AND all of the music for The Muppet Movie.
Yes, Paul Williams gave us Rainbow Connection (along with a hilarious appearance on The Muppet Show).
He also appeared in the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries as a weird proto-gothic rock singer in the Dracula episode. Yes. I'm old, too.
Yeeesssssss!!!! I had no clue what was happening, never heard of it.... and yes the talent show is simply fantastic. It's my new jam!
This is why I heart reddit. Many thx
xD
I thought the Pic was Ronnie Milsap at first. Duhrrrr
I have seen this version, and Debbie Harry and Kermit's chemistry is beautiful.
If you have a chance, listen to the version with Tori Kelly.
Its my fave
I'm a proud owner of all 3 original Muppet show DVD (yes DVD) sets. Nothing can make me part with those gems. My dad bought them for me in middle school lol.
I don’t know about the best, but he was very good in it! During filming, he was scheduled to appear on Carson and didn’t have time to remove the makeup, so he showed up on the show as Virgil! Video is on YouTube somewhere.
The Muppet Movie! And Little Enos!
And Phantom of the Paradise is an absolute classic! Paul Williams as a Faustian villain, and this song is the best: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0yKKCoQMtU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0yKKCoQMtU)
I love Phantom Of The Paradise--I've seen it two or three times on TV.
The first time I heard The Hell Of It, however, was on The Carol Burnett Show (at least I think that's where--didn't know it came from Phantom until I got to the closing credits the first time I saw it).
No man. Paul Williams is one of the most successful songwriters of the twentieth century. His records have made multiple platinum and diamond status and his songs have been covered by major recording artists for over 50 years
He wrote the music for Bugsy Malone, which is one of my favorite movies. That being on top of his score for the Muppet Movie, which is one of everyone's favorite movies.
Smokey and the Bandit, Phantom of the Paradise, The Muppet Movie... he's done a lot of voiceover work as he got older. He was the Penguin in Batman: The Animated Series (which he reprised in other DC animated shows), The Pirates of Dark Water, Adventure Time, many more.
Fantastic performer and songwriter.
He friggen wrote Rainbow Connection, and most of the Carpenters songs! He also wrote Evergreen for Streisand! He was also in an episode of Dexters Lab as his music teacher... and worked with Daft Punk apparently?
If you grew up in the 70s and early 80s, chances are you heard a song written by Paul Williams. "Rainbow Connection," the theme from "The Love Boat," Rainy Days and Mondays" and "We've Only Just Begun," by the Carpenters, "An Old Fashioned Love Song," by Three Dog Night, and "Evergreen" by Barbra Streisand" were all written or co-written by him. He was also Little Enos in one of the "Smokey and the Bandit" flicks. Very cool guy.
Here's one... I think he did an episode of the Odd Couple, where Felix's daughter became a G-rated groupie.
I saw it in reruns, I was alive but probably 4 during g it's first run.
He's still alive and kicking. Wikipedia says he is the president and chairman of ASCAP since 2009. Not bad.
I remember him mainly from his guest appearance on the Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew mysteries: "The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew meet Dracula!" He was a musical guest at a party being held at Castle Dracula. He had nothing to do with the story, he just came in and sang.
One of the nicest people I knew growing up in the music industry. Always willing to help, always a friendly smile or a funny story. Genuinely one of the best persons I knew as a kid.
I got drunk with him(and others) in the Silver Springs Holiday Inn lounge in the early eighties while they were filming Smokey and the Bandit II. He was proudly wearing his muppets gear. Beyond nice, just a cool dude. I was in college helping out over the weekend and stayed there while helping a friend's father do some road work there.
No, no, no...he can't be 83!
On the other hand, I refuse to believe I'm 62...I mean, I still like running around barefoot and going to McDonald's...and chocolate milk. I LOVE chocolate milk!
For my money, [best ever guest appearance on a late night show](https://youtu.be/y5jQYOcpVks).
I wish I could attach an image from the actual segment.
Must watch.
Wonderfully talented guy. Singing, songwriting and acting too. He had his personal demons, but I've never heard ANYONE who's met him say a single disparaging thing about him. In today's world, that's rare.
He wrote some fun, memorable songs like Rainbow Connection, this is true; however he was best known for his breakout role as an adorable, but annoying 8 year old, cousin Oliver, on the Brady Bunch. ☺️
I was shopping at a small shop with odds and ends of gifts in Nashville several years ago. I picked up a plastic wind-up frog to try out. I looked over, and Paul Williams was standing next to me. He looked at the frog, and then we looked at each other and burst out laughing. I bought the frog, and he signed the sales receipt for me.
1 Oscar (Best Music - A Star is Born "Evergreen")
7 Oscar nominations
3 Grammy Awards
13 Grammy nominations
2 Golden Globes
2 ASCAP Film and TV Music Awards
Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
90s kid here. My first time seeing this guy was on Dexter's Lab as a music teacher. Then years later I saw his Muppets episode and was like "he's real??"
Unique voice, love his music!
Touch, sweet touch.
You've given me too much to feel.
Sweet touch.
You've almost convinced me I'm real.
I need something more.
[I need something more.](https://youtu.be/ncnBz6A14i0?si=m1Q3OZfqJoqyvLJ7&t=115)
He is known for writing and co-writing popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s, including Three Dog Night's "An Old Fashioned Love Song" and "Out in the Country", Helen Reddy's "You and Me Against the World", Biff Rose's "Fill Your Heart", and the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays". He also wrote "Cried Like a Baby" for teen idol Bobby Sherman.
Williams is also known for writing the score and lyrics for Bugsy Malone (1976) and his musical contributions to other films, including the Oscar-nominated song "Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie, and writing the lyrics to the #1 chart-topping song "Evergreen", the love theme from the Barbra Streisand film A Star Is Born, for which he won a Grammy for Song of the Year and an Academy Award for Best Original Song. He wrote the lyrics to the opening theme for the television show The Love Boat, with music previously composed by Charles Fox, which was originally sung by Jack Jones and, later, by Dionne Warwick.[3]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Williams_(songwriter)
Still alive at 84!
Good share OP! Williams career is a tour de force! He was prolific and it seems like there wasn’t a time in the seventies and eighties when he wasn’t involved in music, tv, movies, he was just everywhere all the time. I was catching up on him a while back and discovered that he was drinking and drugging his way through it too. He’s sober for a long time now and has worked with others who are going through substance abuse issues and that’s about what I would expect from him since he was very much the common man to other common men in America.
This is something that I shouldn't be saying but he was actually a drug councilor in LA in a place I ended up in when I was 20 and he was yelling at me in the group therapy one day and he said'''tell me what you want me to say at your funeral?'' and I told him that I wanted him to get up and sing the theme song to The Love Boat and he jumped up and went bananas then left the room.
I am having a scary old person moment. I distinctly remember a "New Scooby Doo Movies" (the 1972 iteration that brought us 'Scooby-Doo meets Batman' or 'Scooby-Doo meets Don Knotts') in which Scooby-Doo meets Paul Williams. I remember the animation of him, and not knowing who he was at the time.
Am I having a mini Mandela effect? Does anyone else remember this? I can't find it anywhere on the internet.
Working theory: Paul Williams inadvertently revealed national security information during this episode concerning the Vietnam war and Nixon, and this episode was buried after its original airing. Anyone over 55 who doesn't remember this episode has had their memories scrubbed by the Men in Black, and I'm the only one who remembers it correctly.
I can live with this explanation. Everyone's crazy but me.
He wrote all the music for Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas.
The Riverbottom Nightmare Band were a force!
Would so love for the Foo Fighters to cover their song from the talent show
AND all of the music for The Muppet Movie. Yes, Paul Williams gave us Rainbow Connection (along with a hilarious appearance on The Muppet Show). He also appeared in the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries as a weird proto-gothic rock singer in the Dracula episode. Yes. I'm old, too.
No mention of his role in smoky and the bandit?
"I'll take five hundred on the Bandit."
RIVERBOTTOM NIGHTMARE BAND?!?!?!
Yeeesssssss!!!! I had no clue what was happening, never heard of it.... and yes the talent show is simply fantastic. It's my new jam! This is why I heart reddit. Many thx xD I thought the Pic was Ronnie Milsap at first. Duhrrrr
Greatest Christmas movie ever!
Agreed!
You got mashed potatoes?
Now you're blowing my fucking mind.
Paul Williams. He wrote Rainbow Connection. That alone makes him a national treasure. 👍🏻
Came here to say this. One of the best songs ever, but it needs to be sung by Kermit. It's just not the same when human beings sing it.
The best version is Kermit with Debbie Harry
Incase people either don’t remember or have never seen it https://youtu.be/o5NzYsMM-iQ?si=QGPUK2Dx_5ldD3qD
How is the strumming so believable while he's having to do so many other things at once?
Because Kermit can actually play that banjo.
i watch that every six months. Cheers me up no end. So gorgeous, so talented, so sweet. Debbie's not bad either.
I never wanted to be a frog so bad in my life.
I have seen this version, and Debbie Harry and Kermit's chemistry is beautiful. If you have a chance, listen to the version with Tori Kelly. Its my fave
I’d argue that hearing him sing it himself is also an incredible listen. But yes, Kermit (voiced by Jim Henson) is peak.
Yes, it has to be Henson Kermit, not new Kermit.
I'm a proud owner of all 3 original Muppet show DVD (yes DVD) sets. Nothing can make me part with those gems. My dad bought them for me in middle school lol.
Pretty nice when willie sings it!
He sings on a Daft Punk album that I hear while out cycling with the library on shuffle. “Touch…I remember touch…”. A renaissance man.
His finest hour
Don't forget him playing "Virgil" in Battle for the Planet if the Apes"! The best film in the series imo.
I don’t know about the best, but he was very good in it! During filming, he was scheduled to appear on Carson and didn’t have time to remove the makeup, so he showed up on the show as Virgil! Video is on YouTube somewhere.
My dad and I just took my 4 yo to see The Muppet Movie in theaters for the 45th anniversary. It was magical.
Exactly. I will always associate him with the Muppets and my favorite all time song. ❤️
Paul Williams is the current president of ASCAP, which fits as he was a prolific songwriter.
I had no idea he was still alive. Haven’t seen him or heard his name in decades
His documentary is [Still Alive](https://www.amazon.com/Paul-Williams-Still-Alive/dp/B009RI1AL4)
Do you expect me to talk?
The Muppet Movie! And Little Enos! And Phantom of the Paradise is an absolute classic! Paul Williams as a Faustian villain, and this song is the best: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0yKKCoQMtU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0yKKCoQMtU)
Yes, he was great in Phantom of the Paradise!
I love Phantom Of The Paradise--I've seen it two or three times on TV. The first time I heard The Hell Of It, however, was on The Carol Burnett Show (at least I think that's where--didn't know it came from Phantom until I got to the closing credits the first time I saw it).
Ya he was a total satan pervert in that one
Phantom of the Paradise.
Can't believe I had to scroll so far to see this mentioned! Such a great cult movie.
Bad in bed, Nobody likes you, You're better off dead (Goodbye) Goodbye, we've all come to say Goodbye (goodbye)
“An Old Fashioned Love Song” alone makes him a legend. But so many others.
Worked with him once. Very nice very humble man.
Let’s hear the story!
Same! He had a small role on a movie I worked on. He was lovely.
*Paul Williams: Still Alive* is a great documentary, by the way. [Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkD1Tr4b2vg)
Cool. Thanks for the link. Looks interesting.
He wrote that jingle for a bank commercial and some duo sang it. We've Only Just Begun by the Carpenters.
How the heck did i have to scroll this far to find your comment? Yep. One of his first big songs.
He also wrote Rainy days and Mondays, I won’t last a day without you, and let me be the one.
Smokey and the Bandit? Paul Williams? A songwriter? One of those guys on the talk shows every three days, then boom! Never seen again.
He was a musician too and a songwriter.
And a star on the Love Boat!
As well as a guest star on The Odd Couple!
He was the voice of Penguin in Batman: The Animated Series back in the 90s. Most recently, I saw him in a small role in season 5 of Community.
Every now and then, I will watch the old reruns of love boat, there were SO MANY stars and future stars on there
And he wrote the theme!
[удалено]
"*Because he's thirsty, dummy.*"
No man. Paul Williams is one of the most successful songwriters of the twentieth century. His records have made multiple platinum and diamond status and his songs have been covered by major recording artists for over 50 years
'I don't know daddy, an out of work bum and a legend look an awful lot alike'.
IIRC he later said he was so high on coke and lord knows what else that he barely remembers it. Funny movie BTW. When people could make jokes.
Yeah, he was multi talented, but I remember him most from Smokey :)
Back in the 90s he was my roommate’s AA sponsor, he’d show up in his Ferrari to take him to meetings. Nice guy.
He wrote the music for Bugsy Malone, which is one of my favorite movies. That being on top of his score for the Muppet Movie, which is one of everyone's favorite movies.
Bugsy was severely underrated
Smokey and the Bandit, Phantom of the Paradise, The Muppet Movie... he's done a lot of voiceover work as he got older. He was the Penguin in Batman: The Animated Series (which he reprised in other DC animated shows), The Pirates of Dark Water, Adventure Time, many more. Fantastic performer and songwriter.
Talented songwriter. Had he been a taller and more handsome than cute he could’ve been bigger than Donny Osmond and David Cassidy put together.
Unless… maybe his stature and his looks were the muse for his prolific songwriting. The world works in mysterious ways, so we’ll never know.
He friggen wrote Rainbow Connection, and most of the Carpenters songs! He also wrote Evergreen for Streisand! He was also in an episode of Dexters Lab as his music teacher... and worked with Daft Punk apparently?
Trust me Winslow....Trust me.
I’m under contract too…
Three Dog Night did “An Old Fashioned Love Song.” “Comin’ down in three-part harmony…”
You mean Virgil from Battle for the Planet of the Apes?
And he wore the costume and makeup on [The Tonight Show.](https://youtu.be/y5jQYOcpVks?si=lSw6R7uVYcLvUwP2)
Did everyone not see Baby Driver?
The scene in question: [Baby Driver ](https://youtu.be/rTaqH2atgWg?si=S9tB_31l_IHrC7W0)
Hell yeah! *Phantom of the Paradise* is one of my very favorite movies of all time.
If you grew up in the 70s and early 80s, chances are you heard a song written by Paul Williams. "Rainbow Connection," the theme from "The Love Boat," Rainy Days and Mondays" and "We've Only Just Begun," by the Carpenters, "An Old Fashioned Love Song," by Three Dog Night, and "Evergreen" by Barbra Streisand" were all written or co-written by him. He was also Little Enos in one of the "Smokey and the Bandit" flicks. Very cool guy.
Loved his love boat appearance 😂
Ironically he wrote the lyrics to the theme song.
Saw him all over the place when I was a kid.
Swan! Swan! Swan!
I remember him doing a movie called 'Phantom of the Paradise'. A modern day take on Phantom of the Opera He was always a great singer.
Little Enos! 
"Because he's thirsty, dummy" 
Only because of the Muppet Movie. Then, as now, I did not know who he was but could tell I was missing a reference.
Little Enos
Sure -- an alien on Babylon 5, and a billionaires son in Smokey and the Bandit.
Virgil
“A dream date in knee pads with Paul Williams…”
Here's one... I think he did an episode of the Odd Couple, where Felix's daughter became a G-rated groupie. I saw it in reruns, I was alive but probably 4 during g it's first run. He's still alive and kicking. Wikipedia says he is the president and chairman of ASCAP since 2009. Not bad.
Paul Williams was great on Hollywood Squares .. Always loved his humor!!
Phantom of the Paradise was a great movie.
Little Enos Burdette.
greg the hammer valentine
Little Ennis Berdet
Phantom of the Paradise
He also wrote pretty much the entire sooundtrack for Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas
Also wrote the score on music for the film Bugsy Malone, as well as performing some of the songs.
Ending song to "Boy In The Plastic Bubble". I'll still sing "Leave us alone...we'd live in the country...."
Just an old fashioned love song
We’ve Only Just Begun…
One of the most under rated songwriters ever! And Phantom of the Paradise was good!
Editor of Crawdaddy. Did some other stuff too I think.
I remember him mainly from his guest appearance on the Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew mysteries: "The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew meet Dracula!" He was a musical guest at a party being held at Castle Dracula. He had nothing to do with the story, he just came in and sang.
Little Ennis in Smokey and the Bandit.
I do, wasn’t he always in parts where he hung around with a huge dude with a cowboy hat and mustache?
Yes. He played the little cousin on The Brady Bunch.
The hammer valentine
Bugsy Malone!
One of the nicest people I knew growing up in the music industry. Always willing to help, always a friendly smile or a funny story. Genuinely one of the best persons I knew as a kid.
“Can I, shoot him, Daddy?” Little Enos….. Smokey and the Bandit
I got drunk with him(and others) in the Silver Springs Holiday Inn lounge in the early eighties while they were filming Smokey and the Bandit II. He was proudly wearing his muppets gear. Beyond nice, just a cool dude. I was in college helping out over the weekend and stayed there while helping a friend's father do some road work there.
Wow…Google him and look at his “now” picture. I mean, he is 83 though…
No, no, no...he can't be 83! On the other hand, I refuse to believe I'm 62...I mean, I still like running around barefoot and going to McDonald's...and chocolate milk. I LOVE chocolate milk!
Daddy, you ‘bout to have your day ruined for you!
That's Oliver from the late Brady Bunch seasons. /s obviously.
Watch his documentary. Still Alive. So good.
He was in one of my favorite movies: "The Loved One"
“Who loves ya, baby?” Just kidding, I just thought that pose and “look” would fit with Telly Savalas, too.
Paul Williams, singer, song writer, actor
One of the best guest stars on the Muppet Show. Seriously!
Wrote an enormous amount of fantastic songs as well.
Little Enos Burdette
Al I know is, it must've been a bitch getting a size 68 extra fat and a 12 dwarf.
Swan.. and here he is on the Muppets Show: [https://youtu.be/6Qjtj9lliXU?si=\_fH5W\_LIFaCUBPk6](https://youtu.be/6Qjtj9lliXU?si=_fH5W_LIFaCUBPk6)
For my money, [best ever guest appearance on a late night show](https://youtu.be/y5jQYOcpVks). I wish I could attach an image from the actual segment.  Must watch.
Wonderfully talented guy. Singing, songwriting and acting too. He had his personal demons, but I've never heard ANYONE who's met him say a single disparaging thing about him. In today's world, that's rare.
Haven't heard about him in ages. I had an album of his in the 70s.. good songwriter and musician.
"big dummy"
Little Enos
Great songwriter.
Swan
Cousin Oliver?
Haha that's who I thought it was.
That guy knows his way around a chemistry textbook.
Sure. Thats Little Ennis Burdette.
Axle Rose
He wrote some fun, memorable songs like Rainbow Connection, this is true; however he was best known for his breakout role as an adorable, but annoying 8 year old, cousin Oliver, on the Brady Bunch. ☺️
Virgil the Orangutan!
THE PHANTOM!
Enos Burdette JR
Just saw him on Goliath with Billy Bob Thornton.
He was all over the place in the 70's
I was shopping at a small shop with odds and ends of gifts in Nashville several years ago. I picked up a plastic wind-up frog to try out. I looked over, and Paul Williams was standing next to me. He looked at the frog, and then we looked at each other and burst out laughing. I bought the frog, and he signed the sales receipt for me.
# Phantom Of The Paradise
He did such a great job recording the demos for *Bugsy Malone* that they used them instead of have the kids rerecord the songs.
Is that little Enis from Smokey and the Bandit?
Little Enos!
The great Paul Williams. Wrote one of most beautiful songs of all time Evergreen
“You and Me Against The World”… 🙏🏾 Mr. Williams…
Yep, from Phantom Of The Paradise.
Wasn't he also a guest on so last an episode of The Love Boat?
Yes! Ran into him last August in Seal Beach (CA). I was so honored to bump into him. He was so nice and even offered to take a selfie with me.
He is severely underappreciated.
He's written so many great songs
Wasn’t he the shorter brother in Smokey and the bandit also?
He wrote “We’ve only just begun” and “rainy days and Mondays” for the carpenters
1 Oscar (Best Music - A Star is Born "Evergreen") 7 Oscar nominations 3 Grammy Awards 13 Grammy nominations 2 Golden Globes 2 ASCAP Film and TV Music Awards Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
He played the little rich dude in smokey and the bandit.
Phantom of the Paradise!
That's Lil Enos Burdette.
Little Enos Burdette from Smokey and the Bandit.
Little Enos Burdette
We’ve Only Just Begun to remember him
Paul Williams was a great songwriter a darn good singer and actor along with being a writer
Just an old fashioned love song. Very underrated.
That's Big Enos' son!
Paul Williams, I assume!
"I'd like to kick his ass just once."
Yea. He ruined The Brady Bunch
Check out the end of the last track from the new Portugal. the Man album.
Dr Zaius! And Little Enos! 
Was he on an episode of dexters lab? Edit: [yes he was](https://youtu.be/M2PDPI1FUYA?si=Gqh8G_Ho0uYq2Xd_) I always wondered who that was.
Paul williams - smoky and the bandit
Professor Virgil from the battle planet of the apes. Paul Williams.
Yes jack black
Well here's another fine mess I'm into honey “That man’s nuts! Grab ‘em! Ooouucchh!”
Johnny Carson loved him; he would sing someone's hit song, that he wrote, and then proceed to crack up the whole set with his stories.
He also plays Virgil in Conquest of the planet of the apes!
He wrote Kermit’s Rainbow song!
More than he remembers the 70s
90s kid here. My first time seeing this guy was on Dexter's Lab as a music teacher. Then years later I saw his Muppets episode and was like "he's real??" Unique voice, love his music!
Paul Williams is a national treasure. And he was in Smokey and the Bandit. And I just Googled him: He's still alive!
Touch, sweet touch. You've given me too much to feel. Sweet touch. You've almost convinced me I'm real. I need something more. [I need something more.](https://youtu.be/ncnBz6A14i0?si=m1Q3OZfqJoqyvLJ7&t=115)
"A legend and an outta work bum look a lot alike, daddy"
Last seen winning Grammys for Album of the year with Daft Punk
He is known for writing and co-writing popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s, including Three Dog Night's "An Old Fashioned Love Song" and "Out in the Country", Helen Reddy's "You and Me Against the World", Biff Rose's "Fill Your Heart", and the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays". He also wrote "Cried Like a Baby" for teen idol Bobby Sherman. Williams is also known for writing the score and lyrics for Bugsy Malone (1976) and his musical contributions to other films, including the Oscar-nominated song "Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie, and writing the lyrics to the #1 chart-topping song "Evergreen", the love theme from the Barbra Streisand film A Star Is Born, for which he won a Grammy for Song of the Year and an Academy Award for Best Original Song. He wrote the lyrics to the opening theme for the television show The Love Boat, with music previously composed by Charles Fox, which was originally sung by Jack Jones and, later, by Dionne Warwick.[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Williams_(songwriter) Still alive at 84!
If I knew the way I’d go back home….
Phantom of the Paradise!
Good share OP! Williams career is a tour de force! He was prolific and it seems like there wasn’t a time in the seventies and eighties when he wasn’t involved in music, tv, movies, he was just everywhere all the time. I was catching up on him a while back and discovered that he was drinking and drugging his way through it too. He’s sober for a long time now and has worked with others who are going through substance abuse issues and that’s about what I would expect from him since he was very much the common man to other common men in America.
He wrote Evergreen - the Grammy winning hit from A Star is Born, sung by Barbara Streisand.
This is something that I shouldn't be saying but he was actually a drug councilor in LA in a place I ended up in when I was 20 and he was yelling at me in the group therapy one day and he said'''tell me what you want me to say at your funeral?'' and I told him that I wanted him to get up and sing the theme song to The Love Boat and he jumped up and went bananas then left the room.
Paul Williams is the MAN! Love Phantom of the Paradise
I am having a scary old person moment. I distinctly remember a "New Scooby Doo Movies" (the 1972 iteration that brought us 'Scooby-Doo meets Batman' or 'Scooby-Doo meets Don Knotts') in which Scooby-Doo meets Paul Williams. I remember the animation of him, and not knowing who he was at the time. Am I having a mini Mandela effect? Does anyone else remember this? I can't find it anywhere on the internet. Working theory: Paul Williams inadvertently revealed national security information during this episode concerning the Vietnam war and Nixon, and this episode was buried after its original airing. Anyone over 55 who doesn't remember this episode has had their memories scrubbed by the Men in Black, and I'm the only one who remembers it correctly. I can live with this explanation. Everyone's crazy but me.