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!

  1. Opie Taylor in The Andy Griffith Show
  2. Chachi from Happy Days
  3. Cindy Brady from The Brady Bunch
  4. Leon from The Andy Griffith Show
  5. Theodore Cleaver from Leave It to Beaver
  6. Bobby Brady from The Brady Bunch
  7. Jamie Hunter-Cartwright from Bonanza
  8. Cousin Oliver from The Brady Bunch
  9. Little Ricky from I Love Lucy
  10. Ritchie Petrie from The Dick Van Dyke Show

Were these on-screen kids important or annoying?

Your Result...

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153 Comments

Spaceseed 23 days ago
Richie P? That kid was horrible. I’d rather watch Debbie the Bloop.
CouchPotato987 27 days ago
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.
Wendy57 1 month ago
80% similar.
Not many of these kids made a difference on the show.
Opie definitely.
Dick Van Dyke kid, no way.
Zip 1 month ago
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.
Scott76112 1 month ago
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.
cinamac 1 month ago
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!
Spaceseed cinamac 23 days ago
No thanks Leon.
tinkparker 1 month ago
90% I like Leon but nothing would change if he wasn't on it
steviebeefs 1 month ago
50% similar. I don't see how you all can be so wrong with these quizzes😄
vg2023 1 month ago
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?
Kaydee 1 month ago
90% Cousin Oliver was a universally bad decision to cast. That casting addition killed any possibility for a sixth season.
Coldnorth Kaydee 1 month ago
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
Bapa1 Kaydee 1 month ago
....that and Robert Reed's behavior on set.
RockStarr69 Bapa1 21 days ago
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.
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