the #1 Beaver!

[RobertScorpio]

You pervs!!! I'm not talking about THAT kind of beaver... I'm talking about LEAVE IT TO BEAVER...which is currently available on NETFLIX streaming..I havent seen this show in YEARS and I watched one with my five year old, and wow, he laughed his head off..

Beaver is given a note from his school teacher to give to his parents...but the other kids warn him that when you get a letter sent home its because you're going to be expelled...naturally Beaver starts telling lies and well...its real fun stuff..

Yes, its very vanilla...very 'old school'...but innocent fun for the kids...a TV classic for sure...

The NETFLIX versions even include the old 'teaser' that many syndicated channels cut-out years ago

Rob

 

[ToddPence]

I've always thought that LITB was a much genuinely funnier show than it ever gets credit for being. It tends to be remembered as akin to a saccharine "Ozzie and Harriet" type show, but there's a lot of subversive humor on it. I mean, the character of Eddie Haskel has to be one of the greatest sitcom characters ever.

 

[Bloodwhiner]

one of my favorites.

Comedy without crudeness. There was also some good parenting messages in that show

 

[Dusty Ayres]

I've always thought that LITB was a much genuinely funnier show than it ever gets credit for being. It tends to be remembered as akin to a saccharine "Ozzie and Harriet" type show, but there's a lot of subversive humor on it. I mean, the character of Eddie Haskell has to be one of the greatest sitcom characters ever.

According to SCTV, Eddie Haskell is gay, and comes out to Wally when both are adults.

Here's the skit that reveals this: SCTV - Leave It To Beaver - 25th Anniversary Party

 

[RobertScorpio]

one of my favorites.

Comedy without crudeness. There was also some good parenting messages in that show

Definately..I'm making my daughter, 15 year old, watch it too because she DEFINATELY needs to see this kind of show.

It took them a moment to get past the "Black and white" presentation (no color) but....once they got into the story they forgot about it..

Rob

 

[Candlelight]

I loved the pisstake in the movie Scrooged:

Kid: "Hey mom, where's dad?"
Mom: "If I know your father Wally, he's out chasing beaver"
Kid gives a cheesy smile, freeze frame, Voice Over: "Father Loves Beaver"

 

[Zachary Smith]

I always thought it an ominous portent that the main character was named "Beaver Cleaver". Sounds WAAAaay too much like a notorious serial killer with a particular style of dispatching his victims.

That said, the episodes when Beaver was small were delightfully funny. By the time he was hitting puberty, not so much funny because he went from being a naive little kid learning about the world to a generally retarded adolescent who just seemed, well, stupid, for the nonsense he got into.

BTW, Met Tony Dow a few times--an EXTREMELY nice man.

 

[Alpha_Geek]

one of my favorites.

Comedy without crudeness. There was also some good parenting messages in that show

Huh? You realize one of the most subversive lines to get through the censors in the 50's was:

"Ward, I think you were a little hard on the beaver last night."

 

[RobertScorpio]

one of my favorites.

Comedy without crudeness. There was also some good parenting messages in that show

Huh? You realize one of the most subversive lines to get through the censors in the 50's was:

"Ward, I think you were a little hard on the beaver last night."

Oh please....more 'stuff' like that got by the TNG censors every episode..

Rob

 

[Dusty Ayres]

one of my favorites.

Comedy without crudeness. There was also some good parenting messages in that show

Definately..I'm making my daughter, 15 year old, watch it too because she DEFINATELY needs to see this kind of show.

It took them a moment to get past the "Black and white" presentation (no color) but....once they got into the story they forgot about it..

Rob

What if she finds it dated compared to Hannah Montana, Wizards Of Waverley Place, iCarly, Drake & Josh, The Suite Life, The Suite Life On Deck, That's So Raven, and other teen comedies on the Disney Channel & Nickelodeon?

 

[RobertScorpio]

one of my favorites.

Comedy without crudeness. There was also some good parenting messages in that show

Definately..I'm making my daughter, 15 year old, watch it too because she DEFINATELY needs to see this kind of show.

It took them a moment to get past the "Black and white" presentation (no color) but....once they got into the story they forgot about it..

Rob

What if she finds it dated compared to Hannah Montana, Wizards Of Waverley Place, iCarly, Drake & Josh, The Suite Life, The Suite Life On Deck, That's So Raven, and other teen comedies on the Disney Channel & Nickelodeon?

She watches all of those shows actually, which is fine with me. But we have seen three episodes of Leave it To Beaver, and she's liked them all. Something about the writing, I think, elevates Beaver over its modern-day counterparts.

Rob

 

[Mr. Adventure]

"That new kid sure is creepy."
"You thinkin' about clobberin' him?"
"I don't know but I'm going to give him the business."
"Ha, that'd be swell."

 

[RobertScorpio]

"That new kid sure is creepy."
"You thinkin' about clobberin' him?"
"I don't know but I'm going to give him the business."
"Ha, that'd be swell."

Fluoride in the water
Alien abductions in Idaho
Fair and balanced Fox News..

Urban myths!!!

Rob

 

[barnaclelapse]

I'd have to watch it again. It's literally been about twenty years since I've seen an episode.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

"That new kid sure is creepy."
"You thinkin' about clobberin' him?"
"I don't know but I'm going to give him the business."
"Ha, that'd be swell."

Fluoride in the water
Alien abductions in Idaho
Fair and balanced Fox News..

Urban myths!!!

Rob

Not meant to be non sequiturs, just saying I always liked that nifty neat 50's lingo on Leave It To Beaver.

 

[RobertScorpio]

"That new kid sure is creepy."
"You thinkin' about clobberin' him?"
"I don't know but I'm going to give him the business."
"Ha, that'd be swell."

Fluoride in the water
Alien abductions in Idaho
Fair and balanced Fox News..

Urban myths!!!

Rob

Not meant to be non sequiturs, just saying I always liked that nifty neat 50's lingo on Leave It To Beaver.

Im just kidding..and yeah, sometimes those lines are, well, interesting to say the least. In the episode I watched Ward got some flowers from another woman, a school teacher. The teacher thought he was sick and the note with the flowers read "I hope to see you on your feet again." To which Mrs. Cleaver says "when was the last time she saw you off your feet"...

Rob

 

[Dusty Ayres]

Definately..I'm making my daughter, 15 year old, watch it too because she DEFINATELY needs to see this kind of show.

It took them a moment to get past the "Black and white" presentation (no color) but....once they got into the story they forgot about it..

Rob

What if she finds it dated compared to Hannah Montana, Wizards Of Waverley Place, iCarly, Drake & Josh, The Suite Life, The Suite Life On Deck, That's So Raven, and other teen comedies on the Disney Channel & Nickelodeon?

She watches all of those shows actually, which is fine with me. But we have seen three episodes of Leave it To Beaver, and she's liked them all. Something about the writing, I think, elevates Beaver over its modern-day counterparts.

Rob

Considering that the 13-14 year-old version of the Beaver acts like a stupid idiot as Zachary Smith has mentioned, I don't see how she will grow to like him.

Last time I checked, the writing on Leave It To Beaver wasn't that hot, but that might be me and everybody else.