Shark Bytes

I enjoyed LITB when wally and the beaver were younger..beaver was more believable when he got into scrapes. On the whole Beaver was a very bad and not always respectful boy.He lied every chance he got.I have never seen such a gullable person,you could have sold him the Brooklyn bridge.Wally also had major issues too, hanging with eddie.June Cleaver sometimes was as dumb as dirt and Ward made me crazy with his stories about his childhood.I guess we can find there are people like the characters of LITB in our every day lives.

Shel

This show JTS when Beaver's voice changed about two octaves lower and he still tried to do those cute little kid mannerisms from early in the series. Wally, however, became a frickin' hottie. Was hoping for a few shower scenes from him.

I always thought that June was too overprotective. Thank God Ward was around or else Wally and Beaver would'nt have been allowed to do much of anything! Like for instance, the episode where Wally wants to buy a car, she was against that; or the one where he got the parking attendant job, same thing! I would've been proud to have a responsible son like Wally at his age!

Best line ever from the show is in the first episode when Wally is typing a letter to send to Beav's teacher and pretending to be June and writes "I have whipped him, his father has whipped him..". Does anyone else remember that...it was hilarious!

Gilbert: "Gee Beav, this sounds like a mess that even Rod Serling couldn't g et you out of."

What classic writing!!!

Never jumped. It went off the air at exactly the right time (thanks Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher for not letting it get shark worthy). I think the recurring supporting characters: Eddie Haskell, Larry Mondello, Gilbert, Whitey, Lumpy Rutherford, Fred Rutherford, really made the show very funny. Sort of like life: your kids' annoying, troublemaking friends do hang around for longer periods in their lives than 23 minute guest appearances.
One of my favorite episodes is when Beaver appears on a game show representing his school, not understanding it is tape delayed, not live broadcast, disappointing his friends who are watching a previous episode at home. He thinks his been in the Twilight Zone (with Twilight Zone theme music playing in the back), "I was there Wally! At least I think I was." Too funny.

Don't tell us to "Get over ourselves". This is one forum where ordinary people can spout off as they please. Whoever doesn't like it has the right to remain silent and read something else. (my 500 pound neighbor tried to get over herself and hurt herself. har. har.)

Guest,

If you don't like the discussion, don't visit the website. It's just another way to hear what others think. It has nothing to do with "GETTING OVER OURSELVES". You have the problem if you can't handle public discourse. Go back into your parent's basement, and turn the TV on.

To all who've written so far--GET OVER YOURSELVES. This is just a fun innocent show from days gone by. Enjoy it instead of picking it apart.

I always thought it would have been more realistic if Wally and Beaver would have walked in the living room and found Ward butt banging June as she bent over the couch, or have Beaver walk in his room to find Wally winding his crank. That would have been realistic.

In the current TV Land rotation on Saturday morning we have the awkward, teen age Beaver. The only problem is the dialogue for Beav was still written for a 6 year old, and at 11 or 12 Beaver comes off as a special ed kid, socially and intellectually. Also, I noticed in the opening credits that Wally is pushing a power mower, and the Beav is handling the eco-friendly push mower. Two cutters? Where did they live, the Ponerosa?

I don't know when it jumped, but it seems the Beaver was being reamed out just for being a kid. There was an uncercurrent of abuse toward the Beaver character. "Gee, mom and dad, I'm sorry for acting like a normal kid. You're not still going to have me gelded, are you? I'll calm down... I promise."

LITB jumped the shark when the Cleaver family went from middle-class acting to full on snobs...and for the cry-baby PC nonsense arguments, to quote Beaver and crew "DRY UP!" Honestly, the PC bit has caused the media at large to "Jump The Shark." Now-days, sensitivity has become the sledge-hammer that's nearly destroyed comedy, leaving us nothing but lame sexual-innuendo jokes and bad, carefully-written re-hashed situations from way back. To be fair: Sanford and Son, a show I LOVE, CONTINUALLY featured stupid white people...IF they showed whites that is...and most white people could care less. It's just TV, ENTERTAINMENT...It's NOT reality, it's NOT a social-experiment, and it should NEVER be a launching-pad to frivolous lawsuits! If you disagree, then your mind, integrity, intellect and self-worth have "jumped the shark."

The show jumped a little whenever Ward lost his temper and/or tried to make Beaver feel like dirt over the least thing. Why were they always on Beaver's case? It seems he was always apologizing for being a kid. If I had parents like Ward and an enabler like June Cleaver, I would have left home at 16. It jumped a little more with each episonde in which Beaver was emotionally abused.

Leave It To Beaver jumped the shark with the episode -- in the next-to-last season, i believe -- in which Beaver and two of his friends (Richard and Gilbert, I believe) buy a little burro with their parents' permission. Right, Ward and June Cleaver are going to just say okay to owning livestock.