Leave It to Beaver (TV Series)

Wally's Practical Joke (1963)

Hugh Beaumont: Ward Cleaver

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• June Cleaver : Did they get Clarence's car running?

  Ward Cleaver : Oh, yeah. I just talked to Fred. It's running fine. The only trouble is, Clarence ran out of gas on the way to his tuba lesson.

  June Cleaver : Well, that sounds like a great contribution to music!

• Ward Cleaver : Well, I guess this is the time of year for kids to horse around. I remember when I was in high school, one of the fellows had one of those little Austin cars. Well, about ten of us got together and carried it up the school steps and put it right...

  June Cleaver : [interrupting]  Ward?

  Ward Cleaver : Oh. Uh, I keep forgetting. I'm not supposed to have had any fun when I was a kid.

• June Cleaver : Why are you looking so grim?

  Ward Cleaver : I'm reading the comics. They have more international disasters than the front page! Y'know, when I was a kid, you looked at Happy Hooligan and you knew he was funny.

  June Cleaver : Who's Happy Hooligan?

  Ward Cleaver : Oh, don't you remember? During the Holidays, the kids used to wish each other a "Mary Pickford and a Happy Hooligan".

  June Cleaver : [mocking]  Oh, the mad, gay times you used to have!

  Ward Cleaver : The Shaker Heights swinger!