Before anti-bullying became such a social cause, there were
TV- show episodes in which the child characters (particularly boys) had to deal with being bullied.
In "Family Affair," Jody once had to fight a boy who bullied him.
In "The Munsters," Eddie Munster had to deal with a school bully.
In "Please Don't Eat The Daises" the oldest Nash boy had to fight a bully to protect his younger brothers.
In Leave It To Beaver, there was an episode in which Beaver was being dared by another boy to try going on the roller coaster which Beaver was scared to do.
In My World And Welcome To It, there was a boy who had a crush on Lydia Monroe and he was being bullied by another boy who was also trying to date Lydia.

However these were TV shows of the 1960s up to the early 1970s. Bullying was depicted as something awful but which is a part of life for kids growing up.
In sitcoms of the late 1970s and on, bullying was depicted in a more extreme way which may have been realistic but sensationalized for ratings nevertheless.
In "Good Times" JJ had to deal with a group of bullies which resulted in gang violence and JJ was shot.
In Different Strokes Arnold and Dudley had to deal with two school bullies much older than they and Willis had to fight them to protect the two younger boys. (Don't forget Diff'rent Strokes really took on some modern-day horrors of childhood such as child abduction, drugs in school, and pedophiles preying on children).

Boys being bullied by girls has gotten a lot of mileage on sitcoms because it is supposed to be funny.
In "Courtship of Eddie's father" Eddie had to deal with being bullied by a girl.
In Family Affair Jody was bullied by a much older girl.
In Please Don't Eat The Daises Joel Nash got bullied by a girl who he had a crush on.

The only female-on-female bullying I can recall was in an "My There Sons" episode in which Dodie was bullied by a girl who was a bit older, until Dodie's older brothers intervened. The girl bully was played by Erin Moran.

not really sure but there's one in power rangers megaforce were this nerdy kid being picked by these two bullys!! then the kid saves the bullys form this monster then they become friends in the end!!

Punky Brewster dealt with a bully in the episode "The K.O. Kid" dated, September 15, 1985. In the episode Punky must deal with a bully who is targeting her.

My favorite of all-time is "Me and Mr. T" from Silver Spoons (1982). Mr. T. Is hired to protect Ricky from a bully at school. Chaos ensues. :lol:

Buddy Hinton bullies Cindy on The Brady Bunch.

In Leave It To Beaver, there was an episode in which Beaver was being dared by another boy to try going on the roller coaster which Beaver was scared to do.


No Bullying in this episode. Beaver is scared to go on the roller coaster after his friends tell him how scary it is. Then he finally goes after talking to Gus the Fireman and realizes it wasn't scary at all. But Eddie ended up getting scared from it.

On Different Strokes, there were battles between Arnold and "The Gooch."

Leave It To Beaver - Lumpy's first appearances he was a total bully. The episodes 'Lumpy Rutherford' and 'Lost Watch' are the best examples of his bullying.

Family Matters dwells into this a lot...but in one ep "An Unlikely Match"...a bully named Andre gives Urkel a swirley, but later has leukemia. Urkel and Andre become friends because Urkel helped Andre.

This ep also ends with a PSA about leukemia.

I remember an episode of The Andy Griffith show where Opie was being bullied and just whaled on his tormentor! LOL

Ally on Everybody Loves Raymond bullied a kid on the school bus.

Family Matters dwells into this a lot...but in one ep "An Unlikely Match"...a bully named Andre gives Urkel a swirley, but later has leukemia. Urkel and Andre become friends because Urkel helped Andre.

This ep also ends with a PSA about leukemia.
I have vague memories of that episode but I do remember a topic about that but kind of fill me in what happened next? I mean because the kid had leukemia was that any reason to bully Urkel?

On Little House on the Prairie, Nellie Olsen was always bullying Laura or her friends that had a physical or mental handicap, like the girl who had one leg shorter than the other, or the girl who stuttered. Nellie was very mean and cruel to those girls.

"Courtship Of Eddie's Father" - In the episode that was mentioned earlier where Eddie was bullied by a little girl ("Bully For You"), the girl was played by a young Jodie Foster.

"Leave It To Beaver" - "The Black Eye" - Beaver gets bullied by a little girl named Violet Rutherford who happens to be Lumpy's younger sister. It must have run in the family!

"The Donna Reed Show" - "Pardon My Gloves" - The show's 2nd episode sees Jeff receive 2 black eyes and a free boxing lesson from his Mom when another boy hears his Mom criticize Donna's acting ability.

My thing is when the parents give dumb advice like Mr. Drummond and Mike Brady saying, "talk to the bully." Bullys can't be talked to reasoned with. Its as dumb as saying stay away from the bully. its not that you won't stay away from the bully, that part is easy. Its that the bully goes out of their way to bother you. They won't stay away from you.

My thing is when the parents give dumb advice like Mr. Drummond and Mike Brady saying, "talk to the bully." Bullys can't be talked to reasoned with. Its as dumb as saying stay away from the bully. its not that you won't stay away from the bully, that part is easy. Its that the bully goes out of their way to bother you. They won't stay away from you.


Yes, but it is a cliche on TV. I am not so sure if , in real life, parents so instantaneously, simply just tell their kids to ignore bullies. Of course it could depend on what generation we are talking about.

I think Uncle Bill also told Jody something to the effect that he ought not to fight . He did tell him that he should not hit the bully girl who was beating up on him because she is a girl. Jody's older sister "Cissy" tried to talk to the bully girl but it turned out that the girl's mother bullied Cissy from even trying.
But in one episode, Uncle Bill even taught Jody how to fool the bully by telling him he has his shoe untied and then when the bully looks down, that is the right time to slug him. (I am not sure I exactly mentioned this).

In Courtship of Eddie's Father, Eddie did eventually hit the bully girl (Jodie Foster's character) and said that her own dad told him to do it. ( Jody Foster also played a tough girl in The Partridge Family and she slugged Danny).

In The Munsters, Herman taught Eddie some boxing skills after ignoring the bully did not work, and it was only when Eddie slugged his bully down to the ground did the bully (apparently) show some fear and told Eddie "I thought your pop told you to ignore me." So the bully sort-of admitted that he continued the bullying because he knew that Eddie Munster's dad simply told Eddie to ignore the bully and the bullying.

There was once a short-lived sitcom called "We'll Get By."
It consisted of a family with a mother and father and their three children, one son and daughter who were approximately in their late teens, maybe early 20s, and a son who was approximately from 10 to 12 years old. One episode had the youngest son coming home to tell his parents he was being bullied. I don't recall the details of the rest of the plot but I think that the father tells the boy how to protect himself , but the parents still feel that telling their son to fight back is not the right thing to do. By the end of the episode, the young son came home to tell his family that he finally fought back the bully, and won over him. The boy's parents and siblings are happy for him but the parents talk with each other about how their young son now thinks that hitting people is the right way to solve problems, so they decide to talk with their son and are conflicted by how to explain to their son that he should not feel good about hitting others, but it turns out that the son out-rightly tells his parents that, in a way, he does not feel good about winning the fight because he would rather not use his fists to get a point across even to a bully ( or something to that effect). It is then that the parents feel better knowing that they did not make an insensitive monster out of their son for telling him to protect himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27ll_Get_By

It's a shame that we don't stand up to bullies anymore and we leave it to the law to punish them and prison guards to kick their asses.

Holliston Season 2: 'Honesty'

Not a bullying episode, but an episode about the two leads, Adam and Joe, confronting a classmate Johnny who bullied and tormented them when they were in high school. The old classmate (played by writer/director James Gunn) is doing a 12-step program, and he has to make up for all the wrongs he has done, but Adam and Joe learn that some people never change.

Adam and Joe confronting Johnny (James Gunn)

Mr. Belvedere - "Big"
Kids Incorporated - "The Bully" and "Karate Kids"

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