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His book is a very moving read 😢

I love them, they are the perfect duo... I can't help but think of them as a couple in real life lol they must've at least been best friends

RIP Martin Mull

WHO cares about 'ratings' bcuz it was a GREAT show and brilliant comedy!

Took me a minute. But that's funny. Ty

Same here! Lenny & Squiggy/David and Michael have meant a lot to me for a long time, and I'll be posting more on this channel asap. ❤ Hit me up anytime (@Squigenny on Twitter).

​@Squigenny Both were always super nice people in real life too. David Lander did an episode of Highway To Heaven that starred Lorne Greene in it. Everytime he spoke I kept expecting Lenny to come in.

I've found old sources claiming that the reason they go by Denny and Ant'ny here had something to do with network objections to Lenny and Squiggy appearing on the show, take this with a grain of salt but it would be in their wheelhouse to turn around and simply change names. In press interviews the boys generally stuck by the line of "we're real, McKean and Lander are our agents, Penny and Cindy are actors" (then switched back and forth between in and out of character, successfully confusing whoever was doing the interviewing).

​@@Squigenny That's actually supported by dialogue within this clip. The host expresses concern when Lander says "call me Squiggy" and when Lander doesn't care, the host decides not to care either. I don't have the timestamp, but it's in there somewhere. I'm interested to know what the old sources are, since I've also done a bit of research into them enough to know that this clip was an urban legend amongst dilapidated sitcom forums until it surfaced on your channel! Heck, even the American Bandstand interview disappeared for about a year! Where did you find this interview? I filled in a bit of the band history in this article a few years back. It's a little messy but does indeed contain the band members and their characters: fakebands.com/wiki/index.php?title=Lenny_and_the_Squigtones although I will point out that contrary to Michael McKean's testimony and a few online sources, Andy Haban the bassist (circa bandstand and L&S) clearly says his name is "Dominic Baloo" and not "Balloon".

@@nimblenavigator9520 I know exactly where that comes up in this clip, good ear. One clipping I have up, I'm knee deep in newspaper archives atm: twitter.com/Squigenny/status/1380172889459204096?s=19

@@Squigenny I have to admire your efforts in archival. As cheesy and mindless as these shows were (or became), and as much as I'm tempted to judge and criticize them, they're immensely fascinating time capsules that I find myself enjoying unironically anyway. I don't know quite how to square that mentally, but the fact is for whatever reason I too have catalogued random Squigtone trivia in my time. Having dug a bit, and having seen your channel years ago, I'm intrigued that you've dug and found more information and clips where my search had ended.

DL had his character of Suiggy down, but he didn't want have the comic repertoire that RW had. I've seen them both perform live, and been in their presence within arm's distance. Like night and day. Michael McKean is the musical one, great singer songwriter.

Worth noting that the Tom Snyder shtick went back even further (and that Harry was on the writing staff for America 2-Night)! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qJabgsaBlciZfH0.htmlsi=7mPMO3wZ_w2G_eYn

Fantastic cat names

He did his " Elvis" on SNL

Specifically Fred Willard appears in season one of L&S, "Dog Day Blind Dates". He also appears very briefly in season two's "Good Time Girls".

Fred Willard appeared on everything.

They may have had to change the name a bit for the show

On L&S, I believe it was. 😂

It was a parody. One of the great parodies of all time. 5 days a week.

I was a strange kid, b/c I decorated my bedroom like their studio when I was little, I always loved the props for some reason

I think they auctioned it off in the series finale, a telethon to save the network. This and fernwood were insane shows. Norman lear could do no wrong at the time. This was just a whim of an idea and it found the right audience. I think they bussed in seniors from retirement homes for the audience during tapings.