Beaver learns a girl he fights with is moving out of town.Beaver learns a girl he fights with is moving out of town.Beaver learns a girl he fights with is moving out of town.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis is Wendell Holmes's last of five appearances in the series, the second as Mr. Blair. He died at 47, on April 27, 1962, three months after this episode first aired.
- GoofsWally mentions Cary Grant - Doris Day movies to help Beaver understand his feelings for Penny. This episode originally aired in January 1962, five months before the June 1962 release of That Touch of Mink (1962), the only movie that Cary Grant and Doris Day ever appeared in together.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver: [reading an invitation, while in the kitchen] 'You are invited to a party at school for Penny. Three-thirty, Friday. Cake and ice cream will be served.' Signed - 'Mrs. Henry Woods.' You might as well throw this one away, Mom.
June Cleaver: Now, why wouldn't he want to go to a party at school for Penny Woods?
Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver: Well, in the first place - 'cause she's a girl. In the second place - 'cause Beaver says she's just about the creepiest girl in the whole school.
June Cleaver: Oh, I think that's ridiculous. I wanted him to go because I think this is going to be a sweet little affair.
Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver: Okay, Mom. But I think it's going to be one of those 'sweet little affairs' Dad's gonna have to beat him into going to.
The day of the party, at school, Beaver is instructed by Mr. Blair to remain behind and help Penny carry her things to her mother's car. Alone in the classroom, he ends up saying rather "mushy stuff" to her, admitting that he actually likes her, and she returns the sentiment. But then comes news that may upend Beaver's plans to keep what he said a secret to his grave, or at least until he is in high school. What would that news be? Watch and find out.
This party apparently took place at school, and that bit was confusing since the invitation to the party came from Penny's mother, as though it would be held at the Wood home.
Wally again brings some older brother wisdom to the situation, first making Beaver aware of the fact that he actually likes Penny, and what he's experiencing with the insult trading is actually sexual tension - the words are mine, the wisdom is Wally's. What Wally actually did was compare Beaver's situation to a Cary Grant/Doris Day movie - "You know they start out yelling at each other and end up hugging". The interesting thing about this line is that Cary Grant and Doris Day only made one movie together, "That Touch of Mink", and it wasn't released until several months after this show aired. Both LITB and That Touch of Mink were both produced by Universal Pictures, so it appears that Universal's publicity department got ahead of itself in this particular case.
- AlsExGal
- Mar 16, 2024
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- Runtime30 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1