The Fabulous Paul Lynde

While watching Charlotte's Web with Annalisa the other night I was reminded of the late, great Paul Lynde, who voiced the gluttonous rat Templeton. I came across that page which has tons of quotes from his long run on Hollywood Squares. My favorites are:

Peter Marshall: When Richard Nixon was Vice-President, he went someplace on a "good will mission," but instead wound up being stoned and shouted at. Where did this take place?

Paul Lynde: Pat's room.

Peter Marshall: Where does most of the olive oil in the world come from?

Paul Lynde: Caesar Romero’s comb.

Zing! If only the character Roger from American Dad (whose voice is an impression of Lynde's) could be half as funny. I think Seth MacFarlane gets a lot of mileage out of today's college kids not knowing where a lot of material and voices are taken from. Seeing people on the Internet making up explanations for references they don't know the first thing about irks me. I once saw a forum member magisterially claim that Benjamin Disraeli was a U.S. Senator. Well, at least they properly placed him in the political sphere.

And don't even get me started on how derivative American Dad is.