RIP Joanie
April 23, 2017 4:33 PM Subscribe
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posted by Joey Michaels at 5:29 PM on April 23, 2017
posted by Joey Michaels at 5:29 PM on April 23, 2017
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Not much info available. I hope she's at peace now.
posted by Melismata at 6:32 PM on April 23, 2017 [2 favorites]
Not much info available. I hope she's at peace now.
posted by Melismata at 6:32 PM on April 23, 2017 [2 favorites]
Yeah, I know what you mean, the few details I've read aren't pretty. She was so much a part of our childhoods if you are of a certain age.
posted by jonmc at 6:35 PM on April 23, 2017 [6 favorites]
posted by jonmc at 6:35 PM on April 23, 2017 [6 favorites]
This news made me think back to watching the Happy Days 30th anniversary special in 2005. ABC got Gary Marshall and the whole cast back together in the Arnold's diner set. There were two things from that event I remember well. The first is that Gary Marshall didn't understand what 'Jumping the Shark' actually meant. The second was how terribly uncomfortable Erin Moran was to be there. Seriously, she was crying.
I don't know more about her than what I read in obituaries, but I hope she managed to get herself in a better place.
posted by riruro at 6:55 PM on April 23, 2017 [6 favorites]
I don't know more about her than what I read in obituaries, but I hope she managed to get herself in a better place.
posted by riruro at 6:55 PM on April 23, 2017 [6 favorites]
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posted by Bringer Tom at 7:40 PM on April 23, 2017
posted by Bringer Tom at 7:40 PM on April 23, 2017
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posted by anothermug at 7:44 PM on April 23, 2017
posted by anothermug at 7:44 PM on April 23, 2017
This is the second time this month where I have actually thought, "oh man, I feel like I should say something about this on MetaFilter, but I will wait and see if jonmc does it instead, because he really should". Thank you, jon.
. for poor Erin.
posted by yhbc at 7:51 PM on April 23, 2017 [4 favorites]
. for poor Erin.
posted by yhbc at 7:51 PM on April 23, 2017 [4 favorites]
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posted by Fibognocchi at 8:08 PM on April 23, 2017
posted by Fibognocchi at 8:08 PM on April 23, 2017
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posted by gryphonlover at 8:22 PM on April 23, 2017
posted by gryphonlover at 8:22 PM on April 23, 2017
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posted by Two unicycles and some duct tape at 8:25 PM on April 23, 2017
posted by Two unicycles and some duct tape at 8:25 PM on April 23, 2017
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posted by Halloween Jack at 8:50 PM on April 23, 2017
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:50 PM on April 23, 2017
True story: Erin Moran, as Joanie, was the first person to say the word nerd on television.
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posted by mochapickle at 9:35 PM on April 23, 2017 [8 favorites]
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posted by mochapickle at 9:35 PM on April 23, 2017 [8 favorites]
See ya, Shortcake.
posted by unliteral at 11:01 PM on April 23, 2017 [10 favorites]
posted by unliteral at 11:01 PM on April 23, 2017 [10 favorites]
Pre-popularity Joanie was one of the great wisecracking TV characters.
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posted by rhizome at 2:15 AM on April 24, 2017 [6 favorites]
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posted by rhizome at 2:15 AM on April 24, 2017 [6 favorites]
I had no idea she was living here in Indiana.
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posted by Thorzdad at 5:24 AM on April 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
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posted by Thorzdad at 5:24 AM on April 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
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posted by SonInLawOfSam at 6:26 AM on April 24, 2017
posted by SonInLawOfSam at 6:26 AM on April 24, 2017
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posted by Katjusa Roquette at 8:25 AM on April 24, 2017
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 8:25 AM on April 24, 2017
I feel like Joanie was Aubrey Plaza's attitudinal godmother. Always liked her character.
aav.
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posted by the sobsister at 8:47 AM on April 24, 2017 [4 favorites]
aav.
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posted by the sobsister at 8:47 AM on April 24, 2017 [4 favorites]
I'm having some difficulty stomaching Baio's "tribute" to Moran given his attitude towards her back when she was alive and struggling.
posted by orange swan at 8:54 AM on April 24, 2017 [8 favorites]
posted by orange swan at 8:54 AM on April 24, 2017 [8 favorites]
l really have fond memories of watching Happy Days back n the 70s; the cast really worked well together. Sorry to hear that Ms. Moran hadn't been doing well since then. She really seemed to just disappear. Good for Henry Winkler for trying to help her out.
I never liked Chachi anyway. He seemed like someone from a later era that was brought in in a desperate attempt to freshen up the show.
posted by TedW at 9:43 AM on April 24, 2017
I never liked Chachi anyway. He seemed like someone from a later era that was brought in in a desperate attempt to freshen up the show.
posted by TedW at 9:43 AM on April 24, 2017
I'm having some difficulty stomaching Baio's "tribute" to Moran given his attitude towards her back when she was alive and struggling
It's quite possible he was just feeling defensive about being pursued by some hack about an old colleague who'd fallen on hard times, and felt like he had to give some justification for his desire not to comment.
Maybe he's a monster, maybe he just said something that could be interpreted as callous. I don't know. I do know that life is far too short to spend it judging the unknowable shortcomings of people we haven't even met.
posted by howfar at 10:59 AM on April 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
It's quite possible he was just feeling defensive about being pursued by some hack about an old colleague who'd fallen on hard times, and felt like he had to give some justification for his desire not to comment.
Maybe he's a monster, maybe he just said something that could be interpreted as callous. I don't know. I do know that life is far too short to spend it judging the unknowable shortcomings of people we haven't even met.
posted by howfar at 10:59 AM on April 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
I'm not the biggest fan of Chach these days, but given entertainment journalism he may have been making his statement without any (or hardly any) context. Have you seen the questions that TMZ barks out at celebrities? I can imagine, "Hey Scott, Erin hasn't worked in awhile. How do you feel about that?" as he's walking out of a restaurant for his daughter's Xth birthday or something.
posted by rhizome at 11:18 AM on April 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by rhizome at 11:18 AM on April 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
He seemed like someone from a later era that was brought in in a desperate attempt to freshen up the show.
Which totally worked ratings-wise, for a few years.
posted by Melismata at 11:56 AM on April 24, 2017
Which totally worked ratings-wise, for a few years.
posted by Melismata at 11:56 AM on April 24, 2017
Scott Baio is a moron:
“I’m OK, a little shocked but not completely shocked that this happened. My thing is, I feel bad because her whole life, she was troubled, could never find what made her happy and content. For me, you do drugs or drink, you’re gonna die. I’m sorry if that’s cold, but God gave you a brain, gave you the will to live and thrive and you gotta take care of yourself.”But then there's this :
Monday morning, the Harrison County Coroner’s Office and Sheriff’s Department issued a joint statement saying Moran passed due to complications with her stage 4 cancer. The statement added there were no illegal narcotics found at the scen.posted by Pogo_Fuzzybutt at 12:31 PM on April 24, 2017 [6 favorites]
The thing I remember is the optics of the opening montage of the first show aired. The was a quick flash of Ms. Moran wearing mouseketeer ears. She was the perfect image of a genuine 50's child, 50's in a way that all the other characters were only sketched-in pastiches of.
posted by Chitownfats at 1:23 PM on April 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Chitownfats at 1:23 PM on April 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
“How do you help somebody that doesn’t want to help themselves? You try a couple of times and if they don’t want the help, I gotta go, sorry.”
Wow.
Granted, there's a lot that we don't know about this story, and it's not up to Scott to have saved Erin, but that's a pretty callous lack of compassion for someone who was in the exact same position he was in life (and the only other person who was), and there but for the Grace of God goes Scott Baio.
posted by Capt. Renault at 2:33 PM on April 24, 2017
Wow.
Granted, there's a lot that we don't know about this story, and it's not up to Scott to have saved Erin, but that's a pretty callous lack of compassion for someone who was in the exact same position he was in life (and the only other person who was), and there but for the Grace of God goes Scott Baio.
posted by Capt. Renault at 2:33 PM on April 24, 2017
I’m sorry if that’s cold, but God gave you a brain, gave you the will to live and thrive and you gotta take care of yourself.”
What you could have said was nothing, you asshole.
posted by A Terrible Llama at 4:27 PM on April 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
What you could have said was nothing, you asshole.
posted by A Terrible Llama at 4:27 PM on April 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
There's nothing bad that Scott Baio can't make worse.
. for Erin Moran. I'm sorry she never quite found her place in the world while she was here. I hope she's at peace now.
posted by the return of the thin white sock at 5:09 PM on April 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
. for Erin Moran. I'm sorry she never quite found her place in the world while she was here. I hope she's at peace now.
posted by the return of the thin white sock at 5:09 PM on April 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
When someone says the words, 'I'm sorry that's cold', they never are.
posted by A Terrible Llama at 6:08 PM on April 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by A Terrible Llama at 6:08 PM on April 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
#sorrynotsorry in the wild.
posted by rhizome at 6:49 PM on April 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by rhizome at 6:49 PM on April 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
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posted by On the Corner at 2:24 AM on April 25, 2017
posted by On the Corner at 2:24 AM on April 25, 2017
Scott Baio's wife's Twitter handle is @mrsscottbaio. So I am utterly unsurprised that he spoke of his ex so callously, because, women, amirite?
Fuck cancer.
posted by Ruki at 1:17 AM on April 26, 2017
Fuck cancer.
posted by Ruki at 1:17 AM on April 26, 2017
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