Beaver's Football Award

[Madame X]

I just saw "Beaver's Football Award," where Beaver went to his awards banquet in a sweater. Everyone else wore suits and ties. He felt sick and wanted to disappear. I know just how he felt. If you are not dressed right it's like a spotlight is on you.

It was so cool how Ward brought Beaver's jacket and tie in the car, just in case. He let Beaver learn his lesson but also helped him find the way out of that predicament.

Good job, Ward!

[tdr]

Yes, but the trouble is that here in the 6th and final season, and Beaver about 13 years old, he is still such a sucker for the other guys and their 'brave' talk. He never learns that if he takes such talk seriously and carries out their ideas he is going to embarrass himself, in spite of how many times Ward tells him exactly how the situation is.

So even though Ward had to get the point across yet again, he didn't have to be as secretive as he did it. Instead of giving Beaver the choice of wearing his coat & tie or else not going, he could have just said right away, "Beaver, you're falling for another of your friends' boastful tales here. But alright, let's go as you are-- if you will take your coat & tie and put it in the car, so that just in case you want them you will have them."

[Waterston_Fan]

Yeah, I thought this was an okay episode..

Didn't Wally tell Beaver that his friends would be wearing ties and stuff?

I wonder what the friends thought when they saw Beaver in his sweater...

I think maybe Ward wanted to scare Beaver and make him learn his lesson as to listening... If Bever knew about the jacket and tie, he wouldn't be scared or embarrassed..

[Ireneparalegal]

Originally Posted by Madame X

I just saw "Beaver's Football Award," where Beaver went to his awards banquet in a sweater. Everyone else wore suits and ties. He felt sick and wanted to disappear. I know just how he felt. If you are not dressed right it's like a spotlight is on you.

It was so cool how Ward brought Beaver's jacket and tie in the car, just in case. He let Beaver learn his lesson but also helped him find the way out of that predicament.

Good job, Ward!

Just like a parent, always getting their kid out of some predicament. And I am sure had Ward told Beaver that his friends were "crazy" or they were again just saying stuff as usual, Beaver would NOT have believed him.

Good thread Stacy.

[Torgo]

Originally Posted by tdr

Yes, but the trouble is that here in the 6th and final season, and Beaver about 13 years old, he is still such a sucker for the other guys and their 'brave' talk. He never learns that if he takes such talk seriously and carries out their ideas he is going to embarrass himself, in spite of how many times Ward tells him exactly how the situation is.

So even though Ward had to get the point across yet again, he didn't have to be as secretive as he did it. Instead of giving Beaver the choice of wearing his coat & tie or else not going, he could have just said right away, "Beaver, you're falling for another of your friends' boastful tales here. But alright, let's go as you are-- if you will take your coat & tie and put it in the car, so that just in case you want them you will have them."

If Beaver learned his lessons the first time around, there wouldn't be plots for many of the later episodes.

And Beaver at 13 years old is at the age where many teens think they know better than their parents, and their friends are never wrong. Many kids at that age(At least when I was that age)are far more worried about looks, not listening to parent's advice, and basically making the same mistakes more than once.
Heck, Beaver is younger than all those college kids in real life who make the same stupid mistakes over and over again.