OMG yes! I didn't know it was her at first. I just thought is was some ex8who looked a lot like her. I never saw Barbara Billingsley act that way. Hilarious!
I hear that is why she got the part; she was fluent in Jive. She was asked if she could speak Jive. She answered, "Sheee-ot, 't-ain't no thing but a chick'n wing, Bro!"
I enjoyed watching LITB reruns as a kid, but watching as an adult, I realize the humor was written as much for adults as for kids. And interestingly, it has stood up to the passage of time.
Having recently streamed LITB in chronological order, I realized that during the first couple of seasons, there was some wonderful banter written for and performed by Billingsley and Beaumont that somewhat diminished as the kids started getting longer lines of dialogue. The writers had them brilliantly trading good-natured barbs, and they always evened out by the end of the episode so that neither one seemed to have gotten the best of the other. The show was really so much better than it gets credit for.
@@MrMultitool Same here right after Perry Mason. I'm old too. My favorite recently have been Emergency, Adam 12, Hazel, Alfred Hitchcock, Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. The old shows are still the best. I can't stand at least 80% of anything moderno especially (cringe 😤) reality shows.
That was my situation when "Leave It To Beaver" was on. Although things hadn't gotten as crazy as they would get, at that point. Later on, after I'd moved away from home (and while it's a different show), I began watching "The Brady Bunch." I had never seen the show in it's original seasons, and one day I decided to watch the show, and got hooked on it. The kindness and love that Bob and Carol Brady had towards their children was very comforting to me. I needed it in the aftermath of the craziness I'd gone through at home. I watched it everyday, and it helped me out. I'd read where the show's producer, Sherwood Schwartz, received letters from small children (who believed it was a real family), who wanted to join the Bradys and become part of the family. But he would write them back and gently tell them that this was not a real family, but a pretend family. Of course, by the time I began watching it, I knew it wasn't a real family. But the gentleness and love in the storylines was helpful anyway. I hope people won't mind that I spent so much time writing about 'The Brady Bunch" on a thread which is dedicated to "Leave It To Beaver." I loved that show. It was nice watching some of the original seasons before things got as crazy as they would become at home. It helped, referring back to it, in later years. I LOVED Ward and June.And, of course, "The Brady Bunch" helped immensely too.
Ahhhhhh.. Choo, uh, yes they were great. We got TV when I was nine and got one station. Sometimes another if one of us would spend a half hour or more outside, using a wrench to turn the antenna while yelling at each to see if anything was on yet. At least we didn’t have to climb on the roof to do that.
Mustang Bicycles with High Rise Handle Bars & Sissy Bars, Sling Shots (made from a tree branch / and an old innertube from your bike) "It's Howdy Doddy Time" "Iam Poppie the sailor man" A Piece of toast with sliced Bannia sprinkle of Brown Sugar or Maple Suryop for a snack. The Smell of MOM'S, Bacon / Fried Eggs and Home Made Bread with Strawberry Jam big glass of MILK (weekends) School days Cerial , juice & slices of Orange and of course "MOM / DAD can I use the Phone to Phone to call my friend ? 🥰🤗❤🙏
I never missed an episode and that's really kinda of what life was like in the 50's. It was a simpler and kinder time. My Mother didn't wear heels, but she always wore 'house dresses' that her Mother made for her...always neat, never sloppy!
Being born in 1954 this was the show I never missed, the reality of our lives back then were some of the best...Small town country living was just unbelievable back then....Thx for the memories. We all had an Eddie in our lives as well...
I thought Beaver talked like he had a serious learning disability. That was a problem as he got older. If they wanted him to sound realistic at all, his delivery had to improve.
Yeah, Eddie was a real schit and had a screwed up family. There's an episode where he tries to move out and get his own place. Mr cleaver has to explain to Wally and even counsel Eddie some. Pretty bleak outlook for Eddie.
The ongoing narrative about Eddie Haskell was that he always thought he had one over on everybody else, and believed no one was wise to him. But in reality, everyone was wise to him. He just didn't know it. There was one episode where it was just him and Beaver by themselves, and he wasn't trying to intimidate Beaver like he usually did (calling him "squirt", etc.), where he actually admitted he was something of a phony. But I don't recall which episode it was.
I was born in 1951. Our family was this type of family. My mother always got up every day and got dressed and put on her make up. She kept a immaculate house on a frugal budget. Her meals were home-cooked made from scratch. She was beautiful woman, and also artistic, but gave up going to New York to art school to have her family. My father was a contractor. Our days in the days of our friends and their families we’re very much like what is betrayed here, I miss this innocent wonderful time. Of course, there were always some families who were not as fortunate to have this peaceful environment. Family became Christians and that made a big difference. When I watch this I long for that time. Thank you so much for airing it.
Same with my mom and dad. dressed just like that. My mother, bless her soul, doing the vacuuming and dishes at home looked 10X better than people going out for dinner now. ....if they can still afford to now.
I was born in 1956, and grew up watching Leave It To Beaver. I used to wish my family was like that. My parents divorced when I was 4 and my brother was 2. Mom was a cocktail Waitress and bartender and Dad worked for NOAA. I'm not saying that there was anything bad about them, far from it, but I did wish that we were more "normal" sometimes. Then I grew up, and discovered that the Cleavers were not reality.
Barbara Billingsly was my heart throb of the 60's and 70's. I never found a woman like her except my Mother, they could have been twins. Love and respect to both.
I'm not from that decade, but watching this show make me too nostalgic, thinking about of all people that made this country beautiful, and now they gone, leaving those beautiful memories. Thanks to all of them, God bless those who still alive!!
WTF are you talking about. The message of this show is: Grown-ups don't know wtf they're doing but we're stuck doing what they say. We're fucked and there's nothing we can do about it.
@rainbowranddy I think so too. She is at the end of a movie called "All Mine To Give". So sweet. She has always reminded me of a person who was BORN to be a Grandmother.
It's 2024 and at this writing and I am 70 years old. To this day the only shows I make an effort to watch daily are Gunsmoke and LITB reruns. I have probably seen every litb episode 6 or 7 times. I can't get enough of the interactions ... Parent /kids, husband / wife, brother /brother, friend / friend, teacher / pupil, relative /nephews, and then there are always the police, fireman, and hobos.
My brother moved his pet alligator back and forth from my dad's bathroom shower to the other bathroom's tub until my dad caught him and put an end to that secret -- he had to give the alligator back to his friend who'd ordered it from the back page of his comic book but had been prevented from keeping it by his friend's mom. (And in the week or two my brother had it, the alligator had doubled in size so it's a good thing he had to give it back!!) Ah, those were the days!
Yes, I agree. This channel is one of the slew of newer ones that use AI-generated scripts and a synthetic voice. You can tell because the same information is repeated over and over in slightly different ways, with too many adjectives and adverbs thrown in for no useful narrative purpose. The narrative is designed to make as long a video as possible by never getting to a satisfying end. The bloopers are, like, meh.
@@Classical741 I take it the title is clickbait also, as it probably never actually gets to 'This Scene...'? Less than halfway in and I'm going to stop, as I feel I'm just being strung along.
@@Classical741 You can definitely tell at 1:22 when the computer says "...airing two thirty four episodes..." instead of "...airing two-hundred and thirty-four episodes...". And yeah, the "bloopers" are lame.
Thank you!!!! That deadpan voice was killin me....great show....but with this emotionless monolog droning on and on this way I couldnt last 6 minutes....torturous 😮😮😮😮
At 13:27, they may have had the first toilet tank scene, but it was "All in the Family" that had the first toilet flush. It was an off screen sound effect, but it was all the rage on television in 1971.
@@proudcynophile1901 I think "All in the Family" also had the first full shot of a toilet - but I am not sure. Which TV show actually showed a character on the toilet, but from the chest up only? I think is was "Three's Company", but again I am not sure. I know "The Brady Bunch" NEVER showed a toilet... EVER - That was the running joke: The Brady's don't poop or pee! [laugh].
I remember watching "My Three Sons" and seeing a scene where someone opened the bathroom door, thought they saw somebody sitting on the toilet, and closed the door. Actually, it was a large doll, inanimate, leaning forward, it's head down to it's knees, that someone left in the bathroom. That was the joke. Someone didn't know what to do with this human-sized figure, and left it sitting on the commode. Someone later opened the door, thought they'd entered the bathroom inappropriately when someone was using it, and closed the door. I don't remember what episode it was, the story behind it, etc. But I'm quite sure it was "My Three Sons.' Maybe someone here can recall it? If so, thanks!
@@chrisfreeman9960 If that is true maybe it was the first toilet shot. But for some reason a hated "My Three Sons". I think it was that theame song, that graphic of three boys feet, one with an obnoxiously crossed leg, Uncle Charlie, and goofy Ernie.
@@paulromsky9527/ i agree with ChrisFreeman. I hated that foot graphic, and I thought Uncle Charlie was a cranky old s.o.b. that brought everybody down.
Leave it to Beaver wasn’t a nostalgic program when it was doing its original run. It was a sitcom depicting the suburban nuclear family life of the 1960’s.
The show ended in summer 1963. A year later the world was flipped upside down...JFK assassination, The Beatles, the beginning of the devastating Vietnam War.
Technically we (US) were sending military equipment to support Vietnam in 1950..US advisors also go in.. 1961: Green Berets go in... 1964: 21,000 US troops were in Vietnam.. 1969: 550,000 US troops were in Vietnam.. and on and on for a decade..four presidents: Truman,JFK, LBJ,and Nixon
A show I (born 1956) literally grew up with and the closest thing to our family life in Connecticut, except my mom didn't wear her pearls during the day. My brother was Wally and I was the Beav, and we had all the other characters as neighborhood pals. Timeless.
I guess I'm fortunate to have been able to sit on the floor in front of a black & white TV and watch Leave it to Beaver, The Andy Griffith Show, My Three Sons, and Amos & Andy. Red Skelton show and The Jackie Gleason Show.
Three shows that all three generations (grandparents, parents, and us kids) watched all together: "The Ed Sullivan Show", "The Jackie Gleason Show", and "Hee Haw."
I still watch Leave It To Beaver I must of seen every episode over a 100 times it was a great show better then the shows on tv now. I'm so glad I got to meet Jerry Mathis & Tony Dow at a show in Parsippany NJ both of them were so nice to there fans. R.I.P. Tony Dow thanks for all the great memories you gave us fans. U will be missed.
I loved this show because this is what life was like for me as a kid. The style of the clothes, the automobiles, the classrooms, the furniture, even the phones and kitchen utensils. It was a great time. America has always had it's many faults, but this may have been the best time in our country overall.
In one epiosde Beaver and Gilbert call long distance to California to talk to a ball player that would lead you to think the show did not take place on the west coast
They were supposed to live in Ohio near Cleveland. There are a few episodes that gave that impression. June was from St Louis and Ward grew up on a farm.
Yeah, and it’s not completely out of the question for some kids to attempt surfing on Lake Michigan or Superior. It wouldn’t be all that thrilling, but there are “some” waves on the Great Lakes.
To my knowledge, The Donna Reed Show was never filmed in color. Color broadcasts in the early 1960s were almost exclusively reserved for variety specials. However, many black and white sitcoms switched to color for the 1966-67 TV season. 1966 was the year color broadcasting became the norm.
@@Nunofurdambiznez At 23:50 the narrator of this video says: "Competing family sitcoms like The Donna Reed Show decided to make the upgrade to color to stay modern. Leave It To Beaver had a choice: invest more to convert to color filming, or continue broadcasting in black and white."
My dad didn't trust the 'new' color TV tech, so he didn't buy one until 1969 to watch the Moon landing. Well, gee, the Moon is in black and white! My brother and I grew up in the '50s and '60s and LOVED LITB!
The "bloopers" discovered were left in to show how much people don't notice stuff like that even when it's put in front of them, take for example the calendar, for most of the show the calendar used was from1957. The location of the Mayfield used in Leave It To Beaver was a studio lot.
this show and the Dick Van Dyke show both had good endings. These shows clearly show that it's best to end while you're still on top. I wish more shows would follow suit instead of jumping the shark like so many shows do.
I'm in my sixties and still enjoy watching Leave It To Beaver. The one thing I noticed that always bothered me is in later episodes in the open when the Cleavers are backing out of the driveway. There is no back glass in the car, and Jerry Mathers makes some kind of contortion with his mouth like he's catching wayward spit.
Thank you.The show is probably my all-time fave, but whoever/whatever narrated this video could have said everything that needed to be said with a lot less gum-flapping. Blah blah blah...
Even though the show ended 10 years before I was born, I grew up watching the reruns. I always had a crush on Tony Dow even though he was the same age as my Mom. 💘 It's hard to believe that Jerry is the only one left from the beloved Cleaver family.. Thanks for such a wonderful, classic show that I still enjoy watching❣️
hello , this is one of my all time favorites😍😍😍😍😍.....too cool , great share , thank you for sharing🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰..............p.s. i thought wally , was sooooooooo cute🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩RIP.............
Very well done thank you for this video I was one of the kids that grew up watching Leave It to Beaver and I probably saw every single episode. Those were good times back then
One of my favorites- Beav &Wally supposed to take baths. They filled tub, splashed washcloths, got towels damp, drained tub. 😊. And Beav falling into soup cup...
@@aimeemetzinger6718And Wally says, "Hey Beaver, can I borrow some of your turtle dirt?" Wally then tosses the "turtle dirt" into the draining tub and tells Beaver, "It'll leave a ring."
I'm suprised that when talking about Barbara Billingsley he didn't mention why she always wore something around her neck. She said that the dip in her throat was too deep so she hid it with her jewelry.
As the author of "The World Famous Beaverpedia," a nearly 500 page book on the show, I might just to add this to my Leave it to Beaver youtube channel. It's full of similar videos about the show. Thanks for sharing.
Completely agree. It seems like color was the death knoll for black and white shows. Andy Griffith, Hillbillies, Petticoat Jct, etc. All of those shows seemed to lose their charm and die off when they switched to color filming.
Thia show was never the "perfect atomic family" sitcom it gets made out to be when referenced (see Father Knows Best for that). There is some outright subversive shit with June, the clear villain of the piece, always demanding conformity. Even though Ward doesn't often see the harm in self-expression, he realizes she'll throw the gauntlet down if he doesn't carry out her wishes (sad times in the twin beds). Also, consider that nearly every episode ends with Wally explaining to Beaver (summarizing), "Grown-ups don't make any sense and they never will. We're just fucked that's all." Beaver looks horrified trying to find resignation as the nightlight is switched off. Also its the first American television program to show a toilet.
Truly the idealic showcase of perfect Americana Family life. I was "Beaver's" age and loved watching and, by the way, the show "Lassie." Because of their accents I assumed the families lived in California in the early days when life was perfect here. As a side note, I was always amazed that the boys had their own full bathroom. I thought how lucky they were. Gee, that was a long time ago, but adorably idealistic.
At 8:06 the photo labeled Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher (show creators) is actually Jerry Mathers and Richard Deacon who played Lumpy’s father Fred Rutherford.
What I meant to say about as much as I like Leave it to Beaver is the fact that a lot of people did not live in a house is nice as that will have a mother walk around and dresses and high heels and fancy jewelry and have the father walk around all the time with a suit and a tie.
Now being 72 years old remembering Leave it to Beaver when I was small to be very honest with you a lot of things on that show made no sense June walking around with fancy dresses not even with a hair out of place fancy jewelry high heels and the father walking around always with a suit and a tie and very rarely in Leisure clothes
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Dirtiest line ever on LiTB ... "Ward, weren't you a little rough on the Beaver last night ?"
Barbara Billingsly speaking Jive on Airplane was the funniest skit to come out of Leave it to Beaver.
OMG yes! I didn't know it was her at first. I just thought is was some ex8who looked a lot like her. I never saw Barbara Billingsley act that way. Hilarious!
I hear that is why she got the part; she was fluent in Jive. She was asked if she could speak Jive. She answered, "Sheee-ot, 't-ain't no thing but a chick'n wing, Bro!"
I never heard this. Do you know where I could find it? Thx ❤
❤"chump don want no help, chump don get no help....jive a$$ed....."
@@sherri4468 Sorry, I was just joking. She never said that.
I enjoyed watching LITB reruns as a kid, but watching as an adult, I realize the humor was written as much for adults as for kids. And interestingly, it has stood up to the passage of time.
It was a good ensemble with some funny lines delivered perfectly not for a laugh which made them funny.
Hugh Beaumont (Ward Cleaver) was the uncle of a high-school friend in the late 60s, early 70s. She recounted stories of dropping acid with him.
BS. Just another KNII @@lisabluecurls
Many cartoons were too.
Having recently streamed LITB in chronological order, I realized that during the first couple of seasons, there was some wonderful banter written for and performed by Billingsley and Beaumont that somewhat diminished as the kids started getting longer lines of dialogue. The writers had them brilliantly trading good-natured barbs, and they always evened out by the end of the episode so that neither one seemed to have gotten the best of the other. The show was really so much better than it gets credit for.
still watching 2 episodes every morning in 2024.
I love Leave it to Beaver!
Me too
Me to. @ 66, Leave it to Beaver, Andy Griffith, The Beverly Hillbillies. I could go on on about tv in those times.
Me too 8 & 8:30 am 30.2 ME TV. Jacksonville. FL
@@rdavid7965 7 and 7:30 on ME TV
Dallas TX.
No better way to start my day!
@@MrMultitool Same here right after Perry Mason. I'm old too. My favorite recently have been Emergency, Adam 12, Hazel, Alfred Hitchcock, Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits.
The old shows are still the best. I can't stand at least 80% of anything moderno especially (cringe 😤) reality shows.
I came from a very disfunctional family & to watch Leave It To Beaver was kind of like an escape from reality.
Exactly!!
That was my situation when "Leave It To Beaver" was on. Although things hadn't gotten as crazy as they would get, at that point.
Later on, after I'd moved away from home (and while it's a different show), I began watching "The Brady Bunch." I had never seen the show in it's original seasons, and one day I decided to watch the show, and got hooked on it.
The kindness and love that Bob and Carol Brady had towards their children was very comforting to me. I needed it in the aftermath of the craziness I'd gone through at home. I watched it everyday, and it helped me out.
I'd read where the show's producer, Sherwood Schwartz, received letters from small children (who believed it was a real family), who wanted to join the Bradys and become part of the family. But he would write them back and gently tell them that this was not a real family, but a pretend family.
Of course, by the time I began watching it, I knew it wasn't a real family. But the gentleness and love in the storylines was helpful anyway.
I hope people won't mind that I spent so much time writing about 'The Brady Bunch" on a thread which is dedicated to "Leave It To Beaver." I loved that show. It was nice watching some of the original seasons before things got as crazy as they would become at home. It helped, referring back to it, in later years. I LOVED Ward and June.And, of course, "The Brady Bunch" helped immensely too.
I relate
Even the Addams family was less dysfunctional than my own family 🤣
I hear you. "The Donna Reed Show" was my escape.
I still watch Leave It To Beaver. The cast was great inside the show and outside. Thank you for the trip down Memory Lane
Leave it to Beaver , Mickey Mouse Club , Captain Kangaroo … ah , the memories .
Ahhhhhh.. Choo, uh, yes they were great. We got TV when I was nine and got one station. Sometimes another if one of us would spend a half hour or more outside, using a wrench to turn the antenna while yelling at each to see if anything was on yet. At least we didn’t have to climb on the roof to do that.
Yeah, Beaver was absolutely adorable, sweet and wholesome !!
Everybody I know loved this t.v. show including me and my family.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊
Romper Room for the littles was so xxing creepee to me. I can see you. Can you see me?
Mustang Bicycles with High Rise Handle Bars & Sissy Bars, Sling Shots
(made from a tree branch / and an old innertube from your bike)
"It's Howdy Doddy Time"
"Iam Poppie the sailor man"
A Piece of toast with sliced Bannia sprinkle of Brown Sugar or Maple Suryop for a snack.
The Smell of MOM'S, Bacon / Fried Eggs and Home Made Bread with Strawberry Jam big glass of MILK (weekends)
School days Cerial , juice & slices of Orange
and of course
"MOM / DAD can I use the Phone to Phone to call my friend ?
🥰🤗❤🙏
Romper Room.
I never missed an episode and that's really kinda of what life was like in the 50's. It was a simpler and kinder time. My Mother didn't wear heels, but she always wore 'house dresses' that her Mother made for her...always neat, never sloppy!
Always a dress. Dont think my mother wore pants until 2970.
Don't forget about June's ever-present pearl necklace.
Well, accept for the “Negro”. We need to quit ignoring reality, & in my home in the 50’s wasn’t so kinder.
My mother, too!😅
I believe she had a scar that is why she wore the necklace@@vickyabramowitz2885
Being born in 1954 this was the show I never missed, the reality of our lives back then were some of the best...Small town country living was just unbelievable back then....Thx for the memories. We all had an Eddie in our lives as well...
My niece married an Eddie. I recognized him for who he was as soon as I met him.
I thought Beaver talked like he had a serious learning disability. That was a problem as he got older. If they wanted him to sound realistic at all, his delivery had to improve.
"Looks as if Eddie isn't as smart as he thinks..." And here we have the GREATEST understatement in Golden Age television history...
That error was probably intentional.
Yeah, Eddie was a real schit and had a screwed up family.
There's an episode where he tries to move out and get his own place.
Mr cleaver has to explain to Wally and even counsel Eddie some.
Pretty bleak outlook for Eddie.
Eddie became a police officer, in real life !
Fact....
The ongoing narrative about Eddie Haskell was that he always thought he had one over on everybody else, and believed no one was wise to him. But in reality, everyone was wise to him. He just didn't know it.
There was one episode where it was just him and Beaver by themselves, and he wasn't trying to intimidate Beaver like he usually did (calling him "squirt", etc.), where he actually admitted he was something of a phony. But I don't recall which episode it was.
I was born in 1951. Our family was this type of family. My mother always got up every day and got dressed and put on her make up. She kept a immaculate house on a frugal budget. Her meals were home-cooked made from scratch. She was beautiful woman, and also artistic, but gave up going to New York to art school to have her family. My father was a contractor. Our days in the days of our friends and their families we’re very much like what is betrayed here, I miss this innocent wonderful time. Of course, there were always some families who were not as fortunate to have this peaceful environment. Family became Christians and that made a big difference. When I watch this I long for that time. Thank you so much for airing it.
Same with my mom and dad. dressed just like that. My mother, bless her soul, doing the vacuuming and dishes at home looked 10X better than people going out for dinner now. ....if they can still afford to now.
I was born in 1956, and grew up watching Leave It To Beaver. I used to wish my family was like that. My parents divorced when I was 4 and my brother was 2. Mom was a cocktail Waitress and bartender and Dad worked for NOAA. I'm not saying that there was anything bad about them, far from it, but I did wish that we were more "normal" sometimes. Then I grew up, and discovered that the Cleavers were not reality.
Me too.😊
Me too ❤
Iam 65 and watch Beaver every morning 😂
Gee, I wish I had a girlfriend… 🙂
Me too!
Barbara Billingsly was my heart throb of the 60's and 70's. I never found a woman like her except my Mother, they could have been twins. Love and respect to both.
You're are so fortunate
How about Miss Canfield? She too was quite pretty.
One of the best shows ever when TV was better in my opinion 🥰
Agree
We need more shows like this now a days!!!
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I'm not from that decade, but watching this show make me too nostalgic, thinking about of all people that made this country beautiful, and now they gone, leaving those beautiful memories. Thanks to all of them, God bless those who still alive!!
Thank you for that. I was born in 1957, the year the show premiered.
@@MarinCipollinasame!! Been binging Beaver this last week..!!!
Same as well. Moms always wore ankle dresses. And we're high classed
WTF are you talking about. The message of this show is: Grown-ups don't know wtf they're doing but we're stuck doing what they say. We're fucked and there's nothing we can do about it.
My grandmother wasn’t allowed to go to the school a mile from her home cause she wasn’t white but I’m happy you love the nostalgic beautiful memories
Loved the friendship between Larry Mondello and the Beav.
And Larry Mondelo's mother was endearing.
@rainbowranddy I think so too. She is at the end of a movie called "All Mine To Give". So sweet. She has always reminded me of a person who was BORN to be a Grandmother.
She almost had the role of Aunt Bea, on the Andy Griffeth show, but she had other commitments that wouldn't fit with the show's scheduling.
@@rainbowranddy Interesting. Didn't know that. That would have been better - in my humble opinion.
It's 2024 and at this writing and I am 70 years old. To this day the only shows I make an effort to watch daily are Gunsmoke and LITB reruns. I have probably seen every litb episode 6 or 7 times. I can't get enough of the interactions ... Parent /kids, husband / wife, brother /brother, friend / friend, teacher / pupil, relative /nephews, and then there are always the police, fireman, and hobos.
Coworker / co-worker, bully / victim, girls / boys, etc. who could want more?
Ditto, retired now I wake up to 2 episodes of Beaver on ME TV. Just makes my day!
Me too!
Don't forget "Uncle Billy"!
Loved the character Eddie Haskell. RIP Ken Osmond
I remember him saying something like; "My Dad says 'no joke is offensive if it's funny enough'!"
@@barneybrown2092 Jimmy Carr would agree.
Eddie was an American classic.
My brother moved his pet alligator back and forth from my dad's bathroom shower to the other bathroom's tub until my dad caught him and put an end to that secret -- he had to give the alligator back to his friend who'd ordered it from the back page of his comic book but had been prevented from keeping it by his friend's mom. (And in the week or two my brother had it, the alligator had doubled in size so it's a good thing he had to give it back!!) Ah, those were the days!
Those were the days when you could order a baby alligator through the mail.
You neglected to mention the reason why Barbara B. wore pearls and chokers; that she had a scar on her neck that she chose to hide.
I read that too BUT she has said in Camera that the natural pocket on the front of her throat was what she preferred to hide +-
Boy, has CBS changed in their morals and scruples.
There used to be a Broadcasters' Code. It was announced on television during the breaks in programming. I don't know what happened to that.
There are no morals or scrupples in todays entertainment. Sad thats what most people prefer for entertainment today, effecting the minds of our youth.
I love this show . Both while growing up and watching the reruns today 🦫
If only the narrator weren't a soulless computer voice.
Yes, I agree. This channel is one of the slew of newer ones that use AI-generated scripts and a synthetic voice. You can tell because the same information is repeated over and over in slightly different ways, with too many adjectives and adverbs thrown in for no useful narrative purpose. The narrative is designed to make as long a video as possible by never getting to a satisfying end. The bloopers are, like, meh.
@@Classical741 I take it the title is clickbait also, as it probably never actually gets to 'This Scene...'?
Less than halfway in and I'm going to stop, as I feel I'm just being strung along.
@@Classical741 You can definitely tell at 1:22 when the computer says "...airing two thirty four episodes..." instead of "...airing two-hundred and thirty-four episodes...". And yeah, the "bloopers" are lame.
Thank you!!!! That deadpan voice was killin me....great show....but with this emotionless monolog droning on and on this way I couldnt last 6 minutes....torturous 😮😮😮😮
I agree with that 💯
At 13:27, they may have had the first toilet tank scene, but it was "All in the Family" that had the first toilet flush. It was an off screen sound effect, but it was all the rage on television in 1971.
The same thing crossed my mind.
@@proudcynophile1901 I think "All in the Family" also had the first full shot of a toilet - but I am not sure.
Which TV show actually showed a character on the toilet, but from the chest up only? I think is was "Three's Company", but again I am not sure.
I know "The Brady Bunch" NEVER showed a toilet... EVER - That was the running joke: The Brady's don't poop or pee! [laugh].
I remember watching "My Three Sons" and seeing a scene where someone opened the bathroom door, thought they saw somebody sitting on the toilet, and closed the door. Actually, it was a large doll, inanimate, leaning forward, it's head down to it's knees, that someone left in the bathroom.
That was the joke. Someone didn't know what to do with this human-sized figure, and left it sitting on the commode. Someone later opened the door, thought they'd entered the bathroom inappropriately when someone was using it, and closed the door.
I don't remember what episode it was, the story behind it, etc. But I'm quite sure it was "My Three Sons.' Maybe someone here can recall it? If so, thanks!
@@chrisfreeman9960 If that is true maybe it was the first toilet shot. But for some reason a hated "My Three Sons". I think it was that theame song, that graphic of three boys feet, one with an obnoxiously crossed leg, Uncle Charlie, and goofy Ernie.
@@paulromsky9527/ i agree with ChrisFreeman. I hated that foot graphic, and I thought Uncle Charlie was a cranky old s.o.b. that brought everybody down.
Still watch the show👍🏻
Leave it to Beaver wasn’t a nostalgic program when it was doing its original run. It was a sitcom depicting the suburban nuclear family life of the 1960’s.
Well because Wally had some of the best lines I did laugh out loud even after watching many many times.
I loved all of Wally's teenage expressions. That was made the show for me.
The show ended in summer 1963. A year later the world was flipped upside down...JFK assassination, The Beatles, the beginning of the devastating Vietnam War.
years later, Tony Dow was on the teen soap opera, NEVER TOO YOUNG :)
Technically we (US) were sending military equipment to support Vietnam in 1950..US advisors also go in..
1961: Green Berets go in...
1964: 21,000 US troops were in Vietnam..
1969: 550,000 US troops were in Vietnam..
and on and on for a decade..four presidents: Truman,JFK, LBJ,and Nixon
Can't stand the Beatles
Viet Nam started long before 1963 and JFK died in November 1963. U must be young.
I was in the Philippines at this time. My dad was military and we were stationed at Clark AFB. Yes, the Beatles were big back then.
It turned out to be a timeless show.. it brings back when times were simple.
I love this TV show. One of the only ones I was allow to watch without parents.
“Leave it to Beaver “ is my favorite tv show of all time, and I’m 57 so that’s saying something. 📺
I remember the Reruns being aired in the 1970s I thought it was corny but now I really appreciate Wards' approach to parenting
Why is 57 saying something' what does that mean?
@@BryanClark-gk6ie I was thinking that, too..........?
A show I (born 1956) literally grew up with and the closest thing to our family life in Connecticut, except my mom didn't wear her pearls during the day. My brother was Wally and I was the Beav, and we had all the other characters as neighborhood pals. Timeless.
Cool...I was born in 1956...Feb.
I even had an Eddie Haskel
A Blooper vid with NO Bloopers. Brilliant idea. Was so hilariously dull!
Agreed!
Thanks. I'm partway through and bugging out now
I didn't watch.
I guess I'm fortunate to have been able to sit on the floor in front of a black & white TV and watch Leave it to Beaver, The Andy Griffith Show, My Three Sons, and Amos & Andy. Red Skelton show and The Jackie Gleason Show.
I would say so. People who weren't around back then don't know what that warmth was like.
Me too
Three shows that all three generations (grandparents, parents, and us kids) watched all together: "The Ed Sullivan Show", "The Jackie Gleason Show", and "Hee Haw."
I still watch Leave It To Beaver I must of seen every episode over a 100 times it was a great show better then the shows on tv now. I'm so glad I got to meet Jerry Mathis & Tony Dow at a show in Parsippany NJ both of them were so nice to there fans. R.I.P. Tony Dow thanks for all the great memories you gave us fans. U will be missed.
Love this show. We need more! ❤
As soon as I stepped off the school bus, I ran in the house and turn on the tv. I loved leave it to beaver. Times were simpler then.
Me too...I was born in 1956 and remember doing that. Later, Dark Shadows was on when we got home.
I loved this show because this is what life was like for me as a kid. The style of the clothes, the automobiles, the classrooms, the furniture, even the phones and kitchen utensils. It was a great time. America has always had it's many faults, but this may have been the best time in our country overall.
i kept waiting for the BLOOPERS
Yup click bait
I still watch Leave it to Beaver. My mom wore dresses as did we girls. It was sometime in the latter 60's before slacks were worn in our house.
Loved this show as a child. I still do at 76!
In one epiosde Beaver and Gilbert call long distance to California to talk to a ball player that would lead you to think the show did not take place on the west coast
I remember, think it was DON DRISDALE!
@@dawnwesolowski8049 You are correct!! The episode was first broadcast on June 16, 1962.
They were supposed to live in Ohio near Cleveland. There are a few episodes that gave that impression. June was from St Louis and Ward grew up on a farm.
About two thirds thru that Don Drysdale episode there is a bit of dialogue that could not be said today .
Yeah, and it’s not completely out of the question for some kids to attempt surfing on Lake Michigan or Superior. It wouldn’t be all that thrilling, but there are “some” waves on the Great Lakes.
To my knowledge, The Donna Reed Show was never filmed in color. Color broadcasts in the early 1960s were almost exclusively reserved for variety specials. However, many black and white sitcoms switched to color for the 1966-67 TV season. 1966 was the year color broadcasting became the norm.
What does that have to do with this video?
@@Nunofurdambiznez At 23:50 the narrator of this video says: "Competing family sitcoms like The Donna Reed Show decided to make the upgrade to color to stay modern. Leave It To Beaver had a choice: invest more to convert to color filming, or continue broadcasting in black and white."
My dad didn't trust the 'new' color TV tech, so he didn't buy one until 1969 to watch the Moon landing. Well, gee, the Moon is in black and white! My brother and I grew up in the '50s and '60s and LOVED LITB!
I love little Jerry Mathers and Leave it to Beaver. It was such a restful program for after school. I was born in 1958.
The AI narrator is absolutely annoying. I’m so sick of hearing it on CZcams videos that I just move on to something else
I’m just as happy thinking of them as a real family
Using AI voice is how you get people to avoid your channel.
At least we could watch the original show. This video is so packed with rookie transitions that it's about impossible to watch.
Leave it to beaver and Hazel. My two fav shows even now
Excellent show with a great cast of entertainers.
Leave it to beaver ran from 57 to summer of 63....just a couple months before i was born in September of 63....good times
Whoever put this together made their OWN BLOOPER: A subtitle appeared as 6 EASONS. I wonder what "easons" are! Very unprofessional!
The "bloopers" discovered were left in to show how much people don't notice stuff like that even when it's put in front of them, take for example the calendar, for most of the show the calendar used was from1957. The location of the Mayfield used in Leave It To Beaver was a studio lot.
Love this show ❤. Been watching since 1958 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤
It's on reruns here. I still watch it.
I was ten in 1958 and that's my favorite show!!!
I don't remember seeing any snow on any episode.
Loved that show. I wouldn’t have minded being raised by the Clevers. A wonderful mature STRUCTURAL family.
this show and the Dick Van Dyke show both had good endings. These shows clearly show that it's best to end while you're still on top. I wish more shows would follow suit instead of jumping the shark like so many shows do.
I still watch old reruns of my this show. My childhood!
I watch this every morning now !
I saw 3 episodes where Wally had a burn on his hand. One was where Beaver ran the tub over and it leaked through to the kitchen ceiling.
Came to see happy memories and instead have to see someone displaying a tortured fish. 👎
"Boy, Beaver, you really did it this time!"
I'm in my sixties and still enjoy watching Leave It To Beaver. The one thing I noticed that always bothered me is in later episodes in the open when the Cleavers are backing out of the driveway. There is no back glass in the car, and Jerry Mathers makes some kind of contortion with his mouth like he's catching wayward spit.
Bloopers are usually so much fun. You and your robot made this as boring as hell.
Thank you.The show is probably my all-time fave, but whoever/whatever narrated this video could have said everything that needed to be said with a lot less gum-flapping. Blah blah blah...
Gee, I thought I was going to be watching and listening to Leave It To Beaver!
Even though the show ended 10 years before I was born, I grew up watching the reruns.
I always had a crush on Tony Dow even though he was the same age as my Mom. 💘
It's hard to believe that Jerry is the only one left from the beloved Cleaver family..
Thanks for such a wonderful, classic show that I still enjoy watching❣️
The worse words on TV were spoken on that show. “Ward don’t you think you were a little hard on the Beaver last nite!”
hello , this is one of my all time favorites😍😍😍😍😍.....too cool , great share , thank you for sharing🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰..............p.s. i thought wally , was sooooooooo cute🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩RIP.............
Agree 💯. And Tony Dow STAYED cute his entire life.
That was excellent!!!!! Thank you very much.
Way to go, ignoring Hugh Beaumont when highlighting what the cast did post show run. Dope!
i played football in high school and jerry mathews played for Notre Dame HS. he stunk and his teammates made fun of him. rather rude we thought.
Very well done thank you for this video I was one of the kids that grew up watching Leave It to Beaver and I probably saw every single episode. Those were good times back then
Good clean entertainment. I love LITB. I am 64 and watch the show most days.
Sometimes, when I'm really stressing, I come back to the Cleaver-verse. It's oddly soothing. Moreso than other old shows.
One of my favorites- Beav &Wally supposed to take baths. They filled tub, splashed washcloths, got towels damp, drained tub. 😊. And Beav falling into soup cup...
The ‘wash-up’ scene is the cutest, funniest scene they ever made. I laugh just thinking about it - superb 😅😂..
@@aimeemetzinger6718And Wally says, "Hey Beaver, can I borrow some of your turtle dirt?"
Wally then tosses the "turtle dirt" into the draining tub and tells Beaver, "It'll leave a ring."
I'm suprised that when talking about Barbara Billingsley he didn't mention why she always wore something around her neck. She said that the dip in her throat was too deep so she hid it with her jewelry.
Who cares?
Ward Cleaver was from Shaker Heights (Cleveland) he said in the show.
As the author of "The World Famous Beaverpedia," a nearly 500 page book on the show, I might just to add this to my Leave it to Beaver youtube channel. It's full of similar videos about the show. Thanks for sharing.
I only watch the show because once Wally goes off to college, he takes off his shirt once in a while!
June Jive Talkin'! 😂
I watch it every morning on MeTV - it never gets old
I am so happy it stayed in black and white! Andy Griffith went colored, it was never the same! Terrible imo!!!
Hazel was another one . I love it in B&W, after it went color, it just wasn't the same.
Completely agree. It seems like color was the death knoll for black and white shows. Andy Griffith, Hillbillies, Petticoat Jct, etc. All of those shows seemed to lose their charm and die off when they switched to color filming.
Jerry Mathers and little Ronny Howard were two of the finest, most natural and endearing children ever to be seen on a screen!!!!
Umm. Waves aren't the same as an ocean but there ARE people who do actually surf on Lake Michigan waves. 😛
Yeah, I thought about that too!👍
Thia show was never the "perfect atomic family" sitcom it gets made out to be when referenced (see Father Knows Best for that). There is some outright subversive shit with June, the clear villain of the piece, always demanding conformity. Even though Ward doesn't often see the harm in self-expression, he realizes she'll throw the gauntlet down if he doesn't carry out her wishes (sad times in the twin beds). Also, consider that nearly every episode ends with Wally explaining to Beaver (summarizing), "Grown-ups don't make any sense and they never will. We're just fucked that's all." Beaver looks horrified trying to find resignation as the nightlight is switched off. Also its the first American television program to show a toilet.
Awesome commentary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ohh, I grew up watching this show 🤗
Truly the idealic showcase of perfect Americana Family life. I was "Beaver's" age and loved watching and, by the way, the show "Lassie." Because of their accents I assumed the families lived in California in the early days when life was perfect here. As a side note, I was always amazed that the boys had their own full bathroom. I thought how lucky they were. Gee, that was a long time ago, but adorably idealistic.
Where were the bloopers?😮
At 8:06 the photo labeled Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher (show creators) is actually Jerry Mathers and Richard Deacon who played Lumpy’s father Fred Rutherford.
Don't call him "Lumpy." His name is Clarence.
Wally and Eddy chaining Lumpy's car diff to a post was hilarious and worked in real life too.
Soooooo am I the only one waiting for “This Scene Wasn’t Edited, Look Closer At…..” ?????
What I meant to say about as much as I like Leave it to Beaver is the fact that a lot of people did not live in a house is nice as that will have a mother walk around and dresses and high heels and fancy jewelry and have the father walk around all the time with a suit and a tie.
The timing was very good considering not a lot of people owned a colour tv.
So, ZERO BLOOPERS? Got it. 😡😡😡😡
i LOVE THE ONLY ONE i REMEMBER....... "WARD, YOU WERE PRETTY HARD ON THE BEAVER LAST NIGHT"......
@@alancochran5275 The best!! 🤣🤣🤣
Awesome show. What happened to good TV?
This was a great podcast. The show was one of my favorites. Few sitcoms are made with such care today.
Now being 72 years old remembering Leave it to Beaver when I was small to be very honest with you a lot of things on that show made no sense June walking around with fancy dresses not even with a hair out of place fancy jewelry high heels and the father walking around always with a suit and a tie and very rarely in Leisure clothes
I still think about Beaver every morning and every night. 🎉