People Getting Sick

[Scrabjan1]

Funny how you could never mention a bathroom or anything to do with the bathroom but you could mention getting sick or should I say vomiting.

In several episodes they mention Whitey and how he gets carsick like in Beaver's Bus and Wally the Lifeguard and in Alaskan Summer Wally mentions how he had to stop three times on the way home for Eddie after talking with Captain Drake.

Can you think of other times that someone almost or did get sick?

[Zinc2]

There are many examples. Chicken pox, tonsils, swollen glands often moved the storyline.
My top "funny" sick situations are:
1.Wally's Dream Girl: Wally gets sick thinking about going on the picnic with Ginny Townsend.
2. Voodoo Magic: Eddie has pains in "his stomach and his chest" because Beaver's Raggety Andy doll has a pin and nail.
3. Beaver's Guest: Larry is a handful staying overnight and tops things off by getting sick by overeating a stash of candy bars.

The "sad" sick times I remember are:
1. Beaver and Andy: Andy copes with alcoholism.
2. Beaver's Monkey: Poor Stanley.
3. Beaver's House Guest: Chopper's mom says Chopper needs to come home...the "weepies". (It is also mentioned Eddie has the mumps in this episode.)

[Jack1000]

It sure looked like Eddie got sick on the roller coaster in "Beaver's Fear!"

Jack

[Scrabjan1]

Very good examples of getting sick. Hey in that one when Larry stayed overnight I found that exchange between Beaver and Ward very funny.

Beaver - "Dad, Larry is okay now."
Ward - "Did he do what I told him to do?" (Lie back and try to get some sleep)
Beaver - "Well he did something but it wasn't what you told him to do." I assume he either threw up or went to the bathroom.

In an early episode Ward asks if anything interesting happened in school. Beaver says Angela Valentine said she was going to get sick in class. Ward asked what happened. Beaver said "she did."

In another Beaver says someone got sick in the coat closet. (Not sure who.)

In Beaver's Poem Wally comes home to say Dorothea Dunlap got sick or hysterical in the cafeteria. June asked what happened. Wally said they took her to the infirmary and Eddie ate her ice cream.

In Ward's Problem they are discussing the school picnic in the classroom and Charles keeps raising his hand. Finally Miss Landers says there will be no more questions..Charles says he wants to leave the room before he gets sick.

[Jack1000]

Ms. Landers is out sick for a week and Mrs. Rayburn is subbing for her. To welcome her back, each member of the class writes a line of a poem for her and Judy Hensler reads it for Ms. Landers, upon her return to school. (This is one of the funniest sequences in the series!)

"Welcome back Mrs. Landers
We're glad to have you here
When you were sick at home in bed, we all shed many a tear.
We hope that you'd get better
And we'd see you buy and buy.
And were also very very glad
That you did not die!"

LOL!!!!!!!!!

My guess as to who wrote the last line? Whitey!!!! LOL! It just sounds like him!

Other examples:

Beaver thinks he might get sick in the restaurant if he eats Brussels Sprouts. June says, "You will not be sick."

Wally stays home from school after staying home from school with a bad sore throat. Ward comes home and sees Wally downstairs:

Ward: "What are you doing down here?"
Wally: "Well the doctor said I was too sick to go to school, not too sick to have fun! hahaha."
Ward: "Upstairs"
Wally: "Yes Sir."

Beaver was sick with Chicken Pox as well.

Jack

[Scrabjan1]

Great examples of getting sick and love the poem for Miss Landers.

I was mainly thinking about times they mentioned getting sick (throwing up) because it seemed okay to mention that but never the bathroom. In one episode I think it's Nobody Loves Me Ward and June are looking at the scrapbook where Beaver is so cute and Ward mentions how Beaver called everything the same word including when he got sick in the car.

[tdr]

It's also interesting that they always had to say "get sick." Never "puke," "vomit," or even "throw up." There is one ep I remember where Wally says he's going to check on Beaver because Beaver doesn't feel good, and "if he looks green, then I'll open the bathroom door."

Sure, taking a bath is frequently mentioned, and as just said, 'getting sick' is another reason for the bathroom. But I think the closest they come to mentioning the other principle use(s) for the bathroom is when Beaver is going to play the Little Dutch Boy (season 5 or 6?) and he finds out he has to kiss the Dutch girl, squawks with Ward about it, and locks himself in the bathroom. The next day at school, he is talking to the girl who will play the one he has to kiss, who also found it out to her surprise, and he tells her about locking himself in the bathroom. She says she also protested and had a conflict with her parents about it, but at her house she is not allowed to lock herself in the bathroom "because I have too many brothers and sisters."

[Jack1000]

Originally Posted by tdr

It's also interesting that they always had to say "get sick." Never "puke," "vomit," or even "throw up." There is one ep I remember where Wally says he's going to check on Beaver because Beaver doesn't feel good, and "if he looks green, then I'll open the bathroom door."

Sure, taking a bath is frequently mentioned, and as just said, 'getting sick' is another reason for the bathroom. But I think the closest they come to mentioning the other principle use(s) for the bathroom is when Beaver is going to play the Little Dutch Boy (season 5 or 6?) and he finds out he has to kiss the Dutch girl, squawks with Ward about it, and locks himself in the bathroom. The next day at school, he is talking to the girl who will play the one he has to kiss, who also found it out to her surprise, and he tells her about locking himself in the bathroom. She says she also protested and had a conflict with her parents about it, but at her house she is not allowed to lock herself in the bathroom "because I have too many brothers and sisters."

I think there is one instance of "Throw Up" in Leave it to Beaver, but am not sure. What about the episode were June butts-in inviting Wally's Dream Girl on a family picnic? She's beautiful from afar, but as they begin to talk, Ginny has all kinds of ailments: sun sensitivity, food allergies, a bruise on her leg when she dropped a box. Beaver's in the back seat pointing out some of these things! LOL! Neither Wally nor Ginny are able to drum up good conversation, and I think Beaver says, "Wally thew up last night." June yells, "Beaver!" I think than, Ginny starts talking about her ailments. Wally was so nervous and upset at June for asking Ginny to the picnic. In the end, he's glad she did it, because he saw that Ginny was just ordinary and average in personality.

Jack

[Jack1000]

Beaver had tonsillitis,

In those days, many doctors removed the tonsils, but modern medicine, they don't do that anymore. Beaver talks to others about how they had their tonsils out, and all the presents, ice-cream, and friends who came to see them in the hospital. Beaver is 100% sure that he will need the operation.

Getting so excited, he thinks the hospital is going to be a huge party all for him! Than the doctor comes by and Beaver's told everyone he's going to be out of school. Dr. Kirby says that Beaver's tonsils are healing fine and that he doesn't need to have the operation. Beaver feels crushed and betrayed. "That mean old Dr. Kirby came and spoiled the whole thing!" he says.

Ward decides to get him one of his presents Beaver would have gotten, if he would have had to go to the hospital. A new microscope set! Beaver has a cool time looking at some "funny looking bugs" and all is forgiven.

I think Beaver also had the Measles. Continuity error on his chicken pox. When Beaver takes care of Larry and Whitey's pigeons, including two of his own, he has chicken pox. He didn't want the pinions to get "People Pox!" I think June mentions in the episode, "Beaver's Autobiography" that he had chicken pox when he was four. Beaver was about eleven, when he had them.

Jack

[Scrabjan1]

I remember when June said that about having the chicken pox when he was four...when we all know he had them in the pigeons one.

How about in Found Money. When Beaver gets home from the carnival and finds out what kind of trouble he's in, he's told to go to his room. As he's leaving he asks if he can go to the bathroom first as he feels kinda sick (Is he going to throw up?) Larry must have felt like using the bathroom when he got home...he ate so much and his mother did a number on him.

That was so true about the girl playing opposite Beaver as a Dutch boy. That is probably one of the few times of how the bathroom is essential.

I also noticed in several episodes when they have a scene showing the boys' bathroom...where the toilet used to be (up against the back of the tub) in Captain Jack, there is nothing there but a hamper up against the wall.

[Jack1000]

Originally Posted by tdr

It's also interesting that they always had to say "get sick." Never "puke," "vomit," or even "throw up." There is one ep I remember where Wally says he's going to check on Beaver because Beaver doesn't feel good, and "if he looks green, then I'll open the bathroom door."

Sure, taking a bath is frequently mentioned, and as just said, 'getting sick' is another reason for the bathroom. But I think the closest they come to mentioning the other principle use(s) for the bathroom is when Beaver is going to play the Little Dutch Boy (season 5 or 6?) and he finds out he has to kiss the Dutch girl, squawks with Ward about it, and locks himself in the bathroom. The next day at school, he is talking to the girl who will play the one he has to kiss, who also found it out to her surprise, and he tells her about locking himself in the bathroom. She says she also protested and had a conflict with her parents about it, but at her house she is not allowed to lock herself in the bathroom "because I have too many brothers and sisters."

Beaver assigned to play "The Little Dutch Boy" was actually in Season 4. The episode was called, "The Dramatic Club."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...n_4:_1960-1961

Jack

[Scrabjan1]

tdr mentioned that girl from Dramatic Club and how she can't lock herself in the bathroom cuz she has too many brothers and sisters.

Just watched Beaver and Violet and there is a mention of using the toilet. Fred says to Violet when they get to the Cleavers "Violet did you pay your respects to the Cleavers?" V- "Yes Daddy you told me to do that when I got here."

[CanICallYouDad]

Was there an episode when Beaver and Larry got sick smoking coffee grounds or something in an expensive pipe Ward had?

[Scrabjan1]

Yes that was called The Pipe and Ward gets a pipe or meerschaum sent to them from Fred from Germany and Larry convinces Beaver to smoke it. He first uses coffee then later comes over with cigarette ashes. They both don't feel so good.

[CanICallYouDad]

Originally Posted by Scrabjan1

Yes that was called The Pipe and Ward gets a pipe or meerschaum sent to them from Fred from Germany and Larry convinces Beaver to smoke it. He first uses coffee then later comes over with cigarette ashes. They both don't feel so good.

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