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Nov 20, 2020 - 10:56 PM
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Zooba
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Recently binged the Complete TV Series and thought I'd start a thread for those here that enjoy(ed) the show.
Funny how most of the time Beaver and Wally got in trouble it was because one of their "asshole" friends was the cause. Most all of their friends were just selfish brats.
For Wally his idiot friends were Eddie Haskell and Lumpy and for the Beave 9 times out of 10 Larry Mondello or freaking Gilbert broke one of Beaves toys or destroyed property or talked Beave into doing something stupid and detrimental.
One of my fave episodes was when Wally got a boner for that older skanky gal that worked at the Movie Theater Box Office and when they went out she started to make out with him and took him to Beer Bars and have fun. She even smoked cigarettes. Of course he freaked out and chickened out and blew it with her.
Loved the one where Beaver fell into and got trapped in the giant Cup of Soup on the Billboard. Whitey talked him into that stupid bit.
Please share your faves and thoughts on the show. Thanks.
I remember the young actresses on the show who were in Wally and Beave's classes were always really cute and appealing in that late 50's early 60's way.
Wally's Box Office Attraction: Wally's thinking "I'm so close to getting laid, but I can't cause I'm such a nice guy. Golly I'm an idiot."
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I think the Beav and his goofy friends sneak into a Stanley Kubrick movie in one episode. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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I think the Beav and his goofy friends sneak into a Stanley Kubrick movie in one episode. Correct me if I'm wrong.
At least in one episode, perhaps two, SPARTACUS was playing at their local movie theater. Eddie Haskell makes a remark to Beaver's Dad about it. I think in another episode they are actually in the Theater watching supposedly SPARTACUS, but what we see them watching looks like stock footage from a Crusades movie. Since SPARTACUS was a Universal Picture and BEAVER was a Revue Studios (MCA Universal) TV show, it made sense for the Studio to be pushing SPARTACUS to their viewers. Free Promotion in a way. Interesting stuff. I think one of the boys also made a reference to Tony Curtis being in the movie, but wrongly said that he was playing a Roman Soldier or something like that.
That's it! (Although I was hoping someone would guess Lolita.)
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I seldom check out the non-film score threads but today I did. So, I say THANK YOU. The Beaver People need an outlet. Growing up I religiously watched LITB and I recall than there was a resurgence of interest in the 80s. I've been in a fantasy foorball league since 1982, if you can believe it, and one of the teams is called The Lightning 11. Two other guys in the league are Beaver fanatics, as well.
When the pandemic hit, while everyone else was scrambling around trying to get gloves, masks, and Toliet paper, I did the only sensible thing any savvy sage could do--I purchased the complete series. Through the webs, of course, from Bull Moose Records in Portland, Maine, a shop I really enjoyed visiting while on vacation a couple of years ago.
I'm still in the first season, and there are far too many great episodes, but today I'll just mention this one: Gilbert talks Beaver into writing his Three Musketeers book report from a movie starring Don Amiche and the Ritz Brothers. Beaver gets in trouble, of course. Best line: Gilbert says, "Next time you better play it safe and write your book report from a comic book."
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What does it say about me that I have as many Leave It To Beaver books as I have Duke Ellington books?
Two fantastic LITB books are:
The World According to Beaver (contains a synopsis of EVERY episode with air dates, etc plus other essential info).
The Beaver Papers (contains the "lost" Beaver scripts by Raymond Chandler, Kafka, Faulkner, Kerouc, and others).
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