Why does Les wear a bandage in every episode?
A. Just before the pilot episode was due to start taping, Richard Sanders (Les) bumped into a light and badly cut his forehead. Though Sanders refused to get stitches until the taping was done, the gash could not be covered with makeup, for fear of infection. It was decided that Sanders would wear a large bandage in the first act and a smaller one in the second act (which was supposed to take three days later). A line was quickly written to explain the bandages, something to the effect that Les slipped on his skateboard on the way to work, but no one liked the line and it was cut from the finished pilot. Sanders later decided to make this into Les’s trademark by wearing a bandage or band-aid on some part of his body in every episode.
