Leave It to Beaver (1957) s01e10 Episode Script
Wally's Girl Trouble
1
("Leave it to Beaver" theme music)
[Announcer] Leave it to Beaver.
Starring Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow,
and Jerry Mathers as the Beaver.
(unassuming music)
[Narrator] When you have an older brother,
there comes a time when you kinda take him for granted.
Even going fishing with him
can get to be pretty routine.
But when you stand the chance of losing him,
you suddenly realize how much he means to you,
and that's our story tonight on Leave it to Beaver.
(jaunty, unassuming music)
Water's not gonna help, that thing's anemic.
Oh, this isn't plain water, it's plant food.
It's chock full of all kinds of chemical goodies.
Costs a dollar and a quarter a pound.
That weed's eating better than we are.
(audience chuckles)
Hey, isn't this the Saturday morning
the boys are supposed to go to dancing school?
Uh-huh.
I sent 'em upstairs to get dressed a half an hour ago.
Felt like I was sending them to the guillotine.
Wonder what excuse they'll come up with this morning
to keep from going.
Oh, it could be anything.
(snickers) Remember the time that Beaver hid the trousers
to his best suit in the mop closet,
and then he said they hadn't back from the cleaners?
I had to threaten to send him to dancing school
in his underwear before he got his memory back.
(audience laughs)
Well, (clears throat)
I'm not gonna stand for any foolishness this morning.
Oh, it isn't just missing a lesson.
They're going to appreciate this some day.
After all, we don't want Wally and the Beaver
to grow up to be wallflowers.
(door thunks)
Shh, here they come.
Wonder what it'll be this time.
(footsteps clomping)
Oh, well, bye.
We're goin' to dancin' school.
Yeah, we wanna get there early.
(audience laughs)
Now, boys, um,
I kinda had the idea you didn't like dancing school.
Oh, not any more, Dad.
We really appreciate it.
Yes, we apprecilates a lot.
Bye!
(door slams)
Well, after fighting it for six months!
Looks like we're getting through to 'em.
Now don't forget, Beav,
after we've been there for a little while,
you tell Ms. Spencer you sprained your ankle.
Okay, Wally,
and then she tells you take me home,
and then we get to go fishin'!
Shh. (Audience laughs)
Yeah, but don't sprain it till I give you the signal,
or she'll see that it's phony.
Okay, Wally.
You know, this is a lot better better than losin' my pants.
(audience laughs)
(carefree music)
(unassuming music)
(latch clicking)
(audience chuckles)
Hey, Wally, wait for me!
(gentle, swaying music)
Hey, Beaver, look at your brother Wally
dancin' with that new girl Penny Jamison.
He can't help it.
Ms. Spencer made him.
(audience chuckles)
This is my first time here.
I didn't wanna come.
I thought there'd be nothing but kids.
Yeah.
You're a smooth dancer.
You dance just like a college boy.
You ever dance with a college boy?
Oh, sure, lots of times in New York.
He looks like he's enjoyin' it!
No, he's not.
Anyway, me and him are going to get outta here.
(kids murmuring)
I'm gonna sprain my ankle so we can go fishin'!
(gentle, swaying music)
(crunches apple) (audience chuckles)
Look at him.
My big brother started looking at girls like that,
and the next thing I knew, he went out and got married!
(audience laughs)
He got married to a girl?
Sure, that's all there is.
(audience laughs)
I only see my brother at Christmas.
I got to do everything by myself.
Oh.
Guess this is a dance we're supposed to dance.
I guess it is.
(audience laughs)
I bet you have a date every Saturday.
Oh, sure.
Me and my brother go fishin'.
Bullheads.
Fishing?
I hate fishing.
Fish are so slimy and fishy.
Well, I guess I don't like it too much,
but I gotta take my brother.
(audience chuckles)
(gentle, swaying music)
Is somethin' wrong?
I was just noticing your eyes.
You know, they're just like Tab Hunter's.
(audience chuckles)
(chuckles) The movie star?
Uh-huh.
Wally?
Yeah?
The music stopped.
(audience laughs)
Oh, yeah. (Chuckles)
Shall we sit out the next dance?
Yeah, if ya like.
Wally!
Look, Wally, I sprained my ankle.
(audience laughs)
Forget it, the deal's off!
Penny, where would you like to sit out the dance?
(kids murmuring)
What's the matter with your brother?
I thought he told you to sprain your ankle.
I don't know.
[Beaver's Friend] Where you goin'?
As long as I'm gonna be stuck here,
I'm gonna dance dance with another boy.
(audience laughs)
(low, sad dance music)
(audience laughs)
(footsteps tapping)
Well, suppose you were planning on deserting me
this afternoon for the golf course.
Yeah, I thought I might
(door clicks)
Hi, Mom.
Hi, Dad.
Hi.
(footsteps clunking)
(Wally humming)
How was dancing school, Wally?
Ah, it was great, Mom.
(audience laughs)
Dancing school was great?
I know you think I lecture him too much,
but I'd say some of my little talks
were beginning to pay off.
I think he's developing a sense of responsibility.
Well,
maybe so.
I never saw a sense of responsibility
produce a smile like that.
(audience laughs)
(frog croaking)
(light, unassuming music)
Hello, Herbie.
(Herbie croaking)
(Wally humming)
Wally, why're ya puttin' that goop on your hair?
It's not goop.
It's Groom Well.
For the fastidious man.
(audience laughs)
I bet you're doin' it on account of that girl Benny.
Her name is Penny.
And what's wrong with her?
Nothin'.
Nothin' at all.
Except she's sorta got a face like a flounder.
(audience laughs)
(Herbie croaking)
Now you cut that out and watch what you're sayin'.
She happens to be the prettiest girl in dancing class.
(phone ringing)
Ha.
(phone ringing)
Hello.
Who?
This is Mr. Cleaver speaking.
Oh, that Mr. Cleaver.
Uh, just a moment please.
Who is it, dear?
It's a Ms. Penny Jamison
to speak to Mr. Wally Cleaver.
Oh.
Well, I'll call Mr. Cleaver to the telephone.
Wally!
You still think it was your lectures
that made him smile like that?
(Ward chuckles) (audience laughs)
Wally, you're wanted on the phone!
[Wally] Tell him I'll call him back later!
It isn't a him, it's Ms. Penny Jamison.
(door slamming)
(feet clomping rapidly)
(audience laughing)
- Thanks, Mom.
(Wally clears throat)
Uh, Dad?
Hm?
Would you mind closing the door on your way out?
(audience laughs)
No.
Not at all.
(Wally clears throat)
Hi.
Wally?
This is Penny.
What're you doing?
Me?
Oh, I'm not doin' nothin'.
I mean anything.
(audience chuckles)
[Penny] I was hoping you'd do me
a little favor this afternoon.
Oh, sure, like I said,
I'm not doin' nothin'.
Anything.
Yes, ya are.
We're gonna go fishin'!
Shut up!
What kind of a favor, Penny?
Well, I'm taking a music lesson,
and I wondered if you'd stop by the library for me
and pick up a book.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm?
I need it for a book report.
Well, sure.
You could bring it by my house if you like.
Well, that's swell, Penny.
I'll do that.
Goodbye.
Bye.
(audience laughs)
Wally, are you sick or somethin'?
(audience laughs)
No.
I gotta go out.
But I thought we were goin' fishin'!
Where you goin', Wally?
Oh, I gotta go out, Mom.
Well, did you promise to take the Beaver with you?
Yeah, but somethin' came up.
But you promised.
Yeah, you promised.
Come on.
(audience chuckles)
Don't forget to come back in time to cut the lawn!
[Wally] Okay.
What's up?
I believe a girl's come between Wally and the Beaver.
Oh?
Yes, and they've always been so close.
Gonna be awfully rough on the Beaver, I'm afraid.
(scholastic music)
Hi, men.
Yeah, hi, men.
What'd we come all the way down here for, Wally?
I told ya, to get a book.
What kind of a book?
Just a book.
What's the name of the book?
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
(door clunks)
- Never heard of it.
(audience chuckles)
Sorry to have kept you waiting, boys.
May I help you?
Yeah, well, uh, I'd like a book.
What's the name of the book?
Well, um
[Librarian] Yes?
Um,
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
I know this is a library, young man, but speak up.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm!
(audience laughs)
Sunnybrook Farm!
(boy laughing)
Where we goin' now, Wally?
Look, I gotta take this book over to Penny Jamison's.
You'd better go on home.
Can't I come with ya, Wally?
You always gotta be hangin' around me?
Leave me alone.
But I thought we were goin' fishin'!
Look, Beaver, will ya leave me alone?
You're a little kid and I'm bigger.
You can't always be hangin' around me.
Makes me look like a sap.
Okay, Wally, I got friends!
(Herbie croaks) I got lots a friends.
Don't I got lots a friends, Herbie?
(Herbie croaks)
(jaunty music)
(bird chirping)
Well, hi, Beaver.
What're you doing here?
I'm waitin' for Wally to come home so we can go fishing!
Oh.
Well, it's gettin' pretty late,
and if that grass isn't cut,
there isn't gonna be any fishing.
Oh, he'll be home right away, Dad.
I know he will, Dad.
He told me so, Dad.
(audience laughs)
All right.
You tell him do a good job on the lawn, though,
or there won't be any fishing this weekend.
Okay.
(bird chirping)
(car door slams)
(engine churns)
(sudden determined music)
(audience laughs)
(gentle, dreamlike music)
(hurried, determined music)
(audience chuckling)
(gentle music)
(hurried, determined music)
(audience chuckling)
(audience chuckling)
(Beaver inhales)
How was the golf game?
Oh, I only played nine holes.
I'd had a 34, though,
if I hadn't missed a couple of putts.
Well, what did you shoot?
(audience laughs)
(Ward chuckles)
Hey, Beaver?
Do you think you can stay awake until we finish dinner?
Yes, Dad.
And look at those hands.
What you been doing, playing in the mud all afternoon?
Yes, Dad.
Well, I think you'd better get right upstairs
Ward.
Ward, he's a little tired.
Leave him alone, huh?
Well, seems to me Wally is the one who should be tired.
(audience chuckles)
Me, Dad?
Well, it was a great job you did on the lawn.
Best I've ever seen it.
Well, about the lawn.
I think he did a swell job, too, Dad.
Wally's the best lawn-mower in the whole world!
(phone ringing)
(audience laughs)
I'll get it.
(phone ringing)
Well, now about the lawn.
Pass the bread?
(audience laughs)
Thank you.
Now, Dad, about the lawn.
Look, Wally, I already said it was a great job.
I expect it is worth another half a buck.
Wally.
For you.
(Beaver sighs)
(Beaver sighs)
(audience chuckles)
Is there something going on here I don't know about?
Why, of course not, Ward.
Of course not, Ward.
(audience laughs)
I mean Dad!
(audience chuckles)
Hello?
Oh, hello, Penny.
Sorry to bother you, Wally.
Daddy brought home a stack of new records tonight.
Oh.
I thought maybe you'd like to hear them.
Gee, I'd like to, but I can't.
You going someplace with your parents or something?
No, I'm gonna take my little brother fishing.
Well, I'm sure I can find someone
who doesn't have to play nursemaid
to a grubby little infant.
Listen, Penny, my brother isn't any grubby little,
hello?
(audience laughs)
Hello?
(phone slams and dings)
I don't know, it just doesn't seem right,
you and Beaver doing Wally's work for him yesterday.
Well, you know the Beaver.
He'd do anything for Wally.
After all, it paid off.
Wally took him fishing today.
How 'bout you?
Working on the lawn pay off for you?
Look at your hands.
(June sighs)
Yes, looks like Wally having a girlfriend's
gonna be rough on the whole family.
(Ward chuckles) (audience laughs)
(playful music)
Real good fishin' today, huh, Wally?
(Wally sighs)
Yeah.
Wally?
What do you want now?
You didn't really wanna come fishin', did you?
Well, I'm here, aren't I?
Yes,
but it's not the same like it used to was.
Sure it is, Beav.
We'll catch a lot of fish.
You just took me fishing 'cause I cut the lawn, didn't ya?
No, Beaver.
I came fishing 'cause I wanted to come fishin'.
(bird chirping)
You'd rather see that girl, wouldn't ya?
Listen, I brought ya fishin',
now let's shut up and fish!
I couldn't see that girl if I wanted to.
We had a fight.
Ya hit her?
(audience laughs)
No.
We had a fight on the phone.
Oh.
(audience laughs)
Was it about takin' me fishin'?
What difference does it make?
No girl is gonna tell me what to do.
Even if she is the prettiest girl in dancing class.
(light, thoughtful music)
[Beaver] Hi, Dad!
Hi, Beaver!
Hello, Herbie.
I see you and Wally got back early.
Yeah, we came home.
Wally's out dryin' the lines.
Well, mother wanted me to tell you to get ready for lunch.
Uh, incidentally, Beaver,
I'm glad you caught a couple of fish,
but in the future, I'd appreciate it
if you wouldn't put 'em on top of the ice cubes.
(audience laughs)
I don't wanna tell ya what it does to ice tea.
(audience laughs)
Dad?
[Ward] Yeah?
Can I ask you a problem?
What is it, a school problem?
No, this is a make believe problem.
Oh.
Okay, make believe.
Make believe you and Mom had a fight.
What would you do?
Oh, you mean last
(audience chuckles)
Now, Beaver,
you know your mother and I don't have fights.
Oh, I know that, Dad.
But make believe you had a fight.
What would you do?
Well, I'd probably check in at the Y
till she came to her senses.
Does that solve your problem for you?
What if Mom was real, real mad?
What would you do then?
Well, I'd apologize,
even though I was probably in the right.
And then I'd bring her a gift.
You know, a kind of a peace offering.
Somethin' expensive?
No, not necessarily,
but something, you know, that had real value.
Not necessarily monetary value,
but sentimental value.
(audience chuckles)
You know, something really important.
Okay?
Thanks, Dad.
Okay.
(thoughtful, pondering music)
Did you tell the boys about lunch?
Yeah.
Hey, June, uh,
have I done anything to make you angry?
You mean today?
Yeah.
No.
That's what I thought.
But last Thursday
Never mind, never mind. (Audience laughs)
(kiss smacks)
I appreciate you.
(audience chuckling)
It sure is swell of ya to wrap that box
for me, Miss Higgins.
I'll fix it up real pretty, Beaver.
With a red ribbon and a bow
just like it was Christmas.
Gee, thanks.
It's a real gift.
Not money-tary value, just senti-nental.
I see, senti-nental.
That's the best kind of a gift.
Must be for someone special.
Could it be a girl?
Uh-huh.
Girls make me sick to my stomach.
(audience laughs)
They do?
That's for my brother Wally's girl.
He likes 'em.
Well, I certainly hope she likes this gift.
Here ya are, Beaver.
It's all done.
Gee, it sure is pretty.
(box popping)
(audience chuckling)
What did you do that for?
He's gotta breathe, don't he?
(audience laughs)
Well, Wally, I'm glad you're not angry at me,
'cause I really wasn't angry at you.
Well, Penny, I thought you were,
and I'm real glad you're not.
Angry.
I'm sorry I said what I did about your brother
being such a grubby little infant.
He's not really so grubby.
No, he's not so grubby at all.
Well, I'll see you.
(doorbell chiming)
Don't forget tomorrow.
Goodbye.
(phone clunking)
(doorbell chiming)
Yes?
I'm Wally's brother Theodore.
Oh, yes!
How are you, little fellow?
I'm okay.
(audience laughs)
I brung ya gift from Wally.
He's my brother.
Oh, from Wally?
What a lovely package.
He had it gift-wrapped special!
Well, you tell him thank you very much.
Okay.
(Penny screaming)
(audience laughs)
(Penny screaming)
(audience laughing)
(dismayed music)
(phone ringing)
Hello? (Phone voice babbling)
Oh, hi, Penny, I'm real glad you're not mad at
(phone voice babbling)
What's that?
(phone voice babbling)
Now wait a minute!
(phone voice babbling)
Wait a minute.
(audience chuckles) (phone voice babbling)
Now wait!
Now listen, Penny, I don't care
if you don't ever speak to me again.
And you know somethin' else?
You got a face just like a flounder.
(audience laughing)
Just like a flounder.
(dismayed music)
(crickets chirping) (unassuming music)
[Beaver] Wally?
Yeah, Beav?
I was only trying to help.
Yeah, I know.
She didn't have to get so sore about it.
I woulda liked to see her face when she opened the box.
(audience laughing) (Ward chuckles)
Yeah, and screaming at Herbie's bulging eyes.
It must a scared her.
It must a scared Herbie, too.
(audience laughs)
I'm sorry about Herbie, Beav,
but I guess you can't go over there
and ask for him back.
Oh, that's okay.
I can always get another toad.
Sure you can, Beav.
I guess I can always get another girl.
(audience laughs)
(gentle, dreamy music)
Goodnight, Beav.
Goodnight, Wally.
(merry, jaunty music)
(trumpeting music)
("Leave it to Beaver" theme music)
[Announcer] Leave it to Beaver.
Starring Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow,
and Jerry Mathers as the Beaver.
(unassuming music)
[Narrator] When you have an older brother,
there comes a time when you kinda take him for granted.
Even going fishing with him
can get to be pretty routine.
But when you stand the chance of losing him,
you suddenly realize how much he means to you,
and that's our story tonight on Leave it to Beaver.
(jaunty, unassuming music)
Water's not gonna help, that thing's anemic.
Oh, this isn't plain water, it's plant food.
It's chock full of all kinds of chemical goodies.
Costs a dollar and a quarter a pound.
That weed's eating better than we are.
(audience chuckles)
Hey, isn't this the Saturday morning
the boys are supposed to go to dancing school?
Uh-huh.
I sent 'em upstairs to get dressed a half an hour ago.
Felt like I was sending them to the guillotine.
Wonder what excuse they'll come up with this morning
to keep from going.
Oh, it could be anything.
(snickers) Remember the time that Beaver hid the trousers
to his best suit in the mop closet,
and then he said they hadn't back from the cleaners?
I had to threaten to send him to dancing school
in his underwear before he got his memory back.
(audience laughs)
Well, (clears throat)
I'm not gonna stand for any foolishness this morning.
Oh, it isn't just missing a lesson.
They're going to appreciate this some day.
After all, we don't want Wally and the Beaver
to grow up to be wallflowers.
(door thunks)
Shh, here they come.
Wonder what it'll be this time.
(footsteps clomping)
Oh, well, bye.
We're goin' to dancin' school.
Yeah, we wanna get there early.
(audience laughs)
Now, boys, um,
I kinda had the idea you didn't like dancing school.
Oh, not any more, Dad.
We really appreciate it.
Yes, we apprecilates a lot.
Bye!
(door slams)
Well, after fighting it for six months!
Looks like we're getting through to 'em.
Now don't forget, Beav,
after we've been there for a little while,
you tell Ms. Spencer you sprained your ankle.
Okay, Wally,
and then she tells you take me home,
and then we get to go fishin'!
Shh. (Audience laughs)
Yeah, but don't sprain it till I give you the signal,
or she'll see that it's phony.
Okay, Wally.
You know, this is a lot better better than losin' my pants.
(audience laughs)
(carefree music)
(unassuming music)
(latch clicking)
(audience chuckles)
Hey, Wally, wait for me!
(gentle, swaying music)
Hey, Beaver, look at your brother Wally
dancin' with that new girl Penny Jamison.
He can't help it.
Ms. Spencer made him.
(audience chuckles)
This is my first time here.
I didn't wanna come.
I thought there'd be nothing but kids.
Yeah.
You're a smooth dancer.
You dance just like a college boy.
You ever dance with a college boy?
Oh, sure, lots of times in New York.
He looks like he's enjoyin' it!
No, he's not.
Anyway, me and him are going to get outta here.
(kids murmuring)
I'm gonna sprain my ankle so we can go fishin'!
(gentle, swaying music)
(crunches apple) (audience chuckles)
Look at him.
My big brother started looking at girls like that,
and the next thing I knew, he went out and got married!
(audience laughs)
He got married to a girl?
Sure, that's all there is.
(audience laughs)
I only see my brother at Christmas.
I got to do everything by myself.
Oh.
Guess this is a dance we're supposed to dance.
I guess it is.
(audience laughs)
I bet you have a date every Saturday.
Oh, sure.
Me and my brother go fishin'.
Bullheads.
Fishing?
I hate fishing.
Fish are so slimy and fishy.
Well, I guess I don't like it too much,
but I gotta take my brother.
(audience chuckles)
(gentle, swaying music)
Is somethin' wrong?
I was just noticing your eyes.
You know, they're just like Tab Hunter's.
(audience chuckles)
(chuckles) The movie star?
Uh-huh.
Wally?
Yeah?
The music stopped.
(audience laughs)
Oh, yeah. (Chuckles)
Shall we sit out the next dance?
Yeah, if ya like.
Wally!
Look, Wally, I sprained my ankle.
(audience laughs)
Forget it, the deal's off!
Penny, where would you like to sit out the dance?
(kids murmuring)
What's the matter with your brother?
I thought he told you to sprain your ankle.
I don't know.
[Beaver's Friend] Where you goin'?
As long as I'm gonna be stuck here,
I'm gonna dance dance with another boy.
(audience laughs)
(low, sad dance music)
(audience laughs)
(footsteps tapping)
Well, suppose you were planning on deserting me
this afternoon for the golf course.
Yeah, I thought I might
(door clicks)
Hi, Mom.
Hi, Dad.
Hi.
(footsteps clunking)
(Wally humming)
How was dancing school, Wally?
Ah, it was great, Mom.
(audience laughs)
Dancing school was great?
I know you think I lecture him too much,
but I'd say some of my little talks
were beginning to pay off.
I think he's developing a sense of responsibility.
Well,
maybe so.
I never saw a sense of responsibility
produce a smile like that.
(audience laughs)
(frog croaking)
(light, unassuming music)
Hello, Herbie.
(Herbie croaking)
(Wally humming)
Wally, why're ya puttin' that goop on your hair?
It's not goop.
It's Groom Well.
For the fastidious man.
(audience laughs)
I bet you're doin' it on account of that girl Benny.
Her name is Penny.
And what's wrong with her?
Nothin'.
Nothin' at all.
Except she's sorta got a face like a flounder.
(audience laughs)
(Herbie croaking)
Now you cut that out and watch what you're sayin'.
She happens to be the prettiest girl in dancing class.
(phone ringing)
Ha.
(phone ringing)
Hello.
Who?
This is Mr. Cleaver speaking.
Oh, that Mr. Cleaver.
Uh, just a moment please.
Who is it, dear?
It's a Ms. Penny Jamison
to speak to Mr. Wally Cleaver.
Oh.
Well, I'll call Mr. Cleaver to the telephone.
Wally!
You still think it was your lectures
that made him smile like that?
(Ward chuckles) (audience laughs)
Wally, you're wanted on the phone!
[Wally] Tell him I'll call him back later!
It isn't a him, it's Ms. Penny Jamison.
(door slamming)
(feet clomping rapidly)
(audience laughing)
- Thanks, Mom.
(Wally clears throat)
Uh, Dad?
Hm?
Would you mind closing the door on your way out?
(audience laughs)
No.
Not at all.
(Wally clears throat)
Hi.
Wally?
This is Penny.
What're you doing?
Me?
Oh, I'm not doin' nothin'.
I mean anything.
(audience chuckles)
[Penny] I was hoping you'd do me
a little favor this afternoon.
Oh, sure, like I said,
I'm not doin' nothin'.
Anything.
Yes, ya are.
We're gonna go fishin'!
Shut up!
What kind of a favor, Penny?
Well, I'm taking a music lesson,
and I wondered if you'd stop by the library for me
and pick up a book.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm?
I need it for a book report.
Well, sure.
You could bring it by my house if you like.
Well, that's swell, Penny.
I'll do that.
Goodbye.
Bye.
(audience laughs)
Wally, are you sick or somethin'?
(audience laughs)
No.
I gotta go out.
But I thought we were goin' fishin'!
Where you goin', Wally?
Oh, I gotta go out, Mom.
Well, did you promise to take the Beaver with you?
Yeah, but somethin' came up.
But you promised.
Yeah, you promised.
Come on.
(audience chuckles)
Don't forget to come back in time to cut the lawn!
[Wally] Okay.
What's up?
I believe a girl's come between Wally and the Beaver.
Oh?
Yes, and they've always been so close.
Gonna be awfully rough on the Beaver, I'm afraid.
(scholastic music)
Hi, men.
Yeah, hi, men.
What'd we come all the way down here for, Wally?
I told ya, to get a book.
What kind of a book?
Just a book.
What's the name of the book?
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
(door clunks)
- Never heard of it.
(audience chuckles)
Sorry to have kept you waiting, boys.
May I help you?
Yeah, well, uh, I'd like a book.
What's the name of the book?
Well, um
[Librarian] Yes?
Um,
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
I know this is a library, young man, but speak up.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm!
(audience laughs)
Sunnybrook Farm!
(boy laughing)
Where we goin' now, Wally?
Look, I gotta take this book over to Penny Jamison's.
You'd better go on home.
Can't I come with ya, Wally?
You always gotta be hangin' around me?
Leave me alone.
But I thought we were goin' fishin'!
Look, Beaver, will ya leave me alone?
You're a little kid and I'm bigger.
You can't always be hangin' around me.
Makes me look like a sap.
Okay, Wally, I got friends!
(Herbie croaks) I got lots a friends.
Don't I got lots a friends, Herbie?
(Herbie croaks)
(jaunty music)
(bird chirping)
Well, hi, Beaver.
What're you doing here?
I'm waitin' for Wally to come home so we can go fishing!
Oh.
Well, it's gettin' pretty late,
and if that grass isn't cut,
there isn't gonna be any fishing.
Oh, he'll be home right away, Dad.
I know he will, Dad.
He told me so, Dad.
(audience laughs)
All right.
You tell him do a good job on the lawn, though,
or there won't be any fishing this weekend.
Okay.
(bird chirping)
(car door slams)
(engine churns)
(sudden determined music)
(audience laughs)
(gentle, dreamlike music)
(hurried, determined music)
(audience chuckling)
(gentle music)
(hurried, determined music)
(audience chuckling)
(audience chuckling)
(Beaver inhales)
How was the golf game?
Oh, I only played nine holes.
I'd had a 34, though,
if I hadn't missed a couple of putts.
Well, what did you shoot?
(audience laughs)
(Ward chuckles)
Hey, Beaver?
Do you think you can stay awake until we finish dinner?
Yes, Dad.
And look at those hands.
What you been doing, playing in the mud all afternoon?
Yes, Dad.
Well, I think you'd better get right upstairs
Ward.
Ward, he's a little tired.
Leave him alone, huh?
Well, seems to me Wally is the one who should be tired.
(audience chuckles)
Me, Dad?
Well, it was a great job you did on the lawn.
Best I've ever seen it.
Well, about the lawn.
I think he did a swell job, too, Dad.
Wally's the best lawn-mower in the whole world!
(phone ringing)
(audience laughs)
I'll get it.
(phone ringing)
Well, now about the lawn.
Pass the bread?
(audience laughs)
Thank you.
Now, Dad, about the lawn.
Look, Wally, I already said it was a great job.
I expect it is worth another half a buck.
Wally.
For you.
(Beaver sighs)
(Beaver sighs)
(audience chuckles)
Is there something going on here I don't know about?
Why, of course not, Ward.
Of course not, Ward.
(audience laughs)
I mean Dad!
(audience chuckles)
Hello?
Oh, hello, Penny.
Sorry to bother you, Wally.
Daddy brought home a stack of new records tonight.
Oh.
I thought maybe you'd like to hear them.
Gee, I'd like to, but I can't.
You going someplace with your parents or something?
No, I'm gonna take my little brother fishing.
Well, I'm sure I can find someone
who doesn't have to play nursemaid
to a grubby little infant.
Listen, Penny, my brother isn't any grubby little,
hello?
(audience laughs)
Hello?
(phone slams and dings)
I don't know, it just doesn't seem right,
you and Beaver doing Wally's work for him yesterday.
Well, you know the Beaver.
He'd do anything for Wally.
After all, it paid off.
Wally took him fishing today.
How 'bout you?
Working on the lawn pay off for you?
Look at your hands.
(June sighs)
Yes, looks like Wally having a girlfriend's
gonna be rough on the whole family.
(Ward chuckles) (audience laughs)
(playful music)
Real good fishin' today, huh, Wally?
(Wally sighs)
Yeah.
Wally?
What do you want now?
You didn't really wanna come fishin', did you?
Well, I'm here, aren't I?
Yes,
but it's not the same like it used to was.
Sure it is, Beav.
We'll catch a lot of fish.
You just took me fishing 'cause I cut the lawn, didn't ya?
No, Beaver.
I came fishing 'cause I wanted to come fishin'.
(bird chirping)
You'd rather see that girl, wouldn't ya?
Listen, I brought ya fishin',
now let's shut up and fish!
I couldn't see that girl if I wanted to.
We had a fight.
Ya hit her?
(audience laughs)
No.
We had a fight on the phone.
Oh.
(audience laughs)
Was it about takin' me fishin'?
What difference does it make?
No girl is gonna tell me what to do.
Even if she is the prettiest girl in dancing class.
(light, thoughtful music)
[Beaver] Hi, Dad!
Hi, Beaver!
Hello, Herbie.
I see you and Wally got back early.
Yeah, we came home.
Wally's out dryin' the lines.
Well, mother wanted me to tell you to get ready for lunch.
Uh, incidentally, Beaver,
I'm glad you caught a couple of fish,
but in the future, I'd appreciate it
if you wouldn't put 'em on top of the ice cubes.
(audience laughs)
I don't wanna tell ya what it does to ice tea.
(audience laughs)
Dad?
[Ward] Yeah?
Can I ask you a problem?
What is it, a school problem?
No, this is a make believe problem.
Oh.
Okay, make believe.
Make believe you and Mom had a fight.
What would you do?
Oh, you mean last
(audience chuckles)
Now, Beaver,
you know your mother and I don't have fights.
Oh, I know that, Dad.
But make believe you had a fight.
What would you do?
Well, I'd probably check in at the Y
till she came to her senses.
Does that solve your problem for you?
What if Mom was real, real mad?
What would you do then?
Well, I'd apologize,
even though I was probably in the right.
And then I'd bring her a gift.
You know, a kind of a peace offering.
Somethin' expensive?
No, not necessarily,
but something, you know, that had real value.
Not necessarily monetary value,
but sentimental value.
(audience chuckles)
You know, something really important.
Okay?
Thanks, Dad.
Okay.
(thoughtful, pondering music)
Did you tell the boys about lunch?
Yeah.
Hey, June, uh,
have I done anything to make you angry?
You mean today?
Yeah.
No.
That's what I thought.
But last Thursday
Never mind, never mind. (Audience laughs)
(kiss smacks)
I appreciate you.
(audience chuckling)
It sure is swell of ya to wrap that box
for me, Miss Higgins.
I'll fix it up real pretty, Beaver.
With a red ribbon and a bow
just like it was Christmas.
Gee, thanks.
It's a real gift.
Not money-tary value, just senti-nental.
I see, senti-nental.
That's the best kind of a gift.
Must be for someone special.
Could it be a girl?
Uh-huh.
Girls make me sick to my stomach.
(audience laughs)
They do?
That's for my brother Wally's girl.
He likes 'em.
Well, I certainly hope she likes this gift.
Here ya are, Beaver.
It's all done.
Gee, it sure is pretty.
(box popping)
(audience chuckling)
What did you do that for?
He's gotta breathe, don't he?
(audience laughs)
Well, Wally, I'm glad you're not angry at me,
'cause I really wasn't angry at you.
Well, Penny, I thought you were,
and I'm real glad you're not.
Angry.
I'm sorry I said what I did about your brother
being such a grubby little infant.
He's not really so grubby.
No, he's not so grubby at all.
Well, I'll see you.
(doorbell chiming)
Don't forget tomorrow.
Goodbye.
(phone clunking)
(doorbell chiming)
Yes?
I'm Wally's brother Theodore.
Oh, yes!
How are you, little fellow?
I'm okay.
(audience laughs)
I brung ya gift from Wally.
He's my brother.
Oh, from Wally?
What a lovely package.
He had it gift-wrapped special!
Well, you tell him thank you very much.
Okay.
(Penny screaming)
(audience laughs)
(Penny screaming)
(audience laughing)
(dismayed music)
(phone ringing)
Hello? (Phone voice babbling)
Oh, hi, Penny, I'm real glad you're not mad at
(phone voice babbling)
What's that?
(phone voice babbling)
Now wait a minute!
(phone voice babbling)
Wait a minute.
(audience chuckles) (phone voice babbling)
Now wait!
Now listen, Penny, I don't care
if you don't ever speak to me again.
And you know somethin' else?
You got a face just like a flounder.
(audience laughing)
Just like a flounder.
(dismayed music)
(crickets chirping) (unassuming music)
[Beaver] Wally?
Yeah, Beav?
I was only trying to help.
Yeah, I know.
She didn't have to get so sore about it.
I woulda liked to see her face when she opened the box.
(audience laughing) (Ward chuckles)
Yeah, and screaming at Herbie's bulging eyes.
It must a scared her.
It must a scared Herbie, too.
(audience laughs)
I'm sorry about Herbie, Beav,
but I guess you can't go over there
and ask for him back.
Oh, that's okay.
I can always get another toad.
Sure you can, Beav.
I guess I can always get another girl.
(audience laughs)
(gentle, dreamy music)
Goodnight, Beav.
Goodnight, Wally.
(merry, jaunty music)
(trumpeting music)