BREAKING NEWS: Incredibly Old Man Dead

Sherwood Schwartz, who gave us the fantasy of the Madonna and the Whore trapped on an island together, was inexplicably still alive, until earlier today.

 Sherwood Schwartz, who created “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Brady Bunch,” two of the most affectionately ridiculed and enduring television sitcoms of the 1960s and ’70s, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 94.

Mr. Schwartz weathered painfully dismissive reviews to see his shows prosper and live on for decades in syndication. Many critics suggested that they were successful because they ran counter to the tumultuous times in which they appeared: the era of the Vietnam War and sweeping social change.   

That Cindy Brady turned out to be disappointing, no?  Who had "Linebacker" in her future?