FRIDAY HALL OF FAMERS - REUBEN CLARENCE KINCAID

Come on!  Get hapless!

Reuben Kincaid:

Free speech is great,

until it's someone else speaking.
"The Partridge Family"  

After David Cassidy passed away, Toobworld Central inducted the entire Partridge Family into the Television Crossover Hall of Fame as a group in a memorial tribute - not only for Cassidy, but for Suzanne Crough as well who also died in the last few years.

All of the qualifications for the musical group, mostly references in other shows which treated them as being real, should be taken as a whole.  But that doesn't apply to Reuben Kincaid, who actully appeared in several other TV series.

So for this Friday Hall of Famer during this month of January when we celebrate Classic TV, we’re inducting the harriied, hapless manager of the Partridge Family….

Reuben Clarence Kincaid

The Partridge Family

96 episodes

With his mother, Clara Kincaid

With the main four members of the Partridge Family

With Shirley Partridge

With Laurie Partridge 

With Danny Partridge

With Keith Partridge

Had to make sure I included Tracy and Chris!

Married... with Children
"How Green Was My Apple" (1994)
The Manager

From the IMDb:
A borderline war between the neighbors over the rights to a fruit tree, with a lesson to be learned somewhere, if only they would stop fighting.

O’Bservation – The surveyor hired by the Bundys turned out to be Danny Partridge of the Partridge Family, which he strongly denied….

PEG BUNDY:
Hey, are you sure that you aren't....?
THE SURVEYOR:
Yes, I'm sure! I've never been so sure of anything in my entire life!
REUBEN KINCAID:
Let's go. Let's go, Danny. We gotta be in Pittsburgh by midnight! Come on, get happy.

Boy Meets World
"Rave On" (1995)

From the IMDb:
Eric and Cory invite the entire school to a huge rave party at Chubbie's but scramble to make other plans when the rave is the same night as their parents anniversary.  

REUBEN KINCAID:
Excuse me.
I'd just like to tell you that I really liked what I heard.
GORDY:
Oh.
Nah, it was nothing.
We were just messing around.
REUBEN KINCAID:
No, no, no.
You guys really got something.
I mean, believe me.
I know what I'm talking about.
I used to manage a band.
Well, a few years ago.
It's a family group.
Still got the bus we toured in!
JEDIDIAH:
The name sounds familiar.
REUBEN KINCAID:
It sure would be nice to be able to be able to handle an act without a mother in it.
Well, so, call me.
You know, you guys could be bigger than the Beatles.
REGINALD:
Bigger than the Beatles.  Hmmmm….
Gordy, Reginald, and Jedidiah:
Nahhhh!

O'Bservation - The musicians at the anniversary party – Gordy, Reginald, and Jedidiah – were played by 3/4ths of The Monkees [Mickey Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork.]

In those last two episode examples, David Madden is listed as having played “The Manager”.  But it’s O’Bvious that he was Reuben Kincaid.

In 1992, Madden reprised his role of Mr. Kincaid for the very first sketch in the pilot episode of 'The Ben Stiller Show'.  This time he was actually credited as Reuben Kincaid.  

The Ben Stiller Show 
"Pilot" (1992)
Reuben Kincaid

From the IMDb:
“U2: The Early Years” in which Ben Stiller impersonates Bono of U2. Dave Madden plays the Partridge Family's manager Mr. Kinkaid as U2's first manager.

ANNOUNCER:
It's Ben Stiller's Rockumentary: U2, The Early Years.
BONO:
It was difficult when we were starting out.
We had this horrible old manager who didn't understand what our music was about.
REUBEN KINCAID:
I loved those boys like they were my own sons.
They came to me, you know.
Oh, yeah.
BONO:
Mr. Kinkaid used to drive us about in this ramshackled, old, multicolored school bus.  Taking us from gig to gig.
Screaming about how we were gonna make it big in show business.
REUBEN KINCAID:
Yeah, I was full of ideas back then.
BONO:
He wanted to get a little girl to play tambourine with us, but we nixed that one.
REUBEN KINCAID:
With Bono, it was always about "the message." So I gave him a message.
If Joel Wasserstein doesn't have fun at his bar mitzvah you're not getting paid.
Comprende? 
BONO:
Thank you.
Well, I hope you're all having a good time here at Joel's bar mitzvah.
We're all real proud of him.
Look at him, the very vision of manhood.
How about Leo Krumpnik, who made that great gefilte fish sculpture, huh? Everybody taste the gefilte fish sculpture.
It's great.
Okay, Joel, get up here.
Come on up here, Joel.
I hope everybody's ready to dance the hora and the hokey-pokey.
I don't wanna see anybody sitting.
Let's give him a hand.
Joel.
Yeah, today Joel is a man.
Okay, Edge, play the blues! Thank you, Joel! I'll tell you something else.
I'm sick and tired of what's going on in Northern Ireland.
REUBEN KINCAID:
Okay, so it wasn't Carnegie Hall.
You gotta start somewhere.

Reuben Kincaid’s management of U2 happened in Skitlandia, but who knows?  Maybe a more serious version of that chapter in Reuben’s life did play out in the main Toobworld, but Bono would actually BE Bono.

Speaking of alternate Toobworlds….

Over in the Tooniverse, Reuben Kincaid could be found managing the Partridges… in the year 2200 AD, in the same time frame as the Jetsons apparently, but where the mother of the Partridge clan is Connie Partridge.

An added bonus;

It could be that Mr. Kincaid should be considered more than a multidimensional, having appeared in the main Toobworld and in Skitlandia.  He could be seen to be a multiversal.  He was cited in a "Sally Forth" comic strip:

And it's not just the mention, he was seen parodied in another comic, from Mad Magazine:

Welcome to our latest member, Reuben Kincaid, a true multidimensional!

Reuben Kincaid: 

Good day.

Danny: 

It was until now.  

BCnU!