Abe Vigoda

The Barney Miller episode where Fish eats the pot brownies and is suddenly running down criminals on rooftops is classic.

 

Hey, Chris, you and I are up to 10 things we agree on now.

Barney: Harris, go home and stay there until you feel better.
Harris: I'll go home but I ain't never gonna feel better.
And, lest we forget Jack Soo:

"Barney, Barney, Barney, was your mother from Killarney?"

 

Barney: How many of those did you have?

Jack Soo: [uses his finger to indicate Barney should come closer and then whispers] Mushi, mushi, mushi.

 

If I'm not mistaken, Wojo also ate the brownies. I believe his girl made it for them.

 

I remember that Todd Bridges, pre-Diff'rent Strokes, played one of the foster kids.

And my favourite Jack Soo moment came when someone complained that Yemana was squinting at him. Yemana says, "that wasn't squinting. This" -- his facial expression does not change -- "is squinting." ;D

 

That was when ABC was kicking everyone's ass. Now, everyone is kicking ABC's ass.

 

Concur. And it's the only funny sitcom bit in television history that makes my mother, whenever it gets mentioned, laugh so hard she starts to cry. She otherwise has absolutely no sense of humor.

You have to be there.

 

You know I got rhymes like him.

 

Abe was on Conan last night.

 

Well, not everyone. As of Feb. 2007, ABC is still kicking the asses of NBC and CW, while having their's kicked by CBS and FOX, respectively.

 

The only thing I know about this man is he was name-dropped in a Liz Phair song.

 

His name's also dropped in a Beastie Boys song.