To the editor: Once I watched TV reveals like “The Cosby Present,” “Go away It to Beaver” and “Household Issues,” I all the time loved the “common boy” characters in them. For me, Theo has all the time represented the typical boy struggling to outlive in an achieved household (“Malcolm-Jamal Warner carried a heavy load for Black America,” July 26). What number of occasions has one learn in regards to the kids of rich and extremely gifted dad and mom (like Bronny James, for instance) who’re doing the very best they’ll to thrive underneath the strain?
Then you may have “the Beave.” One other common child attempting to outlive in an in any other case good (or so it appears) household. And eventually, there was Steve Urkel. He was my favourite TV child, somebody really gifted and both resented or envied by the adults and children round him.
I need to thank Theo, Beaver and Urkel, and the actors who performed them, for representing the good-hearted “misplaced boys.” They gave the misplaced boys of their generations hope.
Mark Walker, Yorba Linda
