Last night I watched the episode "More Blessed to Give" where Beaver wins the gold locket and gives it to Donna Yeager. This is one of the few later episodes where they give Beaver an age-appropriate story line and I think it is nice to see Beaver being serious about the subject of girls for once. I like when he and Wally are talking in the bedroom about how it feels to like girls and Wally is trying to tell Beaver he is too young to get involved with girls and Beaver says "if I'm too young for that kind of liking, how come I got that kind of liking?".
I think the writers should have let Beaver grow up the last few seasons and I bet there could have been some more good story lines about a young man being allowed to grow up instead of keeping him acting like the 7 year old Beaver.

I like this ep too. I always crack up when Wally tells Beaver that a kid his age shouldn't go running around like Frank Sinatra. :lol:

:lol: I like this ep too. I always crack up when Wally tells Beaver that a kid his age shouldn't go running around like Frank Sinatra. :lol:

I didn't really see the big fuss everyone was making with Beaver giving Donna the locket. I understand that it was a very nice locket but still I thought they made way too much of a big deal. I thought it was the normal thing, even back then for young people to exchange different items of affection until Wally gave a speech about Mrs. Rayburn not allowing "her kids" to date at that age or however he worded it but it sounded like Mrs. Rayburn tried to have more control over these kids then their own parents which reminds me of how our government is trying to sneak in and eventually take conrtol of how we dicipline our kids today.

I didn't really see the big fuss everyone was making with Beaver giving Donna the locket. I understand that it was a very nice locket but still I thought they made way too much of a big deal. I thought it was the normal thing, even back then for young people to exchange different items of affection until Wally gave a speech about Mrs. Rayburn not allowing "her kids" to date at that age or however he worded it but it sounded like Mrs. Rayburn tried to have more control over these kids then their own parents which reminds me of how our government is trying to sneak in and eventually take conrtol of how we dicipline our kids today.

I see what you mean. I agree I didn't get the fuss ethier. Mrs. Rayburn should omit that law it should be set by the parents what age is good for dating.

i never understood why ward june and donnas parents made such a big deal out of the locket ether i mean whoop de do he gave her a locket they all acted like beaver and donna were talking about wedding plans.

I think this episode went over the top with the morality thing too. June & Ward blow everything out of proportion. I crack up everytime they show the scene were Donna is told by her father that she has to give back the locket and she say's " Ok Daddy ! I'll give it back, but something like this could give me a trauma" and her dad says " What are we raising around here, one of the Gabor sisters ?"

New idea for a fanfic: Suppose Ward and June also had one daughter, say between the ages of Wally and Beaver [they certainly have an extra bedroom ;) ]. Imagine the strict rules and overprotectiveness, and the questioning Ward would have put a young man through who wanted to take her out. Make her either overly vulnerable to persuasion, like Beaver, or overly modest about her good looks and abilities, like Wally; it's the writer's choice, of course.

It's funny that you bring this up tdr! I was always wondering what kind of father Ward would be to a girl. I bet he would be as overprotective as June was with the boys or seemed to be at times. :lol:

New idea for a fanfic: Suppose Ward and June also had one daughter, say between the ages of Wally and Beaver [they certainly have an extra bedroom ;) ]. Imagine the strict rules and overprotectiveness, and the questioning Ward would have put a young man through who wanted to take her out. Make her either overly vulnerable to persuasion, like Beaver, or overly modest about her good looks and abilities, like Wally; it's the writer's choice, of course.

I smell sitcom! I'll write it tomorow if noone else has clamied it