Wally and the Beaver arrange each other's overnight plans without telling Ward and June.Wally and the Beaver arrange each other's overnight plans without telling Ward and June.Wally and the Beaver arrange each other's overnight plans without telling Ward and June.
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- GoofsAfter Ward complains about Fred being a "stuffed shirt", June comments, "Ward, Wally's best friend is Eddie Haskells and yours is Fred Rutherford. What's wrong with this family?" Wally's friend, of course, is Eddie Haskell (no "s" at the end).
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Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver: [re-joining Gilbert on the floor after talking on the telephone] Did the Martians land from outer space yet?
Gilbert Bates: Yeah, they landed a couple minutes ago.
Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver: Boy, they're funny-lookin' little runts, aren't they?
Gilbert Bates: That's not them, ya goof! That's the commercial. They're the funny little guys that wreck your stomach if you don't take that stuff that fizzes.
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Parents need to coordinate!
Lumpy is having a party, and Wally will be attending. On the same night, Beaver is having Gilbert over to watch TV. June and Ward are going out for the evening, so Ward tells Wally he needs to come home not too terribly late since Beaver will be at home alone. June tells Beaver that Gilbert can stay over some other time when Wally is gone for the entire night.
After the party is over, Lumpy discovers a stain on the new carpet. He thinks his dad will not yell at him quite so badly if Wally is there, so he asks Wally to stay the entire night. Wally calls home, wanting to square this with the parents, but Ward and June have gone to another couple's house, and nobody has the number. Then Beaver and Wally talk about the directions their individual parents gave them. They determine that if Wally is at Lumpy's and Beaver is not alone - he's with Gilbert - then everything is OK and proceed on this basis. The next morning June and Ward get quite the surprise when it is Gilbert eating flapjacks at their kitchen table, not Wally!
This is a cute little tale about parents giving conditional directions without the knowledge of the other parent, and what happens when those directions contradict each other and, in this case, when those directions allow the kids a loophole to walk through. Beaver and Wally did not think they were putting one over on their parents. They truly felt what they were doing was OK based on what they'd been told. Ward and June were left looking confused, much like William Powell did in "Life With Father" when faced with his wife and kids' reasoning about getting the ceramic pug dog for free. If you don't know what I'm talking about you really owe it to yourself to watch that film.
After the party is over, Lumpy discovers a stain on the new carpet. He thinks his dad will not yell at him quite so badly if Wally is there, so he asks Wally to stay the entire night. Wally calls home, wanting to square this with the parents, but Ward and June have gone to another couple's house, and nobody has the number. Then Beaver and Wally talk about the directions their individual parents gave them. They determine that if Wally is at Lumpy's and Beaver is not alone - he's with Gilbert - then everything is OK and proceed on this basis. The next morning June and Ward get quite the surprise when it is Gilbert eating flapjacks at their kitchen table, not Wally!
This is a cute little tale about parents giving conditional directions without the knowledge of the other parent, and what happens when those directions contradict each other and, in this case, when those directions allow the kids a loophole to walk through. Beaver and Wally did not think they were putting one over on their parents. They truly felt what they were doing was OK based on what they'd been told. Ward and June were left looking confused, much like William Powell did in "Life With Father" when faced with his wife and kids' reasoning about getting the ceramic pug dog for free. If you don't know what I'm talking about you really owe it to yourself to watch that film.
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- AlsExGal
- Mar 23, 2024
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