MONDAY MEMORIAL TVXOHOF TRIBUTE - TED BUCKLAND

Every so often, the Television Crossover Hall of Fame has the sad duty of conducting an induction ceremony in the memory of a Toobworld character who has passed away before the Hall was ready to welcome them.

For the most part they have met the qualifications, although there are those times in which the rules are tweaked because the character and/or actor held special meaning for Yours Viewly.

But this is a case in which the new member has met those requirements; sadly, we just kept putting his membership on a back burner.

I am speaking of…

TED BUCKLAND

From Wikipedia:

Sam Lloyd Jr. (November 12, 1963 – April 30, 2020) was an American actor, singer, and musician, best known for his portrayal of lawyer Ted Buckland on the comedy-drama series ‘Scrubs’ and the sitcom ‘Cougar Town’.

Lloyd was born in Weston, Vermont, on November 12, 1963. He was the nephew of “Back to the Future” star Christopher Lloyd, and his father, Sam Lloyd, was also an actor.

Lloyd was an accomplished singer with the a cappella group The Blanks, who made many appearances on ‘Scrubs’ under the name The Worthless Peons (also known as Ted's Band).

In January 2019, Lloyd was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, which was subsequently revealed to be metastatic lung cancer that had spread to his liver, spine, and jaw.

He died on April 30, 2020, in Los Angeles at the age of 56.  

Here are the qualifications for Ted Buckland’s membership in the TVXOHOF:

2001-2009
Scrubs
95 episodes

2009
Scrubs: Interns
- Legal Custodians Outakes (2009)
- Our Meeting with the Brain Trust (2009)
- Screw You with Ted and the Gooch (2009)

2011-2012
Cougar Town
- A One Story Town (2012)
- Something Good Coming: Part 1 (2011)
- Something Good Coming: Part 2 (2011)

Good night and may God bless, Sam Lloyd.  May your son Weston grow up hearing only good memories about you, and that all those hours of your acting immortalized in film and television give him some sense of how talented you were.

In the meantime, welcome to the Hall, Ted Buckland.  Oddly enough, you may be the only member of the ‘Scrubs’ dramatis personae who ever makes into the TVXOHOF.