Wilson of "Home Improvement" passes away

[Norbert]

"Actor Earl Hindman, best known for playing a neighbor whose face was forever obscured by a fence on the television show Home Improvement, died of lung cancer Monday in Stamford, Conn. He was 61.

As Wilson, the neighbor of Tim Allen's character on the long-running sitcom, Hindman dispensed folksy advice from behind a white picket fence, with only his eyes and forehead visible to audiences. Before appearing on the show, he played Detective Lt. Bob Reid for 16 years on the daytime drama Ryan's Hope."

[no_hypocrisy]

1. He was a standout character actor on "Ryan's Hope". He will be missed.

n/t

[moz4prez]

2. oh well

[Dr. Wu]

3. Also the voice on Menards ads

Too bad smokers always have the best voices.

[underpants]

4. Home Depot too

He did the voice over in their ads as well.

What/who is Menards? A regional store?

[displacedtexan]

5. in central illinois

and maybe other places.
we refused to shop there when management refused to allow grade schoolers to bag up sawdust for school art projects (from their trash bins out back) without paying a 'fair price to menard's.'

[underpants]

7. Is it a home improvement type place?

I am assuming so from the fact that they apparently have trash bins of sawdust.

[ikojo]

15. Are you in Springfield, IL?

I grew up there and thankfully escaped in 1987.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Wow! That's A Shame

I know that it's probably a guilty pleasure here at The Lounge that i really liked Home Improvement, but i did. (There, i admitted it!)

That's a shame that a guy who added so much wit and wisdom to that show died so young.
The Professor

[underpants]

8. The sitcom classic of the strange neighbor and unseen character

Norton
Kramer
Wilson

Norm Peterson's wife
Pickles-Maury Amsterdam's unseen wife on the Dick Van Dyke.

[Norbert]

11. Wasn't Larz, Phyllis's husband on Mary Tyler Moore

the same way. I don't recall ever seeing him on the show and he was killed off when Phyllis was spun-off.

And then there is Larry, Daryl and the other brother Daryl on Newhart. The two Daryls never spoke a word until the end of the last episode (one word).

BTW I did see one episode of Dick Van Dyke that showed Pickles a few months back. I've never seen that episode before and it blew me away that she was on it.

[underpants]

14. I forgot about Phyllis the Daryls were of the "weird neighbor" lot

but then all of Newhart's shows have basically been about how weird the seemingly mundane world around him is/was and he gets to play off of that. Same with the Andy Griffith show.

REally Pickles was actually on an episode? I never knew.

[manic]

9. How did they identify the body?

(sorry)

[supernova]

10. Oooohhh you,

Here's your Welcome to DU spanking.

:spank: :D

[jimbo fett]

12. He'll be buried up to his eyes. (Apologies but I couldn't resist)

[DS1]

13. that was such a weird plot device

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[UrbScotty]

16. Oh no. How sad.

Home Improvement was my favorite 1990's TV show.

:-(