To the editor: Once I watched TV exhibits like “The Cosby Present,” “Depart It to Beaver” and “Household Issues,” I at all times loved the “common boy” characters in them. For me, Theo has at all times represented the typical boy struggling to outlive in an completed household (“Malcolm-Jamal Warner carried a heavy load for Black America,” July 26). What number of instances has one learn in regards to the youngsters of rich and extremely proficient dad and mom (like Bronny James, for instance) who’re doing the very best they will to thrive underneath the stress?
Then you will 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 youngsters 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
