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passionsfan79
04-15-2006, 11:19 PM
Funniest on Leave it to Beaver in your opinion?

frani
04-16-2006, 11:11 AM
I would have to say Eddie Haskell. Though, i might think of some others.:cool:

tv star collector
04-16-2006, 04:22 PM
I think the Beaver, esp. in the early episodes.

TV Knowledge Fan
05-22-2006, 02:02 PM
..it's Fred Rutherford. What a jerk! So pompous and irritating...and funny!
Only Richard Deacon could do justice to such a character.

:)

howilu
05-22-2006, 06:20 PM
Eddie Haskell in the show's later episodes and Beaver when he was telling numerous lies in the early episodes.

tdr
05-22-2006, 07:52 PM
Agreed. In the earlier episodes Beaver often sees no alternative but to lie, but almost anybody could tell by his uncertainty and his choice of words ["I think....."] and his tone that he was making it all up. Eddie, on the other hand, comes across more as underhanded and sometimes mean in the first couple of seasons; but as the series progressed he is more simply comical menace, and has some good points that seep through.

howilu
05-23-2006, 10:44 AM
Agreed. In the earlier episodes Beaver often sees no alternative but to lie, but almost anybody could tell by his uncertainty and his choice of words ["I think....."] and his tone that he was making it all up. Eddie, on the other hand, comes across more as underhanded and sometimes mean in the first couple of seasons; but as the series progressed he is more simply comical menace, and has some good points that seep through.

Beaver would also start a lot of sentences with "Well I..."

treky
05-25-2006, 03:26 PM
..it's Fred Rutherford. What a jerk! So pompous and irritating...and funny!
Only Richard Deacon could do justice to such a character.

:)
....about Fred Rutherford. Richard Deacon continued to play him even after he started on THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW.

TV Knowledge Fan
05-25-2006, 05:53 PM
....Richard Deacon didn't have an "exclusive" contract with either Kayro or Calvada Productions, so he could appear on both shows whenever he was needed. It wasn't until the middle of the first season of the Van Dyke show
that "Mel Cooley" was seen more often, while "Fred Rutherford" began to appear less frequently. But Connelly & Mosher never forgot Richard- they made sure he had a guest appearance on one of their early episodes of "THE MUNSTERS" {"Pike's Pique"}.

treky
05-26-2006, 01:49 AM
Ken Osmond (Eddie Haskell)also did an episode of THE MUNSTERS once.

bfuller07
01-21-2008, 05:58 PM
Ken Osmond (Eddie Haskell)also did an episode of THE MUNSTERS once.
I seen that.



to answer the question, i think it was Eddie.


Wally was in a episode of Dragnet.

JudgeGarth
01-21-2008, 08:08 PM
Wally was in a episode of Dragnet.

I don't remember him in 'Dragnet'. He was in an 'Adam-12', though.

AB
01-21-2008, 08:25 PM
Beaver in the early years, he wasn't as funny after he got older. Eddie was pretty funny throughout the whole show. So its a toss up between those two, for me.

vedastone
01-23-2008, 05:25 AM
I think Larry was the funniest. Just about every episode he was in was a memorable one.

tanquant
01-30-2008, 08:04 PM
Beaver and Eddie. Sometimes Wally had a funny one liner sometimes. Maybe they held the Beav back because he's just stupid:lol:

tdr
01-30-2008, 08:13 PM
Eddie, over the series run. I think his character went from amusingly pathetic to pathetically funny, as KO mastered him more and more. Beaver went from amusingly cute to frustratingly gullible.

catlover79
04-03-2008, 04:11 PM
Eddie and Larry!

Schmoopie
08-30-2009, 02:58 AM
Well so far, Beaver has been the funniest character, but I actually find Ward to be funny as well!