What ever happened to Eddie Haskell?

[f6john]

He was a hard guy for me to like on Leave it to Beaver.



He became a member of the California Highway Patrol. That had to be a twilight zone moment if you got pulled over by "Eddie". He recently passed away at age 76.

[The emperor has no clothes]

His character was the best on the show. I imagine it was a double edged sword for him always being known as Eddie Haskel.

[signart]

I thought he was great. Everybody had a friend like Eddie, all my kids had/have a friend like him too. RIP

[csj]

Maybe some of us had friends like Lumpy!

[Jess from VA]

If everyone in my family and friends had called me The Beaver, I'd have run away from home and joined the circus.

Beaver Cleaver?   

That remains one of my favorite all time old TV shows. 

As a kid, I remember thinking that the way the Cleaver parents always calmly and rationally discussed their children's issues, and then tried to deal with them compassionately and logically was just about exactly how it was in my house.  It was a good example for simple right living.  Hard to find that on TV for a long time.

Except for that episode when Beaver brought home a monkey.  I'd have never gotten away with that.   

[The emperor has no clothes]

If everyone in my family and friends had called me The Beaver, I'd have run away from home and joined the circus.

Beaver Cleaver?   

That remains one of my favorite all time old TV shows. 

As a kid, I remember thinking that the way the Cleaver parents always calmly and rationally discussed their children's issues, and then tried to deal with them compassionately and logically was just about exactly how it was in my house.  It was a good example for simple right living.  Hard to find that on TV for a long time.

Except for that episode when Beaver brought home a monkey.  I'd have never gotten away with that.   

Man, you were raised much differently than me and my brothers. My Dad would have died laughing if someone would have suggested explaining things calmly, compassionately, and logically to his kids. His rule was absolute. No explaining, no understanding, no nothing. You did what you were told ! And you had better say "yes sir" as you accepted your punishment.
But the funny thing is, I wouldn't have wished it any other way. 

Maybe some of us had friends like Lumpy!

My brother had plenty of friends like Lumpy. 

[f6john]

I'm wondering if we have any Eddie Haskells on this board. Anybody want to fess up?

[cookiedough]

never really knew any Eddie Haskell's growing up like him back in the olden days.  Eddie seemed to me like a nice kid just misguided and causing minor conflicts sort of sleezy but overall am sure nice kid.  I would not consider him a bully like I had as kids growing up picking and beating up on other kids.  We had in our small town of 900 at the time what they called the laundromat gang who hung out in front of my grandma's laundromat sitting on her steps in the only one main street downtown area and smoked and did drugs and picked on other kids beating them up.  My older brother had it out with Gary C.  who was much fatter/bigger than my brother.  Gary won but I broke it up after Gary got out of hand but I wallopped Brad C. the 1 year younger than me brother of Gary C. smoked him to a pulp as he deserved biggest dirtball of all time scum bag of the earth.  I darn near killed him he did not get up for a very long time kept pounding him into the dirt.  Ever seen a bully cry like a baby, Brad C. did that one day all bloodied and bruised in the face and entire body.   They never picked on us after that one day just glad those were the olden days of early 1980's growing up since only thing they used back then were pocket knives mostly as threats is all vs. kids nowadays pull out guns.        In high school no one picked on me and I broke up dozens of fights mostly bullies picking and beating up weaker kids,  then again being from a small school of 30 kids per class K-12 school, not saying much.  I was the strongest by far in my high school but when I went to play high school football in our nearby town that had 80-90 kids per class and 4x's the size town,  I was not # 1 but still in the top 5.   Not saying much coming from a rinky dink small town though where me in 8th grade was probably just as strong as the seniors in high school still remember vividly when Todd B. in my brothers senior class being cocky and tough guy threw me in 8th grade up against the lockers in hallways between classes showing off to his clicky dirtbag friends in my older brother class.  I got up and slammed him into the lockers as hard as I could blindsiding him much like he did me, then I took off running never caught me - LOL       I have never ONCE in my life backed off from a bully or a group of bullies but those were all in high school and prior been a very long time since I had an actual fight some 30+ years ago..    

[Valkorado]

RIP Eddie (Ken Osmond).  "Oh, good afternoon Mrs. Cleaver", with the purest of intention.     Leave it to Beaver was one of the best American sitcoms, and Ken was a big part of making it so.

[F6Dave]

I've watched some episodes on the Roku and grown to appreciate the show more.  Eddie, Lumpy, and his dad Fred were incredibly irritating and funny at the same time.  Great characters, and great writing, especially for that era.