[DallasBiff]

The Brady's never had a toilet.

What did Alice do? Throw the bucket from the outhouse onto the street?

Have fun, mods pull if inappropriate.

[dfwgator]

IIRC All In The Family was the first time that they used the sound of a flushing toilet.

[RBStealth]

Gee whiz, Biff, I gotta tell ya, trolling on the internet is just plain rotten! It’s like tying someone’s shoelaces together during recess—it might seem funny to some, but it can really hurt someone’s feelings. The good ol’ Beav wouldn’t stand for that, and neither should we. Treat others like you’d want to be treated: with kindness and respect. Life’s tough enough without folks being mean just for kicks.

[John Milner]

I find humor in the show. The parent’s reactions and the kid’s reactions.

Eddie Haskell - ‘nuff said.

Fans of the show differ. Some prefer the first 4 seasons when the emphasis was on Beaver and the child. Others (like me) prefer the more teen-centric episodes with Wally, Lumpy and Eddie dominating the plots.

[llevrok]

There was a law that put moral based censorship on movies and TV.

Married couples could not be shown in one bed. The I Love Lucy Show had Lucy and Desi with separate twin beds for example.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Geez. Now you can turn on TV and watch little boys in kindergarten go in the boys room and get Tampons.

[bankwalker]

[Leaning Right]

‘Leave It to Beaver’ had an amazing character, Eddie Haskell. Before then, kids in situation comedies were wholesome Opie Taylor types.

Then came Eddie.

[Kazan]

The Brady's never had a toilet.

There was a bathroom shown repeatedly on the Brady Bunch that kids used.

How many TV shows today show the toilet used by the characters?

[bankwalker]

[PGR88]

Now it would be the beaver confronting a 6’2” transvestite 24 year old buying tampons in the middle-school boys’ bathroom.

[Bonemaker]

"A Bathroom Scene Nearly Banned ‘Leave It to Beaver’ From Television"

Beaver got caught in the bathroom with a one-handed magazine?

[Old Man From WV]

I read that Hugh Beaumont, Beaver’s dad, was a minister.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I remember that episode, the guy who played Captain Jack was also the same one who played Uncle Billy..great show Ive seen every episode, repeatedly they show it all the time on MeTV

[SamAdams76]

Alice from the Brady Bunch never did anything. She was the most useless paid housekeeper in TV history.

Wherever the Brady Bunch went, be it a paid junket to Hawaii or a recording session where the Brady Bunch decided to become the Partridge Family, there was Alice.

When she wasn't gallivanting around with the Bradys, she was flirting with the butcher.

Sure, she'd play it up her housekeeping role for the cameras, parading around with a vacuum (never turned on) or be pretending to dust furniture while some dopey Brady child approached her with the crisis of the day, but she never actually did squat.

[Verginius Rufus]

Towards the end of Grapes of Wrath, when the Joads are in California, a couple of the kids encounter a flush toilet for the first time and one of them pushes down on the handle. They are horrified by what ensues, afraid they have broken it.

The movie version does not show the scene.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Leave it to Beaver ended in 1963.

All in the Family began in 1971.

In between, the culture went to hell in a handbasket.

[dfwgator]

“Boy Wally, Life Stinks”

“Yeah but so do you, Beaver.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9dKYxkYYXM

[jmacusa]

And in 1960’s and 70’s sitcoms couples never slept in the same bed.

Makes you wonder how they had kids.