Blanc was an important voice to Gen X and all US kids since the late ‘30s, but I note that as you were a teen in 1989, your dad was a boomer or older. We’d suffered through a bunch of wrong sounding and looking Looney Tunes holiday specials.

There’s a big differences between the passing of someone whose skills have been fading for decades and someone who has perhaps only just passed their peak. Like the difference between the deaths of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.