Cats in LITB

[MichaelMartinD]

The LITB writers showed a rare lapse in taste in "Beaver's Secret Life" when Beaver casually mentions having seen a "dead cat" lying around the neighborhood. This always makes me cringe. Cats and dogs are beloved domestic pets, and you don't make nonchalant references to their demise in this way.

Fortunately, the show made up for this with 2 (two!) cat-centered episodes, "Cat Out of the Bag" and "Beaver's Cat Problem." And if I remember, Beaver briefly tried to hypnotize a cat in "The Hypnotist." I think that's all the cats that appeared. It's been a while since I've seen any of the cat episodes.

[ThisLittlePiggy]

(Larry Mondello) "These here are Beaver's pigeons, which he named after his two teachers, which the cat ate, so he buried them."

[ThisLittlePiggy]

(Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver) "Went to school. Ate lunch. Saw dead cat. Came home."

[ThisLittlePiggy]

Maybe the cat who ate his pigeons was the one he saw dead so he was okay with it?

(That's kind of dark, LOL.)

[stevea]

Originally Posted by MichaelMartinD

The LITB writers showed a rare lapse in taste in "Beaver's Secret Life" when Beaver casually mentions having seen a "dead cat" lying around the neighborhood. This always makes me cringe. Cats and dogs are beloved domestic pets, and you don't make nonchalant references to their demise in this way.

Fortunately, the show made up for this with 2 (two!) cat-centered episodes, "Cat Out of the Bag" and "Beaver's Cat Problem." And if I remember, Beaver briefly tried to hypnotize a cat in "The Hypnotist." I think that's all the cats that appeared. It's been a while since I've seen any of the cat episodes.

It might have been better if he wrote in his diary, "Saw dead squirrel." Not beloved, and they represent a lot of roadkill.

You're right, he was trying to hypnotize the cat, till Eddie told Ward on him, and Ward told him to leave the cat alone.

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by stevea

It might have been better if he wrote in his diary, "Saw dead squirrel." Not beloved, and they represent a lot of roadkill.

You're right, he was trying to hypnotize the cat, till Eddie told Ward on him, and Ward told him to leave the cat alone.

Didn't Eddie say something like " I think you should be aware that young Theodore is outside annoying the neighbor's cat " ! Or something to that affect ?I crack up everytime at that when I watch this episode" !

[stevea]

Yes! He used his formal-talking-to-adults style.

That's funny, then I also crack up later when they force Eddie to trip and fall into the lawn sprinkler.

[Torgo]

In The Garage Painters, when Wally and Beaver are reading Tom Sawyer, Beaver tells June they were just getting to the good parts, Tom was in the graveyard with a dead cat.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by MichaelMartinD

The LITB writers showed a rare lapse in taste in "Beaver's Secret Life" when Beaver casually mentions having seen a "dead cat" lying around the neighborhood. This always makes me cringe. Cats and dogs are beloved domestic pets, and you don't make nonchalant references to their demise in this way.

Fortunately, the show made up for this with 2 (two!) cat-centered episodes, "Cat Out of the Bag" and "Beaver's Cat Problem." And if I remember, Beaver briefly tried to hypnotize a cat in "The Hypnotist." I think that's all the cats that appeared. It's been a while since I've seen any of the cat episodes.

One thing I just remembered about Beaver's Secret Life--he eventually told Wally or Ward that he just made up a lot of the stuff he wrote in the diary. Maybe this was one of them.