Leave it to Beaver Goofs and Trivia

[@tvcrazyman]

I hope you all get a laugh or two from the goofs and find the trivia for Leave it to Beaver interesting!😀 Merry Christmas!

[@tanmaz8006]

.. this one was great 👍 ..

[@lomatalomata5737]

My favorite show, still. Have seen them all many many times & haven't seen these goofs. I'll be looking closer now.

[@angelaowen1513]

I enjoyed it! Just one small thing-It sounds like you're saying Matters instead of Mathers.(?)😊❤

[@cat_lover77251]

Your voice sounds so much like Crazy Lake from Homesteading, Living off the Grid. His real name is Kevin Lake and lives in Va. Uncannily alike. Unless…. You are one and the same. 🤗🧐

[@corinnepmorrison1854]

Jerry’s father was the Boy’s VP at the high school I attended.

[@sherryquilter]

My favorite old show and watch it over and over!

[@kurtarron6482]

Merry Christmas to you too. Beaver was one of my favorites. Good principles. Thanks

[@tvcrazyman]

I appreciate it

[@HelenT-xv6zm]

I LOVED this show and grew up with it. Where some shows from that time can be so painful to re-watch, Leave it to Beaver holds up pretty well. I especially liked the soup episode. One of my favorite characters was Gus. Thank you for this and Merry Christmas.🎄

[@tvcrazyman]

Appreciate it, happy holidays and merry Christmas!

[@chetpietras8402]

Wow, great catch on that letter content!! Yes, they really had a great sense of humor back then.... Thanks as always for your outstanding observations on all these classic shows.

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks, I really appreciate it!

[@ScarlettFire341]

WOW Great Catch on ALL that ! You the Man ! The Beav show was great and you did it so well !

[@tvcrazyman]

Thank you, I appreciate it!

[@dalegereaux1863]

Great video about a great show. I watched it as a kid and I still watch the reruns occasionally.

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks

[@GraemeHancock-g6i]

Great video. Loved this show & to me Ward Cleaver will always be the # 1 tv dad.

[@edwardaustin740]

Even though this show was way before my time. I enjoyed watching the reruns. I had a crush on June Cleaver. "Anyone speak Jive ? I speak Jive" ! Hilarious 😆

[@barryf5479]

Shirley you must be joking!

[@edwardaustin740]

@barryf5479 ' I'm not joking and don't call me Shirley '

[@drh-ov7eq]

Thanks for showing this! I still watch Beaver today on Metv.

[@photosrain4351]

Well, you did it again! You really completely amazed me! Great job brother! Happy new year!

[@tvcrazyman]

Happy holidays to you too! Thanks, I appreciate it!

[@johnschuster1770]

Leave It To Beaver is still one of my old-time TV shows.

[@raymondmartin6737]

We watch it today on me TV. It reminds me of growing up back in those days. 😊

[@collegeman1988]

Candy Moore is the actress in Mother’s Helper, who also appeared as Lucille Ball’s daughter in the first three seasons of The Lucy Show and was married to actor Paul Gleason, who played the assistant principal Richard Vernon in the 1985 John Hughes movie, The Breakfast Club.

[@patgalvez4563]

I believe she is also the subject of the Car's song Candy-O 🎉

[@kosboot]

Your description of the kids repeatedly exiting the movie theater was hysterical!!!

[@Hevynly1]

That letter is hilarious. It must have been fun being the prop guy who made that! Merry Christmas!

[@tvcrazyman]

Merry Christmas!

[@nikkicat254]

This was one my favorite videos here, there's something about seeing a show like Leave It To Beaver have so many bloopers that is just funnier then most others. Also I did get those prices right, but I wasn't born until 1968, so I just know how much cheaper things were even in the 1970s and 80s, I figured the movie tickets would be pretty cheap back then, and the groceries, I figured either the $23.86 or the $12.15, but leaned towards the first one, since there were two bags.

[@markp.7478]

fun video, haven't seen the series in years but this definitely brings back those memories

[@tvcrazyman]

I’m glad you enjoyed it.

[@MrPoppyDuck]

Merry Christmas and thanks for the video!

[@tvcrazyman]

Thank you! Merry Christmas! I appreciate it.

[@DSR299]

Hugh Beaumont was my #1 dad. I was always astounded that the boy's room had a separate full bathroom set up just for their room. Amazing for back then. My parents finally had a separate bathroom built that was right off Their bedroom. The letter contents was hilarious as the needed prop.

[@tvcrazyman]

That's true for back then, they would have probably been considered very wealthy.

[@Eggmanontheair]

GREAT video. Really good job and some stuff I hadn't noticed !

[@tvcrazyman]

Glad you enjoyed! Thanks!

[@privateprivate1865]

What an awesome holiday treat❤ ty TCM

[@tvcrazyman]

You're welcome! Have a great holiday!

[@shaunlitt]

Don't forget how old we were back then. We obviously were very observant back in the day. Lol

[@Pratman]

Again never watched this series but looked awesome more great goofs as always 😀

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks, shows like this one I caught on re-runs when my parents got cable in the early 80s. I really spent a lot of time watching TV, especially when we got cable. 😀

[@barryf5479]

I bought the box set of the episodes. It's great to review it more than 60 years later. I"m about half way through it. It's amazing how many episodes they had in a season. Thirty-nine episodes per season except season 6 that had 40 episodes.

[@tvcrazyman]

They produced a lot of content back in the day, especially compared to today.

[@nomdeplume7216]

I enjoy your videos! This was a good one because I’m a fan of the show, I knew most of these, but was surprised by some. Like Eddie doing that thing with his hands! I didn’t know Hugh Beaumont had been on the Lone Ranger! I noticed how in some episodes they have a TV in Ward’s den but usually it’s just a globe.. And because there were usually several episodes in between where they needed a TV it was usually a completely different TV set!

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks. I just found out about the Lone Ranger appearance myself when I did my Lone Ranger video a while back.

[@Nomed38]

Merry Christmas Tvcrazyman! Leave It to Beaver is one of my favorite shows even though it started airing before my mother was born. I got several good laughs out of this video. I always wished that Eddie Haskel would have gotten arrested on the show for all of the horrible things he did, it would have taught a valuable lesson to all the characters in the show and people watching at home.

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks, yeah, you know I bet everyone had at least one friend or knew somebody like Eddie back in the day.

[@phantomcollector1976]

ONE OF THE GREATEST SHOWS OF ALL TIME

[@roscoearbuckle2]

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU & THANKS FOR THE NOSTALGIA. Happy New Year too. 2025 🎉

[@tvcrazyman]

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to you too!

[@wb3381]

In season 6 I think episode 1 Junes hair length changes to long to short.After all these years I never knew season 6 had different intro music. Thanks for a excellent presentation

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks for watching and commenting. 😀

[@williamcharnow9038]

I like your videos and short commentaries and pleasant, calm, not speedy jacked-up voice!

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks, I appreciate it! Glad you like the videos.

[@BasedxBoomer]

And no clickbait! Unfortunately rare with these kinds of videos.

[@Phaota]

Definitely learned about a lot things I never knew or saw when viewing the series back as a kid. That letter was awesome. Great humor putting that one together. Small correction. In the ending clip, Beaver gets stuck in a soup bowl, not a can. It's a possibility that the town is right next door to Mayberry, and Andy changed his name to Floyd when moving to the new location. It is a bit odd that Howard was typecast as the same character before being so well known as Floyd the Barber, AND, that he was called "Andy".

[@tvcrazyman]

That makes sense maybe Andy Floyd was in a relocation program and Andy Taylor was assigned to protect him from some criminal types. I do wonder if anybody that worked on the Andy Griffith Show knew about Floyd's appearance on Leave it to Beaver.

[@Phaota]

@@tvcrazyman I would assume they had to know since there was cross pollen of writers and other actors.

[@RadTigers]

10:55 Imagine being an actor typecasted as a barber the rest of your career 😂

[@danielcheatham3400]

its type cast. no need for the -ed

[@tvcrazyman]

Yeah, there are some actors I've noticed that would rotate types of roles but gravitate to certain occupations like cops or detectives.

[@thesame4076]

If you listened to Gunsmoke on the radio you would know that Andy killed a man in a bar fight so he changed his name to Floyd and moved from Mayfield to Mayberry.

[@paulsarnik8506]

5:52 Actually that's a checkered "Newsboy Hat" Derby's had an all around brim and a dome crown. 🤓😎✌🏼I oughtta know, I just watched "The Kurwood Derby" caper on Rocky and Bullwinkle!

[@danielcheatham3400]

Charlie Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy wore derbys

[@tvcrazyman]

Right, I get my hats mixed up. I should have remembered that. I've been watching Laurel and Hardy off and on lately. Derby was the first word that popped out my head. Thanks 😀

[@ricksaint2000]

Thanks & Merry Christmas

[@tvcrazyman]

You too! I appreciate it

[@zaphod100]

Mayfield had one of the top cloning labs. That’s why all the kids looked the same at the theater

[@willg4944]

Seriously, that was a very entertaining video. I still watch reruns of the show almost on a daily basis, and now I have a reason to watch specific episodes more intently. I do not believe there ever was an episode entitled Wally's Orchard. It was in fact, Wally's Orchid.

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@cadeevans4623]

Love this show watched it all on roku channel probably missed these goofs

[@whatsamattayu3257]

Hugh Beaumont appeared in an episode of Jeff's Collie (Lassie), also playing a good guy. He also was in a Ford sales short in the early 50s showing a rookie car salesmam how to sell cars. Beaver and Wally appeared in at least one car commercial for the 1960 Fords. An interesting read, if you can find it, is The World According to Beaver by author Irving Applebaum. It has a lot if interesting facts about the show and info on the main characters. BTW, my mother tried cutting our hair once and only once. There's a reason people go to barber school.

[@tvcrazyman]

It would be interesting to see that Lassie episode. I always like to see Hugh Beaumont play on shows.

[@alexanderscarfone4229]

These are great, never noticed before.

[@skylaneav8r902]

Great video! The round depression in the bottom of the piggy bank could be a plug as you said, but I remember my mom buying me one like that. It was made out of ceramic and the depression was there so you could hit it with a hammer and break only that round part and not have a thousand pieces of ceramic everywhere. The kid with the baseball cap at the theatre looks like Larry to me. I think he was making an attempt at not being recognizable by taking his cap on and off and keeping it in front of his face as much as possible.

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks. I never had a piggy bank so I always wondered why they were always showing kids break them to get their money out. Seemed like a waste of money they spent for the bank. My parents always gave me a plastic jug to put coins in.

[@tillitrueheart971]

Great video and thoroughly enjoy your commentary and humor 👍

[@CherylDarr-v6p]

Loved This!

[@paulsarnik8506]

3:25 Maybe She's looking back longingly at Batman because She OBVIOUSLY just came down from upstairs via The Batpole! 🤓😎✌🏼

[@stewartberger7734]

I liked your video a lot. Great set of goofs

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks so much!

[@jonasirw1]

Loved this vid.. merry Xmas 🎄

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks and Merry Christmas to you too!

[@JonWinnett-z2g]

As a kid watching this show in reruns, I wanted so bad to climb up into a giant steaming bowl of soup on a billboard sign.

[@nicholaswoodall3840]

my favorites episodes were the credit card and the soup bowl episode

[@Jude-c3r]

I noticed once that Captain Jack's place has 🌴 palm trees around it. There's never a winter season on the show so I guess we can surmise that they lived sub- tropical! My favorite episode is when Eddie is "sick" in bed, drinking pop and bopping along until Beaver stops by...best line ever, one that I still use today..." I don't like you, Eddie. Nobody likes you, Eddie." 😂😂😂😂😂 Orchid, not orchard. You worked very hard on this and I appreciate it. It's observant and very funny. Thank you!🎉

[@tanmaz8006]

.. caption jack episode 2 season 1 that was petticoat junction uncle joe 🤣 ..

[@woodrowboudreaux9951]

I saw an episode where Beaver gets up from the kitchen table and almost pulls the tablecloth with him. June calmly placed her hand on it to stop it from sliding.

[@flint9591]

Enjoyable Thanks 1

[@paulsarnik8506]

6:48 Yeah! Five DOLLARS??? Sheriff Taylor would have an apolexy if He had to give Opie that much just for a movie!

[@gonavy1]

It even looks like that letter with the address at the top reads Mayfield, State If I'm reading that correctly.

[@jacktribble5253]

One thing that I noticed was The kid's bedroom placement. The bathroom would occupy the space at the end of the second floor hallway as the entry doors are about six feet apart on the same side. Also. When the bathroom door is closed, the mirror hanging over the desk between the doors shakes in a way that indicates that wall is a single sheet of plywood versus a solid wall. It oscillates. The interior panel isn't connected to anything but corner anchors. I question the structural integrity of the Cleaver home.

[@RT-bt5ql]

I still watch this show, it’s usually on Tubi free

[@fjccommish]

Little known fact - TV Crazy Man was a neighbor of the Cleavers. He and the Beaver didn't get along, so he wasn't on the show.

[@tvcrazyman]

How did you know? I tried keeping that a secret for decades.🤔😀

[@fjccommish]

@@tvcrazyman Eddie ratted you out.

[@woodrowboudreaux9951]

We all notice the intro on the later seasons that show the family backing out of the driveway while smiling. You can see them clearly because there is no back windshield.

[@ernestcruz6316]

Happy holidays, TVcrazyman! I don't always comment on your videos, but I enjoy every one of them that I've seen. So many of these channels purporting to be about TV history are run in a pretty slapdash manner, with very little research (if any) and A.I. narration, and many of them are produced in non-English speaking countries by people who've never even seen the shows or the stars they're trying to tell us about.. At least if you mispronounce a name, we know you're not some kind of robot or computer. Thanks for what you do, and the best to you and yours in the coming year!

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks, I appreciate that. Narration is one thing that I feel A.I. just doesn't work as well. Some of those videos seem to say the same thing over and over again in different ways. No soul. Thanks, again, and have a Happy New Year!

[@SevenDaysToNoon]

I’m pretty sure this was never shown in the UK. Looks pretty good tho. Once again the stuff you spot is amazing! That letter had me in stitches. Brilliant! 🤣

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@fjccommish]

11:16 Why would that be odd? Wally wouldn't want one of those...Mt. Pilot haircuts.

[@SlwRpr]

I used to watch this show all the time. But now I see how goofy it was.

[@phantomcollector1976]

TWIT

[@Suzy-Q6842]

These goofs are fun to watch! I found a good one on The Beverly Hillbillies...forgot the title, but it's the episode when Ellie Mae dates a Naval Frogman. When Ellie is at the pool (cement pond) there is a mysterious arm that reaches out from the concrete statue standing next to the pool.... Very strange..👀😂

[@JeffFendrick]

That was good

[@bobbystatum4221]

I believe Ward had to be in the architectural field or head office of construction or building planning. Remember one episode he talked about his days with the Seabees in the Navy. Those guys tend to stay in that field.

[@voodoochild8697]

To Beaver’s haircut. History repeats itself. Kid’s today are wearing the same 2024

[@WillWilsonII]

Along with Jill Taylor from season 2 of Home Improvement

[@davidnottennant1161]

They also used Beaver climbing into the soup cup for the 1997 movie.

[@kenvaughan6694]

As far as I can guess, the Cleaver's live in New York. In one episode, Beaver aproches Richard Rickover at a street side bench, Rich informa Beaver he won't go home until he spots an out of state license plate. And when he does, it's New Jersey, which, as we all know, is just south of N.Y. In the episode were the Cleavers and the Ruthafords are on a pic-nic together, Mr.Ruthaford is wearing a New York Yankees ball cap.

[@andrewrubin4694]

Of course, there were only 16 teams then and Richard Deacon was getting ready to audition for The Dick Van Dyke show set in NYC. But As I understand it, where Mayfield was located was always left open. There were lots of Midwest references including sports idols and going to "State" after high school (Back then no State college or university in California would have been called "State"), but it never snowed (and hardly rained) so one might think that they were in California especially with several beach references. But, wait, when the kids called Don Drysdale in LA, it was a (very) long distance call. The errors pointed out in the video and the geography puzzle probably come down to a tight budget for the former, and the same whimsical sense of humor that created the letter for the latter...after all, the truths in the show were universal, not regional.

[@fstop6139]

You made a Goof talking about a Goof- The title of the episode is "Wally's Orchid" not "Wally's Orchard" Believe It Or Not....

[@mynameisnuke61]

Love this🎉

[@mackermaldrill2656]

I think Ward is a CPA or a civil engineer. I base civil engineer on the fact that during WWII he told the boys he built airstrips and other things for the war effort. Mayfield is located somewhere between Los Angles and San Fransisco California. I base that on the fact that we never see snow, but people do wear jackets on a regular basis and it does get cold. Also, on the roller coaster episode, before they set out for the park, you can see the breath of the actors. It was obvioulsy cold that morning when they filmed the scene.

[@tvcrazyman]

After I finished the video and uploaded it my wife said she saw a California plate on Ward's car. I'll have to go and look for it later. But, of course that's probably due to the fact they filmed it in California.

[@stephanieperry1119]

He was actually Seabee during WWII

[@johnjdevlin2610]

If Mayfield is close to Freeport, my guess is that it's in the Bahamas. That might explain how it's 20 miles from a beach.

[@corinnepmorrison1854]

Eddie joined the LAPD in real life. Good man!

[@SiccDeville]

3:50 also you never see a rear view mirror in the tv cars.

[@graysonwagner1855]

And the rear glass of the Plymouth was removed, due to reflection

[@graysonwagner1855]

The rear window of the Plymouth, car, was removed to stop reflection. Seen in opening of show when backing out of driveway

[@williamkirby8092]

Here's another for you- Final season opening credits, when the car backs up you can see that the rear windshield was removed!

[@barryf5479]

I thought Ward made reference to his being an "engineer" in one of the episodes. Revealed in the "Beaver's Hero" episode. He mentioned he "measured runways" in the Seabees and was involved in their construction.

[@tvcrazyman]

Could be. I have heard he was an engineer in the war. So it makes sense his civilian job would be related.

[@nadinenc3097]

I like the address on the letter saying, Mayfield, State.

[@WmLatin]

Loved It !

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

Leave it to the tvcrazyman in searching for goofs and trivias of beloved shows

[@brian752]

As for the location of the Cleaver home; I do recall at least one scene where June, Barbara Billingsley, mentions Long Island. I assume that is Long Island , NY??

[@davidw6852]

In the episode where Walley and Eddie are parking cars for the Langley wedding, Eddie parks Mr. Rutherford’s car in a no parking zone. If you look at the license plate it’s the same plate number WJG867 on the Cleaver’s car in the last season intro music scene

[@paulrice8342]

Good video!

[@tanmaz8006]

..Hugh Beaumont was a lay minister in the Methodist Church ..

[@chrischeshire6528]

He also played Mike Shayne P.I. in 5 movies before Beaver.

[@visionaryventures12]

I’m enjoying these moments caught by some very eagle-eyed viewers. How about making a video about the sequel series to several of these shows two decades later. Examples: The Munsters, Gidget, Leave It to Beaver, The Twilight Zone.

[@tvcrazyman]

I've been thinking about the new Twilight Zone for a while. I have to get copies of the shows on DVD or online though to go through them. I've got the 80s Twilight Zone right now. I haven't seen the new Leave it to Beaver since the 80s. That might be fun to watch again.

[@visionaryventures12]

@ Before the move, I had several discs of the New Leave It to Beaver. They were quite daring in their stories. I remember the one with Eddie Haskell having a mid-life crisis and starting a band. There’s one with one of the kids just exploring love with a party phone line. Another was a musical. The one that impressed me the most was the one where Wally gets into a motorcycle accident and flashes through clips from the new and old series. However, the order of the clips was a progression from indecision about continuing to live towards being brave. It even included color footage of a young Wally and his father teaching him to be brave and swim in the pool.

[@thesame4076]

@@visionaryventures12 It was the only two parter and I think it may have been the finale.

[@visionaryventures12]

@@thesame4076 Somehow, I remembered it as having a pool. Sorry. Nope. It was a bicycle.

[@JohnDoe-oj5it]

Thanks

[@annielane5621]

Om! ! I can’t believe it was over 23 dollars!

[@PeterApologetics]

In the episode when Beaver is sad because his teacher is getting married, Whitey shows him a newspaper with her picture in the society column. Years later in the episode titled, "Letter to Ella" Beaver all grown up has a newspaper with the picture of his teacher in the society column!

[@AlfredHawthornBennyHill]

Yes that is the Munster's house. It was built in 1947 for the movie So Goes My Love. And up until the Munsters looked basically how you see there. For The Munsters they changed it to make it look spooky. It remained somewhat looking that way until the 80s when it was painted red and slightly refurbished because it had become run down. Then sometime in the late '80s it was painted blue and used in a lot of movies and TV shows including the 1989 movie The 'Burbs as Corey Feldman's house. The last series it was used for was Desperate Housewives. It was remodeled to no longer look like the munster's house because the producers didn't want it to look like The Munsters house. It's on Colonial Street at Universal. Google it and you can see how it looked over the years from the first time it was made up till now.

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks, I appreciate the information.

[@AlfredHawthornBennyHill]

No problem. And if it's anything I know it's definitely The Munsters. If you ever need any information about The Munsters just let me know and I'll gladly share.

[@PUNKMYVIDEO]

Leave it, it's Beaver!

[@kevinfast7137]

An interesting piece of trivia, Floyd the Barber on the Andy Griffith show, was always shown sitting down, because he had a stroke and couldn't stand or walk very well.

[@tanmaz8006]

.. do a video on "One Step Beyond" ..

[@tvcrazyman]

That's a good one. That show has some real spooky episodes and some that just really make you wonder if it is real or not. My favorite I think is the one with George Washington.

[@slotcarfan]

My wifand I are watching through the series. On high def you can see shadows if the boom mic in a lot of scenes.

[@rabaohong9492]

Thanks👍👍👍 I’m very old so I saw that show when I was old. I’m trying to figure out if it’s an urban legend or an actual line from a TV episode where June says to her husband Ward: “ don’t you think you were a little hard on the Beav night?” I heard that back in the 70s we didn’t have social media back then. Anyone???

[@totallynot_Akira8858]

I think Ward says when Wally and beaver are looking through his trunk. I believe Ward says he was a civil engineer one of the episodes. He says he was I’m pretty sure.

[@Bigtim2you]

Wall’s ’Orchard’ is actually Orchid.

[@dokskwyr4353]

Here's another piece of trivia concerning Floyd the barber. Or, more precisely, Floyd's Barber Shop and it's Star Trek connection. In the original Star Trek episode, "The City on the Edge of Forever", Captain Kirk and Edith Keeler are taking a midnight stroll down the streets of 1930's New York City when they hear a radio playing a song, "Good Night Sweetheart" as they walk by Floyd's Barber Shop complete with its iconic red/white/blue barber poll.

[@tvcrazyman]

I talked about that one before in one of my Star Trek videos. That's a cool one!😀 It's as if Captain Kirk and Ward Cleaver live in the same world with the Andy Griffith Show.

[@marionroberts8242]

Anyone else notice they never had a Christmas show or as far as I remember never mentioned Christmas at all?

[@tvcrazyman]

I read that. There was one early episode where Beaver was going to dress up like an angel for what I assume was a Christmas play, but that is supposed to be all there is. Probably because they figured Christmas shows weren't very good for re-runs as they get shown all year round even in the summer. That's a theory any way.

[@stevemorrison5227]

I am less interested in the text of “The Secret Letter” than I am the fact that Ward appears to the right hand of a gorilla.

[@marthavillanueva5505]

I always wanted Hugh Beaumont to be my dad. Nothing wrong with my real dad but I thought Mr. Beaumont was so good looking.

[@DJDORAN1]

Always wanted to know what Wally's new suit looks like in color?