# "Eddie Haskell" RIP **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [May 18, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-haskell-rip/854063 "2020-05-18T20:24:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-haskell-rip/854063/21 "2020-05-19T10:51:45Z")
I loved Ward’s wry, knowing comment on one of Eddie’s smarmy shows of excess courtesy: “That boy’s so polite, it’s almost un-American”. > [@terentii](#): > > Like the time he tricked Beaver into telling his new friend he had a face like a pig in Spanish? :eek: And when told by Wally that it was a dirty trick, Eddie’s reply spoke volumes about his upbringing: “Hey, my dad says nothing’s a dirty trick it it’s _funny!_” > [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > …Tony Dow’s supposed porn career… I never heard this. I did hear the rumor that Ken Osmond grew up to be a well-known porn star to whom he did bear a slight resemblance. Around 1990, I read that the rumor was widespread enough that Osmond (who was apparently fairly religious) brought it up to his church to quell it. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-haskell-rip/854063/22 "2020-05-19T12:58:54Z")
Yes, Eddie Haskell did NOT grow up to be John C. Holmes. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-haskell-rip/854063/23 "2020-05-19T13:50:08Z")
That makes me sad. I’ve always been a LITB fan. I watched the reruns in the 70s and again and again throughout my adult life. I just started DVR-ing it a few weeks ago (2 episodes from 7-8am) and watch at least one episode every evening. I just saw the episode where Wally volunteers to coach Beaver’s football team. He asks Beaver if Eddie can coach too. Beaver says something like - “nah Eddie’s a mean guy”. Wally tells him he’ll make Eddie just stand around. Beaver says - “Eddie is one of those guys that’s mean even if he’s just standing around”. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-haskell-rip/854063/24 "2020-05-19T15:17:42Z")
I guess the rumor had legs because while Ken Osmond–selfless, brave, churchgoing–was about as far as you could get from the abusive, drug-addicted, porn star murderer, it’s not hard to imagine Eddie Haskell turning out like that. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-haskell-rip/854063/25 "2020-05-19T15:37:55Z")
The other Eddie Haskell episode I remember well is the one where he changed Beaver’s report card from a D- to a B+. When Ward told him not to come around if he ever did such a thing again, Eddie said “I probably wouldn’t have done it if Clarence [Lumpy Rutherford] hadn’t been there to urge me on.” Yeah, right. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-haskell-rip/854063/26 "2020-05-19T18:06:54Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > I never heard this. _(Tony Dow in porn. T.C.)_ I did hear the rumor that Ken Osmond grew up to be a well-known porn star to whom he did bear a slight resemblance. Around 1990, I read that the rumor was widespread enough that Osmond (who was apparently fairly religious) brought it up to his church to quell it. I remember that one as well, never knew Ken actually addressed it. (And good for him, say I.) If I remember correctly the Tony Dow version may have arisen because of a name similarity. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-haskell-rip/854063/27 "2020-05-20T17:22:27Z")
I just watched the episode (“Summer in Alaska”) where Wally, Lumpy, Eddie and Beaver are discussing summer jobs. Eddie is bragging about a job (which turns out not to be everything he says). Beaver says he may be delivering papers, to which Eddie sneers, “Delivering papers! Well, a member of the Fourth Estate!” I once read a commentary by a woman who was a young Beatles fan during Beatlemania. She said that when she first saw them interviewed, she was struck by how they cooperated with each other: one would answer a question, another would agree and underscore that answer with additional comments, etc. She said it was a clear contrast with American boys of the time, who always seemed to be one-upping and putting each other down. Ward’s comment (in my post #21) aside, Eddie may have been the most American boy of them all. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-haskell-rip/854063/28 "2020-05-20T18:42:26Z")
I often wonder what it was about Eddie that made him so appealing to us. I doubt that most of us would’ve wanted to be around him much. We wouldn’t have trusted him any farther than we could throw him. Did we see a little glimmer of ourselves in him? Or what. Discuss amongst yourselves. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-haskell-rip/854063/29 "2020-05-20T19:09:33Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > I often wonder what it was about Eddie that made him so appealing to us. I doubt that most of us would’ve wanted to be around him much. We wouldn’t have trusted him any farther than we could throw him. Did we see a little glimmer of ourselves in him? Or what. > > Discuss amongst yourselves. Why did Lisa Simpson have a crush on Nelson Muntz? Because he’s a rebel, of course! ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-haskell-rip/854063/30 "2020-05-20T19:39:36Z")
I think I last saw him on an episode of Penn and Teller Bullshit, in which he helped to dispel notions that the 1950s were some kind of utopia. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-haskell-rip/854063/31 "2020-05-20T20:14:53Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > That would have been before he was shot in 1980. He apparently wasn’t injured too badly. Bullets were stopped by his vest. I never saw why he was medically retired 8 years later but it’s really none of our business. PTSD is a bitch. ~VOW [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-haskell-rip/854063.md?page=1)