I have a few problems with Tire Trouble. Ward is unhappy how the boys left the garage when they were building a cage. All the lumber is taking up the garage. Ward says he'll try to squeeze the car in until the next day. How?

He comes home Friday and the garage looks the same as yesterday. Didn't he squeeze the car in? It would have moved everything over. Saturday the boys are cleaning up garage and Beaver pulls a piece of wood off the tire. Wouldn't Ward have noticed that when he got out of the car? Did he pull the car out of the garage that morning? I wouldn't have parked my car in the garage. It was his fault it picked up a nail.

Also how come Fred and Gwen aren't available on Thursday? Who would want to spend time with that buffoon?

Funny how in June's Birthday Wally fakes the tire is flat to get Ward out of the house and the next episode it really is flat. Is that bad Karma?

My problem with this episode is that Ward jumped on the boys about the tire as soon as he came home. He didn't give the boys a chance to tell him what happened. I think getting the tire fixed on their own showed a lot responsibility.

He never even said hello to June either time.

No way he could squeeze the car in--it looks like a single-car garage to me. Ward would have had to go back out to the garage and move stuff around--and we know he was too po'd to do that. As far as Ward jumping on the boys--we know he has quite a temper. He jumped their case way too much! And as far as getting the tire fixed on their own, wasn't the the idea of one Edward Haskell?

I'm not an LITB expert. Can June drive? Do they have two cars?

I'm not an LITB expert. Can June drive? Do they have two cars?

I think June can drive, but she rarely does. I think when Beaver runs away, she threatens to take the car and go and find him.

In 234 eps. 2 cars are never shown.

I think June can drive, but she rarely does. I think when Beaver runs away, she threatens to take the car and go and find him.

In 234 eps. 2 cars are never shown.

Thanks! :wave:

Ward would not have necessarily noticed that a piece of wood was in the tire; he might have run over it and the tire did not even make a complete revolution, as he was just moving the car out so they could clean up the garage. But, of course, this episode is a little goofy in several ways-- Beaver's saying "Look, Mom, is that an elephant?" and Fred noticing the 2 boys rolling a tire down the street and telling Ward "They look a little like your 2, old man," and then Eddie spilling the story to Ward, who picked up the phone instead of Wally. And as one of the rare times we see Ward and Fred working together-- or Ward working and Fred annoying him-- it leads me to wonder how Fred ever got his position. If the show explained the business, then maybe we wouldn't wonder, or else we'd lose respect for Ward working for a lucrative but tenuous enterprise, while Fred, like Mel Cooley, was somebody's whipping boy who thought he was important just by his title.

Fred does say he's not the company man Ward is. Ward must be quite important but as you said Fred seems like a screw up. Hey you know what I noticed? In Ward's office next to the bust on the bookcase I saw a golfing trophy. Ward must be quite the golfer. Very discreet. (Tire Trouble)