However, when Wally gives the job to Beaver, Beaver finds himself searching for Chuckie, who has gotten himself lost. So far a baseball glove, a lunch box and a baseball cap were heisted. Later, June makes a shocking discovery; she finds the stolen items under Beaver's bed. This leaves June and Ward wondering if they're raising a thief. Ep Beaver's Accordian An advertisement in the mail for a free tryout of an accordion has Beaver sneaking around behind Ward's back.
After rescuing the flyer from the trash, Beaver sends it in and indeed gets an accordion that he quickly finds hard to hide from his parents. Not realizing this, Beaver expects Billy to come through after promising Beaver a fishing reel. Foster, who teaches English. Meanwhile, at school, a new semester lands Wally in Mr. Foster's class and he quickly finds himself feeling uncomfortable—especially after Eddie tells him that his relationship with Julie will determine his grades.
Ep Beaver's Secret Life After revealing that he wants to be a writer when he grows up, Ward buys Beaver a diary to practice writing and Beaver begins keeping a record of his daily activities. However, June and Ward pick the lock and sneak a peek at his diary after Beaver neglects to come home on time.
Ep Wally's Track Meet Wally is all set to compete in a track meet but after the coach catches him "horsing around" in the locker room, he's ousted from the meet, even though Lumpy and Eddie were egging him on. Ep Beaver's Old Buddy An old friend of Beaver's spends the weekend at the Cleavers and Beaver is all ready to have a great time like they used to.
However, Beaver quickly discovers that people change and in this case Beaver's old buddy has indeed changed. Ep Beaver's Tonsils When Beaver becomes sick, the doctor thinks Beaver may need to have his tonsils taken out. Ward quickly puts Beaver's fears to rest by telling him everyone will bring him presents when they visit him in the hospital.
This leads Beaver to tell everyone that he's going to have surgery, but then he finds out he may not need the operation after all. Ep The Big Fish Count Eddie makes it known to everyone that he's just gotten a job down at Parker's Pet Store, which happens to be holding a contest in which you guess the number of fish in a tank. After hours of counting and re-counting, Gilbert suggests to Beaver that they ought to just ask Eddie for the count, but Beaver is a bit hesitant about cheating.
Ep Beaver's Poster Miss Landers is having Beaver's class do projects on the colonial period and Beaver is one of three students creating posters. Whoever makes the best one gets a prize and Beaver is sure that Ward will paint the poster for him.
Ep Mother's Helper A neighborhood cleaning woman, Mrs. Manners, gets a request from June asking her to help out a couple times during the week. Manners is too busy herself but instead sends over her daughter, a girl whom Wally instantly falls for. Ep The Dramatic Club After joining the dramatic club at school, Beaver is given the lead role in a play.
However, after reading the script, he discovers he must kiss a girl and wants out of the production. Ep Wally and Dudley A close friend of June's moves into the neighborhood and June arranges to have Wally show the new kid, Dudley, around school. However, everyone thinks Dudley is a creep and Eddie and Lumpy plan to make a fool of Dudley at a party. However, during a game of chess, Eddie accuses Wally of cheating and they get into a big argument ending with Wally ordering Eddie to go home.
Ep Beaver's Report Card Beaver gets out of school early to go to the dentist, which prompts Gilbert to drop off his report card. Ep Mistaken Identity A police officer catches Richard throwing rocks at the windows of an old abandoned house. When asked for his name, he tells the officer it is Theodore Cleaver. Meanwhile, Ward has joined a committee to organize a youth center.
To get them together, June slyly invites Ginny on a picnic and the Cleaver's quickly discover that Ginny is not exactly a barrel of laughs. Ep The School Picture While Beaver's class is having a group picture taken, Gilbert goads Beaver into making a face with him when they snap the picture.
However, when the picture is actually taken, Gilbert backs out and Beaver is the only one making a face. Ep Beaver's Rat Beaver making trades with his classmates is beginning to get on Ward and June's nerves because he seems to be the one who always walks away shorthanded. June especially thinks Beaver got the short stick in his latest trade when he comes home with a pet rat.
Ep In the Soup Wally is throwing a party and is successful in getting Beaver out of the house, who is planning to spend the night at Whitey's.
However, on the way to Whitey's house, he and Beaver get into an argument over a billboard that is advertising soup, leading Beaver to fall into the giant soup bowl mounted at the top of the billboard.
Ep Community Chest Beaver volunteers to go around the neighborhood and collect for the Community Chest in June's place after she decides to attend Wally's open house at his school. Beaver brings along Gilbert and thanks to Beaver's astronomical mistake of losing the collection can, chaos erupts. Ep Junior Fire Chief Beaver decides to run for junior fire chief and, to his surprise, wins. However, as soon as he's elected, he lets the responsibilities go to his head and begins issuing citations to not only his family but his neighbors as well.
Ep Beaver's Frogs Beaver wants a canoe and makes a deal with Ward: If Beaver can come up with half the money, Ward will pay for the other half. So Beaver, comes up with a way of making money by selling frogs. However, little does he know that the man who's going to buy the frogs, uses them for class dissections. Ep Beaver Goes in Business Beaver and Gilbert begin a lawn mowing business and plan to go door to door in seach of lawns that need to be mowed.
However, shortly after they venture out, Eddie gives the boys some advice that leads them into trouble and Gilbert to bail out of the business when their first client appears. Ep Kite Day An upcoming father-son kite day has Beaver getting all excited when Ward agrees to participate with him. They do a great job building a kite together but when Gilbert talks Beaver into testing it out, the kite crashes and falls apart.
This leaves Beaver with the duty to tell Ward just what happened. Ep Beaver's Doll Buggy Beaver buys a rundown mini-race car from Eddie and needs to find a set of wheels for it.
Beaver decides to ask Penny Woods if he could have the wheels off her old doll buggy but finds himself in an awkward position: pushing a doll buggy down the street. However, when Miss Landers hears Beaver swear at a bully, Beaver turns to Wally to handle the situation and be a "substitute father. Ep 1: Wally Goes Steady Ward and June find themselves in the dark when they hear through the grapevine that not only is Wally going steady with Evelyn Boothby but that wedding bells may be heard soon.
Meanwhile, Wally gets a different picture of marital life through Evelyn's sister and her husband. Ep 2: No Time for Babysitters. Wally quickly finds himself with more trouble then he bargained for when the lemon becomes a fixture in front of the Cleaver home. Ep 4: Beaver's Birthday Beaver has told his parents that he doesn't want anything big for his birthday and they decide to respect his wishes and give him a gift of money.
Beaver also gets quite a bit of money from other relatives and finds himself debating on whether or not to spend it or put in the bank, like his parents suggest. However, when the owner is found, and the cat is returned, Beaver finds himself with a dilemma: The cat keeps coming back!
Ep 6: Wally's Weekend Job Wally gets a job at the ice cream parlor leaving a gaggle of girls swooning and Eddie and Lumpy feeling neglected. So to get back at him, Eddie and Lumpy concoct a plan of revenge that involves Mary Ellen Roger's slumber party.
Ep 7: Beaver Takes a Drive When Beaver and Gilbert are pretending to go for a drive in Ward's car, Beaver accidentally releases the parking brake, causing the car to roll down the driveway and into the street, backing up traffic. Wally steps in and drives the car back in the driveway and clears up the traffic mess, but he soon finds himself being issued a citation for driving without a license.
Ep 8: Wally's Big Date Wally's school is having an exchange dance and Wally and Eddie must take girls from a rival school that they chose out of a hat. Eddie asks to trade with Wally and he agrees, like a shot, after seeing the picture of Eddie's intended in a yearbook. Suspicious, Wally soon quickly discovers why Eddie wanted to trade; the girl is a few inches taller than Wally.
Wanting to pick them out himself, he goes to the store and is conned by a salesman who sells him skates that are three sizes too big. Ep Weekend Invitation Wally and a bunch of other guys are invited to spend the weekend at Scott's cottage on the lake. However, Scott doesn't mention to Wally that there will be no parent supervision. Wally has Beaver look over an old exam that he once took.
To Beaver's surprise, the next day his teacher gives him the exact same test, which, of course, he aces. However, Beaver is left with a guilty conscience. Ep Wally's Chauffeur Wally plans on going to a big dance with Evelyn Boothby and they plan on getting there cramped with six other people in Lumpy's car.
When June and Ward refuse to allow that, Wally and Evelyn must find another way to get there. However, what Evelyn has in mind doesn't go over well with Wally. Ep Beaver's First Date A party is being thrown at the dancing school where Beaver and Wally once took lessons and they're both invited.
This prompts Beaver to ask one particular girl who caught his eye, Betsy Patterson, if he could escort her to the dance. However, once at the dance, he finds that Betsy has promised other boys that she would dance with them. Ep Ward's Golf Clubs During a particularly awful golf game, Ward happens to break his driver and decides it's not worth repairing it, so he just puts it in the closet.
Later, Gilbert talks Beaver into hitting around some golf balls with Ward's clubs and one hit with the broken driver has Beaver thinking he broke it. Ep Farewell to Penny Penny learns that she will be moving away and Beaver deals with mixed feelings for the girl with whom he shares a mutual dislike. However, after a farewell party at school, Beaver and Penny openly show their true feelings for one another. Ep Beaver, the Bunny. Ep Beaver's Electric Trains June runs across Beaver's old electric trains while cleaning and because he hasn't played with them in years, finds someone who will take them, with Beaver's consent.
However, Beaver quickly re-discovers the fun of playing with the trains and wants to withdraw from the arrangement, even though the new owners-to-be are expecting them. Ep Beaver's Long Night Beaver has Gilbert over to spend the night but after they watch a gangster movie things get out of hand. A suspicious car has just pulled up to the front of the house with two strange characters sitting inside, and they just happen to be Lumpy and Bill, dressed for a masquerade party.
Not knowing this, Beaver calls the police and Lumpy and Bill are arrested. Ep Beaver's Jacket Richard has just gotten, as Beaver describes it, a "keen" new jacket and this prompts Beaver to ask his parents for one exactly like it. June and Ward are hesitant after learning the price but decide to give in. However, when Richard loses his jacket, he coerces Beaver into a plot to trick his parents. Ep Nobody Loves Me Beaver becomes convinced that he's ugly and unwanted after constantly being reminded how cute he used to be and from being yelled at by his parents for how messy he is currently.
Ep Beaver's Fear Wally is rounding up some guys to go to an amusement park and he's one short from getting a discount so he settles on Beaver. However, Beaver begins having second thoughts when he hears stories about one of the roller coasters. After getting their parent's permission, Richard and Gilbert fight over who gets to keep the burro, which they name Pepe. However, once they get a load of just how destructive a burro can be, they dump the problem of room and board on Beaver.
Ep Eddie Quits School Eddie pompously announces that he's dropping out of school to get a high paying job at a gas station. However, all is not as it seems when Wally and Lumpy get a glance at Eddie's new free spending life. Ep Wally Stays at Lumpy's A communication gap ensues when Wally wants to spend the night at Lumpy's and Beaver wants to have Gilbert spend the night.
Beaver asks June and she tells him he can sometime when Wally spends the night somewhere and Wally asks Ward, who tells him he can sometime when Beaver has someone spend the night. Ep Beaver's Laundry Beaver agrees to help Richard cart his family's clothes down to the laundromat; however, half way there they discover that Richard has lost the three dollars his mother gave him.
This leads him to ask Beaver if he could use the Cleaver washer. They soon find themselves in another jam when the washing machine overflows after Beaver put in too much soap and starch. However, on the way back, Lumpy disobeys Ward's orders and takes a shortcut home.
Ep Beaver the Babysitter. Ep The Younger Brother Beaver decides to join the basketball team but finds himself trying to live up to Wally's performance. However, after not making the team, Beaver allows his family to believe that he did. Ep Beaver's Typewriter Seeing an ad for typewriters on sale, Beaver talks his parents into letting him get one as long as he learns how to use it. However, Beaver discovers learning to type is not as easy as it looks and soon finds himself making a deal with the shady Eddie Haskell.
Ep The Merchant Marine Ward comes down hard on Wally after he comes home two hours late, this fuels June and Ward's suspicions that Wally is contemplating joining the Merchant Marines. June had discovered some pamphlets hidden in his dresser drawer. However, little does anyone know, Wally has been getting the information for Lumpy who's seriously thinking of joining.
Ep Brother Versus Brother Beaver gets a new girl in his class and is instantly smitten. He begins walking her home from school but he soon realizes that the girl has an agenda on her mind. Her sole purpose is to get close to Beaver in order to get close to Wally. This leads Beaver to accuse Wally of stealing his girl. Ep The Yard Birds Ward doesn't take any excuses when he puts his foot down and demands that Wally and Beaver clean the yard.
They each reluctantly cancel their plans with Richard and Eddie and get to work but soon find themselves with distractions.
This causes them to miss the deadline to call the hauler who is suppose to take all the yard waste away and this leads them to pay Eddie and Lumpy to take care of it. Ep Tennis, Anyone? Ep One of the Boys Eddie and Wally finally get a chance to join the most exclusive social club in school, the Barons.
However, after hanging out with the Barons on a Friday night, Eddie and Wally realize they don't want to be in this club because the guys really aren't who everybody thinks they are. Ep Sweatshirt Monsters Beaver, Richard, Whitey and Alan each buy sweatshirts that have monster faces on the front of them. They like them so much they each decide to wear them to school the next day. However, each one finds that their parents forbid them from wearing such hideous sweatshirts to school.
Adam Zolotin, the actor who plays the wonderfully weaselly Eddie Haskell, in particular deserves credit for capturing that mocking early teen laugh, the phony flattery to Ward and June Cleaver played enjoyably with s exaggerated gender roles by Christopher McDonald and Janine Turner , and all the other mannerisms originally presented by Ken Osmond -- who, along with the original June Cleaver, Barbara Billingsley, make entertaining cameos.
But when the film tries to be a contemporary movie about contemporary kids with ginormous personal computers, Gameboys, and other relics of late-'90s kid culture, it feels forced and pointless. This would have been a much better movie had they kept it set in the s, where it belongs. Families can talk about how this film is an adaptation of a s TV series.
In what ways did the filmmakers evoke the spirit of the original show? In what ways did they try to make the characters, story, and setting more modern? How realistic were the actions of the bullies? How would you deal with bullies?
Where did the film attempt to convey actual realities -- in and out of school -- that kids and parents contend with? Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are created by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners.
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Rate movie. Watch or buy. Ward and June Cleaver are raising two sons: Wally and Theodore, who everyone calls by the nickname "Beaver. Beaver is definitely not a Bart Simpson, constantly making trouble and outwitting his dad.
No, Beaver is a kid who gets into trouble usually because one of his friends Larry, Richard or Gilbert talks him into it. It is then usually up to Ward to help straighten the situation out and gently but firmly teach Beaver the lesson to be learned.
Wally and June are equally as important. Wally is the older brother we all wish we had. And who else but June could look so perfect while fixing up a batch of our favorite cookies?
One of the biggest reasons why the show was popular then and is still popular today, however, is the supporting cast.
Eddie Haskell. Cleaver, that is a lovely blouse you are wearing. Miss Landers. Mary Ellen Rogers. Gus the Fireman. All have endured for more than 40 years and become permanent fixtures in our pop culture. Overly romanticized? But so what. Years from now when people have forgotten almost all of the sitcoms airing today, The Beaver will still be bringing smiles to our faces.
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