Beaver's dread turns to relief when he learns Wally is picked to chaperon his first dance...with a girl!...and knows he can depend on his savvy older brother for much needed advice.Beaver's dread turns to relief when he learns Wally is picked to chaperon his first dance...with a girl!...and knows he can depend on his savvy older brother for much needed advice.Beaver's dread turns to relief when he learns Wally is picked to chaperon his first dance...with a girl!...and knows he can depend on his savvy older brother for much needed advice.
- Billy McKenzie
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Joe Connelly(uncredited)
- Bob Mosher(uncredited)
- Joseph Hoffman
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Beaver is telling June about the upcoming Dancing School party, he says, "Whitey and Richard and all the guys are going." This, however, is a voiceover. A bit of lip-reading reveals he originally said, "Whitey and Gilbert."
- GoofsWhen Beaver is dialing the phone to call Betsy, he dials only 8 digits.
- Quotes
Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver: Hey, Wally, when Mom first asked you about being a chaperone you squawked all over the place. How come all of a sudden you changed your mind?
Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver: Awww, 'cause Dad gave me a lecture about family responsibility. And five dollars.
Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver: [with a hint of sarcasm] Oh. Dad sure knows how to talk to kids, doesn't he.
Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver: [a short time later] Hey, Wally, you're taking that Julie Foster, aren't you?
Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver: Yeah. Mrs. Thompson called up her mother and got her to be a chaperone, too.
Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver: Do you think her mother had to pay her five dollars?
Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver: Naah, you don't have to bribe girls to go to dances and parties and stuff. They've got a natural instinct for standin' around lookin' stupid.
Wally, having gone to dancing school when he was younger, and Beaver, now a student, seem reluctant about the whole matter of dance class - like they would not go if not made to do so. And it seems to be June who is the main proponent of their participation as she does not want them to grow up to be "crude human beings".
But the construct of Beaver's date is just bizarre. Beaver formally asks the girl over the phone to go with him, but the night of the big dance Beaver and Wally, who has been invited as a chaperon, walk out the door together - apparently this place is in walking distance - and Beaver meets the girl AT the dance. Why did he ask her to go with him as a date when he is in fact just going to see her at the dance?
The whole concept of dance class is a social construct of which I have no experience. I grew up in the 60s and early 70s, in the suburb of a big city, and I have no recollection of anybody I know going to dance class. Maybe that is because, in 1964, with the coming of the Beatles and reliable birth control and the whole counterculture movement, society just moved on from such formalities. Eating establishments needed the floorspace and so they pushed out the dancing and put in more tables. So Leave it To Beaver really does describe mores and institutions that were on their way out by the middle to late 60s. But it's all the more interesting because of that.
- AlsExGal
- Mar 15, 2024
Details
- Runtime30 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1