Price of Fame
- Episode aired Mar 26, 1959
- 30m
Beaver gets in trouble twice. Once by looking for the principal's "spanking machine", then by getting his head stuck in an iron fence.Beaver gets in trouble twice. Once by looking for the principal's "spanking machine", then by getting his head stuck in an iron fence.Beaver gets in trouble twice. Once by looking for the principal's "spanking machine", then by getting his head stuck in an iron fence.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe scene right before Beaver gets his head stuck in the iron fence Is the gate at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
- GoofsThe bars in the fence are closer together after Beaver gets his head between them.
- Quotes
Wally Cleaver: Hi, Mom.
June Cleaver: Hi. You're home a little late, aren't you?
Wally Cleaver: Yeah, well, I kinda walked Mary Ellen Rogers over to her house.
June Cleaver: Oh. You walked her home?
Wally Cleaver: Yeah. Her brother went away to college. She said she might sell me his sweatshirt from when he was on the track team.
June Cleaver: Well, wasn't that thoughtful of Mary Ellen.
Wally Cleaver: Yeah, but then when I got over there, the thing was all beat up. Why would she drag me all the way over there just to look at a hunk 'a junk like that?
June Cleaver: Well, Wally, I could tell you, but I'd be revealing trade secrets.
Wally Cleaver: Huh?
June Cleaver: Don't eat the olives, now, you're gonna spoil your supper.
In season four Whity dares Beaver to find out if there is actual soup in a billboard soup bowl. In this episode, Larry Mondello makes up a tale about a spanking machine in Mrs. Rayburn's office closet that is used on the eighth graders. Larry and Beaver were cleaning the blackboards for the teacher, and then Larry leaves for the evening. Beaver cannot resist going into Mrs. Rayburn's office to look for that spanking machine. But while he is there the janitor locks Mrs. Rayburn's office door, accidentally locking Beaver inside. Beaver has to trip the fire alarm in the principal's office to be freed from his dilemma.
At home, Ward is stern with Beaver, talking about how he was in a place where he shouldn't be, costing the fire department time and money and in general being a "conspicuous" little boy. Wally has to explain to the beaver what that word means. The next day, Beaver again gets himself into an embarrassing dilemma, but this time he is afraid to ask somebody to get his father to help fearing he will again be condemned as conspicuous.
Ward blames himself for making Beaver feel like he could not come to him when he was in trouble, but what about Beaver's friends? Time and again they seem OK with setting Beaver up for trouble if they think they may profit by it or, as in this case, just get a laugh.
Wally has a prescient moment in this week's episode when he asks his dad if they should sue the city over Beaver's second embarrassing incident. In the 80s TV show "The New Leave It To Beaver", Wally is an attorney.
- AlsExGal
- May 24, 2024
Details
- Runtime30 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1