathered round his bed in his final moments chanting “Ten…nine…eight…seven…(etc.)” I predict a lot of editorial cartoons showing a disco ball forlorn on the ground in a darkened Times Square. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/50 "2012-04-19T23:02:34Z")
If New Year’s survived Guy Lombardo’s death, I think it will survive this. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/51 "2012-04-20T13:51:20Z")
Guess we can’t ring in the New Year anymore. Well played, Mayans, well played. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/52 "2012-04-20T14:20:18Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Used to watch him after school on American Bandstand. You went to school on Saturdays? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/53 "2012-04-20T15:06:08Z")
> [@randwill](#): > > You went to school on Saturdays? [American Bandstand](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bandstand) > [@](#): > > …The Saturday show would run until 1960. > > \*\*The program was broadcast live, weekday afternoons. \*\*In the fall of 1961, ABC truncated American Bandstand’s airtime from 90 to 60 minutes (4:00–5:00pm ET), then even further as a \*\*daily half-hour (4:00–4:30pm ET) program in September 1962; beginning in early 1963, all five shows for the upcoming week were videotaped the preceding Saturday… (bolding mine – I used to watch it weekdays after school, too.) ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/54 "2012-04-20T16:06:05Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > [American Bandstand](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bandstand) (bolding mine – I used to watch it weekdays after school, too.) Ah, I did not know that. Ignorance fought. Your quote might be a little confusing though. “The Saturday show would run until 1960.” refers to The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show, not American Bandstand. Bandstand continued airing every Saturday until 1989. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201.md?page=2)