I just finished watching the MTS's marathon over the weekend.......I can't understand why Steve let Charlie stay there. He was miserable, controlling,nasty and a busy body......Steve should have sent him back to sea!!! He's a male version of Hazel

Uncle Charley during Ernie's adoption was particularly nasty. This was the show's CBS debut, and I think the director should have toned him down, despite how it was written. He couldn't stand Ernie or his dog, Wilson, which disappeared from the show after Ernie was adopted.

He gradually mellowed as time went on. Try watching the 8th season episode where everyone except Ernie and Charley are out of town, and Charley runs into his old friend in the store--Charley thinks the friend is down on his luck, but Ernie recognizes him as a TV star. Ernie and Charley bond, and end up guesting in the TV show.

Charley was a miserable old crank who dyed his hair orange in hopes of distracting people from the fact that he was 100 years old.

OMG!!!! What a thread title!!!!!!:eek: Shocking yet funny!!!! :lol:

He was an ornery, cantankerous old Curmudgeon but I wouldn't go as far as calling him a D head!!!!:crazy:

OMG!!!! What a thread title!!!!!!:eek: Shocking yet funny!!!! :lol:


Agreed. I haven't seen this show in ages but the thread title made me :rofl:

Demarest was also in Danny Thomas show a few times...playing Kathy's father...he was an ornery, cantankerous, old curmudgeon in that show too...arguing constantly with ornery, cantankerous Danny (and with same-description Uncle Tonoose).

This thread caught me off guard too. I was going along reading and when the comment that Charlie was a male Hazel, I had to laugh out loud. Then everyone else letting their inner Charlie out to boot was a hoot.:lol: The Charlie personality is catchy isn't it?

As for me, I have always liked Uncle Charlie, he was my favorite character from the show till I discovered Bub, then Charlie went to #2 favorite character of My 3 Sons. I like his honest blunt comments to balance out all the polite speech you hear the rest of them mostly spout. Uncle Charlie is my hero, between Mr. Wilson (Joe Kearns) or Uncle Charlie, I model my own sterling personality after both of these the highest examples of good old grouchiness.:D

OH NO!!!!! What happened to the original thread title???:eek: :( Now it's not quite the same!!!!:confused: ohno:

(post #7) You might have come in too late to see this thread before it was edited. The title was kind of shocking, to say the least.

(post #8) Looks like there was a meeting of the minds, and it was deemed inappropriate.

(post #8) You might have come in too late to see this thread before it was edited. The title was kind of shocking, to say the least.

(post #9) Looks like there was a meeting of the minds, and it was deemed inappropriate.


But it totally amused HuntingtonM15 and I !! :lol: :D :wave:

Yeah, all I saw for the title was "Charlie Was a" but not seeing the original unedited version (I can imagine the d word) just made it better for me, it only made me less prepared for the "male Hazel" comment, so it was funnier being caught off guard.

Yeah, all I saw for the title was "Charlie Was a" but not seeing the original unedited version (I can imagine the d word) just made it better for me, it only made me less prepared for the "male Hazel" comment, so it was funnier being caught off guard.

I think you win the prize for guessing that...

I think you win the prize for guessing that...


I think he got a clue from my first post #4!! :lol:

For any latecomers, Uncle Charlie was somewhat related to this guy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Head

For any latecomers, Uncle Charlie was somewhat related to this guy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Head



:lol: :D

They were really quite formal back then.

Wow! I never thought this thread wound get so many responses. I'
haven't watched MTS's in years. I DVR'ed the marathon , and couldn't believe what a jerk Uncle Charlie was. He was verbally abusive with the boys, and I don't doubt his abuse could be physical. He treated women like dirt....referred to them as dames and other derogatory names. He was especially nasty to Katy and Barbara when they joined the household.

Wow! I never thought this thread wound get so many responses. I'
haven't watched MTS's in years. I DVR'ed the marathon , and couldn't believe what a jerk Uncle Charlie was. He was verbally abusive with the boys, and I don't doubt his abuse could be physical. He treated women like dirt....referred to them as dames and other derogatory names. He was especially nasty to Katy and Barbara when they joined the household.


Ahh the good old days when men could be derogatory to women on TV and we thought it was funny!!!:lol: But seriously I remember watching MTS as a little girl the later ones first run and older ones in reruns and I knew Uncle Charley was an old crab but I didn't think much of it. Watching again as an adult on METV I was like Wow Uncle Charley really should chill!!!:eek: He is rough on those boys!:( And they are pretty good kids!

Watching the very old B & W eps. now that METV is showing, Bub is so much nicer.;) He has his moments of being ornery but compared to Uncle Charley he's a sweetheart! ;)

I really wish that SO could have kept your original thread title intact though , MR. B ! That really tickled my funny bone!!! :lol: :D :wave:

Somehow i get the image of a rebellious teenage Dodie kicking Charley in the nuts...

Come on people, I think you're judging sweet adorable Uncle Charlie under modern day Snowflake standards.:eek4: No doubt today Chip & Ernie would be running for their "safe space".:lookaroun

Charlie was just honest and a bit grouchy, that hardly nominates him for a lifetime jail term, though today I don't put anything past the modern "precious sensitive" sweeties. To show how poor Charlie gets a bad name, just today I saw the episode called "After You, Alphonse" ep. 10.10, this is when Barbara and Steve first return from their honeymoon and Charlie gives Barbara the whole "Sir Walter Raleigh" treatment, after Robbie tells Charlie to go easy on Barbara. Barbara was so disturbed at all the politeness coming from kindly Uncle Charlie that she complained that she wanted Charlie to treat her like dirt like everybody else. Ooops, :lol: I mean she wanted him to treat her just like everybody else, with his usual honest appraisal that he blesses everyone else with:) .

Charley is indefensible. And dyeing his hair ORANGE is just as bad as those old ladies who dye their hair purple or blue!

Though a Norman Lear-type episode of M3S where Charley is sent to the state penitentiary for making a pass at Dodie would have solved everything...

Charlie may have been rough and gruff, but what I think made him appealing was beneath it all he had a good heart; under the vast amounts of huffing and puffing was a softie. But given the era, he was probably afraid that his true affection for the family would have seemed unmanly- hence the curmudgeon persona.

Uncle Charley in a 2017 Sitcom

It could be titled - "My Three Children Two Of Whom Identified As Males By Age Four and One Of Whom Transgendered To Male By Age Five"

Ep. 1 - Uncle Charley is befuddled when Chip announces his first college classes are "Introduction to the University Coloring Book" and "Resistance: It's Not An Electrical Term".

And Charley decides to become Charlene... "the judge said i was a housemother, now i really am!"

I think Charlie's naturally non-curly red hair is quite handsome.;) Charlie and Bub, my 2 all time favorite characters from My 3 Sons. Fred, of course, is my favorite I Love L character. Today, of course, they would both be sentenced to prison to get their minds straight and be force fed sensitivity classes to meet the approval of the oh so sensitive haters on the left.:rolleyes:

Charlie may have been rough and gruff, but what I think made him appealing was beneath it all he had a good heart; under the vast amounts of huffing and puffing was a softie. But given the era, he was probably afraid that his true affection for the family would have seemed unmanly- hence the curmudgeon persona.

You said it! That's what I was trying to say in an earlier post, but you nailed it.

For any latecomers, Uncle Charlie was somewhat related to this guy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Head

:lol:

Why am I so late to the party on this thing? :lol:

Those who saw the original title of this thread might say I was hard on the O.P. in my response (pun intended!).

Bub used the word "dame" in one of the eps that recently aired on MeTV. I think you have to remember that when these guys were born, it was an era of horse-drawn carriages, spats, and monocles. Now it's outer-space probes, Air Jordans, and virtual-reality goggles.


They were kind of firm with you on that issue.

I think somebody should erect a statue for Uncle Richard. :lol: He rocked an apron like no other man except Michael Lembeck.

As many know, Uncle Charley was a seaman, and probably a great fisherman, a master baiter.

As many know, Uncle Charley was a seaman, and probably a great fisherman, a master baiter.

He WAS a great fisherman very proficient with his rod.

Wasn't he in a lodge? It was a guy's club, IIRC--he was a male member.

Wasn't he in a lodge? It was a guy's club, IIRC--he was a male member.

Very musical guy at that lodge.

He took out his huge organ and played with it to impress the other members.

Somehow i get the image of a rebellious teenage Dodie kicking Charley in the nuts...


:lol: :lol: :lol:

"Down you go, Uncle Charley!"
"Down i go..."

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Come on people, I think you're judging sweet adorable Uncle Charlie under modern day Snowflake standards.:eek4: No doubt today Chip & Ernie would be running for their "safe space".:lookaroun

Charlie was just honest and a bit grouchy, that hardly nominates him for a lifetime jail term, though today I don't put anything past the modern "precious sensitive" sweeties. To show how poor Charlie gets a bad name, just today I saw the episode called "After You, Alphonse" ep. 10.10, this is when Barbara and Steve first return from their honeymoon and Charlie gives Barbara the whole "Sir Walter Raleigh" treatment, after Robbie tells Charlie to go easy on Barbara. Barbara was so disturbed at all the politeness coming from kindly Uncle Charlie that she complained that she wanted Charlie to treat her like dirt like everybody else. Ooops, :lol: I mean she wanted him to treat her just like everybody else, with his usual honest appraisal that he blesses everyone else with:) .


You said it well my fellow Hazel fan. Come to think, it would have been cool to see Shirley Booth guest on the show. Maybe a story line of two strong willed contestants in some kind of (cooking) contest.

And Anna &Steve, even though Charley was the "housemother always running off about cooking, shopping, baking etc.. -- he most certainly had a big thing for women.

Yeah that was just a little back and forth fun. Sally was his girlfriend, if I recall. Played by some character actress who was also in Gomer Pyle, I think.

And Anna &Steve, even though Charley was the "housemother always running off about cooking, shopping, baking etc.. -- he most certainly had a big thing for women.

Yes. They appreciated that about him. :)

You all may recall the infamous "lost" Fourth of July episode where Milton Berle guested as Uncle Charlie's old navy buddy, Admiral "Winky" Schlongheimer.

I remember Dodie getting scared and confused when she walked in on them by accident in Uncle Charlie's room when they unfurled their notoriously big flags and started saluting each other.

Fortunately Steve was able to save the day once again and explain to her later that they were just two old bunk mates being patriotic and to knock on Uncle C's door the next time.

patriot: patriot:

What's this? A lost episode??

I hate it when there's a lost episode, especially when I haven't seen it!

Tell me, was Uncle Miltie in drag?

What's this? A lost episode??

I hate it when there's a lost episode, especially when I haven't seen it!

Tell me, was Uncle Miltie in drag?

Only in front of Charlie.

They liked to dress up together for fun.

Charlie would play Rhett and Uncle Miltie would play Scarlett and he would carry him up the stairs at night when he got a little plastered.

I don't know who Uncle Charley was, but the fact he seemed to offend so many of these evidently politically correct posters in this thread makes it sound like he must have been a very interesting character.

Wow! I never thought this thread wound get so many responses. I'
haven't watched MTS's in years. I DVR'ed the marathon , and couldn't believe what a jerk Uncle Charlie was. He was verbally abusive with the boys, and I don't doubt his abuse could be physical. He treated women like dirt....referred to them as dames and other derogatory names. He was especially nasty to Katy and Barbara when they joined the household.
Dame is offensive? Where are you from?

Mr. B and Paul Austin are too politically correct.

We're just kidding around, mate.

Yeah there's a lot of good comedy in this thread. Uncle Charley is a curmudgeon with a good heart.

What a great idea, OH NUTS, Hazel guesting on My 3 Sons, I'd love to see it. Maybe in the next life we can convince them to put on a new show!! Remember the episode when that old blonde woman (she's a famous actress who I can't think of her name) the same old bag that Charlie co-starred with in the Twilight Zone episode where Charlie sees the future of him throwing the old nagging bag out the window. Anyway, she was also a guest on M3S and she made me laugh when she complained calling her grandchildren "the strangers" because they never visit. She and Charlie were perfectly annoyed with each other as they were in the Twilight Zone. Wouldn't you just love to have seen him throw her out the Douglas' front window!:eek:

I picture Hazel annoying Charlie in the same manner, maybe she can be her usual bossy self and tell Charlie how to clean and cook better just like she did for Mr. B and all the B's. That would surely make Charlie blow a well deserved gasket. Go Charlie!;)

An Uncle Charley porno... hmm I'd pay to see that...

What a great idea, OH NUTS, Hazel guesting on My 3 Sons, I'd love to see it. Maybe in the next life we can convince them to put on a new show!! Remember the episode when that old blonde woman (she's a famous actress who I can't think of her name) the same old bag that Charlie co-starred with in the Twilight Zone episode where Charlie sees the future of him throwing the old nagging bag out the window. Anyway, she was also a guest on M3S and she made me laugh when she complained calling her grandchildren "the strangers" because they never visit. She and Charlie were perfectly annoyed with each other as they were in the Twilight Zone. Wouldn't you just love to have seen him throw her out the Douglas' front window!:eek:

I picture Hazel annoying Charlie in the same manner, maybe she can be her usual bossy self and tell Charlie how to clean and cook better just like she did for Mr. B and all the B's. That would surely make Charlie blow a well deserved gasket. Go Charlie!;)

She would have made a better guest than Katie's Aunt Cecile. Charley (and I) wanted to throttle that old biddy.

Just did some checking on her...she is still alive, if Wikipedia is right...99 years old.

What a great idea, OH NUTS, Hazel guesting on My 3 Sons, I'd love to see it. Maybe in the next life we can convince them to put on a new show!! Remember the episode when that old blonde woman (she's a famous actress who I can't think of her name) the same old bag that Charlie co-starred with in the Twilight Zone episode where Charlie sees the future of him throwing the old nagging bag out the window. Anyway, she was also a guest on M3S and she made me laugh when she complained calling her grandchildren "the strangers" because they never visit. She and Charlie were perfectly annoyed with each other as they were in the Twilight Zone. Wouldn't you just love to have seen him throw her out the Douglas' front window!:eek:

I picture Hazel annoying Charlie in the same manner, maybe she can be her usual bossy self and tell Charlie how to clean and cook better just like she did for Mr. B and all the B's. That would surely make Charlie blow a well deserved gasket. Go Charlie!;)

OMG yes, Hazel giving Charlie unwanted tips around the kitchen would definitely make him cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Can you imagine him mixing up some cookie batter and Hazel looking at him going "hmmmm so that's you make them. Aren't you forgetting to put in a pinch of..... That makes them extra chewy." Can you imagine his response? And they end up each making a batch their own way and hers win hands down. NOW THAT WOULD REALLY MAKE HIM CRAZY! Ha ha Hooray For Hazel ( to borrow Tommy Roe's song title)

Did anybody really think Ol' Charley still had natural red hair at his age? The cantakerous old coot was also vain about his hair apparently. But I bet the old coot could kick Mr French's arse if it came to fisticuffs over who makes the best pot roast or something.

Just imagining Charlie dealing with hormonal, rebellious, teenage Dodie... Oh dear...

I have the image of Uncle Charley as that "diplomatic immunity!" guy from Lethal Weapon II.

BUMP

Bumping up this old thread ! If any of you were around back than and remember the original thread title ? Well let's just say it was pretty funny !!!:lol::D

Reason I thought of this, I was watching My three Sons on Decades weekend binge a little while ago and caught a bunch of Bub episodes ! He really was a lot nicer than Uncle Charley ! ;) Uncle Charley was kind of a D*** Head ( which was the original thread title)!!! :lol::D

How about… Uncle Charley switches minds with Dodie… right as Dodie arrives at her school one weekday morning?

Charley is a weird old crank who dyes his hair bright orange to distract us all from the fact that he’s older than the first pyramid in Egypt.

I think Bub never existed by that point so...

What a great idea, OH NUTS, Hazel guesting on My 3 Sons, I'd love to see it. Maybe in the next life we can convince them to put on a new show!! Remember the episode when that old blonde woman (she's a famous actress who I can't think of her name) the same old bag that Charlie co-starred with in the Twilight Zone episode where Charlie sees the future of him throwing the old nagging bag out the window. Anyway, she was also a guest on M3S and she made me laugh when she complained calling her grandchildren "the strangers" because they never visit. She and Charlie were perfectly annoyed with each other as they were in the Twilight Zone. Wouldn't you just love to have seen him throw her out the Douglas' front window!

Wasn't that episode more appropriate for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour?

"So, that sillhouette was you, Uncle Charley? I thought for a moment that it was Alfred Hitchcock!"

That was Joan Blondell co-starring with Wm. Demarest. I love how Demarest handles his character's reaction when he sees himself on trial on the TV in the TZ episode.

In a similar vein of someone seeing or hearing something others don't on TZ, we had a telephone picking up a dead person's voice, a radio playing decades-old programs, and a monster seen out on an airplane's wing.

This is the only episode where Charley mentions having been married. The busybody played by Blondell is some relative of his wife's.

It is hard to imagine Charley having children. I think he was like an Action Man doll - underpants and a trademark.

Uncle Charlie was one of those tender hearted old fools who put up a gruff facade to protect their vulnerabilities. Like Ben Weaver on TAGS, Festus on Gunsmoke, or as some have said here "Mr Wilson" from DtM.

There are actors who have made a career out of the act. Phil Leeds, Shug Fisher, Leonard Barr, Herbie Faye....Once you see the facade IS their vulnerability, they become approachable.

In the 1970s I knew a woman in her 60s, who had been a Rosie the Riveter during WWII, she was the spitting image of Uncle Charlie. Ornery, cantankerous, impossible to please. One day I saw her trip, fall, and break her arm....and my first inclination was to just walk the other way. But instead, I helped her get up, offered a few comforting words, and helped her get to a phone to call an ambulance.

You'd think I became her hero after that. Nothing but kind words for me ever after. I used to just wink at other folks who were dumbfounded over the difference in the way she treated me, vs them.

I suspect the Uncle Charlies and the Ben Weavers are satires on that personality type.

Uncle Charlie was one of those tender hearted old fools who put up a gruff facade to protect their vulnerabilities. Like Ben Weaver on TAGS, Festus on Gunsmoke, or as some have said here "Mr Wilson" from DtM.

There are actors who have made a career out of the act. Phil Leeds, Shug Fisher, Leonard Barr, Herbie Faye....Once you see the facade IS their vulnerability, they become approachable.

In the 1970s I knew a woman in her 60s, who had been a Rosie the Riveter during WWII, she was the spitting image of Uncle Charlie. Ornery, cantankerous, impossible to please. One day I saw her trip, fall, and break her arm....and my first inclination was to just walk the other way. But instead, I helped her get up, offered a few comforting words, and helped her get to a phone to call an ambulance.

You'd think I became her hero after that. Nothing but kind words for me ever after. I used to just wink at other folks who were dumbfounded over the difference in the way she treated me, vs them.

I suspect the Uncle Charlies and the Ben Weavers are satires on that personality type.

In the TV world the female version of Charley would be played by (IMO) Elvia Allman (who had tons of character roles but is probably best known as the candy-conveyor belt boss in the Lucy job-switching episode ["Speed it up a little!"]). Another one could be Reta Shaw, who was actually on a Sons episode right after Bub left, playing a cantankerous housekeeper named Fedocia.

Orange Hair

PLEASE
I despise men who want to dye their hair and go Orange, I have some friends that do it and I REALLY Laugh Behind their back - looks SO STUPID & FAKE

What are they thinking ? Was it their wife's idea to be fashionable ?

PUKE

Orange Hair

PLEASE
I despise men who want to dye their hair and go Orange, I have some friends that do it and I REALLY Laugh Behind their back - looks SO STUPID & FAKE

What are they thinking ? Was it their wife's idea to be fashionable ?

PUKE

It might just turn out that way, orangey looking ! Those cheap box colors that you do yourself , your hair never turns out exactly like the color of the person's hair on the box ! So most likely they weren't aiming for a goofy orange color ! :lol:

So, what's wrong with a guy looking just like he's 22? That beautiful head of natural red hair was very becoming. Maybe with his real teeth he ate a few too many carrots and it turned a tinge orangyer. Just 'cause a guy is healthy, vibrant and youthful looking is no reason to be jealous. Uncle Charlie, you don't look a day over 20.;)

It could be just because I'm getting old, but whereas 30-40 years ago my reaction to these gruff old "battleship" personalities might have been "if they want to be that way, then skru'em"....but now days I see those personality traits as more of a shell, than an absolute.

I suspect part of it is, now that I have a lifetime of experiences, I recognize the same "wolves at the door" that they saw.

or maybe his hair dye is effecting his brain :)

Isn't it obvious?

Charley is Annie Warbucks, later in her life, after long term chain-smoking!

"I heard Charley was thick, i thought they were talkng about his waist!"

Charles Lane was another stereotypical "grumpy olde phart", I get a kick out of him in every show that I see him.

It's too bad they never had Lane on M3S. It could have been quite an episode having him "encounter" uncle Charlie.

I think the first time I ever saw Lane I was about 5 yrs old, and it was that rerun of ILL where he was an official where Lucy was trying to get her passport. Gosh he was good

Lane lived past 100. Few people have served the globe so long or so well.

ERNIE'S ACTUALLY NOT RELATED TO DODIE SO:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlirtyStepsiblings

Ian Wolfe (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0938052/?ref_=tt_cl_t_6)was another bit actor who made a career out of being a gnarly old geezer