Leave It to Beaver (TV Series)

My Brother's Girl (1958)

Hugh Beaumont: Ward Cleaver

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• Theodore Cleaver : [Beaver confides in his Dad that he took Wally over to Mary Ellen Rogers's house, and they basically told him to get lost]  You know, Dad, now it's all over with, I feel kinda silly.

  Ward Cleaver : Well Beaver, I'll tell you something about women. They have a wonderful capacity for love and understanding. Their tenderness and their sweetness are all-encompassing. But at times, they do have a knack of making us men look very, very silly.

  June Cleaver : [unknown to Ward or The Beaver, June has been listening]  I heard that, Ward Cleaver!

  Theodore Cleaver : Oh, hi Mom.

  Ward Cleaver : Yeah, hi Mom.

  June Cleaver : [annoyed]  Hi. Ward, you ought to be ashamed of yourself, putting ideas like that in The Beaver's mind.

  Ward Cleaver : Oh yeah? Do you know what Mary Ellen Rogers did? She used The Beaver in order to get Wally to take her to the dance tonight. And don't look so shocked, because it's exactly what you predicted she'd do.

  June Cleaver : I'm not shocked. As a woman, I'm very proud of Mary Ellen.

  Ward Cleaver : You mean you think women *should* act this way?

  June Cleaver : It's the way women *have* to act. Well, if we sat around and waited until you men got interested in us and got good and ready to settle down and have families, why this whole continent of America would be nothing but buffaloes, jack-rabbits and grizzly bears.

• Ward Cleaver : Well, you got the water on the table, boys?

  Theodore Cleaver : No, Dad, we put it in glasses.

• Ward Cleaver : Hey, uh, Wally, your mother was just telling me there's a dance at school.

  Wally Cleaver : Yeah, I know.

  June Cleaver : Who you gonna take?

  Wally Cleaver : [looking puzzled]  Take?

  Ward Cleaver : Yeah, take. You're surely not going to a dance alone.

  Wally Cleaver : Oh, 'course not, Dad. I'm going with Eddie Haskell.