Larry's Quarter - William Sanderson, who played Larry, one of three bizarre backwoods brothers living in Vermont on the sitcom NEWHART/CBS/1982-90 always wore a quarter (25 cent piece) in his ear when performing on the show.

Larry from Newhart

Ever since his supporting performance in the movie Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Sanderson has continued to practice this strange ritual. As he explained "It's for luck."