Eddie Haskell - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In The Simpsons, one of the main characters, Bart Simpson, is inspired by the behavior of Haskell, whom the cartoon series' creator Matt Groening considered to be his favorite character. Coincidentally, voice actor Harry Shearer, who does the voices of Mr. Burns, Smithers and Ned Flanders on The Simpsons, played the character Frankie (a precursor to the Eddie Haskell character) in the pilot episode of Leave It to Beaver.

• In the movie 8 Mile, Eminem's character raps about Eddie Haskell and Leave it to Beaver, in one of the rap battles of the movie.

• In the webcomic Achewood, character Roast Beef uses the pseudonym "Ed E. Haskell", when writing his underground zine "Man, Why You Even Got To Do A Thing".

• In the episode "Home Movies", of the teen drama TV series Dawson's Creek third season, the character Joey Potter calls another character, Pacey Witter, "Eddie Haskell."

• In season 4, episode 10, of the HBO show The Wire, Major Colvin says that the young delinquent Namond Brice is putting on his "Eddie Haskell" act.

• Near the conclusion of the 1992 Cameron Crowe film Singles, Matt Dillon's character, upon getting into an elevator with his recently-ex-girlfriend (played by Bridget Fonda), remarks, "That's a very nice hat you're wearing, and I don't mean that in an Eddie Haskell kind of way."

• In season 6 of the TV crime/drama series The Sopranos, in the episode "Kaisha", a character comments on the title of the screenplay for Christopher Moltisanti's film "Cleaver" by saying "Are you sure about the title, Cleaver? The Eddie Haskell connection?"

• The TV cartoon series Beavis and Butt-Head featured the episode "Leave it to Beavis", a spoof on the original show, with Beavis as "The Beavis" and the older delinquent Todd as "Eddie".

• In the episode titled "All about Roseanne" of the sitcom Roseanne, Roseanne makes a reference to marijuana, calling it "reefer". This confuses the guest character June Cleaver, causing her to ask, "Reefer?" and Roseanne replies, "Ask Eddie Haskell."

• In the season 3 episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air titled "Robbing the Banks," Uncle Phil's brown-nosing assistant is named "Edward Haskell" and played by Phil LaMarr. His last name comes out when under arrest by uniform officers, having only been Edward for most of the episode.

• In the song "Deceived" the band Why? sings "gotta get out of my Eddie Haskell pattern."

• In an episode of Designing Women, somebody the quartet is talking about is described with the line "He's such an Eddie Haskell.", to which Suzanne Sugarbaker responds, "Who's Eddie Haskell?" Jean Smart's Charlene Frazier responds, "Who's Eddie Haskell?", incredulous at Suzanne's apparent unfamiliarity with the TV character.

• In an episode of My Wife and Kids titled "Papa Said Knock You Out", Michael Kyle refers to his daughter Claire's boyfriend Tony as a "religious Eddie Haskell".