Wally's Practical Joke (Merged Several Old Threads)

[bandito]

in episode #230 wallys practical joke. i dont believe ive ever seen that ep i also coudnt find any synopsis on what it was about has anyone seen it?

[DarleneIllyria]

I think this is the episode where Wally and Eddie tie a chain to Lumpy's car. When Lumpy gets in the car and tries to drive it, the front or either the back of the car comes off. I can't remember if it was the front of the car or the back. I think that's the episode.

[BBF]

Yeah, that's the one Jenny. In this ep, Wally plays a trick on Lumpy, tying the back bumper of Lumpy's car to a tree with a chain. When Lumpy tries to drive the car off, he ends up pulling off the car's bumper. I think Wally's actual intention was to just keep Lumpy's car from moving, but it kinda went wrong...This is also the episode that TVLand keeps skipping. I saw it once a long time ago, but ever since then, they never show this episode. I wonder why that is?

[FOL85NatandMrsGRock]

i hope they play it!!! sounds funny!

[bandito]

i hope they show it too cant believe wally being so devious! thanks for the info everybody!!

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by BeaversBiggestFan
Yeah, that's the one Jenny. In this ep, Wally plays a trick on Lumpy, tying the back bumper of Lumpy's car to a tree with a chain. When Lumpy tries to drive the car off, he ends up pulling off the car's bumper. I think Wally's actual intention was to just keep Lumpy's car from moving, but it kinda went wrong...This is also the episode that TVLand keeps skipping. I saw it once a long time ago, but ever since then, they never show this episode. I wonder why that is?

Just a guess...Just a guess- Maybe people were doing pranks after seeing that episode. You know how some people are. If somebody saw a movie where one of the main character goes and smashes eggs at people, some idiot will try to copy it. I'm guessing that is why tvland doesn't show the episode because of the fact some idiot thought it would be cool to tie a chain to somebody's car. *shrugs*

[bandito]

good point jenny the way the world is today who knows?

[cookiemech]

Minor correction: the chain is attached to the rear axle of Lumpy's car. When he drives off (after Wally and Eddie cross the street to use a neighbor's phone and Eddie convincingly fakes Julie Foster's voice to ask Lumpy to come over and help her with her homework), the chain pulls the entire rear axle, with wheels attached, off the car. I don't believe that would actually work, but it makes for a funny show.

Not sure why this would be such a bad example to impressionable young minds, since Ward makes it mighty clear that this was an unacceptable prank, and Wally has to go over there and fix the car or help pay for it.

I'm glad I taped it long ago, since TVLand always skips it in the rotation.

[HaskellGirl]

Oh my gosh, I've never seen this episode either!!! That's not fair!!! Does Eddie really sound like Julie Foster? I'd give anything to see that!!!!

[lukes42]

No, Eddie does not sound like Julie Foster, it's just that Lumpy was too dumb to even recognize it was Eddie. You know, he's one of those who doesn't get calls from girls very often, so when he heard the name of Julie Foster, he believed it was her immediately. I love the trick they play of putting a cloth over the phone's receiver to make the voice of the person muffled. lol

I know it, this is such a classic epiosde, and yet, TV Land seems to always skip over it. I don't see what's so harmful in this episode, geez, they played it once before during a Fandemonium marathon (thank god I taped it, too).

[tdr]

I thought I had written a synopsis of this ep not too long ago, but it wasn't easy to find. But here it is, slightly modified:

Lumpy is hiding behind the shrubs near the Cleaver house as Wally and Eddie walk out. Eddie tries to start his car, but a cherrybomb explodes under his hood, then Lumpy comes out from hiding with a silly laugh. So Wally tries to start his car and a cherrybomb was planted in his also. At the dinner table, Ward is amused when he hears about Lumpy's joke and starts to tell about some of the jokes he did when he was young, but June shakes her head and he says, "Oh, I forgot-- I'm not supposed to have ever had any fun." Eddie shows up later with some suggestions on jokes to pull on Lumpy in revenge. Wally doesn't go for his first 2, so then Eddie says to take Ward's tow-chain and hook it to the rear axle of Lumpy's car and wrap the other end around a strong tree, so then Lumpy will be sitting there burning rubber and not moving from his driveway. So they do that the next day, with Eddie phoning Lumpy, to get him to come out and drive, by using a fake soft voice and saying he is Julie Foster and wants Lumpy to come and help her with her math. So Lumpy walks smugly out to his car with a tie and sportcoat, with Wally and Eddie spying from behind some bushes. He starts the car and when the chain is taut it pulls the rear axle off, and Lumpy 's car slides into the street. Eddie and Wally change from their big grins to pale fear and run away.

Fred comes out and sees that the towchain is marked "W.Cleaver." Lumpy lets it slip that "Wally and Eddie must have done this to me." But when Fred asks him why he mentioned Eddie, Lumpy squirms out. That evening Fred takes the chain to Ward and explains about the damaged car, so then Ward knows what happened and why. Wally makes the suggestion that he and Eddie borrow some tools and try to put the rear axle back on Lumpy's car the next Saturday, since they don't have money to pay a mechanic to fix it. Eddie comes by and at first he still insists that they can't be tied in with the sabotage, but then he hears Ward tell Fred on the phone that Eddie and Wally will be there early Saturday to start the job.

While they are working Fred comes out and scolds them for being very "juvenile" with their practical jokes. Eddie, with Lumpy standing by, says, "Yes sir; it's just about as juvenile as Clarence putting those cherrybombs in our cars." Fred then orders Lumpy to help them with the task, since he started the round of jokes, but Wally says he and Eddie are coming along pretty good, so "please don't make Clarence help us." Fred says he sees their point. The tag scene is Lumpy stopping by Wally's asking for help to get his top down, which is stuck because of his big tuba in the back seat. Then he says he talked to Julie to tell her why he didn't make it to her house to help her with her math, and she just laughed and said she didn't know what he was talking about. Then Eddie demonstrates the voice he used, which would have fooled no one on the show but Lumpy.

[UncleBilly]

We finally get to see Wally's Practical Joke. It is scheduled for Nov 18 at 6:00PM. Set those VCR's.

[FOL85NatandMrsGRock]

when i looked at tvlands sched, they had skipped it, where'd you see this? perhaps they changed it, YAY!!!

[DarleneIllyria]

I don't want to be the sourpuss of the group, but I wouldn't get your hopes up. I've been following the 'Archie Bunker's Place' schedule on tvland.com and they've made minor changes on that schedule. Like when the rotation starts over, they had episode #3 airing but then they edited it and put #1 and #2 before #3. They could be airing, but don't get your hopes too high if they decide to change it. I know we are talking about two different shows, but you never know.

[Jack1000]

Has TV Land ever listed "Wally's Practical Joke" before? If not, we may be in for a treat, because I don't think that TV Land has ever aired this episode!

Jack