{"id":502,"date":"2011-07-12T19:21:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T23:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=502"},"modified":"2011-07-13T20:23:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T00:23:36","slug":"goodbye-and-thanks-sherwood-schawrtz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/07\/goodbye-and-thanks-sherwood-schawrtz.html","title":{"rendered":"Thanks A Bunch For Gilligan&#8217;s Island, Sherwood Schwartz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sherwood Schwartz died Tuesday at the age of 94.<\/p>\n<p>Most people who watch TV show credits run at the end of programs remember him as the creator of <em>The Brady Bunch<\/em> and <em>Gilligan&#8217;s Island<\/em>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ou-FeOoKDq4\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ou-FeOoKDq4<\/a>\n<p>To me, he was practically like family.<\/p>\n<p>Or least his characters were.<\/p>\n<p>In Gilligan, I had a friend more clumsy and awkward around girls than I was.<\/p>\n<p>Gilligan kind of made it cool to be a geek, and that is reason enough to applaud him even as the Skipper smacked him on the head with his hat.<\/p>\n<p>In the Brady&#8217;s I had the perfect family to escape to on the TV set, a little different than the group I grew up with.<\/p>\n<p>No offense to my family, but let&#8217;s just say we were a little, ahem, eclectic.<\/p>\n<p>The stuff those kids got in trouble for&#8230;.HA!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave it at that.<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye Sherwood Schwartz &#8230; and thanks!<\/p>\n<p>follow matt aug http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/mattauge and\/or friend me on facebook.com<br \/>\n\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>For a blog that concentrates specifically on the sports of the day be sure to visit:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.orble.com\/a-sports-life\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherwood Schwartz died Tuesday at the age of 94. 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