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Larry Mondello, played by Rusty Stevens
Larry is Beaver's chubby, not-very-bright classmate and best friend. He is famous for for his apple-eating, candy bar-munching habits and cadging food from the Cleavers. Larry has a knack for leading Beaver into trouble then dodging out and leaving Beaver to face the consequences. Larry and Beaver have an on-again/off-again relationship. The boys sometimes quarrel but make up when the clouds pass. They are in the same class together at Grant Avenue Grammar School and are forced to attend ballroom dance lessons at Miss Spencer's School of the Dance on Saturdays. Larry runs away from home in one episode — but only as far as Beaver's bathroom where he sleeps in the bath tub. In another episode, Larry throws his mother's pin money out the window, picks it up later, and claims the money fell from an airplane. Larry appeared in the first three seasons. Actor Stevens left the show when his family moved from the West to the East Coast. Stevens reprised his role of Larry Mondello in the 1983 reunion telemovie, Still the Beaver.
Left: Larry and his mother |
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