Ahhh the sweet smell of grift. 🤦♂️
Ahhh the sweet smell of grift. 🤦♂️
Fun Fact:
In the 1961 episode “Wally goes Steady”, 20 year old Ryan O’Neal plays Tom Henderson the husband of a girl who’s sister Wally’s been dating. Ward and June worry about Wally possibly getting married at a young age but Wally witnesses the hardships of his girlfriend’s sister and husband.
I think this was like Wally in the future or something?
One time me and Wally were babysitting my neighbor Mr. Donaldson’s cat Puff Puff. I let him out in their back yard one day and creepy Eddie Haskell’s dog scared Puff Puff away. That night we heard Puff Puff crying and found him up in a tree so we had to rescue him.
Does your cat do zoomies in the morning before hitting the scratch box? Jinks does and man it can get down right crazy. 🤪
They’re saying yesterday’s Black Friday sales set a spending record. Do you think consumers are taking advantage of prices they may never see again for the next 4 years?
I think you might be right.
Grown up’s rules.
Me: Wally?
Wally: Ya, Beav?
Me: The rules are a lot easier on grownups than they are for little kids.
Wally: Sure, they are, Beav grownups are the ones that make the rules.
LITB (false) urban legend.
According to a (false) urban legend, who did Ken Osmond (Eddie Haskell) grow up to be?
*Ringo Starr
*Alice Cooper
*Gene Simmons
*"Weird" Al Yankovic
Test your memory.
Which of the following is the correct order in which the cast's names are displayed in the opening credits?
Trumps economy is going to crash itself.
One time Gilbert had an idea that me and him make goofy faces when they took our class picture only the dirty rat double-crossed me and didn’t make a face, but I did. I got in a lot of trouble but they were able to fix the picture.
There was this time my dad started giving me allowance, he wanted me to learn financial responsibility. He said I could join a record club for 87 cents a week so I did. Wally kept reminding me to send a card back to the company to avoid paying for bonus records, but I didn’t. Boy what a mess.
Fun Fact:
Tony Dow was once a guest star on The Love Boat in 1977.
Another Fun Fact:
Beavers visitor friend “Chopper” played by Barry Grordon later in 1980 played “Gilbert” in the Secret Admirer episode of Three’s Company.
“Yoo hoo, pretty lady!”
Dad helped me and Wally build a neat go cart but told us not to drive it without him around. Larry talked me into driving it on the street when my dad wasn’t home. A policeman gave me a ticket. I was afraid to tell my dad so Wally took me to court. The judge told us to tell my dad and we did.
In April of 1960 heartthrob Tony Dow made the cover along with a story in teen magazine “DIG”. 🥹
Eddie Haskell
In the fall of 1957, 14-year-old Osmond was called into a typical "cattle call" audition to read for the role for which he became most identified, that of Wally Cleaver's best (and worst) friend, Eddie Haskell, on Leave It to Beaver.
Fun Fact
Canceled After Its First Season
Viewers weren’t tuning in and the ratings for season one weren’t that great.
So in 1958 the first season ended, and immediately after, CBS gave it the axe. However, the ABC network came to the rescue and kept the show on the air for another five seasons.
Fun Fact:
Because of a Growth Spurt, a New Wally Was Casted.
Wally was originally portrayed by Paul Sullivan in the show’s pilot. But, after filming the first episode, the kid had a huge growth spurt and was reportedly replaced. Tony Dow would go on to replace Paul Sullivan.
Richard
Richard Thomas Correll (born May 14, 1948) is an American television actor, director, writer, and producer. After working as an actor during his childhood and teenage years, he transitioned to directing in the 1990s.
He’s 76 years old.
It was said Larry (Rusty Stevens) left the show in 1960 because his family moved from Burbank, California, to Philadelphia, however, Barbara Billingsley, who played June Cleaver, said in a TV interview that Stevens was fired because his overbearing stage mother caused grief for the producers.
My friend Gilbert. Stephen Talbot
Talbot gave up acting in his teens choosing a career as a respected broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker. He became an anti war advocate in the early 70’s. In order to be taken seriously in those roles he felt it best to put his acting past behind him.
A little Morty for your Friday skyline 🥰 #MortyTheMisfit
Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀