I totally agree with the last reviewer that this particular episode would always come up in school, especially when it was time to take a test! And Leave it Eddie and Lumpy to cheat, cheat, cheat. Honestly, how Wally continued to hang out with these dopes is the biggest mystery of all... except to say we all had one or two "offbeat" friends back in the day ourselves.
There's a major history test in Mr. Gannon's (Frank Albertson) class and he expects results. Naturally, Eddie and Lumpy don't want to disappoint him and work up a neat scheme. Eddie will write the answers on a paper towel in the school lav, excuse himself to memorize them, and then return. Next it will be Lumpy's turn.
But what happens when good guy Wally also uses the lav, and ultimately ends up with a higher grade on the same exam? Eddie and Lumpy fink him out! That's what happens. Oh, these teenage scandals.
Veteran director Norman Tokar handled his episode and brought out some truly fine performances from everybody. In all, he directed 93 episodes for the series, also working on the DONNA REED SHOW and later for Walt Disney tv.
There's only one question, and one that has bugged me for decades. Memorizing a bunch of answers takes time and can be confusing. However, if Eddie and Lumpy could memorize all that stuff in a few minutes, they probably would have passed the test anyway without cheating!
Good support from actor Frank Albertson, whose film career went back to the 1930s and appeared in several Oscar winning films, such as IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946). Interestingly, not too long after this episode, he would portray the oil tycoon who flirts with Janet Leigh in an early scene from PSYCHO (1960).
A history lesson with a lesson to be learned. Not to be missed. SEASON 3 EPISODE 17 remastered dvd box set.