Hey gang,
Did you ever notice how poor Willie is the recipient of
so many thrashings on the show? I mean, after appearing in only a few episodes, Willie gets his lights punched out by alpha-male Burke Devlin in the Blue Whale (much to proprietor Bob the Bartender's "great" chagrin).
Of course, Willie
really got the stuffing beaten out of him, when an enraged Barnabas took his cane to Willie's carcass one night. Oh, the pain and those seemingly permanent black-and-blue marks!
And in an example of "With Friends Like These...." how despicable was it, when Willie's former "buddy," Jason McGuire, punk-slapped woeful Willie only a few days after Mr. B. had cudgeled his maladroit manservant within an inch of his life?
Oh, poor Willie's shellackings seemed to go on and on as the jealous Joe Haskell once pummeled Maggie Evans' unrequited love, and the assertive man/child Adam almost crushed Willie's cranium as badly as the late, "lamented" Phil Leotardo had
his cocoanut crushed by that errant SUV!
I
do hope that Barnabas kept up with Willie's Blus Cross/Blue Shield payments.
Bob the Bartender, who believes, like the ethereally beautiful Bathis Mapes was wont to say: "Make love, not war."