That Same Newspaper

[Scrabjan1]

I think it is so funny how they use the same prop newspaper since Season 3. Every time we see Ward with his newspaper it is the exact same one because of that same pic on the back. He often has the newspaper in season 4 and 5. You realize Ward isn’t even reading it because it is just a prop.

Also in Beaver’s Babysitter June has a gift as they leave for the evening with a big bow. Later in Beaver Takes a Drive June has the exact same present as they get picked up by the Tolans.

Gilbert is wearing a shirt in Beaver’s Frogs that later we see Beaver wearing in Beaver’s Birthday. So I guess they had many of the same shirts in wardrobe.

[MichaelMartinD]

Beaver's teacher Mr. Blair in his episode ("Beaver's English Test") wears the same tie that Ward habitually wears.

In "Lonesome Beaver" we see a closeup of the front page of Ward's newspaper. It has a February date (the episode was aired in February) but no year!

[stevea]

Originally Posted by MichaelMartinD

Beaver's teacher Mr. Blair in his episode ("Beaver's English Test") wears the same tie that Ward habitually wears.

In "Lonesome Beaver" we see a closeup of the front page of Ward's newspaper. It has a February date (the episode was aired in February) but no year!

That's similar to the letter Beaver got from the modeling agency, no state, just "Mayfield."

[Torgo]

Since we're pointing out things that are the same- the living room set from Eddie's Sweater (where Eddie's girlfriend uses Wally as a dressmaking dummy) is the same living room set where Eddie and Wally use the lady's phone to call Lumpy in Wally's Practical Joke.

I'm sure this has been pointed out before, just got reminded of it again re watching the final season.

[stevea]

On the flip side, infrequently used sets rarely look the same, due to different art directors and set decorators. For instance in the final season we see Ward and June's bedroom, and it never looks the same each time. This kind of thing happens more often on other old sitcoms, particularly Screen Gems shows, where main casts members are not related to the stars and have different houses. Examples, the Kravitzes on Bewitched and Dr. Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie--the sets are never the same in different episodes, and even borrow sets from other sitcoms.

As far as exterior shots go, on Beaver you often see the Bachelor Father house in the background, in on location filming (it's also a Universal show). They also use its exterior for the Langley wedding.

[MichaelMartinD]

Originally Posted by stevea

That's similar to the letter Beaver got from the modeling agency, no state, just "Mayfield."

On other occasions on a package or letter it said "Mayfield, USA."

[Scrabjan1]

Kinda like Mayfield is a town in the Twilight Zone like the man and woman get off the train and find themselves in a fake town with fake trees and squirrels. I wish sometimes the producers made things a little more laid back like Ward’s lines.
In the one when Wally wants to go on a wild weekend at Scott’s home on a lake:

“Do you think I should have Wally bring some cans of vegetables? Ward- “Oh no. I’d hate to think a can of peas ruined our son’s social life.”

[stevea]

I don't want to do a new thread but sometimes the lines bug me. Like in Wally's Chauffeur Evelyn says, There are some of the kids. Hi, Mary! (while Wally sinks in the seat).

Do high school kids call other kids, kids? There are some of the guys, something else! It just didn't sound right, and she used the reference one other time.

The lines are written by an adult, but somebody should have pointed it out.

[MichaelMartinD]

Originally Posted by stevea

I don't want to do a new thread but sometimes the lines bug me. Like in Wally's Chauffeur Evelyn says, There are some of the kids. Hi, Mary! (while Wally sinks in the seat).

Do high school kids call other kids, kids? There are some of the guys, something else! It just didn't sound right, and she used the reference one other time.

Maybe a girl might say it, in a sort of cutesy way.

[Scrabjan1]

Or in a sort of “yummy” way. I think Evelyn had a habit of speaking cutesy like saying her sister’s lamps were darling.

They loved the name Evelyn. Boothby, June Evelyn Bronson and Evelyn Bowderhouse.

How about when Beaver comes home from dancing school and says “How ‘bout it Mom and Dad.” Or in Beaver the Hero when Whitey and Gilbert are talking to him in the corridor at school and ask why he showed up being a hero and all and Beaver says “Oh cut it out Gilbert and Whitey.” So unnatural! Just say oh cut it out guys or layoff guys.

[MichaelMartinD]

Originally Posted by Scrabjan1

Or in Beaver the Hero when Whitey and Gilbert are talking to him in the corridor at school and ask why he showed up being a hero and all and Beaver says “Oh cut it out Gilbert and Whitey.” So unnatural! Just say oh cut it out guys or layoff guys.

The writers must have been concerned about the audience remembering the names of the minor characters.

[stevea]

I know we've talked about Cut it out Gilbert and Whitey before, but that is about the most awkward line in the whole series. Unless Mathers had been shot down before, he should have lobbied for it to be changed, or asked his mom to lobby.

And I hope they don't hit us in Beaver's Birthday is the most ridiculous.

[Scrabjan1]

I think Gilbert says that before about hitting them I think when they were going collecting for the community chest. I could be wrong. Just saw the electric trains ep and Georgia Battson was a whole 5 years older than Wally.