"Beaver The Hero", no it's Eddie

[Hazel Anyday]

In this week's Beaver watch I saw 6.12, title above, just wanted to say I find Eddie Haskell the saving grace of this show during the last season. I literally broke out into laughter when Eddie told Mrs. Cleaver that she and Mr. Cleaver can now "save some money getting Beaver into college". Leaving June with that back handed complement feeling on her face. Then he goes upstairs to tell Beaver what a superstar he now is and how to play it to his advantage. Everything everyone else has been telling dummy Beaver not to do.

Is it just me or are you also annoyed everytime in this final season when Beaver is called out or told what to do by "the Warden" Beaver goes, "Yeth Thir" in a down in the mouth low voice register. It's sickening, I tell you. Beaver really acts like a dumb-donkey in the last season. Keeping it in the "family hour" again.

[stevea]

Yeah Beaver always takes Eddie's "well-meaning" advice. IIRC that was the episode where Beaver actually caught a pass (wow!) (as Ward the Warden said, You'd be amazed at how many boys catch footballs every day, or something close to that).

The only thing that bugged me about Mathers' acting (I've mentioned in other threads) was this habit he developed in the fourth season of inserting "well" that sounded like "wool" before a lot of sentences. I don't know where he picked it up but I wish he'd have put it down. I hadn't noticed the yeth thir thing.

[Hazel Anyday]

I'll look for the next "wool" out of the squirt's mouth. Beware the "yeth thir".

[1960'sTVfan]

In the 5th and 6th seasons, when Jerry Mathers voice began changing and he spoke in a deeper voice, Beaver should have been allowed to be more mature instead of continuing to act like an 8 year old.

Having said that, it was still a good show in season 6, but it was starting to show signs of being played out and tired. After 6 seasons and 234 episodes, it was the right time to end the series, no doubt.

[Hazel Anyday]

A good point in this episode though is that Beaver's friends are Beaver's real friends, Whitey & Gilbert, no Joe & Blow, total stranger "old friends" for a change. I likes the old boys best.

[1960'sTVfan]

Take a look at the 6th season episode- "Wally's Car Accident". Early in the episode, the Cleaver's are in the dining room at the dinner table, Ward tells a joke, not really a funny one either, then Beaver laughs out loud and has this dorky expression on his face. That kid sure has a weird way of laughing, he looks like a cartoon character.

Then later in the episode at the garage, the mechanic tells Wally that the cost to repair the broken headlight on Ward's car will be 14 dollars. Really? Only 14 dollars?? Must have been nice times living in 1962, cheap prices. Nowadays, a job like that would cost a few hundred dollars.

[Torgo]

Jerry Mathers was all kinds of awkward in the season 5 and 6 episodes, that's why I've always preferred the episodes that didn't center around Beaver during those 2 seasons...I especially like the Eddie-centric ones.

[Scrabjan1]

Right Eddie did save the show especially in season 6. I know that scene you mean when Beaver has that moronic laugh to Ward’s joke. It’s very embarrassing but back in Wally’s Job when they paint the trash cans Beaver starts laughing at the purple people eater joke much more convincingly. It’s so hard growing up on TV, as you continue in the character you grow and become self conscious. Poor Beaver wasn’t allowed to grow and learn he still was just Beaver. I think the producers wanted to just “Leave it to Eddie.”

Eddie had real talent and knew how to deliver a line. It’s not learned it just happens and Ken was a perfect Eddie.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by Hazel Anyday

I'll look for the next "wool" out of the squirt's mouth. Beware the "yeth thir".

I'm not hearing it as much in the fifth season (it was with practically every line in the fourth season). Maybe the producers told him to cool it.

[Hazel Anyday]

Don't know if you're referring to "yeth thir" or wool. I'm watching season 6 and Beaver just said it "yeth thir" again in the episode I talked about 6.12. He says it anytime Ward "yells" at him. My Dad was strict and was a hitter like Larry's Dad and I wished back then that he could have been like Ward, BUT he never made us call him "sir" or even "thir".

[stevea]

The well/wool seemed to be limited to season 4. I haven't heard the yeth thir yet.

My mother meted out the discipline. She had a stinging hair brush.

[Scrabjan1]

In Beaver Gets Adopted Ward tells Beaver to go to his room Beaver says okay and Ward says okay what. “Okay sir.” I think the yeth thir was overdone. Wally quit saying it after a while and in some cases was a bit mouthy.

[1960'sTVfan]

I have never heard Beaver or Wally actually say "Yeth, thir" in any LITB episode. Occasionally they do say "Yes, sir", and they speak it clearly.

[Hazel Anyday]

After Beaver is yelled at by his father (when he's older, not when he was a little kid) Beaver will say in a low voice defeated sort of manner, "Yeth Thir". He says it softly, not loud, anyway he uses this deep voice when he says it and it's obvious when you hear it. I've noticed this for a while now (in Beaver's latter day years) and it happened again in the episode I started this thing with. I should have made a note of each episode where he mutters this, but didn't know it would be so hard for you all to recognize. Now I would like it if Beaver sang, "Yeth Thir That's My Baby", he'd be great at it!

[GoldenBoy79]

Originally Posted by retroTVfan4ever

Then later in the episode at the garage, the mechanic tells Wally that the cost to repair the broken headlight on Ward's car will be 14 dollars. Really? Only 14 dollars?? Must have been nice times living in 1962, cheap prices. Nowadays, a job like that would cost a few hundred dollars.

You have to take inflation into consideration. $14 in 1962 was the equivalent of $121 today.