It's a blogrony (that's what we call irony on the blogosphere) that on the rare day when BlogPulse's most blogged-about person is real, for a change — President Bush instead of one Mr. H. Potter, D.D.S. — the burstiest person is a TV character. Maynard G. Krebs, to be precise, the goateed arch-beatnik who showed Americans that members of their counterculture were lazy bums who screamed whenever anybody said the word "work" in their presence. Bob Denver, the gangly actor who portrayed Krebs, and perhaps more famously, the goofy mate Gilligan of the SS Minnow, is not named in our Key People today, perhaps tellingly: Americans knew him through his hilarious TV shows, but little about him personally. He died last Friday, and bloggers, just like everybody else, are morose. Or worse: "GILLIGAN, NOOO!!" mourned Lord Xorus, chairman of the House Select Subcommitte on Evil . The wags at metafilter are running the gamut of tv references in their memorials, including this one: "He finally got off the island." And American Digest signs off a post with this eulogy for the beatnik Krebs: "May the Bongos of God serenade you to your sleep."

Category: On The Telly