Rascally Eddie Haskell pretends to be Beaver's hypnotized slave.Rascally Eddie Haskell pretends to be Beaver's hypnotized slave.Rascally Eddie Haskell pretends to be Beaver's hypnotized slave.
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- TriviaWhen Larry and The Beaver go to the movies to see "The Mad Hypnotist', the scene is introduced by some stock footage showing children in front of the Village Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA. Very similar footage is used in season 2 in Beaver's Sweater (1959).
- GoofsWard & June discuss whether it was right for Wally to "push" Eddie into the mud-but Wally had nothing to do with it. Wally confronted Eddie about deceiving Beaver, and Eddie ran from him and slipped in mud created by someone's yard sprinkler.
- Quotes
Theodore Cleaver: With a girl?
Wally Cleaver: Yeah she's sort of a girl.
Theodore Cleaver: You know something Wally?
Wally Cleaver: What?
Theodore Cleaver: You're getting to be an awful wiseguy since you started taking baths.
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65 years later, Ken Osmond as Eddie Haskell still entertains
Wally and Beaver go to the movies on Saturday, although it is to separate movies. Wally goes to a war film, and Beaver and Larry go to see "The Mad Hypnotist". As a result, Beaver becomes very interested in hypnotism and tries imitating the methods seen in the film on his mother, father, brother, and even a neighborhood cat, with disappointing results.
Enter stage left Eddie Haskell. He pretends that Beaver has successfully hypnotized him, and then refuses to "snap out of it" when Beaver tries to take him out of his "spell". Every time Beaver sees Eddie, he's still in a trance - walking like a zombie, arms outstretched, eyes closed. It's odd that Beaver never wondered how Eddie managed to change his clothes and stay hygienic if constantly in a trance! Beaver is tormented by the thought that Eddie may be in a trance for the rest of his life. How will this all work out? Watch and find out.
This is meant to both entertain and be a lesson in how it's important to listen to and spend time with your kids. Ward had been working all weekend, and when Beaver came to him about this problem, it all just seemed to be a nonsensical series of questions about hypnotism that I could see Ward could lose patience with given all that was on his mind, the questions seeming to have no point. It turned out that they did have a point, it was just that Beaver, thinking Eddie really was hypnotized, thought he could be in some kind of trouble.
Enter stage left Eddie Haskell. He pretends that Beaver has successfully hypnotized him, and then refuses to "snap out of it" when Beaver tries to take him out of his "spell". Every time Beaver sees Eddie, he's still in a trance - walking like a zombie, arms outstretched, eyes closed. It's odd that Beaver never wondered how Eddie managed to change his clothes and stay hygienic if constantly in a trance! Beaver is tormented by the thought that Eddie may be in a trance for the rest of his life. How will this all work out? Watch and find out.
This is meant to both entertain and be a lesson in how it's important to listen to and spend time with your kids. Ward had been working all weekend, and when Beaver came to him about this problem, it all just seemed to be a nonsensical series of questions about hypnotism that I could see Ward could lose patience with given all that was on his mind, the questions seeming to have no point. It turned out that they did have a point, it was just that Beaver, thinking Eddie really was hypnotized, thought he could be in some kind of trouble.
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- AlsExGal
- Feb 10, 2024
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- Runtime30 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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