Fish: "It's a good thing I got bad feet. The way they feel right now, if I had good feet, I'd be worried." 🤣 Watch some of Fish's best moments on #BarneyMiller.
You just can't pick a favorite one liner from Fish... My personal favorite is: "You'll never open that window. They nailed it down in 1932. On the day this building was condemned."
I know exactly what you mean. The guy NEVER looked any older no matter how much time passed. I remember being shocked when I was told about a website called Abe Vigoda deathwatch. People would place bets on predicting when he would die.
I spent 15 years in law enforcement, I worked with two guys, both close to their retirement who had the exact same personality as Fish. One was my training officer, and another was an officer who had 30 years in right about when I got started but kept working. The sarcasm and wit among the two of them were legendary.
"You'd be amazed how much water an old structure can hold." "Hey it can't be turned on it's not doing anything!" "My very words to Bernice..." *INSERT HARRIS AND WENTWORTH LOOKING AT FISH IN UTTER DISBELIEF* 😂😂😂 I don't care if he betrayed Michael in The Godfather, I will always remember Abe Vigoda as Philip K. Fish and his hilarious one liners and comedic dead pan facial expressions.
Fish was awesome, he was gruff, but talking about his love, bernice made you realize cops were people too, at the time cops had a very bad reputation as bullies, I really think they helped humanize being in law enforcement.
Probably my favorite Fish moment was when he saved the precinct from a bomb, and placed the bomb is a safe where it detonated. The good news was that Fish saved the precinct, the bad news was that he inadvertently destroyed $50 thousand in bills.
Just watched the episode where his sock kept falling down to his ankle. Phil K. Fish was my favorite. But all the characters had their moments. It was funny throughout the series run, how on occasion you'd have a character not make an appearance for a couple of stints. They'd explain it away as their being on assignment or something. I think the writers were balancing out each character's input.
Died? He got spun off into a retirement sitcom imaginatively titled _FISH operating a group home for juvenile miscreants..."How would you like to have YOUR buns toasted... CRISP!?!"
Abe Vigoda was only 56 when he left Barney Miller. He played 7 years older on the show, and looked it. His character was hilarious, but even the dour-faced punchlines got old after a while. I couldn't stand the character of "Bernice", nor did I like his spinoff series. Vigoda lived to 94. Nice life.
