little ricky
i know him he is amazing
shareOn the show, he was amazingly awful and ruined every episode he was in with his godawful singing. "You look like you need some cheering up!" - ugh. I wish someone had dropped a piano on him - he was an abomination.
shareI thought he was so cute! And his singing was cute and it cheered me up, and I was already 15 at the time. He was only 4 years old at the time and he does'nt even remember it. He mentioned on a reunion show that he remembers only once a director telling him to talk, when the red light went on.
Patty
Imagine that, he doesn't even have memories of being on one of the most well-known shows of all time!
~life is a rock....but the radio rolled me~
On the show, he was amazingly awful
I second the motion. He was terrible. Of course, the show wasn't all that great at casting little kids in the first place... witness Suzanne Crough, who I'm sure was a lovely person in real life but she added absolutely nothing to the mix as Tracy. share
I feel the same way as you. Ricky was obnoxious and ruined the show. I got the complete series on DVDs for Christmas. I fast forward over any segment with him. Had he not been added to the show, it would probably have gone several more seasons.
shareIn your own warped thinking.
shareHe's right, Ricky didn't work. He did a lot of Columbia Pictures TV programs at the time where his appearance usually seemed shoe-horned in (was he related to an executive?)
Today, to an older viewer, he seems kind of "cute" and benign. But to an audience of other kids, he seemed like a saccharine add-on -- which he was, for TPF -- and kids hate that, instantly sniffing out the contrivance for what it was.
I'm sure he's a lovely person however.
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