Every time I see an episode with a girl I wonder why the writers showed them as so dumb and selfish. There are very few girls who were caring and nice. Jill Bartlett, Peggy Macintosh, Gail Preston and Violet Rutherford were the only nice people. Most like Carol, the tennis player, Carolyn Schuster, Eddie’s double cross and even Bessie who was enamored by the Barons were so selfish. Julie Foster, Myra Parker demanded an orchid, Judy Hensler, Penny Woods, those creepy girls who called Beaver Sheepdog, Mary Tyler who treated Beaver terribly were some more. Let’s not forgot that Kathy girl who shook Lumpy down for the number of fish in the contest. I’m sure there were tons of others.

A couple of other examples:
The nasty little girls who teased Beaver when he was pushing the doll carriage. The similarly mean girls who razzed Wally when he came to the grammar school, in Substitute Father.

And some people can't understand why Beaver hated girls so much.

Women did not stand a chance against the men's brains of that era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCbs3VBi81E

You might say Beaver was just as mean to the girls, but Beaver, the Sheep Dog proves otherwise. That Shirley is one nasty girl.

Betsy in Beaver's Autobio. is another one. Name-calling is one thing, but turning in a fake report is way over the line.

I thought of Betsy too and how she really liked Beaver until she found out Beaver called her a zombie then took revenge as only a Mayfield girl could. I guess Ginny Townsend was a nice enough girl she just suffered from allergies. Julie Foster was so fickle. Wally takes her to an elegant restaurant and then laughs at him when he grows a mustache. She just said he was sophisticated and then says naive and immature. Actually three girls stand there making fun of him right in public. So rude. I know how he must have felt once my sister won an award at school and when she went on stage a “friend” said loudly how skinny she was. Never forgot that. Imagine saying “Wow your sister is so fat.”

Kitty Bannerman may be an example of the opposite. Wally thought she was a rich girl who had invited him to a cotillion, and Wally had already misrepresented himself to her, and built himself up more. I don't remember, though, how all that was supposed to have started. But it tuned out she was actually frightened of Wally's claimed status and came out and said so just before Wally was going to confess his own prevrications.

I forgot until today's episode about that expert driver, Shirley. She got her just desserts when she flunked the driving test.

There were a couple nice babes, how about the one who rode a horse like a cowboy and Beaver and her rode around instead of him going to dance school. But off hand I can't think of any other nice chicks in Beaver land.:wave:

Yeah, that was Penny's debut. She let Larry and Beaver ride her horse.

As far as nice chicks in Beaver land, there was Mary Margaret Matthews (played by Lori Martin), the eighth grade siren who had her clutches into Beaver, Gilbert, and then Whitey. Once June found out about her, Ward arranged for Beaver (and Gilbert) to go on a bus tour of America after school was out.

You know I don't even remember that Mary Margaret episode and I really don't remember Ward arranging a Summer time trip for the boys. Is that real or are you fantasizing? Thinking about this, was this the very last episode of Beaver?:confused:

Oh Mary Margaret was real. She was a real operator and had three guys on the string. I wonder if Whitey got caught in her web since he didn’t get to go on the summer trip. That wasn’t the last episode, it was the one when they looked through the photo album and reminisced. Although I think the Clothing Drive episode was one of the last.

Why do so many sitcoms show men as stupid (King of Queens, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Three’s Company, All in the Family, Home Improvement)?

Women did not stand a chance against the men's brains of that era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCbs3VBi81E

Indeed.

Why do so many sitcoms show men as stupid (King of Queens, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Three’s Company, All in the Family, Home Improvement)?

Everybody Loves Raymond.