Jack1000
12-18-2003, 11:29 PM
Guys,
I just saw the "Tell it to Ella" episode. This is the one where Beaver writes to a newspaper advice columnist when he is not allowed to go out on school nights, but his two friends Mike and Kevin can. Good writing and acting. My question is about the episodes tag. Amazingly, I don't remember the tag sequence and saw it tonight:
Beaver comes home from a (football?) game and says "We won." Wally says he's sorry he couldn't go because he had a date. Beaver says, he saw a column in Tell it to Ella. that said fathers and sons should spend more time together. Beaver says, "I put it in Dad's den so that he would see it." Wally says, 'Yea, that's what Dad told me to do."
Wally's last line is a bit ambiguous. Does this imply that Ward asked Wally to write to Dear Ella to try to get better communication between Beaver and Ward regarding the school night conflict? Beaver sure seems happy in the tag. Or at least content, considering the contents of this episode. The episode seems to offer too much of a "happy ending." Beaver explains how he learned not to take outside advise from people at the dinner table before the tag scene. There is no talk of Beaver and Ward going to any kind of game together between that scene and the tag. (Unless something was cut here by TV Land)
Is there too much of an over positive course change here? Did Ward just give in to Beaver and they went to the game together on a school night? Or maybe it was a Friday Night or Saturday Night game? Nothing is mentioned. I might be missing something in the tag.
If Beaver says he put the paper in the den for Ward to see, Wally's statement would make no sense unless Wally wrote to Ella to explain the situation. Beaver's reaction to Wally's line, "That's what Dad told me to do." creates a suprised reaction on Beaver's face as well! Let's assume Wally did indeed write to Ella for advice to create a positve compromise for Beaver and Ward to do something together. I thought the moral of the episode was not to take advice from strangers and to trust the judgments of your parents. So, what does Wally's last line mean? Clarification anyone?
Jack
I just saw the "Tell it to Ella" episode. This is the one where Beaver writes to a newspaper advice columnist when he is not allowed to go out on school nights, but his two friends Mike and Kevin can. Good writing and acting. My question is about the episodes tag. Amazingly, I don't remember the tag sequence and saw it tonight:
Beaver comes home from a (football?) game and says "We won." Wally says he's sorry he couldn't go because he had a date. Beaver says, he saw a column in Tell it to Ella. that said fathers and sons should spend more time together. Beaver says, "I put it in Dad's den so that he would see it." Wally says, 'Yea, that's what Dad told me to do."
Wally's last line is a bit ambiguous. Does this imply that Ward asked Wally to write to Dear Ella to try to get better communication between Beaver and Ward regarding the school night conflict? Beaver sure seems happy in the tag. Or at least content, considering the contents of this episode. The episode seems to offer too much of a "happy ending." Beaver explains how he learned not to take outside advise from people at the dinner table before the tag scene. There is no talk of Beaver and Ward going to any kind of game together between that scene and the tag. (Unless something was cut here by TV Land)
Is there too much of an over positive course change here? Did Ward just give in to Beaver and they went to the game together on a school night? Or maybe it was a Friday Night or Saturday Night game? Nothing is mentioned. I might be missing something in the tag.
If Beaver says he put the paper in the den for Ward to see, Wally's statement would make no sense unless Wally wrote to Ella to explain the situation. Beaver's reaction to Wally's line, "That's what Dad told me to do." creates a suprised reaction on Beaver's face as well! Let's assume Wally did indeed write to Ella for advice to create a positve compromise for Beaver and Ward to do something together. I thought the moral of the episode was not to take advice from strangers and to trust the judgments of your parents. So, what does Wally's last line mean? Clarification anyone?
Jack