Were these on-screen kids important or annoying?
How do you feel about these whipper snappers?

CBS Television Distribution
A child on a television show can either be annoying or adorable, sometimes both. In this poll, we've got some iconic on-screen kids. You've got to tell us if they made the show better or worse!
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Opie Taylor in The Andy Griffith Show
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Chachi from Happy Days
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Cindy Brady from The Brady Bunch
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Leon from The Andy Griffith Show
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Theodore Cleaver from Leave It to Beaver
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Bobby Brady from The Brady Bunch
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Jamie Hunter-Cartwright from Bonanza
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Cousin Oliver from The Brady Bunch
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Little Ricky from I Love Lucy
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Ritchie Petrie from The Dick Van Dyke Show
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Were these on-screen kids important or annoying?
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153 Comments

Yeah, I’m not sure why Sherwood Schwartz decided to add cousin Oliver to the “Brady Bunch” cast. The show really didn’t need another kid in the mix.
80% similar.
Not many of these kids made a difference on the show.
Opie definitely.
Dick Van Dyke kid, no way.
Not many of these kids made a difference on the show.
Opie definitely.
Dick Van Dyke kid, no way.
80% similar.
I chose "made the show better" for all of them except # 7 & 8. Oliver was just annoying, and I don't know who Jamie-something-Cartwright was so I guess they were fine without him/her.
I chose "made the show better" for all of them except # 7 & 8. Oliver was just annoying, and I don't know who Jamie-something-Cartwright was so I guess they were fine without him/her.
The Brady Bunch was so awful it would have been better without all the kids.
As for Richie Petrie, apparently the show's writers agreed that it would be better without him, as he pretty much disappeared. Maybe he ran off to the place that Richie Cunningham's older brother went to a few years later.
As for Richie Petrie, apparently the show's writers agreed that it would be better without him, as he pretty much disappeared. Maybe he ran off to the place that Richie Cunningham's older brother went to a few years later.
Leon was always so cute…he never uttered a word, only offering Andy and/or Barney a bite of his peanut butter and jelly sandwich!
Benji on litb was annoying and because the actress who played his mother and Eddie Haskell was the same.Would that make them half brothers?
90% Cousin Oliver was a universally bad decision to cast. That casting addition killed any possibility for a sixth season.
I always thought Mike and Carol should have had a kid together on the show. Yours mine and ours. I really think that could have worked
He just wanted to be a more serious actor and the Buncklh wasn't doing it for him. He was gay and had problems doing kissing scenes with Florence.
After the Bunch ended, he was on Mannix a bunch of times then he ended up being John Travolta's Dad In The Boy in The Plastic Bubble. Now That's Serious.
After the Bunch ended, he was on Mannix a bunch of times then he ended up being John Travolta's Dad In The Boy in The Plastic Bubble. Now That's Serious.