# Tom Laughlin (Billy Jack) died. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-laughlin-billy-jack-died/676431 "2013-12-16T01:58:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-laughlin-billy-jack-died/676431/21 "2013-12-16T19:51:50Z")
First, Peter O’Toole and now Tom Laughlin. The 60s just died. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-laughlin-billy-jack-died/676431/22 "2013-12-16T20:51:24Z")
Creator of some really, really awful movies. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-laughlin-billy-jack-died/676431/23 "2013-12-16T20:59:29Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > one tin soldier rides away… And there’s not a damn thing we can do about it. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-laughlin-billy-jack-died/676431/24 "2013-12-16T23:35:38Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I’ve never seen _Billy Jack Goes to Washington_ but I’ve always wondered how they explained a man with BJ’s criminal record and enemies being appointed to a senate seat. Anybody know? [Jabootu did a review](http://www.jabootu.com/bjw.htm) awhile back, as well as one for it’s predecessor, [The Trial of Billy Jack](http://www.jabootu.com/tobjintro.htm). The reviewers’ politics probably won’t jibe with everyone here—but _Trial_ really _is_ pretty hillariously bad. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-laughlin-billy-jack-died/676431/25 "2013-12-17T09:33:51Z")
Remember when Billy Jack movies seemed to air on primetime network TV six times a year back in the 70s? ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-laughlin-billy-jack-died/676431/26 "2013-12-17T10:09:38Z")
> [@Tethered\_Kite](#): > > I’m going in the kitchen right now and dumping flour on my head to show solidarity. Your idea is the most fitting tribute for a guy who can only be described as > [@Doyle](#): > > creator of some really, really awful movies. The Sat. Night Live parody was great…especially when they say with such deep, deep profundity: “If all the world could be like this ice cream cone, Billy Jack wouldn’t have to kill so many people”. (Explanation for those who don’t know the skit: The ice cream cone has scoops of strawberry,chocolate and vanilla. Get it? It’s really, really profound. See, let me show you how profound Billy Jack really is: The strawberry is…_red_!!! And the vanilla is …_white_!!! And now, for the hard part: the chocolate is brown, but it also represents people who are black.) See, I told you it was deep!!! ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-laughlin-billy-jack-died/676431/27 "2013-12-17T14:45:25Z")
I remember me and younger siblings being taken along by my dad to see Billy Jack in the theater in the early 70s, and feeling somewhat awkward during the rape scene. It wasn’t exactly a family movie like Bambi. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-laughlin-billy-jack-died/676431/28 "2013-12-18T00:08:22Z")
> [@Doyle](#): > > Creator of some really, really awful movies. Yeah, I’d agree. Those movies are unbelievably dated. And squirm-in-your-seat cornball stupid. I mean I saw them on TV as a kid and thought they were awesome, but I was like eight! My favorite show was The Six Million Dollar Man, which was of a similarly awful bent… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-laughlin-billy-jack-died/676431/29 "2013-12-18T01:36:26Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [SNL parody-skit.](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76hbillypaul.phtml) With Paul Simon as Billy Paul. Not the one who sang “Me and Mrs. Jones,” that was the other guy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-laughlin-billy-jack-died/676431.md?page=1)