Leave It to Beaver (1957) s01e37 Episode Script

1
(cheerful music)
That you, dear?
Yes, it is.
Oh, Ward.
We've been up and down every block in this neighborhood,
and Beaver's nowhere around.
Yeah, Dad, I think we oughta call the police.
So do I.
All right, now let's all calm down.
The thing to do is to make some phone calls first,
see if anyone's seen him.
(theme music)
[Announcer] Leave It To Beaver,
starring Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow,
and Jerry Mathers as the Beaver.
(phone rings)
Hello?
Oh, hello, Larry.
Beaver?
Well, he's down in the garage with his father and Wally.
They're building a table to play checkers on.
All right, Larry.
I'll tell Beaver you're on your way over, bye.
Of course, dear, you can stay for lunch.
Bye. (Audience laughing)
Tuna fish, dear.
Goodbye.
(whirring)
Boy, Dad, that drill sure is a neat wood-eater, isn't it?
It sure is, Beave.
Wally, I think we're all ready to put it together.
Did you find those clamps?
Well, only one, Dad.
I think I loaned 'em to Eddie Haskell
when he was building a birdhouse, and he lost 'em.
I thought we agreed
you weren't going to lend my tools anymore.
Well, Eddie came over and,
well, he started whining around,
and, well, I didn't think it would hurt just this once.
When you say something, you mustn't back down, Wally.
You gotta stick to it, right, Beave?
I don't know.
Eddie's Wally's friend.
Yes. (Audience laughs)
Well, guess we'd better go down to the hardware store
and get some clamps.
(birds chirping)
Where are you going?
Oh, to the store.
Yeah, Mom, we're gonna buy some stuff that Eddie lost.
Beaver, you better stay here.
Larry Mondello's on his way over.
Okay, Mom. (Engine revs)
Oh, get another loaf of bread!
Larry's gonna be here for lunch!
(horn honks) (audience laughs)
(meandering music)
(imitating airplane whirring)
(blows) (audience laughing)
(imitating drill whirring)
Hi, Beave!
Hi, Larry.
(whirring)
Whatcha doin', Beaver?
I'm pretendin' I'm drillin' holes. (Imitates whirring)
Is that any fun?
I don't know.
I just started.
(audience laughs) (whirring)
Hey, Beaver, here's an old piece of wood.
Let's drill a real hole.
No.
My dad told me not to never touch his tools.
Gee, if you did everything your father tells ya,
you never have any fun.
(audience laughs)
But it's no fun havin' fun when you get in trouble.
How can you get in trouble drillin' a little old hole?
You plug it in, and I'll drill a hole If you're a-scared.
I'm not a-scared.
Then plug it in.
Okay.
There!
You hold the wood, and I'll drill a hole.
You gotta hold it against somethin'.
Hold it here.
(whirring)
(audience laughing)
Boy, that's neat!
(audience laughing)
Let's see what they look like.
Look, Beave, it went right through the wood.
Uh-oh.
It went through the garage too.
(audience laughs)
Boy, my father's gonna be real mad when he sees it.
When will your father be back?
Right away, he just went to the store.
I think I gotta go, Beaver.
You wanna come, Beaver? (Audience laughs)
No, I think I better be here when he gets back.
I don't know, Beaver,
he's gonna be awful mad when he first sees that.
Maybe I'd better come with you,
and come back after he's used to 'em.
Yeah, come on. (Audience laughs)
Well, now, we've got our clamps.
If you didn't give Eddie the glue, we can finish this up.
That glue is back there in the corner, Wally.
- Hey, Dad?
- Hm?
I thought you unplugged this.
Oh, I did.
I wouldn't leave a drill plugged in.
Well, gee, maybe you forget things, too, sometimes, huh?
(scoffs) Yeah, maybe.
Well, get that glue opened up, Wally.
(audience laughs)
What's the matter?
That's what's the matter.
Wow.
Hey, look!
You can see right into the house.
[Ward] Yeah.
[Wally] Oh, hi, Mom.
Hi. (Audience laughs)
Honey, you want your lunch now?
Yeah, in a minute.
Where's the Beaver?
He went over to Larry Mondello's to play.
Oh, he did huh?
Look!
(audience laughs)
- Beaver?
- Beaver.
I've told him a thousand times not to touch my power tools,
yet the minute my back's turned,
he drills holes in the garage wall.
Well, maybe it was an accident.
Twice?
Boy, I wanna be here when he gets home.
Never mind, Wally. (Audience laughing)
We have tuna fish.
Well, that helps. (Audience laughs)
Come on.
Hello, Mom.
Hello, Beaver.
You're late.
It's almost suppertime.
I know.
I was out playin'.
Where's Dad?
In the living room.
Did he see the holes in the garage yet?
Yes, he did.
Then I guess I'd better go out and play some more.
(audience laughs)
Now, Beaver, you know you have to go in there
to your father and explain to him what happened.
Couldn't I explain to you, and you could 'splain to him?
I'm afraid not.
Now, look, you're not helping anything
by putting things off.
Now, Beaver, you know
your father's going to be perfectly fair.
I know.
That's what I'm a-scared of.
(audience laughs)
(dramatic music)
(sniffles)
Dad?
Yes, Beaver?
I guess you wanna know how the holes got in the garage?
I certainly do.
Well, uh,
well, they got there, but, uh, oh, I didn't make 'em.
You didn't make them?
No, Larry made them.
I was makin' noises with the drill, and Larry came in,
and he said, "Let's make a real hole."
Well, then I held the board against the wall,
and the next thing I knew, he made 'em.
But you were a party to it.
No, sir.
I just held the board. (Audience laughs)
Beaver, you knew what Larry was doing was wrong.
You could've stopped him.
Well, gee, Dad,
I have enough trouble keeping myself good
without keeping all the other kids good.
(audience laughs)
You know how I feel about this, Beaver?
I feel that you're more to blame than Larry,
because I've told you time after time,
never to touch my tools.
[Beaver] But, Dad, Larry was the one that
What you did shows that you have very little respect
for what I tell you, and no pride for the home you live in.
But, gee, Dad, I didn't mean it to happen.
It just happened.
- Beaver,
I try very hard to provide a nice home for you.
I try to do the right thing for all of us, don't I?
Yes, sir.
But, Dad, Larry
- All right.
I also make certain rules,
and if you don't obey them,
you and I are going to have
nothing but trouble around here.
Yes, sir.
Where are you going?
I'm going away,
so you won't never not be troubled
with me hanging around here again!
Beaver, are you threatening me?
No, sir!
I'm just going away! (Footsteps running up stairs)
Now, Beaver!
Where's he going?
Well, he's going away
so we'll never not be troubled
with him hanging around here again.
(audience laughs)
Oh, Ward
Now, there's nothing to worry about.
When I was his age,
I was always threatening to run away from home.
Yes, but you weren't a little boy like the Beaver.
June, what do you think I was, a kangaroo?
(audience laughs)
- Ward?
- Huh?
Did you ever really run away from home?
Yeah, once.
My father let me go too.
I was back in about half an hour, never did it again.
It certainly taught me a lesson.
(dramatic music)
Hey, Beaver, are you really gonna run away from home?
No foolin'?
Yeah.
Dad said this was his house, and he didn't want me
hangin' around here makin' trouble for him.
Aw, he didn't mean it.
Then why'd he say it?
Well, that's the way parents are.
They're always sayin' mean things like that so,
well, you'll be too scared to do somethin' wrong.
They don't really mean it.
I don't care.
Larry drilled the holes,
and Dad said it was more my fault than his.
That's bein' too mean.
Where are you gonna run away to?
I don't know.
I might run away and join some pirates,
and come back with a wooden leg.
Mom and Dad wouldn't even recognize me.
(audience laughs)
- Aw, cut it out, Beaver.
They don't have pirates anymore.
Well, then I might run away and be a tramp, all by myself,
and eat all my food outta tin cans.
(audience laughs)
What are you takin' these for?
In case I might meet up with some other tramps.
We might play marbles. (Audience laughs)
Ward, will you call the boys?
Supper's ready.
All right, dear.
Wally!
Beaver!
Supper!
Where's the Beave?
Uh, he's comin' down, Dad.
Listen, Wally, I want
(footsteps clopping)
(audience laughs)
He's runnin' away, Dad.
Aha.
Well, you'd better go on in to supper, Wally.
Yes, sir.
I'll see ya, Beave.
See ya, Wally.
(dramatic music)
So you're, um, You're leaving home, huh?
Yes, sir.
And I'm not never comin' back.
Well, don't you wanna talk it over?
No, sir.
Well,
goodbye.
Goodbye.
Well, I'm really goin'. (Audience laughs)
So you said.
I don't suppose you'd want to have your supper first?
No, I'm goin' right now.
Well, all right then.
Goodbye.
I'll tell your mother you've gone.
Thank you.
Well, goodbye.
Goodbye.
(audience laughing)
Ward?
- Huh?
- Wally just told me.
What's this all about the Beaver?
Oh, he just ran away from home.
Oh, Ward, let's go get him.
No, no, that's exactly what he wants us to do.
But he might mean it.
Now, June, there's nothing to worry about.
He'll walk around the block once,
and he'll be back by the time we finish our soup.
Did he really go?
Yes, he did.
Hey, Dad, he said he was gonna join the pirates
and come back with a wooden leg.
(laughing)
Ward Cleaver, if he does, I'll never speak to you again!
(audience laughs) (dramatic music)
[Beaver Voiceover] I'm sorry, Dad,
but I'm not comin' back.
You can beg me all you want, but I'm not.
You can promise me all the ice cream in the world,
and my own television set,
and even if I could stay up till 10:OO
for the rest of my life, I'm not comin' home.
Um, I'm sorry Mom's sittin' in the kitchen cryin',
but you shouldn't have been so mean to me.
I'm not comin' back never.
Okay, I'm goin'.
I um, I guess these go up here, huh?
Oh, should I put the butter in the refrigerator?
(audience laughs)
Look, June, if I gave in to his threats,
how would I have any control over him in the future?
(door thuds) (audience laughs)
It's not that I don't love him,
but if I let him get away with this,
he'll pull the same thing every time
he does something wrong. (Whistling)
What's that?
I don't know.
It's probably Wally.
He wanted to go outside and look around.
Gee, Dad, he's nowhere around.
I think he really ran away.
- Oh, Wally
Ward Cleaver, you never should have let him go
out that door in the first place.
- Listen, June
- Yeah, Dad,
I think Mom's right.
(audience laughs)
All right, Wally,
you're probably going to have children of your own someday.
Now, just how would you have handled this situation?
Well, I probably would've socked him one
instead of telling him to leave home.
(audience laughs)
I did not tell him to leave home!
Ward Cleaver, are you gonna get that car out
and go and look for Beaver?
No, I'm not.
Very well.
Where are you going?
If you won't get the car out, I will.
All right, all right, all right!
I still think I'm right about this.
But if you insist on undermining my authority, go ahead.
Right now, I don't care about authority.
All I care about is my baby.
(sighs)
I know he's out there somewhere, cold and hungry.
It was very nice of you, Mrs. Mondello,
to invite me to have supper with you.
(audience laughs)
- You're welcome, Beaver.
We were surprised to see you though.
It's okay, Mom.
I eat a lot of junk over at his house.
(audience laughs)
I'm sorry to hear your aunt was taken ill so suddenly.
Oh, yeah.
My whole family had to go see her in the hospital.
That's why they told me to come over here
and get invited for supper.
They didn't take me with 'em
'cause I might catch stuff in the hospital.
(audience laughs)
We were waiting supper for Mr. Mondello,
but he's working late.
Mom, can I have Pop's dessert?
(audience laughs)
- Oh, I guess so.
You'd better leave room for it though.
(chuckles)
Beaver, your aunt's not sick, is she?
Uh-uh, I run away.
Your father saw the drill holes, huh?
He sure did.
He blamed me for 'em.
Did you squeal on me?
Yeah, I squealed on ya, but he still blamed me.
Oh.
I might try runnin' away sometime. To do now.
Hey, you could stay here.
For always?
Well, I don't know if we got
enough clean sheets for always.
(audience laughs)
(car door thuds) (pleasant music)
That you, dear?
Yes, it is.
Oh, Ward, we've been up and down every block
in this neighborhood, and Beaver's nowhere around!
Yeah, Dad, I think we oughta call the police.
- So do I.
- All right.
Now, let's all calm down.
The thing to do is to make some phone calls first,
see if anyone's seen him.
Well, maybe he went over to Larry Mondello's.
They're the ones that drilled the hole together.
If he went way over there,
he's certainly going to be punished.
Oh, Ward, let's find him first.
All right.
Of course, if he isn't over there,
he could've hitched a ride on a truck or somethin'.
(audience laughs)
Hello.
Oh, Mrs. Mondello, this is Ward Cleaver,
Theodore Cleaver's father.
He what?
Is he there?
Oh, he just finished his supper, huh?
(audience laughs)
Oh.
Oh, yes, I see.
Uh-huh.
Yes, well, thank you very much, Mrs. Mondello, I
Oh, yes, I'm sure Mrs. Cleaver's sister
will be quite all right.
Thank you, goodbye.
Gee, I'm glad we found him, Dad.
What was that about my sister?
Well, it seems the Beaver made up a big fat story
about your sister being in the hospital,
and us sending him over to the Mondellos' for supper.
How do you like that kid?
We're here worrying our heads off,
and he's over there calmly enjoying his supper.
I don't care where he is, as long as he's all right.
Come on, let's go get him.
No. I still think we should wait
till he comes home of his own accord.
Ward, I think you're being very unfair.
What's unfair?
Did I bore holes in the garage wall?
Did I upset a household
while I went and enjoyed a party with a friend?
Never mind, I'll go and get him myself.
All right, if you want to spoil him and give in to him,
make a baby out of him.
That's exactly what I wanna do.
(audience laughs)
(sighs)
Dad, if I say something,
you won't get mad at me, will ya?
I don't know, Wally.
What is it?
It's about the Beaver runnin' away.
Well, I know he was bluffin' and everything,
but when you let him go, what else could he do?
Well, what else could I do?
I couldn't run after him,
beg him to come back, let him win.
Gee, Dad, I don't think he wants to win.
I just think he wants to be able to come back
without lookin' like a creep.
(dramatic music)
Hi, Dad.
Hello, Beaver.
I'm home.
Yeah, did you have a nice time at the Mondellos'?
Sure, Dad.
Enjoy your supper?
Yeah, we had a loaf of meat.
(audience laughs)
Beaver, you must be rather tired.
Suppose we go on upstairs to bed.
Dad?
Yes, Beaver?
I'm sorry I ran away.
Well, I'm sorry too.
You shouldn't have done that.
Mom said, when you were a kid, you ran away once.
Your, uh, mother told you that?
Yeah.
How did you feel when your father didn't come after you?
Well, I felt pretty bad.
Then how come you didn't come after me?
Um,
well, I guess I made a mistake, Beaver.
I guess I was so anxious to be right that I,
I kinda forgot what it felt like when I was a little boy.
Good night, Dad.
Good night, Beaver.
Good night, Beaver.
Good night, Mom.
June, you didn't tell the Mondellos
the real story, did you?
No, I guess I didn't.
I kinda knew that's what you'd do.
And I kinda knew this is what you'd do.
All right, Ward, I'll tell 'em.
Boys!
(footsteps flurrying) (audience laughing)
- Yeah, Mom?
- Yeah, Mom?
Your father wants you.
He's out in the garage.
- Okay, Mom.
- Okay, Mom.
I think he's doing some work out there.
Whew.
You wanna see us, Dad?
Oh, yeah.
Boy, Dad, it sure is neat
the way you took the holes out of the wall.
(audience laughs)
Something over there on the bench, fellas.
Hey, look!
You got yourself a lot of new tools.
No, boys, these are yours.
- Ours, Dad?
- Boy!
Yeah, I got to thinking,
I realized you were always out here watching me
when I worked with tools,
and that it must be kinda hard to always watch
and never touch.
Yeah, Dad, we always like to do what you do.
Well, now you've got some tools of your own.
Hey, Dad?
Now if the Beaver wants to drill holes
in the wall, he can use his own stuff.
(all laughing)
(epic music)
(cheerful music)
(logo chiming)