# Squiggy is no more **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [December 5, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squiggy-is-no-more/927333 "2020-12-05T22:10:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squiggy-is-no-more/927333/1 "2020-12-05T22:10:51Z")
David Lander has passed away at age 73. Complications from MS. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squiggy-is-no-more/927333/2 "2020-12-05T22:19:58Z")
I love these bit of trivia: Baseball fanatic and student of the game, he helped the young [Bill James](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1174801?ref_=nmbio_trv_2) with his first Baseball Abstract in 1977. Hired by former Angels GM Bill Bavasi as a scout for Seattle Mariners. [April 2004] Penny Marshall called him up when directing **[A League of Their Own](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104694/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_67)** for some baseball informtion. She ended up bringing him in as a consultant and then casted him as the Radio Sportscaster. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squiggy-is-no-more/927333/3 "2020-12-05T22:23:15Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > …and then casted him as the Radio Sportscaster. Where he saw enough to know he saw too much. Always laugh at that line. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squiggy-is-no-more/927333/4 "2020-12-05T22:45:18Z")
It’s a shame. He was opening doors to apartments unexpectedly decades before Cosmo Kramer. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squiggy-is-no-more/927333/5 "2020-12-05T22:49:20Z")
And saying “Hello!” decades before Uncle Leo. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squiggy-is-no-more/927333/6 "2020-12-05T23:03:39Z")
My favorite bit: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HLTx5ZwJiS0/hqdefault.jpg "Lenny and the Squigtones - Night after Night") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLTx5ZwJiS0) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squiggy-is-no-more/927333/7 "2020-12-06T00:53:28Z")
I always loved his comedy. One of my favorite bits: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7BmTYpVtICE/maxresdefault.jpg "The Credibility Gap - The Rock Festival (Who's On First?)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmTYpVtICE) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squiggy-is-no-more/927333/8 "2020-12-06T01:02:55Z")
[Look out, Marshall Lucky. It’s High Prices.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081698/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squiggy-is-no-more/927333/9 "2020-12-06T01:13:11Z")
“Jesus Palomino!” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squiggy-is-no-more/927333/10 "2020-12-06T01:15:47Z")
Godspeed, Squiggy. I, too, had not realized that he was so involved in baseball – that’s really cool. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squiggy-is-no-more/927333/11 "2020-12-06T01:34:43Z")
You know he just said “fuck”? That’s an FCC violation. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squiggy-is-no-more/927333/12 "2020-12-06T02:27:11Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Godspeed, Squiggy. I, too, had not realized that he was so involved in baseball – that’s really cool. Thirded (given **W.E**.'s nod). As long as he wasn’t one of those _Stato-o-Matic nerds_. 🙂 I don’t why, when I was kid, I’d always imagine that if Doug from Doug and the Slugs was ever replaced, it would be by David. Which is props, btw. You can totally picture Lander belting out “Too Bad”. Not that I watched the show a whole lot, but you’d think I’d know about [Squiggy’s “Hello” thing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGLDZyY6ubA) - of which I had no clue, and would like to thank this thread for fighting my ignorance on this. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squiggy-is-no-more/927333/13 "2020-12-06T02:29:54Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > As long as he wasn’t one of those _Stato-o-Matic nerds_ . Hey, now… 😃 ---
**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:** [December 7, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squiggy-is-no-more/927333/14 "2020-12-07T22:36:13Z")
Ah, man. I remember an episode where someone (probably Laverne) called Lenny and Squiggy a couple of knuckleheads. Squiggy got an offended and hurt look on his face and said something like “Knuckleheads. . .? Well okay, maybe we **are** knuckleheads; but we’re the **best** knuckleheads you ever saw!”