Posted on 04/13/2013 8:10:42 PM PDT by EveningStar
“Didn’t Eddie Haskell grow up to be Bill Clinton?.....”
Actually he joined the LAPD.
Damn that’s a shame..I loved Leave It To Beaver...RIP Lumpy
Bank’s final withdrawal!
It was very well-done. Still funny. My brothers and I watched it, and we were born after it ended it’s run.
True, “Beaver” was popular in local syndication for decades after its original run, building up a large fanbase of many younger, post-boomer viewers.
That used to be the nice thing about the old days of local-tv. Young viewers could grow up watching 1930s-era “Little Rascals,” 1940s-era “Abbott and Costello” films, 1950s-era “Leave it to Beaver,” 1960s-era “Star Trek,” and 1970s-era “Brady Bunch,” or whatever, all at the same time. Many decades of cultural americana to tap into, and somewhat tie the generations together, and imprint a certain historical perspective. Don’t really see that scenario anymore, due to the fragmentation of the media into a million directions and a million ghettoized cubbyholes, which distances and alienates everyone from a common American culture.
No he wasn’t a dork. He was just proud of his son. Ward and Rutherford worked in the same office and Rutherford was always saying what a great boy Clarence was. And when Lumpy did something dumb, Rutherford was naturally embarassed.
RIP
What you say makes an excellent point.
We may not see that historical perspective any longer because the freedom enjoyed by previous generations, that bound us together, is gone.
Rest in piece, Lumpy. It was a great time to grow up in.
(I still watch and enjoy the repeat episodes.)
The subtle genius of this show. Nobody above the age of 20 would have approved of a name like “Lumpy” and nobody under the age of 20 would have approved of a name like “Clarence.”
It was funnier, still, that Lumpy wasn’t too fond of the nickname himself but, boys being boys, the more one protests the nickname hung on you by the neighborhood, the more that nickname is guaranteed to stick.
You look lovely Mrs. Clever.
One of my favorite shows. There is no show like it today that’s for sure.
Rest in Peace, Lumpy
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I grew up during the 80s, and watched all of those shows you mentioned for years. You could probably add the Andy Griffin show to that list. Even when they stopped showing on local TV, I continued watching them on "Nickelodeon"(Nick-At-Nite). The adults always thought it was entertaining how I liked watching shows they watched when they were my age growing up.
What was the naughtiest thing ever said on ‘60s TV?
“Ward, don’t you think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night?”
I had http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgood%E2%80%93Schlatter_disease
My HS buds called me Lumpy
RIP dude.
Man, I feel about a million years old.
Bye bye Lumpy, R.I.P.
Childhood seems to be losing another piece every week.
I watched Leave it to Beaver when it was first run. Heck, I still remember how terrible I felt when the first Mr. Wilson died (from Dennis the Menace), and when Bub died (from My Three Sons), and when Bonanza’s Hoss died, too.
Fifty years later I still feel bad when a star from one of my childhood shows dies, but it’s a different kind of bad.
RIP, thanks for the fun
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