This little twit can't even get through 10 seconds of his first scene without being a gigantic a-hole. I counted six times in last night's episode that Arnold would have been well within his rights to throw a right cross at Sam's chops. How that kid doesn't come from school every day with his ass squarely kicked in is a baffling mystery to me.

This little twit can't even get through 10 seconds of his first scene without being a gigantic a-hole. I counted six times in last night's episode that Arnold would have been well within his rights to throw a right cross across Sam's chops. How that kid doesn't come from school every day with his ass squarely kicked in is a baffling mystery to me.


What did he do?

What did he do?
Well, for one thing, Arnold walks into the room dressed for a concert. The outfit was ridiculous, including a rainbow-colored afro wig. Sam stops playing his video game, takes one look at Arnold, and literally falls on the floor squealing and shrieking, punching the floor, and acting like an utter jackass. It wasn't that funny, Sam. Laugh, make a snide remark, but cool your jets.

Then later, Arnold is having a heated argument with Drummond and Willis about his sense of betrayal, and Sam, not realizing he should be seen and not heard, volunteers some wisecrack that only makes Arnold more angry and defensive.

Then, later, Drummond is trying to take candid videos of the family with his new camera, and he explicitly asks Sam to "be natural" and just do his homework. What does Sam do? He goes into a terrible, obnoxious, sloppy, mess of a breakdance routine.

I could go on and on, but I would just get more enraged thinking about it. Sam is the worst.

Well, for one thing, Arnold walks into the room dressed for a concert. The outfit was ridiculous, including a rainbow-colored afro wig. Sam stops playing his video game, takes one look at Arnold, and literally falls on the floor squealing and shrieking, punching the floor, and acting like an utter jackass. It wasn't that funny, Sam. Laugh, make a snide remark, but cool your jets.

Then later, Arnold is having a heated argument with Drummond and Willis about his sense of betrayal, and Sam, not realizing he should be seen and not heard, volunteers some wisecrack that only makes Arnold more angry and defensive.

Then, later, Drummond is trying to take candid videos of the family with his new camera, and he explicitly asks Sam to "be natural" and just do his homework. What does Sam do? He goes into a terrible, obnoxious, sloppy, mess of a breakdance routine.

I could go on and on, but I would just get more enraged thinking about it. Sam is the worst.
He's only an actor, guys...it's the writing that's bad! Remember, by this time, the show's run out of gas.

it wasn't just the writing - the Sam character was truly annoying and nerve-grating

Nice to know I'm not the only one that wishes Sam would have had a little run-in with schoolyard bullies Eddie and Roberto. :)

Danny Cooksey was in an episode of Dukes of Hazzard. He is obnoxious in that episode as well (he is playing an orphan that finds a missing dog). He was also dreadful in a guest spot on Growing Pains.

He should consider himself lucky that Mr. Drummond spent any time or cash looking for him when he got kidnapped. If the Drummonds had just waited another 3 days, the family that took Sam would have returned him because they would grow sick of him, too.

Do you ever wish Arnold would have thrown ice cream on Sam's face instead of Dudley's?

Danny Cooksey was in an episode of Dukes of Hazzard. He is obnoxious in that episode as well (he is playing an orphan that finds a missing dog). He was also dreadful in a guest spot on Growing Pains.

He should consider himself lucky that Mr. Drummond spent any time or cash looking for him when he got kidnapped. If the Drummonds had just waited another 3 days, the family that took Sam would have returned him because they would grow sick of him, too.

Do you ever wish Arnold would have thrown ice cream on Sam's face instead of Dudley's?


I couldn't find either one of those eps on youtube. I saw he played on Mr. Belverde too LOL

Danny Cooksey was in an episode of Dukes of Hazzard. He is obnoxious in that episode as well (he is playing an orphan that finds a missing dog).


I remember that. I always wondered if they dubbed over his lines with another actor's voice in that episode. Danny didn't sound like himself at all.

You have to remember it was the "cute kid syndrome" that the Olsen twins perfected.

As a kid I didn't mind Sam that much but watching it as an adult I can see how a pest he is.

Is this topic even for real? Seriously!! You are bashing a cute, little kid!!! All this mess about throwing ice cream into his face and other wishes for bad stuff to happen to him. We are going waay overboard. Let's calm it down, people.

Is this topic even for real? Seriously!! You are bashing a cute, little kid!!! All this mess about throwing ice cream into his face and other wishes for bad stuff to happen to him. We are going waay overboard. Let's calm it down, people.
Amen! Like I said before, the kid's an actor playing a part the way he's told to play it.

I remember that. I always wondered if they dubbed over his lines with another actor's voice in that episode. Danny didn't sound like himself at all.

I thought they did too. That voice didn't sound like him.

Nice to know I'm not the only one that wishes Sam would have had a little run-in with schoolyard bullies Eddie and Roberto. :)

By the time he was on Salute Your Shorts he WAS the bully!:lol:

Amen! Like I said before, the kid's an actor playing a part the way he's told to play it.

Exactly! Can you believe some of the ugliness on the board on an innocent child character? Dang!

Exactly! Can you believe some of the ugliness on the board on an innocent child character? Dang!

Stay out of this! This is between us and Sam!

Stay out of this! This is between us and Sam!


That's cute. Veery cute.

I think that I finally figured out what was fundamentally wrong w/ the Sam character. He was too one-dimensional (he was way too "gosh, golly" if that makes sense) and a caricature of somebody from the south/country. It never seemed like we were looking at a down-to-earth person to put it in another way.

I think that I finally figured out what was fundamentally wrong w/ the Sam character. He was too one-dimensional (he was way too "gosh, golly" if that makes sense) and a caricature of somebody from the south/country. It never seemed like we were looking at a down-to-earth person to put it in another way.


That would have changed if the show stayed on until he was 11 or 12