Odd Dialog

[stevea]

This is a quote from 'tar' in the "Tire Trouble" thread: "this episode is a little goofy in several ways-- Beaver's saying "Look, Mom, is that an elephant?" "

I may have this one wrong, but I think it's in "Beaver's Accordion", where Beaver and Whitey are going down to the express office to return the accordion, and as they're leaving the Cleaver house, Beaver says, "I hope they don't hit us". Huh? What sense does this make? (I hope I have the right episode.)

Are there others instances of odd dialog?

[Scrabjan1]

Another bit of odd dialogue was in Ward's Baseball. Ward had a special pedestal made for his baseball now ruined. He says to June, "Maybe I'll just put you up on the pedestal. June-"Well that's a nice thing to say." Ward- "It wasn't meant to be." Huh? (Not verbatim)

[visaman666]

To put a woman on a pedestal means to think that she is perfect and spending all of your time worshipping her.

[gidgetgrape]

I don't think the elephant bit was odd. Beaver was trying to think of something to distract his mother and an elephant was the only thing or the first thing that popped into his head. The first thing you think of in a hurry is usually the silliest.

[Tankeryanker]

Originally Posted by visaman666

To put a woman on a pedestal means to think that she is perfect and spending all of your time worshipping her.

And it is not a good thing to be on a pedestal as it is not reality. Once the person who put you on the pedestal sees you are human, then you come crashing down off of your pedestal. That might be why Ward said it.

[Torgo]

Originally Posted by gidgetgrape

I don't think the elephant bit was odd. Beaver was trying to think of something to distract his mother and an elephant was the only thing or the first thing that popped into his head. The first thing you think of in a hurry is usually the silliest.

That, and it was shown many times Beaver isn't good when put on the spot. Which is why he usually asks Wally is that what we were doing? when they're lying about something to the parents.
Very in character for Beaver to say Elephant when trying to distract his mom.

[Scrabjan1]

Originally Posted by visaman666

To put a woman on a pedestal means to think that she is perfect and spending all of your time worshipping her.

I certainly know what it means to put someone up on a pedestal. I meant what Ward said. He pays her a compliment then when she says "that's a nice thing to say." He says "It wasn't meant to be." That's what didn't make sense.

[stevea]

What about the time that Wally offered Eddie a "hunk of milk"? Huh? What would that be?

[Scrabjan1]

I always loved when Wally said "hunk of milk." He probably figured hunk of cake hunk of milk same thing.

When Whitey said he hoped they didn't hit them at the freight office, he was thinking they were kids and didn't know much. He was just being a kid.

Maybe a bit odd, but I always loved Beaver's way of thinking just like a kid when he reads Ward's library card as Ward Cleaver, Jr. "Does anyone ever call you junior? Ward-Not in a long time. Beaver-" That's good cuz I wouldn't want a father with a kid's name."

[tdr]

That word, "hunk," was always good for a laugh in LITB (though today it would be taken another way), so they could have carried it further for those effects, such as:

"Gee, Dad, thanks for the hunk of good advice."

"Beav, don't tell Mom she did you a bad turn by sending that baby picture to Miss Landers-- she's liable to have a hunk of tears!"

"Mom, I can't eat Brussels sprouts-- they taste like little hunks of bad cabbage."

[Babalu]

Originally Posted by visaman666

To put a woman on a pedestal means to think that she is perfect and spending all of your time worshipping her.

Or as Steve Martin says, you should put a woman on a pedestal high enough that you can look up her dress.

[stevea]

In the episode where Ward brings home some frozen Chinese food, and offered it to Wally, maybe he should have said, "Want a hunk of chop suey?"

[Scrabjan1]

Beaver told Ward he had to write a "hunk of poem."

[Scrabjan1]

When Larry fessed up to taking his mother's money he could have said "I took a hunk of sewing basket money."

When Wally attacked Eddie and Lumpy with ice cream. He coulda said "I poured a hunk of ice cream over Lumpy's head and another hunk down Eddie's sweater."

Beaver "I guess I ran a hunk of water all over the floor."

Benjie poured a hunk of green paint in his lap.

[stevea]

Beaver took a hunk of sandpaper to scrape off his freckles.

Beaver bought a hunk of hair spray to cure his sheepdog look.

Angela Valentine wore a hunk of Jackie Kennedy wig (that we never got a chance to see).

Whitey could have told Beaver there was a hunk of soup in that soup bowl.