He played Walter’s numbskull of an attorney who gave the episode its driving force by revealing Walter’s last wish was to have his ashes spread in the river behind the old taffy factory he operated with his sister Patty.
Barely a couple of minutes passed before we saw the first famous face, Happy Days’ star and filmmaker Ron Howard.
The episode was titled “Taffy Days,” a pun-riffic take on Happy Days, and it centered on Matthew Perry’s Oscar coming to grips with the death of his candy-making father Walter, a character Garry Marshall appeared as in a past episode.