Leave It to Beaver (1957) s01e32 Episode Script
Beaver's Old Friend
1
[Announcer] "Leave it to Beaver."
(upbeat music)
[Announcer] Starring Barbara Billingsley,
Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow,
and Jerry Mathers as The Beaver.
Mom, when were the trash men here?
Oh just about 10 minutes ago.
Did they turn the corner?
Well I guess so.
Beaver, don't you want your sandwich?
I'll be right back mom,
I gotta catch a trash truck.
But Beaver.
Where's he going?
He has to catch the trash truck.
Oh, that figures.
Uh-huh.
Yes.
Well now let me get this straight, Fred,
you say that if we buy a water softener,
then the company gives you $25 off of the one you bought?
What's that, Fred?
Oh, and if you get five people to buy them
then yours won't cost you anything?
(audience laughing)
Well, Fred, I better talk this over with Ward.
He's out cleaning the garage now,
and that's something I wouldn't want to interrupt.
No, Fred, I haven't anything against soft water,
it's just that I'd like to talk it over with Ward.
(trash can banging)
Oh here, Wally, you can get rid of this.
Gee, what is it dad?
It looks like a life preserver with the cork out of it.
It's a tire cover from an old roadster I had.
Wally, what's a roadster?
Well I think it's something people
used to ride around in, in the olden days.
Yeah that's right, it replaced the covered wagon.
(audience laughing)
Go on, get rid of it.
Here, Beav.
Hey guys, look, look at this.
Gee, an old cannon ball.
No, Beaver, that's a shot put.
I came awful close to setting a school record
with this once.
What do you do with it?
Well the object is to toss it as far as you can, Beav.
Here.
(audience laughing)
I think I'll stick to throwing rocks.
(laughing) Here.
Uh, hey dad, you gonna put it in the trash?
Oh, well
Remember dad, you said we were gonna
throw away everything we couldn't use anymore.
Yeah.
Say, Wally, I don't suppose you
Gee thanks, dad, but it might wreck my pitching arm.
(audience laughing)
Yeah.
Well farewell to the days of our youth.
Hey dad, what's this awful smell?
It's turpentine.
What's this messy looking thing?
Hey that's Billy!
Well whoever he is he's had quite a turpentine bath.
Hey guys we gotta cut out this stalling,
get the job finished.
Aunt Martha gave Billy to me
when I was sick in bed with the measles.
Here you go, Beav,
(audience laughing)
Me and Billy used to sleep together
when we lived in the other house.
Should I throw this out, dad?
No, we better hang on to that,
we can get a new handle for it.
He used to keep me warm
and I used to keep him warm.
What about this, dad?
Toss it out.
Billy used to make sound
when you squoze his stomach.
What'd you say, Beav?
He went grr.
Oh, well come on guys,
we better get this stuff out
and into the trash barrels, huh?
Beav, you bring that one.
(garbage can clanking)
(birds chirping)
Hey dad, you sure you don't wanna save this thing?
No, we gotta stick by our rules, Wally.
(garbage can clanking) (Billy growling)
Billy.
What's the idea, Wally?
You threw it right on his stomach.
So what, he can't feel it.
Hey dad, can I go over to Eddie's now?
Sure go ahead, I can finish up.
Thanks a lot for the help fellas.
Maybe if I put it out inn the sun
the smell would go away.
Hey Beaver, don't hold that old thing
up against your clothes,
it'll get all over them.
Yeah Beaver, why don't you throw it in the barrel?
That's kid stuff.
[Ward] Yeah, anyway, Beav,
you're too big to paly with dolls now.
Sure, of course I is.
Hey Beaver, you gonna come over
and watch us play ball?
No, Wally, I'm tired
of watching you guys do stuff,
and I not getting to do it.
What are you gonna do?
I don't know, the guys are coming over later,
I think I'll play with them.
Okay well I'll be seeing you, Beaver, so long.
So long, Wally.
(solemn music)
(whistling)
Hey, I thought you were going with Wally?
Nuh-uh.
Something you want?
No, I don't want anything,
anything at all.
You finish the garage?
Yeah, all finished.
You know I can't figure it out,
we threw away everything that was worthless
and the garage is still half full of junk.
(audience laughing)
Well don't worry about it dear.
One day we'll move
and leave it all behind us.
(audience laughing)
Oh Fred Rutherford called.
What'd he want?
He says if we and four other people
buy water softeners,
then he and Geraldine get theirs free.
Well and if five other people
send us $200,000 a piece we'd be millionaires.
You know that's a much better deal.
(audience laughing)
Hi.
Hi dad, you all finished with the garage?
Yeah, all finished.
Hey, Beav, where you going?
Chuck and the other guys are coming over later,
I thunk I'd mess around outside until they came.
Well uh what do you and the guys have planned?
Gee dad, it's no fun to plan stuff,
they're just coming over.
(audience laughing)
Oh no you don't, it'll spoil your lunch.
This?
(audience laughing)
The cellar stairs?
The cellar stairs.
Hey Beaver.
Hi, Beaver.
Hi.
Hi.
What you doing?
Nothing, what are you guys doing?
We're looking for pop bottles.
This is the day people put the trash out.
Maybe there's some in the garage,
why don't you go look?
Whatcha got there?
Where?
Behind your back.
Yeah, what do you got there?
Cut it out, Chucky.
Hey look fellas, Beaver's playing with dolls.
I am not, I just found it in the trash.
Then what are you doing with this?
Sure is a smelly old thing all right.
It's funny looking too.
It's just an old piece of junk,
I better throw it back in the trash.
Wait a minute, we can have fun with this old thing.
Doing what, Chucky?
You know that big dog in Mr. Parker's yard?
You know what he does
when you throw something over the fence.
Yeah, he'll rip it to pieces.
Yeah.
Let's go.
Wait.
Wait?
What for?
I don't think the dog is home today.
(audience laughing)
Forget the doll, we came out to look for bottles.
Yeah, everybody's got their trash out,
I bet there's a lot down the street.
You coming with us Beaver
or are you gonna stay there
and play with your teddy bear?
(solemn music)
I'll come with you guys.
(solemn music)
[Chucky] You coming Beaver?
(solemn music)
The boys gonna be home for lunch?
Beaver is, Wally's eating with Eddie.
Who was that on the phone before?
Oh, it was Fred Rutherford,
he wants to know if we're gonna go for his deal
on the water softener.
Didn't you tell him no?
Dear you don't tell Fred no,
I told him I'd think about it.
Just keep telling him that until he gets his own paid for.
(audience laughing)
I'll get you some more.
(bottles rattling)
Trash man.
(metal clanking)
(dramatic music)
(tin can clanking)
Billy!
Beaver!
I have a sandwich for you.
What are you doing?
Just neating up the barrels.
Mom, when were the trash men here?
Oh just about 10 minutes ago.
Did they turn the corner?
Well I guess so.
Beaver?
Don't you want your sandwich?
I'll be right back mom,
I gotta catch a trash truck.
But Beaver.
Where's he going?
He has to catch the trash truck.
Oh that figures.
I used to chase the ice wagon
and eat ice off the back.
Ward, he's not going to eat trash.
(audience laughing)
Well of course not, you got a sandwich for him.
(audience laughing)
(dramatic music)
(metal clanking)
Hi mister.
Hi sonny.
If you're looking for pop bottles, we're just fresh out.
No mister, I wasn't looking for pop bottles.
I live on Mapleton Drive,
I losted something,
and I think it's in your truck.
Oh?
You want me to empty the truck
and spread everything out here on the street
so you can find it, huh?
No mister, just let me get up there, dig around,
I'll find what I want.
I'm afraid I couldn't let you do that.
(horn beeping)
Just a minute, Charlie.
Well now son whatever it is you lost
sounds to me like it's pretty important to you,
what was it?
Billy.
Billy?
He's a bear.
(audience laughing)
He's stuffeded.
Oh.
I really gotta find him, mister.
Okay, I'll get up there and look for him.
Thanks, mister.
Mister.
Yeah?
Just walk around up there,
if you step on his stomach he'll growl.
(audience laughing)
Well thank you.
He hasn't had his lunch yet,
and I was getting a little bit worried about him.
Goodbye.
Fred Rutherford again?
No, I've been calling around about the Beaver.
He's been gone for almost an hour.
Well he probably got tired chasing the trash truck
and found something more interesting to chase.
Like what?
Well I don't know, I used to chase girls.
I supposed he's a little young for that.
Mrs. Mundello said he ran by her house
about a half an hour ago.
Where do you suppose he could have been going?
June, when you're eight years old
and you're running, you don't have to
have anyplace to run to,
you just run for the sake of running.
I suppose so.
Hi mom, dad, I'm home.
Hi.
Did you have a nice lunch at Eddie's?
Well Eddie's mother gave us a bunch
of little tiny pink sandwiches.
I think she had them left over from a club meeting
a couple days ago.
Is that all you had?
Well they're not bad eating
if you jam a bunch of them together.
I supposed not.
Wally, have you seen the Beaver?
Not since this morning, mom.
But after I put my glove away I'll go look for him.
Now why do you suppose Mrs. Haskell would serve
tea sandwiches to two big growing boys?
Well you know Agnes,
I supposed she didn't want to throw them away.
(audience laughing)
(dramatic music)
Boy Billy you smell worse than ever now.
(audience laughing)
You're not good looking,
but you're the only bear I ever had.
Hey Beaver,
what are you doing,
talking to that thing?
Well I, uh.
Mom's been looking all over for ya.
I know.
I had to chase the trash truck for almost eight blocks.
Boy, Beaver, you must really like that old thing.
I guess I do.
But why?
It's just an old beat up hunk of junk.
Well,
you promise you won't laugh if I tell you?
Nuh-uh, I was a kid like you once myself.
(audience laughing)
Well you remember at the other house
when I had the measles
and they wouldn't let you
or any of the other guys in
'cause they might get 'em?
Yeah.
Well mom was kind of busy,
you know, around the house,
and dad was at work.
Sure, what about it?
Well, there wasn't any real people around
so I made believe Billy was a real people.
I even made believe he had the measles with me.
Gee, Beav, I never knew that.
But that was when you were just a little kid,
what are you gonna do with him now?
Well I figured he did something nice for me once
so I should do something nice for him,
at least getting him out of the junk wagon.
(audience laughing)
Yeah, but mom and dad aren't gonna
let you keep a smelly thing like that,
even if he did have the measles with ya.
Wally, I was just thinking,
maybe there's something we can do to unsmell him.
(audience laughing)
Come on, Beav.
Absolutely nothing in this paper.
You've been reading it for an hour.
Well you have to read it
to find out there's nothing in it.
(audience laughing)
Is that you, Wally?
Yeah mom.
I found the Beaver, we're going up to our room.
Uh Beaver, come here a minute.
What do I do with him, Wally?
Here, turn around.
(audience laughing)
Beaver.
Well come on over here, I wanna talk to you.
Yes, sir.
Where have you been all afternoon?
Your mother was very worried about you.
I'm sorry, mom.
I had a sandwich for your lunch and everything,
where did you go?
Just around.
Now let's understand each other, Beaver,
when you leave this house,
I want your mother to know where you are.
You're not to do this sort of thing again.
Yes, sir.
Can I go now,
or do you wanna yell at me some more?
(audience laughing)
Beaver, your father's not yelling at you.
We just want you to know
that we were very worried.
Yes mom, I'm sorry, thank you.
Beaver, did you have any lunch?
Sure mom, I ate in the candy shop.
(audience laughing)
Ward?
When the Beaver was here, did you notice anything?
You mean that strange smell?
Oh, you did notice it.
What do you suppose it could be?
I don't know.
I guess when two boys are out playing all afternoon
they're entitled to pick up some interesting odors.
(audience laughing)
Boy I was sure they were gonna smell him.
Me too.
Have you thunk of any way to unsmell Billy yet?
(audience laughing)
Well the only way to get rid
of one smell is to find another smell
that drowns it out.
(audience laughing)
That's not gonna be easy.
(dramatic music)
You sure the Haskell's are gonna
bring the boys home after Sunday school?
Uh-huh.
You know I think this is a perfect opportunity
to clean up their room.
That's a great idea.
It's a rule of the zoo, you know,
always clean the cages while the lions are out.
(audience laughing)
I better go take a look
and see how big a job it is before
I get in my working clothes.
(dramatic music)
Well how do you like this, it's immaculate.
I don't understand it,
it's not Christmas and there are no birthdays coming up.
(audience laughing)
What do you suppose happened?
Dear, I didn't notice until we came up here,
but aren't you wearing a great deal of perfume?
No more than usual.
It does smell like my perfume though.
Well don't look at me.
(audience laughing)
No, Ward, it's in here.
It's in this room someplace.
You know it's stronger back here.
It's not in here.
I've narrowed it down to this corner.
Yep, this is it.
It's Beaver's old teddy bear,
well I haven't seen him in years.
We found that when we were cleaning
out the garage, I threw it out in the trash.
It reeked of turpentine then.
Ward, he must have rescued him.
What would he drag out an old thing like that for?
Don't you remember,
why when the Beaver was younger
this is practically the first friend he ever had.
He treated Billy like a real person.
Oh yeah.
I guess I should have paid a little more attention
down in the garage.
I'm afraid Wally and I sort of kidded him
about still wanting to play with dolls.
I'm gonna take Billy downstairs
and I'm gonna give him the best cleaning
he's ever had.
You know, Ward, it's funny,
we all like to hang on to something
that reminds us of some happy occasion of the past.
Yeah, you know I wouldn't telling this to everyone,
but the last minute I turned chicken
and rescued my old shot put from the trash can.
(audience laughing)
Well why don't you go out in the backyard
and practice while I take care
of our other juvenile problem.
(audience laughing)
Don't go too far, dinner's almost ready.
Oh no, mom, I'm just going across the street.
What do you have there?
Billy.
Billy?
Thanks for dry cleaning him, mom.
You're welcome.
I used a button for his eye.
He looks great.
Beaver, you aren't gonna take Billy outside
and play with him are you?
Oh no, mom, I'm too big for that.
I'm gonna give him to Benji.
Little Benji from across the street?
Yeah,
they think he's got the measles,
and when you've got the measles.
Billy's the best friend you can have.
You know, Beaver, I think that's very nice of you.
And then when Benji grows up like I has,
he can give Billy to some other lucky kid who's sick.
(audience laughing)
(dramatic music)
(upbeat music)
[Announcer] "Leave it to Beaver."
(upbeat music)
[Announcer] Starring Barbara Billingsley,
Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow,
and Jerry Mathers as The Beaver.
Mom, when were the trash men here?
Oh just about 10 minutes ago.
Did they turn the corner?
Well I guess so.
Beaver, don't you want your sandwich?
I'll be right back mom,
I gotta catch a trash truck.
But Beaver.
Where's he going?
He has to catch the trash truck.
Oh, that figures.
Uh-huh.
Yes.
Well now let me get this straight, Fred,
you say that if we buy a water softener,
then the company gives you $25 off of the one you bought?
What's that, Fred?
Oh, and if you get five people to buy them
then yours won't cost you anything?
(audience laughing)
Well, Fred, I better talk this over with Ward.
He's out cleaning the garage now,
and that's something I wouldn't want to interrupt.
No, Fred, I haven't anything against soft water,
it's just that I'd like to talk it over with Ward.
(trash can banging)
Oh here, Wally, you can get rid of this.
Gee, what is it dad?
It looks like a life preserver with the cork out of it.
It's a tire cover from an old roadster I had.
Wally, what's a roadster?
Well I think it's something people
used to ride around in, in the olden days.
Yeah that's right, it replaced the covered wagon.
(audience laughing)
Go on, get rid of it.
Here, Beav.
Hey guys, look, look at this.
Gee, an old cannon ball.
No, Beaver, that's a shot put.
I came awful close to setting a school record
with this once.
What do you do with it?
Well the object is to toss it as far as you can, Beav.
Here.
(audience laughing)
I think I'll stick to throwing rocks.
(laughing) Here.
Uh, hey dad, you gonna put it in the trash?
Oh, well
Remember dad, you said we were gonna
throw away everything we couldn't use anymore.
Yeah.
Say, Wally, I don't suppose you
Gee thanks, dad, but it might wreck my pitching arm.
(audience laughing)
Yeah.
Well farewell to the days of our youth.
Hey dad, what's this awful smell?
It's turpentine.
What's this messy looking thing?
Hey that's Billy!
Well whoever he is he's had quite a turpentine bath.
Hey guys we gotta cut out this stalling,
get the job finished.
Aunt Martha gave Billy to me
when I was sick in bed with the measles.
Here you go, Beav,
(audience laughing)
Me and Billy used to sleep together
when we lived in the other house.
Should I throw this out, dad?
No, we better hang on to that,
we can get a new handle for it.
He used to keep me warm
and I used to keep him warm.
What about this, dad?
Toss it out.
Billy used to make sound
when you squoze his stomach.
What'd you say, Beav?
He went grr.
Oh, well come on guys,
we better get this stuff out
and into the trash barrels, huh?
Beav, you bring that one.
(garbage can clanking)
(birds chirping)
Hey dad, you sure you don't wanna save this thing?
No, we gotta stick by our rules, Wally.
(garbage can clanking) (Billy growling)
Billy.
What's the idea, Wally?
You threw it right on his stomach.
So what, he can't feel it.
Hey dad, can I go over to Eddie's now?
Sure go ahead, I can finish up.
Thanks a lot for the help fellas.
Maybe if I put it out inn the sun
the smell would go away.
Hey Beaver, don't hold that old thing
up against your clothes,
it'll get all over them.
Yeah Beaver, why don't you throw it in the barrel?
That's kid stuff.
[Ward] Yeah, anyway, Beav,
you're too big to paly with dolls now.
Sure, of course I is.
Hey Beaver, you gonna come over
and watch us play ball?
No, Wally, I'm tired
of watching you guys do stuff,
and I not getting to do it.
What are you gonna do?
I don't know, the guys are coming over later,
I think I'll play with them.
Okay well I'll be seeing you, Beaver, so long.
So long, Wally.
(solemn music)
(whistling)
Hey, I thought you were going with Wally?
Nuh-uh.
Something you want?
No, I don't want anything,
anything at all.
You finish the garage?
Yeah, all finished.
You know I can't figure it out,
we threw away everything that was worthless
and the garage is still half full of junk.
(audience laughing)
Well don't worry about it dear.
One day we'll move
and leave it all behind us.
(audience laughing)
Oh Fred Rutherford called.
What'd he want?
He says if we and four other people
buy water softeners,
then he and Geraldine get theirs free.
Well and if five other people
send us $200,000 a piece we'd be millionaires.
You know that's a much better deal.
(audience laughing)
Hi.
Hi dad, you all finished with the garage?
Yeah, all finished.
Hey, Beav, where you going?
Chuck and the other guys are coming over later,
I thunk I'd mess around outside until they came.
Well uh what do you and the guys have planned?
Gee dad, it's no fun to plan stuff,
they're just coming over.
(audience laughing)
Oh no you don't, it'll spoil your lunch.
This?
(audience laughing)
The cellar stairs?
The cellar stairs.
Hey Beaver.
Hi, Beaver.
Hi.
Hi.
What you doing?
Nothing, what are you guys doing?
We're looking for pop bottles.
This is the day people put the trash out.
Maybe there's some in the garage,
why don't you go look?
Whatcha got there?
Where?
Behind your back.
Yeah, what do you got there?
Cut it out, Chucky.
Hey look fellas, Beaver's playing with dolls.
I am not, I just found it in the trash.
Then what are you doing with this?
Sure is a smelly old thing all right.
It's funny looking too.
It's just an old piece of junk,
I better throw it back in the trash.
Wait a minute, we can have fun with this old thing.
Doing what, Chucky?
You know that big dog in Mr. Parker's yard?
You know what he does
when you throw something over the fence.
Yeah, he'll rip it to pieces.
Yeah.
Let's go.
Wait.
Wait?
What for?
I don't think the dog is home today.
(audience laughing)
Forget the doll, we came out to look for bottles.
Yeah, everybody's got their trash out,
I bet there's a lot down the street.
You coming with us Beaver
or are you gonna stay there
and play with your teddy bear?
(solemn music)
I'll come with you guys.
(solemn music)
[Chucky] You coming Beaver?
(solemn music)
The boys gonna be home for lunch?
Beaver is, Wally's eating with Eddie.
Who was that on the phone before?
Oh, it was Fred Rutherford,
he wants to know if we're gonna go for his deal
on the water softener.
Didn't you tell him no?
Dear you don't tell Fred no,
I told him I'd think about it.
Just keep telling him that until he gets his own paid for.
(audience laughing)
I'll get you some more.
(bottles rattling)
Trash man.
(metal clanking)
(dramatic music)
(tin can clanking)
Billy!
Beaver!
I have a sandwich for you.
What are you doing?
Just neating up the barrels.
Mom, when were the trash men here?
Oh just about 10 minutes ago.
Did they turn the corner?
Well I guess so.
Beaver?
Don't you want your sandwich?
I'll be right back mom,
I gotta catch a trash truck.
But Beaver.
Where's he going?
He has to catch the trash truck.
Oh that figures.
I used to chase the ice wagon
and eat ice off the back.
Ward, he's not going to eat trash.
(audience laughing)
Well of course not, you got a sandwich for him.
(audience laughing)
(dramatic music)
(metal clanking)
Hi mister.
Hi sonny.
If you're looking for pop bottles, we're just fresh out.
No mister, I wasn't looking for pop bottles.
I live on Mapleton Drive,
I losted something,
and I think it's in your truck.
Oh?
You want me to empty the truck
and spread everything out here on the street
so you can find it, huh?
No mister, just let me get up there, dig around,
I'll find what I want.
I'm afraid I couldn't let you do that.
(horn beeping)
Just a minute, Charlie.
Well now son whatever it is you lost
sounds to me like it's pretty important to you,
what was it?
Billy.
Billy?
He's a bear.
(audience laughing)
He's stuffeded.
Oh.
I really gotta find him, mister.
Okay, I'll get up there and look for him.
Thanks, mister.
Mister.
Yeah?
Just walk around up there,
if you step on his stomach he'll growl.
(audience laughing)
Well thank you.
He hasn't had his lunch yet,
and I was getting a little bit worried about him.
Goodbye.
Fred Rutherford again?
No, I've been calling around about the Beaver.
He's been gone for almost an hour.
Well he probably got tired chasing the trash truck
and found something more interesting to chase.
Like what?
Well I don't know, I used to chase girls.
I supposed he's a little young for that.
Mrs. Mundello said he ran by her house
about a half an hour ago.
Where do you suppose he could have been going?
June, when you're eight years old
and you're running, you don't have to
have anyplace to run to,
you just run for the sake of running.
I suppose so.
Hi mom, dad, I'm home.
Hi.
Did you have a nice lunch at Eddie's?
Well Eddie's mother gave us a bunch
of little tiny pink sandwiches.
I think she had them left over from a club meeting
a couple days ago.
Is that all you had?
Well they're not bad eating
if you jam a bunch of them together.
I supposed not.
Wally, have you seen the Beaver?
Not since this morning, mom.
But after I put my glove away I'll go look for him.
Now why do you suppose Mrs. Haskell would serve
tea sandwiches to two big growing boys?
Well you know Agnes,
I supposed she didn't want to throw them away.
(audience laughing)
(dramatic music)
Boy Billy you smell worse than ever now.
(audience laughing)
You're not good looking,
but you're the only bear I ever had.
Hey Beaver,
what are you doing,
talking to that thing?
Well I, uh.
Mom's been looking all over for ya.
I know.
I had to chase the trash truck for almost eight blocks.
Boy, Beaver, you must really like that old thing.
I guess I do.
But why?
It's just an old beat up hunk of junk.
Well,
you promise you won't laugh if I tell you?
Nuh-uh, I was a kid like you once myself.
(audience laughing)
Well you remember at the other house
when I had the measles
and they wouldn't let you
or any of the other guys in
'cause they might get 'em?
Yeah.
Well mom was kind of busy,
you know, around the house,
and dad was at work.
Sure, what about it?
Well, there wasn't any real people around
so I made believe Billy was a real people.
I even made believe he had the measles with me.
Gee, Beav, I never knew that.
But that was when you were just a little kid,
what are you gonna do with him now?
Well I figured he did something nice for me once
so I should do something nice for him,
at least getting him out of the junk wagon.
(audience laughing)
Yeah, but mom and dad aren't gonna
let you keep a smelly thing like that,
even if he did have the measles with ya.
Wally, I was just thinking,
maybe there's something we can do to unsmell him.
(audience laughing)
Come on, Beav.
Absolutely nothing in this paper.
You've been reading it for an hour.
Well you have to read it
to find out there's nothing in it.
(audience laughing)
Is that you, Wally?
Yeah mom.
I found the Beaver, we're going up to our room.
Uh Beaver, come here a minute.
What do I do with him, Wally?
Here, turn around.
(audience laughing)
Beaver.
Well come on over here, I wanna talk to you.
Yes, sir.
Where have you been all afternoon?
Your mother was very worried about you.
I'm sorry, mom.
I had a sandwich for your lunch and everything,
where did you go?
Just around.
Now let's understand each other, Beaver,
when you leave this house,
I want your mother to know where you are.
You're not to do this sort of thing again.
Yes, sir.
Can I go now,
or do you wanna yell at me some more?
(audience laughing)
Beaver, your father's not yelling at you.
We just want you to know
that we were very worried.
Yes mom, I'm sorry, thank you.
Beaver, did you have any lunch?
Sure mom, I ate in the candy shop.
(audience laughing)
Ward?
When the Beaver was here, did you notice anything?
You mean that strange smell?
Oh, you did notice it.
What do you suppose it could be?
I don't know.
I guess when two boys are out playing all afternoon
they're entitled to pick up some interesting odors.
(audience laughing)
Boy I was sure they were gonna smell him.
Me too.
Have you thunk of any way to unsmell Billy yet?
(audience laughing)
Well the only way to get rid
of one smell is to find another smell
that drowns it out.
(audience laughing)
That's not gonna be easy.
(dramatic music)
You sure the Haskell's are gonna
bring the boys home after Sunday school?
Uh-huh.
You know I think this is a perfect opportunity
to clean up their room.
That's a great idea.
It's a rule of the zoo, you know,
always clean the cages while the lions are out.
(audience laughing)
I better go take a look
and see how big a job it is before
I get in my working clothes.
(dramatic music)
Well how do you like this, it's immaculate.
I don't understand it,
it's not Christmas and there are no birthdays coming up.
(audience laughing)
What do you suppose happened?
Dear, I didn't notice until we came up here,
but aren't you wearing a great deal of perfume?
No more than usual.
It does smell like my perfume though.
Well don't look at me.
(audience laughing)
No, Ward, it's in here.
It's in this room someplace.
You know it's stronger back here.
It's not in here.
I've narrowed it down to this corner.
Yep, this is it.
It's Beaver's old teddy bear,
well I haven't seen him in years.
We found that when we were cleaning
out the garage, I threw it out in the trash.
It reeked of turpentine then.
Ward, he must have rescued him.
What would he drag out an old thing like that for?
Don't you remember,
why when the Beaver was younger
this is practically the first friend he ever had.
He treated Billy like a real person.
Oh yeah.
I guess I should have paid a little more attention
down in the garage.
I'm afraid Wally and I sort of kidded him
about still wanting to play with dolls.
I'm gonna take Billy downstairs
and I'm gonna give him the best cleaning
he's ever had.
You know, Ward, it's funny,
we all like to hang on to something
that reminds us of some happy occasion of the past.
Yeah, you know I wouldn't telling this to everyone,
but the last minute I turned chicken
and rescued my old shot put from the trash can.
(audience laughing)
Well why don't you go out in the backyard
and practice while I take care
of our other juvenile problem.
(audience laughing)
Don't go too far, dinner's almost ready.
Oh no, mom, I'm just going across the street.
What do you have there?
Billy.
Billy?
Thanks for dry cleaning him, mom.
You're welcome.
I used a button for his eye.
He looks great.
Beaver, you aren't gonna take Billy outside
and play with him are you?
Oh no, mom, I'm too big for that.
I'm gonna give him to Benji.
Little Benji from across the street?
Yeah,
they think he's got the measles,
and when you've got the measles.
Billy's the best friend you can have.
You know, Beaver, I think that's very nice of you.
And then when Benji grows up like I has,
he can give Billy to some other lucky kid who's sick.
(audience laughing)
(dramatic music)
(upbeat music)