In the last seasons of "Diff'rent strokes", Gary Colman lost his cute charm, he just became a wierd looking little man, Dana Plato was no longer on the show, and Todd,well, He just blended in with the funiture. Q:So what would any normal,depreciating, sitcom do under the cloud of sit-com death?
A: Bring in the most annoying looking and acting kid, Danny Cooksey, A.K.A "Sam Mckinney".
That annoying little spit fire, with the red Super-bowl of all bowl cuts. What were they thinking? Lets get a new Arnold? No one can top Arnold, you would have to fill some big shoes, or little shoes, or.....whatever, you get my point. Did they not learn anything with Cousin Oliver, from The Brady Bunch?
I'm glad in the darkness of the shadow, they needed a light, so they brought in the lovely Dixie Carter. They were kind of smart, they knew the audiance would be needing a ying to a really bad, annoying yang. It calmed me down to hear, the future, Ms.Sugerbaker, say " Now,Sam....Eat your super...it's gonna get cold".
So...Now, where did that falling star land? He had a small role, As Eddie "FUCKING" Ferlongs, Rebeliouse good friend in "Terminator 2:judgment day" where he traded in his bowl cut for a mullet (oh....Danny....quit it with the bad hair choices,will ya). He was also in a short lived show the early 90's called Camp wannaeatyour shorts or something like that, at this point I don't care, and Frankly, this is porbably the only type of homage out there to him in this day and age. His life is as loud as an echo, loud at first but just fades.
I did my research, and I found out that there is a "Cooskey clan". Kind of like Hanson on acid. His journey continued, with his brothers, in a band called "Bad 4 Good".
Bad4Good was a heavy metal band formed in 1991 by guitarist Steve Vai. It was the Cooskey Brothers, Jamming off of there brothers Little success.I wonder if Dixie Picked up there C.D, in support of her "good friend". If she did, I'm pretty sure she enjoys track number 3 'Bangin' time again".
The last thing I tried to read, but got bored and decided at some point in this story, any succes he displays is irrelevant. Or at least would like to think so. So I guess he is doing some voice over stuff for some cartoon, A job that seems to be popular with aging child actors, who look like they have turned into Garbage Pail kids.