Kite Day

[howilu]

I was watching the Kite Day episode and in the scene where Beaver visited Judge Henderson about performing a rain dance, he starts every sentence with "Well.." He does that five times. Anyone notice it?

[stevea]

He does that in many of the late season 4 episodes. He pronounces it like "wool", IMO.

It is annoying to the max. Fortunately he gradually dropped the habit.

[MichaelMartinD]

Yes. During that period Beaver's sentences often come out something like this: "Wol, if a guy is just going down to the supermarket, does he have to dress up like, wol, Tony Curtis?" Another tic is the constant head nodding when speaking his lines. On the other hand, he seemed to have outgrown the mouthing of other characters' lines that you see in the earlier seasons.

[Scrabjan1]

I’m roaring over that Tony Curtis line. He sure did overuse that ‘well.’ The head nodding to accentuate his line was equally annoying. Also the expression ‘And how’ is deplorable. He was just self conscious as most adolescents were. Paul Peterson never seemed to go through the phase.

Wally also had some nervous tics like making his head almost swivel.

[stevea]

That wol or whatever is max annoying to me, but I never noticed the nodding, or the mouthing others' lines (other than when the others were reciting their pieces of the poem).

Now, I'll notice the nodding!

[CosmicCharlie]

toward the end of the episode June calls Ward honey in the living room, next scene up in the boys bedroom she calls Wally honey and then Beaver honey -

What Gives ? she ad lib or just poor writing ?

Or was it ok and it's just me ? lol (again) ?

[Scrabjan1]

Yeah I remember she used ‘Honey’ a lot. Maybe she decided to ad lib. June was really funny in seasons 1 and 2 then she got so formal and uptight with her character. June and Ward lost their chemistry. The funniest scene is in Party Spoiler when they are both all dressed up to get the ice cream and cake. Huh?

[stevea]

Was Ward even dressed up working on the kite?

They were both more uptight in the later episodes. I remember I was shocked at a full embrace and kiss in the old house.

[Cx]

I don't know just who I hold in contempt more on this episode: Gilbert for being such a manipulative instigator, or Beaver for being such a weak willed sap.

We couldn't blame Ward if he said, after finding out Beaver disobeyed and destroyed their kite, in effect, "the hell with you" and just let Beaver sit out the Kite Day event, rather than offering to buy another kite and salvage the father & son Kite Day.

[CosmicCharlie]

Ward was so nice to forgive, as Beaver was just a kid anyway. Buying a kite would have been the norm, Ward was all over it with the building an extraordinary one anyway ... so Ward must of figured to just do what most dad's did +-

When I saw the crashed kite i though it could just be glued back - not in this script lol

[stevea]

I never really thought about that angle. Ward could have been a hard a$$ and told Beaver to pound sand. Or do what he did and yield to Beaver's disappointment.

Tough one to answer. This is basically the same thing as Ward's Baseball. How many times is this kid gonna be suckered in by so-called friends?

[Scrabjan1]

Right that seemed to be how all the scripts went. Beaver getting hoodwinked into doing dumb stuff.