https://www.metv.com/stories/the-1997-leave-it-to-beaver-movie-was-rated-pg-so-jerry-mathers-declined-to-be-in-it

The actor felt anything Beaver-related should be "G-rated" and voiced his issues with television in the '90s.

Good for him.

they were thinking? Fast Times at Beaver High ?? lol

I certainly give him credit….but even in the TV-movie “Still the Beaver,” even Mathers himself said a “Norman-Lear-friendly” word [“I don’t give a ****….].

Wally also used a word that Lear would be okay with, IIRC.

I do seem to recall Mathers saying he didn’t like the PG movie because the new Beaver character lied to Mom & Dad’s face, something Jerry said that the original Beaver would never do.

But didn’t Beaver lie a few times right at Mom and Dad? I cannot think of occasions at this time.

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Yes, I think Jerry has a brain fade on that one. Beaver's lying (more younger than older Beaver) generated a lot of his problems.

I will say that most of Beaver's lies were to outsiders like Miss Landers. Mathers had a funny way of pausing, like Beaver's brain was generating a whopper, and it took a few seconds. "My father fell out of an airplane." "My mother has pneumonia."

"My father fell out of an airplane." "My mother has pneumonia."

and he would say it and leave his mouth open an kind of twisted. Total liar