Beaver and Larry or Beaver and Gilbert?

Beaver and Larry or Beaver and Gilbert?

I vote Beaver and Larry. I like Larry more than Gilbert; Gilbert is too sneaky and duplicitous for my taste.

Larry was my fav - more like my peer group - he was mostly a fun loving kid and did "as he pleases" - overall him & Beav had many youthful good times +-

whereas Gilbert seemed a bit sneaky, tricking Beaver more than once

Clearly, Larry. Some of it had to do with age (the younger kids had more fun), some of it had to do with Gilbert being a pain in the a$$.

Beaver had fun getting into mischief with Larry. I agree with everyone Gilbert was a snake and always came out squeaky clean. He was downright rude to June in Wally Stays at Lumpy’s.

Larry for sure.

But if I wanted to pretend being husband and wife, Gilbert would be my go to since he played a mother/wife so well.

I vote Beaver & Larry. Larry wasn’t as sneaky and devious as Gilbert; hence they got in less trouble, and at the end of the day, enjoyed themselves more.

Larry for sure.

But if I wanted to pretend being husband and wife, Gilbert would be my go to since he played a mother/wife so well.

That is one of my favorite episodes when Gilbert and Beaver drive Ward's car in the driveway and pretend they are married with kids.

That is Talbot's best LITB episode, IMO.

LOL, Torgo. Gilbert for mother of the year!

That is one of my favorite episodes when Gilbert and Beaver drive Ward's car in the driveway and pretend they are married with kids.

So Agree

Someone needs to write up that dialogue !

^^^
Doesn't Glibert turn around and flick one on their head?

I thought about this after reading this threat and watched a couple dozen different episodes.

The verdict: I think Larry and Beaver were the better pair. Yeah, Larry could show duplicitousness but it was a side-effect of his short-sighted bumbling and often selfish thinking...and...he was often accosted and/or punished for it.

Gilbert was the devious one, with pure malice as the impetus behind most of the capers he got over on Beaver. He mostly got away with these scot-free. A few exceptions though, the most notable one being in 'Long Distance Call'.

In short: Larry was a little dipsh*t. Gilbert was just a little sh*t.

That is one of my favorite episodes when Gilbert and Beaver drive Ward's car in the driveway and pretend they are married with kids.

Definitely one of Gilbert's funniest moments.

Re post #10--I'll write up the dialogue from the Beaver and Gilbert car scene and post a separate thread on it, sometime this weekend. It's definitely one of the funniest scenes in the 5th season, and maybe right up there for all 6.

Correct me if I'm wrong but Beaver seemed to have stayed in touch/gotten in touch with Larry in the 1980's sequels but had little if anything to do with Gilbert as an adult. At least that showed him smarter than Wally who kept considering Eddie his bestie well into middle age!

Yeah I think in the 80s Talbot wanted no part of the new show. He seems to have mellowed on the LITB years, now.

Not sure how close Beaver and Larry were as adults as Beav didn't find out Larry had been de-programmed until Larry came to Beaver's almost second wedding.

Not a fan of Gilbert at all. I guess he was pretty funny playing the mother in the car but otherwise he was very unfunny. I think his funniest line was to throw Eddie a cuppa coffee. I thought Richard Rickover (Correll) was much funnier on his delivery especially in Nobody Loves Me explaining adolescence.

Gilbert had some funny lines while Eddie was on the ledge on the cliff (using Beaver-writing).

The coffee line was funny and when Eddie wanted Gilbert to talk to him, say anything, Gilbert called him every clean name in the book. Beaver had a funny line when he told Alan to hold Lumpy's hand, too.

I still want to document the car in the driveway scene with Gilbert.

I do agree with you--yes, Gilbert's a weasel and his number one talent was running at the first sign of trouble. Right after the car ends up in the street, he's gone, stopped only by Wally wanting to know what's going on. Somehow he stuck around a little longer in the electric trains episode. Finally as June and Beaver are arguing about the train June tells him to leave. In another episode, he exited fairly quickly when Mr. Jeff was bathing, but MeTV cut out his exit, so he just seemed to disappear. Bad edit.

I don't remember for sure but after Beaver "broke" the golf club I'd bet he exited, too.