Saturday, February 27, 2010

RIP Andrew Koenig / Boner


This week the body of actor Andrew Koenig was found from an apparent suicide. A sad passing in my world of entertainment because I grew up a huge fan of the tv series Growing Pains, in which Koenig portrayed the dim witted loyal friend to Mike Seaver - Boner. In many ways, Boner was a more identifiable character for me than Mike because Boner was a misfit, an outsider. During my teen years I could certainly recognize that feeling. I'll never forget that episode where Boner decides to join the military and grow up, sending Mike into a fit. This of course has no bearing on Andrew Koenig the person as Boner was a character. It's sad that Koenig suffered from depression despite being accomplished and well liked from the reports I've seen. Hopefully the attention paid to depression in general will bring something positive from Koenig's death.

2 comments:

Arsenette said...

Yeah.. I didn't follow him past growing pains and didn't know he was the son of "Chekov" from Star Trek either. Just sad when someone is so depressed that they'd kill themselves. Was so heart wrenching seeing his parents plead for help when they realized he went missing. I wish no one would ever had to go through that (both sides of that).

Mr. Mike said...

I didn't find out he was Chekov's son until a few years ago, that was a real surprise. I agree that was heart wrenching to see the parents plead for help, very sad.