Who did he think he was, anyway?

Adam Klugman is really upset.

See, the Emmy Awards are tonight. They run an 'In Memoriam' clip every year honoring industry members who got life's cancellation notice in the past year.

Adam's father, TV star Jack Klugman, is one of the dead to be honored.

The rub is that there will also be five, free-standing, tributes to iconic figures who died in the last twelvemonth: James Gandolfini, Jean Stapleton, Jonathan Winters, Gary David Goldberg, and Cory Monteith.

Cory who? Monteith, a star of the hit series Glee, died of a drug overdose last July. He was 31.

And that's why Klugman fils is peeved. He thinks Monteith rooked his dad out of the bonus slot.

"I think it's criminal," he told AP. "My dad was at the inception of TV and helped build it in the early days." Of Meredith, he added, "What about the people who should be introduced to somebody like my father? I don't mean to say anything disparaging about Cory-

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"- but he was a kid who had won no Emmys, and it was a self-induced tragedy.
"It's an insult and it really seems typical of this youth-centric culture that has an extremely short attention span and panders to only a very narrow demographic" of young adults," Adam Klugman added.

Klugman won three Emmys- in 1961, 1971 and 1973. His career in series TV ended in 1983. He was well past the time to be "introduced" to people when he died, last December, of the self-induced tragedy of smoking induced cancer, aged 90.

The heirs of Philo T. Farnsworth, who was even more at the inception of TV, had no comment no also being excluded. Farnsworth never won an Emmy, either, though he appeared on the medium just once, in 1957.

Update:

"Tonight is for celebrating and I know my father would not want me or his name to be associated with any more negativity," Klugman said in an exclusive statement to E! News. "After a certain point it becomes hurtful to Monteith's family and that has never been my intent. I feel that I've said enough."