Humble pie
What we have is a failure to communicate.
I’ve met him and can confirm the angry unhappy man.Blinky was not able to portray his clown persona in later years, as one of the TV networks gained legal control of it. They sued him in court, and stripped him of the right to use his own creation, probably part of the contract to do the kids show.
Mr Scott ran an antique store on S Broadway in Englewood for many years. I went on there a few times, and recall he was an angry, unhappy man at the time.