Sgt. Saunders
04-30-2026, 06:45 AM
On LITB, hair, or more to the point the lack of it, was hardly ever mentioned on LITB. The one episode I can recall where mention was made of the “male curse” was on the third season episode, “Beaver and Violet.”
In that episode, Fred Rutherford complains to Ward that some young and clearly disrespectful kid called him “skin-head” while Fred was walking over to the
Cleaver’s home. Later, in that same episode, Gwen Rutherford tells her husband, Fred, to put his New York Yankees baseball hat back on to avoid getting a glare from his shiny bald head when Ward is about to photograph the two of them while on a picnic with the Cleavers.
Gwen Rutherford’s candid remark to Fred reminds me of a baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets at Shea Stadium many years ago. As the tv cameraman was taking a shot of the Cardinals’s dugout, one of the Cardinal coaches, a fifty-something man with a completely bald head just happened to take off his baseball hat there in the dugout. This prompted Mets announcer, the late, great Tim McCarver, to immediately shout out in his wonderful Memphis, Tennessee accent, “Put that hat back on, the SHINE is BLINDING me!”
Now the only other man with a “denuded” head on LITB, who can I remember was the legendary Gus-the-Fireman. And, as another poster pointed out, Gus was also in need of some serious cosmetic dentistry procedures to fix his choppers. However, I got the impression that Gus, being a sage sexagenarian, was completely at ease and cool with having completely lost his hair during his younger years because, in the scheme of things, it really didn’t matter.
Although, I could see an incorrigible smart-@ss like Eddie Haskell saying something to Lumpy Rutherford like, “Hey, Lumpy, do you think you’ll eventually get a chrome-dome just like your old man?”
Can you think of any other characters on LITB, who were also “folliclely-challenged”?
In that episode, Fred Rutherford complains to Ward that some young and clearly disrespectful kid called him “skin-head” while Fred was walking over to the
Cleaver’s home. Later, in that same episode, Gwen Rutherford tells her husband, Fred, to put his New York Yankees baseball hat back on to avoid getting a glare from his shiny bald head when Ward is about to photograph the two of them while on a picnic with the Cleavers.
Gwen Rutherford’s candid remark to Fred reminds me of a baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets at Shea Stadium many years ago. As the tv cameraman was taking a shot of the Cardinals’s dugout, one of the Cardinal coaches, a fifty-something man with a completely bald head just happened to take off his baseball hat there in the dugout. This prompted Mets announcer, the late, great Tim McCarver, to immediately shout out in his wonderful Memphis, Tennessee accent, “Put that hat back on, the SHINE is BLINDING me!”
Now the only other man with a “denuded” head on LITB, who can I remember was the legendary Gus-the-Fireman. And, as another poster pointed out, Gus was also in need of some serious cosmetic dentistry procedures to fix his choppers. However, I got the impression that Gus, being a sage sexagenarian, was completely at ease and cool with having completely lost his hair during his younger years because, in the scheme of things, it really didn’t matter.
Although, I could see an incorrigible smart-@ss like Eddie Haskell saying something to Lumpy Rutherford like, “Hey, Lumpy, do you think you’ll eventually get a chrome-dome just like your old man?”
Can you think of any other characters on LITB, who were also “folliclely-challenged”?